Real Milwaukee | October 15, 2026

And try and score those World Series tickets. Well, hey, it looks like a mistake, but it might just land one man a job. An image of a half-printed resume has gone viral on Reddit, with people divided over whether it was a mistake or a genius bit of marketing. So the top part, it seems pretty standard. There's a partial headshot with the guy's career objective to be part of a company where he can enhance his skills and gain more knowledge but the resume abruptly ends about halfway down no work experience or education instead there's the message hire me to unlock my full potential no you don't you don't i feel like somebody would be like i'm interested enough it's intriguing yeah i would think it's a joke like no that's fair I wonder what the job. Well, yeah, it could be both. It could be both to unlock my potential. It's like, come on. You got to hope the employer has a really good sense of humor. You know, more you need me. I don't. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah. Let me see what your skill set is for sure. Before we take you to reach out. It's interesting because in our industry, I'm going back twenty five. Gosh, it's going to be 30 years. I've been in broadcast this November. Wow. Crazy. So I'm going back to when I was in college and in the late 90s, when we were maybe applying for a job on air in radio, there were some ways to get the attention of a program director. And one way was to send them food, to send pizza. So you would send your demo, your reel at that time, which would be on probably cassette because a lot of people didn't put it on a CD. So they could listen to you while they were eating a fresh, warm pizza. Pretty genius, right? yeah there would be no paper resume because at that point they just want to hear your voice so i i guess a little creativity is nice but just cutting it off right at the head yes you know did that seem scream joke but i'm also intrigued like what who is this i don't know maybe give me like a clip of something or i feel like there's other ways than like eliminating yeah you know your pertinent info i don't know what if he had like if it was digital and a way to unlock the potential if there was a click a button to go to the next thing. Show me your skills. Show me your skills, like, literally, digitally. Yes. You know, yeah. That's fair. That's interesting. Now we're thinking for him. We've got to stop doing that. I've never done anything that creative to get a job. No. Have you done something creative? Well, not even creative. Let me take that back. I've done nothing creative other than what I've, like, typically have done. All you do. I mean, everything you do is creative, though. Yes, but, like, in terms of, like, trying to get noticed, because I feel like that you can get noticed for the wrong reason. It's like, let's just side. Yeah, we're talking about him. You know, exactly. Yeah. And you're like, is he a smart aleck, you know? Yeah. I don't know. Is he going to be the guy that's always, you know, is he on the party planning committee? And then also sometimes you're being too clever. It's like sometimes you just want to get the job done. That's true. That's a little goofy. It's a little goofy. Well, I wish we knew exactly what the job was because if it was a creative position, then sure, maybe that leans into it. But if it was buttoned up. Fortune 500 company? Right. Nah. Okay. All right. Well, good work. I don't know. Speaking of good work, Brewers did good work. Let's get the bubbler. Go ahead. Run up the plate. Goes again. Given to be at a watch party last night. Okay, three down and one to go, folks. As you know by now, the Brewers did beat the Dodgers 6-2 and are now just one win away from clinching a spot in the World Series. This is huge. So after last night's 6-4 win in Game 3 of the NLCS, the magic number is now one. That is how many wins the crew needs now to head to the World Series. Of course, after the game, we heard from so many guys about the team's mentality now that they're closer than ever. Take a listen. I mean, it's huge, but I just mentioned to Todd we got another game, and there's no time to put your head up and get out of the water. You know, we've got to keep our head down and keep swimming, and a lot of baseball to be played left still. Anything can happen. You definitely want to enjoy it, but, you know, as Kobe said, the job's not finished, and, you know, there's still work to be done, so we'll show up tomorrow ready to go. Yeah, what a night for fans at that watch party outside AmFam Field, some already back at the ballpark this morning. That's fun. That gives me chills. Oh, yeah, people are excited. They're even lining up right now. It's crazy. They've been out there for hours, some of them, just for the World Series ticket pre-sale, and that's where we find Andrew Amuzu. Andrew, I'm sure just the excitement is continuing this morning. Yeah, the excitement is definitely there. I was actually waiting on Mr. James here because we saw you were right there at the window. I'm like, okay, I'm going to have to tap dance just a little bit until he finishes up. Can I ask the dollar amount or maybe an estimate or just how's your wallet feeling? Is it alive? The wallet is alive It wasn't as bad as I was figuring. It was $1,250 a ticket. And bleachers, section 234. Wow. So it is what it is. Wait, wait. I had permission. Okay, yes. She said, go ahead and do it. So with the fees and everything else, it was $2,600. Wow. Wow. This is actually really cool because you were at, you even mentioned this, the 1982 World Series. Do you remember any dollar amounts there? I know that we had some vintage Box 6es. I don't remember the dollar amounts. I don't at all. Oh, my gosh. Because on our social media, there's a video of some fans. They were out waiting in line like this. The lowest ticket that they purchased was $18. One woman said that she spent as much as $500. That was a lot, obviously, then. can you imagine spending as much as you did today i can't even imagine and the thing is is i just if they were to play Tampa Bay i just looked at Tampa Bay and the tickets that they're offering there for game three are half the price wow so i don't know if it's just because we're Milwaukee and it's that popular i don't know or i can only imagine what Cleveland might if it is Cleveland Right, it's hard to say but there are, like I said, I said I could have taken a flight down there and stay at a hotel and everything else, I mean this is Milwaukee and I've been waiting for this for a long time, yeah, but do you know if they have um, a return policy? I can't imagine someone would want to but like any return policies anything like that, I think your return policy is saying I'm going to call StubHub or something and say you want to buy these tickets, that would that would make a lot of sense because especially with as much as people are waiting here and everything like that you're you're still seeing that energy, a lot of people I'm sure they want to hold on to these tickets but, but you, you saw, like I saw some of the people that were here at yes, 5:30 in the morning, there was 12 of us and four walked away without tickets because they said I can't do it, yeah, that that is something to know, yeah, we were here super early, he was here one of the, one of the first several people here and as soon as they came out with that dollar amount, it's like oh yeah, I don't know about that one but I, I think when you're able to see all of this right now what do you think that this really does show about the pride and the the passion for Brewers fans after such a long time, that's what it is, it's pride, it's passion, it's, it's been a long time and you know it's been four or five great seasons getting into the postseason and now here we are again and we're so close, yes, yes, and so there's also a special story I want you to share too because you're wearing the camouflage here, you told me early on this morning that uh you weren't necessarily planning on being in line this morning especially after last night's game yeah after watching last night's game i said to my wife i said well i won't be going deer hunting in the morning i says i'm gonna go stand in line well plans have changed and you know what i did and it's been fun and it's like i said there's a bunch of great people everybody's having fun everybody's excited and let's go brewers let's go brewers i appreciate you thank you so much take care appreciate you god bless yeah it's been truly an immaculate energy here and i do want to mention this too that the general pre-sale does start at 2 p.m and we are hearing that uh each person there is a two ticket limit as of right now there was a lot of questions on how many purchases or how many tickets that people can purchase two tickets that's what we are hearing right now. So, definitely the line is continuing to grow, and a lot of people are hoping to get their hands on some World Series tickets. Hottest ticket in town, Andrew. I got a buddy in line who sees Andrew from his vantage point, because he sent me a picture. What? I don't, actually, you just, the camera just panned by him. So, wait, are you getting ticket number two? Oh, I did. The camera just panned by him. Who is that with that look? He's a boy. Is he the guy in the shoes right here? Right there, the black shirt. He's got the black hoodie on, he's talking about you, you want to give a quick shout out to Donovan, he's anchoring right now, all right, hey what's up Donovan, how's it going man, hey buddy so he's getting his two is one for you, I wish one was for me, Andrew ask him can I have the other, the second ticket, uh Donovan has a very big question for you, he was wondering if he can have the second ticket, it's a two ticket limit, he was wondering, I mean that's a great question, uh, good question, I don't know Oh, it's going to be pretty pricey, Donovan. All in good fun, man. All in good fun. He's got a wonderful family, so I'm sure he's taking one of his boys or his wife. Oh, yeah. It's fun. Good to see both of you, Andrew. Thank you so much for doing that for us. All righty. Well, listen, the laughs are going to continue. So are the good times. Speaking of which, American Family Field is welcoming all the fans inside the ballpark for tonight's Game 4 Watch Party. Okay, good. So this is inside, which is a change. Oh, man, which is going to be great, especially with the weather coming. So tickets are now on sale on the Brewer's website, but these actually cost relative to the other watch parties that were free. You just needed a ticket. Well, this ticket does have a dollar amount attached to it. This is $10. It includes, I'm sorry, it is $15, which includes a $10 food and beverage credit. Oh, my speed here. Oh, right, right. You know, parking lots, guys, open at 4:30, and the ballpark gates will open at 5:30. Net proceeds go to the Brewers Community Foundation. Oh, this is awesome. This is going to be, you know, almost as if they were playing here, you know, in terms of the excitement being in the stadium. Oh, man, this is such, I love it. The electric feeling of the city right now. All right, well, spooky season has arrived. Nicola is checking out Cedarburg's Gothic History Tour on the other side of the break. We'll see her soon. So how much would you pay? A beloved tradition is returning this Halloween season. Oh boy, Nicola is joining us from Cedarburg's Cultural Center with a preview of this year's What Gothic History Tour. All right, you have our attention. Yeah, hey guys, good morning to you. We are here live at the Cedarburg History Museum. This is just one of the stops on the Gothic History Tour, which is back for another year in Cedarburg after taking a year off. Now during this time, Shannon Diamond, the chair of the Gothic History Tour, was really busy coming up with new tales, new stories to feature on this year's tour. Shannon, good morning to you. So walk our viewers through that process. When you're coming up with a tour, what are you looking for in terms of interesting kind of Halloween-y stories to feature? We like something that has a local tie or a tie to Wisconsin. We like something that we haven't explored before. So taking a year off allowed me and the rest of the writing team, Peg and Mark, to do a little research, comb a little microfiche. If you don't know what microfiche is, it's a really old way to research at the library and come up with some new connections and new tales to tell. Now this is not a traditional ghost tour. That's what people probably would think of when they think of gothic history. This is a real historical tour. So explain to our viewers how this is different than something that they might see, I don't know, elsewhere this time of year. Sure. So it's different because it's an hour and a half walking tour. We feature six sites along the route, each one featuring a scene led by a docent who gives some of the background historical information and then actors who bring that history to life. We like to call it historical fiction. We try and use the basis in facts and then make it entertaining and and that's of course for a good reason now later on in our show guys we're going to give you a little sample of what one of those scenes look like but for now i kind of want to feature um this place because this place shannon as we know you know this all too well it's been in the Cedarburg community guys for 170 years and these walls have seen some stuff you could say there's a lot of history a lot of lore going on with this location which why which is why of course it's a stop on the Gothic History Tour and nobody knows that better than Joel Williams you were telling me some very um spooky stories during our last commercial break and i thought that we've got to get this into our live segment because it really stuck with me so this place can't confirm is haunted uh we've had quite a number of people um say that they sense things or have seen things or heard things uh yes very much so now obviously now this is the history museum what did it used to be was it a general store it originally was the very first general store here in Cedarburg yes okay so can we tell our viewers the bathroom story okay okay are you guys ready this one's it's it's really something so about two years ago on October 8 just like today um i had a desperate call in the morning from one of our volunteers they had seen in the men's bathroom floor the entire floor was filled with blood so i thought well maybe they use fake blood on the gothic history tour last night and just didn't clean it up or something or maybe it was water came through bone dry now i did have to tell the volunteer that the reason they may have seen it is many many years ago the bathrooms were not there but there was a person that they found deceased in that area of the parking lot at that time so ever since then that person apparently haunts the bathrooms especially both the men's and the women's i mean do you blame them my gosh wow okay so this is a volunteer really said this oh yes yes yeah they said i'm not joking i i really saw it i i didn't just see red over my eyes or anything like it was it was definitely blood you know just like in a movie or something like that did they clean it up well no they they ran to call me and then it was gone yeah when when i came like i said there there was nothing it wasn't even water they were just like no i i i'd say i saw it i went into the ladies and no no there was nothing in that one yet at the time so um i did not see it thankfully didn't have to clean anything up that is an image that i think would really stick with somebody all right joel thank you so much for sharing that little uh taste of lore here this is just one of the examples of the different kind of stories that you might hear on the gothic history tour or really just diving into cedarburg history in general um yeah that is one where you know i don't you guys know i'm i it's not i don't know if i believe in ghosts but if i did i i can't say i would trust them and um there apparently is a ghost right here right now maybe they're watching real milwaukee who's to say well maybe not before your next hit go into the bathroom check it out Let me see. Let me go to see in there. Take the Holy Ghost with you. Go on a quick trip. There you go. All right, well, just don't say Candyman in the mirror. We'll see you in a bit. Oh, boy. Let's get right over to Gino now. He has a special guest in studio for his segment today. That's right, not just any guest. An internationally touring comedian returning home. Yes, home, right here in Milwaukee for a set of shows Saturday at Shank Hall. Edgar Sandoval is here with what audiences can look forward to. You have the most interesting career path. Tell everyone when you decided to start doing stand-up. Yeah, it was about 10 years ago. I'd always wanted to do it. But, you know, you're younger and life gets in the way and you have kids and family responsibilities and you can never do it. And then 10 years ago, I gave it a shot and it just kept going and going and going. And now I'm all over the country doing this, and I love it. I looked at your schedule. It is just about, you're constantly on the move. Are you driving all over the country, or how does it work? Some driving, some flying. It'll be eight states this month. I just looked at it. Like, that's crazy, right? Wow, wow. When did you know you were funny? Uh, grade school I used to ask all the dumb questions that I knew the answer to but I knew would get a laugh that was that was that was kind of the mo so then why why not start right then you just thought I need to do a normal career and then go into it how did how did that work yeah I just think it was one of those things you know I think bucket list at first right right let's give this a try and uh I was on the road traveling actually and I did an open mic it didn't go well and I thought okay I scratched that itch and then six years later uh I started up and and just kept going from there so how does it work are you constantly writing are your ideas coming to you you have a notebook you try where do all the ideas come from a notebook and then a note uh on my phone okay so when when funny things occur I'll just kind of put down there and then and then yeah we'll we'll see where it goes and you're taping a special this is what's so interesting so people can go to Shank Hall see you on a Saturday Two shows. This Saturday. So we're doing two shows, recording two shows, and we'll take the best of each one and put it together. But, yeah, really looking forward to it. I was born and raised in Milwaukee, so I'm calling the special East Side Story. I love it. Yeah, it'll be like West Side Story, except with no singing and dancing. And knives. And knives. No knives. That's right. So, yeah, it'll be a lot of fun. Well, our director, Sarah, did some research on you, and she came away a fan. I think people are going to love to see it. So what is, are the shows going to be different? No, it'll be pretty much the same. We'll see after the first show if there are any things we want to change or anything like that. But most of it we'll fix in editing. And what is your style? Who would you compare yourself to in comedy? I don't know. Pretty straightforward. Maybe like a less talented Nate Bargatze. I don't know. You want to sell the show. You are more talented. No, but it's a lot of stories about being married and kids and all the weird things that happen as you kind of go through life. right and yeah do you do crowd work do you work for the audience no not a lot of crowd work and with this we're just trying to record the material and and get out there so very little crowd work no heckling no heck we want no heckling at this show we'll have to stop and start over but that morning or the night before will you be staying up nervous or happily excited uh i think excited you know i mean i've been doing this for 10 years now and i thought it's time to to get it out there and record it and really put it out there. So I know the material. It's really just about coming home. I grew up here, and I'm just so excited to be home. The brewers are doing great. Everybody's excited. So, yeah, just hopefully we can get some people out. You know, we want them to sweep so that the crowd is there in full force for you. We don't want them caring about the brewers at that point. Hopefully they will have swept the Dodgers. Hope so. But if not, there's no game Saturday, so that's a good thing. If they do keep going, it'll be on Sunday. Okay. So what makes Milwaukee unique? You grew up here. Did you find humor? Are we a funny city? I don't know if we're a funny city, but I know just the people, I think, growing up here. And I just have so many fond memories of growing up on the east side, you know, the Fourth of July things in Lake Park and Little League and soccer. And yeah, just so many good memories. My parents met at St. Mary's Hospital. Oh, you're kidding. And that's where I was born. And so to do this at Shank Hall, which is just down the street, just seemed kind of fitting. You've opened for some big names. Talk about some of the people you've opened for. Oh, my gosh. Charlie Behrens, Liz Mealy, April Macy, Kevin McCaffrey, Adrian Appaloochee. A lot of these folks have been nice enough to also have me on the road with them. So it's been a great learning experience, especially starting later in life. So I've been very, very fortunate and very thankful that I'm getting those opportunities. Are comedians supportive of other comedians or is there a rivalry? I think for the most part, very supportive. And I felt especially supported. I think a lot of these comedians just recognizing that I did start later in life and seeing me go through this versus doing it in my 20s. I think they've seen something where it's like, yeah, let's maybe help lift this guy up a little bit, which I appreciate. You say that you use your wife and family and your marriage and things like that in your act. Does that always go over well? Do you need to seek permission from your wife to include something? You know, I probably should. I don't. My wife has gotten used to it. And I think the kids, when it's them, they do enjoy it. I did a show in Las Vegas a few years back, and my son was in the audience because he was living out there at the time. And he brought, like, all his coworkers. And it was basically a roast of him. So I think he enjoyed that. Well, Edgar, so proud of you, so happy for you. Now, where will this special, where can people see it once it's done? We're still working on that. At the very least, it'll go to YouTube, but we'll see if we can get a streaming service to jump on with us, and then we'll release it as an album as well. We'll support this man. He deserves it. There it is, Edgar Sandoval, East Side Story, two shows at Shank Hall on Saturday. Edgar, you deserve all the good things. People don't go after their dream. You did, and I just admire that so much. Thanks, Gino, and thanks for having me. Of course. Great to see you. Go see them. Today's a big day. It's a big deal. It is National Cheese Curd Day. And if there's one thing we know around here, we will be celebrating. I look forward to this every year for you guys. We have Kristen Haneke and Alex Williams here from Lakefront Brewery with the unique flavors featured at this year's Cheese Curd Day Celebration. Ladies, thank you so much. Thank you for having us. Yeah. We like coming here. We have got it all down. We know exactly where we're headed. Come on now. And we get to brag about our favorite thing. Let's start bragging. What's in front of us? I guess we'll go from this direction toward Derricka. So one day only, special cheese curd flavors. This is mango chili lime with cilantro jalapeno crema. Oh, that sounds great. And then we've got carrot cake cheese curds. And these have cream cheese frosting on the top because carrot cake. And then Wisconsin Supper Club prime rib. Oh, wow. with au jus and horseradish cream sauce and then we paired them with the best beers also with some na and gluten-free varieties of our own so that can amp up the flavor share a little bit more about the pairing because i feel like when everyone says where should you go for a cheese i always say like from brewery because you have it's a good crust it's savory or it's sweet or um i love the inside of it too but you have a good pairing to go with it And who complements it? Well, the thing with beer that makes it a really nice pairing is the carbonation. Because it's a palate cleanser. It gives you that bubbliness that cuts through the fat of the cheese. And the breading and the fried stuff and whatever. And then all the different notes. Because cheese curds by themselves don't have a ton of flavor. They're a really mild cheddar. So all of the different sauces. And that's what the beer is bringing out. Interesting. I'm always fascinated. Like, how do you guys come up with these flavors? Like, that's so specific. Supper Club, prime rib. Like, where does that come from? Well, I mean, I don't think many places outside of Wisconsin are really embracing cheese curds today. So we needed to, like, dive deep into Wisconsin. And what says Wisconsin like supper clubs? I mean, everybody. Yeah. So that's what we dug into was let's give that even more unique to Wisconsin. OK. And every year I feel like it gets better and better. Last year was like a chicken and waffle or something. That was so good. Yeah. So talk to me about the science behind it, because you guys are such creative chefs. And what are your thoughts each year when you're like, what can we do this year? How do you pull to find a little something for everybody? We actually took a poll of them from the employees to get their thoughts about what they'd be interested in and seeing or what ideas can they come up with to make things better because we don't pull out all the bells and whistles each year. So it's kind of hard to keep topping each year after year. All right. So we're going to dig in. So this is the prime rib. Yep. All right. And you said there's an au jus? This is mango chili lime. And a horseradish cream sauce. And just a hint of spice. it's mostly um if i could give it a description it's zing you're absolutely right right it's just it's not overpowering either but this sauce come on kicks it up a notch yeah yeah that's where a little bit of the heat comes from okay so do you guys have any favorites that you're uh that you like to choose from we're really loving the prime rib that's my favorite one yeah this is delicious and i'm not going to double dip that side and i always lean towards the sweet too the sweet ones don't sound right but when you try them you're like oh okay they know what they're doing all right so i always always love the sweet ones and this is a good combination to the au jus it's really giving me prime rib um so i'm putting this right now modestly but if you'd like to do a good cheese pull, this is the place to do it too, you guys have a competition, we have a competition more about that, so it's uh you can enter, it's teams of two, if you don't have anyone to enter the contest with, one of us will do it with you and we're kind of like the pros, so you can call in a pro to come in and be your teammate, um and i believe they do five or six teams at a time, you pick the curd that you want, it's not the flavored ones, it's our gold standard regulars and you just see how far you can stretch, if you don't want to be out in the middle of the floor doing it we also have a sign year round where you can test yourself to see how far you can stretch, you guys always have fun there and even here we have our cheese names, how do you come up with these today you can come here and get balloons beads buttons and find out what your cheese name is, take pictures and definitely order cheese curds, okay wait i gotta ask you is there anything special you can tease coming up that you're going to create or not ready to release that, like in 2027, oh yes ma'am Are you guys that far ahead yet? We are. Oh, boy. Before we go ahead, let me go back for a quick second. Do it. Out of all your creations, what's been your favorite so far? Cinnamon roll. Loaded bag of potato. Oh, wow. That's the curd of the month right now. Yeah, loaded bag of potato. That sounds good. Extra diet. We can't. You can't get that today. Okay. But you can get it every other day this month. That's perfect. That's perfect. This is the place to celebrate the highest. Ladies, thank you so much. Thanks. Yeah. All right, we're going to check back in with Nicola, who is in Cedarburg at a ghost tour. We'll see what she's cooking up on the other side of the break. All right, guys, I promised I would report back. So now I'm live inside of the ladies' bathroom at the Cedarburg History Museum. And as you can see, the ghosts are giving us a break this morning. There's no dry blood on the floor. There's no other spooky paranormal activity going on here. The coast is clear. for ghosts for now now with stories like the one that we heard in the last hit that make this the perfect venue for these gothic history tours they kick off next week on october 23rd 24th and 30th and they're led by docents who are locals in this community they're volunteers like michael fry mark here hi michael how are you good morning doing pretty well how are you wonderful thank you okay so you are one of the docents on this gothic history tour yeah what has this been like for you? It's just a lot of fun. You get to see a lot of your friends. You get to, I don't know, see a lot of the other scenes in years past. Docents walked around and this year we're staying put. So it might be a little bit more fun, have a lot more fun with the actors involved with scenes. Yeah. And it's a good opportunity too, for folks to learn about the place that they live. And that is of course, Cedarburg here, which has so much history, so much lore. I mean, we just have a lot of history. We've been around a long time. And with that, You know, you kind of get all the history with ghost stories and paranormal activity. All right, well, sounds good. Okay, so I understand that you are part of one of the stories that are going to be featured on the tour. Yes, one of the scenes right here in the History Museum. Okay, great. And I guess if you'd like me to start. Oh, yeah, yes. Yes. All right, Cedarburg has had not one, but three similar cases, all where men tried to kill their wives. Do you have a personal connection to the recent tragedies in Cedarburg that you would like to share? Come on. Chew the fat with me. Who are you? You have quite the big mouth. I am Holly Hotfoot, Cedarburg Weekly News crime reporter. Cedarburg has enough crime that they need a reporter for it? Lately we have. What, with the livery murders? Headline, a livery, special delivery. Oh, and the butcher case. That one got me the front page above the fold. Meet your maker at the butcher. Spelled M-E-A-T. So you're the one causing all that disruption with this sensational journalism? You think my reporting is sensational? Why, thanks. No, you're missing the point. You are profiting off of reporting on terrible events. The crap. I enjoy writing a corker of a story, adding some razzmatazz. I'm just giving the people what they want to hear. Anything you want to add? No comment. What about you? Anything? Anything for me? As you can see, some things will never change. That was awesome. Okay, so that was just a small sample of some of the stories that you can hear for this Gothic History Tour. Again, it is running next weekend, guys, October 23rd, 24th, and 30th. You can get tickets on their website. that is cedarburghistorymuseum.org uh this is oh cedarburgculturalcenter.org thank you i'm so sorry cedarburgculturalcenter.org and tickets are still available they do sell out we advise you to get them well in advance um but you do get to visit the history museum and um the shinery and the Keefe's House and a lot of other great places beautiful okay and um now when do they run like what times a day are we talking here we start at 6 p.m and tours leave every 10 minutes please show up in in advance. Great advice there, Shannon. Thank you so much. Thank you to everybody here at the Cedarburg History Museum. It's been so fun to hang out with you guys this morning. I'm just so impressed, guys, at the work, the research, the detail that goes into developing a really fabulous tour. So yeah, that's the Cedarburg Gothic History Tours. They're back for another year after taking a little bit of a hiatus last year, but they got brand new stories, brand new content, brand new research to really help guests understand the history and some of the lore and really get folks in the halloween spirit all right no i know who's gonna ask it okay well i wonder okay anything that's what i want to know oh wait did i go in no we saw you kind of you know no i did not did you feel anything any spirits any vibes did i feel anything oh should we go back yeah should probably make sure nobody's in there um no i didn't but you know what shannon was telling me that like the the blood on the floor is just one example of some of the stuff that goes on here apparently people will also report hearing like toilets flushing out of nowhere the paper towel dispenser will go off when nobody's in there so it's it's that kind of stuff that really um you know it makes you question even if you don't believe in ghosts you hear some of that and you think well maybe because we don't know we don't know we're noticing how you did not go back in the door yeah yeah no coast is clear for now for ghosts guys she's like oh she's like and so is my soul not going back see you later nick i was waiting to see like a reflection that little thing right next to her on the door i was like notice she was not trying to reopen that door not at all all right well coming up a new children's book by a local author the story behind the crush coming up next understandably oh this is such a great story and there's a great story that you get to read as well here a local author just released his first children's book called the crush ben pizza's here with his mom allison to share more about the book and this unique cast of characters the book is there there's the crush and at the top it says 724 deeds which we are going to get to very soon first of all mom allison uh thanks for joining us today set the scene for us with ben he graduated in 2022 from Brown Deer High School. Always had this fascination with stories, watching TV, and then he achieved greatness with getting a certificate in Adobe Photoshop as well as Illustrator, a rare thing to happen at Brown Deer High School. But let's go back a little bit further with the history. I would say that it started when, I mean, he was diagnosed with autism when he was a teenager, but before that he was diagnosed with expressive receptive language processing disorder. So I would say school was difficult. But one of the first things that happened that really changed the trajectory of his creative journey is working with Islands of Brilliance and taking different workshops there, design workshops. And then we built off of that when he was in high school in his graphic design classes with Mr. Penny, Michael Penny, who's an excellent teacher at Brown Deer High School. And Mr. Pinney was really helpful in Ben achieving that certification. Yeah. Now, some time has passed since high school, right? We're at four years later. And the proof is right there of how well he's working and currently achieving those goals. Ben, I have to say, first of all, congratulations. Thanks for being here today. The book looks great. The illustrations look great as well. When you first held that printed copy of Crushing Your Hands. How did it make you feel to see your name on the cover knowing that you did this? To tell you the truth, it felt very exciting, and it made me feel very proud. I would say so. I mean, for anybody to achieve this, to have their first book in print, that speaks volumes. And here's the thing too, Allison, that this book is the start of something special meaning that there are so many more books that are in the works we have to kind of get to the meaning of the book though first Ben for you what is the crux about it is about Bory who has a crush on Chelsea and his friends try to help him by giving him different suggestions on how to make a good first impression yeah and i'll tell you this the names in this book are phenomenal Bory Ovaline is one of the characters' names. Reese Avenator is another one. Violet Blossomworth. You've created this story based on these characters. Not only did you create the story, you wrote the story with help from, of course, Amy Schwabe, but also the characterizations of them. You designed those as well. Very stunning. And what's special when you actually see the book is that there's a group called the 724 Gang. What's so special about the 724 Gang? They each have their own style and personality. Yeah, and isn't that the truth about life in general? We go through every day noticing that. Whether you're a kid or you're an adult, we all have different personalities. And I think, Allison, one of the things that probably you saw when this book was starting to get pieced together is that you were noticing the personalities in the book and writing form but also in the illustrations what was it like when you then started to see the illustrations pop up and you saw the characters individually have those those characteristics that maybe Ben saw at high school i think he really works off of a very specific graphic design template. I love it. And he really obviously uses a lot of color. And he does have a definite eye for what he thinks the character should be wearing. Yeah, I mean, it had to be interesting to see that evolution of the character from the mind to the paper to the finished product as well. And even better, Allison, is that the these are cards trading cards that he's created so this is like a one-of-one almost you know situation where you can collect the trading cards but in the book here there are characteristics of Bori and Violet taken from your friends and family how so how are those characteristics of Bori and Violet taken from your friends or your family members do you remember well i start with how the character looks then come up with personality traits. I usually get inspiration from other TV shows and movies. Yeah, and those other TV shows and movies, I know we talked about this off camera, Thomas the Train, Blues Clues are a big part of it. What's another one that Ben was into? My Little Pony, French Miss Magic, and Equestria Girls. Amazing. I would imagine that that started as an early age, kind of something that he latched onto when he was watching and then gave you guys maybe a glimpse of hope as to what he could be. And when, when you had told me that you didn't necessarily want him to pursue the world of, of writing, story writing or illustration, why was that? Right. Well, I mean, I think when, when children with disabilities who have an IEP in school when they hit 14 you're working on their post-secondary transition plan and throughout those years from the time he was 14 on when anybody would ask Ben what his career goal was he'd say he wanted to create his own tv shows and he was consistent in that yeah but I think we get stuck in that traditional paradigm yeah of trying to redirect him to something more realistic. And after pursuing different avenues for employment, we circled back and decided to pivot to why don't we pursue his dream. Good for you. And I bet you he appreciates that as well. What was it like working with your mom and Amy to complete this book? Well, I really liked it when Amy came over to my house because it gave me a chance to show her new artwork I've created and tell her new story ideas that i've come up with in person is there ben is there a specific feeling or message that you want people to know that about friendship or about kindness through the book the crush the best way to make a good first impression is to just be yourself i love that i think that speaks volumes as well too you've done an amazing job raising such such a gentleman but also such a creative man here as well. What's next? I know that there's more stories. The 724 Deeds Gang is going to continue on doing great deeds. Do you see more books, more illustrations, possibly a show? Yeah, the next book is called The Bullies and it's where the 724 Deeds Gang helped Jaden build up confidence and stand up to two bullies named Ken and Kelly. Wow. I'll tell you what, a lot of People are going to benefit from reading this book, Ben. And big congratulations on this book number one. You come back when book number two happens. And this is just one series. I know there's offshoots. There's other ideas that Ben has. I can't wait to hear them. Can't wait to read them as well, Allison. Thank you for reaching out to us to share this story. It is a very meaningful one. And do yourself a favor. We can pick up this book where? What's the best place to find it? You can buy it on Amazon. and we're also selling it in person at the Self-Determination Conference in the Dells next week and it's also available on ben pete's big cartel.com i love the name ben pete's big cartel.com congratulations guys been pleasure meeting you as well too more real milwaukee coming back after the break that is something it's kind of hard to believe we're wrapping up the week tomorrow goodness to here and get ready for high school football a little pep rally action tomorrow morning at wake up join donovan andrew ben and i as we take wake up on the road this is going to be a blast uh it's starting at 6 a.m we're live at two high schools Racine Case and Indian Trail they're both geared up to take the field in a matchup under the friday night lights um we're gonna have marching bands we're gonna have cheerleaders dance teams we're gonna have student groups we're gonna have surprises do you know the surprises i got some of the surprises but i can't tell you or them right we can't say anything about it so tomorrow uh like we said six o'clock that's go time we'll probably be hitting up uh on air a little bit earlier than that just to give a preview but i i also like seeing the different uh members of the team be a part of this as well because you know this will be your second time yeah um but back at it again our executive producer for wake up is uh attended the high school i'll be at tomorrow indian trail so i'm excited to see her back in her old stomping grounds you know yeah yeah it's gonna be a fun morning yeah a lot of excitement too all right so that's six to eight tomorrow um how about this so we've been talking about the coolest things made in wisconsin so the top four products in the coolest things made in wisconsin contest have been revealed okay take a look the wisconsin manufacturers and commerce made the announcement yesterday the finalists are the 4800 xpc electric Rope shovel, the Gravely ZTHD Stealth 60 lawnmower the Click Smart privacy glass, that's interesting and the M157 small arms fire control, um, the final, no I know I'm so interested in all three four of these because it's like what are they, how do they work? yeah um so the final round of voting is underway and it ends October 27th, but that's also the interesting part because you're like oh I didn't know that was made here in Wisconsin. I didn't know. None of those. And the only one, actually two, I can wrap my head around are the glass and then the mower. But even those look a little bit more high-tech than I can understand. The mower looks incredibly high-tech. Imagine sitting on that thing. It looks like you need that for a golf course. I bet you that does full 360 probably. Oh, gosh. It better have speakers on it. I feel like it must. It's got a massager on the back. And I wonder what the small fire, I'm thinking is this like a flamethrower? You know what I mean? It looks like it. It kind of looks like it. Is that what it is? I mean, I really don't know. I'm going to have to do some research on this. And a privacy glass. That would be cool if you had that, like, on your house. You know when you don't want to, like, put the blinds closed at nighttime when it's, like, it automatically changes? Yeah. I wonder. I didn't know that they actually made that. Not that they're making it here. Look it up. I know. All winners. Without a doubt. See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow morning.