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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
942 in the whole area, high in the mid to upper 50s today by a beautiful, beautiful, sunshiny day.
By the way, congratulations to Dave from Oshkosh, winner of four season passes for Waterfest.
All right, Dave.
That's a big bleepin' prize.
And then Greg from Appleton, four VIP passes for a hairball at Waterfest.
Those are cool, although I will say this.
Um, it'd be great to have VIP passes.
Yes.
But something else that's very cool there is that a nice night sitting on the hillside.
Have that music come up at you.
That ain't a bad setting either.
Is it Pat?
They're all good.
Is he joining us?
They're all good.
Yes.
You have a compliment.
I don't know if you were listening earlier, but we had Connie on here.
Connie Carmichael from the chamber.
Yes.
And we're telling her that, look, we think Oshkosh has it going on.
And a couple of respects, right?
And she.
discovered Oshkosh is one of the reasons.
So I think that's pretty cool that the chambers, sometimes chambers take all
But you know what the cool part is, you got like these young kids here from Oshkosh, these young gentlemen from Oshkosh North High School, 16, 17, 15 years old, and they're taking, picking up the gauntlet already and leading things that could last for the next 40 years.
How cool is
Yes.
Yes, your own homegrown talent and give credit to the social studies teacher to for teaching his kids leadership skills besides just the X's and O's of social studies, you know, and I just think that you Yeah, you made a good point.
I think you're all in it together And I think that's really
that would be and so I want to invite all the mothers and families in Northeast, Wisconsin to join us at the pain art center and gardens
in beautiful Oshkosh because it's free admission on Mother's Day.
The tulips are blooming.
It is incredible.
There's literally thousands of tulips in every possible color.
And so moms and families, if you are out and about, just stop by the Payne Art Center this Sunday for free admission.
If you're busy this Sunday with your mom activities next Saturday, I want to say that's the 17th, is the Payne annual
Festival of Spring, which is another free day to get into the pain, but then right across the street from the pain are like 60 artisans, plant sale, flowers, everything.
So we've got a Sunday and a Saturday here in Oshkosh that if you have not been to the pain recently, you should come down and see it.
That sounds great.
Yeah, that that.
it's hard to bring
pain.
Well, no, it's not that.
correct me if I'm wrong?
time we were here, didn't you bring her some of the
going to be.
what I'm going to
yeah.
It's an Oshkosh.
No, John, did you hear that?
OK, I'm just.
He's got the best
we had them
remember going on there with the Wisconsin team competition or whatever it
used to come every year.
Yes.
So I was a featured speaker and one of the judges at their luncheon.
What do you think
It's kind of interesting.
Okay.
Interesting choice.
Inspiring John.
So Captain Joe invited us to come out and we took a little crew out there.
The boat
Uh, holds six people for the cruise.
Joe does a two hour cruise.
And so we went out and filmed an episode of why I love Oshkosh on Monday afternoon.
It was stunning.
It was 65 out on the water.
And so what I wanted to share with with the community today is the cruise and Tiki's Oshkosh, they're like wide open for bookings in May.
Right.
Right.
Now they start getting busy in June and July.
But if you ever are looking for a fun thing to do and you've got.
six people.
It's like it's 300 bucks.
Right.
For the two hours.
And the way they do it is you meet them at the Fox River Brewery right on the Fox River.
Sure.
You can have a beverage there or get a snack.
You bring your own beverages out under the tea.
Oh, nice.
Super fun.
And then they take you for a half an hour down the river for sightseeing and then you come back up, you get off, maybe hit the restroom.
Whatever you need to do and then you take another hour and you go toward the beautiful more bridge, which is really cool You know usually you only see that if you're a fisherman or something and like you were talking about you see the bridge from the water.
It's yeah Anyway, I cannot work in the
green bay itself and the only time I've experienced it is on fishing trips or maybe one time with the old foxy lady type thing But at night the skyline of Green Bay is really cool, but you don't really see it unless you're on the water
That sounds great.
I'd love to try that.
to
back in, love it.
What else you got going
no, no.
I know what I wanted to say to you first.
Tell me.
Congratulations to one of your, one of Todd's favorite places for being correct me from Ryan.
Dive bar of the country for the year, because that current garage bar.
mean, that got
was a national story
Exactly.
That's cool.
Interrupt.
I interrupted.
I know.
He's
Jim doesn't like them.
The trip.
a tripe?
Nice.
Number one, I think the beer and cheese brought.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
So I'm going in, I think it's next Wednesday.
I'm going into the little room in the middle of the Wagner Market, right?
It's like a little sanitary operating room in there.
And they're gonna show me how you put the stuff in and the sausage.
Like I am gonna literally be making the sausage.
And that's gonna be one of your shows.
That's gonna be one of our
Awesome.
I want to say this because nothing's better than on a Saturday afternoon or a Sunday and you're like, you know what, I want to grill out.
You drive down to Main Street, right?
You stop in, you grab whatever you're going to throw on the grill, brats, steaks or whatever.
Side salads, you want, you know, some coleslaw, you want, they've got it all right there.
It's just,
So we've been doing brats.
I also did a weekend internship with Sunken Paddle Ciderworks.
I love them, too.
These are two young guys.
Oh, my God, we should get them in here because they're like, remember Ian from Fifth Ward?
Yeah, that was great.
These are another like cut from the same cloth.
But crazier.
Oh my gosh, but crazier.
These guys are a little crazy.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll take them there.
So they make they make cider and it's they call it like proper cider like people from Europe would call it proper cider.
What's happened in America is the cider that's in the cans in the stores.
Yeah, super sweet.
Yeah, these guys make a dry cider.
It's almost like a like a Pinot Grigio.
Some of it is like a wine and my wife, Dawn, who doesn't like a lot of stuff.
He loves the cider.
Yeah.
He
doesn't like and you're like he's pointing for
ahead.
All right.
Apple cider?
No.
So it's it's apple cider.
Alcohol.
Is there?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Five percent alcohol and they've got a cider pressing.
It's called an urban nano cidery.
It's like a little tiny cidery.
The bar is like in a garage about as big as our studio here.
There's like 10 chairs in there and in your literally like.
in the cidery, all the equipment's there in the vats.
Where is
it?
I'd love to see it.
Right
Oh, gosh, it's so cool.
There's a
Yes.
But is there like, OK, so there are different types of cider?
Do they have what you come there?
Here's
cider.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but there's a lot of things about cider that's good for you, I guess, for your heart.
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