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Celebrating Wisconsin Wins From Baseball To Beer (Hour 1)
The Todd Allbaugh Show · Wed Jun 4, 2025
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Good afternoon, everybody.
I'm Todd Albaugh, along with our outstanding producer, Mr. Aaron Zommers, on the board.
It is six past the hour of two o'clock on this Wednesday, June 4th, 2025.
It is a great day to be Wisconsinite, and it is... Pump Day!
There you go.
Made it to the middle of the week.
The camel is along.
That is fantastic.
Zommers, how are you?
today.
Not purple haze, yeah.
The wildfires just won't quit up there in Canada.
And so the smoke's coming down, that makes the haze.
Weather advisories for clean air, water.
Air quality advisories, I'll get it right yet, are in effect for many parts of the state.
And so if you're someone who suffers from respiratory type of issues, either stay in or maybe wear a mask, but I think it's supposed to clear out sometime tomorrow.
Well, you know what they say, Todd?
What do they say?
Smoke them if you got them.
Well, they're doing that in Canada, unfortunately.
It's not good at all up there in Canada.
Big show today.
Pat Crite-Low is gonna be along in just a second.
He is in the green room right now getting his television makeup on.
But he doesn't need it.
That's how good looking Pat Crite-Low is.
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Also, we have a What's Worst for You in hour two.
That'll be fun.
What's worse, wide awake in the middle of the night, or oversleeping.
That's a timely question indeed for our next guest in just one second here.
Actually, both of them, right?
Also, Trig V. Olson, who normally comes in at this point in the show, is going to be here coming up in hour number two, because he has a meeting, so he'll be along.
Senior advisor at the Lincoln Project.
former republican like myself is going to be here talking to politics packer news in this pride month i know our our regular listener joe brought this up earlier have a cut from vince labarty one of the early people of the state of wisconsin standing up for people on the packers team and saying look i'm not going to tolerate this anybody who uh you know wants to pick on someone
for who they love basically.
So we'll hear it from always great to hear Vince Lombardi's own words in that iconic voice.
So that's coming up in hour two as well, but.
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Parker Olson Parker.
How are you?
I know you are we're gonna get to that in a minute Okay, but I know you do this on Pat's show in the morning now as well with it with the tickets.
Oh, yeah Have you been we of course 90s been your first week?
We got to get you down to Amfam Field to the fantastic club level brewer seats.
Well, we'll get you down there.
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All right, let's bring on the aforementioned host of the Pat Crite-Low show.
No, it's the morning of Pat Crite-Low live from his beautiful Lake Wistoda Studios, where he was so kind as to host us last week up there.
He is absolutely gorgeous, as is the host himself, Mr. Pat Crite-Low.
How are you?
I'm great.
I'm great that the sun is out.
The haze, the smoke is less than it was earlier in the day.
It doesn't, it doesn't smell quite so much like Canada.
And so, and so we're getting back to summer on Lake Wissota.
I like that.
Me too.
Absolutely.
Well, we brought on your brand new producer here because timely indeed, of course, I am a alum of UW-Platteville.
And when I was there, our, our, our, our, our, our arch enemy in sports was UW Whitewater.
And here now your wonderful new producer Parker is a recent alum.
He has his UW Whitewater Warhawk shirt on.
Yeah.
Zomers.
There's big.
Do you try to
make this out to be like Reagan and Gorbachev here all of a sudden?
Is that what this is?
No, because
this is what they're playing down in Whitewater right now.
Look at this.
Parker's congratulating himself
now.
All
Division III.
Holy
This is big.
The national championship for Division III baseball and the Warhawks have done
And I would
Really?
they scored late.
Yeah.
This is an incredible
And in white water, I think Jimmy Kuskar, sports director said this before, I think there was one other season, correct me if I'm wrong, where white water was national championships in football, men's basketball and baseball.
Yeah.
Incredible.
Only ones have done that.
Yeah.
And it's just, there's such a legacy.
They call it powered by tradition is the motto there for athletics.
And they have really stuck to that.
And they just keep on going with it.
John Voedelich is the head coach there at UW Whitewater Baseball.
And I think he's been there for maybe 20 years, and he's over 800 wins now in his career.
He's just an incredible coach, which is very common for a lot of these teams in Whitewater.
Who
is it that you beat again?
Who did you
Out of where?
Pennsylvania,
Pennsylvania?
OK.
I believe.
I'm showing my age.
All I can picture is Edgar G. Robinson in the 10 Commandments, you know, as the Pharaoh going, where's your Messiah now?
Clearly at the losing end of that baseball game, I don't, in no way, minimizing this wonderful achievement.
Think about this, white water did something that, uh, that Satan couldn't do in 40 days and 40 nights.
It
wasn't going to go that far, but Todd Alba always will.
Absolutely.
I
understand the feeling of pride.
Todd and others had to put up with me happy about Western Michigan winning the division one men's hockey title, even though my connection is through a son-in-law who works for the team.
So it's about as flimsy as Parker's is, but in both cases, we have a lot of pride.
in these schools when they get all the way and become best in the nation.
So congratulations, Parker.
It's all on you.
You did it.
you're a big sports guy, and you were editor of the paper there,
Yeah, I was the editor of the paper this last year, the year before I was a managing editor, and I spent two years as a sports editor leading up to that.
So you probably covered some of these games.
Yeah, no, for sure.
I had a Beck and Whitewater at 917.
The Edge is our student radio station.
I created a show called Warhawk Talk.
It was all just Warhawk sports with all the student media guys covering sports.
It was a lot of fun.
Look at that, Pat.
What a deal.
I had I was not told any of this when he came on board as my producer.
I was told he was basically going to push some buttons and pick up my dry cleaning now and then.
And
this staffer pat.
All of this talent going on.
is this.
This really is like, you know, sugar free Red Bull over there in that cup.
But Pat, you have your buddy come on former athletic director at.
EW Eau Claire and these division three Dan Schumacher.
Thank you.
These division three teams, they mean so much to our communities all
over
Wisconsin.
Oh, it's huge for all the titles that Dan helped provide for UW Eau Claire over all those years and especially for division three schools, which again, we are washing them here in Wisconsin.
And that's a good thing.
It means in all the various communities, you get these hometown teams.
And when they excel like this, I mean, you just you can't help but puff up a little bit with with pride because no matter what division three team does it, if it happens here, like a wise man once told me.
It's a great day to be a Wisconsinite.
It is absolutely is and I think this does a lot for recruitment.
I mean they're good.
They're they're on Well, what's it Parker?
They do they have some sort of form of TV coverage with this and it's a little bit of radio But but you get you get the school is promoted on this and like Pat says it just gives you a lot of school pride and boosts the spirits of the university
because it was
in the
I was at Platfield when Bo Ryan was the head coach there before he went to Milwaukee for a couple of seasons, then ultimately to EW Madison.
And I really feel Pat that Bo Ryan did more for recruitment at Platfield, putting on the map than almost anything else.
Oh, absolutely.
And I always love when UW Madison, you know, hires from, you know, Green Bay or some of the other schools as well.
You keep it in the state.
And it just seems like the natural way to build loyalty in a couple of different Wisconsin communities.
I just think it's a great thing overall.
I'm really happy for Parker and everybody
at
Whitewater.
Absolutely.
That's about Parker.
Who is the coach that was Leopold, right?
Lance Leopold.
Leopold, yeah.
Maybe, maybe Wisconsin.
should have hired him instead of Luke Vickle.
Well, he's at Kansas now, so he's
Yeah, he's doing well.
Again, congrats, Parker.
We appreciate you, and thanks for coming on.
It was the end of your day, and he'll be back with Pat in the morning at 6 a.m.
Pat.
All righty.
Stay tuned, Pat.
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Across Lake Wissota.
Is that steam rising off of the water?
No, it's just Pat Krightlow typing furiously every morning to bring you the freshest and best news all across the state.
Six until nine.
Mornings of Pat Krightlow.
Make sure you tune in.
Great program.
I was honored to be on today.
It was fun.
You were?
Oh yeah, you were.
Yes.
Pat's like, we got 10 more minutes to fill.
Bring all of on.
He'll be good for a couple
of you.
You impressed me.
You impressed me a lot with your coffee knowledge.
I mean, I knew you had coffee experience, but you were, as I said this morning, you're my new coffee sherpa.
Thank you.
You're going
to be leading me, guiding me to the proper beans, not the one with a black and a sheen.
No, the shiny, dark.
black color that everybody markets as, you know, stronger or whatever, it's all marketing.
You want a matte, a brown matte finish, and that's higher quality coffee.
But no, I learned for the best Alejandro Mendez, one of the World Breast of Champions, the first one from a coffee producing country from El Salvador in 2011.
And also Danny Mendez, no relation.
And they were some of the best of the best.
And so I bet on several coffee farms and feel honored.
So I got my info from people I had
of a lot smarter than me.
You are our Juan Valdez.
Yes, yes, that's exactly.
I have the one.
You and
your burrow coming down the mountainside with your beans, the right beans for you and me.
I love it.
I'm known as the Juan Valdez of civic media because many people view me as a donkey's ass.
So that's why.
Now you're
being redundant.
All right, Patrick, some serious news coming out of Washington in the last hour or so.
You are a former Wisconsin Democratic state legislator.
I would like your take on this.
Kareem Jean-Pierre, according to CNN, who served as White House Press Secretary under former President Joe Biden, has switched her party affiliation to independent, according to a publishing company's description of her forthcoming book.
Jean Paris, who has worked in Democratic politics for decades, is set to release a new book that she will discuss Biden's decision about out of the 2024 election and encourage voters to look beyond the two-party political system.
Before I say anything, what's your take on
this?
Well, I hadn't heard about it until a few minutes ago, so I've just been reading a little bit about the announcement of the book.
her decision to become an independent instead of a Democrat.
But she also hints at a betrayal by the Democratic Party about the decision by the president to
step out of the race for reelection.
So it may it may be less with her frustration.
People are saying, well, maybe she's not a Democrat.
It is, as you know, very possible to be a Democrat and not a fan of the Democratic Party said somebody who ran for Congress once and will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever have a kind thing to say about the D triple C. So yes, I understand how where she may be coming from on this.
But having said that,
When you work at the White House and then you know within months you're turning around and announcing a book deal You have the right to do that But I understand that it will come with deservedly savage attacks from those who see you as somebody who May have just been faking it
all along.
And yes, one can be loyal to a fault.
We're certainly finding that with the Trump administration right now.
But it just puts a bad taste in people's mouths when somebody you worked with very closely in the trenches says, I'm writing a tell all and I'm teasing you that I'm not going to hold back.
It really takes away from whatever a spree decor once existed.
Yeah.
And I feel like this is all breaking.
And so Bill Bacosian, former Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Commerce here at Wisconsin, and longtime political operative in Wisconsin.
And he tweets out that these are our direct lines in the book.
I'll take Bill at his word.
I haven't obviously sussed this out myself.
But say that Jean-Pierre claims that she, quote, never saw or spoke to Biden, unquote, quote,
I was given talking points to pair it each day, unquote.
And then another chapter, chapter three, how we got the media to defend and protect our secret, unquote.
I just, I don't know, Pat, it just, if this turns out to be accurate, it just rubs me the wrong way.
It does.
And I will also admit to being.
concerned about, you know, again, what all was happening in the Biden White House, you know, you've got this Jake Tapper tell all book that is really troubling to some people.
And I frankly, I'm, I don't know how else to put this, I'm looking forward here.
Yes, that there wasn't concern.
But again, we're talking about a president and a presidency that was more consequential, consequential.
than pretty much anything else in our lifetimes.
You have to go back to FDR to find as much good that was done by, oh my gosh, an imperfect person and an imperfect administration.
You know, I guess I can't, I can't claim to be shocked that not everything went perfectly in an administration that did so well compared to an administration where they do have unwavering loyalty and are
are doing things that are absolutely, and I'm using no hyperbole here, destroying the fabric of our country.
So I guess I'm focused.
I'm frying some bigger fish, if you will.
Yeah, I agree.
We haven't talked about it on this show very much at all, because I'm like, you know, I said, I want to move forward.
And most of the people, I mean, Biden certainly isn't going to run for anything ever again.
And most of the people in his inner circle are probably never going to be involved in major national politics ever again as well.
So I'm more interested in moving forward.
But but there's Jean Paris book.
I don't know.
It's just.
I guess I'm pointing the finger back at myself, and when I left my party in 2011 over Act 10 and voter rights issues, you know, I didn't go to the publisher or try to cash out.
You know, I ended up being a lead witness in a federal lawsuit against Scott Walker.
So, I mean, you know.
But look at you now.
You got all this coffee knowledge.
You got a mid-afternoon radio show.
You're one of the most influential voices in Wisconsin media at this point.
And later, you can tell us which is better, as Jeff puts on Facebook.
Maxwell House Folgers are brim decaffeinated.
You can handle these weighty topics because you are who you are.
The
weighty topics, indeed.
Yeah, you know, none of those, Jeff.
Buy yourself some Wonder State coffee.
That's what you need to do.
You don't need coffee.
All you need is packed Kraitlo.
It's morning to pack Kraitlo six until nine.
Thank you, my friend.
I appreciate it.
You bet ya, see ya.
All right, talk to you later, Pat.
Stay tuned.
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Zommer's right on top of it, reminding me in my haze.
purple fog and sinus medication.
I feel like, I feel like though today I'm slightly better as others.
quite so
It's not
And someone has a cool frequently deal with me who constantly has brain fog.
I get it.
I get it.
No, I feel, I'm thinking that maybe this rain and the winds kind of helped.
Get some of this pollen out of the air probably and the smoke.
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Congratulations again to UW Whitewater baseball team.
for capturing the national championship just about an hour or so ago.
We'll give you the bloody word, Robert.
We give it to you.
We're trying to be helpful.
People don't like it when I build it up, but I think it's a I think it's kind of funny and be I just like I like to make sure we walk people through right so they know how to do it exactly so anyway Before the break we were talking about this speaking of breaking news Kareem Jean Paris former Biden administration press secretary is Announcing she's leaving or has left the Democratic Party now guess what she's Hawking a new book
Already.
I mean, the guy hasn't been out of office for months and she's already got a book about it.
And I don't know.
It rubs me the wrong way.
As Pat said, we haven't spent a lot of time on the Jake Tapper book on Biden.
I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this, but this to me is in some ways, I guess I'll use the word worse.
Tapper is a media guy and I don't know to have someone from the inner circle already.
writing a book, being critical of the place that you was getting your paycheck
book
off.
if you think things are really that bad when you're in the moment, step away then.
You know, I left the Republican Party in 2011 and I'm not saying necessarily things the Biden administration were as egregious as what I witnessed in the state Republican Party.
But when I saw things that didn't add up, that were counter to what I believed in terms of voting rights, I stepped away then.
And I stopped going.
I kept working for my boss, doing things like constituent relations in the district and that sort of thing.
But I stopped going to Republican Party meetings and I just said,
I'm not going to do that anymore.
So I don't know.
It seems to be a little odd.
Eight five five seven five two four eight four two.
Mark in Prairie du Sac.
Mark Happy Wednesday to you.
You know, Joe Biden is an old guy, an old guy.
And yes, he probably did have a little bit of, you know, hesitation in his speech and all that, that especially since he's been a stutterer his entire life.
But let's let's look at Ron Johnson, who is embarrassed Wisconsin once again.
If I talk about, well, we don't need vaccines, because we've got hygiene and we've got sanitation now.
And that's all we need is to combat measles.
How the hell does you combat an airborne virus by sanitation and hygiene?
It just doesn't go like that.
I mean, that's just one example.
I mean, that this anti-vaccine rhetoric that part of the right has adopted is just beyond me.
You know, I'm 67 years old now, but I can remember getting at school, getting bussed into Superior from rural Douglas County bussed into Superior to get shot so we didn't get there at the school.
I mean, it was just, I mean, they went around and they eradicated smallpox, they eradicated polio.
They brought measles to its heels, I mean, by the MMR vaccine.
And for this, for this idiot to be saying this kind of stuff, I mean,
What kind of competence does the staff have to say that, actually caution them at, maybe Senator, you shouldn't be saying this kind of thing.
I mean, his staff should be holding the leash around that man's, that man's muzzle, keep his mouth shut because he says this stuff and it's just idiotic and it's going to kill people.
Appreciate the call, Mark.
Thank you very much.
855-752-4842.
855-752-4842, if you want to join us off of channel 3000.com, the Madison's TBS affiliate.
This is news you can use here in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Division of Motor Vehicles issued a warning yesterday about a fresh wave of fishing scams.
Now, we're not talking about somebody says, well, I caught the big one and there's scam in you.
We're not talking about that kind of fishing.
It's fishing with a PH, P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G as in on your predominantly your cell phone.
Wisconsin DOT says the scammers are sending texts claiming to be from the DMV in an attempt to get you to click on fraudulent links to turn over personal information.
The texts warn of a quote-unquote final notice or a quote-unquote unpaid traffic violation.
To me, Zombers, this is just how low can you go.
Yeah, and scams like this have been around since forever and they were gonna keep being around Ultimately if you get email if you get mail if you get a text or a phone call asking for personal information And saying you're in some kind of dire consequence the best thing to do is to well if it's an email or a text or anything just delete it
and
that allegedly you have issues with directly via their official number.
Like if it's a credit card thing, call the number on the back of your card.
And if there's no real issue, then you're good.
And if there is, you can address it and you know you're talking to the right people.
I think the main thing here is a legitimate government agency.
I was going to say never.
I'll say next to never is ever going to reach out in a text on your phone.
They're never going to ask you to pay something.
via the phone.
This is why, one of the reasons that I'm still a big believer in snail mail, because state agencies most often are going to send you a letter, a paper letter in the mail with their return address, as Amherst said within the letter, for more information or with questions call, and they'll give you a number to call into whatever state agency is trying to get a hold of you.
whether it's a violation of a DMV, whether it's a tax issue with Wisconsin Department of Revenue, so on and so forth, they're going to say, call us.
They're not going to reach
I really think the best, like as you said earlier, the best thing on these things that come to our phones, just delete them.
or block the number.
Back to this story at Channel 3000 that says a similar wave of scams impacted Wisconsin in late March to early April.
DMV Bureau of Driver Services Director Tina Brady said agencies in other states, including Illinois, Florida and New York reported uptick in the scam texts last week.
She says, quote, given the number of calls we're getting from DMV customers, it's likely Wisconsin is the next target.
We want to protect our residents so we are quickly issuing this alert to ensure fewer victims fall for these scams."
The DMV urged using caution and being suspicious of texts demanding money.
Don't share personal information with someone who sent an unsolicited text or email.
Do not respond or engage with links in unsolicited texts or emails.
and you can subscribe to the Wisconsin DMV's official e-notify system for account activity alerts and renewal reminders.
If you fall for a victim to a scam, consider filing a police report or report the scam to the Federal Trade Commission and IC3, which I have no idea what IC3 is, but that's what the story says.
And look, I get it.
Sometimes they look really official.
and they'll badger you.
And then you think, oh my gosh, I don't want to get a big fine.
I don't want to have my driver's license pulled.
And it's very, very confusing for a lot of us.
And you don't have to be a quote unquote old person to get confused.
There was a Susan Simon channel 3000 and one of the anchors channel three years ago.
She got, I'm not sure this type of thing, but she got scammed with, I think it was a utility thing.
And she was very public about it.
I think Adam Schreger was the reporter at the time at Channel 3 and an interview, Susan said interview me.
I want to, it's kind of embarrassing, but I want people to know this so they don't get scammed.
Chris listening in Blue River on WRCE says, good afternoon Todd, is there any chance?
the scammers have received our information from the DMV.
Don't they sell our personal information?
Great question, Chris.
Last I knew, don't quote me, but last I knew, you can, we as Wisconsinites can opt in or out on, I think it was our taxes or so, or what do you get?
Your driver's license renewed, there's in the fine print you can put either, you know, don't sell my information or sell it.
So yes, A, I think some not,
All but some of our information is is public knowledge and and people could get that but be Once again, I think there's just I don't have a science to back this up But it seems like ever since Elon Musk's take a musk came to town and his department of doggy It's already been proven that a lot of the are you know name address phone number this sort of thing has been sold on the dark web
So there's a lot of suspicion.
Just use your common sense.
Use your gut if it doesn't feel right.
Do not engage.
Engage with us.
Come on back.
We're going to start talking about this brand new marathon involving quick trip and beer.
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Mr. Trigvie Olson normally an hour one with Patrick, but Trigvie's a busy man He's gonna carve out some time in our two gonna join us for a what's worse addition today Getting up in the morning or oversleeping what's worse wide awake in the middle of the night or Oversleeping we'll discuss that now or two Trigvie will talk to us about some happenings out when I shouldn't say he's coming to us from DC He has a new sub stack.
We're gonna talk about that and
Discussing some really important issues that Pat highlighted this morning on his show.
So we'll talk to you Trig V about that Packers I'm sure will ultimately come up and and much much more Maybe We'll continue on with this story of Trig V as well.
He's gonna love this by the way This is fantastic and many thanks to our very old Luke Mathers for finding this and putting it on my desk this morning.
I love every part
About this next story comes to us from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the great reporter J R Radcliffe says Wisconsin themed marathons featuring culvers quick trip and beer Now right there you got me.
I mean, there's there's nothing in that headline.
I don't like so you you have me.
Hello Radcliffe writes quote Clayton Youngberg's hip could fail him at any moment
In 2018, a brain stem injury robbed him of walking at all.
And up until a month ago, Youngberg had almost no footprint on social media.
Naturally, that means he's running a marathon a week, eating Culver's cheese curds along the way, and posting his voyages on TikTok and acquiring almost instant viral fame.
How about that?
I mean, this is a great story of, hey, if something happens to you, you can sit around and feel the story for yourself, or you can say, hey, how can I make Hay of the situation?
He really does.
Back to the story in the walking journal, Sentinel says the Akonimoak resident has turned his quest for absurdist feats of exercise into a charming online presence, running more than 30 miles.
in a roundabout near his home, followed by a Culver's Marathon in which he stopped for cheese curds and ice cream at local branches, and a quick trip marathon where he rehydrated only on items found inside various locations along the route.
How about that?
And one particularly arduous adventure fueled by brats and non-alcoholic beer.
He says there's more to come.
Now, that's fantastic.
I mean, just how creative is that?
You do something that's a little out there and you get attention and you build your social media following.
join us on the next tour.
I think he should be on the show.
I mean...
I mean, it's it's almost like, you know, you might think of like a tournament of quick trips or something like that.
Something just off the wall.
really
show.
It really fits the vibe of the show.
He says, quote, I've just been doing this for so long off camera.
These sorts of ridiculous things.
These absurdist feats of exercise.
I've been casually running or exercising for 10 years, believe it or not.
I'm not the very first to do.
The roundabout run, I came across a seven year old Reddit post.
Reddit is another social media platform for those that might not know.
And I was hysterical for about three minutes after I read it.
I knew I had to do it.
I almost left the phone at home, honestly.
But I thought this was a good one to share, he says.
Though he said he'd been essentially a ghost, quote unquote, on social media up to that point, he decided to try to capture the seven
177 loops in his roundabout run on April 28th, at which point he created the FF, so I guess three Fs, FFFWisco, FFFWisco, that's WISCO, TikTok Channel and other social media platforms.
So you wanna see this guy, if you're on TikTok, go to FFFWisco.
How about that?
So apparently if you do 777 loops in a roundabout, that is equal to a marathon.
reasons.
That being one of
That was funny.
Back to the story, he says, once a content creator for Android Magazine, he had past experiences in the practice, plus a solid knowledge of cell phone recording functions.
He says, quote, my gears were turning for fitness content.
I just didn't want to be one of a million people posting themselves as experts.
This is what you should do.
These are five things you should do.
I needed an angle, he said.
And this was right up my alley.
He says he didn't do it haphazardly.
He studied the rhythms of tic-tac to figure out the best way to edit his story.
That's genius He didn't have a presence on Facebook or Instagram, but he knew the videos would work there as well He admits he had a hunch the roundabout would get attention He generated buzz thanks to the passers-by notice to him There he goes numbers as he went out and went on it one day, but it wasn't just a local phenomenon
The roundabout video, get this, has had well over 300,000 views on TikTok alone, getting attention in places like Minnesota and Illinois, in addition to Wisconsin.
How about that?
I love, as I said, I love every part about this story.
It's a very smart guy, doing a very cool thing.
And the fact, I mean,
Clearly, he's had a little bit of practice and in camera stuff and socials before, but we'll come back.
We'll bring this up with Trigby.
See, I think he's going to like this story.
I think so, too.
Yeah.
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