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At 1035, we are going to have ourselves a discussion in Audio Sorbet about...
what in the new year haven't you gotten to yet?
Not in the resolutions, but so much about the, you know, ah, a couple of days off, I was going to fix the garage or I was going to, you know, do some housework or I was going to, whatever, you know, whatever that may be, what is your to-do list you need to knock out before, let's say January is over.
So you feel like an accomplished adult, but that's going to be a 1035 with audio sorbet.
And then we wrap up the show with this shouldn't be a thing as always.
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So let's move along with our next guest.
Our next guest is the dining critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
She has been their critic since June of 2023.
She explores Milwaukee through food, reviewing new restaurants, revisiting the city's best, sharing restaurant news, and telling the story of the chef's staff and dishes that shape the city's dining scene.
That person, the dining critic is Miss Rachel Bernard.
Rachel, good morning.
How are you today?
Bernard, right?
Uh, Bernhard.
Bernhard.
I get Bernhard a lot.
So no problem.
I'm great.
How are you?
I'm well, uh, very happy.
You could be here with us on a Friday and I, I have a lot of questions just because, um, I think what your job is seems like amazing to me.
Like your job is to, you know, it's not just, you know,
I grew up in a certain time with certain kinds of media and my idea of a dining or restaurant critic was always very stuffy and a suit with a bow tie writing in a notebook and all of the staff going, do they like the food we made?
And it's all hindering on this one thing.
And then of course it was comedy.
So it was hijinks and a cake got in someone's face.
But tell us as the dining critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Rachel, what is your job?
Like what do you do exactly?
So it's a lot of things.
Uh, it's, it of course is checking out new restaurants.
Um, you know, if anything is on my radar, I'm going to go to it up, you know, I leave a little bit of time after they open.
So, you know, I wait a little like four weeks, but.
But yeah, so I'm checking out new restaurants.
I'm going back to old favorites and and you know seeing how they're holding up or if anything's changed I'm sharing about you know restaurant openings and closings Talking to a lot of chefs and just see me seeing like what's changing.
I mean what's coming to our dining scene, too
And I think that's something that I wanted to bring up to and in the show notes today I'm actually gonna put your page on the JS online there so people can see the stories that you worked on in the past and I think that's
the big, you know, maybe the difference between, you know, what I described from a media standpoint from TV and movies to what you do is that it's not just about going around trying a little food and then saying, I liked it or I didn't like it.
You're really exposing the readers and the, and the, and the watchers to the community and the restaurants and the experiences.
And it's not just about what you like, but it's also about
Sometimes there's heartbreak a place is closing sometimes a place is opening, you know, it's you are a journalist and you are bringing that community to the people I think that's very interesting and how you do that What is that what you came to is that was was the job or have you crafted this to like what you wanted to say in your voice?
You know, it's it's interesting because
As I came onto the job, you know, traditional food journalism was really changing.
So, you know, I think there was that perception the way it used to be, you know, with the very stuffy food critic who was anonymous.
You know, as
you can
see, I'm not anonymous anymore as my predecessors were.
But things are changing.
And I think a food journalism now, especially with the rise of, you know, everyone on TikTok and Instagram sharing their opinions,
you
know,
They're
called experts, Rachel.
They're called experts.
And they have, I mean, they do such a good job
at
getting people out to new places.
And they do amazing things with that.
But where my job differs a little bit is, you know, I'm going into the restaurants and getting really detailed about the service, the flavors of the dishes, you know,
who else, like the vibe of the restaurant, like what else is going around?
So there is a little bit of, you know, stepping into the modern era, but still looking through, looking at foods through a critical lens as well.
And, you know, telling the stories through words rather than, you know, video, which I am starting to do that a little bit more too.
Well, and that leads me to another point I wanted to ask about is,
your experience before this job because, you know, when you talk about the food, you do, you know, when we watch these, whether they're TikTok videos, what we watch cooking shows, they're always talking about very specific, very nuanced flavors, combinations, things of that, you know.
And for me personally, I feel like I don't have that.
Like if you, if you put something in front of me and be like, I like this, but I can't be like, I can really taste the cardamom.
I'll never say that in my life.
What is your training, your experience?
Where do you come from with that ability to
to eat food and find the nuances there in that makes you excited to talk about it.
So it's kind of funny like I didn't come from a family that you know we always love to to go out to eat but you know is a typical Midwest family so we just had typical Midwest food um but I really you know
started branching out when I was in college, like most of us do, and trying different kinds of cuisine that I hadn't before.
And just really fell in love with different cultures through food and the different stories and experiences that food brings.
So before this job, I actually worked as an editor at a cooking magazine for about 10 years.
It's called Taste of Home Magazine.
It's a national magazine.
And while I was there, I would go into the test kitchen and judge recipes, offer feedback, really, really taste things through a critical lens and decide whether they were good enough to publish in the magazine.
So with all that experience, I wanted to turn that
to, you know, I love Milwaukee
and the dining
scenes so much here.
So rather than, you know, kind of being behind the scenes, I wanted to lift up Milwaukee in that way and use kind of like, you know, my taste in critical thinking.
to support Milwaukee restaurants.
And that's something, this is a program that goes out all over the state.
And I would ask you then, for folks living outside the area who want to make a trip to Milwaukee and want to put restaurants on that list of things to do and to experience, what are some of the ones that really just pop for you in the last year?
You're like, you want to come to Milwaukee?
You got to try this.
Go here for this.
Is there anything that you're just like, I got to talk about this place?
Yeah.
Of course, that's the biggest question I get all the time.
I
thought I asked an original one.
But I think it's different for different tastes.
Whenever I get asked that question, I always say, well, what are you feeling?
What neighborhoods do you want to spend time in?
What kind of food do you like?
Because we really do have a rich and diverse scene, but you have to get out there and explore.
It's not all going to be downtown.
It's
not all
even going to be in places like Bayview or Walker's Point.
although those are some of the hottest neighborhoods for restaurants now.
But in the last year, there was a new restaurant in Bayview that absolutely blew my mind, and it's called Mothers.
It's in the historic White House building on KK.
I began the year that they had a pop up for about a month in the old, the previous ardent space after ardent had closed last
year.
Oh man, that
was a bummer.
That was
the fanciest meal I've ever had in my life, Rachel.
Fanciest meal.
But they never made it feel pretentious at
the
same time.
They loved
about them.
Okay, really quick.
I want to talk about that one moment.
We went to Arden for my fifth year anniversary and I saved for this because it was an expensive experience and it was worth the money.
Not just because the food was amazing but because the culture and the atmosphere, the owner of the restaurant came and sat down and drank wine with us and talked about the place.
There was no pretension and I think that's something also very
very much missing because in movies and TV shows, we see these psychopath chefs who their lives are led by this one mission.
But there are also these great chefs out there who are like, yeah, just have a drink with me.
And let's talk about how my mom makes the napkins.
So sorry.
I'm sad that Arden is gone, but go on this pop-up that you're talking about.
No, but this is the perfect segue because Vanessa Rose, the owner and chef of Mothers,
was a sous chef at Ardent when and her pop-ups started at Ardent.
On Sundays, she would bring her like Justin Carlisle, who is the owner of Ardent.
He would open up his restaurant on Sundays and give her a platform to share her
food.
It's amazing.
So yeah, yeah, I mean, we have a really supportive chef community in Milwaukee.
They really want to help out other chefs.
So
Anyway, in June, Vanessa was able to open her restaurant called Mothers, and it's fantastic.
I was so excited for it because I had been to her pop-ups, and it's some of the most creative, like, wild food
I've
tried.
And it was my favorite opening of 2025 and everyone needs to
go.
Okay, so when you say creative and wild, when you say that, what is that, what did you see that made you go, oh my goodness, because you eat food for a living, you judge food for a living, that is part of your job resume.
And to me, if someone can make a food critic say, whoa, what is it about that food that made you say that?
Well, it's kind of, the menu is unlike,
anything I've seen in the city.
So it is shareable small plates,
which
I don't think are going away anytime soon.
So we have a lot of those restaurants around Milwaukee, but it's the flavor combinations that you would not think would go together.
Like she's making like a chicken tikka, gnocchi, and putting like black mustard seed over top.
There's these like Madeira mushrooms, these
rusty
mushrooms.
It's a frito.
It's really, it's comforting, but unlike anything you've ever tasted.
Oh
my goodness.
Okay, well, what was the name of the restaurant?
Mothers, you said?
mothers
and if you get if you have the chance to go there too the building is beautiful it's historic it's like over a hundred years old and I I hope the best for them because I know that a lot of restaurants have tried in that location it's a beautiful place very well located and and yeah so maybe I should put that on my list we are speaking to Rachel Bernhard Bernhard
who is the dining critic from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talking about being a dining critic here in Milwaukee and what she looks for in, you know, great experiences.
And when we come back from the break, I kind of want to talk about.
what you're looking at in 2026, a personal taste of yours.
And I have a question I've always wanted to ask a dining critic with regard to just wanting to go out and have a burger.
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Chinese buffet enthusiast, as she said on the live stream, she's never met a Chinese buffet.
She didn't love and obey.
We are talking right now with Rachel Bernhard, who is the dining critic from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talking about the job, what entails, how she interacts and, and uplifts the community through her experience, eating at the restaurants that are in our community.
And we're talking just briefly about, you know, what goes into the job and, and the job is.
telling us about what you're seeing and tell us in 2026 the the are there new trends you see coming whether it's dishes or styles of restaurants how people are experiencing their food what is what is on the what is on the docket for you for the new year
yeah so it's been really exciting in the last couple years to see
um how diverse our food scene is getting and that's going to be the case in 2026 too so you know I think in the last couple years we've seen like a big boom in Korean food um and that's gonna continue I believe one of my favorite discoveries last year was this this place called Soban in Hills Corner Hills Corners and it's basically like the Chipotle of
Korean food, but it's locally owned.
It's owned by, you know, a very sweet family and they're opening a location downtown on Milwaukee Street this winter.
So very excited for that to come downtown too.
I think we're going to be seeing, I mean,
this year we're going to get so many different varieties of Japanese restaurants as well.
So, you know, last year we had the opening of Cute Robot Japanese Kitchen in Walker's Point.
It's so great.
It's like, it's so comforting and fun in there.
Love that restaurant.
And we're going to get more Japanese comfort food and street food in 2026 too.
On Brady Street, the owners of Kawa
the sushi and ramen restaurant are opening like a Japanese comfort restaurant across the street from Gloriosos.
We're going to get our first, the conveyor belt sushi
restaurant.
What?
Yes, Sushi Bay.
Oh boy.
They have one location in Kenosha and they're opening downtown.
Hopefully, so let's move this
winter.
I live in Kenosha.
What are we talking about?
There's a
Really?
Yeah.
I have never been to Sushi Bay in Kenosha, but I'm very excited about them coming to downtown.
And then we're going to get our second omakase sushi restaurant.
Nakama is going to be opening up where the old interval coffee shop was, kind of between downtown and the east side.
So lots of exciting stuff coming up there.
That's, oh, that's exciting.
I love sushi.
I just, I just looked it up.
It's like, Oh yeah, I know exactly where that is.
I never, I passed it so many times.
I didn't really read the name and there's another sushi place in Kenosha.
I want to check out as well.
I can't remember their name off the top of my head and I won't say their name unless I like them, but that's not the point.
No one cares what I like.
The point is for me, Rachel is something I've always wrestled with anybody who has a job, which is to continually.
take part in the thing that we all do, whether it's a dining critic or a movie critic or television or like I, you know, I can go to a place that would get one star, but I really love what is it like for you as someone who has paid and you're an expert and you have a defined palette when you're just like, I just want a greasy cheeseburger.
Are you able to one find that and to enjoy it or is your brain always on to that like thing of I got I'm taking it and I'm I'm
You know contextualizing the flavors and whatnot.
Can you just like can you just give me a sloppy piece of pizza, please?
Great.
I love I am a trash food A cheeseburger is probably my favorite food.
Yeah, I go to Taco Bell I love trash food.
Yeah, just as much as I love fancy food,
too.
So I absolutely love
finding those kind of like junky, greasy
spots as
much as I do to find dining spaces.
Awesome.
And that makes me actually happy for you because I was thinking to myself, that must be, if you couldn't, that would be like just a prison cell.
You're like, I just, it has to have a certain amount of truffle oil on it.
The thing you just brought up, one with the restaurant you brought up, but also in one of your, you know,
top 10 to be on the lookout for is the fact that it isn't just about Milwaukee.
Milwaukee is a great place, but you know, you talked about Hills Corners and you, and, and one of the places you, you mentioned was a deli in West Dallas called Gus's deli.
I'm a deli enthusiast.
And you know, what's it like to bring just in the few minutes we have left is like bringing that knowledge of, of outside the city limits to folks who may think, well, I'm not going to go all the way out to New Berlin, but there might be an amazing sushi place, New Berlin.
Yeah, I think there's, you know, that perception that all the cool hot spots are, you know, in Milwaukee or the neighborhoods I've
brought up
before.
But you have to just go out and explore.
And I'm still doing that too.
I'm still very new in my role and learning, you know, what a lot of the suburbs have to offer.
And they really do.
Another one of my favorite restaurants that opened up last year is called The Inn, and it's in Heartland.
Absolutely fantastic place.
Incredible pizza.
really good handmade pasta, just a beautiful, beautiful space.
Like, so don't count those places out.
Absolutely.
And I would say, you know, like for me, I always take friend recommendations.
You know, and if you try, you don't like it, then you don't go back.
But like those places, especially like in the heartland where they're, they're just, they're just doing a thing.
They're like, yeah, we make the pasta.
Okay.
What do you want to order?
Like it's, there can be pretense around food.
But then there are people out there who just make the food because that's how they do it.
And it's amazing.
And they're like, all right, I got to get back to the kitchen.
Thank you for your thanks.
I appreciate you.
But that's really cool.
So I really appreciate your time, Rachel, today.
I really appreciate you coming on, talking about the job.
And love to have you back to maybe just talk about what you're seeing in the months ahead and get people exposed to what's going on.
And yeah, Rachel Bernhardt is the dining critic at the Milwaukee Journal of Sentinel.
She has been our guest today.
And if you have any food thoughts, folks, send them our way.
We're talking audio sorbet coming up in a little bit.
We don't have just to talk about those things that do list.
If you have restaurants that you want to share around the state, we'd love to hear from it.
Rachel, thank you so much for your time.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Yeah, thanks for having me.
You too.
Excellent.
When I said after we come back from the bottom of the hour news, we'll be discussing what is your things to do list still happening, not being done in 2026.
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Tom Hartman from 11 to 2 we have got afternoons with John and Gordy from 2 to 5 and then Pete Schwabba and night light from 5 to 8 and it from I understand Calvin Calvin by the way is sweet hell be is on the boards They have a guest at 535 today who I heard mixed opinions about do you know anything about the 535 guest on night light this evening?
Yeah, I heard he's really lame.
Ouch.
I Couldn't call off with something funnier.
I'm sorry.
I heard
in all reality.
He is a fantastic, funny, entertaining person.
Oh wow, that person would be me, Greg Bach.
Thank you very much, Calvin.
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bulk of, of audio sorbet today.
Calvin, what do you have planned for the weekend?
Anything exciting or fun or, you know, adventures in Western Wisconsin?
Or I say Western, Western Waukesha County.
No, I not really, I'm going to finish the video game I'm playing.
What video game are you playing right
now?
It's called like a dragon infinite wealth.
It is the eighth game in the Yakuza series.
Wow.
See.
Yeah.
I always think that I know anything about anything, and then you just said all those words.
I've never heard of the series, the game.
There's eight of them.
My goodness.
How much more do you have left to play?
I'll probably finish it tonight.
I'd say I probably have four to six hours left.
Maybe not quite that long.
I don't know.
I'm gonna try to finish it tonight
See when I was thinking you're like, oh, I like 45 minutes an hour hour and a half four to six hours That would be another three to five days for me.
So well, I appreciate you telling us and I wish you good luck on your quest mission plan I don't know what you call them in the game, but
quest.
Yeah, that's probably a description.
There
we go.
All right.
Well, I'm glad you have a fun weekend ahead of you and Want to know what's going on for everyone on the weekend specifically about you know
The things to do list, you know, one of the things that I've personally could have, could struggle with are getting chores done, getting errands run, getting the things that those little everyday things.
And I made a list before the new year.
I had off, we had off last week, we had a nice long break.
And I made a list of things for myself to get accomplished.
And I found that I did not get them done.
And I want to know from you.
Do you have a list like that too?
So for audio survey, we would love to know what is on your New Year's things to do list doesn't have to be resolution.
This is not about we talked about that earlier in the week, not resolutions.
It's not like, Oh, quit smoking or, you know, finally do the thing.
It's, it's, Hey, you got a list of things to do.
Are you going to knock them out this weekend?
What's on there for me?
It's just running.
I mean, Calvin, for me, it's always, I make a huge things to do list and everything takes no more than.
Two to ten minutes to do but then I sit there and I look at it and I and I and I just let that list grow How do you attack those sorts of like do you have a method of it?
You just you get it done you get it done or what do you have a method Calvin?
Unfortunately my method usually is let things accumulate until I'm
overwhelmed by them and have
to take care of them.
And then when you finally take care of them, it's all done in the course of like an hour and you say to yourself, what, why did I let that happen?
Why did I let that go for so long?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah, and that's I mean I've talked about it before and I think it's important we we tell ourselves to Get things done whether it's a big project or a small thing and then we can say I do it later and then before we know it we've got either 20 things to do or in my case last year I had a garage clean project garage cleaning project that I let lay for I would say the better part of a year because every morning I'd wake up going all right.
It's 8 a.m.
Get myself
Awake wake up my mind then get out to the garage and do it all today and then I came to the realizations I can't think like that Instead what I did was I said all right every I will I will do this project But I will only work between two to three hours at a time and I will just work and when I am done I'm done and then I will leave it as it is come back to it a day or two later and everything I wanted to get done with the garage I got done but instead of
pressuring, pushing, and making myself anxious about it for a day long project, I got it done over the course of like 12 hours in over a week and a half.
And it was still wonderful to look at.
And I felt much better because I knew at the top, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna just work for two hours.
And then when about two hours was done, I was feeling a little tired, like, all right, I'm finished.
And I still felt as accomplished.
breaking it out over the course of days that I would have had I done it all in one day plus I would have hurt I hurt far less I don't know about you Cal but like for some reason just any sort of physical activity nowadays I wake up the next morning going I just lifted a paint can why does my shoulder hurt but
That's the way I'm learning how to do it is finding how I break down tasks and move forward.
How do you do that?
What's on your things to do list?
How do you attack a list of errands or chores or projects?
Cindy from Appleton is back on the show.
Cindy from Appleton.
Hello again, my friend.
What say you about your things to do?
Well, I'll just say to you, Greg, maybe your list is too long.
Maybe you should just put like two items on it.
and it's not so overwhelming so anxiety ridden
and
then you get those two done then you start another two lists and you know what I mean that way it doesn't overwhelm you and I'm sort of that same way I can't do a big list because then I just sit there and look at it and go where do I start yep I just do a couple and then I get those done and then I move on from there Sydney
I
have a list a mile long
I figure if I get one thing done a day, that's better than nothing.
That's my motto.
One thing a day is better than nothing.
I've got a list.
Yeah.
I totally, I don't disagree with you at all, Cindy.
And what I try to do, cause right now my things to do list is about seven things and they're all involving leaving the house.
So I get in my car.
Today I'm going to do this when I'm done here.
I'm going to get in my car and I'm going to run some errands, get things done that require me to be out of the house.
And then I'm going to come back here to the studio at Radio Park to do nightlight with Pete Schwabba at 532 and in.
But I don't disagree with you, Cindy.
I feel like if a long list to do is something that just also gives you that place of, oh boy, just do two things.
What are the two most important things?
Or here's another point.
What are the two things that you can get done the quickest, but then feel that accomplishment, then you can move on to the next thing.
Cindy, thank you.
That's a very good piece of advice.
All right, Cindy, thank you so much for calling.
Appreciate your time.
I always love hearing from you.
And yeah, I mean, you have to find your path.
to getting things done and you can't let anyone else tell you how to do things.
I think that's also very important.
Sue from Franklin listening on WAUK, she says, not really a list, but trying to declutter, doing in small amounts, did one shelf at a time of wine slash drink glasses, done two out of three and have donated about 20 glasses and still have too many.
I'm going to do the third shelf later.
This morning I cleaned it, I cleaned under my sink and tossed slash donated a lot.
Why do we keep so much stuff?
That, Sue, is a conversation that we, I think we could have every week.
I think, you know, I've had this conversation with Jane.
I've had this conversation with my mom, with my wife.
I've had this conversation with friends.
I think there's, I think there's two sides of that story.
One side is you have this sense of, well, you never know.
We could use it.
You never know.
It could come in handy.
You never know.
I might need this down the road.
And then you realize you've moved this item or thing two, three, and four times.
I've never used it once.
And you say, let's just throw it out.
Because one, sometimes it's things that have no more efficacy.
They've rotted or they've spoiled or they just are not good anymore.
But also it's just
You don't need to move everything all the time.
If you haven't used it in like a year or two years, you probably won't use it again unless it's like a tool or something.
So yeah, absolutely Sue.
It's important to do that thing of go through, clear the decks.
And I think too, for me, like with the garage, I did it last year.
So now every few weeks or once a month or every, you know, maybe once a quarter, I go through and I clean again.
So that way I'm not building this up over years and I keep myself sane.
And I think, you know,
Again, it's about attacking these projects these things that do list with a sense of reality But then when you've done them give yourself the wind celebrate it a little bit do whatever you need to do But just feel good about the fact that you may have only gotten two things done, but you got them done Terry listening on WAUK says life can be overwhelming I like your strategy how to eat an elephant one bite at a time I Have never heard that before but I will take that
I will take that comparison and run with it, but that's absolutely true Find that way one bite one step at a time and and I and I can't stress enough Celebrate those tiny wins.
Yeah, you may have I'm trying to think of a very small thing to have done change a light bulb How many times have you seen a light bulb in your house?
That's out The house isn't dark.
We're not in need.
It doesn't matter.
I'll do it later.
I'll do it and then all of a sudden it's a month Change the light bulb
and then tell yourself I did that and you feel good about it and move on to the next thing but you should always you know I'm not telling you to ask for a tick or tape parade or like put it on social media or call someone and say hey this is the I changed a light bulb I'm amazing but you should still always feel good about accomplishing something when in this world of
mile-long to-do lists or people on social media who seem to be working from from dusk till dawn or vice versa and they're working all the time That's not it might be your style.
Don't worry about them.
Worry about yourself and get it done the way you see fit Brett listening in brown deer on w a UK.
He says now I'm the opposite I like to get things done then I hit them all at once, but I'm not
He says, I'm not normal.
It's not a matter of normal, Brett.
And I know you're smiling and laughing while I'm saying this, but it's how you get things done.
Can you wake up at 6 a.m.
and work tirelessly on a weekend, like a Saturday or a Sunday, and then by 8 p.m., you have accomplished everything and get done and you kick back and you enjoy whatever you want to enjoy?
That's great.
But I think that...
What we have to tell people is it's okay that you're not like that, or it's okay that you only did two things, or you only did a project for a couple hours, and you still get to kick back and enjoy your day.
You've, I believe you've earned it.
So I believe that that's what you need to do to find your center, to find your peace when you're looking to attack those things to do list.
Liz in Salkville listening on WA UK says, having updates done to our interior of our house and my personal fave, booking a trip to the Mediterranean.
There you go.
Boom.
I mean, that's the ultimate trade if you ask me.
I mean, if you need someone to come with you Liz to help like carry your bags or grab your drinks, I'm always available, but we'll talk about that another time.
But yeah, absolutely.
Tell yourself, like I'm gonna do these two, three things.
Then I'm gonna have some ice cream or then I'm gonna watch a show or then I'm going to, I'm going to buy a little something for myself if I can afford and it's feasible.
Do those things, but I think that's as important as that.
Getting those things done is about also saying,
I did this and feeling good.
And there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever.
Nothing wrong with feeling good for what you've accomplished.
But I appreciate everyone for texting in their thoughts, their ideas.
Cindy from Appleton, your strategy on how to get things done.
Eating elephants one bite at a time.
Absolutely.
Totally agree with you, Terry.
We appreciate you always listening and being a part of this.
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But he will be here.
He has announced he is running.
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Today it is the what the flock edition.
This coming from Germany in DW.com.
And I looked it up.
It's Deuschwell.
That's what DW stands for.
Let's see here.
Kieran Burke has the byline and it goes bargain hunters 50 sheep visit German supermarket.
Holy God.
There is a picture.
Wow.
That is intimidating.
Around 50 sheep wandered into a penny supermarket in the small Bavarian town of Bergsden in southern Germany.
The sheep lingered around the shelves and check out area for about 20 minutes after they had strayed from their flock before entering the store on Monday.
It's unclear how the sheep broke loose.
My guess is that someone wasn't looking and they were looking at their phone and the sheep were like let's make a break for it.
or Calvin, let's make a bar rig for it.
You're welcome.
That's a pun.
The chief lingered.
Thank you.
The discount retailer has managed to turn the incident into something of a gorilla marketing campaign, receiving a flood of responses on its Instagram page.
That's awesome.
It's a, it's, it's, it's in German.
I can't read German.
But yeah, it's, I love that.
That's absolutely, that's, that's the way you do it.
That's the way you absolutely do it.
Speaking to.
Augsburger, it's a German newspaper.
Let's go that.
Jürgen Kipps said he initially thought it was being pranked.
I've never experienced anything like this before.
I don't think many people have.
I would say many people who own German supermarkets probably haven't been through this either.
So you might be one of the first.
I thought we were on candid camera.
If you've never heard of that folks, ask your MIMAW or PPAW.
During their short visit, the flock managed to cause a fair bit of mess if they had to run to the right towards...
If they had to run to the right towards the fruit and vegetables, God forbid you would have to be able to get them out.
Kips goes on to say, getting the sheep to leave the supermarket premises took some doing and they, they tried pushing them out, but basically they had to just bang loudly on the cash register.
And the animals got startled and exited through the sliding class door by the parking lot.
But here's the problem.
The sheep went in through or out through the indoor.
Very disrespectful from the sheep, I must say.
Very disrespectful.
Must be kid sheep.
Must be very youthful sheep, I must say.
But yeah, that is all well and good.
And the flocks, you know, didn't cause much damage and weren't there for long.
And luckily they made a, they made use of it.
I would actually go on this.
Penny Deutschland is the Instagram.
Handle, they have a hundred, wow, 125,000 followers.
That's pretty cool.
But they've made good of it.
They've made fun of it.
They've had a good time.
Hopefully they're selling more gift cards and energy drinks than ever.
And that brings us to the end of another edition of This Shouldn't Be a Thing.
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As I said before, Monday's show is going to be absolutely amazing.
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Parents doctors and the state of Wisconsin are reacting to those guidelines how we are Staying safe and staying healthy here in 2026.
That's a great conversation.
We're gonna be having be a part of that as well again Thank you so much for your time your energy and your thoughts in our conversations here on this show
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