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She is civic media's meteorologist.
We're going to talk about that.
They just got creamed up north with snow yesterday.
And now we've got this big warm-up coming.
So Brittney Merleau will be joining us after the 1130 news.
Paul Noonan will be here from the Acme Packing Company to talk all things sports.
And we will wrap up the show as we always do.
With this shouldn't be a thing.
Today it's the, this too shall pass eventually.
edition.
Stick around for that.
Right now, though, I'm really excited to have our next guest join us.
This has been in the works for a while.
Dr. Calico Schmidt is our guest.
She's a veterinarian with UW Madison's Veterinary Medicine.
Good morning, Dr. Schmidt.
Thank you so much for joining us.
How are you?
Well, thank you.
I'm doing well, Jane.
It's good to be here with you, Greg and Kelvin, and thanks for having me.
Absolutely.
We have to start off with probably a question that you hear all the time.
You had to be a veterinarian, didn't you, because your name is Calico.
I think you're right.
It's funny because my dad actually is not a cat lover.
So I was not named originally after calico cats, but my dad is an interior decorator and my mom went to school in textiles.
So I'm actually named after the calico fabric, but it works great for me.
I didn't even know there was a calico fabric.
Now I'm going to have to look
it up.
Common for quilting.
So quilters out there will know about calico fabric.
Oh, that's fantastic.
One of the reasons why I had wanted to.
to you, Dr. Schmidt.
I had, and my family, we always had dogs growing up and I've had two dogs and my sisters had dogs and we're a big family of dog lovers.
And I saw this article a few months ago, cats and dogs get dementia.
And I don't know if this is something, maybe I'm the only one on the planet who didn't realize this, but I was like, they what?
So is this a very common problem for dogs and cats developing dementia?
You know, that's an excellent question.
And I think it's something that we're just beginning to recognize more and more.
I read an article in which surveys of dog and cat owners asked them about whether they were seeing some changes in their aging dogs and cats that we have now identified as being a part of dementia.
And the numbers came back very interestingly ranging from 25 all the way up to almost 75% of pet owners recognize some of these cognitive
of changes in their pets as they get older.
My sister, for example, her little Nina, I think was about 15 or 16.
And in those last couple of years, Suzanne was always worried because she said Nina will pace around in circles, in circles, in circles, and then she'll stop and she just stares at the wall.
Would that have been a sign of Alzheimer's?
Absolutely.
Veterinarians developed this acronym when we first started noticing some of these changes in dogs, and they started out with just four letters, G-I-S-H.
And of course, we've expanded that by now, but the first letter, the D, stands for disorientation.
So that sounds exactly like what your sister Nina's dog was noticing.
Sometimes dogs will appear kind of confused.
We'll see them sometimes walk into a corner or behind a chair and just act like they're stuck.
like they don't know how to get out of that corner.
It's
really sad, actually.
Some dogs will be really used to going out the door of the home and know what side of the door to go to to go out.
And as they get older, they get confused and forget which side of the door to go to.
So all of those are changes that might suggest some cognitive decline.
Is there anything that can be done for this condition because we don't really have anything
That's a silver bullet for this condition in adults or in humans yet.
Yeah, that's an excellent question too.
And I think this is one place where human medicine and animal medicine are showing some similarities.
So for example, there are some supplements that we found can be helpful in slowing the progression of decline in these cognitive changes.
So things like
omega-3 fatty acids and antioxidants have been found to help.
Unfortunately, we don't really have any cures, but there are some things we can definitely do to help.
And even some of the things that you hear now for senior adults.
as they experience some problems like getting out and getting some exercise and mental and social stimulation.
So even something as simple as playing with your dog or cat a little bit more or maybe offering some of those little food puzzle toys where they have to figure out how to get a treat out.
Those are all things that can help.
with some mental stimulation.
So we need to find like crossword puzzles for dogs.
Yeah, exactly.
But but but and you can like you said, that's a great thing, though, with the height the treat thing.
And there's so there's so many options now that didn't used to be even exist.
Yeah, I mean, that's it's almost like children now, too.
Like when I was a little kid, the educational toys were terrible.
They weren't fun.
They weren't interesting.
But now even dog educational toys, just like children, they're engaging their fun, their bright colors.
and I mean, we have some of those toys from our dog who's not even two yet.
And she just gets into it.
And the question I have for you, doctor, is because my dog is not even two years old.
She's a youngster.
Yeah, she's a
baby.
What signs can you look for in younger dogs?
Or does this start to show up at four or five?
And the reason why I ask is because I think of people who are diagnosed with early onset dementia.
If it can happen to humans, can that also happen to pets and are there things we can look for in pets at the age of like four or five?
That's an awesome question.
And I don't think we are savvy enough to have recognized early onset dementia or Alzheimer's in our pets yet.
Typically, these signs will begin to show up as they age and become maybe what we'd call seniors.
So for dogs, people might start noticing these signs maybe between seven and 10 years of age for cats, 10 or older.
Yeah.
If you're just
joining us, Dr....
She's not a wild
Craig.
Yeah.
Good.
She's still a punk.
She's still a juvenile delinquent.
She is.
She's two.
You called my dog a punk.
Well, much is.
Dr. Calico Schmidt is our guest.
She's a veterinarian with UW Madison's Veterinary Medicine.
The other thing in the time that we have left, Dr. Schmidt, that I wanted to talk with you about influencers are a real big thing.
Most of so many people now get...
All of their news and most of their information from people that they follow on YouTube or have a YouTube channel I'm really concerned about bad advice being given out by influencers, especially on things that you should feed your pets.
Oh, that is definitely a topic that is
we're seeing a lot of controversy and I agree that some sources may not have a lot of scientific evidence and backing.
There are however some people who know what they're talking about so I think one of the first things we can do is just look at the source and ask where did that person or website get their information?
Is there research that backs up what these folks are saying?
And if in doubt, your veterinarian is always a really good resource too, and they can help you look into some of those questions.
Yeah.
If her name is Becky and her main job is reviewing yoga pants, I would maybe not get veterinary advice from her, but
that's just me.
Unless Becky's like, my name is Becky.
whatever I went to this medical school.
Exactly.
There you go.
We
love all Becky's.
Yes,
we do.
You
have
excellent scientific literacy skills.
Yeah, just know your source
and
that that goes goes far.
The other thing I've been wondering about Dr. Schmidt is bird flu is a big concern now around the country and certainly here in the US.
And there had been some early reports about bird flu transferring to domestic pets.
Are you seeing a lot of that?
You know, that's an excellent question as well.
And I think something that's a concern on everybody's mind.
And we have had some instances.
I don't know if we've had any patients here at the veterinary school, but I know across the United States, we've definitely had some cases of bird flu in cats that
can range from being very mild to very severe.
There've even been some deaths reported.
So it's a significant concern and something we're all watchful and aware of.
And the main thing would be to keep your cats away from birds.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you can keep them indoors, keep them in a safe place.
It's a little harder for dogs, but I don't know of any evidence in dogs yet.
I would really like to hammer that.
And this is going to make me very unpopular.
Keep your cats in the house.
Please they kill so many songbirds they kill so many songbirds and It shortens their lifespan, right?
Yeah, it can and oh you just hate to see cats hit by cars Yeah, I'm inside
they get in fights.
There's you know, there's coyotes and all other kinds of things and I
pray I
had some friends at one point are like well, it's their natural instinct to be outside put them in front of a window There you go.
There you go.
It was a natural for you to fix them either and you fix them so
yeah
Yeah, there you go.
I know people who will take their cats out on a leash or harness, so there are safe ways
to do that.
That's great.
Or
build them a little catio, like a little screened-in porch.
Catio!
Those are safe
ways to do
it.
Isn't that awesome?
Have you not seen catios?
I've never
heard
the term.
Oh yeah, they have catios.
They're great.
I love it.
Kurt from Madison is on the line.
Real quickly, Kurt, we got about two and a half minutes left.
Thanks for joining us.
What's your question for Dr. Schmidt?
I have a nine-year-old female, Bernadoodle.
where I need her to lose at least 10 pounds, and she was on a metabolic dog food that proved to do absolutely nothing.
I've been trying to research the hell out of this about what is the best food, because I'm calorie counting, somewhere between seven and 800 per day, and she's not losing weight.
Can you
put any clarity on dog foods?
That's an excellent question Greg.
Thank you for asking because obesity and overweight are such big problems for many of our pets and you're doing all the right things.
You're doing a great job of watching and counting calories.
We always start with hopefully your vet has helped you calculate good calorie amounts and cut back gradually.
Oftentimes we'll use that as a starting point.
Some dogs just have such
Good metabolisms that they are very good with their calories and we may need to cut back even further So if you're having trouble chat with your vet a little bit and they may have you gradually cut back on calories further If the current diet isn't working There are some special prescription diets that are even lower in calories and then of course just like they say for us as people Get out and do some more exercise to help burn some calories and that can help too Curt just all the right things
Kurt just expect her to look at you like when are you gonna feed
me?
a salad.
Dr. Calico Schmidt has been our guest from UW Madison.
Thank you so much, Dr. Schmidt.
We'll get you back on.
Have a wonderful day.
Stay close.
Brittany Merlot, weather and wine coming up next.
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Good
morning and welcome back to Matt Nair on air.
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Call her text at 855.
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You know what Brittany?
You should have been a Somalia You should have you should have worked in wine with a last name like like Merleau, but instead you're a meteorologist
Yes, I am.
And I love every minute of
it.
I know you do.
You're so into weather.
And I know, I was listening this morning on the way in when you were on Pad Croy Low on Up North News Radio.
And Snow Queen, you went a little overboard for some of those areas up north.
I understand.
You should have calmed down a little bit.
Oh, but those areas love it and they know it.
So we did.
We saw over a foot of snow in Baldwin.
That's in St.
Croix County.
Hurley, Ashland, all of those places picking up double digits.
I mean, it's a winter wonderland once again on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Obviously, Lake Effect Snow had a big role to play with this system because those winds were everything.
Yeah.
I
mean, they were whipping here in Wausau.
I think we had the state record at 54 miles per hour.
Whoa.
Yeah.
We didn't even get that much snow here, probably anywhere from three to five inches or so.
But.
With those winds, you could not see a thing.
It was whiteout conditions.
That must have been terrible.
I bet there were accidents all over the place.
There were.
There were, unfortunately.
Well, I did look at the extended forecast, and at least in southeastern Wisconsin, and I assume across the state, we have this big warm-up coming.
It might almost be get out and work in the garden weather come Sunday, at least for southeastern Wisconsin.
absolutely.
Yeah, like you said, northern Wisconsin, we're not going to get that warm.
We've got a lot of snow on the ground.
It keeps us cooler, but south.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah, you're going to be hitting fifties by the end of this weekend into the mid fifties and low sixties early next week.
But there's a price to pay.
There always is.
It's not going to stay
that way.
Come on.
Let's just cut her off now.
Let's just cut her off now.
We lost her contact with Brittany Merleau.
She's gone.
No.
Don't you want to know?
No.
No I don't.
Because it's
always snow or a wintery mix.
Now see, Mother Nature always slaps back.
It's like, enjoy this.
Ha ha ha.
We're back to reality.
So after this lovely stretch of weather we're going to have next week, then what's going to happen?
So there's a chance of a little bit of a wintry mix, obviously midweek.
It's not that significant, but the one I'm talking about, let me tell you, over St.
Patrick's Day weekend, so it looks to bring in a lot of rain again, kind of a repeat to an inch of rainfall.
flips to the mix back to snow and that goes into Monday on St.
Patrick's Day.
So just a heads up that weekend is going to be sloppy and messy.
Is that also going to be with the most of the snow concentrated in the northern parts of the state or is that going to be more widespread across Wisconsin?
I'm hoping just north.
Um, but of course that track changes as we get closer.
So,
but
it's a big one and it's going to hit
us.
So what you're saying, Brittany, is that St.
Patrick's Day is going to be sloppy and messy and it's going to be bad weather.
I see what you did
there.
Green beer.
I see what you did there.
Green beer.
I think spring green beer.
How long is it going to take for that snow to melt up north?
And I know they don't want us to.
I mean, good heavens, what a great time to snowmobile if it's going to be like 28 degrees and sunny.
That sounds like perfect weather.
It sure is.
I mean, I want to go cross-country skiing out there.
I'm not going to be freezing
while
doing it.
So I think we're going to have this weekend to be able to play in it.
I think by early next week, our temperatures are going to start to hit those 40s, maybe some 50s, so it'll start to melt some of that.
But far up north, it'll still be there.
Central Wisconsin, it's going to start to dissipate.
I heard you mentioned butternut this morning, which always just makes me happy to know that there's a butternut, Wisconsin.
I think it's adorable.
Did you know there's a good now?
I thought that was hysterical, writing that yesterday.
Good now, Wisconsin.
Good now, Wisconsin.
Good now,
the snow stopped.
How you doing?
We're good now.
I don't know why I sound like a Southern person, but I just sounded right in my head.
Britney, you mentioned cross-country skiing.
I know it's not totally cross-country, but the Berkey just happened.
Have you ever participated in the Berkabiner?
Um, you know, I once signed up for it.
And then when I saw what that track is like, I said, okay, there's no way I'm going to finish.
And they tried their best to tell me just to tempt it.
And I was like, you're going to be picking me up with the medical ATV only halfway through.
But I've gone in many, many years
to get him
on with the cowbell covered it and stuff.
But maybe one year, I need, I need more time with more snow to actually
work up to it.
Yeah, work up to it.
There's a lot of hills on that course.
from what I understand.
And that's what I was surprised when
I heard about hills.
I thought it was just the 50
km flat track.
No, no, no, no.
Now I've done the Fat Tire Berkey.
It's on the same track, but you're in a Fat Tire bike.
That
one I attempted.
It was pretty hard.
And we did the half marathon and the snow was mushy and my legs were mushy.
I bet.
But again, trying to conquer some of those hills.
With cross-country skis.
No, that's a lot of work, man.
I'd
probably
get as tired watching
your body.
I'm sure it is.
I'm sure it's great great exercise.
Yeah, just like swimming
works your whole body low impact with cross-country But this is I mean, I think I told the story before but I used to work with a guy who who at least when I worked with him had done the past 20 Birkabinders Birkabinders and he always like I'm doing the Birkabinder this this year and he come back and he just Look he come back on Monday
And he'd look wrecked and he'd say the same thing every year
as my last year.
I'm never doing it again.
Nope.
He might have had too many shot skis or something.
There it is.
I am shocked that there might be drinking surrounding events at the Berkebeiner.
That's so not like Wisconsin at all.
That's
the goal.
That's the finish line.
No, I can have a beer.
Brittany Merlot joins us every Thursday at this time for a little weather and wine.
Well,
We will be blessing you this weekend and into early next week with this nice warm weather.
I've got daffodils coming up in my yard already.
And then we'll yell at you next Thursday when the weather turns.
Thanks a lot, Brittany.
Really appreciate it.
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Paul Noonan is here.
Good morning, Paul.
How's it
So we'll start with the brewers.
I have signed Jose Quintana.
What can you tell us about Jose?
He is on a very, very affordable deal that will cost them almost nothing, four million dollars.
Totally likely there's a big option mutual option for next year never exercised Jose Quintana has been around a long time.
He's 36 years old He's pitched for every team in the division except the Reds and he's actually been
quite the brewer killer when he's been with basically everybody else.
He is getting towards the end of his career.
This will be his age, I think 37 season, but he's still pretty effective.
He is when healthy and he's mostly healthy.
He's good for about 160, 170 innings a year.
He's ERA, Halber's right in the mid threes to low fours.
And he used to be a big fastball guy.
He's not anymore.
He throws in the low nineties, but he's been
Working in a very, very nice changeup over the last few years, which is a pitch the Brewers love.
If you see a brewer who doesn't throw 100 miles an hour, he probably has one of the best changeups in baseball.
And they needed somebody to solidify the rotation.
It was looking very, very light since Brendan Woodruff won't be back until at May at the earliest.
They really only had four reliable starters coming into the season.
This will at least shore up the rotation and give them a good baseline if Woodruff Cancer suffers a setback.
If Nestor Cortez, who's new to the team, has an elbow flare up, which he's been prone to lately, this should be in good shape for starting pitching now because of this.
So it's a positive.
It's something they really did need.
I'm, I'm, I'm hearing everything you're saying and I really like that as long as stays healthy as the main point.
But if I was speaking to a friend last night about this and he goes, he goes, Jose Quintana, the most brewers thing the brewers can do cause it
cheap.
It was easy.
And we're getting them, as you said, towards the twilight of his career.
This is the Brewers era.
Everybody else is all signed.
They're scrap heaping, as they always do.
They also re-signed Marc Canna last week, who has been on the team before, and at least is good at hitting left-handed pitching, which is not nothing.
So there's that.
But this is actually a pretty good one.
His upside is pretty solid.
If Kintana can stay healthy, like I said, he's pretty good at staying healthy, all things considered.
He's probably going to be one of the three best pitchers in their rotation.
And getting an ad like that this late for not much money is a pretty savvy signing.
I actually like this one pretty well.
Are the viewers having money problems or something?
But I'm serious.
And my level of sports knowledge is not that great.
But all I hear about, they're just so
I do think their general cheapness is a little overstated because they have gone out and gotten halfway decent people.
Occasionally in the recent past, like I was like, yes, Monty Grandel and Mike Moustakis who are good players who they actually ponied up decent money for.
The problem they have right now, and they are a cheapish team for sure.
But they're one of the teams that does not have a solid cable deal at the moment.
They basically have a one year deal with
whatever the gambling company is now to put on their games this year.
And all of the teams that have set cable deals for multiple seasons in the future are the ones who spent or are the Dodgers or the Yankees.
And everybody in this limbo with their regional sports distribution falling apart are the teams that have not spent a dime.
And the Brewers are currently in that area.
So it's baseball is the same.
We're owned by basically a billionaire, I think.
technically, Marc Gatzenazio is a little shy of a billion.
He is.
They could spend whatever they want, but the way that they run their businesses is like businesses, and if they're not going to break even-ish at least, they're not going to spend.
Not fair.
It's maybe not how it would.
It's not what I would do if I owned a baseball team.
But it is how they all operate in lockstep.
So yes, they have money problems in the way baseball teams have money problems.
It just seems to me it's such a Wisconsin thing.
It's like, look at my player.
I got him on
It's very old school moneyball that way.
And that is their front office definitely prides itself on surplus value that they create in these ways.
It is a thing they do.
And reading between the lines on a lot of recent interviews with the Brewers.
One thing the Brewers do have is the league's best pitching lab.
They are the best team in baseball at taking pitchers who struggle elsewhere and turning them into
True weapons the best recent example is probably Tobias Myers who was I think their best starting pitcher last year a guy off the scrap heap that the White Sox had early in the air just cut for no reason Yeah, who throws what is literally the best change up in baseball even better than Devin Williams airbender And just took him into the lab and basically said over simplifying just throw that pitch a lot more
take back the ones that you're not as good at and it instantly made him like a top third starter in the league.
They're just really good at that and they're kind of content to ride their pitching lab to success at the expensive kind of everything else.
It just sort of sounds like they're happy with being a major league, minor league team.
Like they're happy with helping people out and you go out in the world and do your best.
The thing that sticks with me though, Paul, and I don't remember if we discussed it with you or we discussed it with JR, but.
That interview that Marc Antanasio gave a couple of weeks ago, well, it's just the most Pollyanna junk.
Like, well, I want to make deals, but the front offer says I can't.
No, dude, you're the owner and the office wants to make these deals.
Like you're not as, you're not as dumb as you're making yourself.
And, and also the whole thing of like, we don't know how baseball financials work.
Yes, you do.
You're the guy in charge of the checkbook.
And third, when he says, I'm not in charge of winning world series.
Yes, you are.
The buck stops with you, bruh.
Because if I'm a player on The Brewers and I read that, I'm like, why am I here if my owner doesn't have a vested interest in getting a ring?
Yeah.
That was me.
And that quote was very, very garbled and a little noisy.
I don't think he meant it's not my job to not win World Series.
I'm not going to put words in his mouth because who knows what he meant by that.
He needs, if anything,
Marc Atzanazio needs better people to tell him what to say.
The context of that was around the Christian Yellich extension that they did.
And it was about whether it was for fan, to make the fans feel good about signing somebody or to win.
And it, depending on how you want to read that, could be a criticism of the Yellich signing, which at the time I think was good, even though it was back abound on him.
But Marc needs to just not talk, honestly.
Owners, most owners are so good at just blathering on and not saying anything interesting.
I'll give Mark this.
He says interesting things, but they usually get people mad at him.
And the timing of that with the state just having given them another half a billion dollars.
Did you upgrades that they were frankly obligated to do themselves?
Yep.
I think technically speaking is just the most tone deaf thing ever.
Like the owners should view themselves as having don't just don't do damage.
You're not going to be super popular unless you go inside a bunch of guys.
If you're not doing that, you can only hurt yourself by talking.
So just do platitudes.
Have your team win.
I mean, they won the division last year.
Just fall back on that.
Say, hey, we win a lot.
That's all you have to do.
You don't need to be doing all the rest of this.
Say, our stuff is working is good enough.
But nah, he is not a polished speaker.
What
think about the new season?
We win divisions.
We love Milwaukee.
Just keep saying that.
There you go.
There's your
script and you're done.
Boom.
Paul Newton is our guest from the Acme packing company.
We are talking all things sports.
So Bobby Portis got suspended from their bucks and the bucks are now seven and one.
if deployed properly useful, but he can also get himself in trouble on the court.
And I don't think a lot of this is noise.
I don't think they're winning necessarily because he's gone.
But they've had a good run of health here with having Yanis and Damian Lillard in pretty good shape.
Kuzma did suffer a sprained ankle, but he's been playing.
And it's I think if nothing else been a good opportunity to sort of generate chemistry with the new mix after the trade deadline.
And
Bobby Portis is, if nothing else, chaotic.
He's a high variance player.
I mean, he was extremely important to our last title that we won.
They don't win that title without Bobby Portis.
But he can be as bad as he is good.
And they have had quite a lot of bad Bobby this year.
And having him out of the lineup takes some variance away, if nothing else.
There's some less talented players on the Bucks to get more run when he's not there.
But it also kind of forces them to go with their, with Yanis, with Lillard and with Kuzma more and not appease Bobby getting him the ball every once in a while.
I think it's been good for him.
So hopefully while Bobby is suspended, he takes some notes here.
And when he comes back, you know, plays a little bit more into the role that he was in when they did win a title, but they've looked really good.
And it's they've had
Not the hardest schedule, but when they've played bad teams, they've beaten them badly.
Like they've lit up Dallas in their last game.
They've played them two at last three.
But they look like they're back to making contender.
They've climbed back into the four seed, which is, you want to be the four or the three or better as the playoffs roll around.
And if they can just, the health is everything.
This
I would love to see them kind of do a surprise.
We didn't expect, you know, have them get back in the playoffs and take the whole thing.
That would just be a beautiful thing.
It
It really... Lillard and Giannis is what it comes down to.
And if Giannis is playing at this level, he is currently playing at the same or better as...
his MVP seasons and his championship season.
And it's just a matter of being able to keep this up.
for another couple of months.
So we'll see.
Sometimes that happens.
Every once in a while, a team of veterans will run into a run of good health and get it done, and hopefully this is one of those.
We'll be sending healthy thoughts.
Healthy thoughts.
Healthy thoughts
yogurts,
ups.
The NFL Combine happened, and a free agency begins soon.
What does that all mean?
the packers will definitely be shopping because they have a couple of positions of need and they have money, which they haven't had in a while.
They're starting to get Roger's space clear.
The people that keep an eye on free agency-wise, Devante is a free man.
And I don't know that they would necessarily want to have him back, but he does fit a need for them and that he's a great leader of man defenses, which they really struggled with last year.
would play outside.
But the real thing to keep an eye on is the Seattle Seahawks are going to trade DK Metcalf.
They're very good, very tall, very big, very fast wide receiver.
He's asked for a trade.
They've been engaged in talks, and the Packers have reportedly been engaged in those talks for something like a second round pick and probably one of Romeo, Dobbins, or Don Tavion wicks if they can get it done going back.
He would be a perfect fit.
He would basically replace what Christian Watson does.
He's better than
Christian Watson.
He is still relatively young.
If they can get that done, that would be phenomenal.
Combine-wise, they need to fill that position.
The guy to keep an eye on where he's going to end up going is Jaden Higgins, who's a receiver for Iowa State.
This draft doesn't have a lot of big receivers in it.
He's the best big one.
The Packers will have their eye on him.
It's what they need more than anything else except edge rushers.
One of the better edge rushers Max Crosby just resigned with the Raiders.
That's too bad.
There's still a few guys out there, but keep an eye on the DK Metcalf side.
That would be a big splash and a fun signing if they can get that done.
Calvin, do you want
to jump in
here?
Well, I was just going to comment.
I don't think the DK Metcalf trade as awesome as it would be.
It just doesn't feel like something the Packers would do.
But who knows?
Maybe they'll surprise me.
Hoping fingers crossed we can bring Devontae back.
I think that I think you could get him back relatively cheap And I think his leadership is exactly what our young receiving court needs.
I agree
Paul Noonan joins us every other Thursday from the Acme Packing Company.
Thank you so very much, Paul.
We will see you in a couple.
Go pack, go crew, go bucks.
Coming up, we're gonna
wrap up the
show as we always do with this.
Shouldn't be a thing.
Today it is the This Too Shall Pass Eventually Edition.
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Is gonna be joining us at 11.30 tomorrow.
He finally saw green and gold.
Yep.
Gonna have the discussion.
Yep.
about this major plot flaw.
I know I'm obsessing about this, but I'm really curious to see if... Just a little tiny bit.
Smidge.
Yeah, smidgen.
I'm really curious to see if Pete swatted... Pete saw the flaw.
If Pete saw the flaw in Green and Gold, the movie, which I loved, and I think you would love it too, go see it.
It's a really sweet, heartwarming film, and you'll feel good after you see it.
Except for that one major.
Oh, all right.
Oh, again, Pete Schwabba will be here tomorrow at 11 33 right now the way 11 53 Calvin that means it is time for
This shouldn't be a thing
As always if you ever have a thing you think should not be send it into Greg and me Jane says at civic media dot US J A N E S A Y S Jane says at civic media
U.S.
This is from WFLA.com in Florida.
Surprise.
From Rachel Tucker with the byline headline reads, Florida man swallows almost $800,000 in stolen jewelry from Tiffany and company in Orlando.
Jathan Lawrence Gilder, 32, pretended he was representing a player for the Orlando Magic.
went into this jewelry store and said, Hey, I'm repping for this guy.
Yeah.
I want to see, you know, some, some high end stuff.
Show me the goods.
Show me the goods.
Yeah.
So he actually walked the forest his way out of the store with a pair of earrings worth $769,500.
A pair of almost five carat diamond earrings worth $160,000.
and a pair of eight-carat diamond earrings.
Do you know how big that is?
That's huge.
An eight-carat diamond is large, worth $600,9500, and accused of stealing a ring, worth almost $500,000.
So again, he goes into this jewelry store, says, I'm repping for a player from the Magic.
Let me see all this stuff.
And then he takes it and he runs.
They did stop his car.
where he was arrested on a charge of resisting also a minor 48 outstanding warrants out of Colorado.
A body scan conducted at the jail appeared to solve the mystery of at least the missing earrings.
They were not found on him.
They were found in his stomach.
That is absolutely crazy.
Cause anyone who knows anything about earrings, that could.
Really?
Oh, big time.
How
big carrot diamonds?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, the foreign objects are suspected to be the Tiffany and company earrings taken in the robbery, but they will need to be collected.
It's such a nice way to call it after they pass through the suspects system prior to confirming that these are the stolen jewels.
Gilder, unfortunately, did just ask jail staff out of nowhere.
Am I going to be charged for what's in my stomach?
Yeah, you probably shouldn't have said that.
Florida, man.
Arresting trooper reported hearing Gilder say, I should have just thrown him out the window.
Okay, I have so many.
If Todd Alba is listening right now, can we cut into your first whole segment?
Because I have
a lot of questions.
First of all, you thought to yourself, I should have thrown out the yes, absolutely.
Or
under the chair, under your seat, in your car, lots of things you could have done, glove compartment, I could go on.
Five options.
Just the diamonds alone, you could swallow an eight carat diamond, I think, depending
on it.
If it wasn't
mounted.
If it's not
mounted.
If it's just a loose gem, it's not gonna be great.
Yes, but it's an earring, so therefore it's mounted and it has sharpie points.
Yes.
And if it's got, if it's a diamond, my guess is there's tiny little diamonds too.
I mean,
the idea of passing it, the idea of the other way, either way, just put him in the hospital and take him out because that could end up
killing him.
It's not going to be fun.
No, not going to be a pleasant experience.
He has been charged with first degree grand theft and robbery with a mask.
A search of his criminal history also reveals in 2022, he robbed another Tiffany and company store in Texas, but apparently that's one he got away with.
That wraps up today's
edition of... This shouldn't be a thing.
Yeah, don't do
that.
News is coming up next, followed by Todd Alba, from noon to two, Maggie Dawn, two to four, Dom Salvia, four to six, and the great Pete Schwabba, six to eight.
PM, Pat Critello kicks it all off early mornings from six to eight on Up North News Radio and then Earl Ingram right before us.
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