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It's St.
Patrick's Day.
We want to talk about your favorite Irish movies.
And then we will wrap up the show as we always do with a segment called This Shouldn't Be a Thing.
Today it is the Let Me Transfer You Edition.
Right now, though, we thought this segment was cursed because our last couple of guests have had
Timing snafus at the last minute, but today he's here and we're ready to go Calvin play this sounder, please
Beyond the cheese
It's our effort to highlight businesses in Wisconsin outside of the dairy industry.
We are delighted to be joined by Joe Henry, the owner of J. Henry and Sons in Dane, Wisconsin.
Good morning, Joe.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Hey, good morning.
Thanks for having me.
Absolutely.
One of our friends and colleagues here at Civic Media, Luke Mathers, and his wife recently toured your facility.
And after they came back, he's like, you got to talk to these guys.
It's fantastic.
So tell us, first of all, what you do at J. Henry and Sons.
So we are primarily a hybrid seed farm.
So we raise a hybrid seed corn just north of Madison.
We've been doing that since 1946 when my grandfather bought the property.
And about 15 years ago, we started making bourbon and other whiskies using grains that have historically been from UW-Madison's ag research department and raised on our farm by my grandfather and father.
What is the impetus to even do that?
Were you sitting around during a bourbon one day and thought, hey, you guys, we could make this ourselves.
Let's try it.
I'm pretty sure that's what my dad did.
Had a
little
bit of a midlife crisis, and my mom would have let him buy a sports car.
So he started to make a whiskey company out of it.
I mean, where's the money in sports cars?
Exactly.
Well, there's a joke in the industry that a good way to take a large fortune and turn it into a small one is to open a distillery.
Seriously.
So luckily, things have been working out for us really well.
And then, Jane, when you reached out, this is kind of another layer to the connection, I think.
But my mom actually grew up in Racine.
She went to St.
Katz.
And then for much of her career, she worked in the dairy industry.
So she worked for ABS.
She was actually Alice in Dairyland.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
Sometime back in the 80s, I believe.
So yeah, our family is very, very connected to the ag industry and specifically the dairy industry in Wisconsin.
So when you reached out, I was like, this is a no brainer.
This sounds awesome.
Oh, that is so cool.
I hope she still wears her Alice crown.
I think she should.
I think she's still got it.
We have
a picture of her in the tasting room with her wearing
that.
At least once a year, she should be able to wear her crown and have it be her day.
I just think that's only fair.
I mean, I would be like, I'm like, raise your hand if you were Alice in Daireland.
Oh, just me?
That's fine.
We're having pizza.
So what is the distillery process specifically to bourbon?
What sets bourbon apart from whiskey, say?
So all bourbon is whiskey, not all whiskey is bourbon.
It's an easy way to think about it.
So bourbon is defined by the federal law as needing to be 51 or more percent corn in the specific mash bill or variety of grains that you use.
It needs to be aged in a new charred oak container.
So that's why we use barrels.
Once we're done with them, we usually sell them to local breweries.
And they do barrel aged beers and stuff like that in there.
And then it needs to be made in the United States
of
America.
So any state does not have to be from Kentucky.
Those are kind of the three laws federally that separate bourbon from other whiskies.
And that's why it's been known as America's spirit is because you can only make it in the United States.
Interesting, but not just Kentucky.
So take that Kentucky.
Yeah, exactly.
Justice get up here.
We're not trying to start any fights again, Jane.
Okay.
I'm just saying, take that Kentucky.
You're not the only ones.
So there.
So the you start with the corn that you grow at your farm.
And then what is the process to make your magical bourbon?
So we we use a very special type of red heirloom corn that was developed in 1939 by UW Madison Zach research department.
we actually pulled that specific corn out of hibernation in the basement of the ag library because it went commercially extinct in the late 70s early 80s when GMO crops started to become really popular.
Oh
wow.
So we are the only people in the world growing that specific red heirloom corn and we only raise it to make J. Henry bourbon.
We also grow all of our own heirloom winter wheat and heirloom spooner rye, both from the UW grain program.
So we grow all the grains used to produce J. Henry Bourbon right here on the farm, which is only about 20, 30 minutes north of Madison.
So if you ever wanna come on and do a tour like your coworker, we're open Thursday through Sunday every week.
So, road trip.
So once we get those grains harvested, we store them in the wintertime.
And then we want to mill them into kind of like a fine powder, similar to like flour.
It's a little bit more coarse than that, but we need that surface area because what we're gonna do next is start the process of fermentation.
So we're gonna take that powder, we're gonna take that flour, those milled grains, add water, yeast.
and heat to kind of warm it up and give a pleasant environment for the yeast to essentially eat the sugars in the other grains and fart out alcohol.
So, exactly.
I
used to work in a brewery and that's what I'd say.
I'd say the pee out alcohol and fart out CO2.
Yep, exactly.
So we're essentially drinking yeast pee.
whenever you drink beer.
That's
exactly
what
I was saying too.
Well, when you get right down to the nitty and gritty, that's kind of what it is.
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
So after that process with the fermentation, we're essentially left with a beer.
So it's called distiller's beer.
It's not something you would normally like grab a nice cold can of and start drinking.
It's usually about 12 to 18% alcohol by volume.
And then what we're gonna do is put it through a still.
And it's obviously a lot more complicated than this, but the process of distillation is really putting it through a still to increase the potency of something left by decreasing the volume of what you're trying to distill out.
So in the case of making bourbon,
We are distilling out water to increase the potency of that alcohol left in your solution.
So we run it through a still.
It gets up to about 60 to 70% alcohol after a couple different passes.
And then we put it into those new charred oak casks.
And that's really where the magic starts, in my opinion.
60 to 70% of the final flavor of any aged spirit is going to come from the interaction of that spirit in
the
wood.
Once it comes off of the still, it's colorless.
It has some flavor, but not the traditional sense of flavor that you would associate with whiskies.
Really, all that magic happens from the interaction that it has over the course of, for us, about four to six years.
just by sitting in that new charred oak barrel.
So the barrel makers essentially have you over a barrel because without the barrels, I just, what?
I like
that joke.
You're 100% right.
Is there only one supplier for those barrels or do you have a choice of places to go?
There's many suppliers here in the United States.
There's also several abroad that we buy from, but our primary supplier is called the Independent Stave Company, and they do a fantastic job for us.
They're based out of, they have cooperages in Missouri and Kentucky.
I have a ton of questions because like we, we just bridged it and my wife and I just went to Memphis and went to old Dominic's distillery and went
through their
tour.
So the things you're talking about, and I used to be a tour guide for a brewery.
So a lot of this makes sense.
So like there's all these technical questions that I want to ask them like, don't ask boring questions.
Don't make people turn
off this
interview and people need to know about Joe Henry.
But like the one thing I wanted to ask you really quick and I want to go back to the corn and
You, of course, I'm sure blessed with a wonderful palette of your father and your grandfather.
If you're going to, if I'm going to put down your, your bourbon versus another bourbon that doesn't use that corn, what does that special corn that you have resurrected do for the flavor or for just the, the entire presentation of the bourbon?
Yeah.
So there's a couple of things.
Um, one being that the kind of nutritional value is a little bit different.
than kind of your mass produced commodity grain.
So like number two yellow dent, which is what the majority of the industry is raising to produce ethanol, to produce food is extremely high in starch.
And what that is the benefit for, for brewers and distillers is if you have a higher starch content, you essentially have a more efficient chemical reaction when your yeast is eating those starches and sugars and creating alcohol.
So you can create pure alcohol, higher volume of alcohol with much less energy.
But that's all you're really doing is creating higher percentages of alcohol.
Our corn, on the other hand, is a little less efficient in that aspect, but it's a lot higher in protein, in fat content, in oil content.
So while we don't get as efficient of a chemical reaction and as much total volume, we're sacrificing that for flavor, texture,
and really just a higher quality product.
And obviously, with health benefits, I should be drinking bourbon because it's good for me.
I heard protein.
Protein.
Exactly.
That's all I heard.
Protein.
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Excited to have our guest with us.
He's the owner of Jay Henry and Sons, which is right outside of Madison.
They make bourbon, baby.
Joe Henry is here.
And Joe, we do have a couple of questions that came in on the text line.
Someone listening in Madison
wants to know if you can reuse the barrels or do you have to use a new barrel for every batch of bourbon?
So that is a very good question.
Part of the law behind that was actually based off of around like post prohibition laws.
So after prohibition or during prohibition, I guess, most of the cooperages were
making barrels for the brewing and distillation industry.
So you cut those out for about 10 years, nobody's making alcohol in the United States during that time.
So that industry really starts to crumble and sort of fail.
A lot of Coopbridge is closed.
So then when prohibition ended, the federal government in a way to kind of help reinvigorate that industry required bourbon producers specifically to use those barrels only once.
So every time we make a barrel of bourbon, we have to, once it's aged fully and we dump that whiskey out of the barrel to get bottled,
we can no longer use that barrel again and then call the product that comes out of it bourbon.
It would just be like American whiskey.
So it's cool and not so cool because it's very wasteful, but it does provide a very unique flavor for bourbon compared to other global whiskies of the world, I would say.
The main use for our barrels
is we will sell them to local breweries throughout Wisconsin, and they'll do barrel-aged beers.
So some of the bigger ones are like the Eagle Park guys in Milwaukee, Central Waters up north in Antioch, I believe.
And a couple here around Madison, we've done some stuff with Goose Island down in Chicago.
We also do some fun little projects.
So this past weekend, maple trees up in Northern Wisconsin are starting to get really active.
So we will actually give some of our barrels to maple syrup producers up in the Northwoods.
They'll put maple syrup in our used whiskey barrels.
It'll pull out some of the flavor of that bourbon into your maple syrup.
Yeah, it's fantastic.
That
sounds really good.
Yeah, we sell some of it at the tasting room and then also another way that we continue to extend the life cycle of that barrel is once the maple syrup producer is done with that cask and emptied it out, we'll actually put bourbon back into those maple syrup casks and have like a maple syrup finished bourbon.
So yeah, it's dangerous stuff.
It sounds like it.
We just had that release about a week or so ago, and we only have a few cases left if people are trying to make the trip to swing up here and try some of that stuff.
That we only sell here on the farm.
If you're just joining us, Joe Henry is our guest.
He's the owner of J Henry and Sons, located in Dane, Wisconsin.
They make bourbon, baby.
They do.
I was just going to say that I did.
I was talking about the tour that I did.
And one of the, one of the cool things was I touched the mash.
You can, you can, you can, it's like a pillowy, fibrous foam.
And she's like, and our tour guide said, you can touch it, touch it, eat it, do whatever you want.
And I, and it didn't taste good.
It felt weird, but it was an amazing experience because you're just part of.
the distilling process and you're seeing it happen right in front of you.
I guess what amazes me though Joe when you talk when you talk about this entire process of how to make bourbon it's like back in the day the inventors had to be just the amount of patience it's like let's what do you want to do with this I don't know let's boil it and then after we boil it let's do this let's see what happens when
we do
this because that's kind of the process of how these things come about.
historically, isn't it?
I mean, in some instances, I firmly believe like cheese was a mistake.
Someone was moving yak's milk somewhere in the heat and it turned into something else and they're like, yeah, we'll call it cheese.
I
don't know.
I dare you to eat
it.
Yeah, that's totally, I mean, you look back on history and the history of fermentation.
And I think it was like,
Mesopotamia or Egypt or something.
One of these ancient civilizations, they just accidentally left like uncovered grain in a clay pot and it got water on it.
And then in the heat started warming up and then wild yeast just started eating it.
And then when they went to drink it, they started feeling really good.
And they're like, wow, how do we do this
again?
Do this again!
And you know
who
discovered that?
Women happy women's history month there.
Oh perfect
We got about two minutes left Joe How often do you have tours?
Do you have tours all all year long or is it?
Only in the summertime or how does that work?
So we do we do have tours all year round Thursday through Sunday noon to seven we close a little bit early on Sundays at 5 p.m And then we have a lot of events
going on like the next big one is the Kentucky Derby party that we'll have out on the farm on May 3rd.
So all of those events should be on our website at jhenryandsons.com on the event page.
A lot of fun dinners, fun whiskey pairings, cool product releases, stuff that you might not be able to try most other places.
We do live music and it's always a good time.
We will include a link to your website in our show notes after the show is over and Joe as our guest on Beyond the Cheese we would like to give you this Beyond the Cheese hat
and any
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Joe Henry, owner of J. Henry & Sons.
It's been such a pleasure.
Thank you so much, Joe.
Really appreciate it.
Thanks a lot.
Hey, thank you so much for having me.
Happy to be here.
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This year.
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Once the show is over, coming up in just a little bit, we'll wrap it all up, as we always do, with this shouldn't be a thing.
Today it is the, let me transfer you edition.
But right now, it's St.
Patrick's Day.
Oh, he takes.
Ah, sure.
Oh, but you're just talking about stuff.
And off the air, we were all talking about, none of us are Irish.
I'm a Scotian.
Are you a Scotian?
But not enough to be like, hey, man, that's my culture.
Not, not, not, yeah.
No, no.
I am half.
German and French on my father's side and Lithuanian on my mother's side.
So there is just no, there's no Irish in there.
And as I told Pat Critello this morning, I am waiting for the holiday where it says, I'm celebrating half Lithuanian day where we dress as peasants and drink vodka with no ice, cause who could afford ice?
And air our grievances.
And the airing of grievances.
But we wanted to talk about your favorite Irish or Irish themed films.
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Your favorite Irish or Irish-themed movie, which is it as we celebrate St.
Patrick's Day, and I do have a couple of them.
One of them is called Waking the Divine.
Yes.
It is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.
And it's a real quiet... You know what I mean?
It's a quiet, soft...
Yes, movie.
It's it's
not big and showy and all of those things.
It takes place in a very small village in Ireland.
And it all hinges around one of the local someone in this small town has won a lottery ticket.
Yeah.
That's what the whole thing is about.
It is funny and sweet and it will get you in the heart.
And it's just it's absolutely worth watching.
And
If I remember correctly, it's been a while since I saw it.
It's family friendly too.
I know there's no sex in it, but I don't think there's any swearing.
To me, one of those types of movies are the movies you're going to watch with your kid and be like... It'll be fine.
It'll be fine.
This isn't going to be the thing that sends them down the road of...
of terrible, terrible attitudes and bad
behavior.
Down a bad pathway.
Yeah, I'm gonna do an Irish accent some of these.
So strap in, it might get a little offensive to my Irish files.
I did an ancestry DNA test and I am over 50% German with 6% Irish.
So I will go choose leprechaun today, go for it.
There you
go.
Absolutely,
Puget.
There you go.
Embrace your inner Irish.
Do you have a film, a favorite film?
Yeah.
Irish or related to Ireland that you would like to share with us something to watch on this St.
Patrick's Day 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 Mark from Prairie du Sac texting in The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara classic movie.
Maureen O'Hara was amazing actor.
Classic classic movie.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a wonderful wonderful film.
Steve from Milwaukee listening on WAUK.
My wife loved leap year.
Very Irish
my wife loves leap year as well.
Do you know what it's about?
Am I thinking of the actor who was a
drunk?
No, I believe no, I believe it's it's Amy Adams and Matthew good who by the way Matthew good is one of the best actors I've ever seen my life and I the whole premise is in Ireland if I'm not mistaken
on Leap on the 29th of February, that's when a woman can ask a man to marry him.
That kind of thing.
If I'm wrong, but talk to my wife, she can tell, she can give you synopsis from opening credits to director's commentary.
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What's a great Irish film to help celebrate St.
Patrick's Day today?
Ollie from the North Woods is on the line.
Good morning, Ollie.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Well, I was on the line with you.
Somebody already took my answer.
Was it leap
year?
The quiet man.
Oh, the quiet man.
There you go.
The quiet man with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara.
That was a fabulous movie.
Also, I think there was the Irish movie that
where
they kept, they were like measuring this mountain and the Irish people kept carrying
Dirt up so that they could keep the mountain get the mountain
so it would qualify Yes,
yes
That
was remember exactly what it was
that was with you Hugh Grant was in that The Englishman the Englishman who walked up a hill and came down a mountain.
I think that's
what it's called Wow, this is not what came up when I typed in measuring mountain Irish movie.
Oh No, that's one of his first movies.
I believe to Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant
Yes.
Before love, actually, and all that stuff.
Yes.
Yeah.
But again, Ollie, I think it's called the Englishman who walked up a hill and came down a mountain.
Does that sound familiar?
Movie.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There it is.
Yep.
The Englishman.
Appreciate that, Ollie.
Thank you so much for calling.
Thank you for listening.
That's all I wanted.
I'm becoming kind of obsessed with you.
uh, Grant lately, because he's entering a new era of his acting.
Cause like we all knew, we all know him from his nineties, broad romantic comedies.
I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm Hugh Grant.
And the Stumbly, the
Stumbly
lover guy.
He has in the past five or six years has become the baddie.
Like he's a villain.
He's a bit, he's, and I don't mean like, I don't mean like wait.
So he's just growing and his.
getting bigger and he just doesn't look like he looked 25 years ago and he plays really good and it's not just villains.
He plays really good slime balls.
He's so good at being slimy in movies and you can't take your eyes off of him.
And that's
always the part that's more fun to play.
If you want a perfect example, the gentleman.
It's a guy-riching movie with Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Jeremy Strong.
It's a
British comedy action movie and Hugh Grant is just the slimmest slime.
But back to Irish films.
Yeah, back to Irish movies.
855-752.
4-8, 4-2, a good Irish film today to watch to help celebrate St.
Patrick's Day.
I already talked about waking the divine.
If you can find it, it's really sweet.
Tony, I think you're supposed to just watch Drop Kick Murphy concerts videos all day.
You can do that.
There you go.
There you go.
That
works.
Tom from West Dallas at Boondock Saints.
That is a, a, a revenge movie that takes place in like, I think boss, it's a, it's very Irish in its presentation, the gentlemen are Irish.
And I will say this is one of those movies that a lot of dudes have a poster of in their bed, in their bedroom, like their caddy shack poster and their blues brother's poster.
And it's one of those things where men will say, Oh man, I love Boondock Saints and I love, if you love Boondock Saints, but I watched 20 minutes and I'm like, this is garbage.
But the documentary about the guy who made the movies even better because he just absolutely burned himself out and made himself a complete Pariah in Hollywood,
right Chris from Blue River says I have to go with brave I'm a huge fan of anything Pixar and this is an underappreciated work brave didn't happen in Scotland
We'll double check
it's Scotland double check list from sockville listening on WAUK We're talking about good Irish or Irish related films to watch for st.
Patrick's Day
Liz from Sockville says the secret of Roan Inish, which is a classic that's been around for a really long time.
Douglas from Madison, listening on WMDX, the Englishman who went up a hill was not an Irish film, it was set in Wales.
And Brave was set in the Scottish Highlands.
I thought it was in Scotland.
But you know what though, let's just, hey, what?
It's part of, yeah.
We're not gonna sit here and suffocate your truth.
You live your life, be happy.
I don't know where this voice is coming from, but I just, yeah.
Love
these movies.
We like to be accurate, that's fine.
The other one I was thinking of was Circle of Friends.
That is a, is that Mini Driver?
Mini
Driver.
Before Mini Driver was a thing.
I love Mini Driver.
I want to hang out with her.
Yeah, she was, it's another really sweet.
film about relationships and friendships and challenges.
And again, it's not a big movie.
It's not a big, big film.
And I'm not even sure how it did at the box office.
I mean, but it's it's definitely worth a watch.
And to see many driver early in her career, yes, before she became as polished and and she's fabulous in that movie.
I think that I love Minnie Driver.
I love the TV work she's done.
There was a show that was anything for one or two seasons called Speechless, where she played the mother of a disabled boy who did not bow to the world.
She protected her son.
And the family wasn't like, it wasn't an example of like, this is how you be a good fit.
They had their problems, but she has kicked butt in it because she's excellent, excellent.
I love Minnie Driver so much.
What is your Irish or Irish related film that you might watch today to help celebrate
St.
Patty's Day, listener on WAUK, Ryan's Daughter.
Okay.
And Carrie from Tosa, listening on WMDX, The Miracle Club.
That's a relatively recent movie, I think, Carrie.
I think that's on HBO Max right now.
The
Miracle Club.
The Miracle Club, either HBO Max or Netflix.
Okay.
Because I have seen that pass by.
I
loved the banshees of Anishiren.
I, the thing is, is I would like take it out a little further.
Martin McDonough who wrote, interacted it.
I love all of his films and he's an amazing playwright, but like in Bruges is an amazing film.
Seven Psychopath is so fun.
And I like, you know, if they were talking about Irish and Irish films and Irish filmmakers, Martin McDonough's movies are absolutely wonderful.
See, and I watched the band, she's, and I thought that was one of the saddest things I'd ever seen.
Well, I mean, that doesn't mean you
can't
like it though.
I would never watch it again.
Okay.
It made me so sad.
Okay.
And we're not even gonna talk about the donkey.
No, let's not talk about the donkey.
Let's not talk about the donkey.
Those who know know.
Irish films, Irish-ish films.
Irish-adjacent?
Irish-adjacent films that we're watching for St.
Patty's Day.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People listening in Madison.
That's been around since I was a munchkin.
That's an old, old movie.
Back when, back when special effects were really special.
You know what I mean?
The early days of Hollywood
and some of the
stuff that they did to try and look magical.
It's pretty great.
Nicole from Madison, bad sisters on Apple TV, chef's kiss.
I've heard, I've heard about that show.
I've heard about that show.
There is, so there, I looked up a movies and there is a movie that came out.
There's a movie called The Quiet Girl, too.
Interesting.
It is an Irish film.
It is not Irish in its presentation.
It just was made in Ireland and it has Irish actors.
It's called Frank.
It did not do very well.
It stars Michael Fassbender, Jillian Hall.
I can't remember her first name right now.
And Dommel Gleason.
or Donald Cleason.
And it's about a guy who's kind of not all there, but he is kind of a weird artistic musical genius who wears a papier-mache mask on his head.
It's just a fun movie.
It's called Frank.
I loved it.
Check out
Frank.
Yeah.
Check out Frank.
One more.
We got Quentin from Glendale PS.
I love you.
It's my favorite
film.
Oh, yes.
And Jeff from Madison just to clarify, Darby O'Gill is an old Disney movie.
Again, that thing's been around for a long time.
And from Green Bay texting in kneecap.
Never heard of that one.
Okay.
And again, Chris from Blue River says yes, you are correct.
Brave is Scottish.
That's fine.
Watch a movie today.
Exactly.
Have some corned beef and cabbage.
Take a free ride, ride the bus.
If you're going to be out celebrating,
please be safe.
Please, please, please be safe.
And just Dave on the live stream, you know what?
For today, let's do it.
Die Hard is an Irish film because John McClain sounds like an Irish name.
Fine.
There you go.
We'll
accept
that.
Absolutely.
All
right.
When we return, we're going to wrap it all up as we always do with this.
This shouldn't be a thing.
Today it's the Let Me Transfer You Edition.
You are listening to Matt Nair on air.
Stay with us on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Welcome back to Matinair on Air.
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on Facebook, YouTube, and what used to be Twitter coming up on the show tomorrow.
Hopefully, Luke Mathers will have recovered from his celebrations today.
We're hoping he's going to join us tomorrow after 10 30.
We'll see what happens.
Can we call him Lucchio Mathers?
We can call him Lucchio Mathers.
Absolutely.
That's it.
That's what makes you happy.
Right now, though, Calvin, it is time for
this shouldn't be a thing.
And as always, if you ever have a thing you think should not be, send it into Greg and me at janesaysatcivicmedia.us.
Today it is the Let Me Transfer You edition.
This is from upi.com.
Ben Hooper gets a lot of bylines for these.
We got it.
He's searching for those.
He's looking for him.
Interesting stories.
He's looking for him.
Headline reads, Virginia Zoo responds to gorilla escape rumors.
We don't have those.
Virginia Zoo.
Responding to rumors of an escaped gorilla in Norfolk, Virginia, confirmed that not only are all of its animals accounted for, they don't even have gorillas.
Social media lit up with reports of a gorilla on the loose last week after a power outage in a particular neighborhood with several Facebook users.
Don't look at me.
I didn't start this.
Claiming to have seen the large animal.
Don't.
Take stuff from Facebook and assume it's accurate.
I'm just saying.
This is how it starts.
I feel
like I'm being yelled
at right now.
You're the one I can point at.
I can point at Calvin, but it's not the same.
Virginia Zoo put the rumors to rest, joking that the sightings were likely the facility's mascot, Zoo Squatch.
Oh.
god are you serious
i am reading from the article we heard talk of an escaped gorilla that we think it may have just been zoo squash spotted on his daily run don't worry he made it back to the zoo our keepers want you to know all our animals and are safe and accounted for except for gorillas because we don't have those
but you know we do have zoo squash
Officials write any real escape would have been accompanied by a statement from the zoo.
Just keep that in mind when you're on Facebook.
And a friendly reminder, while these hoaxes can be silly, you can rest assured that the Virginia Zoo has extensive safety measures and protocols in place to keep out animals and communities safe if there is ever a real animal escape from our facility.
We will issue a formal statement to all local media, including on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
I guarantee you in six months, we're going to hear a story about this incident still having traction because I say this to this day, years later, people still believe there's a lion running around Milwaukee because of a Facebook post.
Always reliable.
That's always where you want to go when you're looking for accurate information.
Now,
if you don't mind, I gotta get out of here.
I gotta go look for Zuzquatch.
Again, don't worry about it.
The gorilla is fine because we don't have those.
That wraps up today's edition of Calvin.
This shouldn't be a thing.
As I said, hopefully Luke Mathers will be joining us tomorrow after the 1030 news.
We have a very busy rest of the week.
Yeah,
kind of a short week for me.
Why?
I'm going to be off a couple of days.
Wait, what?
Did I not tell you this?
Folks, this is breaking news.
I'm being
left
alone.
No, I'm going to be off.
Thursday, Friday, and Monday.
I'm going to see a friend outside of Austin.
And I will have with me on Monday the wonderful Angela Lange
co-hosting the
entire show, and a special guest possibly, most likely yes, because I'm going to make him do it, on Friday.
But more details this week to come.
Oh, intriguing.
Let's just say this.
Wait, wait, I'll tell you.
That's really exciting.
One last text I wanted to get in, Fred, from Cottage Grove, listening in Madison on WMDX.
This shouldn't be a thing.
Green
beer.
Well, I was going to say, Michael Seal from Tosa.
When I celebrate today, no green beer will pass my lips.
Green beer is an abomination.
Yeah, I've used to, years ago when I was in music radio and we would broadcast from bars.
Gross.
Starting at five.
Yuck.
And people would have lucky charms in green beer.
Disgusting.
It's a whole new level of, yeah, I can't do that.
Coming up after the news will be Todd Alba from noon to two, Maggie Dawn from two to four, Dom Salvia picks it up from four to six p.m.
The wonderful Pete Schwabba from six to eight, Pat Critello up North News Radio gets us going early mornings from six to eight and then Earl Ingram Jr.
right before us from eight.
to 10 a.m.
Thank you Greg and Calvin and all of our engineers because without you nothing works.
And thank you most of all for calling and for texting and for listening.
It really does mean the world.
I hope you find some joy today and you have the chance to share it.
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Happy St.
Paddy's Day.
