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Happy St. Patrick's Day. Oh happy St. Patrick's Day. As of today the average price of a gallon of 2% milk in Wisconsin 318 the same as Friday and the average price of a dozen large eggs here in the state 624 also the same since last Friday. When I win I will immediately bring prices down starting on day one. Just a little side note the US has now reached out to Denmark and other European countries asking if they can export eggs here.
The request from the U.S. Department of Agriculture coincides with a whole bunch of new U.S. tariffs on countries, including in Europe, and the threat of more. President Trump has also threatened economic sanctions unless Denmark gives us control of Greenland. But hey, can we have some eggs? That'd be really nice. Would you mind? What's happening?
What's in the news? We have a busy, busy show coming up for you today. After the 1030 News, Dave Wilde is going to join us. Dave has MS and autism, and he is also a big advocate for Medicare and Medicaid. And we've been talking about this changes to the program and the assumption that a lot of people shouldn't be receiving these benefits. Yeah. That a lot of people are misusing Medicare and Medicaid. Yeah.
And we will talk to Dave, and I'm curious what he has seen, what he has dealt with, and his own experience, because, again, as a person with MS and autism, and he worked from what I understand, and so we'll have a conversation with Dave Wilde coming up after 10.30. Next hour, we will lighten it up. Fingers crossed, baby. Seems like this segment is cursed. We've tried numerous times over the last couple of months.
And something has always, there's been a snafu always, but today I'm feeling confident, Greg Bach. We're gonna do Beyond the Cheese, our segment where we feature a business in Wisconsin outside of dairy and agriculture. We are planning to talk to Josie Henry of Jay Henry and Sons. They make bourbon outside of Madison and our very own Luke Mathers was the one who stumbled.
upon them or stumbled away from them. We're not sure. And said, you should talk to these guys for Beyond the Cheese. So hopefully, Josie Henry will be joining us after the 11 o'clock news at 11 30. We're going to talk about Irish films and your favorite Irish movie. It is St. Patrick's Day. So for St. Patty's Day, we'll kick around some great Irish movies that you need to check out. And we will wrap it all up as we always do. With this shouldn't be a thing today. It's the let me transfer you edition.
Stay tuned for that. As always, if you have a thing you think should not be outside of politics. Yeah, something fun. Something more on the fun side. Send it into janesaysatcivicmedia.us, J-A-N-E-S-A-Y-S. Jane says atcivicmedia.us. Did want to start off with this though.
Something else we've been talking about for quite a while. This from the journal Sentinel, Madeline Heim, with the byline Trump administration cancels program that paid Wisconsin farmers to grow food for food pantries. They talked to a woman called Christy Allen. She sends around 3,000 pounds of honey every year to a food bank in St. Croix. She runs the bee's knees in Burnett County.
where she sells honey and bees and teaches beekeeping classes. She took part in the Wisconsin Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. So that paid Wisconsin farmers to produce food for local pantries and other groups that fight hunger. Without this program, Kristi Allen says she couldn't have afforded to give that much honey to a food bank. She was paid $25,000 the first year $15,000. The second year she says though it wasn't just
about the money it was gratifying. She got a handwritten note from a woman across the state who had gotten her honey and just wanted to say thank you. These programs have been around for a while, this kind of partnership between Wisconsin farmers and local groups that try to combat hunger in their own neighborhoods.
It doesn't seem like a bad thing. No, and I guess once again, I'm asking the question, you know, you cut this program, you cut the funding, and therefore you're cutting access to food. Why is this good? Why is this something you would support? Why is this something that the Trump administration has cut off? Why is this something you say, yes, we should do this? Make it make sense, show your work, tell me why. Hungry people is a good idea.
On March 7th, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ended the program, part of a nationwide effort to support local farmers, feed under-resourced communities, and increase the resiliency of this food supply chain. In the letter canceling this program, the Deputy Administrator of the USDA now under Trump, Jack Tutwiler, says it no longer effectuates agency priorities. Jack Tutwiler.
So, yeah, it's just not needed. Wisconsin Farms gonna be good, hungry people apparently, it's all gonna be fine. During the 2023-24 growing season, almost 300 Wisconsin Farms took part in this program, providing almost $4.5 million worth of food to more than 250 pantries and schools.
In the case of this woman who's a beekeeper, she was able to, because of the money that came from this program, she could hire a part-time employee. With that income now disappearing, she's unsure if she can keep this person on. And she says, you know, the idea that there's waste, fraud, and abuse, there's no evidence of that. Having a dependable market that supports a healthy society seems like a no brainer to me. I would think so too.
And once again, the farmers are taking it on the teeth. And the effect, I mean, the effect, when farmers suffer, we all suffer. That's all there is to it. And our food suffers, our food supply suffers, the access to food suffers, prices of food suffers. But this is one where you're like, you're helping hungry people eat. And you said, no, what was the exact term they used? It didn't Jack Wiler said the program.
did not no longer effectuates agency priorities, effectuates agency priorities. Let me translate this for you. It doesn't matter. No, it doesn't matter. And I guess what really jumps out to me, because it seems like there is this assumption that hungry people only exist in urban areas. That's not the case. Also, let's also smash another
stereotype. Hungry people aren't without jobs either. Right. Hungry people have jobs. Hungry people have families. Hungry people are people maybe on your block. Hungry people are seniors. Hungry people are hardworking single parents. Hungry people are around you and this program helps. And the fact that it did, what am I doing?
Donald Trump doesn't care about poor people. He doesn't care about them. They don't vote for him. And if they do, he doesn't care about them in the in the long run. This program doesn't effectuate the administration. It means they don't care about you because you can't help them at all without a vote. Period. If you're just joining us talking about an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Trump administration cancels program that paid Wisconsin farmers to grow food for food pantries. And according to this article again in the journal Sentinel, the program was seen as a win-win.
by those who used it. Food pantry visitors got fresh food, farmers got a stable source of cash to help meet their bottom line. And we have talked to Darren Van Ruden numerous times, and he'll be joining us again next month. They live on a pretty tight margin, farmers do. And there's so much uncertainty when we're talking about the weather and droughts and things like that.
to have something like this where they knew this money was coming in if they partnered with a food pantry, at least they could count on that. And now that's gone. And a question I would love to ask Darren too, I mean, and I know he has more, a dairy farm that's more of a, he calls it a boutique dairy farm, but I have to imagine planting season is about to start, that farmers have already, we're going to plant X amount of seed.
That percentage of seed will go towards will be will will go towards the hungry people That's that's what we're going to donate. Well now What are they gonna do that they have to redo their entire their entire plan? How is this going to affect their farms as well? I mean this just this was a program that was helping farmers and helping hungry people and it does not effectuate this administration
What is wrong with you? Beating America estimates that more than 617,000 Wisconsin residents, rather, are food insecure. The food pantry in Dunn County says the program provides almost 50,000 pounds of food to clients, including apples, lettuce, corn, radishes, beets, fresh beef, and pork. Like the statewide hunger statistics, the need for its service has not declined. It has increased.
And again, hungry people aren't only in Milwaukee and Madison. There are food pantries all over the state that a lot of people are dependent upon. And as you pointed out, Greg, a lot of these folks are working. A lot of these folks are seniors. We've done enough interviews with the Hunger Task Force of Southeastern Wisconsin to know that this is a pretty widespread thing.
Apparently, we should just be, you know, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, you guys, and figuring it out ourselves. Just grow your own food. I was going to say, you know, just grow your own food. Just grow your own food. Don't bother me. I don't care about you, because you were dumb enough to be hungry. That's your fault, I guess. Well, and you're dumb enough not to have enough money to contribute to my campaign. Oh, my God. Run away. We're going to switch gears a little bit when we return. Yeah.
If you wanted to reach out to some of your elected officials, and now it's not just Republicans who are running away, there's a big Democrat who doesn't want to see his constituents. We'll talk about that when we return. Stay with us. You are listening to Matt Nair. On air, this is the Civic Media Radio Network.
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Good morning and welcome to Matt Nair on air, Jane Matt Nair, Greg Bach, and the Board Lord, committee from our studio here at Radio Park in Racine. You can always join us, call or text the number is the same, 855-752-4842. Leave a comment if you're watching on the live stream. On Facebook, YouTube, and what used to be Twitter after the 1030 News, we are talking about Medicare and Medicaid. Dave Wilde is going to join us.
He has MS and autism and is also an advocate for both of those programs. We're hearing now from the Trump administration about how many people are on these programs that are just faking it, apparently. So we will be talking to Dave to get his perspective. I think it should be very interesting conversation. And if you are on Medicare or Medicaid, we would love to hear from you too and your experience with those programs. I will say that in recent weeks, the two biggest things that have brought in
comments, calls, and concerns from y'all have been the VA and social security. And I imagine that Medicare and Medicaid are gonna be right there. Right up there. And we're already seeing people saying, oh, you're being lied to, they're not gonna touch social, Medicare and Medicaid. They've been trying to do this for decades, folks. Well, and with the numbers that they're talking about that they want to cut, that money's gotta come from someplace. Yeah.
It's not going to come from the billionaires tax cut party. No, it's not. No, it's not. Billionaires are struck. Rich people are really struggling right now, Greg. Yeah, and they don't mind if poor people suffer more or worse. I mean, that doesn't matter to them because it's a... Well, they need another yacht. They're poor and it's their fault. 855-752-4842. Cindy from Appleton is on the line. Good morning, Cindy. Thanks for joining us.
Good morning, and I just want you to know that these are not scare tactics coming from you These are scare tactics coming from our government because I know someone made that comment a while back But anyway, I am afraid that if they just cut the Medicare there are going to be so many people that are going to be in big trouble I don't thankfully I'm very healthy for my age. I'm not on any kind of medications or anything else, but I am concerned about all my fellow
elderly people. And I know most people in this country are concerned about their community anymore, which is really sad, but I'm very concerned. And this would be horrific. And if you cut social security, our homeless population, like I said before, is going to literally grow overnight because people are on the very edge of everything right now. I mean, if you have a $1,200 a month social security and you're paying 800 for rent, that doesn't give you any room to move with.
This is just to me, it's just horrendous that they could even think about this. These vile, evil politicians, I just don't get it. Well, it's the pain that we have to go through, Cindy, to become better and greater America. Just two years of pain. Just two years. As Co-President Musk said, just two years of pain. Thank you, Cindy. Appreciate you checking in and always for listening. I echo Cindy's concerns about the number of homeless people.
If some of these cuts go through, when you have, again, as she pointed out, people who are only getting 1200 bucks a month from social and their rent is 800, we already have housing problem in this country. I said it before and I'll say it again. My mother-in-law has said two thirds of her income is social security. The rest comes from small investments she has made. If they cut social security on her, she is going to be in a world of hurt.
She's lucky enough to have her house paid off at least, you know, she's lucky. She has she has some she has some assets some assets there She can do but it's still going to her and I just said before and I want to apologize. I meant I said poor people Being on social security does not mean you are poor. I'm saying the people that they view as lesser It's their fault for being lesser and Once again and asking the question I asked from before earlier regarding farmers and the hungry
How do you justify this in your in your worldview? How do you make it make sense? How is this okay with you? 8-5-5-7-5-2-4-8-4-2 Gene from AllClairs on the line real quickly. Gene, thank you for joining us. What do you want to say about this? I want to bring up something really important that I just have to get out and that is people have to remember that judges are for a 10 year term.
We had to suffer with Schimel during the Scott Walker time, and we've recovered somewhat, but we cannot have this man in my personal biased opinion as a judge for 10 years in the Supreme Court in the state of Wisconsin. Thank you very much and great job as usual, guys. Thanks so much, Jean. Yeah, I completely agree with you. And again, Elon doesn't seem terribly popular. No. Brad Schimel is Elon's pick.
Brad Schimmel has a vested interest, in my opinion, of making sure that Brad Schimmel is on the court. It's maybe your opinion, Jane, but it's the truth, too. It has been said that there was a picture floating around Twitter the other day of a giant blow-up Trump doll and on his chest says, vote for Schimmel. This is a man who will make sure that the Elon Musk-Donald Trump agenda is passed upheld.
everything you can to make sure that the work we've done in just two years is unraveled. We just got fair maps. We just got fair maps. We just got them. And if you, and if folks, if you like making sure that women have 19th century bodily autonomy, then Brad Schimmel's your dude because the 1849 abortion ban has what has quote, no flaws to him. According to Brad. According to Brad. And again, keep in mind also that Brad Schimmel tends to tell different things to
inside supporters, like people who are canvassing for him, as opposed to when he's on upfront on WISN. Then he portrays himself as a moderate.
You know, level headed level. Yeah, he's not. He also doesn't know that you can't vote for laws as the people as far as binding resolutions. He doesn't know that. Yeah. So we'll talk more about him in the coming weeks. Real briefly, because this is what we wanted to talk to you original. That's right. Talk about originally. Mark Polkhan, representative Mark Polkhan from Wisconsin Second District has invited you and Derek Van Orden for a congressional town hall. It's tomorrow night.
at the historic Temple Theater on Main Street in Verroqua. The doors open at 5.30. The event starts at six o'clock. Of course, Derek Van Orden can't run away fast enough from his constituents. He doesn't want to actually talk to you. So yeah, Derek's been not showing up at public events, or if he does, he schedules it and then moves it at the last minute and then says, oh, it's a private event. Sorry, you can't come in.
But if you would like to hear Mark Pocan speak because I'm pretty sure he will be there. Yeah You can talk to Mark Pocan tomorrow night starting at 5 30 the historic temple theater in Verroqua
I think it would be fun. I would love to go see Mark Pokan speak personally. He's a fun time. Tim Wall is also going to be doing some town halls around Wisconsin and other states. He's doing what the coach is coming out. Yeah, coaches doing more than our guys. News is coming up next. Stay close. You are listening to Matt Nair on air. This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
Hey! Good morning, welcome, welcome to Matt and Air on Air. Jane Matt and Air, Greg Buck, Calvinator on the board, coming to you from our studio here at Radio Park in Racine. You can always join us, you can call, you can text. The number is the same 855-752-4842. Leave a comment if you're watching on a live stream, on Facebook, YouTube, and what used to be Twitter. A lot of discussion.
about Medicare and Medicaid and potential changes that could be coming under the Trump administration. And we've talked about this over the over the past couple of weeks. And there's usually someone who will text in and say, well, there's all kinds of why are you against finding fraud and abuse? Why are you against finding waste and fraud and abuse? I'm not against finding waste, fraud and abuse, but I am concerned about the.
less than organized way it seems that the Trump administration is handling these things. They're just kind of getting rid of all these people and then going back and saying, oh, maybe we shouldn't have had that one. That one was a mistake. So we wanted to talk to someone who has firsthand experience.
with Medicare, Medicaid, and dealing with several issues. Dave Wild is our guest. Thank you so much for joining us, Dave. I really appreciate your time. From what I was told, you have MS and you also have autism. Can you share a little bit about your experience and what it has been like as a working adult? Well, I mean, where to begin? You really wind up relearning yourself.
I was diagnosed with Osbergers when my son was diagnosed when he was between two and three years old. And my official diagnosis of MS didn't come, but several years later, it took a lot of different things happening back then before we found out that I definitely had MS along with it.
And where things started as far as getting into getting the support systems, it began with my son because him having Osburgers, especially at a really young age, was significant for him. He needed support. And we even had to go to court to get those supports for him.
And we did this in a state that is very hard on people like that. I don't know if I'm allowed to say which state that is. Sure. Just don't swear. Nebraska. Just don't swear. Okay, I won't do that. State of Nebraska, very difficult, still is for people who have any general difficulties.
We had to go to court and we had to explain that he doesn't just throw temper tantrums, because that was one of the things that the judge said straight to us. So he just throws temper tantrums. Just being a toddler. Yeah, he's just typical. And the attorney corrected her on the spot and said, no, no, this is a condition that works on many levels.
It took a bit to get through there, but we did get those. And then my health took a turn and I had to apply to be on disability. And I was in, I had a decent career. You know, my health took me out of my career. I was an animal control officer. You know, good job, good pay, took care of the family. And then I had to start
you know trying to get assistance and that included you know a little bit of welfare while trying to apply for SSI and at that time they put me in a work program and it was considered experimental in the state of Nebraska back then but it was very indiscriminate.
a lot like the way you see they're doing things now. Their tactic is generally to just grab everybody, it doesn't matter what their story is, and shove them all in the same bucket. Put them all in the same place. I was working next to a woman in a warehouse who was in her 70s and hauling around an oxygen tank. They wanted her to just, basically we just moved them back and forth. There was really no purpose to these jobs.
cases of powdered baby formula with probably weighed about 30 pounds a piece. So wait, I want to just stop you for a second there, Dave. You were working with a woman in her seventies who was on oxygen, but in order to get her benefits, she needs to have a job. And so her job was working in a factory moving relatively heavy things. Yeah, just a warehouse. Mm hmm.
I didn't let her do that that day. I sat her down in a chair and I said, I'm going to move the boxes. You should actually do nothing. I said, I mean, you're here. It's not like they can fire you because they're forcing us to be here. And we were released when and according to the news at the time, we're talking this is over 20 years ago.
It was found unconstitutional. And they... Ticked us all out of the building and not very nicely either. Was that a program in Nebraska only or was that something they talked about being done across the country as well? Well, I can tell you that several states have done this, though I don't think they did them all at the same time.
At the time, you know, the internet really wasn't as big a thing as it could have been. So we were limited on the information that we could get.
If you're just joining us, Matt Wild is our guest. Dave Wild. I'm sorry, I've been calling you Matt all morning and for like the last three days. Now your name is Matt. No, I'm sorry. Dave Wild is our guest and we're talking about his experience with Medicare and Medicaid and being an adult with MS and Asperger's.
Dave, I assume you liked, did you like working while you were still able to work? Did you want to leave the workforce? Because when I hear some of the Trump officials talk about this, it's all, the inference is that these are all lazy people who just don't want to work, who are receiving these benefits. Well, one thing I would like them to know is I miss having a full-time job. It's hard for anybody who was used to working.
who wanted to do for themselves. This isn't something I chose. This is not something I'm proud of. It's something I have to live with. It's not a choice factor. I would much rather be well enough to work a full-time job and have one than to have to rely on any of these programs.
And for first, I know it's for folks who are listening. I can just only imagine how many people are in your same situation or a similar situation and how upsetting and disturbing this must be. And it's almost like they want you to have to come forward and prove it. I want you to, you need to prove it to me that even though your doctors have diagnosed you with this, that doesn't seem, that's not enough for them.
Well, and neither is the fact that we have to jump through a whole bunch of hoops We have to wade through a swimming pool of red tape We have we get checked on routinely every few years every couple of years I have to submit a full report that I haven't magically been cured Okay, they have all of this in place already what they're doing is completely unnecessary
But at the same time, when they do this, especially now, the scary risks are, what are we going to lose track of here? Are we going to lose coverage on medications? Are we going to lose coverage on treatments? It isn't even just the fact that they might come up with a new
work program, and I put great big air quotes around the work program, because that's something that I don't think they even have all of the legal requirements together to call it a job. You don't have benefits. I don't think you even have workman's comp. So you are just expected to go
Well, break rocks for lack of a better term. Just so you're earning. Just go do something to get your benefits. Whether or not it's productive or not. Right, and a great deal of it is just, especially in that warehouse, it wasn't productive. There was no purpose to what we were doing in that building. We would sort clothing. They would throw it all in the box and we'd come and sort it again the next day.
It's just meaningless, medial tasks. And they put their offices right next to the employment offices for the state of Nebraska. And we had to go in there and do appointments. And if you were out of line even a little bit, they would cut you off that day.
They cut your benefits that day. The biggest threat was that they would, they would sanction all your benefits and you would lose them for at least 30 days. Oh my God. I made the mistake of questioning, signing a paper. Cause I thought I'd already signed it. That's an innocent enough question. I think I already signed this. My care, my case worker went straight to the police officer who was on duty and said he needs to leave. And they threw me out that day.
And then you couldn't have a chance to sign this tomorrow I Don't have words like Prisoners are treated with more respect and more purpose when they're working behind bars This is just sort clothes and come back tomorrow and do it again. This is Yes, this is craziness And for me that just creates a very real fear that they're just gonna do that again sure
What happened to the woman that you worked with, Dave, who was 70 and had an oxygen tank with her? Do you know what happened to her? I have no idea. After we were kicked out of that building, I didn't see any of them again. I would assume that from her age, I doubt she's around today. Right. Because that was a very long time ago, and she'd be over 100. I think she mentioned that she
was on oxygen due to emphysema. So I can't imagine she made it a real long ways after that. But as far as what happened to her or her benefits or care, I honestly don't know. I can only hope that things were corrected for her. Yeah. PJ and the livestream says, right, some of us would also rather work, unfortunately, corporate America
doesn't hire people over the age of 50 with disabilities, and yet they expect us to work until we're 70. Yes. You know, you're absolutely right. I'm 55. You know, Dave, we're talking about like them chipping away at Medicare and Medicaid benefits. But what you're providing here is a whole new layer of bureaucracy. That is like, it's like you should be
You should be grateful that you even get the benefits and that you deserve in the first place Like the fact that they can just make they can make your benefits go away with the stroke of a pen for 30 days and and I mean I wanted to bring up the fact that you know People are saying well, they're not gonna go after Medicaid and Medicare Well, they've been trying to do it for years through privatization measures through personal safety savings accounts But this is like this is awful and I can I can completely imagine this becoming a nationwide practice
of you go, you go our way or you get nothing and it's your fault. Like this sounds like work camp type stuff. We're going to continue our conversation with Dave Wilde. Stay with us. You can always join us at 855-752-4842. Don't go away. You're listening to Matt Nair on air. This is the Civic Media Radio Network.
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Let me transfer you edition. I had to look it up. It's a Monday. It's a month. It is such a Monday. But anyway, stick around for that. Right now we are talking to Dave Wilde and we are talking about his experience on Medicare and Medicaid and Dave has autism and also MS.
And before the break, Dave, we were talking about some of your experiences with these work requirements in order to get your benefits. And I know that you had a story about someone else that you wanted to share. Yes, I was talking to a Facebook friend just yesterday who told me about her experience. I believe that the one she had to do was also ended. Most of them are. I haven't found any that.
weren't ended because they were just unfair. They weren't legal scales of employment. They didn't give any of the employee rights that you're supposed to have working on a job. But for her, even though she was employed, they still expected her to take part. They expected her after her day of actual employment to come in and serve so many hours out of the day.
And I can tell you something else they didn't care about. They didn't care if you had a sick day because there was nothing in there. You didn't have those kinds of protections. You would have where you would have build up to vacation days. Right. Have a sick day. You know, if you didn't show it was a check mark against you no matter what and a danger to your benefits. So.
Honestly, I think slavery would treat you better. Well, I was going to say it sounds like indentured servitude. It does. It's you have no benefits. You have no rights. You have no recourse. But if you want your benefits, you have to show up and do this or else right or else right. And again, if the Trump administration were looking at programs and individuals on a case by case basis.
It might not be so disconcerting, but that's not what they're doing. And there is a story in the Seattle Times that jumped out at me, kind of to go along with this. Here is a dead person on Social Security in Seattle who's got plenty to say. The Social Security, yes, the Social Security Administration contacted this man's wife and said, yeah, Ned, we understand Ned Johnson is dead. And therefore we're going to start clawing back.
his benefits, Ned is still alive. And they had already managed to claw back over $5,000, but now it's taking them weeks and months and hours to try and get this resolved. To me, this is what happens when you, when instead of using a fine tooth comb, you are using a jackhammer. This is what happens.
But again, we know the Trump administration doesn't have time to look at individual cases. Just like the January 6th attackers at the Capitol, they didn't have time. It was too onerous to look over all 1500 cases one by one. So they just all got blanket partons. And now it seems like they're going to take the same approach as far as gutting things and getting people off of these programs. They're just going to go with the same broad brush. It's highly indiscriminate. Yes.
is how I found it. And that covers anything they're doing, not just the Medicaid or Medicare, all of the firings, all of these things are just grabbing this, just taking, scooping a huge bucket of people up and throwing them out. I would just mention my treatments, I have infusions twice a year.
They come to about $120,000 a year in total. Now, I'm on a couple of special programs. I'm on one with the makers of that medication to where the medication for me costs nothing. But if I have to pay, if I don't have the actual visit at the hospital. Dave, you just froze.
Go ahead. Per time that I really don't stand, if I have to pay that, it's done. I'm not getting my treatments anymore. Our medications, you know, you're talking very much the same way. Those are not cheap. And with Wisconsin now talking about work requirements, you'll note they like to be very vague about that. Yes.
It's it's a real fear to me because I am employed I Work my son is employed We can't do full-time employment because that's just how we are but we're not doing nothing and I would often hope that that is at least satisfactory well in it but it must be so insulting to you the attitude of some like it like you're a moocher
You're a moocher and you're not doing your part. And I can't imagine how that makes you feel, Dave. Furious. Furious. And I have had people look at me and scrutinize me with the idea of you look OK to me. So you must be just fine. Yeah, I have a term for that. I always imagine that person holding up their magnifying glass.
going back and forth from your eye. And I call that their jerk glass. Dave Wilde has been our guest. Thank you so very much for sharing your story with us. So important for all of us to hear and understand. Really appreciate your time, Dave. We have news coming up next. Stay with us. You are listening to Matt Nair on air on the Civic Media Radio Network.
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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 the sounder, please.
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 was 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 want to come on and do a tour like your co-worker, we're open Thursday through Sunday every week. 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 at a brewery and that's what I would say. I'd say the pee out alcohol and fart out CO2. Yep, exactly. So we're essentially drinking yeast pee.
That's exactly what I would say 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 percent alcohol by volume. And then what we're going to 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 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 we're going to continue our conversation with Joe Henry, our owner of J Henry and sons. We're going beyond the cheese. Stay with us. You are listening to Matt Nair on air. This is the Civic Media Radio Network. We'll be right back.
Beyond the Cheese. Good morning and welcome back to Matt and Air on Air. Jane Matt and Air, Greg Buck, Calviente on the board, coming to you from our studio here at Radio Park in Racine. You can always join us, call or text at 855-752.
4-842. Leave a comment if you're watching on the live stream on Facebook, YouTube or the platform that Elon continues to actively ruin. 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 like 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 Joe J Henry and sons located in Dane, Wisconsin. They make bourbon baby.
They do. I was just going to say that I did a, 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 listener will take a listener right now at 855-752-4842 first one who gets through you also
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Beyond the Cheese had courtesy of Stephen Aronson, who was our very first guest on Beyond the Cheese. Yeah, yeah. From Wisconsin Network. This year. This year. Yeah, we finally made it happen. We did it. It only took four months. We did it. We're glad. Delighted to have Joe Henry on if you want to check that out or if you would like to go to J. Henry and Sons or find out what they got going on. Greg will have that in the show notes.
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 addition. But right now it's St. Patrick's Day. Oh, sure. 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.
855-752-4842. 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 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. Oh 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 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 premises in Ireland if I'm not mistaken
On Leap, on the 29th of February, that's when a woman could 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. 855-752-4842. It's a great Irish film to help celebrate St. Patrick's Day today. Ollie from the Northwoods 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. Well, it's 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 Hugh Grant. 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-richy movie with Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant, Charlie Hunnam, Jeremy Strong. It's a
British comedy action movie and Hugh Grant is just the slimy slime. But back to Irish films. Yeah, back to Irish movies. 855-752-4842. A good Irish film today to watch.
to help celebrate St. Patrick's Day. 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 this is 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 will double check. I think it's Scotland, actually. We'll double check. Liz 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. Doug Liz 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, huh? If you wanna 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, is that?
Mini Driver. Before Mini Driver was a thing. I love Mini Driver. I want to hang out with her. 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 definitely worth a watch. And to see Mini Driver...
Early in her career. Yes before she became as polished and and she's fabulous in that movie. I think that that I love me 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 they had their problems But she is kick button it because she's excellent
Excellent. I love mini drivers so much. What is your Irish or Irish related film 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. Either HBO Max or Netflix. Okay. Because I have seen that.
Passed by I I loved the banshees of innocent Sharon and I the thing is is I would like take it out a little further Martin McDonough who wrote and directed it I love all of his films and he's an amazing playwright, but like in bruise 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 banshees 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 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 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. Oh, 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 Donald Gleason, or Donald Gleason. 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. OK. 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, when 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. Jane Matinair, Greg Box, Sweet Calvie on the board. Coming to you from our studio here at Radio Park in Racine, you can always join us. Call or text the number is the same 855-752-4842. Leave a comment if you're watching on the live stream.
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 Lukeo Mathers? We can call him Lukeo 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 Jane says at civic media dot US today It is the let me transfer you addition this from upi.com Ben Hooper gets a lot of bylines for these we got it He's searching for those looking for him interesting story 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. Like you're the one I'm you're the one I can point at. I can point at Calvin, but it's not the same. Yeah. Virginia Zoo put the rumors to rest. 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 in 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 Zoo Squatch. 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 10 30 news We have a very busy rest of the week. Yeah kind of a short week for me Why? I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 Lang 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 gonna 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. Stay right here on the vast statewide, countrywide, global on the app, Civic Media Radio Network. We'll see you tomorrow. Happy St. Paddy's Day.
