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Friday to you it is a beautiful Friday morning it is okay right I'm gonna say since October this is the first time Todd has put

out 50 no oh yeah I think you're right or was there one last week to begin the day to begin the day I don't know

all right there you go this is that

Thank you, Todd.

He's got it up here.

It is 50 degrees today.

50 in Green Bay, 48 Appleton, 50 in Oshkosh.

What the hell's wrong with you, Appleton?

Seriously?

48.

Why don't you pick it up a little bit?

Get

in the game.

Come on.

Come on.

Yeah,

you walk outside.

It's great.

50 for our

else.

Appleton, 48.

Oh, sex with an Appleton today.

Wow.

I'm sorry.

We love Appleton.

Just throwing it out there.

Good stuff, Appleton.

Claudia was showers and possible storms.

Thank you

last night.

I heard the

thunder

Wow, that was like right in the middle of the night Yeah, but it's a nice morning.

I was like no wind out there right now just mild, right?

You know what I mean?

Mm-hmm.

That was great.

Let's

get out there people get on walk I would have four and a half miles this morning already

don't What drove around you don't know that but you did you see today?

No, no exercise day

Oh, okay.

So we'll get to that.

Yes.

Yeah, but I'm just saying that is

cracker.

They overrated.

I know they're

not boring things.

Those are

awesome.

Oh my God.

And that little box, little string.

I like the box.

I like the string.

I like

that part.

But the actual crackers, there's something that no doubt the packaging is

More expensive than the

ingredients.

You had to put peanut butter or butter or something on animal crack.

Nobody liked it.

Once your taste buds evolve, nobody likes eating an animal cracker.

It's like, have a host.

Thanks, Johnny.

You know what I mean?

That's not quite that bad, is

it?

Pretty close.

Oh, when they went to the wheat holes, it has

the same nutritional and taste value as a host.

There's a little, no, there's a little sugar to it.

There's a sweetness to

it.

No, it's not cereal.

Well, you bet there is.

Anyway, yes.

But today it's a good day.

You're right.

And get out there today.

This is start your exercise program today.

I don't need to start.

I've already been on it.

Oh, you weigh

in

it.

Wait.

Yeah, it's right to

18.4 up to 18.4.

I got my thing on again, Tom.

Yeah, Tom, Todd, Todd, Todd, got Vicki here.

LFG, we made it to Friday.

I go, hello, Michael Friedman in Madison says, yee-haw!

See at the hoe down tonight?

That's gonna be fun.

Nicholas Bay is watching.

I can't be there, just for the other people.

I know.

I know a lot of people about tickets hoping to see me, and I can't.

Yeah, it's not the great band we're gonna have.

I got two

things, I got two things that are, I got a three and a half hour oral dental surgery coming up on Monday, so I can't eat anything good for now.

Okay to aggravate it and I there's no way I could stand on those cement floors.

There's tables and chairs

I know but you know what I mean?

Yeah, I couldn't do it I'd have to sit I'd be that old guy who that has to sit Michael I'm gonna

be Michael

I wore my worst.

Oh my god.

We gotta see this

people.

You gotta see this.

I gotta get a picture right now.

Okay.

I'm disputing what he says.

He says the rattlesnake.

I don't think so.

I think they're python.

All I know is they're old, but they're cool.

Yeah, this is the only time this will ever happen.

Yeah,

this is the only time ever to say those are cool something you're wearing and we say is cool Jim is wearing well, he says the rattlesnake skin boots for the heat up hold on I I don't think they are I think they're python

So, anyway, this is going to be fun.

And I had this great hat that I bought.

Come on, Dave.

Come on, Dave.

Come on, Dave.

There you go.

Come on,

Dave.

If you're listening, come on, Dave knows every type of booth that there is.

All right.

Take

a look at the picture.

Tell us what Jim is wearing.

And I've got a pair of eel at home.

I was going to wear those.

Eel are cool,

too.

Yeah, those are.

Jim actually looks really cool this morning.

He's got some jeans on and the cowboy boots.

I don't know who he is.

I don't either I don't know Jim I gotta tell you I like this Jim a little bit Black shirt.

He's badass.

That's right today.

It's like sitting

next to

Garth Brooks

in there, isn't it?

And I'm looking absolutely.

So I went to the I told you last year I went to the Hey Matthew McConaughey, I'm Texas.

You know the hospice auction and I bought a breakfast football and a black

Cowboy hat and all right is MIA.

So I've been looking on somebody stole that I know

somebody legitimately in this studio

Well, here's the first first of all my know you've worked in radio a long time.

Yeah, you never leave anything at your radio station because it's not usually the staff It's cleaner.

It's a no question.

It was on it

was on the coat.

It was on that

Coat rack so very easy to walk out.

Oh, right out here.

Right there.

Well, my German hat

was missing

too.

I had that German hat.

You're right.

The other very easy to pick that up and walk out.

If anybody takes my bayonets, I'm going after them.

Anyway, that's yeah, so I got to find one

today, I think.

All right, I'm going to put the picture of Jim's boots up on a stream now.

This is a whole new gym.

I'm a little intimidated look at this that is them I see

Those are rat

snake those are python, correct?

Anyway,

I got a

reason I'm saying there's better like twice as much more I begs Benz wise

those things are these and I 30 years old I

know that I used to wear cowboy

more

than Arizona or covered was

just I think

I'm no there was these things don't wear out

No, they don't.

But I think, I think expense-wise it was, I think it was eel, ostrich, rattlesnake.

No, eel, ostrich, python, rattlesnake.

People can weigh in, but I think ostrich is the most expensive.

They were back then.

I think eel was.

Okay.

There's a lot of

ostriches out

there in the world.

This has me pumped up.

I'm gonna start wearing my

boots.

You got

some cowboy boots?

Yeah, just some plain old boots I bought down in Texas.

Animal skin?

Comfortable.

No, no, just plain old boots.

But Todd said, are those comfortable?

I'm like, like after five

minutes.

Once you got them on, yeah.

I work cowboy boots for probably five years.

We get a text.

Okay, here we go.

I got to pull

the Come on It's good Friday people

He wants we got this text in from Terry said he wants to know if this is what Jim looks like this morning Hang on I got a

I gotta move it over for you guys.

Terry.

Terry, you're kinda pretty creative at this

time.

Wow.

I don't have a mustache.

Okay, funny, funny, funny.

Alright, let's move on.

Let's move on.

I mean, not that far off.

I

bet your legs are that hairy.

Too bad.

Yeah, it makes Terry.

Oh my goodness.

Oh, okay, Terry.

What the hell's wrong with you, Terry?

Seriously.

I mean, come on, Terry.

Um, yeah.

I'm sorry.

This is a great Friday already A cowboy day says they never got into exotic boots.

It's more about the maker as to what good boot is mine Okay, his are all high

because some people are real serious about what they wear with their cowboy I mean, that's like a status.

Yeah symbol

Michael freeman says they look like armadillo boots.

Hmm They might be armadillo.

That's the other one.

I was thinking of

I couldn't, I knew there was one other one.

They might be Armadillo.

But they're

not Diamondback Rattlesnake.

And you, remember, do we ever resolve if it was David Whitehurst's store that I bought him at?

Yeah, I, yeah.

And you said he had a store but

you

got here late before?

No, I

didn't know that though.

I, David, David Whitehurst got cut the first year I, he got cut in training camp the first year I was, so I never really knew David Whitehurst.

Okay.

This is the store I bought him at that

doesn't help anything.

I don't think he owned a store, did he?

Don't know I don't

know

in the mall that you tore down, right?

Yes

That

was the only store that made any money just a frame of reference in one year frame of reference frame of

reference three years We used to give out gift certificates for our packer players to Palo's remember Palo's leather store Yes, I do and you know I was so I was so broke.

You know what people understand this about TV.

I was doing six and ten TV

Anchor mm-hmm.

I was doing the lindike show mm-hmm packer post game show I was doing all that stuff okay, and I was so poor I was making so little money that if a player didn't show up I would use the gift certificate and that's what I use for Christmas for my family

Is that ridiculous something else you don't know about radio exactly so you get paid so terribly broadcasting broadcasting we used to get

Honest to goodness.

We would, you know, we'd get like burger sandwiches at Hardee's or something like that to give away.

And sometimes the boss would even say, Hey, thanks for all your work.

And that was your little bonus was the free stuff, the station.

When at my first

job, I qualified for food stamps.

I was working full time for about 60 or 70 hours a week.

And I qualified for food stamps.

Did you know, though, that the perception wasn't that at all?

Yo, everybody thought, Oh, you knew that.

I was wondering how I was wondering how you perceived.

Yeah.

Well, okay.

Well, so, all right.

Because I think people looked at you guys as, you know, not movie stars, but close to it.

Well, you'd think that with the status of the job

or whatever, you know, but

I was making $21,000 a year as a sports driver.

And you had kids?

And had two kids.

21,000

dollars a year.

And everybody thought

I had it made.

I was making, you know, whatever, $21,000 a year.

That's how terrible the pay is in broadcast or used to be.

in broadcasting.

Yeah.

Is it better now?

I think if you're an anchor, maybe there's a little bit more money, but if you're a reporter, it's not.

No,

you're busting butt.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, I was anchoring six and 10 and twin falls that whole $9,600 a year.

Oh, yeah.

$9,600 a year, a year as an anchor.

It's a sports director.

I could have gotten right back into the mines and made.

Oh, yeah.

18, 19,000.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah So

I'm

not I'm gonna try so what was me cuz I chose that job

right

all

I'm

saying is people would be when you see somebody on TV or at least by any of things they smaller anything Oh, man, they're wow there Trust me.

They are using food stamps type things unbelievable.

They're doing

that in hopes of right at no question

No question.

So I do have a couple of pair of tickets to give away for tonight's honky-tonk hoedown.

Outstanding.

Boots, brims and bourbon.

Hey, folks, just for the musical aspect of it, you've got to show up for this.

We had them on our show, what?

They're awesome.

Grand?

Yeah.

Grand Union.

Grand Union.

Grand Union.

Six piece.

The girl's

voice is

spectacular.

So that's tonight at Epic.

Food's all included.

Well, the tickets are free, so I guess you don't really care about that.

So we're giving those

away today, Todd?

Yes, we are.

Two pairs?

We've got three pairs to give away.

Three pairs of tickets.

Awesome.

So if you'd like to go tonight, what we're going to do is we're going to have you text in.

Text in right now.

We'll give you a chance to win.

We'll put them at the door for you tonight.

Yeah, I'll

bring them there.

OK,

let me ask you something.

I got to set up.

OK,

so Spencer's painting.

Are

you

actually going to bring that there tonight?

Yeah, I parked out here.

So yes, I'm going to take it there.

Okay, can we do one thing?

I'm on setup committee.

Let's do this.

Let's get an opening

bid for a listener.

Uh, no, I put a minimum bid on there already.

500?

Yup, I did.

Okay.

I did.

So it's on, I got that.

You really like what we put for the, talking about Spencer, I got a picture of him tainting it with the cleats.

So if everybody wants to bid $500, that's the opening bid for that.

That's an unbelievable three by four.

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So before we get back to the show, I just want to let you know I'll give you all the details clearly and concisely.

Tonight is the show doors opening up at five o'clock at the Epic Event Center, Honky Talk, Hoedown Boots, Brims, and Bourbon.

That is Grand Union, and you can go see them tonight.

This event helps the new community shelter, and it's going to be great music all night long.

If you'd like to get a pair of tickets right now, text in, download the Civic Media app, choose the station WGBW or WISS.

Click on the talk button, say, hey, I want to go tonight.

We'll put a pair of tickets for you at the door at the Epic Center tonight.

Again, doors open up at five o'clock.

And I think we should play every bumper music, something with honky-tuck.

I will do my

best.

That's a good, that's a good idea.

It's a great song.

What, you know what my all time, like at my, if you had to listen to one song right before you die, okay, you got one song.

You ever think about that?

What would you listen to?

I don't think about that.

Mind me, sympathy for the devil.

Please to meet you won't you guess my name do to do do to do what's troubling you is the nature of my game Yeah,

you're really gonna be kids listen to that.

No,

that'd

be my last

one, but I'm listening Oh, but a hockey tonk woman by the Rolling Stones would be great to play today, Todd All right,

I'll

pull that

out and

then you know what else they want um ravishing Ruby Tom T. Hall ravishing Ruby.

She was a truck stop child born in the back.

No, you don't know something ravishing Ruby top T. Huh

But um, no, no, okay.

Okay.

Well, anyway, yeah, happy Friday to its beautiful day out there 50 degrees in Green Bay negligible wind negligible Alton 48 Oshkosh is 50 forecast cloudy with showers possible storms coming up today Did it rain last night when all the thunder was happening a little bit of rain.

Yeah, that was crazy thunder.

Yeah, um high in the mid 60s.

Nope 50s mid 60s.

All right

mid 60s.

That's what I heard

today.

Really?

That's

awesome.

Wow.

I thought that was like mid 60s today.

Yeah, that's unbelievable.

Yeah.

And yeah.

Okay, you know, I'm gonna, I'm gonna announce something.

I'm gonna announce a medical problem I got.

Really?

Yeah.

Okay, well, let's just get a serious find some maybe we'll use the music to

Which medical problem you wanna hear about?

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Really?

I remember that.

That was a great show, St.

Elsewhere.

It got a little weird.

It got weird down the stretch.

Yeah.

Especially the ending.

Do you remember the ending, Todd?

Yes.

That the whole thing was the kid looking in a snow globe and he made it all up.

Yeah.

I hate those kind of endings.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But it

was an amazing Thursday night lineup because it would be Hill Street Blues, St.

Elsewhere and Cheers.

Oh, yeah, that

was one of the greatest lineups.

I think in TV history.

Don't you?

Yeah, that that's a good lineup.

Yes.

I mean, I watched all three

long time classic shows saying elsewhere.

History blues.

And here's what's interesting about that.

All three of those theme songs, those three blues, saying elsewhere and cheers all were on the top charts.

on the radio stations.

Wow.

Really?

Yeah.

That's cool.

Yeah.

I did not

know that.

Yeah.

That's, hey, those are the days of radio where like a TV shows soundtrack could be a

number one hit.

Yeah.

And then you'd play the Carpenters and then maybe a little bit later on you'd play ACVC.

Isn't that

crazy?

Yeah.

And

there's all AM.

Hey, welcome back.

AM 1592 here on WGVW.

Have a little sign elsewhere.

Coming at ya.

Thursday

night.

Did you see that last night?

Great episode.

How about that young Denzel Washington?

I think that kid has a future.

I mean, that was

a great era.

And William Daniels was in that.

And he was the voice of Kit, the car.

You're right.

Yeah.

Night writer.

Night writer.

And later

on, he

was

on Boy Meets World.

Yep.

David Morse was in that.

David Morse became a big time actor.

Who else?

There's somebody else that made it big.

But, I mean, Denzel Washington made, oh, I know who.

Ed Begley Jr.

was in that.

Howie Mandel.

Howie Mandel.

That's who it was, yeah.

Who else was in this show?

I mean, it was an incredible collection of young actors at the time, who all made it big.

But Hill Street Blues was a great show, though, too.

Remember that?

Oh, man.

Not like you, but yeah, I

do.

Yeah, great show.

So anyway,

welcome.

It is Friday.

It is good Friday, which Jim and I were talking when you're back in the old Catholic faith was the worst day of the year.

And I don't mean that in a bad way.

I don't mean I'm just saying it's like this really had to you were all in or you weren't.

It was the strictest day of the year.

Strictest day of the year.

And we both grew up in pretty strict families and just I think a lot of people listening remembered that, but that.

From 12 to three, you couldn't talk and then you're in mass a lot.

Yeah.

Oh, that's, it was starvation day and, but we remember it.

So I guess it did do some good, but man, that was a long day serving.

And like you said, standing and kneeling.

You have to

kneel for like hours.

You

got to

protect the crypt or whatever.

It's like, you know what?

Somebody wants to come in, go ahead.

I'm just going to sit here for a while.

Yeah.

I agree.

So again, today's animal cracker day.

Nobody likes them.

Exercise day, something like, you know what, every day is exercise

day.

They honor us today?

Yeah.

No, the next one, they honor us.

Oh, amateur radio day.

Wow.

I didn't even see, Todd, that's not really us.

I know.

Those are the

guys.

Are

there still

ham radio operators?

They have an event here in Green Bay every year.

Seriously?

They do over on the east side and I go to that and they set up their little radios and yeah, that's it.

It's a small club, but it's a club.

Is

that what our guys in Finland do Todd

to hear?

No, those those are just long-distance listeners on AM

radio.

No Little different.

Yeah.

No, these guys have a club.

It's still active small but active club.

Okay.

Can I just ask this?

I don't mean to like burst the day every day

Couldn't you just pick up a cell phone and call the person in like Tahiti or something?

You

can't ask them that stuff.

Okay, they like

that.

Here's the thing that's really interesting, though, in like really bad crisis situations when there's no cell phone coverage and stuff like that.

These are the men and women who actually keep that communication line going.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

I agree with that.

I just didn't know if technology has kind of made them obsolete.

Yeah.

Kind of like albums

are obsolete,

but you're

still like it,

right?

You can always tell they'd have the big antenna in their garage.

Remember?

Or driving down the road and they had that big antenna kind of swooping over their car.

Duke Wright.

That's

right.

Duke was big into that.

He was huge.

It was actually pretty fascinating talking about the different places they would,

somebody

from Fiji all of a sudden would, yeah.

But you're right.

Ham radio operators have, it's been a big thing.

Marbles Day, you still love, remember going to school with your sack of marbles?

Wasn't that big?

The coolest looking.

Yeah.

Steel yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, you know you're jealous of the kids whose dad had certain jobs in the mines because they'd have the ball bearings that they replaced ball bearings and the ball bearings then were the Steelies

that you would

use so they would come to school with them, you know, oh Hockey talk woman mad, huh?

Love this song

Start tapping those boots there.

I'm

I

got the boots.

Yeah.

Man fist.

It's the right music.

The old Rolling

Stones are amazing.

They're replaying that at your hoedown tonight.

We're

gonna send a great, great, great line up for you after the man breakfast.

For WGBW and WISS News, I'm Lisa Hale.

The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Milwaukee Brewer's affiliate, will be sold to diamond baseball holdings.

As part of the transaction, DBH is also purchasing the neuroscience group field at Fox City Stadium.

That's been the team's home ballpark since it opened in 1995.

The existing office staff will continue to operate with the club.

The sale will be complete as soon as closing conditions and consent from the league is obtained.

Oshkosh police are looking for the owner of a deceased dog found in a dumpster this week.

Police say the medium sized black female dog was found in a metal dog kennel and was severely emaciated.

They believe the dog was between three and four years old.

OPD said in a press release, quote, animal cruelty and neglect will not be tolerated in our community.

These acts are both inhumane and unacceptable, end quote.

Anyone with information about the dog or its owner is asked to call the Oshkosh PD or Winnebago County Crime Stoppers.

A Michigan High School PE teacher and coach is facing charges of sexually assaulting students and taking inappropriate photos of them.

36 year old Ryan Schrader has not yet been formally charged but was in Manitowoc County Court Thursday for a bond hearing where a $150,000 cash bail was set.

He faces charges of second-degree sexual assault of a child, repeated sexual assault of the same child, sexual assault of a child by school staff, 10 counts of possession of child pornography, and charges of child enticement for conduct happening between 2023 and 2025.

Schrader will make his initial court appearance Monday.

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Now, once again, here's Mino and the Mayor, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here.

Good looking Friday morning.

We made it till Friday.

It is good Friday.

We had Easter weekend.

We got a little thing called the NFL Draft coming to town.

What a...

big, big time it is to be in Northeast Wisconsin.

And we've got somebody right now that is the voice in the face of helping people in Northeast Wisconsin.

And her name is Vanessa Moran.

Good morning, young lady.

Good morning.

Good morning.

You are so kind that you flatter me way too much.

I will tell you, you know, there's a lot of big things coming up.

Yeah, the draft, but we also have a big event to raise awareness for autism.

So that's what I'm here to talk about today.

So I can't wait to share a little bit about about this event with you.

super near and dear to my heart.

My students founded it 14 years ago and we're still running strong.

I just want to say I

was going to get to the thing.

Today is Animal Cracker Day, which are so overrated, correct?

No.

They're great.

Vanessa?

Vanessa, they're great.

No.

Yeah.

Thanks a lot, Vanessa.

Good

having you here.

Have a nice day.

Um, Vanessa today is exercise day.

You always say you and I are going to like walk exercise wise here

and we never have Vanessa does it every day.

Yeah.

I, you know what?

I do.

I do.

My daughter and I do a plank challenge every day, which is Jim and I do plank

challenges every day.

We

walk

the.

Every day.

Did you see Jim's cowboy boots?

Vanessa?

Do I want it?

Did you see his cowboy boots?

We have an event tonight.

Todd put it up on his screen.

We have an event tonight Vanessa.

So I.

Hold out hold out.

So I

he's wearing ostrich skin cowboy boots.

I

just messaged them to you.

They're in your in your messenger in essence.

So you can see they're not

rattlesnake.

I don't know what they are.

Anyway, so yes, but what I was getting at today is autism acceptance day.

Yes.

two miles

for autism.

Yes.

Yes.

So you know what?

I actually didn't know that.

I'm so thankful that you shared that with me.

Well, that's we're professionals Vanessa.

Hey, hey, show prop.

Hey,

show

prop.

Today is amateur radio day and we're professionals.

That's right.

So why?

So go ahead and glad we could help you out on your project Vanessa.

All right, tell us about it.

There's so many things I want to say about that last comment, but I'm just going to keep them to myself.

Do that.

We don't have a lot of time.

Go right ahead.

No, you guys are truly the pros.

I'm so thankful for this time.

So, no, it really, so, I really didn't know that.

So thank you for sharing it with me.

Second of all, thank you for giving me this time because it is Easter weekend and because of that, we didn't realize that when we planned the date of the event, we had to take into consideration a lot of other things, including another walk called the N-E-W Donate Life Walk, which started the year after us in the Howard-Somaco School District and also the State Autism Awareness Conference, which led us to this weekend, not really realizing it's Easter.

So we typically have anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people attend.

And this year, our numbers are down, and we understand that it's Easter.

But...

If anyone is looking for something great and just super fun to do, super fast to do, tomorrow morning, we just wanted to help spread the word.

And it's tomorrow at Meadowbrook Elementary School, which is in the Howard Swamico School District.

It's the school I used to teach at.

And so up in the corner, my old classroom is there.

And 14 years ago, my students had the courage to rally around one of my other students named Miles.

The event is named after one of my former students who is now

just doing some amazing work.

He's an adult.

He's taller than me, which is wild.

His mom and dad have been just a huge part of this and done all the work behind this right alongside of me.

And we just would love to get as many people there as possible.

9 a.m.

Show up at Madelbrook Elementary School.

It's just a two mile, hence the name, two miles for autism, two mile run walk right in the beautiful Howard Swarmaco area.

And that's it.

If anyone comes, even if they

haven't just registered day of event or walk up, we still order them a t-shirt post event, which is really kind of unheard of.

It's just whatever we have, you get, when they run out, they run out.

No, we take all your registration information and we still will order a second shirt so you can be a part of it.

And why we do that is because we know that those t-shirts help, you know, when people see those, it helps raise awareness.

Absolutely.

Is Miles gonna be there?

absolutely and actually the event started uh... right around his birthday it was actually held on his birthday the very first year and uh... we always have cake and cupcakes and all kinds of food we have a lot of great sponsors uh... that that just you know make this a great event and little door prizes and giveaways at the end and really we're gearing up for next year already uh... because it'll be our fifteenth year we want to do a big celebration for it so

Super easy to just walk up.

Meadowbrook Elementary School.

So you get there on 8.45 tomorrow morning.

Registration is only $15 per participant.

And where does this go for this?

You know, I gotta say something.

Okay, you're, I mean, you've been a teacher, school board.

I mean, a lot of different things, a lot of different hats, but there's a certain something with you.

I mean, you obviously don't make any money with autism.

No.

You don't make any money on feeding your starting children.

No, no, no.

Every Chinese days in the Howard Somerville School District, it goes back to supporting students with autism,

training for paraprofessionals and teachers so they can better support students with autism.

Every penny stays in the district.

Where does your passion come from?

I mean, the feeling that started in children, the autism, you don't make a dime off of any of these things.

I mean, it's probably spent a couple thousand dollars a year.

Just in the different things doing things think where does that passion come from because we deal with a lot of people that work for nonprofits Which is phenomenal and they raise tremendous amounts money, but that's their job you do this on the side of Honestly

just

Just a heart to serve.

That's it.

I mean there is this my my nephew is it also has autism So when I was a teacher It was just something that I felt like you know from a professional standpoint and a personal standpoint I could relate to the family is the students, you know, obviously I you know I don't know it firsthand but witnessing it and watching people struggle with acceptance

watching people struggle just from an academic standpoint watch it would just it broke my heart and it just i was so thankful and i will always be thankful that i had the opportunity to to have miles in my classroom i've been thankful to have every student i've had in my classroom but there's something special that these students with exceptionalities teach you

um... and just knowing and understanding and seeing how much value they add and just how special and unique they are in so many ways not just you know it's a fairly a disability that just you know define them that's not what defines miles that that's never what defined any of my students with any type of exceptionalities

They're just, your heart is just with them.

And so because of that, you'll do anything for them.

That's the same thing with my serving children, right?

When you realize and understand, even from a distance, from around the world, the peril that these children are facing, your heart just goes out.

And if there's something we can do, why not step in and do it?