Wednesday to I just gotta say I thought I'd be basketballed out.
Okay after the tournament And I stumbled on that bucks game.
Did you see the end of
Oh, yes,
of their biggest comebacks in history 26 points down with like nine minutes to go.
It was like unbelievable as like somebody flipped a switch.
weirdest thing Well, yeah home Yeah, well, that's
the fans.
Wow.
Was that something?
um
Okay, let me just say one thing and Brian, I know you're listening and please don't take this personal brand I'm just talking about the big-time college coaches on the national spotlight.
Can you say one thing?
So I saw a guy not an ESPN, but one of the guys went off a little bit too, but okay in the in the finals game the other night You know how many fouls were called in the first half?
Take a guess
you know we were called in the second half
the end of the game
Just the whole second half.
9?
26.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you see my point?
About how games, I hate it.
calls you want to call.
But if you're going to make that call or not make that call in the first half, please don't do it in the second half.
Because the guys have acclimated themselves to how the game is being called.
The coaches have acclimated themselves.
I don't know.
All the players, right?
Everybody.
It's like we're this how we played all.
First half there were no falls.
Second half went from four.
to 26, and I didn't see anything that changed with what the players were doing on the court.
That's the part that upsets me when they're not consistent.
Wow.
I don't care if you make bad calls.
I mean, that's a lot.
all game,
and say, OK, I
But don't change it on the kids at halftime.
Wow.
I don't understand that.
And that's what I was talking about where the Badgers got so hosed against Duke that year.
You know what I mean?
Brian says obviously they got more tired and sloppy in the second half.
You're talking about the refs, right Brian?
That, I mean that's,
a lot.
That's crazy.
That's a lot.
So anyway, I mean that call over the back would not have been called in the first half.
Not at all.
I mean, we can go through the tape and I could show guys being taken down on rebounds and stuff like that in the first half.
And the second half, they called him up.
I just don't understand that.
say this.
It's funny you would say that because the guy even mentioned, he said, you know, I wonder, you know, when the coach is going to the locker room, first thing the student manager or somebody gives him is a stat sheet and say, we only got four round rebounds.
We got to get more rebounds.
And he said, I wonder if the refs do that.
It's like, we've only called four fouls.
doesn't look good.
I ain't saying they do.
I ain't saying they don't.
Yeah.
Just saying my piece.
I'd love to discuss with somebody.
I'd argue it, whatever you want to do.
But I'm just saying, as a guy that has seen 8 million college basketball games.
And you don't really see it as much in others.
Like in NBA, pretty much the way high school, I don't know why it is on the big stage in college basketball.
These refs feel like they have to take center stage somehow.
I don't understand that.
Yeah I've seen it time and time and time and I it's anybody out there that follows college basketball religiously.
I want to say religiously, but as closely as I do and I have for 40 now almost 50 years Tell me if you've seen this
Well, you want me to tell you about 1974
game between No, that's
Yeah.
Cause I remember, I remember the day Norder Dame ended UCLA's like 78 game win streak or something.
It was the same day I won that football throwing contest at the March of Dimes Telethon at the Ishbring Mall with Jerry Taggy, Rich McGeorge and Charlie Sanders.
How do
Well,
Can I tell you
I remember we had a basketball game that night.
And I didn't, I was a junior on the great team, number three in the state at the time or whatever.
So I didn't play much.
Um, but I got in late in the game and I'll never forget the ball.
One of the bounce I was going to give it to, and the ref was way down court.
And he said, what, he wanted the ball.
I thought I'd throw off my arm.
I'll never forget this.
And I threw it.
I threw it like 10 feet over his head at bounce against the wall and came back at him.
He was about, he went like this, like he's about to give me a technical, but I just go, I went like this.
Let me go.
That's exactly what I did.
I never forget those.
He ticked at me.
So that all happened on one day.
So have I been following college basketball religiously for
Yes.
Wow.
Duck Williams had a huge shot for Notre Dame.
Notre Dame had a great shot.
Bill Lambier was on that team.
I know that.
Billy Hanslick from Janesville, Craig.
We
chance.
religiously?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
So I can talk credibly about that aspect.
This is funny.
Yeah.
Don't peek.
What are the frequencies of the radio station?
says 1590.
Yeah.
And 1100.
Yeah.
The
ones that doesn't count.
Yeah Yeah, good one Brian, I always get one thing mixed up 99.7 or 97.9 97.9.
I get that one except all the time couldn't people ask me I have to take up my wallet and look for the see what it says on there Hey when I got
point what 90?
Yep.
No, you got that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was looking at the middle one.
Okay
No, I said when I got here this morning, I was, you know, how we do that, we're doing that draft contest right now with these, those 10 breweries.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the, and with the, that was in yesterday.
But what we have to do is do a contest for supper clubs, you and me.
Last night.
That'd be a lot of eating.
And I'm okay with that.
of 8,000 calorie meals a day.
Oh man, cause I just even locally here though, but I went to Rivers Bend last night.
I haven't been there in a while.
I'll tell you what, you want to talk about, I know they've had different owners or different start and go, start and go.
That is still like a go to place and you're
walk it away disappointed.
No.
Totally
Still got the old-school feel told but salad bar a great old-school feel
Yeah, would you like bacon or not?
Well, of course.
Is that really a question?
Do you judge your people that say no?
Do you say has anyone ever said no?
Do you say I'm straight?
What's wrong?
I should know that we're with a what would you like to drink old-fashioned?
Of course old-fashioned and then the press and I told him about that video The mulching not mulching.
I don't say mulching.
No the
you know when you put the sugar cubes in and um muddling you muddling muddling so we talked about that video and it was that was fun so that was a lot of fun it was a uh that was just a fun night there and you know the service is great and it's not it's priced right too it's not
No,
absolutely.
No question.
Good service.
Good or whatever.
Yeah.
I have zero problems with that place.
That was been like 50 years, hasn't it?
Green Bay.
See people there that.
The river's right on.
Duck Creek is right outside
it.
And you know when you park there, you can also go to what had been the VFW for a lot of years.
You had to be a member.
It's now the Duck Creek pub.
and they host the VFW events and that is right in the state they share a parking lot basically you can go over there and you can get some you know give you some advice folks either a pre uh pre dinner or post go there and ask for Johnny juice oh yeah and you'll have the best best drink you'll ever have so i'm just saying
pale orange juice you've ever
expensive orange juice.
I gotta tell you, man, you know what I drink every morning now?
And it's good and it fills you up.
The bed is protein powder.
And I mix it with just not juice.
I use a concentrate.
You know, I always fill up, but I just use tap water for my juice type things.
And I use the little things that you, you know, the little tank things.
Okay, right, so you just you don't even have to blend it I don't like using my blender like for the morning type of thing or you know with ice I mean that I heard somebody else use it one day and it
yeah That's so he's doing a leaf blower that is loud.
Holy
So I don't do that so you can just mix it up or shake it or ever But I'm telling you like whatever flavor you get like tang or whatever whatever whatever and buy that protein powder and it's well I want to say it's like 50 grams of protein or something something but the best thing for it It fills you up so much for so long
It's almost like a powder form of the ozempia or whatever type stuff.
Yeah.
And I know you were giving me crap yesterday because I'm eating actually another thing I had last night.
I had two grilled tilapia.
That's not a bad fish.
It's loaded with good stuff.
It's just an inexpensive fish.
because it's all farm-raised.
That's farm-raised?
But you know what's good about it?
It doesn't have a lot of taste.
It has a little good taste.
It doesn't have that fish smell when you cook it.
Okay.
But it's the type of thing you can, like I'm trying to look for some recipes to add to it, because you'll
It won't overwhelm any like what's that like real salmon on the grill.
It's like you pretty much just want
Yeah, but this you know, you're looking for something else So I was just do you know anything else for fish to put on?
I don't want to tartar sauce and
You know, it's one of those things I'm gonna buy six things and renews twice.
enhancers for anything.
That's what I'm looking for.
Oh, yeah, there's there's so much on there.
I do that a lot because it's like chicken.
It's like, okay, come on.
What else?
But boy, there's a lot on there for that lamb.
Yeah.
Pork.
Yeah.
But anyway, I want to get back to that supper club thing.
I want to do that.
I want to talk to Pete about it.
Maybe we can
get a little contest going with the summer.
Have
you talked to your trainer about this?
to feel
a trainer?
following everything you told me to do, and I've been eating really good.
every six months
else.
Yeah.
That's
did you do it?
I said yes I'm not seeing the results.
I want it.
It's your fault.
Give me a shot
I gotta set a quick break, man.
Do we have a lineup for you?
Andy Brady, Verizon's market present, partnership with the Packers, TJ Sorensen, that may be TJ or one of those folks from Sleep in the Heavenly Peace.
That is a great organization.
Ben and Tiana Malkor, crazy times for the real estate market right now, which is great.
Tori Wittenbrock, headlines of the press times.
That's always fun.
And Terry Barr, Slice of Wisconsin.
Stay with us.
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Got a Wednesday morning?
Who is it?
Is that Bruno Mars?
Pharrell.
Oh, yeah!
He's the guy who used to wear the big, uh, bush hat.
Did he?
Didn't he
Well, I'll tell you how old he or that song is.
He was in the last episode of entourage.
which was 2012, I believe.
Okay.
right.
We apologize.
You're just such a quiet era politically.
right, today is 33 degrees in Green Bay, 32 in Ampton, 32 in Oshkosh.
see?
Yeah.
Everyone's going up, up, up, up, up.
That looks great.
Yeah.
Sunday.
Yep.
Yep.
That looked fantastic.
It is unicorn day.
All right.
It is international day of pink, which is that women's breast cancer day?
Okay.
I can honestly say other than wearing things to on a breast cancer day with different events, I've never worn anything pink.
You know, some guys wear pink golf shirts and they can pull it off.
I can't pull off pink.
A couple pink shirts.
What?
I can't pull off pink.
So my thought process is you have to have a little something to pull that off.
I agree.
I think you need, you have to be, I don't know.
You got to be very manly to pull off pink.
In my mind.
I know.
I got pink shirts.
Give me a bell.
You got it.
I almost missed that.
President of War Recognition Day.
I'm gonna talk about that a little bit real quick here.
I was honored to speak once again yesterday at the right where you used to hold your meetings, I think, right?
City Council chambers.
City Council chambers yesterday.
A great event that the Denmark American Legion puts on, where what they do is take some of the top civil kids that are really, really interested.
in civil affairs, you know, civic affairs, and all these kind of things.
Those are good kids.
From all different schools, all throughout Northeast Wisconsin, and they bring them together for a one-day seminar.
That's it at the courthouse or at the city.
Yeah, city hall civics and at all different speakers and David let's say the da was gonna be speaking for me I think he spoke right after me, but I I could show you I should have brought down my computer I'm gonna have to get it show you the list of all the speakers But I mean it's a one day of all the elements of local government altogether, which was really cool, but what I did for my speech
What I try to talk these kids about is you know when you see the movies you read these national books or even national news and you see about these guys who did you know And women you know these people who serve their country you know in very very You know vital fashion I asked each one of them or about six of them what their hometown was and I would relate Somebody from my books from their hometown and tell a story and somebody mentioned they're from Pulaski
And I said, you know, psycharch and they're like, oh my God, of course, you know, you know, I said, you know, he's a prisoner of war for three years.
It's like, no, you know what I mean?
And when I tried to get across these guys and then somebody was from well, Cato, Manitowoc County.
Okay.
And I talked about Lester Ruzik, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for four years.
And they came back and, you know, society in those days, like I said, the doctors, they didn't know the term post traumatic stress.
But these guys went through horrific, horrific things, and doctors back then would just say, well, you got a case of nerves.
What kind of cigarettes are you smoking?
Oh, you shouldn't do it.
Try Chesker Fields.
They're more soothing.
They'll calm you down.
Have a few drinks before dinner.
That was the therapy they gave to these poor guys.
And what I try to get across is they're not the John Wayne's of the world.
They're small-town teenagers.
that what not much older these kids sitting right here and two years later they're prisoners of war of the Japanese and of the Germans so much respect for those people and don't even get me started my my Vietnam prisoner of war guys what they went through is beyond humanity so for today being prisoner of war recreation day recreation recognition day very important day if you got anybody from your community or even northeast Wisconsin
Find a way to honor them.
I mean, if you know where their grave is or their family or something, let them know.
Recognize this day.
This is a very, very, very important day.
Prisoner of war, appreciation day in our country.
It's also education and sharing day.
Todd?
Yeah.
Tell me more about that.
what?
Love it.
All right.
Keisha Knight from Cosby, 46.
If all the Cosby kids got together to write a book.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
What would the book be about?
I mean if they really came clean see what how dark he really was if they knew like wow like if there were signs or Rumors, right?
Yeah, and they just like okay.
Let me ask you something when he was here And you you worked his show, right?
Yes, and he did he say hey, you know guy waitresses that want to you know, he'd left right away an
So he still had to party, even though doing a show up here, he just couldn't even spend the night.
Can't imagine what he did when he was up in the market.
I told you, he sat there for like 10 minutes, smoking a cigar on stage, and he finally goes, where am I?
Where am I?
But he was good, but we had him on Murphy's show one day and he went I bet 40 minutes
stop talking.
There is and you know on back of the day is a duke with the commercials You don't miss a spot, but I want to say we went clean through for 40 minutes with Bill Cosby just talking kind of rambling But it's like it's still Bill Cosby
our show.
nobody
know, right?
for life.
Well, no, he's out now, but he know what I mean He was yes, so Cynthia Nixon from Sex in the City correct Dennis Quaid is 71
He that's
crazy
Yeah, Dennis.
He's a great actor.
I liked him First it's funny though.
I was watching him and something the other night.
It's like wow he got old Because I remember the movie first movie he was in breaking away Do you remember that about those kids that lived in Bloomington, Indiana?
And they're called the townies and they had the big bike race against the frats
no.
You remember that?
No.
He's going on it.
He's rambling because he
text.
Okay, the text.
Mino!
Yesterday you had a brought several slices of quiche.
How's that protein powder going?
Michael!
Wow!
For WGBW and W ISS news, I'm Lisa Hale.
To cover the cost of needed additional staffing, the City of Green Bay is considering doubling the hourly and daily fees at downtown parking ramps during the NFL Draft later this month.
The City Council will vote on the proposal in their April 15th meeting.
The merger of two national mobile carriers is resulting in layoffs across the country and right here in Wisconsin.
Civic media's Jimmy Cusca has more.
U.S.
Cellular is planning to lay off thousands of employees across the country impacting workers here in Wisconsin.
The company is being acquired by T-Mobile.
According to a filing with state governments notifying them of the mass layoff, workers will be let go beginning June 2nd.
The company plans to offer most of the affected workers similar jobs with T-Mobile.
In Wisconsin, 44 locations are impacted, mostly retail stores, as well as the company's engineering hub in Brookfield.
About 4,100 workers are affected nationally.
Workers affected closer to home include those at U.S.
Cellular
in Green Bay, Appleton, Ashkosh, Depeer, Manitowoc, and others across the state of Wisconsin.
It's severe weather awareness week in Wisconsin.
Meteorologist Brittany Merlot tells us why.
Wisconsin averages about 23 tornadoes every year and 45 of them tore through our state last year.
This made it the third most active season ever.
with an outbreak of 18 twisters on May 21, putting the month's total at 22.
And severe weather season is about to spark, so you need to have a plan.
Make it now with your family and even friends.
On Thursday at 1.45 p.m.
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Practice the plan.
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And while you're at it, gather an emergency bag together too.
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Hey, welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here on Wednesday morning, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3 and 96.5 FM, WISS and of course, the Civic Media app, along with the 1100 AM and...
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nice.
There you go.
How you think of that one Brian?
Very smooth.
Brian, do you hear that one?
By the way, you got text here from Brian says More trainers than assistants to the mayor in Jim's life.
Brian.
That's
Yeah.
Yeah, so I just showed you a video of something just so bizarre.
Oh, we got a phone call.
Andy there.
Yeah, Andy Verizon.
Good morning.
Welcome to mine on the mayor.
Good morning,
are you?
We're there to stay.
But with the Packers themselves, yeah, we've got a multi-year deal
We announced it yesterday, Mark Murphy, and I announced it yesterday to the public.
That really solidifies why we want to be around the community.
You guys, the Packers themselves, one of the founding fathers of the NFL and Verizon, the largest and best carrier in the state of Wisconsin, just makes sense to do more stuff together.
We're also obviously sponsoring the NFL and then with the NFL draft coming.
It made a whole lot of sense to spend a little more time in Green Bay, a little bit more money in Green Bay, and a lot more of our love to the Green Bay Packers.
Well, not only that, but let's talk a little bit about what you're doing for veterans.
So look, I'm a huge proponent of helping those who helped create the life that we live.
And certainly, you know, if we think about we get the opportunity to listen to your show, we get the opportunity to watch a football game, we get the opportunity to live our lives because of people who frankly sometimes gave their lives.
But in this case, what we're doing is we're over the next two years, starting with a million dollars for the NFL Draft.
We are paying off veteran debt in the state of Wisconsin, all on medical bills.
So think of this, there's about today in the Green Bay area, there's about $4.8 million in medical debt that veterans are carrying right now that unfortunately, some of them can't pay for.
So what we're doing is starting again, as I mentioned yesterday, we're paying off a million dollars in rate of maximum kindness.
We're working with a company called Producco.
What they effectively do is send a letter to these men and women that basically say that we're paying off your debt.
It is a real letter.
If you're a veteran and you're hearing this show and you get one, it is a real letter.
We really did just pay off your debt.
There is no, there's no hooks.
There's no secret other options that are out there.
We're just doing it because it's the right thing to do.
We also will then go into the following two years with the Packers and for every win they have, we'll pay off another hundred thousand per win up to a million dollars each and every year.
So if they win 10 games,
than great.
We got a million dollars.
They don't win 10 games.
We're still going to pay a million if they win more than 10.
Then we'll see what we can do to add more to the pot.
But I think it's a great opportunity for us to help those men and women who frankly, again, need it.
You know, there's those stresses in life.
If you think about debt, it's one of the biggest stressors you have.
And these men and women who helped, you know, free freedom in our country, they don't need to have that debt if we can afford it.
So that's what we're doing.
We're with Andy Brady, Verizon's marketing president, talked about partnership with the Packers and helping out veterans at the same time.
I work at a homeless shelter.
And medical bills is one of the things that can put people in homeless.
It can drive them in there, these medical bills.
And I just, when I read that yesterday, I thought, man, that is awesome.
The other thing though, I think that I just want to say is,
someone who attends the games, we cheer so loud when we score.
The other thing I think there was a big cheer for was that you're enhancing the cell service around
I'll tell you, we've put a lot of money already in.
We've always been providing cellular services for Lambo, and of course we've got customers all across Green Bay and across the great state of Wisconsin.
But with the NFL Draft coming and then with our announcement with the Packers, we had to add a little to the network.
We added five new cell towers, six new small cells.
We added all a bunch of new and improved products inside the Lambeau field, inside the rest center.
By the way, we spent $21.5 million for the NFL Draft for coverage.
that stays.
So the great news about Green Bay is we built this, we probably overbuilt it.
We built it so well, but this stays past the draft forever.
And that's the commitment we have back to the community and the people of Green Bay.
And certainly all of you guys who are rooting on the pack every Sunday.
Well, you know, you probably won't go... Well, you can go in there in September and in October, but it really sets a huge benefit when you get there to get even colder.
But it's a 6,000 square foot loft inside Lambeau field, temperature controlled.
Of course, all the libations and spotty cow beer or whatever you're drinking there.
But it gives you an opportunity to enjoy the game in the Verizon and the conference of the Verizon loft and charge your phone if you need to.
But at the end of the day, it's a great, great opportunity that the Packers and Verizon came up with.
Just as a it's a that's a cool part of the stadium at the end of the day.
That's
awesome, man What are exciting parts for you, Andy?
I mean you're getting involved with a lot of big type things As a marketing director marketing president, but this is you know, there's some great things happening Milwaukee in Madison, whatever But wow, we got a world stage coming up here.
Don't we
I don't think you guys quite realize how big this is we've again I mentioned we sponsored the NFL and over the last I think it's been the last seven NFL drafts with last year in Detroit
It was crazy.
And I think we can expect, we'll expect 250, 300,000 people into the city of Green Bay.
You can't just fathom how many people you'll actually see.
You think it's a big situation on game day.
Just wait.
This is two games at once every single day.
But yeah, it's a world stage for sure.
The amount of
of fun, frankly, that comes in and the amount of lives, those young men that are getting drafted, those lives that are changing, it's quite a scene.
And hopefully everyone that can hear your show and hear my voice today gets an opportunity to come out and spend some time.
It's worth the trek in.
Hey, Todd, if Andy has any friends that don't have places yet,
Towson guy in Madison, he could get a hold of it by the heck of a place.
Michael
Michael
some
life hospitality.
place around here, Andy, we got some spots for you.
Right.
Hey,
good touch for
There's very different degrees.
I won't geek out on how it's built.
But at the end of the day, everything that we're doing right now is allowing you to connect over a signal that basically allows more bandwidth.
to roll through your device.
If you think back, there's one, two, three, four, five Gs now.
We're working on our sixth one going forward.
That'll be another couple of years away.
But essentially, every single thing that you connect to is 5G.
And it just provides you the bigger bandwidth.
It's kind of like when you're going up 43.
uh, highway 43 and, and, and back in the day, it was two lanes.
Then maybe that was two G and then now it went up to four lanes.
Then imagine that the same 43 at, at a hundred lanes wide, that's what five G is.
Um, so it's quite a, it's quite a engineering feat.
Uh, and certainly, um,
here to stay.
That's for sure.
And no disrespect.
I've been in marketing Andy when he said how are they built and you don't expect the marketing guy to explain exactly how that's built.
You can talk the heck out.
Super fast.
Nice, bro.
Great thing.
Market president, of course, Andy Brady.
Let me ask you one other thing.
I know we just got about two minutes left to go.
One last thing, there's got to be something personal about you with these veterans.
So father is, is a Vietnam veteran, brother, sister, father-in-law, grandfather.
Frankly, I think everybody in my family would be exception of me.
And I look at the Vietnam veterans in particular.
And I see all the stuff that they went through.
They had challenging lives.
My father included.
And you look at all the health problems that they have.
It was just at my parents' house in Atlanta over the weekend.
And it's hard to see sometimes.
And if we could help any of these men and women, the better off we are.
We started this with the Steelers last year, and I'm responsible for managing the Steelers at Browns.
the lions, the, the, the bears, I had to say the bears, uh, the Colts and, and, and the Packers.
And
we're going to give them to each team.
But when we started with, um, when you have a young man, uh, come up to you crying and, and hugging you saying that this is such a burden off of, off of his shoulders, it changes your life.
And, and this is just an idea that we had.
Uh, and frankly, what this idea has turned into is
What we're going to do is give $22 million in debt relief across my market over the next two years.
It is a substantial investment that we're making in the overall portfolio, and more importantly, it's a substantial investment that we're making into the men and women who...
who provide us the ability to live our lives.
Andy, we're running out of time, but I had to ask that question because I could hear it in your voice.
You weren't just, you know, giving a spiel about something your company's doing.
It was personal.
I heard it in your voice.
Now I know why.
Andy Brady, partnership with the Packers, Verizon Market Present.
Can't thank you enough for what you're doing, not only for our community, but for all of our veterans.
Love to have a beverage with you when you come to town.
You got it, buddy.
Thank you so very much, and thank you for your dad's amazing service and your whole families.
Mine on the mayor back after this
Hey, welcome back come on on the mayor here 97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM WI assistant apt in Oshkosh, of course a civic media app worldwide and 1100 on the Amdahl if you're down by the lake sure manage walk area 1100 It's pretty good way to go in 1590 is a pretty good way to go everywhere else right Todd Hey, you said a little bit like Andy there from Verizon
When Jim goes, how are they made?
And by really smart people, what a great thing.
Andy Brady, Verizon's market president, partnership with the Packers, upgrading to, was it 5G in that area?
I could never get a call out of there years ago.
I try to call somebody if you know like with my veterans.
It's like wouldn't go through.
And then what they're doing for the veterans is magnificent.
I want to talk more about that down the road.
But right now we're with Dan Vermeulen.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
We hand you guys on like about a year.
And then you guys were nominated for a big time community award.
Yeah.
I'll wear in your shirts, which was cool.
So I get the breakfast.
And let's just back up a little bit.
I don't know when you guys started, but you sleep is so important, especially for you.
Well, for all of us, you build beds.
And I think people... For people
that otherwise wouldn't be
that, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Thanks for having me on.
It's a pleasure to
have you guys and I'll afford you guys do.
Yeah.
The word that we use is called bedlessness.
And we always say it's not a real word, but it is a real problem.
And it's a problem that we don't talk about a lot.
Food, clothing, shelter, all that's real important and still is real important.
But that seems to get the news media, the newspaper.
Isn't that true?
Let me just say one thing and Jim can verify this.
Come on out on a Sunday morning, a cold Sunday morning, okay?
Like maybe even this Sunday.
Make a walk of about six blocks, six blocks, six blocks, six blocks.
And you see people in some of the little enclaves of apartments, okay?
Or, you know, that new build, that one building I've always loved.
Is it the old shower and shoemaker type?
That alleyway in there?
Every Sunday morning you'd see somebody with an old tattered blanket sleeping on the cement.
So, I mean, you talk about if you're taking those people from there to putting them in a hand-built bed, what a huge life changer that is.
There's kids sleeping on the
Absolutely.
You know, we see it all the time.
That's our mission.
Our mission is no kids sleeps on the floor in our town, and we serve kids ages three to 17 and provide them a bed if they don't have a bed of their own.
Oh, yeah, it's amazing.
You know, to see the smile on the faces and you'll see the parents sometimes and Are you guys like the
normal parents though?
Cause the kids first thing you know what I do is jump on it like a trampoline.
Oh, you have
the parents yell at you.
We always tell a story about the kids.
The monkeys that jumped on the bed and fell off and bumped their head.
Everybody knows that one, you know.
And what the doctor said.
No, no finding the kids isn't a problem.
I mean, we work with a lot of agencies.
a lot of school districts, child protective services, health human services department, all the shelters in town.
But you build these beds?
We build the beds out of raw lumber.
They start from two by fours, two by sixes, and one by fours.
Well, they're not gate just by saying that.
They're sturdy.
This is one of those ones you buy some on Thursday.
They shake all over it.
The metal
connector, they're made out of beer can aluminum.
Right, yeah.
No, these are sturdy beds.
you know, made to last a long time, bolted together with a five inch long leg bolt, you know, so it's not going anywhere.
If we build single beds, then we build bunk beds.
This is industrial.
Oh, so
Okay, we've got a facility off of Limeville Road in Swamico.
on East Deerfield, the frontage road right there.
And we were just blessed by a gentleman who donated a van to us last year for do our deliveries in.
And now he's renting another space for us to put all of our finished product, all of our bedding in, which we've got like 700 blankets and quilts right now.
Where do you get them from?
All donated from the community.
We've never bought any bedding since we started in four years.
That's awesome.
And just saves us tons and tons of money.
And
mean,
Craftsman like you that it doesn't have to be a craftsman.
Anybody can do it.
It's a small little simple job.
Even John can do it.
I bet you
you're right.
You're
I actually built bunk beds one time for my daughters and I don't think they ever used them I don't know what happened.
Maybe I didn't finish
that wobbly but
it just never yeah
fear factor
Yeah,
but I know what it was.
I know what it was.
So I got the top bunk built.
Okay.
Go to put the mattress on and it wasn't square.
So the mattress didn't fit right.
It was over and it's like,
yeah.
Yeah.
All of our beds are all made the same.
Are they square?
They're square.
Yeah.
They all got a safety reel on top.
That's nice.
Cause I
think a kid, yeah, it'd be a fear, right?
Fall
out of that.
That's a few feet.
I know a
guy fell out of bunk bed in boot camp and got a serious head injury.
Right.
18, 19 years old fell out of a bunk.
gotta have some kind of a railing.
work?
During the winter time, we build every Wednesday night.
We open up our warehouse, we get a lot of kids coming in, getting service hours and things like that.
Oh, wow.
You know, so it's a way for the community to get involved.
How great is that?
And also camaraderie, you know, like.
Absolutely, you know.
You know, there's something we're gonna jump in, but we did an event last fall, feeding our starving children.
And we held down there, you know, a lot of it, but watching these young kids get involved with the energy they put into it, that was cool.
And we have kids that do community meals too.
And we bring them there not to say, look, if you don't do good, you're going to end up here.
It's like, you need to do this as a good citizen, as someone who, you know, is grateful.
And that's great that you.
Engage the youth and some students need community service other students just do it because they they do it
right Yeah, good good story is last year.
We did an event with young life, which is a youth that's a great and
They came
up.
We're gonna set it right.
We want you to stick around.
Okay, come back there.
But we have some questions for you.
First one is, who do we contact to help making blankets for the beds?
That's for Patty.
Anybody else with questions here?
Dan Vermeulen, Sleeping in Heavenly Peace.
What a phenomenal organization.
Grassroots right here.
Hands on.
We'll be back with this.
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