Waldorf Gridiron Club Podcast
Waldorf Gridiron Club Podcast
Money, Bunnies, and Cats: Adam Helm
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This week (after about a month hiatus...) the Waldorf Gridiron Club returns to the bunker and visits with GIC Treasurer, Adam Helm, to get caught up on the upcoming GIC Golf Tournament, the spring ball game, on-going fundraisers, and a special offer for fans that attend the golf outing related to the Cash Prize Where the Ball Lies game this fall...the cats things is accidental.
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SPEAKER_02We can get a mailing list with our take pretty easy. Oh, geez. That'd be terrible. Yeah. Yeah. Black list. Welcome to this episode of the Waldorf Grid Iron Club Podcast. Hey, it's been a few weeks, folks, and we missed you darn near as much as you missed us.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Has it been a few weeks? I feel like it's been three. I have no idea, dude. I my life has been so upside down, just all over the place. Upside down. What were you what have you been doing? Um, well, you know, uh just life, man. Um, taking care of family and you know, all the other stuff. You did some fish in there. Did a lot of fishing. That's pretty cool. Thanks for the invite, by the way. Yeah. Two invites, not just one, two. Well, the first one uh I could not do. The second one I would have loved to do, but I just could not. See, here was here's what's happening. I'm trying to I'm a big farmer now, got 80 acres. I'm trying to like plant this swamp that I bought. And uh beat ground. It's so bad. And uh you gotta work that slowly with a disc.
SPEAKER_00Alright.
SPEAKER_02A disc is a machine that doesn't matter, but anyway, so I like I I I gotta borrow that from my dad, and it's planting season, so I have to like you know I'm not priority. And then I got that mostly disc, except for ten acres. And uh I did not get it stuck, but nearly, nearly did I did it. Nearly. Uh my dad and my brother were watching me pull it out of the farm, you know, and they're like, Hey, just don't uh don't drive it through the middle. And I'm like, I'm not dead. I'm not gonna drive it through the middle. Anyway, I drove it through the middle and uh turn around. Yeah. And uh because I got uh starting to get stuck, so I was like drove it through the middle, and I don't know what I was thinking, and then I was like uh not moving. And when they when the duels start spinning and it's front wheel assist, I was like, I'm just gonna stop. And there was no way in tarnation that I was because my dad and my brother were both watching me. This is 15 minutes, it's like short time, 15 minutes into the operation, and they see me. Oh yeah, and they're not no, I know they're laughing, so there's no way I'm gonna do that. Well, yeah, I got out of it. I walked it out. Well, you missed a good time. Uh yeah, I'm sorry about that. That's what I that's what I've been trying to do. Caught a lot of fish. Actually, I will tell you that uh CJ Almond, who's my niece's husband, he's a wonderful human being and one of my favorite dudes, uh, hooked into something big. Oh and while we were crappie fishing, and uh man, he the my first comment to him was you tied a really good knot. Because he uses he's using four-pound test fishing line with uh yeah, that's proper though. Yeah, with a seven and a half foot uh ultralight rod. Okay, and it's bent straight over. And boy, we sat there and we saw the tail a couple times, didn't really know what it was, thought it was like maybe a big catfish or something like that. Because they they're in there. It was a muskie. Oh my gosh, he caught a muskie on that. He didn't catch it, but well, he he he got into the muskie, fought it for about 15 minutes. This, I will tell you, the largest fish I have ever seen next to my boat. Really? It wouldn't have fit in my net, it would not have fit, but it was plus fifty inches. She was probably about ten, eleven inches wide, um, just her back. And she was a I never did her head, she was that big. Then she decided to swim off uh after she let go of the crappie that she grabbed that he had caught. Oh, okay. And crappie didn't make it. No, crappie's dead. Good bait. Uh apparently, yes. Wow. So that was an exciting moment. Uh yeah, fishing was great, but you know what else is great? Waldorf Gridiron Club. You know what makes it great? You know what makes it great? People like Adam Helm. Thank you for bringing him up. He's been sitting here quietly as we know. He's like trying to be the secret guy. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So Adam, Waldorf Gridiron Club Podcast. How you doing, buddy? Terrific. Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, absolutely. So I've been jealous of my wife for months because she's been on a while ago. Yeah. And it was one of my favorite episodes because it was your wife. Well, true. Good point. Yes. No, because we gotta listen east, bound, and down during that, talking about Holland Ice from Rochester. Yeah. I listened to it over and over and laughed every time.
SPEAKER_02That was great. Yeah. There's nothing better. And I don't care who you are, where you're from, your age, that song comes on, you're singing it. It is the anthem for the winning uh games of Forest City Baseball. And I announced those, and that's my music selection that I play. It's kind of like the Hawkeye Victory polka then. For the last six years. And now what's great about it is like people just expect it. Now, for Forest City is moving to a new conference next year, so they don't know. Well, actually, some actually we do play a lot of the same people. So Clear Lake, Webster City, Algona, etc. Yeah. So they'll they'll hear it, hopefully. Yeah. So we had a uh in-depth conversation prior to going on air about what we're gonna talk about. We really didn't come up with anything, did we, fellas? Money, money, money, money. Well, we talk about what we're doing.
SPEAKER_01You bet. Yeah. We got some good things going on. Yeah. As you guys know, my my wife is the events and uh events and fundraising. She's the queen raising. She is the queen of the gridiron club. When she found out I was heading this way today, uh, she thought I should update the folks on how the golf tournament is going.
SPEAKER_02That sounds like a good idea because that's coming up fast. Yeah. It's June. Before you know it. July. July. July. July. Same thing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02June, July. Whatever.
SPEAKER_01Six of one. Tomato tomato. July 10th. Yeah. The slots are filling up. I think we're starting to build a little tradition having it third year. Um people seem to really like the Friday night stuff. People are happy to do uh fundraising things, but and they don't have to take off work and don't have to work in the morning. Short little night hole tournament, a lot of fun. It's going over good. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02It's gonna be at uh Gruis Recreation Center, once again, the golf course over there, and uh that's that's uh that's just they've they've treated us really well. Right. Yeah, and if folks, if you like come to the tournament, number one, come to the tournament. But if you come, every time you come to Fort City for a Waldorf game, you're gonna want to play Gruis. What a beautiful course. I mean, out in the middle of nowhere. And it's well managed, well maintained. It's just a great course.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. The first year, you know, Bear Creek and Fort City was having they couldn't really can uh commit to the meal part, and that was not an issue with Gruis. They've been treating us really well to rent the course is cheaper. It is a fundraiser for us, so it it really has worked out great. And it's nice that it's a nine-hole.
SPEAKER_02I mean, the reality is is that um uh you know, an 18-hole tournament is nice, but and maybe someday we'll do that, uh, depending on the numbers and and as we grow and so forth. But nine holes is easy to manage. Um it's a uh, you know, I mean, I think it gets over within three hours. I mean, we're definitely uh in and out of there, you know. Absolutely. So sponsorships, how are they going?
SPEAKER_01Real good. Uh, we got a couple meal sponsors. Uh, we wanted to thank Bayer Crop Science and Gold Eagle Cooperative in town. Uh nice Luther Mankato Honda signing on as a meal sponsor as well. We do have four whole sponsors already FCIS here in town, Four City Ford, County Line Seed, and Mail and Egg Services have all signed on to be whole sponsors, and that comes with the team.
SPEAKER_02Wow, Ford's and Seedcorn and Honda's. Weird Honda. Oh, that's right. Up at Mancato. Now, does that hey did did Coach Lindsay have anything to do with the Mancato cuts?
SPEAKER_01I can neither confirm nor deny, but he did happen to play on that team last year. Really? Our back, so I can I can do the math there.
SPEAKER_02Huh. I don't know. I don't trust that guy. Well, that's because he calls you Papa Buff, but uh I think that uh that's pretty great. That's great that we've got uh so that's a but we still have room for more sponsors. It sounds like we've got room for uh four or five more.
SPEAKER_01Right. Yep. We're happy to get you signed up. Uh woo greatiron events at gmail.com is your contact. That is to my wife. We'll get you signed up and locked in and get you an invoice if you need them or however you want to handle it. We also are taking just plain teams. Uh if people don't have want to sponsor whole or have businesses, uh, we still have openings for that too. How much does something like that cost a fellow? Hmm. Or a gal. Well, for our tournament, it's two hundred dollars. Wait a minute. A person?
SPEAKER_02No. Right? I know. I was trying to be I two hundred dollars. And that'll get you a whole team of your friends of four. Are we doing five some foursomes? Forsom's.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And a meal. Nice. And because we're doing an evening tournament, we ate, you know, do it different than other tournaments, but we eat first. Yeah. Have a little greeting from the coaches and stuff. Yeah. And then we blast off, and then when it turns dark, we got the the flight winners and and close to the pin, those kind of things, and then the bars open.
SPEAKER_02I've heard they have beer there. Yeah, they sure do. Yeah. And you have to uh we're gonna get a little sound system over there this year, I feel like that'd be a good thing for us to. I mean, it's not that I can't shout, but I feel like the last couple of years I've seemed more angry than I really am. I'm not. I'm just trying to, you know, make sure everybody heard what I was saying. Yeah, well, maybe it's time to do all those spreadsheets.
SPEAKER_01Could be, yeah, could be. Yeah, angry. Yeah, we've visited Coach Callaway and and Gaines and all the new coaches, and they're gonna be around. Uh, they're not gonna be playing, but they're gonna mingle amongst all the groups as they come through the holes and by the clubhouse and stuff. So it'll be a good chance for parents and and woo-ball fans to to meet the new coaches because great.
SPEAKER_02Everybody gets a chance that way to you know, if you're playing, you get a chance to go around and you know, hit all the tea boxes and meet the coaches. That's great. Do we have any coaches that golf right now? Yeah, well, Donadio golfs. Okay, and I think um I mean I can't say this for sure, but I would it would be a shame if Coach Callaway didn't golf. I know. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean the names Do you suppose he's Callaway money? Where's that? I don't even know where that golf company's from. Not southeast Oklahoma. It it's it's not, okay. I didn't know. I was just kind of hoping. Yeah. Yeah, because maybe it's like, well, hey, I got this uh set of Callaway's. Yeah. Door prize. Just got a little something there. Door prizes, how we what do we do there?
SPEAKER_01We we do have some for that. Uh Freedom Fitness shooters, and then actually our host course has donated a free round of golf with a cart. Holy smokes, that's awesome. We'll have silent auction, raffle, and all that kind of stuff too. We're looking for more, so hit us up. But yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, just yeah. So if you're if you got some cool stuff or if you're a business or again, what it's promotional write-off. I know a tax guy. I know a tax guy. Yeah. Yeah. It's you know, uh the best thing, I think, uh, it's just a great night for everybody to get together. Uh, you're still oh a month and a half away from you know uh gridiron action and watching the the kids on on the football field. So it's kind of the first tailgate event of the season. I mean, we kind of said that about um spring ball, but the reality is is that this is just a great opportunity for the diehards to get together and uh come on out and have a good time. And we had a great time last year, I know that, and uh the year before that. So this is our third annual now. And I'm hoping I'll be in town this time because I have not been in town for the last two, and I hate it. I am a horrible golfer. I mean it's I love the idea of it. Yeah, well, you're 14 miles closer to you know, go fishing, you know, after that, if you wanted to. Huh? It's 85 miles to Okeboji. Yeah, I know, but you're 14 miles closer.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02I get okay, I smell what you're cooking. Yeah. I probably wouldn't pull my well, my boat's already over at the lake. Too easy then. It's all coming together. It's all coming together like a plan, yeah. July 10th, huh? I think that uh Sunnyside Farms is probably uh on that list of of uh whole sponsors too, because we I mean maybe not yet, but I mean that's what I told your wonderful wife, and uh so it's weird I didn't make the the cut, but I just thought I'd throw that in there. Well, let's get that added to the list right now. Yeah, I'd like to see some money first, please. Yeah, come on, he's good for it.
SPEAKER_01You know it is if not, we'll beat it out of him, right? Yeah, and and speaking of the boss, I did get clearance from my wife that we are gonna, as if there isn't enough reasons to show up to the golf tournament, we are going to start selling uh cash prize where the ball lies at the golf tournament. But there you go. The perk at the golf tournament is if you are there in person and playing, we're gonna let you pick your yard line. Now we don't do that under normal circumstances because it's a night where everybody wants, you know, the North 42 or the 50 or the 25. Well, I'm gonna let you pick your own.
SPEAKER_02That's yeah, that's a great incentive. Breaking news. That's a great idea. That she's really thinking there. I say it wasn't my idea. Yeah, it is a good idea. Brilliant. It is a great idea. Wasn't mine, great idea. Brilliant. Now, in years past, we've sold we've we've sold uh uh socks that have that came from the team. I've got some of those. Used game worn. No, I don't think they were. I would hope. Or not. No, I mean whatever. It's all good. Most of the I mean, I think they were all like the off-sale ones, like like you know, like normal stuff. Was it the black and purple ones? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. Dude, and then uh we've always had some jerseys. We have more jerseys this year.
SPEAKER_01We will have that back. What's left? There they're still a lot. I mean, there's a couple numbers that are picked over, but yeah, we have the majority, especially like 20 and above. We got a lot.
SPEAKER_02Man, get after it. Come on, folks, get in there, get yourself a little bit of Waldorf memorabilia. Yeah. Well, and then uh speaking of that, we yeah, of course, uh President Bob Allsop usually comes out. We got Chad Gasman that comes out, they usually play together. Uh I don't know how six they have never won. Or have they?
SPEAKER_01I know the Klaus has played every time and they had a couple ringers.
SPEAKER_02Mark comes out there, the golf the golf coach. Yeah, yeah. I he's he's a classmate of mine. And Mark is yeah, okay. A few years ago, I was on the uh they they needed somebody to um to pay for the beer, so they allowed me on their team. And uh Mark was on our team that year and just happened to uh ace number three. Yeah, nice, yeah. Yeah, helps. I know it was like his 17th. And it's like Mark, I mean uh we were all so excited and and uh didn't get a didn't get a drink or stake. He uh I have played with him before uh and won a golf tournament over in Mason City. Nice. And not because of me. But because he was on the team, and then he always says is like, oh you know, you really had some nice uh you had some nice shots over there. I mean, you definitely contributed, and I was like, get out of here with that. So I don't golf much, obviously. And so I'm not I'm not the dude that invests, you know, a couple grand in a set of clubs. And but I so I had some that were probably 20, 25 years old, and one year I was just struggling, which is I struggle anyway, and uh I was I was getting frustrated because I'm not contributing at all in any aspect of the of course management. And uh, you know, I was and Mark Mark kind of being the golf coach comes over and just you know, hey, you know, it's yeah, obviously you don't golf a lot, he said, but but your clubs suck. Yeah, not in so many words, and he was right, yeah. And so I went out and bought some cheap, I don't know what kind they are, just some cheap clubs. But I now I have the toaster on the stick. Yeah, there you go. And I can crank her out there, yeah. That's what I'm talking about. 40-50 yards now it goes past the grass really fast, it's gets past the ladies' teeth. That's what sometimes, yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling pretty confident about my game.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Now before anybody gets intimidated, like a lot of us golfers in this tournament are not that good. So I would say most of us are totally okay.
SPEAKER_02Terrible about a three-hand kit. Yeah, about a three. Yeah, last year we had uh uh Fossey uh on my team, and Ben came out. Uh he and his wife, they did a great job. Of course, we bought one of the ball dryers, uh, they gave us a good deal on that. And uh they golf uh a lot. I think he was kind of disappointed in my playing ability, but uh you know, when you've been a guest on the whatever that show is, the the shark tank, you know, you're probably gonna have a little higher standards than what I was bringing, you know, to to grow us. But but that's yeah, so everybody can come out. Yeah, this is not no this isn't a skills competition, this is for fun. Yeah, you know, but that's that was my excuse. We had a pretty good um spring, uh spring ball game was I thought it was great. Yeah. Um what was fun about it was to change, I guess, the subject, but like, you know, we had uh everybody was out there, they were all doing their thing, and you had a uh uh, you know, basically two teams, black and purple. Purple, and um nobody was wearing the numbers that they typically wear, which was really exciting for me.
SPEAKER_01Kind of hard for the PA guy there.
SPEAKER_02A little a little difficult there. Uh but it was fun to watch and it was cool to watch the new offense. And when we say it's hurry up offense, I mean that was that was springball. And I don't I think that was half speed, hurry up, or at least three-quarter. I mean, it's just gonna get faster and faster. And there were a couple of times that our dearly beloved uh chain gang was caught off guard a little bit because it's like we're moving. Yes, yeah, yeah, it was it's exciting to watch. You know, anything new is is fun, especially when we're dealing with the Warriors. But yeah, you know, Coach Callaway's got the defense rocking and rolling, and yeah, and uh, you know, I'll tell you what, um, Coach Gales, that offense is gonna be exciting to watch. And yeah, um, yeah, we got some some new faces out there, and then we got some old stalwarts that are still on our offensive side, and it's gonna be just a whole heck of a lot of fun. And yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be an interesting season. When Coach Gales said um well, first of all, Coach Callaway said we're gonna move that ball north and south, and Galloway uh came on the neck Galloway came the next time, and he was like, uh we're getting in the end zone. And by golly, they did a good job. Yep, sure did and it was it was well matched. It's always difficult uh to determine how you will compete uh in this incredible conference for sure when you're doing an intra-team, you know, scrimmage. Um, but it was fun to watch and it was cool to see things come together. And you know, we got four quarterbacks and they're all rotating and they're doing different things. Um, and I felt like they were pretty well matched, to be honest with you, and the defense did a great job. Uh our running backs proved that they could run north and south and do their thing. Um, and uh the receivers had a great time. I did give uh George a little bit of a hard time. I saw him afterwards and I was like, I don't know, like, did you are you missing a finger or two, or what happened? Because he had some difficulties catching the ball, and he's always uh uh stalwart, you know, uh returner. So it's gonna be fun to see George this season, but uh he was like, Yeah, no, I just I just missed a couple balls there, you know, you know. So yeah, George.
SPEAKER_01It was a very typical day for this spring. Windy, cool and cold. I I did not get to watch a lot of it because Yes, you were me.
SPEAKER_02Me and Courtney were grilling a hundred and thirty Iowa chops for the And I was thankful for you guys over there by yourself because as um as the hypothermia set in Mm-hmm. Uh, I'm thinking, you know what, this I'm I better go help Adam and Courtney. Yeah, I gotta go stand by the grill. Yeah, and it was warm. Yeah, it was wonderful.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_02We were able to get it out of the wind and work good. Oh, yeah, it was great. I think I hope it seemed like the guys really enjoyed the Iowa chops. Oh yeah. Yeah. I mean, they're delicious. I mean, you just can't you just can't beat an Iowa chop. We've talked about that before on the show, but I'll tell you, um interesting thing, like Coach Callaway, he's like, everybody's waiting till we can all eat together. So that was great for us. I think we timed it very well. I think three quarters of them were done by the time um everybody was in there, and then we're like, well, go ahead and feed everybody, but he's like, nah, we'll wait for everybody, you know, and that was pretty nice. Um, it just it's kind of the old concept, like when I was in the army, we'd make people do, you know, team events or whatever, and you could run, you know, a lap around the track. And it doesn't matter how fast you are, you gotta do it again if you don't all cross the finish line together. And it's and because you're only as fast as your slowest man. And that was uh kind of the philosophy. So it's that old school, uh, good football, good teamwork mentality. Um, the kids did seem to have a good day. Uh, we didn't have a tremendous number of parents, but I bet there were 50 or 60 folks out there in the stands and uh, you know, checking out what we've got going on, and that was kind of fun to see too. That was darn near homecoming 15 years ago. I mean you're not lying. Yeah, I mean, when when the times were tough and Waldorf was struggling to win even one or two games against you know, not the greatest opponents, sure not G Pack talent. Um, yeah, there it was it was light in the crowd. Yeah, but yeah, it was great to see those that many people, great to see some uh some of our old friends back in Four City to you know, some parents and just some fans, and yeah, it was a great time. Yeah, yeah. The they had uh coach uh Callaway beforehand, somebody was throwing the chains. Uh actually um they were throwing them over the fence, and I'm like, what are you guys doing? I said, Isn't the chain gang coming? They're like, I don't know, but they need they need uh down markers. I'm like, oh you wait till they show up. And they did. They showed up in force and uh they had their stuff, their really good stuff, but like you said, they had to run a lot. Yeah, really got moving. Um we did a uh I'd say uh uh it was pretty successful uh for our spring cleanup. Um uh once again we um went out there with the teams and they broke up and uh you know raked people's yards, cleaned up they came out here to Sunnyside and uh did a great job. And uh I was actually I don't know why I had not done that for the last few years. Uh my thought process was because Jack plays it, you know, you don't want people you know coming out to your house and being like, why are we picking up you know one of my teammates yards? Uh but he Jack was out here and we had three crews going on here. Took down eight hundred feet of snow fence and yeah, I had sticks and did a lot of great stuff. I've got uh a couple ash trees in my front yard, or soon I will have had they're dead, and uh man, they are dropping bark like crazy. I mowed yet tonight, and there's a ton of bark laying there, and I was kind of lamenting to my wife about man, I gotta I gotta rake this lawn. She's like, I don't know why you didn't tell the team to come down here and rake. She goes, You you could have had ten guys on rakes. She goes, instead you're just again belly aching about it. I mean, I will use that I mean uh for as long as I can because this place out here, you know, we nine acres of of trees and lawn, and they're gonna get, I mean, just every winter it's it's coming down, and uh there's no way I'm going back one day, just a few hours, and we were done. And that would have taken me weeks.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, absolutely. I get all the checks, and there's all sorts of thank you notes and and so appreciative hearing from the coaches and the players that it's it's a really good deal. Yeah, we were in my mom's yard and one of our neighbors pulls up.
SPEAKER_02Hey, would you guys uh rake up my lawn, just the backyard? I said, Well, yeah, we can we can do that. And of course, I had I went down to the house and got my leaf blower, so it was made it pretty simple around the house. He just had uh rake it along and yeah, so he gave us a nice little donation for what 20 minutes of work and actually Colin Jacobs found a baby little bunny. Did he? Well, he was holding it, yeah, taking pictures. Yeah, he so I Are you supposed to hold a baby bunny? No, I'm sure it's dead now. I was blown out this was after they came, but I was blown out, you know, the the rocks or whatever in the landscaping. And Heidi was over across the yard or whatever. And I mean I well Andy, I've talked about this before. I saw the world's super industrial. Yeah, yeah. Use a backpack. You can't point it straight at the ground, you'll take flight. You will, yeah. And uh, I mean, not me anymore, because I'm you know, gained a little bit, but uh you can blow things out. And I was blown out under this this this little uh juniper bush or whatever, and it was dead. And I was like, I was gonna blow this out, you know. And next thing you know, there's probably like five, six little baby bunnies that's like blew right out with it. So I ran into the barn and I got you know some rubber gloves and put them back there and try to pretend like nothing happened, you know. Uh I don't know if they made it, uh to be honest with you, but I like to think that they did. I like to think they're doing fine. You still got a cat out here? Then come. No, we don't. I ran them. I ran all over. I ran all of our cats over. It's a sad story. Where are we going? What in the world? Yeah, like on purpose? Like, are you? No, I wasn't doing why do I do it on purpose? That's a great question. Well, it's terrible. No, it was an emotional breakdown there. I don't even like cats, but I like these two cats. One climbed in my truck and I drove to town. Well, that was the end of that. And then uh I I felt a bump on the road about two miles in, and I was like, that's weird. I mean, I'm on an asphalt road, you know. And I was like, Oh no. And I turned around, and sure enough, oh it was terrible. Yeah, and then it was too late, and then uh the other one just laid down right behind the tractor wheel, and I was backed right out when I was in that, and that was uh devastating. So uh gas don't do great around here, apparently. Uh uh why is that so funny? That's terrible.
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SPEAKER_02That's so sad. I'm crying. Oh, that was very uh yeah, in a moment. Yeah, it's tough. I hate to hear about cats. I know, yeah. Those two though, they were good. Well, the nice part is you don't you don't have little kids. No, Adam, do you have any cats out at your farm? No cats. Okay. And so yeah, that's the tough part, is that you know, like you get kids like Adam's kids are getting older, yeah, but like when they're small and you you inadvertently harm an animal, yeah. Um then you gotta tell the darn kids. Yeah. And there's tears and stuff like that. Uh I assume there were tears when you I no. I mean, I was very uh uh I was upset. Uh I don't like uh I don't like killing uh our pets, um, but uh it seems to be my job um for the last several dogs. Uh and uh these cats were incidental uh and accidental, I should say, and then I just had to the thing is is that everybody gets uh remember these animals as they were, and they they're like their last memory of them was how they saw them jumping around or having a good time, and my last memory is just just completely different version of what the animals look like. My my wife's grandparents uh they lived outside of Thornton, and uh we'd go out there, and of course, Grandpa Lee always wanted to have cats to keep the mice population down and things like that. But uh to keep the bubonic plague out. Yeah, next thing you know, you'd go out on the road and you know they lived right next to a blacktop, but on the gravel there, there'd be a deceased kitty that was one of theirs, and yeah, but grandpa had a pretty good uh a good philosophy. Dumb ones don't last long. Yeah, I mean so yeah, I mean that's true, unless you're the dude that runs them over with no, I get it. That's gotta be traumatic. Tractor. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It's not a big tractor though, so I wasn't I mean, let's just we'll leave it alone. So we could maybe change the subject away from dead pets. So Adam, what else we got going on for Gridiron Club?
SPEAKER_01Well, I would I would like to publicly thank Coach Callaway, he has been killing it on uh fundraising ideas. Yeah. So all the parents and fans that have bought coffee and popcorn and um I can't remember what the third part was, but financially kick and butt.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we uh and he said we got both the the coffee and the popcorn for sure. And he did the um there was the heels and oh heels and huddles, yeah. Yeah, and I think that uh yeah, we had never thought of the heels and huddles, and the other uh events was like all of a sudden, um I mean Heidi takes care of all that, and that I was like, well, you need popcorn. It was good popcorn. I thought it was good popcorn. Yeah, well, and and the coffee was good too. And I was looking at the list and I was sitting next to your wife, Troy, and and I looked over and I'm like,$25 for a pound of coffee. And she looked at me and said, It's a fundraiser. So still didn't buy any, but yeah, well, thanks, Andy. I'm a fold, I'm a Folgers guy. Oh my god. No, seriously, I I don't like the fancy coffee. I mean, I'll drink Black Rifle, of course, because you know, America. America, yeah. Also great videos. I mean, they do a good job. I don't know what it has to do with you know selling coffee, but those guys are funny. Uh Matt, uh what's his name? Rifle? I don't know. Anyway, yeah, yeah. Matt Best. Campbell. Matt Best is the is the president of that company. Or he's like associated with it. He's an old ranger, yeah, yeah. Not even that old. He's younger than me. Yeah. Well, yeah, but okay. Yeah. All right. So uh geez, where do we go? I mean we did a lot more conversation on dead caps than we did about that. That was I'm sorry, I don't I didn't mean to laugh, Troy. Yeah. And I mean, I sometimes I'll see a cat and I'll be like, don't clean the miles. You won't come. I no, it's the opposite. I was like, you won't you won't come live over here? I've got a great setup in my shop because when I was cleaning out my shop last year or two years ago, whenever it was, and I built um the clean just like scraps. I built this amazing cat tower. Uh Edith loved it. She really loved it. And then I ran her over pretty good. But um, yeah, so I was like, got a good, good setup, you know. Cats, they could they could really enjoy it. You know, sometimes I see a cat rolling through the old acreage, and I'll be like, buddy, you wanna come live with me? And they're like, they already know. They're like, Yeah, we'd love to. I heard you got a good cat tower, it's a nice place to live, feed us well, but you do have a tendency to run us over, you know. Like oh, there is that. So I've got a family member that out on out on their farm, he loves cats, and it's like I shouldn't, yeah, he loves cats, and he keeps his herd, but he keeps it small. Yeah, and like occasionally, you know, you got toms rolling around, and it's like too many five alarm May Day when you see a tom rolling through there, and it's like, you know, get the guns if you ever remember SWAT from when you're a kid at the show where you're running out grabbing your rifle, and yeah, yeah, that was kind of the way it was. That I mean that thing had to die. Yeah, because they get after it. Well, yeah, there's I mean, because you're not going around fixing well, I did. I mean, so there was money wasted, but because they were both female cats and just ran them over. But they they had uh uh they were all taken care of. That was like 12 bucks, though. I mean, 12 bucks, like do that. My parents don't do that. Like I don't know how many female cats they have, but they got a lot of damn cats over there. I'll tell you that. You could just go over and get a couple of those. I don't want them. Okay. Um your mom and dad's cats. Well, she does name them all. I don't even I don't think she actually knows what their names are, but she just makes it up. So no cats at him. I believe her.
SPEAKER_01No cats. Is that one dog?
SPEAKER_02One dog.
SPEAKER_01What's we got a yellow lab Millie. Millie. Is Millie a house dog or Millie is an outdoor dog? She's possibly yeah, and she takes care of the farm, I'm sure. She's on patrol often. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02You're on a nice uh nice gravel road though. So like there's a little bit of a Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So we we have a I love my dog to live outside, just be out there all the time. Yeah, not a lot of traffic. We have a woden address, Thompson phone number. We live in the Buffalo Center School District, but the kids go to Fort City. That's right. They are the first ones on the bus, last one's off, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_02Get on at 5 a.m., get off at six. Now it's not that early. I see that bus go by. I know when they go we get okay, yeah. So just one dog. I don't have any pets. I mean, our our last pet was Frankie, she was a little Boston Terrier, and we loved her to death. But after we had to uh to do the merciful thing for her as she aged out, uh told my wife no, not good. Yeah, that's what I told my wife. And now I've got a three-year-old German shepherd named Knox, who is still two months old in his brain, and uh Ritardo Montelbon. Yeah. I take him we go down, you know, this place that we you know trying to make a pasture and I can't disc very good, and then there's uh I take him down there twice a day. And and he loves it because he can run around and and like really is not gonna go anywhere. Well, except that he has now learned that he does have friends in the neighborhood. So he's got sluggers. My brother's dog? No, he hasn't met he hadn't gone that far yet. But he'll bet you know may get they get up there, you know. He better not. And there's no fast way to get there. Like I turn around and then he's gone. I'm like, where'd he go? Like, well Adam, what's the name of your dog? Millie. Millie. Okay, and Knox. Knox. How do we come up with those names? Kids? Yeah, it was the kids for ours. Yeah. And where where did Knox come from? The fort? Yep, came from me. Uh from uh General Knox, his artillery in the Revolutionary War. Big fat guy that I can appreciate, and he ran the artillery and yeah, our our dog, our dog came with a name because we It's a good name for a German shepherd, no. We adopted her, her name was Frankie. Yeah, but she and they they named her Frankie because when when Terriers are born, the Bostons they have blue eyes and they change very, very quickly, and her didn't change very quickly. So I thought, well, well, she's gonna have blue eyes, so we'll call her old blue eyes. Nice Frankie. Frankie, perfect. Yep, chairman of the board. You have uh Donadio, they they love dogs, don't they? They do, and cats. Oh, they got over there. They got a lot of cats. I think they got a couple cats because I still remember when when Sydney I'll tell you what, I'll go over there with my tractor, we'll take care of the situation. Well, you might want to I thought that Sydney had to like drive out here with, or maybe Danny did with like two cats and a dog on board across the Rocky Mountains. Yeah, I think Danny did that, and then she went somewhere on a business trip and came back with another dog. Oh, yeah, as I recall. Yeah, they love the dogs. Yeah, I didn't know about the cats. Yeah, I've been asking maybe uh maybe when I retire here in a couple years, I should get a dog, somebody to keep me company. Adam was like, this was never on our outline for what we were gonna talk about. We didn't have one, Adam. We talked about the subject of cats. Have you ever you know, like shooters is a big uh friend of ours, and of course we go out there every fall. Gonna do it again.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, good partner for us. Both helping us with meals, post-game meals, and then obviously the coach's show in season. Yeah. And uh, I guess now that we're talking about player or post-game meals, uh, we are looking for volunteers and sponsors for that. So um the way I've been trying to when I the parents I've talked to, I'd be like, well, if you're nearby volunteers, that'd be great if you're able to make it. But we got plenty of parents that can't. Um maybe they can sponsor a meal.
SPEAKER_02We have like five home games and uh five home games, I believe, this year. We do, yeah. About five hundred bucks um at minimum, uh depending on what the menu is that we come up with. Right. So if we can come up with five hundred bucks, twenty five hundred bucks or or more, um, then uh obviously we just feed them more. We also feed the you know the cheerleaders, they work hard during the game and all that stuff, and uh they appreciate that. And you know, and uh Coach Kat, she's done a great job. Uh she's a big part of game day. I don't know if people realize that. She's a big part of the game day planning, making sure that everything flows we're on the same page when it comes to seamless, you know, just like music and going and and uh and all of that. So that's that's uh that's uh that's a big part of of what we do. Um but you know, um uh I don't know if you noticed this, but if you ever pick up a pizza or anything, go around there on the pickup side of of uh shooters, yeah. They got like a deaf cat sign.
SPEAKER_01Bring it back to cats.
SPEAKER_02Wow. And everything I have not noticed that. Yeah, just drive through there sometimes. Well, I've done that before. Yeah, not often, but if you haven't noticed, no deaf cat. I'd probably run it over. No, I wouldn't run it over. Can't hear it. I would try not to anyway. Here you come. Yeah, even if you think a deaf cat talks weird. Wow. I feel responsible. I want to hear sometimes. I want to hear, Troy. Wow. Okay, cat lovers. I'm so sorry. Uh I'm not a cat lover. Um I just like to watch Adam's reaction. We're not filming this, so it's just like you're gonna have to listen and everything like that. For our hearing impaired friends, well, they're probably not listening. Yeah, yeah. I would name a deaf cat Marley. Um why? Marley Mountain. Oh, okay. I mean, you know, if it was a lady cat. Okay. And if it was uh a male cat. Probably still Marley. Okay. Yeah. Like for body. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I uh I didn't I mean I didn't I understand your frame of reference now, but at the time. Yeah. So what books are you reading? This is the best this is the best episode we had in a long time. This is what happened. Uh which is also a listen, if you're listening to this for the uh first time and you're like, I don't understand what this has to do with football. Like, well, if you haven't spent time in our tailgate, uh this is everything. Yeah. Uh because so our tailgate uh section is I think uh well I I'm biased, but I do believe it's one of the best in the G Pack. It is definitely in the top three, which is saying a lot because this is a storied uh conference and and people do support their teams, but when it comes to uh getting out there, having a good time, um Waldorf knows how to get it done. And so if you're out there and you're hanging out in the tailgate area, I mean there's a good chance that you're gonna talk about everything, uh, from football to cats, etc., etc., whatever it happens to be. And obviously, uh the food's out there, uh the smokers are going, the grills are going, uh the you know, crock pots, everything. And of course, uh this year is a slight change in the uh tailgate area, which I'm actually in favor of. Um so Waldorf, not the Gridiron Club, but Waldorf um is going to be um charging for the front row spots on the east side of the sidewalk, which is where the electric posts are. Yep, and I think that's great. Um I don't I don't know exactly what the prices are. I've talked to Chad uh a couple of times, but here's the basic premise. It's like and actually the gridiron club thought of this a few years ago where we talked about it, yeah. You know, we're putting these electrical spots in, why wouldn't we sell these spots? And um the problem is is that for the gridiron club, it's not a problem, it's actually a good thing. But so just so people know, like everything that we buy for Waldorf, Waldorf then owns. Like we don't own what we buy. You know, if we buy uniforms, we buy sleds, the guardian caps, uh, we put the electric in, you know, whatever we do. Um trees. We don't, yeah, trees, we don't we don't own them anymore. They belong to Waldorf. And so same situation. We're like, well, what we we approach. A few years ago, I was like, Well, we could sell these spots because uh it just makes sense. And it's a fundraiser. And Waldorf was like, Well, I don't think you know we want you know necessarily to do that yet. And and they were questioning, you know, like you know, who actually owns it. I was like, Well, you own it. So now, four years later, um, they've come around to the conclusion that they should charge for that, uh, those spots. They're not going to obviously charge for that, you know, first corner spot for where uh we feed the kids, and they're not charging uh Pritchard's for the porta party. Sponsor for the athletic department. Yeah, for the entire athletic department. Yeah. And they're also, I mean, that's I mean, that is kind of a you know, uh it's our calling card. It's iconic, you know. Like nobody else, first of all, there was only five of them made, or seven, or something like that. There's only I think it was seven that were made total ever. Yep, five of them still exist. This is the only one in the Midwest.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Although some of our opponents' fans have looked them up and down pretty close. They wanna some of the guys that know what they're doing, they're looking at the undercarriage and how could I do this? Because this is amazing. And I they're wrong, they're not wrong.
SPEAKER_02They're not, yeah. No, absolutely not, because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. It truly is. Absolutely. That's right. And uh it it it bespokes uh the opportunity for Waldorf to start an engineering department. I mean, they could just make a ton of those, right? I don't know why not. Why not? Right. Yeah, and then we could do some building trades and have the welders there. I'm saying, yeah. Now we're getting there. Yeah. I think we're Bob, we got an empty chair. He should have been here on this. That's true. Yeah. So one of the things, Troy, it would be a disservice to the Gridiron Club. You know, we always we bring in all these people and get to know who they are, and we talk Adam was able to talk a little bit about some of the finances and things like that. But let's get to know Adam Helm. Well, Adam, um, I've introduced you as the honorary captain to uh last year. Uh we had you come in uh as the honorary um uh coin flipper and um uh introduced you as a an all-star baseball player for uh Waldorf University. You're you you grew up around here. The Helm family is a big name in Winnebago County, and you've got uh uh lots of uh uh you know good, you know, just Four City High School and then obviously uh Waldorf. So uh let's I guess start with that. You played baseball.
SPEAKER_01Sure. So my Waldorf football fandom went back to when I was in elementary. So I was a farm kid, so most of the time in the fall, I'm working in the field. Chopping socks was my job when I was little. That was a boy. That was entry level for our operation. But every year uh Brian Stuglmeyer was in my grade, his parents were both professors at Waldorf. I would get invited to Brian's house on homecoming. We'd go, we'd go to the parade, we'd play football in his cul-de-sac in Westgate, and then we'd go to the game. And that was when we were really humming with Coach Bullsdorff. I mean, we we were real good in the 90s. What I what I always remember two things I remember most about the games is they were like hurry up before there was hurry up all over. Yep. We'd huddle up, the receivers would sprint out to their spots, get set, the linemen, tight end, quarterback, and backs would sprint to the line, and on first down they would go 95% of the time. You know, they just sprint up, go quick, and then sometimes they'd go on two and half the defensive line would jump across. But that was when we were humming. We had a bunch of 1A farm kids on the lines and some skill players from down south that were D1, you know, dropouts or fallbacks or whatever, and man, we we won almost every game, felt like.
SPEAKER_02Can you point a uh finger on the exact years in the 90s that you're talking about? Because I feel desperately close to what you're talking about, and this is going to accentuate our the age difference.
SPEAKER_01Probably, let's see, I would have been late middle school, 95-ish, I would guess. Right in that range.
SPEAKER_02Correct. Um, yeah, so when I was there, um 93 to 95, uh back-to-back RC Cola Bull champions. Um, those are the famous pictures that you often see um in uh a lot of the a lot of the highlight stuff. And if you ever have the opportunity to go to uh our Bullsey Awards, which of course is named after uh Dave Bullstorff, uh where we uh give awards to all of our every year we've done it now two years in a row, and uh we continue to do that. I think it's the best. And it's unmatched. There's no other program that does what we do. Um it's a real award show, it's fantastic. And when you consider our record, um it seems like it doesn't match up, but this is the whole goal of the Gridiron Club is to make everything just just bigger than life, you know. And and and um yeah, you're gonna see those pictures, the the the the RC Cola Bowl championships, and you're gonna hear Dave Bullsdorff's voice over the you'll hear that every game actually. Every game you hear Dave Boltorf uh from this podcast that we've added to music, and it it sounds pretty good. So that's funny, Adam. That is uh the I was uh in uh while at Waldorf.
SPEAKER_01I think he got like 10 years on me, so that would make sense. But no, I my roommate from college, um, his dad was from Four City, played baseball and football at Waldorf also from book. And the first year we had the Bolsies, uh, we had the audio clip that you had patched together from your guys' interview with with coach, and that was terrific. And I sent it to him, and of course, he remembers that voice, and he was so thankful he got to listen to and watch watch those. Yeah. That was fifty years ago.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, unbelievable. That was the most emotional podcast that we had because I was literally in Missouri. Goosebumps right now, just thinking about it. I was in Missouri at my at my daughter and son-in-law's place, and we Troy called me and we brought coach in and we just had this. I was literally just outside in an during a beautiful day and got done. Thanks, Coach. And I just remember Troy and I had to have a like a five-minute conversation because it was just so real and raw, and and it was so Dave Bullsdorff. Yeah. Right. I mean, amazing, amazing dude.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and kind of as you alluded to, so when I got through high school, I went to Wallerf, played baseball all four years. So the first year was JUCO, and then we switched my sophomore year to Midwest Classic Conference at that point. Yep. Now the football team wasn't it it had dropped off a little bit then. Sure. But it had nothing like our atmosphere like we have now in the forest. Of course not. Nothing. Yeah. I was so, you know, when I started getting involved in the gridiron club, I was so jealous because like we never had this when I came through. Granted, we were doing fall games and scrimmages and stuff. Might have been a dry campus, too. Good point. Let's make a difference. Yeah, yeah, let's make a difference. Oh how times have changed. Yeah. So who was your coach, a baseball coach, then? So I had Grunsky. I had Grunsky. Yep. I had him. I I I'm I'd have to ask him, but I would bet he has coached me more than anyone else on this planet because he back then he was the freshman high school coach. I had him as an eighth grader. Part of my freshman year, I'd played some varsity and some JV and some of that. And then I had him for four years of baseball in college, where most of the time of his career is only two-year JUCO. So I had him, and then also my let's see, it'd be my sophomore year. Our head coach, or was going to be our head coach, was Randall Herbst, was the men's coach for Waldorf. Well, he took a job North Dakota in May. We had started like one or two weeks of practice. We were going to be really good. We were top five all in the state all year, and we needed to coach. Well, Coach Jerome's son Jeff and Mike or Christensen and a couple of them were going, and your brother-in-law, we're going to be pretty good. And some of them were going to go to Waldorf. So Coach Grunski stepped in and coached him when I was a sophomore. Title three years in a row and then four in college. Titled for seven seasons. Randall Herbst was uh Randall was gonna be a bat baseball coach. He was a year high school baseball coach. He uh a few years before that, he took Was he not the basketball coach? Yes, he was. Yes, he was. He took SCMT to state like a couple three years before he came to Four City as a basketball coach. He was came to Waldorf as a basketball coach.
SPEAKER_02He was a year behind me at Waldorf. He was class uh really 1991. And uh the claim to fame that I remember Randall is that one of my good friends decided that he would drink alcohol before he came down to a basketball game and sit in the front row. You do, yeah, yeah, and so he had too much to drink. And I remember I was sitting behind him and uh Randall was dribbling the ball um up the side court, and uh my buddy puked on the floor right in the middle of the game at stop play. Beautiful. That was the days, that was the Mason days.
SPEAKER_01Yes, it was and Mason, yeah, yeah, and then so kind of related to my story, when I really started to get involved in the gridiron club was I can't remember the year, but I'd met Will and Callie, tree town in the summer, and great people. I'm like, oh, I can support these people, yeah. But I mean Callie likes Nebraska, so I kind of look the other way on that, but but otherwise, great people. So I'd gone to a couple games, like, wow, this is a great atmosphere. Will moved on. I don't think anybody was too surprised. He's a terrific coach, absolutely, and no surprise there. And then we had Paramore for a few months, and then you know, he kind of left in a tough time for us, and I remembered that from when Herbst took a job at me right before the season. Like, oh my gosh, I I feel for these guys. They felt like they got the rug pulled out from under them. It's like, you know what? I'm gonna write the check, I'm gonna be a gridiron member. Awesome. That was the first time, you know. Obviously, I'm good friends with Courtney too, and I'd helped Grill at uh the spring game several years ago. And he's like, hey, we we need a treasurer, and you like Wall Air football and you do income taxes in the winter, like I'd probably be a pretty good job for you. I was like, of all the thankless jobs from school board to yeah, church board, all these things, like I can get behind this one, it's not paid, it's a lot of fun, and do our best to help these guys out.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, and you've done a great job, Adam. I mean, like we're very thankful to have you and Trista as part of our team. I don't think people realize how Mr. and Mrs. Gridiron. There's really easily yeah, uh for sure. Yeah, there's a group of you know, maybe eight, eight or ten, you know, uh that that uh gather out here about once a month, not always, it's like every other month, and it depends on the like after the season is over, we take a little bit of break. We have a good time for uh like a holiday party out here, and then um but uh when and we didn't meet in uh May, just in case you were or well no, we will meet in May. We did not meet in April. Right. Um and uh but we're getting close to uh a lot of other, you know, obviously into the season. You guys you know what you and Trista do uh for the Gridiron Club is so significant and important for what you know nobody there isn't another uh organization in all of the sports that Waldorf has that's like the Gridiron Club. No. Uh and in many conversations with administration and with um, you know, just you know, the the athletic, um, you know, the director and everything like that, just like what we do and how we do it is what will become um the future for Waldorf University Athletics. That's what it will be. At some point, you know, it'll be like how we have set it up, our committees and and our organization and our structure is what they intend to replicate. And I gotta tell you, like, I've had the uh experience, the unfortunate experience uh of being um unfortunate in in in one way, and it's only that it ended under my term, is that when when Waldorf had its own uh Warriors uh sports boosters, um I was at the end of the road, and I just happened to be the president when that happened, and I just you know, we just could not get structure and committees and things like that. That was a for-profit college at that time, and everything that I learned from that um has helped us be successful in this case, but it comes down to the individuals, and you just really have to appreciate uh Waldorf University mostly for the kids and the player, like the the the actual student athletes. Right. And you came from that, right? Different sport, but those memories that you're talking about in the early nineties and the the effect that football had on everything else that we did, that is the that's the true mantra.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm thinking back to that. I I think I'm gonna have to talk to Coach Kat, you know, and I why I remember this, I don't know, but one time a game, the cheerleaders, when they really want to get everybody fired up, they'd go reach in their bag and they had little boxes, like single-use boxes of laundry detergent. You know what brand it was? Cheer. They would throw that in and the students, poor poor college students that don't have any money. I need laundry song. Yeah, they'd cheer. They'd be real loud, get into it. And do they do they still make cheer? I have no idea.
SPEAKER_02I don't either.
SPEAKER_01But it made an impact on my eight, nine, ten-year-old self. I'm like, wow, cheer.
SPEAKER_02Brilliant, clever, cheer. Clever. You know, I gotta go back to one of the things you talked about. I think that was Jal Ovette that was the cheer. Julie was, yeah. Yeah. Could be. Yeah, many years. But you had said something about um Callie Finley and uh being a Nebraska fan, which is mind-boggling because Callie is a doctor. She has her doctorate in nursing in nursing, and so she's obviously brilliant, but then you have to couple the brilliant intellectual mind with a Nebraska fan. It doesn't add up, does not add up. I mean, I don't know if Tom Osborne would agree with you on that, but um who is it Osborne? Tom Osborne? You've heard of Tom Osborne, haven't you? No, I never heard of that guy? No, pretty sure he's a doctor. Oh, he was the athletic director for a little while and drove the bug eaters into the ground. Oh, that's ding dong. So anyway, um, Adam, so okay, we we talked Waldorf, uh, but let's talk about your your we talked, we said Trista a little bit. Trista is his rock, his anchor, and everything for him. How did you meet your wife? Yeah, how'd that happen?
SPEAKER_01What's going on? Well, I got Waldorf to credit for that as well. All right. Um, she was a golfer, a couple years younger than me. So we like she likes to tease uh Jason Brookhoff, um, who's been a gridiron supporter in the past, too. He was the golf course then, uh golf coach then. So he recruited her. So my father-in-law thought it was pretty clever at our wedding reception to give Jason Brookhoff credit for getting us together, even though all he did is recruit her to this school. But yeah, I don't know. Carrie the one, I guess that math checks out. She's an Iowa girl, right? She's yep, she's from Wellsburg. Wellsburg, WSR. Yeah. AGWS. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Technically. She was like me. She opened rolled, she went to Grunny Center.
SPEAKER_02But that's what I thought because I've seen some of her social media stuff about rooting on the Spartans down there and Yeah, she likes uh teasing the West Hancock friends because they've played in the state state final several times. Sure have. And so from uh from this relationship, you guys have brought some beautiful lives into this world. Fantastic kids.
SPEAKER_01But Haley is eighth grade, or just finishing eighth grade. Wow. High school. Reagan is sixth grade, just finishing up, and Tobes Toby is third grade. Wow, that's awesome.
SPEAKER_02And yes, Troy's right, wonderful children, great family. Um, really a rock here in Winnebago County and Four City and obviously the Waldorf community. So 100%. Yeah, yeah. Uh and then uh Kirk. Now he's who's Kirk is my younger brother.
SPEAKER_01He's closer to the bunker here.
SPEAKER_02He's close to the bunker. He texted me and said, Can I get some of your chickens? Oh, he thought you had broilers.
SPEAKER_01I do. Oh, you did. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah, I was thinking hen hella, but we got both.
SPEAKER_02No, we got both now. Yeah, he was he was so you've expanded your operation.
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SPEAKER_02I'll tell you what, right now I'm in the midst my my occupation is in the midst of of doing some uh disaster pre pre-planning for a large egg laying facility. So I mean if you want me to step in and help you out, look me up. I don't think you have to worry about my egg laying situation. Or do I? I mean we keep it pretty down low out here. We're not we're not letting the USDA know how we're operating our still today. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I think that um uh you know your your uh your obviously your connection to Waldorf is is uh long long in the tooth. And um those memories um now do you have any family that like were you were you the first to go to Waldorf or do you have other people?
SPEAKER_01I I was the first. My my younger brother Cody did uh play baseball there a little bit also. Okay. Um so he would have been only in the four-year situation, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. My my mom, she she did golf and softball in your favorite level of competition. D three. D three, beauty. The beavers. Yeah, but yeah, well.
SPEAKER_02I got recruited to play football for B V, but be careful.
SPEAKER_01There's some neighbors that are going that route next year, you know. I know, I know. I know Jason and everything.
SPEAKER_02So it's like uh look, I think if you can play uh if you can, you know, um if you can play sports somewhere, um I don't think that D three is a bad option. There's great competition there. That is absolutely true. There's no doubt.
SPEAKER_01Oh, sure.
SPEAKER_02Um Wartburg football right now.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, good football. Yeah, football in the state of Iowa, period. Period. From DUCO's to D three to Iowa West. I am hard. A lot of national champions coming from this little old state in the middle of nowhere. What'd you say?
SPEAKER_02I am hard on the uh D3 uh programs just because I feel like sometimes they don't give the kids a fair shake, you know, as far as like the keeping their promises, you know, with the with the scholarships that they give them for like leadership and yeah, I don't know, you know, abracadabra magic and stuff that they do. But I do um there's no doubt that the competition is real and that those those players are giving it their all. So I do not discount the the athletic effort in the computer. No, absolutely not three at all. No, I I that's so I should probably clarify. I I I think I or Courtney Woogie, D3 athlete. Yeah, but see, he kind of like you know throws that now he's no, because that that that counterdicts what I'm trying to say.
SPEAKER_01Like I'm trying to say, like you're gonna hold Courtney against all of D3. Wow.
SPEAKER_02No, I only say that because Courtney's got all of our insurance, so like that's fine. He can earn that. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. So uh we're getting close to the end here, folks, and what you know if you listen to this podcast before, we always give our guests the last word. Absolutely. I'm interested tonight because normally we have coaches and football players, and occasionally we have have some one-off, and it's been obviously awesome to have uh have Adam in the bunker. Um, but Adam, you know how it goes. You've listened to the podcast before, and I don't know if you've uh come up with a script or anything like that, you know, prior to your arrival here. Um, but we're gonna give you the last word on this episode of the Waldorf Grid Iron Club podcast. I'm gonna give you a prompt though for one part that I we did not talk about the decal in a uh midfield, and that is that's a fundraising point that uh uh we're gonna do. So do you want to start separate with that? Um yeah, sure. And then if that like is your mind's probably working two different okay, two different ways. I need to make that work. Yeah, we need your money, folks. We're gonna put a big W in the middle of the brand new turf. I don't know when they're gonna start the project, but um the Waldorf W is going in the middle of Bullstorff Field. You know who has to pay for that? The Waldorf Gridiron Club. Because we said we would. You know how we pay for that? You me? I mean you and the like they can't see you, so uh like yeah, yes, you donations from the gridiron club. Yeah, that's where I was hoping you'd go with that. Because I don't, I mean, if you need 20 grand, I could scrounge it up, but it's easy to donate.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and we do, we do. Adam. Uh the website, uh, if we take all uh credit cards, debit cards, it's wildlifegridiron club.org. Do we do bitcoin yet? No, we do not do bitcoin. You can give us bitcoin. There is a list on our website. I encourage all the the new fans, and you know, we've had some new commits in the last couple. Weeks or whatever, so I'm sure they're just learning about us. If they got through the cat stuff and they listened through till now, I mean I would definitely look at our website and see the project. I think the cat stuff kept them. Yeah. Exactly. I want to talk more about killing cats. But we got some ideas for projects on there. Uh get you on it, um, let you know how to get in touch with us. Um, you know, we can do um like Skype meetings or team meetings for our our monthly meetings. Uh, we'd love more input. We like we need volunteers and that kind of stuff. Uh we also have Venmo if that works better for you. We're at Waldorf Gridiron Club. And then um you also can mail checks to us right here, P.O. Box 125 for City Iowa, 50436. Nice. And I think most probably know, but like say if we have some new fans or first-time listeners, uh, we are a 501c3, which means they're all tax-deductible donations. And he works in accounting, folks. Yeah. Are you a CPA? I am not a CPA. I'm a tax preparer in the winter, though. All right, so he knows. But it is something to bring up, you know, mom and dad back home far away. Maybe their employer is looking for a nonprofit to support. Oh, it is, you know, that's options in town. We we hit up all the businesses here in town, but you know, our listeners are from all around the country. Absolutely. If you're in the Russian Federation, send us a check.
SPEAKER_02I don't can we convert what rubles? Rubles? Is that what they do? Okay. Yeah, we'll see. I was thinking, we'll take vodka though. They're pretty good at paying in vodka, you guys in the old uh I mean if it's a big enough number, we'll make it work. And we talked about a fundraiser a while ago to have a have a uh distillery, like a local distillery, make like something that we could sell, you know, for the like a the tailgate staple. You know, it'd have to be pretty low EV because it's a long day. Yeah, thanks to the uh uh Vital Emily Maneer, uh Vitality Shake and Energy Bar, um uh donated uh to uh the Gridiron Club recently, and uh and that was in honor of uh February ambassador winners Parker and Luke. They selected this organization as part of their ambassador rewards. So that's that's amazing. Yeah. So there's lots of ways to contribute. And um Carrie Broy will be in touch because uh she's uh been trying to get a hold, she's gotten a hold of us a couple of times. So um she's uh uh I think a parent they're one of our uh players, and so um it's just so much fun. Like it doesn't matter where you live or uh you know you know where you're from. Uh text the show. Text the show, be a part of the be a part of the meetings. Uh we'll let you know uh our next one is coming up uh next week, I think. Is it is it next week? Next Wednesday?
SPEAKER_01It's soon. I got a meeting tonight. Get in touch with us if you want to Skype in or for sure. I can't remember. All right, Adam, you had time to think about it.
SPEAKER_02Texas show.
SPEAKER_01Well, I I just want to thank all our donors um here and abroad for the past year. Um so our fiscal year is it's kind of squirrely, it's right during the season. Um but last year we had a couple one-off donations for the big tree project we had last fiscal year. But you know, we're we're we're efficient with your money. We're we're not paid paid anything like that. We drive to buy the cheapest food for the guys, you know. We're not paid for deals. No, hold on. We're not paid? No. No, but just status. But all that said, we still um spent fifty thousand dollars on the this football program last fiscal year. That's amazing. So good job, guys. That's why we lean into these things, try to take care of the guys, take care of the coaches. Um, you know, coaches have come and gone, players come and go. We're still here. We're still gonna support everybody wearing that jersey. That's awesome. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_02Well, that's gonna have to do it, folks. That was oh man, that was a fun episode, Troy. Absolutely, absolutely. That was great. Adam, thank you so much for being here. Bet. And uh, you know, yeah, your wife beat you to it. But at the same time, I don't know, you guys are gonna have to compete, listen to each episode and decide who had the better, right? Boy, I feel like we're gonna win on this one because I know who has the most cat killing. Yeah, dead cats. Yeah, dead cats always win. Yeah, yeah, don't they? All right, folks, that's gonna do it for this episode of the Waldorf Gridiron Club podcast. Thanks for taking some time out of your very busy schedule to listen to us. Now remember, uh, get to our website, uh, Adam spelled it out for you. Uh we need your money. We do. Uh that's that's just the long and short of it. We're gonna put the the W on the field. Uh the third annual Waldorf Gridiron Club on July 10th. Make sure you get in, get registered, get your team, be a whole sponsor. All those different things need to happen uh just for the furtherance of the Waldorf Gridiron Club. Yeah, to register for that. We didn't mention that, and I'll put this link in here as well. You got to go to Woo GridironEvents at gmail.com to register your team for that third annual golf tournament.
SPEAKER_01And make sure if you want to rent a cart, you need to call ahead. I don't forget that. That's right. Yeah, call ahead.
SPEAKER_02All right. That's gonna do it. There you go, Adam. Thanks, buddy. You bet. All right, that's gonna do it for this episode of the Waldorf Gridiron Club Podcast for Troy Thompson. This is Andy Buffington, and forever and always go the Warriors.
SPEAKER_00You can join the Waldorf Gridiron Club and be part of the best small college football experience teams on the network. Just visit our website and get your membership level at Waldorf Gridiron Club.org. You can also click on the Support the Show link in the show notes to donate.
