EP #6 - Slacker Dave Loves Wisner Nebraska

This is episode number 5 of the Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast!

On this episode Dave visits the Wisner Heritage Museum! Gregg Moeller, along with Ina Glaubius, sit down with Dave and give the history of the town. In the second half of the episode Dave and Gregg take a tour of the museum!
I have to apologize for the horrible video work on the tour, we are learning as we go!
Thank you all for watching and listening!

Transcript

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Hey, hey, uh, welcome to the Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast. Uh once again, shout out to everybody who's been uh liking and subscribing and following and all that fun stuff. Uh thank you very much. Um this would be, I'm guessing this is gonna be episode number six. So yeah, yeah. This will be number six. Um pretty excited about that. Uh thanks to uh the sponsors, the zoo rox, uh and uh Rick Peters. Thanks to Kane and uh thanks to my lovely wife Amanda, who is here in the background. She's back in the few say hi, say hi. Hello. Hi everyone! Right on, right on. We are Indeed, yes, we are in Wisner, Nebraska, um uh the hometown homestead of myself. Uh and we were joined by Double G himself, Greg Moeller. You might you might remember him from uh such memorable episodes on the Slacker morning show, such as Greg Muller Takes Over the Show. Enjoyed. And Greg Muller takes over the show. Enjoyed again. And then Greg Moller plays uh Cool 45s, and then Greg Moller plays an actual piece of cardboard on the record player, and we do it serial box records. So um we are at the uh Wisner Heritage Museum. Yes, I got it right. Uh you might remember from episode two talking to Matt Steinhausen, that uh we were randomly talking Nebraska things, and I said, Well, I'll have to find out the history. I'll have to get it from Greg Moeller. So we got it right here, right now. Uh um, and uh uh though we we we really do feel we both uh I don't know if you listened to the episode, but we both thought you should start writing a book anytime soon on the history of Wisner. I've been told. I've been told. Yeah. Uh and then we are also joined by Ina Globigus. Yes. Did I say that right? That's a hard name to say sometimes. Uh and uh you uh what's your direction? You what's your She's our taskmaster. Taskmaster. She's our taskmaster. If something needs to be done, she makes us do it. If not, we she does it herself and makes you feel bad because you didn't do it? Totally. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because you should have done it anyway. But she did it better than we would have done it anyway, so it all works out. Oh yeah. Oh, by the way, I'm real good at getting other people to do things anymore. You're the organized one. You know what needs to be done. Is Roustabot a good term? Oh, Roustabou, uh Ramrod. There you go. As in the uh John Wayne movie McClinton. I'm the ramrod around here, you know. But uh they're uh they're having an open house today, and they're giving uh uh uh root beer floats today. So we're having root beer floats. Uh Amanda, what's the thumbs up? You got a thumbs up? Yeah, it's super good. Super good, super good thumbs up, excellent. Thank you. Oh, this is fun. This is fun. So uh the Wisner Heritage Museum, one of the probably one of the most famous things you can see back there, uh Phil's Tire Shop. Uh uh. Legendary, legendary. We'll get to Phil's tire shop later. But I want to know the history of Wisner. Uh no, it's named after a railroad exec of the Sioux City. I think there's something else in there too. Like Elkorn Valley. Let's see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You weren't expecting a quiz. Well, no, I mean I brought it up because I looked it up just to make sure. What's always intrigued me is the river. Fremont Fremont Elkorn, Missouri Valley. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the first one. That was the string that went north. Yes. Came from West Point and stopped. Ended here in Wisner and then kept going on. Kept going, going, and going. And then actually the railroad ended up in Borland, Wyoming. This one went all the way to Wyoming. That's pretty cool. Well, the uh was it the unincorporated name was Lakeview, wasn't it? Yes, Lakeview. I looked that up on the the Wikipedia has a really good thing on Witner. I don't know who did that one. It was actually me. I wrote most of it. Oh, excellent. Of course. I wrote a lot of Wikipedia. I I wrote a lot of Wikipedia artists. I my study halls get pretty dull. I teach at Worcester Pilgrim, so if you're wondering why the study hall is dull. Uh where Canes Lake is, right? Yes. The black top. Uh the we just came through town when we came here. I'm like, whoa, there's only one lane. The bridge is uh getting a new bridge. That's uh pretty fancy. I know. Needed, because I've kayaked underneath that bridge. It needed to be. It's over 60 years old, so yeah, yeah. That's alright, and it got hit by one couple floods already. So that's harsh. Well, while while Dave is busy uh imbibing in his Rupier float, um just showing you some of the items we have here and Dave's connection. By the way, we grew up about 30 yards apart from each other, and Dave grew up about 20 yards from railroad tracks. So here to see if anybody comes. We're we're all yelling and waving at Sandy Sassman behind behind the camera. Uh this is, and uh just to make sure that Dave is you know properly endorsing here, this is a Vance Rabie Construction hat. And that is Slacker Dave's father. Yeah, yeah, and a beloved neighbor of mine and my wife Michelle's. And uh so we have to have there we go. There we go. Indeed, there we go, the Vance Raby Construction. And to show you what our museum is kind of like, this is part of my father's hat collection. My father, we've got probably about two, three dozen hats that my father, people would give him a hat or he would ask for it. He'd wear it maybe twice, throw it in a closet, never wear it again. And so he'd always be walking around downtown with a new hat, toss toss it away, never wear it again. And when Dale passed away, here's his closet full of hats. And we want to put it there on display throughout the museum here, including Fance Rabbi Construction. That's cool. Thank you very much, Greg. Um, yeah, by the way, that row beer float is pretty dang good. The ladies do an awesome job. Uh, we had uh uh running running theme of the show so far, uh uh the diners. Uh we ate at the uh Derry Keen for breakfast the morning. And dang, they do eggs uh really well. Their pancakes were amazing. The biscuits and gravy were amazing, Amanda says. So the uh the uh you can't really have a bad diner, and uh it was great. The Derricky's one of those old 1930s throwbacks that just has continued on. It was uh originally built out of an old gas station that was on that side. Oh, I can see that. I can see that. A little tiny gas station. We've seen pictures of it. Well, you can still see where the yeah, the pumps were, yeah, yeah. And uh then it was about in the like early 60s, he renovated it, put up a new building. When we were kids, they actually added seats. Oh, yeah, yeah. Because it was just a little building, and then they added on for the um, yeah. You actually sit down and had tables and everything. Did they start the Dairy King? Um I believe they did, yeah. So yeah, Royal DeWitz. That was a uh local cameraman photographer, and he started that. That's where I think he even patented some of his recipes. I thought I read that somewhere that he had well a keen burger that's somewhere somewhere in the U.S. Patent office. And it's nestled in there. And the roughneck. And the rough neck. Oh, the roughneck. Oh for those who don't know, I can the best that way I can describe a roughneck, and it's not perfect, uh, is if you go to Dairy Queen and get a peanut buster parfait and you add malt powder on the top of it, it's the closest thing you can replicate without the redskin uh peanuts and uh, you know, uh yeah, pretty good. So I've you know, I've being not a you know, living in Lincoln, not having the Dairy Keen, I've you know, done my best to replicate the Roughneck. You learned to survive. You learned to survive. Yeah, hacks, hacks, yeah, yeah, totally hacks. Uh love the roughneck. Yeah, we could do a whole show on the roughneck, I think, if I wanted to. But uh uh so Wisner, primarily at first just railroad town. I believe you could probably qualify at that. It was uh with the local, the Irish workers, some of them that stayed, bought lots as the railroad worked its way through. As I understand, the railroad came and they bought the Elkhorn Valley Land and Company bought land and sold, you know, farmland and sold lots here in town. Yeah. Kind of like on where Main Street is right now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is called Ontario at the time. Oh, Ontario Main Street was Ontario Street. What is technically Main Street uh ultimate Avenue E since the early state? Avenue E, yes. Oh god, I can't believe I forgot that version. But I think according to the history book, they sometime in the I don't know, 50s or 60s, they changed from all these interesting names to streets and avenues for the benefit of the uh fire department rescue. Oh, just having the letters and the knowing where to get one. Yeah, okay. So where is like Oneida and Cayuga and a lot of those names? There's a lot of industry, a lot of Indian names. Those names were all uh like tribes from like New York State because that's where the railroad people were from. Yeah, railroad people came from. Uh interesting side note that I learned it w uh from my interview with Matt Steinhausen is there's a bunch of lines of the railroad that actually go in alphabetical order. Like South by Kansas. It's like I I'm I'm not saying the right names, like Arapaho, Browning, you know, Cumming. That makes sense. That would make sense. They like the they literally named them in alphabetical order. And uh I just thought that was pretty cool. And I just couple of them, the alphabet lines they call them. They're all named after either uh people from the uh railroad or places that the railroad exec liked, you know. So Link, he explained the whole Lincoln. There's a whole there's a whole uh Boston area of Lincoln that's just pretty much named by the railroad. Somebody was from Boston. But all right, back I I I digress. Sorry. It's your show, Dave. Digress away. I uh I digress. So uh what uh did cattle come in primarily right away? Well it was hogs at first. Hogs. I remember I read uh Willett Price's book. Willett Price was a uh, if you can be a legendary veterinarian, he was a legendary veterinarian. He served in the military. Uh he was uh fairly naturally renowned, and uh he wrote his autobiography just months before he died, actually. I think it was published after his death, in fact. Uh he uh he said that uh there was another vet that first that there were two vets that settled in town. And uh there was uh Doc there was a Dr. Nye, which is the Nye Hill, right? Nye Hill, which is the highest point in Wisner is named after him, and his house and his uh vet barn are still standing. And when were those built? Those were built probably about the formation of the town, 1860s, 1870s. Yeah, yeah. I we live we rented the house when we first moved to Wisner. Oh, wow, yeah. When when my wife and I came back, and uh it's a beautiful, beautiful old home. So Nye had his place, he basically owned the entire hill. Yeah, and then slowly sold lots. And then there was a uh Dr. Pearson. And Dr. Pearson came in and was the man that uh because what's unique about veterinaries is it's basically you don't just start up a veterinary, you take someone's veterinary over. Yeah, and um because that's what happened with uh uh this uh Willard Price. He came in and took over this Dr. Pearson's like the 1920s. And Pearson said there was more hogs in a 30-mile radius of Wizard than anywhere in the world. Oh wow and that was about the 1920s. The cattle really didn't start coming in until uh Louis Dinklage. There were cattle canes and there were a lot of cats. There were some cattle cattle feeder, cattle ranchers, but I think the cattle feeding um you know that everybody knows it today. Yeah really really took off with uh and he Louis Dinklage he he and he uh uh not I don't want to say the word invented, but like modernized? Modernized the the feeding industry kind of thing where you weren't ranching, you weren't grazing. People people don't understand, people come into Wisdom and they think locals own all the cattle. And that's not the case with the cattle feeding, what's meant to be it's it's almost like a uh kennel prospect, where someone else's cattle are brought in and they're fed and pampered and nurtured, for lack of a better term, and then they're shipped elsewhere. So this is kind of this is kind of where people send their cattle to get them prepared and reared for uh you know shipment elsewhere. Yeah. Because uh because well the old days with railroads and and with now with semis, the uh shipping is really, really tough on the cattle. And so uh part of the reason for having the cattle here is to get them you know prepared physically for the travels. Yep, yep. Yeah, yeah. That's a big industry, big industry. Um and it's also where the term smell of money comes in. Oh, yeah, yeah. We we mentioned uh I was like that's that's that's the smell of money, baby. Last night I said that a few times. Um so uh as always I'm uh all over the place. But do we know anything about the area before the Wisner was settled? Who was who were the before what? Wisner was settled. Before Wisner was settled, like what Indian tribes was it primarily Sioux? No, not not Sioux, not Sioux. Probably farther, by the way. Yeah. Okay, western Nebraska. And uh I know a lot of the local families have stories of the Indian tribes working their way through. My grandmother had a story where she was a little girl growing up on their farm, like 1908, without the wizard. And the Indian tribes would follow the Rock Creek. Yeah, which is like you know, a story all its own, but for another day. But the uh Rock Creek, these Indian tribes would follow the Rock Creek working their way towards the Missouri. And they would stop by and they would see they they knew my grandparents' my great-grandparents' farm as a friendly place. Yeah, they would stop by and they would trade for food. Yeah, yeah. And they would trade homemade, they like handmade dolls for my grandmother and her sisters. Oh wow. For food and supplies, and then they'd be on their way. Um, but uh, you know, that was you know, that's kind of what this area was for the longest time. Uh other other things that always excite me when I talk about like the Elkhorn River. Like, do you do we know if anybody from the Lewis and Clarks people, I know they came up the Elkorn, did they make it this far? Do we know anything about that? I've always heard them more, you know, kept working their way up towards Sioux City in that region. Yeah, but I've also seen how they went up, like they went up all the rivers. If it was a tributary, they went up it to go to Sioux City. More sure, probably for hunting and yeah. Yeah. It's indeed possible. Okay, we don't well, no thing. And then uh I'm always like fascinated by the dredging of the river. I've seen some pictures, I think. I think there's some pictures here of maybe of them having trying to straighten the river. Colossal failure. Yes, because it was well, it was there was so much flooding, especially between Pilger and Wisner, because the river just took this crazy radical, you know, serpentine route. Which it's supposed to do. Yeah. And so they decided just to cut a path right down the middle and they would leave lakes on the outside. That's where you get around here, you have Hansen's Lake, you have Candor's Lake. A lot of Oxbow lakes. Yes. And uh you have uh a lake just to the south of us here that uh uh sadly has died out, but was a legendary area because of the sediments and all that. And uh my grandfather remembered all that. Yeah, yeah. You know, he remembered he remembered uh the old Highway 275 driving west of Wisner where you basically had to go past the lakes, the river came right up to the road. Oh wow gravel road. And then when they they cut that all off, it went straight, but it also picked up a lot of speed. And then they realized maybe messing with nature is not such a great thing. Because what it did was it made it the water went faster, and when it went faster, it would hit the other, you know, where it hadn't been straightened, and it made a mess down that way. So I've uh I've kayaked between uh Wisner and Pilger, uh, I mean Beamer multiple times. And uh yeah, they the river's doing what it wants to do on that little trivia right there. They I remember when that one time there's a flood, and then about halfway through by where um oh god, I don't even remember Sally Erb's house would have been. You know what I'm like halfway through, and then all of a sudden the the river just after a flood, it never went back from that that thing there, and then uh, and then bound by the bridge down there by Pilger, it's it doesn't want to go where they want it to go. And in the end, the rip, you know, the rip water always wins. Yeah, yeah. Water wins everything, you know. You can't beat a water water. No, you can't. Uh but uh so I don't even know where we're at. So the main industry has always been the agricultural industry. Yeah, pretty certain, yes. There's been like little individual things, such as uh we're right too far away. You may remember the herbs owned where there was a brick mine. Oh yeah. Not too far away from where we're at right now. Uh, but that was primarily for local. Well, a lot of communities have their own little brick mines for local buildings and things like that. Yeah. But it I would say it's mostly. It's been the ag it's been the ag ag related ag related. My husband's great great grandfather, they came out here in eighteen sixty eight and Wisner wasn't established till uh eighteen seventy one. Okay, okay. So B word like South of town. And then other people came, you know, and I think then settled north of town. And it's kind of the German South of town, Irish north of town. Yes, which is always kind of, and it's kind of like the Lutheran Catholic thing too. That's just always kind of intrigued me. Uh knowing that my whole life is like I didn't, I probably never thought about it, but it was like My father told me that uh again you had the Rock Creek area south of town. That's where all the German Lutherans settled. Yeah. And they felt insulted because they'd come into town, and the Irish Catholics that could speak English would make fun of them. Then you had the Norwegians north of town. Oh yeah. That avoided everybody. Yeah, yeah. But my my father said my grandpa was a great practitioner of uh how on Saturday nights the German Lutherans would come into town, get drunk with the Irish Catholics, they would just beat the absolute snot out of each other. And the next Sunday, everyone's hung over, beat up, goes to church, everything's back to normal on Monday. That was that was that was the routine. That was the routine on Saturday night. Oh God, that's funny. Um I don't even know where to go right now after that one. Oh my lord, oh my lord. But that's what the but the but that was something that was always that's always intrigued me about Wisner is you think of little towns as just little towns. Yeah, but they're just as fractioned and neighborhoods, and you know, like I said, we talked about the Rock Creek South town again. That was it even had its own post office for a while. And that's where virtually all my family came from. My dad's family, my mom's family. Um you know, like I said, they felt insulted coming into Wisner because you know the Wisner people kind of look down on the Rock Creek folks. You know, you're thinking Wisner's a town of a thousand people and they're all dirt farmers and cattlemen, cattlemen and ranches, all that, and thinking they're superior. You know, you know, though, there's probably somebody that tells a story about how when the Rock Creek people came in, they were not that great of people. And you know It could have been. It could have been. Hatfields and McCoys, you know. There's always there's always the two sides to every story, right? I've always heard the German side. I can I'm I'm sure the Catholic Irish Catholic side was. We get a canine here, and it's probably gonna be uh totally different. We were trying to be the nicest people, and they didn't like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I always like uh so I'm uh I'm a rabi R-A-B-E. There we go. And then there's also the R-A-A-B-E rabies in the Wisner area. And I was like the old guys used to always tell the stories about how the two brothers got mad at each other, and then the one added an A to his name, you know, or the uh other side is the two brothers got mad, and the one brother took out an A in his name and left the family, you know. I mean, it's both sides. Well, so many of those families, too, around here, uh they would anglicize the names because nobody could spell them. That's true, true, true, true. They would look at a double A rabi and go, this isn't making any sense. And you know, over at, you know, even though a lot of the communities around here predate uh Ellis Island. A lot of people predate Ell Ellis Island as far as immigration. Yeah, a lot of families were here predate that. Well, Ellis Islanders went in early 1900s. Yeah, the late 1880s, 1890s. Because there's a lot of people like south of town anyway, they were here in the like 1860, 1870. So they just came. Somewhere in the past, my family name had the umlauts, you know, the two dots over the molar. Well we'd pronounce it, they'd make it mailer. Mailer. Mailer. You know, we have healthy German. Somewhere somewhere the mailers turn into molars because someone got sick or tired of doing the umlaut thing. Yeah. It takes time. It takes time. Extra work. Yeah. More typesetting, you know, all that kind of stuff. Extra chiseling. Well, what are some things? What are what are some other things you want to know? Or go what's what comes to mind? I uh I I always love uh the uh the park. Lakeview Park? River. I think it's just Straight River Park. No, no, no, the the amusement park. Oh, that was uh Peterson's Land of Nod. The Land of Nod. NOD, right? First off, can you define the land of Nod for me? What is Nod? Nod, I think comes from an old children's story. Okay. I think it's because I've always heard Yeah, there was a story, Land of Nod. Yeah. Okay, okay. I think it's just like, yeah. Oh, okay. I'm gonna look that up then. See, there was Andy Peter. All right, now. It was an amusement park? It was a guy named Andy Peterson. My father remembered. A guy was the name of Andy Pete. He owned a candy store and an ice cream shop on Main Street. Where uh well, we what we what used to be the first national bank, now Pinnacle Bank. Okay. That very corner. Yep, yep. And his thing was he would throw pennies on the sidewalk for people to walk by, hopefully little kids, go inside and buy something, but hopefully buy five, six cents more stuff. Oh, yeah, a little loss later action, as they would call it in the biz. And uh he uh he had all the property, almost all the property to what would what was Heller River property. The river park we have now was just riverside land that one of the Heller families owned. Okay. He owned it, he owned virtually everything up to there. And he put together, he built a um dance hall. He built a show bar, a couple of show bars, I think. Yeah. He had his original house there. Uh he had that classic, there's this classic brick archway. It's still there. It's still there, barely, barely, but it's still there. And I think the home and the archway are the only things that are left. He also had the very first baseball park. Yeah, yeah. And uh the land of not, it was just it was his dream was, and it predated Disney, it predated all these amusement parks. And uh he just had this dream that this would uh really take off, and sadly it never did. Did uh did he have any amusement rides of any sort or anything, or no? I think he either had something like a Ferris wheel or had wanted a Ferris wheel. Yeah, and probably like like a merry-go-round or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well that and then it just it just failed. I think it just you know, it just never paid off. I think it was just probably the maintenance because it's you look at pictures, the scope of the thing. It was it was a you know, the sale bar is big. You know, that uh it's a large building, the dance hall, you know, and I think he had a uh like a dance pavilion. Um and uh just and it you know, I remember the first time I ever saw pictures of it, I thought it was from somewhere else. I thought it was from some other city, some other picture. I thought they made a mistake, but then I realized you could see the landmarks in the background that this is originally Andrew Wizard. Wow. Like the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s. But then I think that I think one of the buildings caught fire. I think that I heard something like that. And uh he died in 1940. Okay. So uh that was you know, so I think by the end of the day. And there was something in one of the things that the school kids were allowed to go to his field. Oh wow, elementary and wow. That's pretty cool. He was an important like a legend, you know. Phil was a legend, and Andy Pete was a legend. The cookie lady's the legend. The cookie lady's a legend. Uh uh heck yeah, heck yeah. Um now, uh the the parks. There's always been uh, you know, I did a little, I did a little, I did a little research today, you know, uh just to refresh myself to make sure I wasn't saying something too stupid. I'm sure I'm still gonna say something stupid, but uh the uh the parks, like how how does Lincoln Wisner oh god dang how is Wisner, it's always seemed to have like it's taken pride in not just the basic stuff, but having some amenities for the city, you know. I've always uh is that just something always been built into the city or I think it's just been gradual. I think you know, things like the uh the camping areas, uh especially the maintenance of the ballparks. Uh some of that's been city, a lot of that's been local. Local people. So the the city park, which is where the pool's at, right? That's I got that right. That's Stinkage Park. Yeah, that's Stinkage Park. But that was the city park in the beginning, I think, right? Yes, that was the one. That was like a railroad people put that in or something. Are you sure? That was that had a gro I think it was donated to the city by the railroad. Like a gazebo and a dance gazebo where they had graduation ceremonies way, way back when. And uh a lot of trees. It was kind of a kind of like a little forest grove right in the middle of town. It had a little gazebo. And uh they tore all that down when they first put the original pool. Because again, that park predates the river park by a good 20, 30 years. Because they didn't they didn't get the like I said, the Heller, I can't remember which Heller family, but the Heller family that sold that property, that was uh that wasn't cleared out until like the late 20s. Yeah. They sold it to the city, yeah. Okay and uh and they converted all into a park. But the uh like the park you're talking about in the middle of Wisner, uh, like I said, it's just just kind of how things developed. They uh um put the first swimming pool in there, or not the first pool. There was uh on private property, someone basically dug a concrete pit, filled it with water, and that was a pool. Um, but it was very popular in town. But the wouldn't it be? I mean, it'd be I mean I grew up loving uh stock tanks as the my favorite backyard pools, you know. And the uh the Wisner pool, well, there's a funny story, so it wasn't funny at the time. There was a local attorney that uh was not well liked. Not well liked. We won't even get into attorney jokes, but but he uh um he was certain that the brand new swimming pool was going to leak and all the water was going to soak into the ground and flood his basement a block down. Oh wow and he sued the city and they actually had to stop building the pool until they threw out his until they threw out his case. Oh wow, that's just crazy. Yeah, they had to they literally had to stop building the pool because this attorney said, Well, I don't want this built, it's gonna ruin my basement. And he filed enough petitions to throw it off until finally they just said, Shut up, we're building a petition. Oh my god. Probably one that uh of the little group that opposed the uh city auditorium. Yes, there was uh that they felt the city auditorium was a waste of money. Oh my god. Some place or rather we've got that copy of that petition anyway. We've got a petition that he circulated where like I said, that's small town life where this guy was certain that uh um we're gonna building this building is gonna be a big waste of money. We've got a high school with a gym that's set to 200 people, we're fine. Well, and then there was also the group when they were going to uh build the new bridge, which is now gonna be the old bridge, but the bridge that was down the city park was good enough. Despite the fact it washed out like every five years, it seemed like five to ten years. Well, if you didn't live south of town, so what difference is it? Yeah, yeah. Besides that, it was a wagon bridge. You know, it had one had one lane. Oh, wow, wow with the classic one-lane uh and it was cre I rem I drove over that a couple years and it was creepy. I bet, I bet. Oh, wow, wow bridges. Uh uh yeah, I'm excited for the new bridge. Uh that'll be fun. Hopefully it doesn't uh hopefully they I mean technology and that kind of stuff, they probably build them totally different now, where it hopefully it doesn't, you know, handle that uh stuff. But we're gonna get into uh I got some more uh questions for you uh in a second, but we need to take a break for a minute uh and thank our sponsors, such as uh O'Rourke's Tavern and uh the Zoobar and uh uh uh Rick Peters. Uh thank you all, and uh we'll be back in a second. Hey y'all, I just want to thank uh Rourke's Tavern for sponsoring Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska. Rourke's Tavern, it's Lincoln's downtown, it's like a neighborhood bar right in the middle of downtown. We're at 1329 O Street, and uh you know Rorks I've always described as kind of like the backstage to the Lincoln uh musical community. They do fun things all year round, they got specials every day, they got two pool tables, they do dance parties, they got a chili cook-off every year. 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Hey, uh, I just want to thank uh Pete and Amanda from the Zoo Bar for sponsoring the Slacker Dave Loves Nebraska podcast. Zoobar, wonderful place. Uh live music almost every single night, sometimes most of the weekends, twice a night. Uh Zoo Fest, July 10th and 11th. Put that on your calendar. But thanks, Pete. You roll. All right. Hey, welcome back. Uh thank you, uh, everybody. Uh, thank you, sponsors. Uh, thank you, Amanda. Uh uh. We are at the Wisner History Museum. Uh Greg and I rolled over here, and we're gonna take you. Uh he's gonna give us a quick tour of the uh museum. So, hey Greg, how are you doing? I'm doing great, Dave. All right, where are we at? Where are we at? All right, this is the Phil's Tire Shop display. Uh you can see we have like old pictures here of Phil's tire shop. Get a close one of that. That was an operational gas station and tire service uh up until the late 80s, early 90s. And uh it was an old man that uh just came in, opened the shop every morning, closed it at night. And if he had business, great. If not, so much for that. And all these different items from his life, he was just uh a unique, unique individual. And uh uh people would drive through on 275 and they'd see this tiny little shack, yeah, and they would take pictures and they would come in and ask to see him and talk to him, and he had all these old, old signs. Uh, some of these signs are so unique, the Goodyear people bought them because they didn't have copies of their own. Oh, yeah, yeah. I remember hearing that. And uh and it was the the rumor was that the signs were the one thing that kept the building up. I can I can dig that. But after Phil died and the shop was sold, uh they did try to move it and it was still stable. It was still stable. So that the it was up on its own still, but finally it was torn down. But it still remains one of the legendary items from Wisner. Oh, very, yeah. Uh and I just remember him as the guy you went to if you needed your bike tires fixed. You know, he fixed every kid's bike in the world. We'll just kind of do the circle route here. This is near and dear to your heart, Dave, with the uh constructions with rabies construction and various other items that we have here. We had the hat before. We've got uh a couple items. Some of the items in here are courtesy of the rabies from their family, various shovels and equipment. Yeah, there's multiple members of the rabies family that do this. And uh here's our tractor section. The uh the owner of the tractor actually backed this in here. Oh wow. You know, that we uh it was uh you know, he he because uh he was a master driver. He just and literally just backed it up and he just pulled it around and backed it up here as we've sitting ever since. Genuine McCormick Farmall. That's pretty cool. Farmall is near dear to my grandfather's heart. For those of you that know farmers, you know, you know, you don't just buy a tractor, you have to buy a you have to buy a brand. And uh again, we got baseball uniforms here from Wisner. Again, the Rock Creek. We talked about that. They had their own baseball teams, uh, Wisner, some of the different trophies we have. It's we've been so proud of the museum, this different items that we have. Again, this was the dentist chair that was still being used in the 70s. Um we got the Wisner Hunter Safety Course, Dale. Oh, yeah, yeah. This is my father's my father with his handkerchief in the pocket. I taught Hunter Safety Course with him. Yes. I'm certified. There we go. And uh and then we have our drug store, our druggist. We had a druggist that for uh uh the longest time was finding all this old materials in his the basement of the drugstore and donated it. Rich Norgard donated all these items. Oh wow, that's cool. And uh well what's scary was we're finding in the uh shelves, all the different marked shelves, we're still finding medications in there. Oh my god. And uh just kind of moving on. We've got some here's uh Boy Scout and Cub Scout materials. Well, no of all things, uh Dick Kane was a legendary auctioneer. And of all the things we would have about Dick Kane, it's not about his auctioneering career, it's not about uh his the sales that he did all around the world, it's his boxing material. He was a world-class amateur boxer. Oh, yeah, I remember. And uh the golden gloves, and he was deeply, deeply proud of his uh of his boxing career. Um, it was almost like auctioneering was something he did when the boxing wasn't coming through. Nice. And we've got religion, like I said, uh the different churches that have been involved. Uh we have uh things that have been donated from churches that have closed over the years. Uh we have uh just a wide variety of things. Uh but we'll we'll we'll we'll go down this way here. Right, all right, okay. We got we got the the oh, we got Bob Raby. Oh yeah, Bob Raby Bob Raby. Heck yeah. We've played Bob's music on your show in the past. Heck yeah. No, I'm not very good camera person. The Rhine Gold Orchestra. The Roseland Hall. Where was the Roseland Hall? Roselind Hall was in the back of what's now the uh Warding Vet Clinic. Oh, that's the yeah, I gotcha. When we were little kids, there were still like old bathrooms and things back there. And that was uh uh that was a bar and a uh restaurant and a dance hall. And we didn't know it, but all the tables and all the booths were stored upstairs for years and years. Um when Cleared them out, but uh all these different things. Now here's these little look at these little displays over here. The singing McGills. McGills were a legendary, legendary family. I talk about them. I think I talk about them uh when I do my St. Patrick's Day. Oh, neat. Now here's a very and we need to get more room for this. Uh Mike Kazelka was a longtime Wisner mortuist. And over the years he collected antique mortuary equipment. Oh my God. And these are all the different things that, you know, because a lot of times if you died on the farm, they would come out to the farm and embalm the body there. Oh wow. And so they would bring all these things out there. Or they would put, or they would have, like my my mother remembered having her grandfather's lying in state in their living room on the family farm. Oh, crazy. So they would bring all these things out there. Like it's a portable casket for displays, uh children's caskets. And then we've got like the makeup, you know, for the embalmings, the different equipment, equipment for the caskets. It was just incredible the things he found as he took over several old um mortuaries over the time, and these were all in storage or up in attics. Oh, then we got what we got over here. Like a little uh here's our storage, this is our equipment, this is our where our stuff needs to be. Now, here's our kitchen. Again, there's a just a wide variety of little things from cookbooks people found. Um, I stuck in my Popeye cups and bowls back there. Oh, crazy, crazy. You know, gotta put them in somewhere. This is stuff, you know. My father found that glass butter churn. Yes. So this is really good on the video. Yeah. Uh uh audio. You know what I'm saying? Got the all the some of the other different items here. We had uh um Dave Folder, one of our uh recent uh one of our members of our museum, he passed away recently. This was his collection of spark plugs. Spark plugs. It's amazing. Square nail. Yes. That's pretty fun. That's pretty fun. It's some people. Oh my god, it's the Jimmy Murphy. Oh god, the Jimmy Murphy display. Tell us about Jimmy Murphy. Jimmy Murphy was a legendary um rodeo writer, and he toured around the world. And here we got some different pictures with his Roman writers. He did Roman writing, which is like when you ride one foot on one horse, one foot on the other horse. Like here. Here we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For the uh for the audio listeners, you know, he's standing on the back, just like, you know. And here's some others, here's some other pictures as well. Crazy. And then he would, you know, with the flaming hoops. Flaming fire on while standing on top of the fire. And there's the the painting of his, that would be the end of his show when he would ride the horses through the flaming hoops. Flaming ring of fire. Yep. There we go. There's there's the picture. There's a great picture right there. These suits are amazing. I remember we used these in a uh Bye-bye Birdie. Bye-bye Birdie. And I use these for a one-act play that wound up going to state as well. So these have gotten a lot of use. These are incredible. And this was his own scrapbook that he made. And 1952 rodeo. All these different rodeos he attended, Arkansas, Canada, and uh Kansas. All these different places. That's pretty cool. I mean, keeping. And it took to show you how it's a small world. My uh wife's uncle was a roadie for a year. Oh, wow, that's crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. And then we have uh the Kin collection with it with arrowheads. Oh, yeah. All the local things he found throughout the years. A lot of these are on display at Wayne State for years and years. Yeah, these are yeah, all finds in the area, right? Yeah, yeah. Which is uh pretty cool. Yes. More spark plugs. Yep. Then we have uh we have the flaming baton. This is my wife's favorite display. The flaming baton. Because my wife was a baton twirler at Norfolk High and Wayne State. And uh Dixie Teepkin, her father was a longtime blacksmith. He was the last blacksmith in Wisner. Oh, wow. And uh he made for her flaming batons. Oh wow, and you can see like here's like the pictures of her, you know, with the flaming batons and all these things with the World Herald. Because she appeared on the TV show uh um You Ask For It. You Ask For It. That was a famous TV show in the 50s. And uh and like I said, and he made her batons for her. And she she comes back on occasion. She's a she's uh very dedicated to coming back, she supports the museum. She came back once and uh You get her to fire them up and split them around. Oh, I didn't, we were I thought about it, but uh I uh she uh I asked her once because I knew Michelle, my wife, tried doing flaming batons, yeah, and they wouldn't stay lit because Michelle would use like lighter fluid. Yeah, yeah. Cigarette, you know, lighter fluid. And I asked Dixie, I said, Well, what did you use? She goes, Oh, straight kerosene. Oh, that's right. I told my wife that she went white. Makes sense. You know, but just the idea of using straight kerosene compared to lighter fluid, you know. No, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, you know, that's I guess that's what separates the Where are we going? Where are we going? Let's go, let's go this way. Let's go this way. Okay, okay. Follow the grave. Again, we have a wide variety of things. We have fishing equipment, antique motors. Um, I've always been curious about how this worked. It's a uh fish scope. Oh, you're supposed to look in the ground. You're supposed to put this in the water and you can kind of see where the fish are. You know, it's it's basically it's like a glorified aluminum tube. But somebody got it to work. Almost seems like a pet room. Here's our jail, here's our jail. Oh, wow, wow. The Wisner Jail. We have the Wisner volunteer. Did you still use that? Uh no, although they were still up in the city of Wisner up until we finally took them out of there. They weren't being used though. Here's our volunteer fire department equipment. Oh, yeah. These things are so cool. The hand carts. Look at those wheels. It's amazing. And we've got a bar display with beer items, including Rabies looking around. There we go. There we go. Cigarettes, uh, matchbooks, matchbooks. Oh god. Hey, look, you guys slitz uh thing. They just they're uh they're closing down. Got a couple of slits things. Yeah, yeah. A lot of these are my items, just collectible beer collectibles I brought down here. The phone uh yeah, the original phone displays with the um with the operator that is standing by. That's crazy. We have here's materials from the local banks. Now, what's interesting, this you know what's interesting about the museum is we've had uh my wife is part of a paranormal group in Norfolk. Hey, uh my buddy Kane, who helps me with the show, is just starting a new paranormal show on KZUM. Awesome. The Kane Stevens Paranormal Paranormal Super Show. Oh my goodness. So yeah, we'll we'll I'll hook you up. Okay. But we had with the paranormal, our paranormal group that my wife is in and I help out with, uh, they came down here and they have a medium of their own. Yeah. And uh she came down here with her daughter. Both of them possess the powers, the gifts. And we were asking them if they really sensed anything. The only thing they sensed, if you take a look at that table, yeah, that is the most powerful thing in this entire building. They said that somebody sat at that table, was deeply depressed, deeply saddened, and probably killed themselves. Oh no. And the person could touch it, they said they could tell what they looked like, how they dressed. Oh, yeah. We were thinking of all the things in the museum, we thought there'd be all kinds of different classy things that would pop up. And it was just that one table. The banker, right? And it wasn't even a bank table. That's actually a table from a local Lutheran church. Oh, God. That we just put in there because it looked nice. Crazy. Yeah. Crazy. But we got other items here that have been donated. A lot of these are just things, they're they're labels of love that people have that they don't want to see them get destroyed or given away or sold. Yeah. You know, or just plain or being thrown away. Um You know, the the you know, this is uh there's not a lot of money in running a small town heritage museum. You know, this is all is this 100% uh volunteer? Yeah, it is. I mean, how do you get the building? Well, the building was donated. The building was uh um the building was a local family that this was a uh uh flower shop. Flower shop. In uh the greenhouse, because I remember when a kid walking in here at that time of the year, there's that one smell you get from uh like you know Yeah oh God. And uh what happened was when the the florists when they passed away, the daughters decided they wanted to do something special in memory of their parents, and they donated this entire building. You just take a sweep here, this entire building, because this is a former, this is not only this is this is the the part we're in right now is the uh warehouse. Yeah, because this was also a uh uh construction and uh that it was a feed and grain store too, originally built as a feed and grain store. Oh, yeah, yeah, I can see that. Yeah, and it was built by the Raby Construction. Heck yeah. There we go. And uh we said, and we just and it just what's what's wonderful is we get these families that donate things like these here. This is a man from the 1920s and 30s, cobbled these all together, these oxen and all that. And he the family was nervous that it was going to be destroyed, and so they made sure that you know they were brought in here to be to be put on display. Wow, they have some uh some uh scrapers and some uh and and there's some other things too, like we have we have G.I. Joe displays of which I gotta throw this in. This is mine, this is mine. Oh yeah. I had a friend of mine on the internet gave me the I bought the capsule. I found stickers online, so it's been refurbished. And a friend of mine who got a uh this is not the original astronaut, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's a reproduction, but I I I keep it here. I keep it here because I think it's just a little more fitting here. And there's other things. We got toys. Well, look at that crazy hair thing. Yes, yes. This was the this is for permanence. Did you see this crazy hair thing right here? Do you want to do that? For permanence here. Your permanent wave. I thought it was a baking mixture when I was looking for the baking mixture. We've never dared plug it in. All the all the apparatuses there, we've never done plug it in. Oh, that's scary. Here's all the little communities had a dime store. Oh, yeah, I remember that. This is the candy counter from the Wisler Dime Store. This is the candy store. You can see where the dividers were for the different candies. And we have it used for toys displays. Well, I like that you just have uh uh things like you have uh bar, the table, there's some chairs we were sitting on earlier from my mom and dad's bar. Gotta show these off here. And again, this is this is how this museum works. These are from Raby's Lounge. Yes, those are comfortable. And very comfortable. And when when your parents sold it off, my parents got four of the seats. I think they just came in and took them. I don't even know if they even bought them. I think they just took them. And when my parents passed away, I brought these in. Nice, nice. So now we've so it's partially my parents' connection, but it's also a rabies, it's also your family connection, too. But you know, the the the the joy of the uh the community getting together and you know doing something like this. I mean, every town should have something like this, and I know a lot of them do. But it always it just takes what one person, right? And then they need somebody else. And I get so many people that they contribute things, and the key thing is we know this isn't monetarily valuable, or if it is, it isn't anybody around here, or it's their family members just don't want it anymore, which is understandable. I've got I collect all kinds of things I know my daughters do not want. And so I've got to come across that point as well. But uh they'll bring it here and they'll know it's something they'll know it's safe here, they'll know it's something that people can appreciate and enjoy, just which is what they want, which is so nice to see. So if there's somebody in another town that wanted to uh uh start something like this, what's your what's your best piece of advice to give them? Oh, um get a lot of people together. A lot of people together. I I came into this late. You know, we were talking before with Ina. Ina was part of the first group. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Part of the very first group. And that was when Wisner was having its 125th in 1996. I think I remember that, yeah. And they uh and the museum took off so well they kept it open. It was only meant to be a temporary thing. Yeah, but it was such a it went over so well people wanted these things on display full time. And so yeah, it takes a lot of people. You know, and um it just and and people that like I said, they're they're not concerned with you know what's the you know what's the monetary worth. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's it's the historical value. You're not seeing Mona Lisa's or anything. No, we can't no Picasso is rolling around. There's there's some stuff here that probably has some, you know, monetary value and antiques antiques roadshow value, but uh a lot of it's just something uh you know, it's something that just like this uh you know, I don't know if you remember this. I I keep showing off things from the molar household. That copper set that was at that was in our house for years and years and years. And I thought it was so pretty we could do something with it, but it was just something that um I know my sisters didn't want it, my my brother Mike didn't want it. What do you uh uh what's the hardest thing about doing like a community, you know, something like this? And I mean in the people, a people being aware of it, yeah, and people taking advantage of it just to see it, to see these things that have been saved and salvaged and preserved. Um, a lot of cases people just kind of uh um take it for granted that somebody's taking care of this. Yeah, okay. And that's and that's a lot of cases where um other communities, their museums failed because you know the others just take it for granted. Someone's running running the shop. Yeah. Or the city's paying, the city's taking care of it. We get we get some funding from the Dinklage Corporation. That's the charitable organization that the Dinklage family could. We never even got into the Dinklages on this, and I don't know if we're even gonna have time to get into the Dinklages on this. The Dinklage are a remark, it's a remarkable family, remarkable organization. Um cattle feeder. Cattle feeder, uh um investor. He was a uh so many things in this town exist because of him. And uh, like I said, part of a good deal of our financial backing uh comes from the Dinklage Foundation. Yeah. So it's and and donations, right? Yes, yes. So I mean the lights, the heat. Yes, those are those have been to. We have we started a program last year where we have sponsors for the different, you know, the different exhibits. Yeah, a little bit of a just you know, just you know, just you know it's like $50. You can you get your name up saying you're sponsoring this, you know, ensuring that it's gonna survive. For a year? For about a year, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And uh like I said, we so we have the different uh, you know, just we like we have families. We had one family, we had one member, uh, one member invested money. He goes, he goes, I s we had one per person, I'm getting rambling here, but I had one person that he said, I donate money to museums in Omaha, in New York City. Why am I not donating here in my own hometown? Yeah. And he and he's been one of our biggest supporters ever since. That's that's awesome. That's awesome. And it's it's and it's nice that we have people like that that can uh um I'm sure also like having open hours. Like you gotta be, you can't, you're not open every day. No, we we we try to be open whenever somebody wants us to, so we get a lot of people that say we're gonna be in town for an hour. Can you open it up? Yeah, and usually that's that's where we got five, six, seven people. You know, if one of us can't, someone else usually can. So that's that's what's nice. That's really cool. And then you any city thing going on usually that weekend. It's like right now we're celebrating Memorial Day. We got all the alumni people coming in. Um, you know, so that's death that's definitely a boon where we get uh people attracted to here, which is nice. Yeah, and the burger feeds are always good. Yes. When you can have the burger feeds. Yep, we have uh ours, we normally have it this weekend, but we've got a lot of our museum people are gone this weekend, so we're pushing it back towards the July 4th weekend. Oh, there you go. There you go. So that's that'll be fun. So that'll be fun. But I mean, so uh have you been to many other uh do you go out and look at other people? Well, we do we do a lot with the Cumming County Historical Society. If you're ever on the Cumming County Fairgrounds, they've got the old railroad depot. Okay, yeah, yeah. That's been converted. And we're we kind of have affiliation with them. And uh we've done some things with the Elkhorn Valley Historical Society up in Norfolk, yeah. And uh that's a neat place as well. Um but uh we get we get a lot of people from other communities that are surprised at how big this is. Oh yeah. And just how thorough it is. And we're and we're deeply proud of that. We're deeply proud of that. It's it's it's something that people um even the people at Wizard are that have never really been in here are surprised at all the different items that people that people donate. It's just again a lot of it's just we had uh oh here. This is well show to show you how to show you how far people will go. We had a family, you see, uh we got this buggy and this uh uh Victrola. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Those came from Wisconsin. Those came from Wisconsin? What happened was it was a uh family that had been in Wisner for many, many years, and the last of their kids moved out in the 60s, and the parents passed away. And these, and I got a call one day from their son, who I'd gotten to know over the years, and he said, Would the museum like these because my kids don't want them? And he literally drove from Wisconsin with a U-Haul trailer with these things to donate. Oh wow. Because he wanted them to be saved, he wanted them to come back to Wisner. He didn't feel he didn't feel it'd be right to selling it to an antique store in Wisconsin. He wanted it back in Wisner. You know, the history and uh of any any town, you know, uh needs to be, you know, there needs to be a history kept, you know. Yeah. The oral traditions, the written traditions, something. So this is, you know, people that need to remember why and what and where. I tell you what, let's go over to the school section. All right. This is where the glories of Wisner and Pilger come into being. There's Amanda. There's Amanda. I just have my own personnel to actually oh, that's cool. There we go. All right, here's our school section. Oh, wow. Now we have one side is all Wisner High School, and one side is all Wisner Pilgrim. Oh, yeah, the Wizard. Yeah. Hey, Greg, uh, why are we the gators? We are in the middle of Nebraska. Yes. Why are we the gators? Okay. First I gotta show this to you. Oh, yeah, yeah, I can yeah. Oh, here we go. I remember that. The uh Winnipeg Canada uh marching competition. Trying to find you in here. You are I don't know what I am. I'm probably hidden. Who knows? Who knows? You're buried there somewhere. We'll find it later. I think what everyone really wants to know is if you have any good high school stories of slacker day Western. That's a that's a whole that's a that's a whole nother episode. But no, Wister Pilgrims to Gators because of a practical joke. Really? Let's look back over the Wisner side. Oh God, okay, okay. The Wisner High School seniors of 1969, they knew they were never going to be gators because they're graduating as Wisner High School Bulldogs. It was put down to a vote by the high school students at both schools. And it was down to Titans, I think Cobras, Lions, or not Titans, Cobras, and Gators. And I think Cowboys might even be in the mix. And these folks here said, you know, it would be great. The dumbest one on this list is Gators. So they all voted for Gators, and that carried. You know, we could start coming up with some other story, and if we tell it enough, it might be true about how at one at that time there was a runaway gator from the Omaha Zoo that made it up the Elkhorn all the way to Wisner. That would have been more fun. I think we had time for one last story. Yeah, yeah, go ahead. All right. Oh my God, is this the This is the state champion trophy. This is Wisner High School State Basketball Champions 1923, class F. This was an ashtray in the teacher's lounge at the old Wisner High School for 20, 30 years. It got corroded over, nobody knew what it was. Oh my God. A football coach, Wayne Arnold, who had just been hired, got it cleaned off, and the guy who cleaned it said, this is the state champion trophy. They were using it as for 20 years. Yes. Oh my God. Oh my God. Well, Greg, uh, this has been uh awesome. Uh thank you very much. Uh thank you for coming. Anything anybody else needs to know about uh Wisner Nebraska that we probably there's probably a million questions that didn't get answered. Maybe we have to do another one. We'll take it as we come. When the people start uh commenting down below and subscribing and hitting all that stuff, and they're like, we demand more Greg Moeller. Uh any other any other thing somebody needs to know about Wisner. Oh, just what do you feel Wisner is deep down as in in its soul? Wisner is a proud town. It's it's a town that's uh it's taken its lumps, it's it's gone through things over the years, but it still keeps bouncing back and keeps recovering and keeps going. And uh um it's just it's just a uh it's a tough little town that's uh gonna be around for a long time, Ed. Oh, right, right on. Okay, and then a couple more questions. Rapid fire at you. Yes. Someone's coming to Nebraska. Where are you sending them on a vacation? Send them on a vacation? Oh, first off, they're coming to Nebraska. You gotta do the zoo. You gotta do the zoo. Henry Dorley's in the Henry Dorley. And then you've got the uh um, but then you've got uh so many places. I would I I would love to go back to the sand hills. Oh yeah. The sand hills is so unique and so beautiful to drive and stop off. Have you been to the Wildcat Hills? I have not. Okay, okay. Uh and then some little places like Cody Parker, North Platte, is a beautiful little place. If you ever get a chance to go out there, it's it's a beautiful little spot. And then you've got uh um up where I lived in St. Helena, you got the rolling hills up there. If you're just looking for just beauty in nature, you know, but you know, Cedar County, you know, just take minimum maintenance roads in Cedar County is a beautiful drive as you're gonna take. You're killing it, Greg. Oh, just do what I can. So some rapid questions about Wisner. Yes. First off, uh, where are we eating? If we're eating somewhere, we're probably going to go uh um depends on the level of fancy. You have uh Lance's steakhouse, you have uh um you have the uh bowling alley, tornado Alley. Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley, that's the bowling alley here. Change his name. Um, changed his name. Uh there's always, you know, if you're able to get a place to sit, you've got the Dairy King. Oh, we had breakfast. Yes, you just mentioned that before. Oh god, yeah, yeah. Okay, so uh where are we going for a drink? Oh, you're going to uh uh Brew's, which has been Raby's, which was once Rabbi's Lounge, which is also the Huddle Bar. Huddle Bar, yeah. They uh all these different places they've combined now. Rumors did that, right? When it was rumors, they uh took the two bars that were neighbors and made them one big bar. Made them one big bar. Uh and then uh uh where are we getting ice cream? Oh, you gotta go to Derry Keen. Gotta go Dairy Keen once again. You know, I do love a good ice cream from the uh gas station, the the truck stop too. That's true. You know, sometimes that's all you need. But uh and then uh uh hidden hidden gem of uh of Wisner that you know some people and this some places like the uh oh I've always loved there's a uh the Wisner Cemetery, the original cemetery road. Yeah uh it's still technically Avenue E. Oh wow, yeah. And it's just this little gravel road that's been totally ignored, but is as beautiful a walk for about 200 yards as you're gonna find on the planet. Tree-lined, you see foxes coming out, you see animals, deer running past you. Oh my god. I had a mountain lion growl at me once. Oh my god. And we didn't even get by the way, we didn't even get to talk. We drove through the river park. Yeah. All the trails they have down there, all the camping stuff down there. That place was packed. Uh a beautiful little town. So uh come visit. Uh man, you uh thanks, Greg. Hey, thank you, Dave. All right, uh, until uh next time, uh be excellent with each other and uh party on kids.