Pickleball with Purpose and Global Impact (Hour 2)

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Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back Minow and the mayor here in a cold Monday morning Terry says there will be a celebration of life for coach race on Friday, May 30th at Black Sheep Tributes at 630 Terry.

I didn't know that I just seen that private whatever so thank you very much I will definitely try to be there.

Thank you very much Dale was such a great friend of mine I mean, I remember he's kind of guy, you know, he's a head coach Hall of Fame head coach

You know, great coach at Green Bay.

Players loved him.

And I remember one time a hospital in Manitowoc was putting together a three on three tournament, kind of whatever.

And I asked him, would you help at all with him?

He came down to ref the games.

Wow.

That's cool.

You know what I mean?

Yep.

That's the kind of guy he was right there.

All right.

We're with two of our favorite people, Brett Jansen and Beckett Kaye.

Pickleball for a cause was held over the weekend.

Pickleball for a purpose.

Got it.

Oh, I'm

sorry for a cause.

It was a purpose.

But it was a good cause.

But it was.

We just scrubbed Todd.

It

was,

all right.

Todd had a rough weekend.

He was eating Caribbean food and drinking rum all weekend.

Todd,

in your defense, they came in and told us it's pickleball for a purpose.

I crossed it out on my sheet and wrote purpose, John.

Okay.

Anyway.

Wow.

You had a

successful event.

Todd, that was an angry bell.

Yes, sir.

Sometimes there's a ping and there's a bang, bang, bang.

There's a happy bell.

Yeah, that was,

that was an angry bell.

We talked about this last week that you guys were putting on kind of a first time event, pickleball for a purpose to raise money.

So tell us about how it went.

Yeah.

And welcome.

Thank you.

Absolutely.

Welcome.

This time we gave the overview on Thursday and now we're on the other side of it and happy to join my buddy Bex here.

He's big pickleball guy.

So we're growing a lot and, you know, trying to get exposure to different markets, different types of people.

Cause that's kind of my heart and all of this is to make pickleball.

accessible, um, you know, it's a healthy sport because you get the community aspect of it.

You have the socialization, you, you know, research says Mayo Clinic came out and said your life expectancy is seven years longer if you play a racket sport because it, you know, your cerebellum is your coordination center of your brain.

Yeah, there's research behind this because it's like your balance.

Did they specify

racket?

Yeah, any racket sport.

So ping pong, tennis, up and coming sport.

Did

you call my golf club a racket?

I just

stole Bex's racket.

Yes.

That's a paddle.

Remember that's a paddle.

Oh, that's right.

I'm gonna hit it against the school wall.

Remember you do that when you're a kid playing against the school walls?

Yeah.

How'd it go Bex?

Um, it was very good interviewing AJ.

Um, yeah, very fun.

Um, I feel like I asked some good questions, meeting him for the third time, so I knew some stuff about him.

Pickleball went good.

I didn't have my best day ever, but I didn't have my worst.

It was pretty good.

Um, yeah, I feel like everything, they had food trucks.

Um...

I attracted a lot of people, even though there was a storm, it still worked out pretty well.

I think it went very good.

Great.

Just to remind our audience, Beckett is a 10-11?

How old are you?

10.

I'm about to be 10 and a half.

Yeah, 10 and a half.

But at DaVinci and has started a podcast a year and a half ago?

About, yeah.

Coming up

on it.

And you interview, you've interviewed Mark Murphy, John Minow, you've interviewed some sports figures and AJ Dillon.

You guys kind of became friends in that first interview, Bill Jartz.

So where did the money go?

Why was AJ Dillon there?

Because the main sponsor of the night was the Dillon Family Foundation.

And if I'm correct, the money went to the Dillon Family Foundation.

It did.

It

did.

Do you know what the Dillon Foundation?

What their

mission is?

They help kids with, like, insecurity and give them food.

That's a great foundation.

So we need to support that.

It was nice of you guys to do this pickleball tournament and make them the recipient.

Did you work out with AJ afterwards in the

weight room?

No, I probably couldn't lift, like, a one-pound weight.

That'd be

interesting just to watch what he lifts, wouldn't it?

Because you got to stand next to him to realize...

He is a solid big man.

He can probably lift more with those quads than with his arms.

Yeah, it's incredible what that man

is.

Tell them about Bex, you were talking about the quad size and him versus Saquon and they talked about their game in London because they actually did the measurements or come friends

with the tape measure.

So like 2022 in London, it was the Packers versus the Giants in London, like I said.

and it was Saekwon vs. AJ Dylan like arguably the two biggest quads and most people thought it was Saekwon but after the game they went to the locker room and measured the circumference of their quads and AJ's was bigger and he came out as the king

I

wonder, Jim and John, which one of you would be the king of quads?

Me.

You think so?

Not even a question.

I wouldn't do the measurement.

I would forfeit that.

Me.

That's when we have our regatta.

It's like quads that are going to make the difference.

Gotcha.

It is.

They are.

So, pickleball has become such a popular thing and it's still a precipice.

How big do you see this board coming?

Yeah, I don't see it stopping.

This is...

You know, people say, is it just the next racket ball?

Is it going to kind of come and go?

And, you know, the way the market's going, which is how accessible it is, how people can play at all the different age brackets, that there's tournaments all the time.

We had another charity event the next day for the Down Syndrome Association of Wisconsin.

Oh, great, good.

That was Saturday, very well attended.

Yeah, we've had a lot of high-level players come through but you know more of these beginner tournaments are coming out beginner leagues Now that we have these indoor facilities that usually was just a public court first come first serve But now pick a welcoming them coming to Appleton to pick Larry in Green Bay

You can reserve a court, you can get lessons, you can drill, they have ball machines that help you practice, coaches.

You can also, you can get like this monthly like family plan, like a single plan, like a junior plan.

So yeah, they have a lot of stuff.

You can get memberships all year round.

And I feel like parks should start making more pickleball courts.

Most of them do, but.

just pickleball as a sport is accessible for everybody, like Brett said.

Yeah.

So you can do a lot of stuff with pickleball.

There's a lot of cool plans that you can get.

You know, I'm very surprised that because it was reading about some of these tournaments where it's like, okay, your, your level is D1 or whatever.

Okay.

It doesn't seem like it's been around that long that it would be so organized yet to rate everybody

like

that.

But they, yeah, handicaps, what they have, huh?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, with technology, now there's an app on my phone that, like we talked about on Thursday, the Dynamic Universal Pickball Rating Acronyms Dupre, where it's like, and it's pretty accurate too, because you put in the score of each game.

It's not just who won or lost.

It's like, if Bex and I were playing.

John and Jim, we would put, you know, our rating in and then if we won 11 to nine, we'd put that in.

It's like, oh, it was close.

So it won't really affect our scores that much.

But if we pickle you or if the score is 11 to one, well, that's going to affect the rating more.

It'll drop you down, build us up.

So

you

play in tournaments, you play

in

different

cities.

So it's just like, well, the Appleton market's really good.

Let's have these Appleton players play the Green Bay players, play the Milwaukee players.

How do we stack up versus the pros?

Do you have to be 18 to have that up?

That's

a good

question Vax.

We can look into

that.

I

don't think you are.

I've seen kids get the app and get rated.

How good are some of

these players at this young age?

Good.

Yeah.

Like they can beat adults.

Is there, tell me, I've seen it play, I've actually played it.

Is there a niche, because old people, not old, but people who are a little bit older play this, unlike maybe racquetball.

Of course they play racquetball too.

Who he drawn to these things?

The kitchen is the great equalizer.

That's what they call the space in between the net and that first line.

Cause you can't just go up to the net and whack it.

So these older players that don't move as well.

You say you

can't have someone really tall person just stand in front of the net,

right?

Exactly.

And if a good player, even if they're advanced in age, they don't move as well.

If they have good shot placement and they can keep it away from these quicker, faster, more athletic players, you know, that's what's awesome.

Cause like Donald driver talked about it in his interview, it's like, you know, he stepped onto the court, you know,

dancing with a star champion, you know, super bowl champion, super athletic, super fast.

He gets out there with these, you know, 60, 70 year old women.

They kick his butt.

It's like, really?

Yeah.

Cause even if you don't understand the placement, this board of stand, it's like they can definitely figure out a strategy to watch that

would be fun.

Okay.

Well, June seven, Donald drivers come into green Bay.

He's doing a charity tournament at the end of peer.

I think it's called the racket club tennis facility, but they've converted it into pickleball as well.

Wow,

this is cool.

I

hope this

doesn't turn out to be like what racquetball was because like in the early 80s every racquet, but that was the thing.

Remember racquetball, racquetball, racquetball and that just kind of faded away for some reason.

I think

so.

Don't you?

Do you think so?

I do.

I mean, wasn't around in the 80s, but that's what I've heard.

It was very, very big.

Very

popular.

You

couldn't get a court

with a rise.

I remember we'd get out.

We'd have to play when I was in Tucson and we would do the 10 o'clock sports or 10 o'clock news.

And me and the guy would go to the health club at the time.

Remember they'd also have those health clubs have a juice bar and all these and they'd have the first saunas and things like that.

And we would be playing at 11 o'clock at night because that's the only time we could get a court.

So they converted those?

I think some of them, they built them that way for, for racquetball.

They thought racquetball was just, what I'm

saying is, are they still there or

had they converted them into something else?

That's a good point.

I will call a wide figure

out.

That's a good point.

So let's put it this way.

It was the Vic Taney era.

Remember Vic Taney?

Yeah.

Remember Vic Taney.

You don't remember Vic Taney.

He was even born then.

Beck, you remember Vic Taney?

Yeah.

No.

Yeah.

All

right.

Todd, you remember Vic Taney?

I absolutely.

That gets the bell.

I think that's where I got

my.

No, I'm not gonna say

it.

One of the things that Brett said earlier that I kind of latched on to, and both of you just didn't hear it apparently, was he mentioned, hey, if me and Beckett played John and Jim, and I'm thinking, hmm, that could be kind of interesting.

Well, is there a handicap,

though, if we only have three working hips between the two of us?

Your hip works just fine.

We don't have the app, so we have to get that, get our handicap.

And

it all

comes down, so we can't get that.

Man.

All right, I watch out.

Brett's very good.

Brett's very good.

Like, Kilt.

It's like an under the leg shot.

Oh,

sure.

No

one likes a

brain turn.

We'll take care of that.

If the tweener, I thought it was pretty cool, then AJ steps out there and he's hitting them between the legs.

It's like you think, because he's just learning pickleball.

He's played a couple of times, but still learning the rules.

But you just think he's a mere mortal, then the ball's going over his head.

You see him jump up five feet in the air.

Same thing as Kraft.

When he shows up there, it's like he just walks up to the fence.

That's a little different.

But pickleball in the kitchen, it's great equalizer.

That's what's fun about it.

Yeah, you can take the super athletic guy and humble him a little bit.

So I like it.

It's cool to watch.

All right.

Well, I'm looking forward to taking it up this summer.

I really have.

Yeah, we'll get you out there.

Pick a while kingdoms the spot.

I mean, there's, but there's free courts everywhere.

So if you're just looking to learn the game, Rocky Canings, his son's a teenager.

He's like 13.

He's awesome.

We had him playing against AJ and other high level players and they can compete at that level to even at a young age.

Two minutes to go.

What is a quality that when person picks it up for the first time, if they've done this?

chance they're gonna pick it up quick and is it just tennis or is it

badminton is it what is it

in your racket sport.

I would say some people have the coordination G and some people don't, but even if you don't, it's fun too.

Cause then you jump on the other, on the court with people who aren't coordinated and we can adapt pickleball too.

You can shrink the court a little bit.

You can play mini games and.

Okay.

I didn't say it wasn't coordinated.

I don't know where that came from.

I

signed you up.

Hey, this, your court, you're using that to help charities.

And we've talked about charities a lot on this program because that's how they get their money.

And when the government's not going to fund them, what else do you have coming up there that we could keep an eye on?

Yeah, so a lot of the inspiration for this tournament came from Mary Bethneen House.

She's a big name in the Appleton community.

She's one of my dear friends.

Yeah, so she, Tallulah Park in Appleton, that's where it all started.

Beautiful outdoor pickleball courts, lights, state of the art, fences.

And

what do you have going on this, your next fundraiser?

So I'm hoping to do a pickleball for our purpose again next year.

The plan is to benefit the Dillon Family Foundation again.

Obviously a lot of stuff's up on the air to get AJ to come into a weekend.

We can't guarantee that yet, but that's what we're working towards.

But you know, just promoting good purposes and getting the community out.

That's the goal.

It'd be

great if your sport could get that reputation too of, you know, doing more than being athletic, but giving back to the community because that's what we need both.

We need healthy people and we need people to socialize like you just said and live another seven years.

And there are some

very coordinated people with artificial hips.

There is.

I've read a study on that.

You know, it helps balance the person out.

Not in this room.

It really does.

It helps.

Cause I had one leg shorter than the other.

That's a long story.

Oh my gosh.

Not that long.

So when I get my rating, you gotta consider those things.

Okay.

Alright.

Bex, great having you here.

Congratulations.

Thank you

guys.

Brett, great work.

Keep us informed on the driver thing too, would you?

We'll do.

Alright.

Vanessa Moran feeding my starving children coming on.

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Johnson Beckett K pick a ball for a purpose which is awesome $35,000 roughly right in that's great man.

This is a great I'm not even joking about it.

I want to take this board up I would love to see you guys play right back it

I really want to be fun.

I do too.

I do too me and Beckett against Jim I Think it'd be fun.

I really truly want to try this I got it like are you still at Western?

Yes,

do they have courts there?

No, we go to tennis club.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Um, cause I know at, um, uh, where I go,

although we may have taken those tennis courts upstairs and converted them.

I've been

on for a while.

I've been up there for a while.

I don't say that, but I know that there's a lot of the

Crock

Center.

They got that huge gym and they like pull the curtain across and like people can still play basketball or

play the pickleball.

Well, I mean, I'm sure they've done something.

I don't know that.

But the, you know, the tennis club right on Riverside.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a lot.

That's a lot of picket ball.

Oh, OK.

Cool.

I mean, why?

I mean, so many people can play it.

It's so much easier, it seems like, than tennis.

Because let's be honest, with tennis, 90 percent of the time you're running out to pick up the ball.

Do you know what I mean?

It's because it's such a large court.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You spend 10 times more time running over to pick up the balls than you do actually hitting the balls.

Yeah.

But I mean, if you're not, if you're a good tennis player, that probably doesn't happen.

But if you're not a good balling, right?

That's how you do it.

All right.

Bressamaran coming up.

Feed my starving children.

We got Kathy coming up from salute to service event for houses of honor, which is a really, really great entity.

And that's where our Don Hudson photo.

I'm going to be auctioning that off at their benefit.

Oh, yeah.

So that's going to go for them.

Um, and then veterans village, we got Don Carper coming here from veterans village.

Talk about Rocky Blair.

We were, we were so lucky when I was at veterans village that Rocky agreed to come and do a golf tournament for us.

Well, it's, it's beyond that.

Now, right?

There's actually, I don't know if they're still having, I'll find out from Don, but as we're talking, um, as Brett was talking about Mary Jane, um, she started a pickleball tournament.

Outdoor one as well for, for the village.

Um, Rocky comes there.

He's got a, he's got a bourbon line now that he has to get together, uh, the night before and everything.

So it's a really cool thing.

So if people want to meet Rocky Blier, who is one of the nicest human beings you'll ever meet for his status, he says down to, he's still, he's still an Apleton kid at heart.

Right.

So we're going to be talking about that when Rocky comes to town.

Look at the information on that

when he

comes here.

All

right.

Yep.

Come to the first week of, um, of, um, June.

So when that'll start.

So I just want to really mention really quickly.

We are part of the bike.

Gosh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We had over 80 bikers stopped by the WSS studios to get their stamp and got a chance to talk to some of them.

It's great because the kids from

the school actually kind of organized this thing.

So we had a couple of students there in our lobby, and they were stamping people's stuff and giving them directions to the next stop and all that kind of stuff.

And a couple of years ago, Terese Halliburton, who's now an NBA All-Star, was one of the kids doing that.

Yeah, exactly.

Isn't that cool?

That was great.

We did that till noon, and then we took a drive up to the Payne Arts Center in Oshkosh.

They had their spring event going on right there.

Oh, that's right.

You got a lot in.

It was rainy and cold out there.

and then drove up, got to area 509 a little early.

I think we were the first group there so that I could tell who 509 is.

Well, that of course is Reggie and his family up there running that great restaurant in Appleton.

They've got Caribbean taste, the food truck and also busted spud.

It was a lot of fun.

It was a little cool out at times, right?

But did he have the fires going?

He said he's got the fires going.

He had fires going.

Absolutely.

Luminati, the band were performing out there starting at two o'clock, sat back, had some beers, ate some Caribbean food, and left their little tipsy.

Time to go home.

I wasn't driving, so that's OK.

There you go.

Nice.

Why a good weekend with you guys.

Yeah.

Had a

lot of

fun.

Green Bay, that's, I don't know, you had a lot going on Appleton and Oshkosh Green Bay.

We had Tarle Knight on here one time, and he was talking about an event he put together.

So he went to Nine Parks in Green Bay on Sunday, donated a piano.

Remember that he

was talking

about that?

Keys to

the

city.

Keys to the city.

The people came and painted the piano, and while they were painting, he provided entertainment.

That's

awesome.

It was great.

We went to one of the parks, but I saw him yesterday.

He goes, I got to get going.

I got to go to these other parks.

But yeah, I just, you got to look for some of these things.

I mean, they're not on TV and they're on our show, but there's always something to do.

There's just no reason to do nothing.

I mean, no question.

I mean, and it's just, you got to look for it because there's so much going on that sometimes something will overshadow something else.

But yeah, I

was talking, we were talking about that yesterday.

How do you get the word out?

And if you're not on Facebook, you know, you got to look a little harder

or

your friend has to call

you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But a lot going on.

A lot going on.

And a lot of people that devote their lives basically to helping others.

Right.

And nobody's making any money.

The money goes, like you said, to the park systems or to the more events that are coming up.

And he's got a great lineup.

We're going to get him back on here.

He's got some unbelievable things he's got cooking for that whole shipyard district.

So

it's amazing.

It's amazing to me.

I love it.

Our community is that.

that we come together for this stuff, right?

And that's what's cool.

You see people you haven't seen for a while.

You meet new people from all walks of life because, you know, everybody's interested in music and food and whatever.

It was just a great weekend.

I think it'd be so awesome if that shipyard district there with Broadway, with South Broadway, if that turned into a cool, funky kind of place, I would love it.

And it's sure got the potential.

It's

got the potential, but things take time and wait, honestly, they cost money.

So.

I know, but just such a blighted space for so many years.

And that's what makes it even cooler.

And that's what makes it cooler.

It's more gritty.

Right.

Communities have done that.

I mean, it's not, you know, breaking news, but you look at Baltimore, what they did.

Some of the worst rundown areas.

Detroit.

Now it's like the place to go, and it's where just the cool people hang

out.

Where Fort Field is right now?

Yeah, right.

20 years ago?

Yeah, right.

You ain't walking around there, right?

Yeah.

So I think that's I think they're really on to something there and we need to he's got events coming up.

That's what I want to talk about when we get him on here about things that are going on there this summer.

So yeah, there's a lot of cool stuff going on and and you know

what

all over

young energy, ambition, ideas.

All those things

man.

There's a place for that.

And now we can sit back and just be the old guys who enjoy it.

Right, send

them a check.

Yeah,

good.

Good job, boy.

We're gonna give them advice.

Yeah, well, that's what we're giving advice.

We're gonna show them how it needs to be done.

There

you go.

Let

me tell you what

I

would do about this, Tarle.

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Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back Mino and the Mayor here in a chilly Monday morning, 40 degrees in Green Bay, 41 in Ampton, 41 in Oshkosh.

Uh, forecast mix of clouds and sun, breezy high in the mid to upper fifties.

We got Vanessa Moren.

Hello.

That was like the French pronunciation.

I kind of liked it.

Vanessa Moren.

It makes my, my, uh, very plain name sound extremely exotic.

Thank you for that addition.

That's what I do.

That's a great way to start a Monday morning.

You're welcome.

Hey,

by

the way.

Oh, I don't see him.

When I was here last night, I was digging out.

Empty cans with cleaning people must have been here putting them in

the bag.

I'll take them.

We got a few months

left.

I dug through the thing for her last night.

You dug in the trash just for me.

He

was

looking for other stuff, too.

It wasn't all you.

OK, can I ask you guys something?

Let me ask you guys something.

If you okay if if you lived in a place like I live in this place.

Yep.

Okay.

I by the way, I do live in a place

Yeah, yeah, okay.

Me too.

The answer is gonna be no, but okay.

Go ahead.

I don't have to be yes I know what he's gonna ask to

okay.

Go ahead.

I'm going I'm with

you if there's like a community room.

Mm-hmm my community room

Okay, I dig

okay, and there's a little kitchen kind of thing and a refrigerator, right?

Do you think the stuff in the refrigerator is fair game for anybody?

No

Oh, that's not where I thought you were going with this.

Normally I can read your mind, but no, um, I would definitely say a hard maybe.

Okay.

Thank you.

Because people, they've all got their own apartments.

They all got their own refrigerators.

And I think it might be one of those things where people got more stuff or if they're moving, if they're leaving and they're moving and they would put it in there.

No, the only thing I think would be fair game if this, like it was catered and you could just tell it's got that plastic thing all over and there's vegetables and that I think that.

that would be okay, but if it's somebody's, I don't know, no, I would say no.

I would say no.

I would need

it.

Really?

See, what I thought he was going to ask is, would you dig for the cans?

No, I did that for

you.

No, what I thought he was going to ask is, because he lives in, I was thinking,

I was thinking more of a hotel.

But if you walked by a room and the tray was outside with food on, like if it wasn't touched, sometimes they don't, they just like, they're in a hurry and it's the whole sandwich, you wouldn't touch that,

would you,

Johnny?

No.

No, that's a hard question.

No, he would, of course he would.

That's a hard question.

He's actually taking food that they've eaten but left.

Oh god.

I did not do that But if it's ketchup

bottle I take those yes, don't leave them behind no waste.

Exactly.

Oh my goodness

My mom and I went to Disney a few years ago, and I came back.

I mean, Disney took my money, trust me.

But I got it back in all the little condiments from the continental breakfast at Pop Studio.

Every morning, bags and bags.

Like, I have peanut butter and jelly and all the things to last forever.

Have you ever brought your

own soap and shampoo, but you still took the shampoo that was in the thing?

Me too.

All the time.

I always take it.

That's your parting gift.

Me too.

Yeah.

Me too.

They

don't do that anymore.

No,

they don't.

But I have bags, Ziploc bags.

They're all sorted by shampoo and conditioner and bar soap, body

wash.

And something to put mouthwash in there

too.

That's always good to grab that.

Sometimes you learn a little bit too much about somebody and it changes your whole personality.

Or the

OCD and my organizational abilities.

Yeah,

he's judging you right now.

I know I can feel it.

Yeah, but

thank you that

you're not here one at a time.

Almost like I can feel that

stubble growing.

I know, right?

Wow.

Where does Vanessa Moran feed my starving children?

So you tell us about this.

This is just a great, great event.

So many, we have a lot of.

People come on here, non-profits, and they all got good causes.

But yours

is a

really, really far reach.

It is.

Well, it's a global.

It's a global organization.

So I've shared this before, and I'll share it every single time.

The sad reality is 6,200 children die each and every day due to hunger-related causes.

That's mind-boggling.

I can't still, after all these years, I still can't wrap my mind around that figure.

and thinking about that many children every single day gone.

And it's not

like an incurable

disease.

Not at all.

It's

something that can

be

corrected.

Absolutely.

We do not have a food production issue.

We have a food distribution issue.

And so that's what Feed My Starving Children tries to solve.

And actually, just a few weeks ago, there was the first ever mobile pack held at UWGB, my campus.

All right.

And it was amazing.

So 101,000 meals packed by 276 kids.

Wow.

These kids, these college kids, these amazing.

students, uh, 449, I'm sorry, that fed 276 kids for a year, 449 volunteers.

And just two days, just two days, right at the Crest event center, it was stunning.

I was there, uh, so proud of those, those college kids that are already starting to make a difference.

And that's, I wish we'd have done more in that.

We're in school.

It's a huge thing now.

The cool kids do that.

Oh, absolutely.

We

talked about habitat homes, then spring break, they go build them.

They work with you on this.

Steve, feed my starving children.

Yeah.

Talking about distribution, though, where does this go?

We pack these meals

for what, thousands of?

Can't just jump in and say, well, you just brought up something, a memory of what I was, for CCD.

Do you have CCD class?

Oh, yeah.

For our CCD class, I remember every time you were on Thanksgiving, I think it was, people would collect clothes.

We'd have to separate all the different clothes that would be going to missions in Africa.

And I don't know how many.

Oh, no.

Tino's bar.

You know, Rappazzini's.

There's all these bar T-shirts people have told

me.

Oh, no.

Yeah, no.

That's all right.

I know.

And it just brought

back memories of the time I was in Jamaica, and there's a little kid walking around with a, I got the Schlitz kicked out of me in Rhineland, Wisconsin.

Oh, that's so funny.

That's all.

I'm starting to make you pull those shirts, but that's funny.

I'm glad you shipped them.

Why not?

Why not?

But no, we ship all over the place.

So a couple of years ago, a lot of our meals went to Haiti.

I'm sorry, to Haiti after the hurricane.

And then a few more years ago, a lot of our meals went to Ukraine because of the start of the war.

Tons of our meals go to African countries.

Honestly, it's wherever it's needed.

The food many times goes and becomes almost like a food nutrition, like a school nutrition program.

That's what they use to feed the kids that come to these various ad hoc schools all around and in some of the most remote locations in the whole world.

Have you been there?

I never have.

I want to so badly.

I

thought about you when I was reading Donald Driver's book.

And he went to, I think it's Kenya, Tanzania, one of the, one of the places.

And the sweetest, like little girl, you know, they wanted to, and she's like, no, I gotta go get water.

I'll be back tonight.

And this girl walks like three hours

one

way

with

one pot and got her water for her family and walked three hours back the other way.

There's,

there's an organization here in Green Bay that drills wells.

I know.

And that's cool.

I want to get them on here.

We've done some work with them.

The good thing about you talk about you sending the food, it doesn't spoil.

I think people

may not

know exactly you're talk about what.

how it works.

Yeah, it doesn't spoil.

And what

Jim and I created that night.

And we did it.

Besides

that.

John didn't put in

a bang.

That'd be a burden.

Like you could tell I was here last night.

She could tell I was

there.

Is there a trail across?

Do we know where you are?

Can we find you?

No, it's so simple.

Honestly.

And now we follow all FDA requirements.

We have to wear hair nets.

We have to wear gloves.

The food does get labeled with certain like, you know, an expiration date, but it's.

way down the line.

It's just rice, soy, veggies, and then a vitamin blend.

So it's all specially designed to, it was a very, very specially designed formulaic model to help fight malnutrition.

And soy is

basically protein,

right?

Oh yeah.

So you got four people standing around and you put in, or actually two scoops of one of

each.

And then it goes into a bag and the bag is attached to this funnel.

So

Mino and I get to she goes, so this is your station right here.

I'm like, okay, cool.

So we, we grabbed the scoopers to put the stuff and we're pouring it in.

It's like, okay.

And

we work on my clockwork.

And

there was

no bag.

So it's all over the floor.