Junkstock is this weekend and next. Here's everything you need to know.

Episode Transcript

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Dennelle, Thanks so much for beinga part of our show today. Thanks
so much for having me. Ihave to start with last Friday's events because
our own Gary Sadlemeyer called in andhe said, well, you know where
junkstock happens, Well, I justsaw a tornado kind of going right past
that area. What is kind ofthe what happened on Friday and what was

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kind of the damage if you guyssuffered any Yeah, we had actually our
founder, Sarah Alexander and her husbandJohn, they lived out on that farm
and we had a bunch of peopleout there getting ready for the event,
and they saw the tornadoes coming andthey were luckily able to get down into
the basement take cover, and whenthey came back out they saw damage to

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the house. Some of our smallerbuildings were destroyed. Tons of trees,
I think thirty to forty trees weretaken out. It just kind of skirted
right around the edge of the farm, saying on the property across the road
right by the river to and ifyou come up that road on twnter and
twenty eight feels too. Just tonsof trees down. So that was the
most devastated thing. Was a lotsof those central old trees, and yeah,

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otherwise Effrone was safe, so wewere very lucky. I still saw,
though, you guys post that evenwith all of that, you guys
are giving it a go, whenyou guys are still going to have junkstock
this weekend and next week, andwhat kind of effort had to go into
making sure that the show could goon. Yeah, as soon as the
storm cleared, people showed up tohelp. It's amazing after disasters how the

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community really just rallies and people wedon't even know showed up. It was
amazing to see hundreds of people outthere this weekend helping us haul trees,
pick up debris. They really justrolled their sleeves because they care just as
much about junk stuck as we do. So we were just really fortunate that
we had to help that we're ableto pull it off this weekend. Still
speaking with Danelle schlegel Milch, whois with Junkstock, which is happening this

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weekend May third through the fifth,and then again next weekend as well.
I'm new to Omaha. Last yearI moved and I had a chance to
pop in during the spring Stock whenwe were house shopping and My wife was
just in love immediately. It's justsuch a cool, strange, eclectic mix
of all sorts of things that peoplecan enjoy. For somebody who has no

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idea what junkstock is, they mighthave heard about it, but they don't
really know exactly what you guys doover there. What is junkstock one all
one? Yeah, I kind ofdescribe it like a vintage festival meet the
food festival meets a music festival.It's kind of like a Woodstock vibe.
That's kind of how we got ourname. It's a nod to woodstock meets

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junk which is, you know,a loving term for things that have been
repurposed during made. So it's justreally just a really cool vibe where people
can come and shop and eat,listen to music and have a great time
together. So what time are youguys operating this weekend? Obviously we talked
about tomorrow being the first day yougo, Friday, Saturday, Sunday both
this week and and next weekend.What kind of hours so people can start

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making their plan to go to junkstockhere. Yeah, each day the hours
are just a tiny bit different.Tomorrow, since it's opening day, we
have something called early bird, it'smy favorite. You can kind of sneak
in early and call DIBs on yourfavorite items. It's from nine to eleven
and then the general hours are fromeleven am to seven pm. And then
Saturday it opens at nine am andgoes into six pm, and then Sundays

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from ten to five. So thoseare all on our website junkstock dot com.
People want to check that out,they can get all the hours there.
Yeah, really easy to do.We're speaking with Danelle Schlegel Milch.
I am. I'm a big fan. I can't wait to go if I
I didn't get a chance actually gowith my wife last year because I was

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actually looking at some spots in townto move and live. And now that
I live here, this has beenon my calendar since the fall, when
you guys did the Fall Junkstock.What is your favorite thing about this event,
especially considering now what this property hasbeen through over the last week.
Yeah, my favorite thing is justreally that sense of community that you sent

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me come onto the farm. It'sa central old farm. It has so
much history in itself. But whenwe have all of the vendors come,
there's two hundred and fifty vendors inall the food trucks, and it's just
like such a fun, creative experiencepeople that I love just personally walking around
with my family and my kids andyou know, seeing what people have created
and eating some delicious food, listeningto the band. So it's just really

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it's really my favorite place to be. I have to ask also, because
my wife said it was a littlebit crazy getting in and out of there,
because of all of the people thatare involved with this, what are
some of the easy ways that peoplecan get there in What ways should people
kind of try to avoid in termsof their transportation to junkstock. Yeah,
so that's a really good thing totalk about. This year, we decided

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to bring some shuttles backle you seethem years ago. We're working to get
buses to take people from metro communitycalled is Elcorn Campus straight to the farm.
So that's kind of like a fasttrack if people want to have plenty
of free parking on the farm.Also, you just have to be careful
when you're coming out or trying toavoid Maple Street right now for all the

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recovery that's going on over there,So we're asking people to go past our
actual exit on two hundred and twentyeighth Street off of Dodge and go kind
of loop around the farm on Highwaystwo seventy five and then you come back
down through Blondeo into Waterloo and allthose directions with maps. It's super easy.
Is on our website junkstock dot com. Yeah, tons of free parking,

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tons of re shuttles, so we'rejust going to make sure everybody can
get into their nice and easy.This year, you talked about the recovery
efforts obviously from these tornadoes and ifanybody was thinking about what can we do
to help out, you guys alsohave thought about that as well. Definitely.
Well, the Alexanders and our thundersfamily was so lucky that their house

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was, you know, repairable,so many weren't and we're just really feeling
for neighbors that are affected. Sowe're working with the United Way of the
Midlands. They're going to be outat Junkstock this weekend accepting monetary donations and
we're just encouraging people to give anythingthey can to help, and they can
do that directly on our website aswell. Pretty easy to do junkstock dot
com. You can't miss it.Junkstock happening this weekend Friday, Saturday,

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and Sunday and next weekend as well, and we'll give away a ticket or
two or four over the next coupleof days and into next week as well.
Danielle Schlegel Miltch, thanks so muchfor joining us. So glad to
hear everybody is okay over there,and can't wait to see everybody over there
at Junkstock. Thanks so much.We're excited to see you too. I
love to see that, love tohear that. Junkstock twenty twenty four.

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Matt, if you buy you aDunkstock guy, you've been to Junkstock at
time or two. I have atime or two. It's so fun and
it's just it's just fun. It'scool to walk around and some of the
ideas that people come up with arejust just mind blowing, you know,
to think how to repurpose something insuch a cool way. It's really inspiring
too, you know. Sometimes youwalk around and you get some cool things,

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and you get some inspiration for coolthings that maybe you want to try
well, and it's just I mean, the backdrop, let's talk about the
backdrop. Just an awesome place tobe and you just like can kind of
breathe. It's like a spring versionof like a pumpkin patch that just kind
of changes your mood upon arrival.You're just like, ah, yeah,
now I'm just kind of a differentperson for the next few hours while I'm

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hanging out there. That's the vibeI get from Sycamore Forms. Yeah,
yep, just a happy time fullof happy people having fun and looking at
cool stuff. Yeah. So,like I said, we're gonna do a
little call and giveaway. Not now, not yet, next hour. How's
that? Next hour, we willgive away a couple of tickets to junkstock.

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So hang in there, just relax. It's gonna be all right.
We'll tell you when you need tobe a caller, but you're gonna want
to stick around for that as wellinto our four o'clock hour. Also,
did want to give you an update. It is World Tuna Day and I
had there's a tuna joke from Tim. Can you guess what the tuna joke

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is? I think I can gofor it. You can tune a piano,
but you can't tune a fish.You got it, and it did.
But that word for a word,Oh Tim, appreciate appreciate that also
did want to Our friend Curtis wantedto jump in and say, could Johannah

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King Slutski slut Ski capitalize on Nilfor having the greatest last name in the
history of college? And I justwant to throw this out here, like,
because she's not an athlete, shedoesn't need an il. She could
have done an al anyway. Thatwas never a problem for he because she
didn't play sports. The only issuewithin with the athletes where the NCAA said,

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well, if you were making money, that could be a way that
you could be illegally recruited. Soyou can't make any money on your name
whatsoever, because that gives certain schoolsan unfair advantage. They can't promise you
a job, they can't promise youmoney or anything. And then Nil just
a few years ago finally was like, you know what, that actually sounds
like slave labor. Well, andmaking money with your abilities is kind of
like anti Marxist too, So there'sthat problem as well for her. Yeah,

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she's not a capitalist by any means. She could capitalize if she believed
in capitalism. However, I thinkif she was given any money, she
would just give it to the peoplewho locked themselves in Hamilton, holl And
couldn't feed themselves for twelve hours.Really sad story. More on the Way
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