Emplify & The Elks (Hour 2)

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Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

Hey,

thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Just a beautiful morning out there.

63 in Green Bay, 66 in Alton, 65 in Oshkosh, mostly sunny high in the lower 80s today.

Got text here on the docket for Saturday, Nishoto Beach and Port Sandy Bay for Pizza.

Terry, you'll enjoy Terry.

I don't think he's the only one doing that.

No, I think we're some other people that way.

As a matter of fact,

our guest is doing that.

Yeah, Mark Houston.

Implified by Bella and Health Sports Medicine.

I think we sent quite a few people going into two rivers this weekend.

It's awesome.

I mean and why not it's cool.

It's beautiful beach.

Get there early.

Yeah.

Check out it in two or get there later and check out it.

You know I

was telling Jim this we're there one day and this guy gets out with these little kids and I thought what's wrong with this guy.

He digs this huge hole then takes

20 30, I don't know how many buckets of water from the lake and pours it in so it's like he made a beach swimming pool for the

kids

I didn't quite get that.

Yeah.

Have you ever seen that before?

That's a lot of work.

I know right?

Yeah, that's I

Don't know.

It's like can't

you just

keep them?

You know whatever can't they

play

in the beach

right?

Exactly.

I will also say that So it we used to do I think we've probably done it five six times.

We've rented an RV

And the first RV trip we did was the campsite just north of Nishota Beach.

Trying to think, is it Point Beach?

That's where it's Port Sandy Beach.

Okay, so we went there and it was, their beach was gone.

The water levels went up and undestroyed their dock.

So we said, let's go down back to Nishota.

So we have an RV.

We parked it right along the road.

As I said, it's a

real narrow road

there.

But parked, got a spot and

It was the best where you could go in the water, sand, come back, shower.

That's cool.

And head home.

And yeah, I was like, man, that was nice.

You know, it's kind of cool, because I hope to do van life for a couple of years.

OK.

And what was

that?

Gas

station bathrooms.

No,

no,

no,

no, no, no.

Here's what I'm

saying.

OK, but.

No.

Drive around with the toilet in the back.

One producer laughing, one

host.

May I

finish?

May I finish?

So.

You work your whole life to drive around.

OK.

Well, OK.

John, finish

him.

But I don't have confidence in myself that I wouldn't knock stuff over driving a big RV.

And I don't back up good.

And I don't go corners.

OK.

So

that's good.

I'm glad to hear that.

What I'm saying is they're making small ones now with all the amenities of the big ones.

Have you seen some of those small RVs now?

Half the size of a big RV?

If you got, if you got money, I think you can get what you want.

Are they expensive?

What are they?

Okay.

But

they got

a tiny home, right?

No, yeah.

No, no, no, but here's the deal.

Can't

stand up.

They got hydraulics in these things where the bedroom is up above now and everything.

That's awesome.

Or I'd like to get one of those things, one of those vans we can drive and you can you can you pitch a tent on top of the van.

That's what I was thinking.

And you know, I know.

Right now, Todd's rolling his eyes.

This is what would

happen.

What's going to happen to that guy?

Remember that guy I told you about?

He slept on top, and then he came down to go to the bathroom.

What happened to him?

I

don't know.

What guy?

I told you that guy.

No, I

don't.

You never told me the guy.

Yeah, but this is what happened.

I'm trying to remember that.

You don't remember that?

No.

The tent would go up for John.

John would say, I'm going to go down the next destination.

He'd forget to bring that tent down.

That's possible.

But you know what my dream is?

I told you that.

Spent one year going from one college football game to the next.

Just just all the way through

like start

off at University of Michigan, maybe then I really want to go to like West Point and then go down to go to like Alabama,

LSU, SC, SC, SC.

That's my

dream to spend one

six months

just

traveling

from

high school from college football to college football.

That would be fun.

Yeah, I

can see you doing that.

Yeah, your your Saturdays.

Well, your Sundays are going to be tough.

You'll be recovering on your son.

I'll just recover.

Yeah,

but but

even I'd like

you know

what I'd like to do I'd like to go to like the Todd Talks with high school football in Georgia They get like

a thousand people.

Correct.

I'd like to throw the Friday nights I'd love to go to a high school game

and some of those said if you could tie those things together on what you do on a Monday Tuesday and Yeah, you could really have a you could I think you can have an interesting

right, you know, you could probably be in some well, okay Let's say Georgia.

Okay.

I mean they said that's quite the experience at the University of Georgia Friday night at one of these unbelievable high school football places

Saturday University of Georgia Sunday at the Atlanta Falcons against somebody.

I'm with Vinnie.

What's Vinnie say?

Johnny just buy the damn plane tickets Spark I says hi, I'm John mine.

I live in a van down by the river, but it's a very cool van with it with the raised thing, you know, I think that I don't know that

could be fun Johnny and hydraulics don't go together for me.

There'd be some sort of bad injury John, but there's manuals.

Yeah

Well,

you know,

you'd see the country and

yeah, that

we we did say we did say though John even said it himself What oh, you know driving larger vehicle?

No, no, that'd be changing lanes back enough.

No

freeway.

Yeah, the ones we would rented our 25 31 Well, we're a little big Johnny.

Let's

go.

We'll take my 38.

Yeah

Tori is he knows what he's doing

again You know what I thought about that because I actually sold out when I was in real estate

uh, these people in, in Manitowoc moved over from Minnesota here.

Okay.

And, um, they, I was waiting for them and they, they said, okay, we're, we got the big RV.

We're, we're in wherever we'll be there by such, such come there and they, they pull in and stuff.

It's like, pardon.

I said, how did it go?

The guy goes, good.

And the guy said, I got to run to the men's room.

She goes, oh my God, we knocked over three mailboxes in a roadside.

But a small little.

That would be

fun.

Those aren't hard to drive.

16 feet down.

Yeah, 12 feet.

That'd be nice.

Todd, the company should buy me one.

That

would be, that could be fun.

I

could see you

doing

that.

Put that in the budget for 2026.

But I think, is it, you can have the bathroom in there.

Yes.

See, you gotta clean that out though.

Well, they got those new ones though, where they're all organic.

All organic.

What does that mean?

I don't

even know what

that

means.

Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.

Okay.

Okay.

I'll be honest with you.

To pee.

I just pull over.

Yeah.

I've thought everybody's done that where you pretend like you're getting some out of the size of the car.

This

is what I was just getting

to.

Everybody's done

that.

Some guy did that.

He got eaten by a lion.

Where?

What?

He did.

He got he was up on top sleeping and he went

to

that.

I'm not going to do a safari.

Well, just don't get eaten by a line.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

Dangerous.

You could get mugged.

You could get mugged.

You

could get mugged.

I'm very dangerous.

I'm not going to get mugged.

You're in a hotel.

You're not going to get mugged.

Okay.

Trust me.

I would have my 38 with me.

Yeah, you would.

So I would.

Not that I want to interrupt too much, but you know, the story John was talking about earlier, how the maintenance guy from the building went in his apartment and said, still thinking about getting a cleaning woman.

Can you imagine what his camper would be like?

Right.

There you go.

We have to call social service.

Now we need two vans go because we have one van that's going down the road with John.

Second van is going to follow John.

This could be like Big Ten

TV.

It would be

a whole new me.

I don't know that.

There's something about this that could work for you.

I know

because it's gonna check some pretty good box absolutely the games and

I bet you could find places to sleep in all those college towns You know college weekend type thing.

You know parking lots Walmart.

That's what I mean.

Yeah Yeah, I could see you doing that me to writing the story.

Yeah, posting it doing podcasts from the road Absolutely doing a blog the whole thing.

There'll probably be some incidents in butte modern channel.

Yeah

John,

how

come you keep going back to you like Charles Kroot?

Why do you keep going back to this

place?

We both talked about how Charles Kroot was like, we just loved his stories and he inspired me.

I mean, I'm not even joking about this.

Charles Kroot was part of my inspiration about doing really like normal people, you know.

Small town this guy who normally the networks would never do but you know this guy who's done whatever for 72 years in the back of his shop hand forging Donkey shoes or you know, I mean something like that Okay, my favorite place is a little cabin in the picturesque Rocky Mountains of Montana

with a small stream cascading and I listened to the sound of the water, fresh water that you can drink right from the stream cascading over the rocks.

You go there all the time.

It's like, okay, okay, you've been there, but you keep going there.

It's like, the hell's

up there?

Turns out he had a little something, something on the side up there at the cabin.

Producer never caught on, so.

And then he died, she came out of the woodwork.

It's like, I'm, you know, half that is mine.

Yeah.

Royalties.

Yes.

Old Charles got around.

Yeah,

that would be fun for you to do because you're not big flyer and you don't that's yes That's something to think about you should

like I am it's not gonna be that expensive to

do that

either.

I used okay I used to want to do something that's considered a little not cool anymore Converting a school bus that used to be the big thing you can drive that convert.

No, I know

but converting school buses were the big thing.

Remember that?

People would put in bunks, everything like that.

I think some people

still do it.

They do.

Yeah, a lot of social media people do the bus.

They rehab the whole thing.

They sell their house.

They live in the bus.

I think that's kind of came out of COVID.

A lot of people said, I can go.

I can travel.

I can do things virtually.

So guess what?

Let's go.

Did you go to school in a long bus or a short bus?

OK, I got a thing here, Todd.

Good morning.

On behalf of the Power Toolhorns and Woody,

Thank you for having us on yesterday.

We had a great time.

A big thanks to Todd for all of his work, too.

Love you guys.

Fluff.

That's awesome.

Later this morning, we will feature the music that they brought to us yesterday

morning right here.

Yeah.

So I listen to it.

I share it.

They played at my wedding.

So I played it yesterday at the house.

So it's, yeah, I can't imagine.

I played it later on, but I heard it live.

I can't imagine what it was in person

here.

It was, I mean, Jim and I were both like, we're covered in goosebumps.

Yeah.

And, you know, we've been doing this for two years.

You don't want to say it best because other people are like, oh, my show was good too.

But it was, you got to say it was one of the best shows we ever had.

It was just so emotional and so like, and we were really surprised.

Like, we didn't know what was coming.

I mean, John Kramer hooked that up for us.

And we're both like, can we hear what Jim said though?

Oh my God.

I went out

to the lobby and there were four of them sitting there.

And I'm like, whoa, this.

I don't know.

I guess I read that they were coming in, but I don't read.

Anyway, while I'm out there, I'm like, oh, well, this looks like a $3,000 expense.

And he said, ah, that was 20 years ago.

Cost a little bit more now.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We were standing right there watching Woody sing.

And we were just literally.

And we've had some phenomenal talents come through musically, but this was a

different level.

Lives in Hollywood, just traveled, just did a tour from the west coast to the east

coast.

I think here's the thing about it.

If you would play the original version of that, or if you picked two,

or

two of them.

I'll take voice.

But if you would have said, hey, pick which one it is, I don't know if you would have known.

I've seen Ray Charles, and he's been in Green Bay.

Because when you said that, it was going to be Ray Charles in that audition.

I was just like, oh, this is going to be pretty good.

Got

it.

Texture.

Michael says, I'm going to Alabama versus Wisconsin in Alabama.

Want to join?

Yes.

And Lisa says, I have ticket connections to Georgia.

No, and LSU.

LSU, I'm sorry.

Oh, LSU.

Oh,

that was Mike.

OK.

Have you ever been to a big-time college game like outside of Wisconsin type thing?

Like a night

game because not I would almost I

was at you know, I was at a Wisconsin Michigan game.

Oh Pretty good.

It was at

Wisconsin at Michigan

at Michigan.

Yeah, I think they're up 18 points at half Guess who won?

Oh, I had to leave you

know one thing about Michigan Stadium though.

It's it's not

You don't you think it's a hundred and eight

or seven?

That

sounds bigger than NFL.

But it doesn't feel that big.

No,

it's weird because you can drive.

You think you're looking the first time I went there.

This is no lie.

I missed it.

I drove past it.

Well, you know, it's sunk in the ground, sunk in the ground or built up on the sides

or I

don't know.

I don't know the best way to say it.

But you're looking at your expect.

You're waiting to see this.

Yeah.

Unbelievable big

thing.

Yeah.

Interesting.

Yeah.

So it's beautiful.

But I have I will say.

I'm a big 10 fan, but I would have loved to have gone to like an LSU, Georgia game, LSU, Alabama game, Saturday night, I think.

I've got Notre

Dame games.

Yeah, I went to a Notre Dame game.

Everybody should do that one time.

Yep, that's another place.

And

those guys who own the Northland, they're huge, huge Penn State guys.

Well,

that's quite the place, yeah.

What

that's quite the

place to carry on that

but you know what the pageantry of college football is so much better than the NFL is

incredible They got the ultimate tailgate party there.

They do those um

What

are the big steaks thing?

Yeah, they do the

Tomahawk

steaks.

I think that's banned these days.

No, the Tomahawk steaks.

They do the Tomahawk steaks.

I'll show you the Tomahawk

steak.

What's going on here?

I don't know.

Help me.

Wow.

Keep up.

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a beautiful July 3rd.

It doesn't get much better than today.

Beautiful day out there.

Nice forecast.

We're with Mark Houston.

Amplify by Bell and Health Sports Medicine.

Vinny says, if Mino goes on this trip, one travel van, one hazmat van.

Thank you, Vinny.

Michael says, been to Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, LSU Clemson, Miami, and Georgia, Florida Game and Jacksonville.

How much cooler of a life does Michael have than us?

Michael should live in the

Southeast I'm disappointed someone you know Jim.

What's that?

You're okay.

My brother did the Baseball.

Oh, yeah, I know some people like that's kind of easy

to do.

Yeah, because they're kind of

close.

Yeah Okay, so you're doing all this stuff for your family you got a phenomenal weekend coming up did all the cooking at three o'clock this morning.

Yeah,

that's my way.

What do you

think

of

that mark?

He's got that three o'clock.

The neighbors loved that one.

He

agreed though that

That was he thought it out.

Yeah, but and then you did something yesterday to take care of dogs No, no, no, I'm just but I mean you've you've been perfect.

It's like wow.

I'm what a shining example a lot of dads do that.

That's

mr.. Dads who you leave at home

Look, he's happy.

I talked to him about it.

I said look Milton's staying home, but his cousin my daughter's dog is there and

So

all these dogs are re-frolicking and your dogs will be cooped up in the house?

No, no, the babysitter we got, he likes her a lot.

So, no, he's got, no,

it's

all good,

it's all

good.

Mark?

Yeah.

So Mark, we got High School Football coming up down the road.

We're gonna

reveal in, I think, two weeks.

Yeah, I heard that.

We're finishing up some of our commercials next week so they can get edited.

It's going to be here before you know it.

But you guys

can be a part of it again,

right?

Yep.

Yep.

We're all part of it.

So you guys are trying to get ready.

Such a part.

I mean, and that's what it is.

Starting to get ready for fall seasons.

I know, hey, we just talked about summer, but everything's going to come fast and furious.

We all just said, man, June's already done.

I know.

So I just said, you know, hey, my reminder, my preach, because it's for the next six weeks, get out there, get your kids.

If your kids have to play sports, if they want to play sports, I should say, they do need a pre-participation exam.

by a physician, by a provider, by a mid-level, which is PAs.

So do the school

schedule those mark, or is

it on the individual?

That's on the individual.

But if you are, I mean, we try to start in the middle school, but you're required in high school every other year in Wisconsin, every year in Michigan.

It's a quick exam.

When I say a quick exam, it probably takes you 20 minutes.

But they're going to check your vision.

They're going to check your heart.

They're going to check your

lungs.

They're going to check your body parts.

They want to make sure that you're safe.

I'm going to say something.

I was joking around about my whatever I did have my torsion incident.

You don't even want me to get started.

That's a whole different show.

We could go on and on about that.

But but I do know on a serious note, some young guys have been diagnosed because they the doctors noticed something a little abnormal that wouldn't have been detected before and have caught some serious things early.

Yeah, you know, I mean, the big one right now that's being talked about is cardiac screenings.

You know, I mean, you can

sit there and say, hey, someone, you know, they don't, we don't think they have any problems.

They don't have any symptoms.

But even as my wife knows, sometimes these things kind of creep up, it doesn't matter if you're age, you could be 10, 15, 20, you could be 40, 50, 60.

So it's one of those things, if you have something, we want to make sure we catch it.

Someone asked me, how many times does everyone go through a physical and you never can participate?

I don't think I've ever heard anyone get disqualified ever.

Now, I'm not going to say that it hasn't happened.

But it's just one of those things.

It's a good preventive technique.

Are you ready?

The other thing, it's kind of like, hey, you know, do you have anything wrong?

No, no, no, no, yes.

All these no's.

Then also during the exam, you know what?

My knee still hurts from that injury that I had six months ago.

Oh, well, let's take a look at and find out.

Geez, it was never taken care of because it got injured in the last game of the year.

So.

If you, you know, and I tell people, talk to your primary care physicians, they do them at fast care, urgent cares, just get out, be seen.

It, you know, it'll, for some people, it'll be your insurance.

If you're a partnered school with Bell and we do them for $20, we turn the $20 back over to the schools.

How do they

make a reservation

or an appointment?

A lot of times, you know, just call you, call your primary care physician and get scheduled.

That may be one of your tougher ones.

If you're last minute, we do have fast care, urgent cares where you can walk in and

probably spend 70 bucks, 80 bucks.

And like I said, if you're a partner in school, it's $20, but it's easy to do.

The biggest thing I'm saying this, it's July 3rd.

Don't wait till August 5th on first day of football or whatever.

It's August 17th.

I'm making that day up, but it's probably close.

First day of soccer and you've waited the entire summer.

You didn't act on it.

And now your kids screaming going, I have practice at 3pm and I need this.

Why didn't you get it done back in July and August?

My point is plan it out.

and get in.

All right.

That's good advice and you know it's summer my father-in-law used to say you know July 4th summer's half over

and

I don't know it's half over but you know we're gonna see back to school stuff.

Well I want to say if you're a high school football athlete it's gonna

come quick.

It is so I think that's really good advice and you know 20 dollars 20 minutes that's not a lot.

Yeah so in state rule they have to have it before they're about to practice.

Yeah okay so it's

So in high school, you should have it coming as a freshman.

And then you would get it done again in your junior year, or right before your junior.

So twice in a high school period, if you're living in Michigan, you need to get it done every year.

And to your knowledge, which is pretty deep, there's no one's been disqualified.

So there's no fear in doing it.

Yeah.

I mean, if your question would be, have you ever heard anyone disqualified?

I have never heard anyone disqualified.

I would agree.

But I will say, I'm sure some people have been disqualified.

Some people may come up and say, hey, we do some of these cardiac screens.

sometimes to be like hey you need to get this thing look at it and get it ruled out whatever so

get it done

yeah get it done I think that's a big thing as simple as get it done because we don't want to hear them

first day of practice.

I love your name.

Love what's going on.

Um, your CEOs retiring and you, do you have a new one on board?

I had been

following that.

Scott Rath gaber.

Oh, that's right.

I did read that.

Okay.

Scott Rath gaber is a CEO from, from, uh, Gunderson.

He, he, he's taken it over.

That's great.

And yep.

Chris is, uh, Chris Willesky retired.

He did a great job.

Did a wonderful job.

Yeah.

Good.

Mark Houston, amplified by Bell and health sports medicine.

I was a pleasure having you in here, buddy.

Thanks guys.

Have a great week.

Still a lot of my friends in trivers.

Trivers.

Quick break, back up.

That was not a bad James Brown.

That

was not a bad James Brown.

Actually, if you could dance like him, that

would be interesting.

I could do that.

We're here at Kelly and Jerry from the Elks Lodge.

Hello, ladies.

Hello.

Thanks for getting

up early and coming to see us.

Absolutely.

Say your

last names for me so I know McCain.

McCann.

McCann.

McCann.

Downard.

Yes.

OK.

There you go.

Thank you very much.

A little prize.

Thank you very

much.

Yeah, you said it better than my grandma.

We got married.

We took her five years.

Love it.

Well, you guys got a lot going on.

You guys have done so much for the community.

We wanted to recognize you and Jim's got all the details.

Well,

we talk about how this, what makes this community work, are organizations like yours that raise money, give out grants.

Tell us some of the things you're working on and we just really appreciate what the Elks do.

Well, the nice thing is this is something I know for myself and a lot of the Elks, we like to help in the community, but we can only do so much on our own.

So we found that going to...

The Elks for us helped us.

We get grants from both the Wisconsin Elks Association and Grand Lodge, which is the national Elks.

We get a freedom grant and we use that money for soup for vets.

We have a free meal for our veterans once a month.

It's the second Wednesday of every month, except July.

July is just too busy.

And- Where do you host that?

That's at the Elks Lodge.

Right at the lodge, okay.

In 3195 South Ridge Road.

And... It's

been there forever, huh?

Well, before that, it was downtown here.

Yeah, that's right.

A lot of people remember that, yeah.

And yeah, you bring your families, come on down.

It's not always soup.

Sometimes we cook out.

We do a lot of different things.

And our cooks are awesome.

Nice.

I just want to talk about how important that is, not for the meals, the socialization that...

is so important as we get, not older, but it's just important.

There's a lot of widowers.

Absolutely, absolutely.

We have a group of brothers.

They come, there's five brothers, and they all did multiple tours in Vietnam, and they come with their wives, but they socialize with everybody there.

Everybody socializes, and it's so nice.

I don't know if you realize it, we've had people come on here, psychologists, we've had people, that can help.

with depression, it can help with, it can lead to some not good things if people don't socialize.

So just thank you for keeping that up.

And you've been doing that for some time.

I just think that's-

Oh, we've been doing that for many years.

I know.

And then we also have crafts kits that we give out to our veterans.

And that's something else that you've had Gayle Norr on here before with Veterans First.

She's a member of ours.

And she's making the tiny home community.

And we are-

going to be supplying them with a lot of different items.

One of the things is the craft kits, and they're free to any of the veterans that come in for super vets.

We give them the craft kits.

There's a little thank you note.

It's pre-stamped inside there.

They just need to send the thank you note so that the people that donate them to the Elks get the recognition that they need.

But it's nice because they can sit down and they can sew or something or do some bead work.

and talk to each other, socialize.

Isn't that nice?

And it's nice because that opens it up.

All right.

And what I like about the Elks is you really put, you walk the walk.

I mean, you really put-

Exactly.

That's exactly what they do.

That's exactly what Kim just texted it.

The Elks walk the walk when it comes to helping veterans.

Because when we hear about your organization, they used to attend quite a few of them like Johnny did too.

And it's just, it's such a plethora of things that you offer.

So then some of the things that go on at the Elks Lodge are,

Now while the American Red Cross Drive is every Friday at the Elk's Lodge and then there's a modern twist Western Dance Club every Thursday night.

We have Soup for Vets is a free meal for the vets every second Wednesday of the month in July, except for July.

Then there's the Green Bay Accordion Club the first Saturday of the month except for in July.

There's an accordion club.

There's an accordion club that shows up at the Lodge.

They come from

all over Wisconsin.

I mean, they travel.

And what do they do?

They play accordions.

I mean, they come there and do a...

Oh, yes.

Wow.

Is it lessons or do they just jam?

They jam.

Isn't that

fun?

Wouldn't that be fun on a Friday morning?

Because normally we do live music on Fridays.

Can they

come in here and play?

I can give you a contact number.

We can give you a contact number.

We

would love that.

That is a...

I mean, everybody likes accordion music.

Oh, and you can go listen to it if you just want to go listen to it.

All right.

Yeah.

That's cool.

All right.

So that's on the first Saturday of the month.

Okay.

And then, uh, the, uh, the, uh, Carrie Calva trivia second Friday of every month, except for July.

And that funds, uh, two scholarships.

Wow.

That's

neat.

Um, the Green Bay Deaf Club, uh, check the Facebook.

page for that

because

they have different schedules.

Then the PAC, the Boy Scouts, 4163, they have meetings there, and then the Ladies American Legion Post, 539 has meetings there also.

I spoke at one of the Veterans Day activities you guys had there.

a few years back, and boy, you guys treated those veterans so well and the meal you had and just the door prizes and just the, it was just a great, great event.

In fact, for one of my books, I bet I came up with three candidates that are now in my book that I'm writing, you know, just from meeting them there in that social setting like that.

So you guys do a great thing.

Up in my hometown, and I've talked to Jim about this, the Elks, my brothers remember the Elks up in my hometown in the UP, they raise so much money

by making and selling pasties.

You can't believe it.

It's legendary how much money they make selling pasties.

Oh, you should become an elk.

Do you know how many members of ours are from the UP?

I'll bet a lot.

I can count about ten of them, myself included.

Where are you from?

Go ahead.

Oh my gosh, your model towner.

Originally, Sault Ste.

Marie.

Oh, you're a red or a blue devil then?

Yes, I'm both.

You know what,

in those small communities up there, the elks is kind of like the

you know center of social

right is it's great

yeah

my grandpa's brother was an elk and i always thought oh he'd be so proud because i'm the club president which is our

exaltation

and then i thought oh he passed in the 70s he might have been kind of annoyed that they even let me in the door

right things have changed you

know

better

pasties

Oh, I can make a pasty.

Oh, boy.

But we do the broad fry down here.

We do broad fries.

And matter of fact, if you check our schedule, we have five of them coming up at Festival Foods.

Well, those are good broads.

Another text there.

Just one of the underrated organizations that do so much for folks in our community.

Thank you from Rick.

Oh, you're welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And that's nice because just going through these things, you're very visible almost weekly.

Oh yeah, we do children's parties.

We do a Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.

So are you looking for new members?