Full Show - 9/6/2025

Full show from the Donovan & Jorgenson Heating & Cooling Studio: Saturday, September 6th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Varsity Plitz High School Sports Show, presented
by your local Pick and Save and Metro Market stores.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Coming live from the Donovan at.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Jorgans and Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike McGivern alongside
by coach. He's in a good mood today, Athletic director
at Muskego High School, Ry McMillan.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Ryan, how you doing.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
I'm great.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Boys played well last night. Yes they did. He said
they needed.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
That they did.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
It's been a while since we've had one of those
games where we come in, we do what we hope
to do and take care of business early and then
give our team more opportunities to play and do great things.
So that's kind of how it shook out last night
and kind of snowballed on Pelwaukee a little bit.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
Yeah worked out.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Let me run down today's show if you want to,
just let yeah, there we go. We're going to be
joined nine to twenty by Dominic Walters and Tyson Shelton,
two players from Franklin the Three and Oh Franklin Sabers,
and they rolled up on a pretty good racine case
team last night. So the first thing you said was oh, oh,

(01:05):
Franklin's good. Yeah, I go, Yes, they are. And coach
Lewis Brown, it's just got a text from him. He's
going to be a little bit late, but we're going
to get him in when he gets here, and if not,
we'll spend a couple of segments talking to Tyson Shelton
and Dominic Walters. Dominic's going to South Dakota State and
Tyson Shelton offensive lineman and really good one, really good one.

(01:29):
So looking forward to talking to those guys. The second
hour Dennis Murphy, the founder of Friends of Jacqueline. We
talked to Dennis last week. He was in town for
this Slinger game. He's leaving this afternoon to fly back
to New York, and I said, come in studio. So
we had breakfast yesterday and he wants to meet you
because he's got an idea for athletic truckers and we're

(01:50):
going to have that conversation with him. He also man
he won a state championship in high school football and
he's got a reunion coming up in a few weeks,
so we'll talk high school football with him. He was
on the sidelines. I met a young man named Vincent.
Then we'll talk about in the second hour five years
old and Slinger Awls adopted this young man and struggling

(02:13):
and he's feeling a little bit better right now, but
talking to his parents. Still's got some issues he's going
to deal with. But when I was talking to him,
he's kind of quiet, a little bit shy, and he
was eating some candy. I said, hey, you're going to
share that candy.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Looked at me, he goes no. Vincent, he goes no.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
And the kid made me laugh and his sister made
me laugh. And we'll talk a lot about them in
the second hour when when Dennis Murphy again founder of
Friends of Jacqueline, will come in studio. Hey, talk to
me a little bit about as when you were coaching
at oconom Walk.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
Week three is such a big week, right.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Hartford went into the Slinger game last night going, look,
we're on two.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
We lost Germantown is really good.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
We lost some good teams and we had we had
a nice squad and I look, I heard our Terry
Kelly on our broadcast say look right at the end
of the game said the Hartford's going to get beat
tonight and they might be one of the best owing
three teams in the area. They're they're good, they're tough,
they're big, and and and I think they're gonna get

(03:22):
some wins in that conference. But when you start the
year zero to two as a football coach, you can say, look,
leave that aside, because our first goal is always to
win the conference. Right here we go, and so we
is week three the.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Most important as a head football coach? Do you think?

Speaker 5 (03:41):
I don't know if it's the most important. In the
old playoff model, the way things were, once you hit
your conference slate, it became vitally important and every one
of those conference games were huge for you in terms
of trying to extend your season and make that postseason run.
In order to make a run, you got to be
in the dance, right, And so how do you get
to the dance and make that whole thing happen? You know,

(04:05):
just kind of it starts in week three usually, right,
And so I mean when you're owing two or you're
owing three. You know, the one thing about being O
and two and then coming into the first game of
the conference slate, you can have a renewed energy if
you will, with two non conference games, but now you're
into your conference and you know, every high school kid
wants to win their conference, and so you get a

(04:26):
little bit more energy back and you just got to
keep grinding through it. But Hartford will be okay and
uh Slinger will two.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Were you at the game last night? Yes, how how
did Pewaukee look to you?

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (04:38):
Pewaukee looked big. I mean they got some seriously good linemen.
Their skilled kids were probably not as talented as the
Mesquigo skills kids, but they still had some dynamic kids
who could do some things. They were just a little
bit one dimensional on offense, and the Warriors pinned their
ears back and get you know, got a fumble and

(05:00):
then gotta fumble in the end zone and then block
the punt and then you know, before you know it, it
was twenty eight nothing at the end of the first quarter,
and everyone's going, what just happened?

Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:08):
Well, you know last year, when you came in and
sat where you're sitting and I asked you about Pewaukee,
your first comment was, boy, they look like a classic
eight team coming off the bus. I mean they look
they have every bit of that look as far as size.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
They looked that way last night too. They're gonna be.
I think they're gonna steal some victories as the season
progresses here. And you talked, you know, kind of at
the break about how if Hartford gets in the dance,
they're gonna be a tough out. Same thing with Pelwaukee,
if they get in the dance, you know, Division III,
they're gonna be a tough out.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Hey, the Classic Gate it's it's interesting because you know
mcguonagle got beat and Musquigo got beat, and people were
coming saying, hey, maybe maybe this year it's you know,
Classic Gate might not be as as good. You can't
say that they're the best conference in the state. Well
take a look all of a sudden, Oh, condom Walk's
pretty good, right arrowheads awfully good, Mosqigo, mcguanago. The teams

(06:07):
that you expect to be at the top end of
the Classic eight are going to be at the top
end because now look at the scores. Now nobody's gonna
go well mcgont look, Mustig goes down, mcguanae goes down.
There are some teams Keta Moraine's going to struggle this year.
They just are and look new coach, new you know,

(06:27):
new program, new players, and they may have a fear.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
But you said, look, Pewaukee may steal a couple.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Mcguanago's not going anywhere, o, Condowak's not going anywhere. Arrowhead
I saw first week and they're good. That's a scary
team right there.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:43):
And I think the the important piece with mcguanago, Muskigo
and Arrowhead as they went out and scheduled competition weeks
one and two and sought really good, challenging football games
to help prepare them for that Classic eight slate. And
I think that will pay those three teams dividends down
the road. And the other team that's in there too

(07:04):
is walk so West kind of back, you know, with
a new new flavor, if you will. Got two good
wins to start the year and gave Arrowhead a competitive
game last night, and so they might steal one here
and there. You just don't know, and hopefully it's not
next week, but they can they can steal the other one.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
You go steal them all after that, right, steal them
all after that? When when you look at at night
in and night out, and the Classic gate's going.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
To change, because there's gonna be some some change in.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Pewaukee's happy to get out of of that that conference.
What's it look like next year as far as who's
coming in and how is that gonna lay out?

Speaker 5 (07:46):
So Pewaukee is out, walk, so West is out, and
then Franklin joins, and who's the uh that might be
a Franklin joins because then we go from seven to six,
and then we have two crossover games with the Greater
Metro Conference that goes from seven to six as well,

(08:10):
so there's two six team leagues.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Franklin coming in.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
And look Franklin, I think, and we'll find out when
Lewis gets here a little bit later. I think that
they are excited because Old Creek wanted to join as well,
and look their conference, and Franklin Lewis will be the
first to tell you. Look, we play as tough a
non conference games as we can because we feel really

(08:36):
confident each year that we're going to qualify for the
playoffs and then we can make some noise. And I
think that there are games on his schedule that he
already can mark as a w he just can't and
they've been doing that for a long time. And now
for him to go next year as the Classic eight
and now instead of playing you know, we're seeing park,

(08:56):
they're playing ocondom Walk and instead of playing you know, yeah,
they're playing, So be careful what you hope for. But
you got to give them credit. They're gonna that that
conference is they're they're losing competitive teams, teams that will
they'll fight with you, but they're gaining one that's that

(09:18):
can can win a lot of games in that conference.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
And I know the Mesquigo Franklin rivalry. Matt, Yeah, you know,
you guys don't play every year, but it sure seems
like you do, right.

Speaker 5 (09:27):
Yeah, it feels that way because you know, one of us,
it felt like in the last I don't know however
many years one of us has been, you know, in
the final four for sure, and if not the state
championship game coming out of our area. I think the
only other team that's kind of gotten in the way
that's been Marquette. But yeah, the the Franklin Uskigo thing
is is they're joining the conference. You know, from an

(09:49):
economic standpoint. As an athletic director, you know, it's good
for us because we're gonna sell We're gonna sell off
the house and concessions is going to have a good
night and it'll be a hell healthy community event, which
will be good for both communities and moving things forward.
But it's definitely going to be more competitive and Franklin's
going to have a more competitive game every week and

(10:12):
and lower levels are going to be able to play
every week. So that's a positive of it. And we'll
just see where the where the world takes us here
as it continues to evolve. And what wasn't known as
conference re alignment.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
Well, I was telling people last night on the sidelines,
a great crowd at Slinger.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Last night, Hartford showed up, Slinger showed up.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
I'll tell you before I tell you. I talking to
the woman who runs the Slinger Gridiron and she said, look,
we have we're always right around two hundred kids, which
is great for that community. And I said, you know,
I was at the youth night at Muskego last week
and she's how many kids do they have?

Speaker 2 (10:51):
I got like three fifty.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
She was what, And I go, it was more kids
I've ever seen in my life, Like we did, you know,
run into march and walking and coaches yelling, getting getting
a single file and and she said, man, that's almost double.
And I said, that community right now is on fire
for football one hundred percent, and it was really it

(11:14):
was incredible.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
I parked last night and you'll love this.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I park and there's there's high school girls parked facing
me and I parking and I'm actually on the.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Phone with my wife.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
So I'm sitting there for a while and they're in
their car putting glitter on their face and they think
I'm just looking at them. Well they I'm walking. The
girl put the window down and she goes, aren't you
the TV guy? I go yeah, She goes, you want
to put glitter in your face? I go, absolutely not.
I really don't think that would be a good look
for me. Where are you guys sitting during the game?
They go, well, we're senior So we're in the front

(11:47):
of the student section. I said, well, I'm gonna We're
gonna have you guys on TV. And so we had
them on and the one girl goes, hey, I don't
have a homecoming date.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I go, oh, we'll talk about that. I hope she
got went off the TV thing.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
But man, there was so much energy in that place
from both sides. Both sides and raising money for a
really good cause that coaches for cancer. They they're up
to almost two hundred thousand dollars over the years that
they've raised for cancer research. And I give these guys
a lot of credit the amount of work that they do,
and you know how much work goes into some of

(12:23):
this stuff. The night before they had all the tents
set up for their fundraising, and the tents full over
they were gone, like one right through the other ripped,
so they had to do it without the tents. And
you know what, they were all nimble and said, no worries,
we'll get it done. And they just went and did
their work. There was no complaining, nobody going to pour

(12:43):
us po us. They just went and did it. And
I was impressed with the whole community.

Speaker 5 (12:49):
Those two communities are literally right next door for those
of you who are listening that have no I mean,
they share a border, but they're what five miles from
each other made maybe I mean right next door. So
it's it's so cool that they get together and then
they're prideful to prideful communities and they're gonna fly there
black and orange and they're red and white and blue,
you know, and and get together. But they're gonna come

(13:11):
together for this common weal and they've been doing it
for almost a decade now.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, the coaching staff and Bill Jacqueline said, look, you know,
Writers is one of my.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Best friends, and and and and and.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
I love their staff, and he loves our staff and
and uh, but boy, our players don't like and you
know what one of their starting linemens.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
I go up to Jackueline, I go, how you doing?
He goes, Wait till you hear this.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
One of my my starting linemen, one of my better linemen,
turn his ankle in gym.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Class volleyball today.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
He's on he's on crutches, And I go, didn't you
write him a note to get out of it? He goes, no,
I never never had a problem with a lineman getting
hurt in gym class.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
The day of a football.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
Playing volleyball, playing volleyball, and I saw the kid on
the sidelines. I go quit playing volleyball, he goes, No.
Doubt felt bad for the kids senior year last time,
but he was every bit. I mean, he didn't have
the shoulder pads on, didn't play, but man, he was
talking to his teammates, talking to his brothers.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
It was really really good.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Hey, we're gonna get to a break I gotta go
let Lewis Brown in. So we're gonna have the head
football coach at Franklin along with two of his players,
looking forward to talking to Dominic Walters and Tyson Shelton
and Lewis Brown.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
And we'll talk to.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Him about the excitement and I think it's excitement about
joining this conference. Well, we we're gonna find out. That'll
be the first question we asked him. On the other
side of the break. This is the Varsity Blitz High
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(14:48):
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(15:10):
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coach this year, Franklin Savers Lewis Brown.

Speaker 2 (15:20):
What a good win last night.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Thirty five to seven over what I thought, coming in
probably the second or third best team in the conference.
And in the parking lot. You said, Man, they're gonna
win some games. They're they're tough, they're good. Thirty five
to seven, that was an awfully impressive win for you guys.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (15:39):
Absolutely, They're big, they're strong. I thinks I think they're
still trying to figure out the quarterback position. Once they
get that figured out, I mean, they got speed all
over the place. If you line them up and you
lined us up and you walk down the middle, you'd
probably point to them thinking that they're gonna beat us.
But I mean, our kids, we were very senior heavy.

(16:02):
They really stepped it up last night from you know,
right out of the gate and they you know, they
were all jacked up to play us, you know, and
because we took it to him last year a little bit.
And I was very pleased after at the end of
the game with our effort.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
Man to only give up seven to a team with
the kind of athletes. For seeing case has defenses is
clicking to to where you're you were hoping by you know,
game three where you guys would be at.

Speaker 6 (16:29):
Yeah, I mean we have eight seniors starting on defense,
and I think we have nine guys returning, so I
mean that's pretty good. Hy We had a pretty solid
team and a pretty good run last year. I felt
like we were probably a year away. Just an awfully
special group. And not only they talented, but they're they're bright.
We have, including the guys that are in that you'll

(16:51):
talk to in a little bit, we got I think
we have seven seniors that got a four point four
or higher GPA, So usually don't have all those type
of kids on defense, but a lot of them play defense.
So you can make adjustments, you can adapt, and you
can do a lot of things that you normally can't
do with bright kids.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Hey, you had told me a year ago one of
the kids that we're going to talk to one of
the players next and we had talked about Shelton and
we talked about Walters, and you made a comment and said, look,
when this kid gets done with his career at Franklin,
he might be he'll be in the conversation one of
the better defensive players we've ever had come out of
of Franklin going to South Dakota State.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
What makes him special.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
He's got it all. I mean, he's got the speed.
He's one of the kids that's over a four point
five great point average. He's a leader on the back half.
I mean, he's been doing it for safety positions, a
tough position to get really good at quick. He's been
starting for us since he was a sophomore. I mean,
they broke off a real nice run early and the
first play of the game went for about twenty five yards,

(17:58):
and you know, if you don't have him back there,
it's a touchdown. So you know, he raises any mistakes
that we make in front of him. But yeah, I
mean he's just developed and blossomed to a tremendous young leader,
which was the one thing I felt like he needed
to develop when he was younger. But he's got all
the other tools. He can fly, he's strong, he's instinctual,

(18:19):
and I think for the most part, he loves the game.

Speaker 1 (18:22):
And and the other young man we're going to talk about,
Tyson Shelton, his brother, a heck of a running back man.
That kid was unbelievable. This kid saw him last year
and I paid attention to him. He's a really nice
young man, but man, he is he's got some nasty
to him, you know. He he I saw him pancakes
some kids and he's not helping him up after he pancakes,

(18:46):
which I love. He just kind of smirked to go
back to the huddle. But man, this is a kid
that on the line. He gives you your team quite
a bit.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (18:56):
Well, I mean I'm super happy for him because I
think young in his career, he wasn't sure about football,
and you know, everyone kind of lived through his brother
and he's kind of making a name for himself now,
which is which I'm really proud of him. He's a
leader of our offensive line, and we got four starters
back on the O line and and uh he's our center.
He makes all the checks, all the calls, and and

(19:18):
he blocks a lot of guys by himself, and that's key.

Speaker 7 (19:21):
Uh, that's key when you're running your offense.

Speaker 6 (19:23):
If you're blocking O'SE guard by yourself without getting double
team anytime.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
You know, he's I think a three eight or a
three nine student. Not too many offensive lineman can say that.
I'm just telling you, you know, you those big Hogs.
You hadn't know condom Walk. There wasn't any three nine
kids in that group, was there?

Speaker 5 (19:39):
Oh there were three nine, but they weren't big.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
They were not Yeah, that's that's that is a fact. Hey,
we had talked in that first segment, and I think
you had said to me, Look, I I look forward to.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
To being and moving over to this conference. You still
feel that way.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
We've always wanted to move on and kind of upgrade.
I know when we were in the Woodland way back
when and we transferred to the Southeast Conference. Southeast Conference
is awfully good when we first did that. I mean,
Muskiga was in there, Burlington, all the were scenes in
the Canosha's had it rolling back then. To win that
conference back, it was definitely an upgrade for us, and
it took us to a whole nother level. It allowed

(20:20):
us to, you know, compete for state titles because we
knew we had to put the time into the offseason.
And you know, I don't know if you know about
this about me, but this is my last year as
the head coach at Franklin, So I feel I feel
a little bit weird about going into this tough conference
and leaving. But I made that decision way before even
knew we were going to this conference. But the new guy,

(20:42):
I'll have his hands full.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
Notice I'm just gonna shy.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
I'm going to stop for a second because you said
this is my last year's the head coach?

Speaker 6 (20:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I have two sons, awfully
proud of them are the Brown boys, including myself. You
call me a boy. We're nine and zero this year
so far. My one son's a decordinator at Holman. They
had a big win over on Alaska last night. He
and he just got married this past summer. And my
older son is a receiver coach up in New Richmond.

(21:10):
And you know, Reggie's got him rolling up there pretty
good too. So awfully proud of those boys. So we
got to make a decision. You know, if you know,
if I do retire, we're gonna kind of head to
that side of the state.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Maybe.

Speaker 6 (21:20):
And you know, if they start, you know, well, my
younger one starts popping out, they start popping out some kids.
He just got married. We'll see. But a lot of
it depending on my wife and what she says. But
I don't think football is a thing of the past.
I think I will still be involved wherever I'm at.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
And I appreciate you saying that, because there's been a
couple of guys over the years that that, and Phil
Datko is one of them. I did a to our
retirement show for him and halfway through he goes, Hey,
by the way.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
I'm not really retiring. I'm going to brook Central to
be there.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
He goes, I just this is kind of like a wake.
I want to hear what guys are saying about me.
So I appreciate the honesty, and you did. And look,
you don't have to tell us this, But do you know,
is there somebody that that has already at least in
name or you talk to that will will take over
for you or will they open it up?

Speaker 6 (22:09):
Well, I think by law they're going to open it up.
And I with our new referendum that just passed, I
think if that would not have passed, I don't know.
I mean, I think a lot of people might have
applied based on the Franklin name, but as soon as
they saw our facilities they would have walked right back out.
But now that we got one hundred and forty five
million dollar referendum, we've got some cool stuff being put
in locker rooms, weight room and all that stuff. I're

(22:32):
gonna be a very attractive position. We do have a
couple of guys in the house that I think are
definitely uh ready, and but you know, I think a
lot of you know, they're going to open it up
to a lot of different people.

Speaker 7 (22:44):
So it'll be interesting.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Ryan, you're the idea of his hego, so that that's
a very If they open it up, truly open it up,
they're going to get some unbelievable candidates who are going
to want to come in. And I think, I'm I
don't think the conference is going to scare anybody that
would apply for a job to take over. You got
big shoes to fill when you're taking over for Lewis Frown.

(23:07):
I can tell you that because when when we talk,
it's it's every single year that he's been there. We
talk about this being one of the best high school
football programs in the state of Wisconsin, and and those
are big shoes to fill.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Man.

Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, I think from like the administrative side of things,
at least for me, I would try to find somebody
that's going to if it's coming from the outside, it's
going to come in and try to learn and understand
who Franklin is and buy in because it's not broken.
There's nothing wrong with the community. The football program is
plenty of successful. Watch their video board before their game

(23:43):
one time and you'll get a real dose of the
history and it's it's real. And they've been good for
a long time in Division two and Division one as
they've grown through it. So I think I think you
got to know who who the right fit is. And
if you have somebody internally that's the right fit and
you know com and you're convicted about it, and the
staff's convicted about staying together, sometimes that's the best course

(24:05):
to take. Let's not screw around with this thing. Let's
just keep doing what we're doing.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
They understand the tradition, understand and look, you you know
when you you always an assistant coach because I've been there,
you you always dream about well, I would tweak this,
and I'm going to make a change here and I'm
gonna do this. And you steal from other people. But
if you walk into a place that's been this successful
and Lewis, I'm gonna ask you you to comment this.

(24:28):
I there's not a lot of tweaks that somebody's going
to have to make right.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 6 (24:35):
What you know what, And the guys in house that
I know, they're probably going to apply for it, you know.
I told them, I'm like, hey, here's the deal. I mean,
if you want if you want me around, I don't
know if I was taking over a program that was successful. Yeah,
but you still want to make it your own too,
you know, you don't want to just you know, do
what they did, you know, I mean you got to.
You gotta always change with the times. And a fresh

(24:56):
young face is gonna be good for the program, I think,
you know. So, Yeah, I would say they can make
it their own. And if you don't want Lewis Brown around,
I got no problem with that. I really don't. Funny story.
I went to the Hall of Fame banquet. I'm not banquet,
but like the lunch in, and we all stood up

(25:17):
and said what we're doing. And I think coach Back
and I were the only two guys that were still
coaching football.

Speaker 7 (25:23):
Every other guy was like.

Speaker 6 (25:24):
He's the ice fishing coach, he's the girls basketball, girl softball.

Speaker 7 (25:28):
A lot of girls softball coaches.

Speaker 6 (25:30):
And I'm like, well, it got to me, and I'm like, well,
I'm still a head coach here, you know, so I
think a lot of them. You know, you put your
time in it. It's a grind. I mean, Ryan knows
it's a grind coach in high school football, and some
people want to step away from it. I really love
the sport. I'd love to stick around it, but it's
got to be the right situation.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Do you think you'll ever get back to coaching wrestling.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
I brought up maybe coaching the girls. We don't have
a girls team at Franklin. We have a guy's coach
that's doing a pretty good job coach seeing but I
brought up maybe coming back and coach. I one thing
I enjoyed about the wrestling is the parents. I mean,
you get real tight with the parents. You go to
some of those tournaments, and you know those overnight tournaments,
Holy Cole, they put a spread of food out for you.

(26:12):
You know when you get back to the hotel. Yeah,
I put on a little weight during wrestling based on
a food alone.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
But yeah, yeah I might. I might dabble in that
for sure.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
You know, there's a few people upset when you stepped
away from coaching wrestling nobody more than your wife. And
she she said, look, he's a really good wrestling coach.
And and I just when she was in studio, I'm
telling you, Louis, you told me a few things about
her and how just a really you know, solid coach

(26:43):
his wife she is, and how supportive of you, and
and and I really enjoyed getting to know her. And
she I'll tell you what. I tried to get her
to say bad things about you behind your back, and.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
She just wouldn't do it. I tried. I teared her
up a couple of times. I'm not going there, he goes.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
She said, look, he's just really he's a really good
wrestling coach. And I'm sad that he's not gonna be
doing that again. So I'm happy to hear that you
might be open to going back to that.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I told her yesterday. I forgot
that I was coming on here, but then I think
you sent me a text or remind me.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
Thank goodness. But I told her, hey, I'm coming to talk,
and she goes, oh, no wives this year? Huh. I
thought that was kind of fil You know what.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
I'm gonna I'm gonna do something later in the year
for coaches that who have had retired and there and
I'm gonna your your wife is gonna be my first
ball call. I can tell you that. You know, Steve
Ruck's coach. K there's some that would be quality stuff
right there. Hey, talk a little bit about the rest
of your schedule. We send Park has struggled a little bit,

(27:45):
and then that that game right after and we don't
want to look past anybody, and you don't want to
look past for Seine Park.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I do that, you won't do that.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
But then oh Creek last time is the head coach
of Franklin at home against oh Creek?

Speaker 4 (27:59):
You look forward?

Speaker 7 (28:00):
Did that right? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Yeah, I mean it's it's been a rival game. I mean,
we're right next to each other for for a lot
of years. And uh, you know Brian Calhoun's now the
head coachair, so that's new. Yeah, I mean, we we
do look forward to that game. It's we call it
the helmet game. And we have like a traveling trophy
and and we all you know, if I'm retiring, I
want that in our trophy cases I'm leaving, so right there, Yeah,

(28:27):
but our schedule is front heavy. I mean, you know,
we played two good non conference teams and in case
Oak Creek and then Bradford, boy, I think he's coach
Morris is turning that that around down there.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
There's always athletes down there.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
You get those kids to believe so and then uh,
you know, the the later half of the schedules, you
know a little bit easier. But yeah, we got to
bring it. The first five six games, we gotta we
gotta bring it. But that's good, That's why we do it.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Hey with with how does change and you won't be
the head coach? But over to the classic gate, how
does that then change your schedule for next year? Because look,
you for years have tried to They're your first two games.
And I used to make funny, I go, what are
you doing playing those two games? And you'd say, look,
we got to find out where we're at. We're getting

(29:16):
we in our conference, we're gonna we're gonna qualify for
the playoffs. Let's find out how we are. What does
that do to your schedule for next year?

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Well, so.

Speaker 6 (29:27):
If you talk to you know, coach Crowley, any any
coach of a successful program. The problem with this whole
playoff system is the good programs are finding it hard
to find teams that want to play them in non conference.
So right now, next year we're playing Wannakee and Nina.
That's where we're at, you know. And then and then
we get to go into the Classic Gate and we

(29:48):
cross over with Sussex, Samilton and Germantown.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
So hey, hey, welcome new coach.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
You know, it's like, you know, I've got some issues
with that, but I guess, I mean, if you to
be a playoff team, you got you should be able
to beat fifty percent of those teams.

Speaker 7 (30:03):
Maybe you don't belong in the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
But it's getting a lot of powerhouses playing each other
right out of the bat. I mean you're seeing some
of that this year too, because no one really wants
to you know, you can't find games. You know, we
just found we just picked up the Nina game last week.
Otherwise no one else. We couldn't find anyone else to
play us, you know, and we're graduating, you know, sixteen
senior starters.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
A great time for you to shake hands with the
new coach. And that's what I mean. Yeah, don't get them, coach.
Did you guys find it hard at Mesquigo to get
nine conference games.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Absolutely, So we've you know, in the last four years,
we've gone and found the Valley Conference champion and the
Big Eight Conference champion. But you know now that used
to help. But with the coach alluded to the new
playoff model. If teams are looking at you and they
don't believe they can beat you, there's no benefit for

(30:55):
them to play you unless the coach really is understands
a bigger picture and know's like I'm gonna walk in
against coach Brown. He might get me tonight, but my
program's gonna get better and we're gonna learn what it
takes to get there. So if you got someone with
the right mindset and has that conviction and that energy
to do it, then it's good. But most guys are
looking at going, ah, I don't think I can get Franklin.

(31:16):
I don't think I can get Muskigo. We're not gonna
schedule them. Let's go get someone we can get. Because
if you can beat them, then you can acquire a
crew their Tier two points. So every win that they
get will help me. But I gotta beat him to
be able to get that, right. I think the one
tweak to the model that will be good. I think
the model is better than it was. Obviously, it's transparent
as all all heck, and that's really good for everybody.

(31:38):
But I think the tweak that needs to be made
is we got to find a way to how do
you factor in the tough loss, you know, whether that's
a single single score game or something like that, to
maybe have a Tier three category where people can still
get something for scheduling that hard game that they might
not win.

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Is that being talked about?

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, that was talked about.

Speaker 5 (31:58):
I know at least all the way off to the
WI level that they just didn't have time to get
it right, to get the loss factor in there. Because
it was a huge change, it was an accelerated change.
There's some things that weren't just right with those that
got in and didn't get in last year with the playoffs,
so it was a push to we need to change it.
We know we need to change it.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
We got some flaws.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Let's go fix this. And this is where we landed
as the best possible option for right now and then
hopefully this coming off season we can tweak it even
further and gain feedback from across the state.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
Hey, Louis, how much to you and your son talk about, like,
did you talk to them last night?

Speaker 6 (32:37):
Well, I'm going to one of my former players wedding
this afternoon, so my one son from home and will
be there, so I'll talk to him.

Speaker 7 (32:45):
I did.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
I We have like we have like a text thread
to all the Browns and with our new daughter in law,
and so yeah, we went back and forth, and you know,
there's some interesting things said on there, but to congratulate
each other.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
But I'll talk to them both this probably today.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Does the daughter in law have any idea what she's
married into?

Speaker 7 (33:03):
That's what I did.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
I would love to be a Thanksgiving at the Brown House.
I got to tell you about how much fun that
that would be. But she knows what she got into, right,
the love of coaching.

Speaker 6 (33:16):
And yeah, we're going to find out how much he
loves football, because I'm going to find out real quick,
because you know, I think their statement was, well, we
don't have any kids yet, so hey, now that would
be a great time to coach football. I'm thinking what
I'm thinking, Well, I don't know if he's going to
just coach it for a few years.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
So you con in your blood man gets you? How
long have you.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Coached thirty four years.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
Thirty six and people I got.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
I got asked this week, Ky, do you have any
interest to coaching a sixth grade girls team in hard
Forego Now. You can't believe how quick I responded to that.
I almost put absolutely not. I am done. And my
wife said I thought she'd be home more. I know,
I'm still in the jim. I'm still going to practices
and I'm going to we're doing games here on nine

(34:03):
to twenty and and I'm not home any but anymore.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
But it's not that grind.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's not that every single day of of the grind
part of it.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Hey, what do you think you'll miss the most when
when this thing's done and you know, hopefully our camp
Randall and you and you do everything that that you
want this season to get done. What do you think
you'll miss the most about being the head coach at Franklin.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (34:28):
I would say just watching watching a young you know,
a young boy become a young man.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Right.

Speaker 6 (34:34):
We don't do it for the pay, right, you can
ask any coach in this state. We definitely don't do
it for the pay. You know, it's it's almost a
great gratification that happens when you see we got a
we got an undersized safety that the plays next to dominic.
If you would have told me this kid would have
played for us last year, you know, I would have said,
heck no, there's no way. But the kid would have

(34:55):
worked his tail off. And now he's flying all over
the field. He had a you know, he had a
big caused a fumble last night. He's all, you had
a couple of big hits, you know, And I'm like, wow,
I'm just seeing a kid growing to a young man
and become part of a team. It's it's a really
cool I mean, Ryan, No, I mean you know as well.
It's just a really cool feeling. That's why we coach
right to see to see him become young men and

(35:17):
and and let them do it together and kind of
fall in love with the whole process and fall in
love with their teammates. You know, it's a brotherhood that
that locker room is something they'll never get to experience again,
you know, after they're done.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
With this sport man. You gotta love that. He's gonna
be missed. I can tell you that he's he's coaching
for a long time this season, but this. Uh, in
this community of high school football in southeast Wisconsin, when
you say the name Lewis brown Man, people know and
they know the kind of job that he's done at Franklin,

(35:50):
And Uh, I'm probably gonna call him actually more next
year because you'll have more time to come in.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
He won't be laid Yeah, all of that stuff. So
we're gonna get to a break.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
The other side of the break, we're gonna be joined
by Dominic Walters and Tyson Shelton, two of the seniors
that are making this Franklin team go, and we'll talk
to them a little bit about the year of last
for them, how they're feeling, and the decision for Dominiic
South Dakota State will find out why that decision was made.
We'll find out what's going out with Tyson next year,
and we'll do that on the other side of the break.

(36:20):
This is the Varsity Blitz High School Sports Show, presented
by your local Pick and Save and Metro Market stores
only on Fox Sports nine twenty and your iHeart Radio app.
Welcome back to the Varsity Blix High School Sports Show,
presented as always by your local Pick and Save and
Metro Market stores on Fox Sports nine twenty and your
iHeart Radio app. I'm Mike McGivern. I want to thank

(36:43):
Lewis Brown for coming in. He had a head out.
He's got a wedding to go to. We've got two
senior leaders on this team, a three and zero team
that I can tell you. I've talked to Lewis over
the years and when he looks you right in the
eye and says we've got a chance to be pretty good.
He you know, he doesn't say that stuff very often.
He'll see, oh, we're young, we might be better at
the end. Where not this year. He said, look, we

(37:05):
gotta have a chance. We got a lot of guys
coming back. And two of the leaders on that team,
Dominic Walters and Tyson Shelton. I'm gonna start with Tyson,
Tyson's offensive lineman.

Speaker 2 (37:16):
By six to one. And I I mean I watched
you last year.

Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, you're a nice, big smile, nice kid, come from
a great family man. You put that helmet on. You
don't mind getting a little a little mean and angry
when you play.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
Huh No.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
I mean you always go out there, you know, give
it your best every time and kind of just stray
left for the game and you're out there. I mean,
your brothers are out there. You kind of play for
him every time.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
So, hey, what made you walk away from playing football
in grade school?

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Did you just think this isn't for me?

Speaker 8 (37:44):
Or I would say, I guess I kind of just
like thought I could be some.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
I kind of just happy you came back.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, I'm very happy I came back.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Fall back in love with it.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Yeah, I mean great, three or four years playing and
said it'll be done after this year.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
But I mean, do you know there's not a lot
of sophomores that can say I started on varsity at
Franklin as a sophomore, Like you got to earn it.
You get that program there there there's always guys in waiting,
and for the two for the two of you who
played football in fourth grade together and then starting at
for a state runner up team. If Franklin is it,

(38:23):
Look you jumped in and got after it again right away.
Your brother's doing well at Buffalo, right You miss having
them at home?

Speaker 2 (38:30):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (38:30):
Yeah, it's quite at home and miss him.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Yeah, does he know how Franklin's doing.

Speaker 8 (38:35):
Yeah, he kind of tunes into the games, watches as
well he can. I mean he has meetings and stuff,
but he always likes to go on his computer tune
into the games.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
So next year for you going out to college, but
don't think you want to play football?

Speaker 3 (38:47):
No, I think time to hang up the cleeds after
this year.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
What do you think you want to go into? Do
you know?

Speaker 3 (38:52):
I don't really know.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
You don't have to know.

Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, you know what and if you had what you
if you knew, you could change your mind four times
before you leave the studio. You're what seventeen? Yeah, that's awesome, Dominic.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
How you doing?

Speaker 1 (39:04):
Dominic walters South Dakota State, He's that's where he's head
next year. During the break, I said why South Dakota State?
And you said, Look, I went out there in June,
and man, I felt like it was home and they
put out the red carpet for me.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
They wanted you bad, didn't they. Yeah.

Speaker 9 (39:19):
I mean I came out there and met with coach
Glees right away. It was a safety's coach out there,
and he I mean I knew from the start that,
you know, I was kind of a guy that they
were after, and just such a cool experience when I
was out there, rolled out the red carpet. Like I
said earlier, I mean I was the only recruit on
my visit there, so it was pretty special. Got to
connect with a lot of the coaches, talked with some

(39:40):
of the teammates up there too, and yeah, I mean
Brooking South Dakota.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
I mean, it's just a special place.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
So Lewis Brown is a defensive minded head coach, right,
He's the defensive guy. And for him to say to
me a year ago, this kid may end up being
one of the best safeties ever to come out of
Franklin Man high praise, high praise.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
He's not in the studios, shoul.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
We can talk about him behind his back, but I can't,
cause I just he's just such a good dude. How
do you like playing for him?

Speaker 7 (40:09):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I love it.

Speaker 9 (40:10):
I mean I wouldn't play for anyone else. I mean,
coach Brown is I'm not gonna lie. When I was
kind of in youth, I was kind of afraid of him. Yeah,
like just watching from from the stands and him yelling
at the players and whatnot, I was like, oh boy,
it's gonna be me in a few years. But you know,
ever since freshman year when I went up there, for
two days and sophomore year. Obviously when I was starting,

(40:31):
you could just tell, like, I mean, he's got what
thirty four years, thirty three something like that, Like he's
got so much experience and in the game, and he's
taught me so much about the game. But it's not
only him as a football coach. It's just him as
a as a I guess, a man, just kind of
turning us into young men.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
And hey, I mean you know.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
It sometimes my nickname at the other radio stage. Who
was the high school insider? So I do a lot
of digging for my guess. First of all, Happy birthday?

Speaker 2 (41:01):
By the way, how was pot? Yeah? How was that?
I didn't do it? You didn't know. Hold on a second.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
I got a text right here that says, ask him
how pot wantamy was?

Speaker 2 (41:11):
I didn't know? Okay, talking about it, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
Look on top of who sent it? Yeah, I don't
know either. He's gonna have to explain that one. Happy birthday, Yeah, yes, yes, sir.

Speaker 9 (41:25):
Yeah, So it was good birthday win yesterday. I mean,
I can't ask for a better birthday gift.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Hey, what explained the motivation for both of you for
being such good student? Athletes. Where did that come from?
For you?

Speaker 9 (41:38):
I think it comes from my parents mainly. Uh, I
mean back even as far back in elementary school. They've
always been high on me on keeping my grades up
and through middle school too. But ever since I got
into high school and kind of started playing football and
baseball and started getting looks from colleges, I wanted to
kind of put myself in the best possible position I
could to you know, go play one of the two

(41:58):
sports at the highest level and if you have looks
for baseball as well. I had a couple of looks. Yeah,
there were there were a couple of juco's that offered me.
There were a couple of dtwos that were talking to me,
and I got invited to a few Division one camps
as well, But with football this fall, obviously can't really
go to those. But I would just say keeping my
grades up was just really important, just because like you

(42:22):
can get like a half half scholarship just for having
good grades, and I'm super high on it, you know,
I take a lot of responsibility with it.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
And for you, yeah, yeah, enticing the same question, the
idea of student athlete right, students first, and it's not
your right to play football, frankly to privilege you earn
by taking care of your business in the classroom. Your
motivation for being such a good student athlete, Where did
that come from?

Speaker 8 (42:46):
I would say just comes from my parents. Again, in
middle school, I didn't really have as good as grades.
I kind of got to high school, got around the
right people, and started joining football. You know, I feel
like that helps a lot with getting your stuff done.
The coaches are on you about it. So, you know,
being a four h student, like I mean, kind of
just nature, I guess.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
So parents come to every game. Yeah, who do you
hear more?

Speaker 3 (43:09):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (43:09):
You hear either of them.

Speaker 8 (43:10):
My dad's a little harder on me than my mom.
My mom kind of tells me she's proud. My dad
kind of gets on me a little bit, but you know,
good for him. He's been around football for a while.
I played D one, so he knows what he's talking.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
He knows what he's talking about dies. Does he wait
out for it at the kitchen table after games?

Speaker 8 (43:24):
And he comes down on the field after the game,
gives me a hug, takes a picture with me.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Okay, he's proud.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
So do you guys? Break down film together.

Speaker 8 (43:32):
He played corner, so he doesn't really know too much
about the line. But I usually just watched the film
by myself.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah, your mommy and dad coming every game, every game? Yeah,
who do you hear more?

Speaker 9 (43:44):
Well, my dad's in the press box mainly, so okay,
he's a freshman coach, so he always helps. So my
mom sits right below the press box. I always hear
her screaming.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
So you gotta love that. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
Yea.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
You do me a favorite guys and understand that this
is your year last for them, right last time. They're
gonna come over and watch you guys play at home
against Joe Creek. And there are some emotions. I've been
through it myself personally. There's some emotions. So you know,
give them if if they're off a little bit off
or they're yelling at you a little bit more, understand
what they're going through. When when you got on campus

(44:18):
at South Dakota State and you said, look, they they
they put up the red carpet for me, What about
that campus for you? Made you feel like, man.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
I could play here.

Speaker 9 (44:27):
I mean, as far as the campus goes, I think
it's I wasn't looking really for like a big campus.
So there were a lot of schools that I went
on earlier, you know, Minnesota, Wisconsin, they got really big campuses,
and there was just always something about just having like
a small town that just backs up the football program
like South Dakota State does. And you know, I got there.
The campus is super small. Brookings is a really small

(44:48):
town too, and just the way like they sell out
every single home game, so just the support they have
with the football program. Just seeing that stadium just full,
like full sold out. I'm going up there next weekend
on my official visit and it's a night game too,
so it'll be a pretty cool experience. So just just
knowing that the whole community is behind you is just
obviously somewhere where you want to play.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
You know, what you want to go into at the college.

Speaker 9 (45:12):
And as far as now, I'm kind of either between
probably business or kinesiology, one of the two. So we're
taking i mean senior year, so we're taking kind of
easy classes.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
But but yeah, we're kind of going around. Hell are
you taking easy classes too? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:26):
I got our classes, gym classes.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
The one it man Lewis, you got to get these
guys in Calcin and Uh, I took calt glass here
you did.

Speaker 9 (45:35):
Yeah, I took helt class year as a junior and
I passed with a four and then exam so I
got credit for that.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Well well done. Hey guys, I like asking this question.
You got a lot of football that we played the
Franklin Sabers. And when I told you and that break,
I said, hey, I'm gonna ask you this question. You
both kind of looked at each other and I think
you know, you said, look, we might have the same answer.
I said, that's okay with you. That's okay with me
if you have the same answer. Dominica, come and start
with you. You're one favorite memories of being part of

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the Franklin Savor program.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
What would it be? I mean, I've had a lot.

Speaker 9 (46:06):
Of memories of football, but I would say probably the
one that sticks up like as far far up there
as compared to others is definitely that.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
I think. It was a Tuesday practice.

Speaker 9 (46:17):
No, yeah, maybe Tuesday practice right before we were getting
ready to play Msquigo sophomore year.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
It was snowing, and you know, it was a it
was a great practice.

Speaker 9 (46:26):
We got out there and we were kind of like, oh,
this might be this might be like not good, like
this might suck, it's kind of cold, it's snowing.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
But you know, we were going through warm ups and
it was snowing.

Speaker 9 (46:36):
The field was covered in snow, and after kickoff we'd
run down and we'd just slide in the snow. So
that whole senior group and I mean the juniors that
year too, like that just made that practice so special.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
Tyson, you said, hey, man, that's mine and your guy
and it's okay.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
You enjoyed that practice as well.

Speaker 8 (46:53):
Oh yeah, So we kind of got out there and
we didn't really know how it felt about it, but
we kind of got out there realized this could be
the last game we all played this year, so we
kind of had to take it to heart. And like
we went out there, it was a great practice, high energy,
you know, something different to go out there and play.
So I think that's one of the best members I've had.

Speaker 1 (47:12):
Hey, when I talked to Lewis Proper, who do you
want to bring in? And he said, look, these guys
are are true leaders of this team. I think I
know the answer, but I may ask you anyway, what
leaders in the past at Franklin taught you how to
be a good leader for this program.

Speaker 8 (47:28):
I really look it was with my brother, Yes, a
big role model than me. He kind of brought me
to who I am today. I think senior last year,
Jake Pecarr helped me through a lot. We both got
injured last year. I broke my leg in Week two.
He tours a c L against Oak Creek last year,
so we kind of just wrote out last year with
injuries and we got really close.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
I think those are two guys I really look up
to in dominic.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
How about you, Yeah, I mean I got I got
to show some love to my jack boys as well
the DBS back there coaching act being the best TV
coach in the state. But I would say sophomore year,
like I was definitely deering headlights in that first game,
and I would say Talent Summers and Cooper Camley were
kind of two of the big.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Ones that year.

Speaker 9 (48:08):
They were both senior leaders that kind of took me
under their wing right from the start. And I remember
Cooper drove me to every wing night there because I
didn't have my license for the first two games, so
that was a cool experience. And then as far as
last year goes, even though I didn't play, you know,
on the offensive side. I would say Joey was a
great leader for us as a as a unit and
obviously taught Tyson and I a lot about leading. And

(48:29):
you know, now we're seniors, so now it's our time
to which which.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
One of you two is more vocal as the leader.
I would say probably me. I'm more of the vocal leader.

Speaker 9 (48:38):
I like, I mean, I'd lose my voice every single game,
so I like, you know, bringing the boys together right
before saying a little speech. You know, Tyson will speak
up to when he has to on. You know, he
really does that with the old line. But I would say,
I would say both of us are are pretty vocal leaders.
But I would say I probably step up in certain
spots where Tyson is kind of leading by example, which

(48:59):
there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
Hey, Tyson.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
Years ago, my co host in here was Joe Cook,
who's coach at Olk Creek, and he said to me
one day, Hey, listen, if I'm missing, like I'm gone
and nobody knows where I am, go to the Franklin
Police Department and look for me in the basement because
they got me. And I would laugh. He goes, no,
I'm serious. They really disliked me. I started for you. Look,

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they haven't beaten you guys in a bit, right, Yeah,
And you don't want that to be on your senior
resume for sure. But how big is that game? Not
only to this team but to the community.

Speaker 8 (49:32):
I think it's really important. I mean we go out
every year. It's a big rivaly, so I think it
means a lot. I think we come out with a
win this year, last last conference game, verst them. I think,
wrap it up, get the get the helmet, you know,
take them, take them the ball.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
And you heard Lewis, you heard coach Brown my last year,
I want that. I want that trophy in our trophy case.
You play any baseball on your select with any Old
Creek guys.

Speaker 9 (49:55):
That played for Yeah, so I played base I played
baseball with Max Hoagland, who is a wide receiver on
Old Creek. So I mean at that time we were teammates.
But uh, you know, there was there were times where
we talk about football in that Week five game against
O Creek. So we're definitely looking forward to it. And
I think this year it's you know, it's the rivalry game.
But I think we're doing it for coach Brown this
year too, just being his last year, and you know,

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we want that helmet trophy with us and we want
coach Brown to walk out with it.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
Hey, I I saw Creek play Meskeigo a couple of
weeks ago. I was down the satellites for that one.
Oh Creek's good. That's a good football team. And I
think Ryan McMillan will agree with that, especially the first half.
They they gave him Skeigo everything they can handle. And Uh,
that's not going to be an easy out for you.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
I can tell you no, No, I don't you know.

Speaker 9 (50:38):
Every time we play Old Creek, we got to go
in there with you know, the right mentality and jump
on them right away and stay on them.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I think you can't.

Speaker 9 (50:46):
You can't overlook a team in the SEC, especially when
it's on the uprise.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
You just got to take it week by week.

Speaker 9 (50:52):
But against the Creek, I think limiting the big plays
on defense and kind of maximizing those plays on offense
is what.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
You kind of have to do.

Speaker 9 (50:59):
And you got to stay high during the highs and
pick yourself up after the lows. But I mean, yeah,
we all know it's a big game and everyone's just
got to do their job and fly around.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
You are, there's some coaching in your future.

Speaker 1 (51:11):
You know that, right, You're gonna I'm telling you, man, Yeah,
I mark by words, you'll be back in this chair
one days as a coach someplace. I have no doubt
about that. Your father's a coach. You got all the
coach speak down, brother, you got it all down. Guys,
Thank you so much for a few minutes of your time.
I really appreciate it. I can tell you that Coach

(51:33):
Brown that staff thinks so highly of you guys, and
and expect really great things from you.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
And good luck the rest of the way. Yeah, thank you,
thank you for having us here.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Hey, guys, one last thing, don't let anybody on this
team mess this thing up. And you know what I'm saying.
You can go to the parties, senior parties at you know,
baseball season. Don't do it now and talk to your
boys about that. What you don't want is for four
starters to be out, you know, forst second place off
game because they did something stupid. You guys are the leaders.

(52:03):
Had that conversation with those guys. Lot, do not mess it.
Let's not mess this thing up. All right, yeah, all right,
it's good to see you guys. We're gonna get to
a break. Other side of the break, Ryan McMillan will
be back, the athletic director at Muskigo and Dennis Murphy.
And guys, I'm gonna ask you to turn on Fox
Sports ninety twenty in your car when you leave it.
Dennis Murphy, the founder of Friends of Jacqueline coming in

(52:26):
and I want you to hear his story about this
five year old young man from slinger Vincent who I
got a chance to meet. You wouldn't share his candy
with me. I go, you wouldn't talk to me until
I said you can to share some candy.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
He goes no.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
I said, come on, man, I'm hungry. He goes no,
and you just started laughing. It took off run. But
we're gonna have a conversation with Dennis Murphy, founder of
Friends of Jacqueline. He's made such an impressive, uh, just
an impression on me that I'm gonna get involved with
some of the stuff he's doing. We'll talk to him
on the other side of the break. This is the
Varsity Plit's high school sports show presented by your local

(52:59):
Pick and Save and Metro Market stores only on Fox
Sports side twenty years.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
iHeartRadio app. Welcome back to.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
The Varsity Flits high school sports show is always presented
by your local Pick and Save and Metro Market stores.
Next week I should have done it, I guess this
week because we had two big time student athletes, but
we had planned starting next week, we'll name a Pick
and Save student athlete of the week, Pick and Save
Metro Market student.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Athlete of the week.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
And we've been doing that for I don't know, fifteen
sixteen years. We highlight true student athletes and kids that
come in studio, and if they're not in studio, we'll
we'll have a girl volleyball player or a swimmer, and
I'll reach out to athletic directors and say, look, I
don't have anybody this week for my Pick and Save
student athlete of the week.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
My favorite was the girl wrestler that you sent me, Nina. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
No, the girl hockey player oh Ella Ella yea Ella
did not look like a hockey player. No, she was
tiny and she said, I'm really quick on the ice
and I just really enjoyed getting to know her. And
so what we'll do is is name our Pick and
Save Metro Markets student Athlete of the Week, and then
I'll meet them at at a Pick and Save closest

(54:09):
to their house or their school. And we have a
great award and look ideal logos and awards. Have been
a partner with me and Ken who owns it, defensive
coordinator over at Franklin who sended me some bad information
on the whole Potawatomey thing with Dominic, But he does
a great job of getting us ready and getting the

(54:30):
plaques ready, and I thank him. But starting next week
we'll get back to doing our Pick and Save Student
Athlete of the Week and in two weeks our current
Electric Superhero of the Week. I can tell you there's
a superhero that I got a chance to have breakfast
with yesterday and hung out in the sidelines with him.
Talk to him on the year last week for a
few minutes. And Dennis Murphy, who's the founder of Friends

(54:53):
of Jacqueline. When we talked on the air, I kind
of thought I had an idea on what you did.
First of all, that's good to see you, But I've
talked to you more of the last two days. Here
come a little closer. I've talked more to you than
I have my wife last two days breakfast together. First, congratulations,
Yes grandfather three times said you sent me two pictures

(55:16):
and my wife, who worked on the old B floor
probably looked at these pictures.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Like ten times. So thank you for that.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Congratulations, Thanks, thanks.

Speaker 10 (55:23):
Coming from Children's Wisconsin on Thursday and then getting a
healthy baby on Friday was smad.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
You know what, it's everything.

Speaker 1 (55:33):
Perspective amen to that we had John last week. I
spent a lot of time on your website. I spent
a lot of time watching videos and Ryan, I can
tell you. Dennis made a comment and said, hey, you
can read all this stuff on your website and I
can talk you through it until you see it, till
you feel it.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
You're really not going to know. And I felt it
last night.

Speaker 1 (55:53):
And slinger Man, I have tears in my eyes right
now because young Vincent who's five years old, and I
talked to his mom and dad and I said, hey,
Dennis coming on my radio shows. Okay, is it okay
if we talk about Vincent? And they said absolutely. What
I was surprised about is talking to Vincent's dad and

(56:14):
he said, you know now, he's not taking medication. He's
feeling better, but it's a five year window. And he goes,
this is harder right now than it was because we knew, okay,
here the medication's helping him, right and now we're kind
of on our own. And he goes, I thought maybe

(56:36):
it would be easier, but it's not.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
It might be even harder. How do you feel about.

Speaker 10 (56:40):
That, Well, that's the whole cancer. There's no care for cancer. Okay,
there's none. And then it gets me angry. I've been
doing this twenty one years. And you see Vincent last night.
You know, he's just he's just happy to be normal.
He's happy to be normal and to be out there

(57:02):
and being a kid, and nobody looks like him when
he's in the hospital. Okay, that's how raw our mission
what we do. We're about quality of life. We're focused
on what can we do for these kids today, not
tomorrow or week or a year or five years. Our
research is important research, but I'm in this twenty one
years and there's there's no care for for for pediatric cancer,

(57:22):
let alone brain tumors. And I don't even get into
the money that they spend on pediatrics. But we live
MRI and m RI I for the rest the rest
of our life. You're never out of the woods. When
somebody says I'm cancer free personally, personally, I'll never say that.
But I'll never take my guard down because there's relapses,
there's reoccurrences ten twenty years later, and with this beast,

(57:42):
and I call it the beast, and I deal with
it every day. So to see his smile and you
engage with him and and ras them with not sharing
his candy, Yeah, that's priceless. That's priceless. You know, I
really wanted.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
I'm just kidd I didn't, but he said no. Three Yeah,
I said, hey, you ate all the candy. If you
get more candy, you get to share it.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
Nope. And I just loved it. And you know what else.
I loved his sister.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Yeah, his oldling sister.

Speaker 1 (58:10):
You had told me about her, and she a smile
that lights up the room, and what she she had
her I on Vincent the whole time. Yeah, just making
sure that he was not going some play he wasn't
supposed to go.

Speaker 10 (58:23):
Well, you've got a unique skill set that you can
get down and communicate on their level and they and
it's not a show. They feel it, and I saw
it right there with with Uh, with Vivian, and I
got a real soft spot for for siblings because I
have two girl. Jacqueline was diagnosed at nine and my
other daughter, Taran was seven, and I'm guilty of what
I call unintentional neglect. I spent so much focus on

(58:46):
Jacqueline and all of our parents. Do you just want
to get your child better? You at the hospital and
we were a memorial snow ketter in Kanser Hospital in
New York City and only one parent was left to
sleep there. My wife slept in the in the Ronald
McDonald's house. And I had to take Taran at seven
years old and not wear out my welcome on any
neighbors because I didn't have family around, so I put her.

(59:06):
I put her with neighbors, and little did I know,
she developed more issues than my daughter with.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
The brain tomor Yeah.

Speaker 10 (59:12):
So I started talking to more and more parents are like, yeah,
do you have any programs for siblings. There's a lot
of resources out there for afflicted children, but there's not
a lot for siblings. So we started safe on the
sideline for siblings. My wife came up with the idea
and that goes brilliant mosa. The teams embrace the whole family,
but there are isolated situations where these kids in either
own team.

Speaker 1 (59:32):
So Dennis, I want and look, we don't have to
do the reader's digest like we did last week, but
I want you to explain and we'll get into why,
and we'll talk more about Jacqueline a little bit later.
But I want you to explain what what you do
because I saw it firsthand last night. Vincent's Vincent's has

(59:52):
slinger out. He's on the sidelines. The kids are high
five him a little bit. But talk to me a
little bit about what you do all over the country.
You you are, somebody gives you a hedge up on
a child that has cancer in a community, and what
you do then is pair them up with a local
athletic team, high school or college, mail or female.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
Right, and they adopt these kids, correct, right?

Speaker 10 (01:00:17):
And everybody says, well, what goes into an adoption? That's
that's like the big question. So you know, I'll walk
to it, but I gotta take a step back and say,
you know, how how I came up with this?

Speaker 4 (01:00:26):
You know you don't go to.

Speaker 10 (01:00:27):
College for this, you know this is there's no there's
no manual follow out there. So what we've done organically
over twenty one years is started out just wanting to
help these children. When I was in the ninth floor
a memorial stone kettering, I was, I was sleeping there,
and you don't sleep on the ninth floor. So you know,

(01:00:53):
Jacqueline was playing lacrosse up in New York, and you know,
she was playing with twenty five guys and two girls
and the other girl really wasn't there for the for
the sport, okay, so she was excelling. And then and
then the coach that called me back and said, hey,
did I do something wrong? Why is Jacqueline come to
practice anymore? And I explained to her she came down

(01:01:13):
with a miligdin brain tumor called menchel blastoma, a thirty
percent chance to live. He was like, oh, you know
what kind of conversation that is. So he says, would
you mind if I reach out to some of my friends.
So we're in New York.

Speaker 4 (01:01:24):
He reaches out to.

Speaker 10 (01:01:26):
Chicago Northwestern and the girls on the team start sending
Jacqueline a care package and in the care package was
a media guide and every girl signed it. Every single
girl signed a message to her and she was blown away.
And on the back of the media guide, it's the schedule,
so the schedule shows where they're playing. Now, they don't
get over to the East coast much, so they on

(01:01:47):
the schedule they were playing Johns Hopkins to Tom Hawkins
was ranked fourth in the country and they were like
two years out of Club D one.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
So Jacklin goes down. We got we go to I
gotta go to the game. Gotta go to the game.
Got the girl.

Speaker 10 (01:02:00):
She's been texting them in the meantime, so it'd be
the first time she can meet them. And she was
neutropinic at the time, which means white blood cells are down.
Doctors put her in isolation, nowhere around any parent and
nobody bad parenting on my part. I said, we're going
her and I jump in the car. She lays down
in the back. It's a five hour drive from New
York to Hopkins, two hour game, five hour drive home

(01:02:23):
without bat and eyelash. Parents will do anything for the kids, yes, right.
So she pops up after three hours and says, Dad,
do you think I can meet the team? And I said,
I don't know, let me see so I called the
assistant coach and she said, sure, come on over. It
was a night game. She says, we're having our pregame
dinner at the Marriotte. Here's the address.

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
Boom.

Speaker 10 (01:02:40):
So I just figured we're going there and say hello,
we're both going there. And Jacqueline gets out and she
gets up and we had just finished make a wish
and she shares her whole journey and she let it
all out in front of these girls. There's no oxygen
left in the room none. So the girls put her
on the bus, which is probably illegal, and they take

(01:03:03):
her in the locker room. They change, they go out,
They kick Hopkins, but they kick Coppkins about fourth in
the country. They go undefeated, they win a national championship.

Speaker 4 (01:03:11):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 10 (01:03:12):
They win the first, their first national championship. And then
they rattled off five more inspired by Jacqueline and and
and that. So while we're in the hospital, the girls
are now text message in her and she would give
them pump ups, like if they're playing Ohio State, Hey
I And she's taking pictures of getting her or poked,
her blood taken and she's like, if I can get blood,

(01:03:33):
you better take some blood today.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
I love you, I go.

Speaker 4 (01:03:36):
So they went out and kicked butt.

Speaker 10 (01:03:39):
And uh so I'm watching her talk to this girl
when we're on the ninth floor and she goes who
keeps calling her phones blown up because anytime she went
in for treatment, they would they would blow her phone up.
And I had what I call a nine when one
there was those two, two or three girls that I
could say, hey, Jacqueline's having a bad day, could get
text her.

Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
I mean, they could be in class, maybe they're shooting it.

Speaker 10 (01:04:03):
So she's talking to this girl and the girl gets
called away for chemo, and then she turns to me
and she says, Dad, you got to get her a team.
And that's when I had the AHA moment and I'm like,
I don't know, but I got to get all these kids,
bald heads, chemo poles, every diverse everything you can see
on It's it's to me, it's where Heaven and Hell meet,

(01:04:24):
because that's these kids are sitting in hell. But the
good caregivers, not nurses and doctors are they're helping them,
trying to protect these kids. And I says, we got
to get them teams. And I think every kid that's
in the hospital deserves to be on a team because
the side effects from chemo and radiation it's long lasting
and devastating, devastating. They're not ever going to play a
d one okay, let alone if they're lucky to be

(01:04:47):
on a team. So we get them on a team.
This is and we do it through an adoption process.
It's called adopted child. Friends of Jacqueline dot Org.

Speaker 4 (01:04:55):
You go on there.

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Oh yeah, we're gonna plug this and I'm going to
continue to plug it for years.

Speaker 10 (01:05:00):
Well that's a privilege, and on I'm I'm excited to
get in here because you know, you're you're this is
a radio station. To me, this is an instrument that's
going to change lives. I can guarantee it, and you
never guarantee anything in life. People are gonna hear this,
they're gonna share it with with other friends, family, they
may have children that coach. Okay, they'll come out of

(01:05:20):
there and the coaches will will want to sign up
to adopt the child. So the adoption process is kind
of simple. It's a challenge because of HIPPA. I just
can't go into a hospital and say, hey, give me
all your sick kids. I want to help them.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
I tried that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:34):
Yeah, it doesn't work.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
Now I get the door.

Speaker 1 (01:05:36):
Even Dennis Murfy from New York, they get the door slam. Hey,
before we get to a break for you athletic directors
and and and coaches and administrators that listen to this show,
please stay with us another segment because Dennis we had
breakfast yesterday and he said, look, I have something I
want to talk to you about. And when they Ryan

(01:05:58):
mcmillany the athletic or Muskigo, I, look, we can't guarantee anything,
but after he hears about what we talk about next segment,
I can almost guarantee that he's going to be on
my team on this thing. And look, I'm a little
nervous here. McMillan, McGivern and Murphy. We can change the
world before this show ends. He is Dennis Murphy. He's

(01:06:21):
the founder of Friends of Jacqueline. Do me a favor, Guys,
when you listen to this show, if you listen to
Faith in the Zone, I say things like this a lot.
If you're feeling led to help this, this guy or
this nonprofit that we're talking to on Faith in the Zone,
go to the website. There's a donate button well with
Dennis Murphy and Friends of Jacqueline. If you're feeling led

(01:06:44):
to know more about this and to help him continue
this ministry, because that's what this is. I don't care
he might not call it that. I call it that,
and I love it when he says, look, research is
really important and that's for the future. I'm this for today.
How do we make these his lives better today? And
I saw it first hand. This Vincent will never leave me.

(01:07:07):
His smile and the way he ran around and the
way these kids high fived him. I saw it first hand.
And the great work that the Friends of Jacqueline are
doing I can tell you all over the country, but
I want to make it big here in southeast Wisconsin.
So go to Friends of Jacqueline you're feeling led to help,
to give him ten bucks and help him continue on

(01:07:27):
this ministry.

Speaker 2 (01:07:27):
Great do it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
He's never asked for that, he doesn't need it, but
if you're it can always help. But what we're going
to talk about next, athletic directors, coaches and administrators from
schools in this area. Please stay with us as we
talk about it, and if you want to get involved
in what we're talking about, man, I'm gonna give you
a way to do that. Go to friendsof Jacqueline dot
org Friends off Jacqueline dot org. Jacqueline is spelled jac

(01:07:52):
l y n and Dennis is one end.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
What's the matter with you? Guys?

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Couldn't afford to this? One of six kids?

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
He had a fight for mash potatoes like I did.
How many kids in your family?

Speaker 5 (01:08:03):
Oh, there's five of us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:04):
You had to fight for mashed potatoes too.

Speaker 3 (01:08:06):
Now is the oldest? So I got?

Speaker 1 (01:08:08):
Oh yeah, that's awesome. This is the Varsity Blitz High
School Sports Show, presented by your local Pick and Save
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(01:08:28):
the Donovan and Jorgensen Heating and Cooling Studios. I'm Mike
McGivern alongside my co host. He's the athletic director at
Muskigo High School. He's Ryan McMillan in studio. We are
really very lucky that he's playing to leave for a while,
that we can keep him and get him here. He
is Dennis Murphy. I'm a huge fan of this man's

(01:08:48):
founder of Friends Off Jacqueline. Go to Friends Off Jacqueline
dot org. Friends Off Jacqueline dot org.

Speaker 2 (01:08:54):
Dennis. When we met for breakfast.

Speaker 1 (01:08:56):
Yesterday, he said, look, I've got this idea and I
want to run a past And I said, what a
great time to bring it up with Ryan McMillan in
the studio with us, because he would he would, he
would be a guy that we'd want to be involved
in this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Can you talk a little bit about what we talked
about yesterday?

Speaker 10 (01:09:13):
Yeah, just like we were talking. Everything that we've done
at Friends of Jacqueline is organic, and we started out
with the Adopted Child Program. We pair these children up
with sports teams all over the country. We have over
thirteen hundred kids Adopted Sibling program, the Angel program. You know,
I don't really want to go down that road because
it's dark. We've lost two hundred and ninety eight kids.
And anybody wants to be an Angel. You sign up,

(01:09:34):
You get a text messager or an email.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
When we have.

Speaker 10 (01:09:38):
A child in hospice and we just send you ask
you to send an email or text message to the parents.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
Think I'm praying for you.

Speaker 10 (01:09:43):
I think a thousand and thousand is a lot of
love coming through in their darkest hour. So where we
are in the next program, and this isn't another program,
this is act this is a movement. This is going
to be a movement we're talking about. There's no cure
for cancer, any cancer, let alone pediatric. So the only
thing that we pray for, the only thing I care about.
I don't care about material items, nothing. I just pray

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for Ned. The only thing a doctor can tell me
after Japline gets her MRI is there's no evidence of disease, Jacqueline,
We'll see you next year. And the anxiety gommen up
waiting for those results. I'm a prostate cancer survivor. I'd
get my blood work and it comes in pinging at
two in the morning. I've getten a portal and I
hit the thing and it says less than point oh
one percent no evidence of disease.

Speaker 4 (01:10:24):
So that's where we are. NED.

Speaker 10 (01:10:26):
So I created I created this brand NED. And if
you remember in high school, the periodic chart, that's the
font of NED and that represents the science. And then
above it is a hexagon that's multi colored that represents
every single cancer we can talk to. We can talk
to everybody about any cancer and any disease. And so

(01:10:46):
I had Mike when we were having breakfast, and I said,
I wanted to kick this thing off on the ground floor,
and I need somebody to support it and amplify it.
And I came up with this idea of a round
table and we get, like athletic directors coaches, anybody that
wants to be an advocate. Now, I created this word
an advocate too, which is an inspiring person who wants

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to improve the quality of life for somebody battling cancer disease.
I don't know who wouldn't want to be an advocate.
If you don't want to be an advocate, I really
don't want.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
To be in your oxygen. It's just really what you
want to be, just for it.

Speaker 10 (01:11:18):
Yeah, yeah, So we get a round table of eight
to ten advocates and you're wearing the color the shirt
that you're passionate about. But is there any cancer in
your house that you've seen or been around?

Speaker 5 (01:11:31):
I think friends, the yellow or the gold is the
one for me.

Speaker 4 (01:11:34):
It's child, It's we're in September right now. September is a.

Speaker 5 (01:11:38):
Girls soccer team and big gold out this past spring
that I think is important because it's about the kids.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Yep.

Speaker 10 (01:11:45):
So just picture around table. You're wearing gold, I'm wearing
light blue for prostate cancer. He's wearing gray for brain tumors.
And then you got other It doesn't matter. You don't
have to have cancer to be on this table. If
you can, okay, but you're on this table, and then
you're just going to go around and share just like
you did. I'm wearing gold because of the kids that
I support. And it's a September. You take that and

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there's a call to action. It's just not a discussion
like we're having here. This is more than a discussion.
There's going to be a call to action to go
ask your go on your social media, social media network
and ask them to help you spread net for whatever
they're passionate about.

Speaker 2 (01:12:22):
What's his name again, Spencer.

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Spencer and he cancer that year? Anybody you know?

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Yes but so And having a table of athletic directors
and then where that goes is we spread in the schools.
So talk about the leadership you get at Mesquillo. You
guys have leadership counsels, whether they're they're athletes or not, right,
but there are kids in the school that might not
be involved in some stuff and maybe quiet personally, and

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people don't know about things that are going on in
their life or their aunt, uncle, their grandparents, stuff like that.

Speaker 10 (01:13:00):
But the next thing you find out, if I'm an
athlete and I'm in the school and I'm wearing a
NED shirt that's for prostate cancer, my dad's going to Prossly.
You could walking through in the halls that you've walked
on a hundred times by this guy, and now he's
wearing the same color netsu're're on the same team. I
don't know you, you're not an athlete, but now we're
on the same team. It's going to unify. It is
definitely going to unify. And you talk about a positive

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digital footprint for these kids. You know, I know a
lot of the college coaches, they get nervous when it's
holiday time or break time. The kids are going home
because they got them on campus correct, they go home
and it's like what are they doing and what are
they putting on social media? And this is all positive
stuff that it's going to be really powerful. Let alone
to get into college. Something great to have on their
resume and when they're in college for employers, because employers

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they don't even look for, you know, recommendations that they
go right to your social media hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
And and you're when you think about this kicking off,
do you think about it in one school in ten schools?

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
And where do you want this to go? Do you
want kids to be involved and be wearing the T shirts?

Speaker 10 (01:14:03):
And then what yes, And it's almost they can they
can do a kind act. They can they can wear
a shirt and they could be wearing a shirt for
a breast cancer, but they know that their friend is
battle on in leukemia and they can give them a
leukemia shirt and then but they're all on the same team.
So that's how I see it's spreading. But your idea

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was brilliant. The idea was brilliant to bring in different
athletics directors because then the breath of this goes goes
quicker than it can. And then I wanted to bring
somebody to the front of the media to beyond the panel,
not to come in and report on it, to beyond
the panel. And you're the perfect candidate, and I think
we could co facilitate this and and drive it and

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and it starts right here in Wisconsin. Well, and it
will spread because it's it's a movement. It's a movement.

Speaker 1 (01:14:52):
Well, and when you get a guy like Ryan McMillan
at Musquigo, who is friends with a lot of athletic directors,
if we can get him to understand the importance and
to buy in. You guys have athletic director meetings, right,
you have conference meetings or athletics are together. And the
idea was to find eight to ten of you and

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then for for us to go in and talk about
what we need, what it would look like, how we
can do it, and then talk about, Look, if you
know of a child in your community that we can
get one of your teams to dad, can you imagine
Coach Crousey in that group that you have those players
and that coaching staff that you have Muskigo, that if

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we have a youngster in the Mesquito community that's battling
those guys would be just like Bill Jacquelin. The guys
the people like Slinger loved Vincent that they showed him
so much.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Love in the family. And I watched this young kid
who probably hasn't laughed a lot.

Speaker 10 (01:15:55):
Here in the last year, and they associate adults with pain. Yes,
that's why he was shy at first. He was shy.
And Bill and want to take him into all the
after the game when they were celebrating, he's shy. I
see it every time. They associate pain with adults. So
to be able to get down on his level and

(01:16:15):
break that barrier to trust of trust trust me, that's big.
That's a gift that you have. That's a gift that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
I appreciate that And to have this in different schools
and to be able to now go, look, this is
going to bring kids from sports team to a kid
from a chest team, to a kid in a marching band,
to the kid in who isn't involved in anything. Now,
all of a sudden, he goes, wait a second, I
here's what's happened in my life. I haven't shared this

(01:16:44):
to anybody. I'm going to get that shirt because this
is important to me and what's going to happen in
the hallways of that school. And then for some kids
to be able to be part of the leadership side
of it and to put that on the resume for
college is great. But once they see it like I
did last night on the sidelines that slinger. It changes

(01:17:04):
the way you feel about this stuff. And I'm telling
you this thing can like like you talked about, it's
gonna it's a movement. And if we can start it,
and I'm going to ask for your help Ryan there
at least direction and how I can get something like this, Well.

Speaker 5 (01:17:17):
I think we should get him a plane ticket to
come back to Wisconsin November and and work with our
our water Association at the Kyla Harry and the Dells
and give you guys a platform to stand up in
a room or actually give a seminar on this deal.
The college that's cal Harry. It's a big resort conventions
with Wisconsin Dell's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
You'll have fun up there and stuff and the casino.

Speaker 5 (01:17:42):
I don't know if you like that, but see if
we can work at work it with our partnership was
I know, the leaders of the deal. We'll give him
a call and let's try and set some up and
then you can stand in front.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Of the Yeah, because it's a win win in athletic
director conference, every athletic director in the state Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
That we got to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
You see why he said.

Speaker 1 (01:18:02):
The other the third irishmid in the studio is going
to have some word for and you'll come back in
November for that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
I'll stop drop and roll.

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
It's a little cold here. I don't care if you're
tough enough for that. But yeah, I guess you're New
York boy.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
Wow, Ryan, that's.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
It makes so much sense. So because you talk about
friends of Jacqueline, what you're doing with sports, using sports
to help improve the quality of life of kids, and
we're all in this business for kids. Why would we
not do it?

Speaker 10 (01:18:31):
And what ned does it bleeds over into We're sitting here,
you're the ad and you're your sideline reporter, and we're
all around sports. But I started branching off into the
arts of music. There is any team I won't find
for sick kid. Now you know what whip and poof is? Okay,
I thought it was a bird. But we had a
little boy, Sterling. I've known him since he's four years old.

(01:18:52):
He had a tumor. He's blind, so I got him
adopted by the Yell men's lacrosse team. But his mind
and he loved it. He loved it, but he couldn't
want see a game but he loves music, so she goes,
can you get him with the wiffan boo? It's like,
what's whiffin poof? It's a Mali and Males Yale. Men's
a cappella group. They're a world renown on Gilmore Girls.
You see him popping in and out of the show.
But they're they're junior year to sabbatical and and go

(01:19:13):
sing around the world Rome all over the world, and
he's it was amazing. So this adoption I do off
campus and in their u in their dorm off campus,
and they had a piano.

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
They let him play the.

Speaker 10 (01:19:25):
Piano and I'm like, ah, man, I'm gonna go and
this is gonna be boring. I'm going into this, you know,
a bunch of guys singing. I didn't want to leave.
And it was like the voice, the voices they had
were amazing. But it it bleeds over, uh ned is
gonna bleed over into that other of those other spaces
for those other kids in the school that are not athletes.
They're gonna see the athletes walking around with their shirt

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and then they're gonna want social media and they're gonna say, hey,
I didn't know your dad's got pancreatic cancer. Mine's going
through it right now. And I don't know you from
a home nough you're a senior and I'm a freshman.
And it's gonna happen. It's it's gonna happen, and it's
a win win win. And the more you get friends
of Jacqueline out there, we can help children okay, get adopted. Okay,
it helps the foundation. So you're helping pediatrics. But it's

(01:20:07):
about you, We're not. It's about whatever you're passionate about.
If you're passionate about breast cancer or pancratic or prostate,
that's what you're that's what you're advocating for. And we're
now created a team that you can't believe how big
this team could be. And if you think about it,
you're talking about southeast Wisconsin. This is going to take
the whole state in the Midwest by storm.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
And I told you about the owner of Ideal Logos
and Wards, Ken Whiskey is an assistant football coach at Franklin.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
The two guys have just walked out.

Speaker 1 (01:20:35):
Can you imagine Dominic Walters and the Shelton kid wearing
these shirts. These are the leaders of that school that
football team, and look, probably the most popular kids in school.
We get kids like that to buy in and get involved.
That just spreads throughout the school for for sure. Hey
as the founder of Friends of Jacqueline. Before we get

(01:20:57):
to the break, and we're going to keep you over,
if that's okay, Yeah, yeah, I got a bunch more
questions for you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
What keeps you up at night with this?

Speaker 1 (01:21:04):
You made a comment and I don't know if I well,
you made a comment and it's stuck with me. For me,
one of the videos I watched, you said I've seen
too many small caskets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and that for me,
being a grandfather or six put me, I said, look,
what do I have to do to help this guy?

Speaker 2 (01:21:23):
Right? What do I have to do to help him?

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
And that line for me, Dennis, I go, look, I'll
do whatever the guy needs me to do.

Speaker 10 (01:21:31):
Well, it's humbling to be here, right, It's so the
glass is half full when I'm here, when you're doing
this kind of stuff and you order to do something
like that. But to you know, we've lost two hundred
ninety eight kids. I've talked to Myris Catholic, I've talked

(01:21:53):
to a priest I've talked to a rabbi rich in
New Jersey loves Jacqueline, loves her. He's had me come
talk to his He asked me to come speak to
his prayer group. And at first I was like, what
are you talking about? Prayer group and.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Any and he's they're Jewish. Yeah, and I go. I
thought about I go, I'll go in. I'll go in.

Speaker 10 (01:22:10):
And he has me down every year to speak to
his classes. I brought Jacqueline down, and brought Tarring down,
my daughter Tarran and uh, you know, to go to
a funeral, Like I said, with a small coffin, it's
it's life changing.

Speaker 4 (01:22:23):
Once.

Speaker 10 (01:22:24):
I won't let Jackline go to any more funerals. I
just won't let her go because she's looking in the mirror, right.
So that's that's what keeps me up. And but it's
this that's why I couldn't wait to get here, because
this takes my mind off of it. It's like, this

(01:22:44):
is the glass that's half full that people like you
that want to breathe our there's our oxygen's thin. This
really thin. You're feeling it, you're feeling it. It's it's
it's not people don't want to be around that they
see me. I'm I'm I have mortality and I got
a black cloud around me, and people run. It's like,
you know, would rather not go there. That's why they

(01:23:05):
can't even talk to me. There's people I can't even talk.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
So I drove away from our breakfast meaning knew, knowing
that I wanted to. I wanted to spend more time
with him. I'll tell you what, Vincent. Vincent got me,
that little gid, that little dude from Swinger got me.
And I thank him. I thank him, his mom, his dad,
I thank them.

Speaker 2 (01:23:28):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
We're gonna keep them over for another segment, and I'm
gonna ask you this another time. Go to friends off
Jacqueline dot org, friends of Jacqueline dot org and this
ministry that Dennis Murphy and his team and these people
that have bought in all over the country because they
are affecting lives of young people that are struggling, and

(01:23:49):
if we can't just allow them to smile a couple
of times during the day because they're getting text messages
from some athletes like look, I I.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
To be I don't want you part of my error.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
If you don't believe that this is important, and I
agree with you because this is really.

Speaker 10 (01:24:07):
There's no chemotherapy, there's no radiation treatment, there's no clinical
trial drug more powerful than love, support and friendship. And
that's what they get from you saw it live. I
saw you saw it lot live.

Speaker 4 (01:24:16):
That's it. That's the magic of Friends of Jackeline right there.

Speaker 2 (01:24:20):
On their website on the front page.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
Do not think you're going to go to the website
and go to the go to the Pick and Save
five minutes later, half hour later, go to Pick and
Save or metro Market. But you're going to read about
these programs. Watch the videos. That's the first one. Start
with the video HBO Real Sports segment. It was twenty thirteen.
But you'll get a really good idea about Dennis Murphy
and what he's doing and why he's doing it. And

(01:24:44):
then on the top, you're gonna have a donate button.
If you're feeling led to help this ministry continue, hit
the donating button. It could be a one time deal
for fifty bucks or ten bucks, don't care. But if
you're feeling led, let's help them out. Friends of Jacqueline
Foundation go to friendsof Jacqueline dot org to learn more
about this and we'll continue our conversation. Look, high school football,

(01:25:07):
Ryan's important. I'd like to talk about matchups for next week,
not as important as this.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
No, it's just not.

Speaker 5 (01:25:12):
We'll get to the next week next week.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Yes we will. I agree with you on that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:15):
This is the Varsity Blix High School Sports Show, presented
as always by your local Pick and Save and Metro
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Sports Show.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:25:31):
Look, we're kind of talking sport. You know, he's a
big time high school football player.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
By yeah, so what we said, you're a to asking
about his football career?

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Man, did you want to stay championship or something?

Speaker 4 (01:25:40):
Now we college.

Speaker 10 (01:25:43):
I played at All Many and we want a championship.

Speaker 4 (01:25:45):
And you're going back for fortyth year.

Speaker 2 (01:25:47):
What positions you play? I was a defensive end, yeah,
cause you didn't mind hitting people.

Speaker 10 (01:25:51):
No, I had the kill switch, you know, Yeah, yeah,
I could flip the switch.

Speaker 4 (01:25:55):
I want to take your head off.

Speaker 5 (01:25:56):
We I don't flip that switch at in today, Mike.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
No, you kidding me?

Speaker 11 (01:26:01):
Man, he sucks from New Upstate, New York or something.
Where do you live now in Oak Island, North Carolina.
My wife just retired as a high school business teacher,
and uh, we've been down there. Mother daughter Tarna just
had the baby or third baby.

Speaker 4 (01:26:15):
She lives in Willman to North Carolina. OK so, and
I love it. No more shovel Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Then you might have to help. Now I live in
a condo. Now I don't shovel a either.

Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
I had asked you in a and during the break
with with Hippo laws, you can't walk into the hospital
and say, you know, tell me, how do you find
the kids?

Speaker 2 (01:26:37):
Find did the parents find you? Do you find them?
How does that?

Speaker 4 (01:26:40):
Well?

Speaker 10 (01:26:40):
First of all, you're doing it. You're doing it right here.
This is like I'm in a radio station. I have
a different perspective on life, and I view things to
a different lens. This is an instrument that's going to
change lives. I can guarantee iHeart radio is going to
change lives right now because we're talking about it. I
don't have to worry about Hippo. We're sharing this. They're
going to just go to the website. Any parent with
the sick child just go to the website and watch

(01:27:02):
that HBO special with where a real sports of Brian
Gumble and they'll want this for their child. They have
to have it for it. And I believe every day
that goes by that a child is a sick child
is not adopted by a team is unless they have
a better quality of life they could have had.

Speaker 1 (01:27:16):
Friends off Jacqueline dot org. Friends of Jacqueline dot org.
Go on the website for me to watch that video
and it's an older video now, but boy, I'll tell
you what. It lays it out. It lays it out
really really well. And then take a look at changing
lives through sports. And look when Dennis talks about we

(01:27:40):
we're going to change it now and again the research
is so important and there are raising a ton of money,
but twenty one years have been at this and there's
still not a cure to be able to change kids'
lives today, not ten years from now, but today, and
to give them hope and strength.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
And I'm reading off the website. It's a really good website.
High school teams, college teams, men's teams, female teams, and
it's music. Now. I mean, this thing's expanding.

Speaker 1 (01:28:06):
I if I would have talked to Dennis Murphy twenty
one years ago, when you were going through all this
with Jacqueline and said here's what's going to happen in
your life.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
What would you have said to.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
Me, You've had too much cheese.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
I don't drink anymore, but I do like that cheese.
I do like that cheese.

Speaker 10 (01:28:24):
Now the journey, the journey where this look I'm in.
I'm sitting here.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Corporate big time. I look. I did a little research.

Speaker 4 (01:28:32):
You scare me.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
I did a little research because I don't know who
I was dealing with.

Speaker 5 (01:28:35):
A high school insider.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
You have too much information, I mean too much you
have had. You had a big corporate job and to
walk away from that to make this your life. Man
obviously had a big effect on you, and you saw
what it did for Jacqueline.

Speaker 10 (01:28:53):
Yes, and you know it's something that dots connect for
a reason. You have to have faith to get through.
I was telling Ryan, you have to have some type
of faith. I don't care where, where, where it comes from.
And this beast doesn't discriminate, doesn't make age, race, religion,
your your lifestyle, socioeconomic background, your political views. It doesn't

(01:29:16):
give a hoop. It doesn't give a hoot. And you
have to have faith to get through this and uh
uh the journey. There's a power behind this. I believe
that and God God put me on this mission. And
I'm not one that even goes and talks about this
is the first time I've been on air talking about
something you know that could be you know, viewed by

(01:29:40):
you know, viewed by somebody else that you know, that's
that's too much to talk about. But look at the
dots connect for a reason. You're you're you're taking your
your instrument here. It's this isn't a radio station in
my Isaiah, You're sharing this and you're going to change lives.

Speaker 4 (01:29:54):
I guarantee you.

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
Yeah, you know, you know how I knew it was
a God thing when when when Jacqueline looked she looked
at that lacrosse that what the lacrosse picture in the
hospital where you took her every day and pointed and said,
you're gonna be that's gonna be you one day. And
she said, look, I can't even eat anything right now.
Everything I eat, I'm thrown up. That's not gonna be

(01:30:15):
me dead. That's gonna be you. That's gonna be you.
That's gonna be you. She looked at the picture one
hundred times and then meets the coach at Northwestern and
then comes back to the Hosbital and realizes the coach
is in that picture like as a college player. Correct, Like,
that's a God thing. I don't I do a show
of faith in the zone. People know where I stand

(01:30:35):
on this, and and if and if they don't like it,
it's okay, I understand it. But I'll have the conversation
with that. That was a God thing. And I think
that he. I think you're right, you know, you're you're
this is a ministry for you and your and your family,
and and I I thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:30:52):
Now I really believe this the NED is the next
organic right that it's it's gonna be a movement. And uh,
anybody listening that it's driving out there listening to this thing.
It's we're talking about the cancer that they're passionate about. There,
not us, not you, me and Ryan. It's whatever they're
passionate about. They're going to use their platform on social
and spread spread net and help him help others gain awareness.

(01:31:15):
And now it all comes unto one umbrella.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Hey, Ryan, we're gonna ask you if you could make
that call and see if we can and look, I'll
introduce him and let him present, but.

Speaker 4 (01:31:24):
You got you gotta hold my hand.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Oh no, here, you'll be fine.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Or if you're an Irish boy, twenty minutes up in
front of those guys would be great.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
If we could. I can't do more than that.

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
Hey, I can't do anything in twenty minutes, so I'm
telling you twenty, but it would be forty.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Yeah, I'll tell a few stories.

Speaker 1 (01:31:39):
You know, when I was in fifth grade, I hit
seventeen points against the same time as quiet as trust me,
I do all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:45):
But what we.

Speaker 1 (01:31:46):
Want to talk about is is this idea that he
has and and to be able to start it here
in southeast Wisconsin and then and then.

Speaker 10 (01:31:56):
Feel like I feel it, I feel I want I
want it to come from here.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
This is organic. This, this is organic.

Speaker 10 (01:32:02):
This is not something that somebody this is. This is
is raw. It's as raw as and organic as you
can get. And this is pure. This, this is so
pure and everybody, everybody I've been associated with here represents
those those core values that are you know, important to
me and and and lifting this thing off, friend, I

(01:32:22):
would be more than I would be a static to
have it come out of Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (01:32:27):
We're gonna make that call.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:28):
Ran five minutes here, I'll be making that call.

Speaker 1 (01:32:33):
Yes, Todar breakfast, I said, you guys, and I talked
about you behind your back a little bit in a
good way, in a good way.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
Sometimes you know not so much.

Speaker 1 (01:32:45):
Uh, And said that that that Ryan will will help
us and direct us and give us some good advice.

Speaker 2 (01:32:51):
And he has done that.

Speaker 1 (01:32:52):
Friends off Jacqueline dot org, Friends of Jacqueline dot Org. Hey,
before we got two minutes, all the uniforms you've ever
put on your higher life, I asked us, at the
end of faith and the zone, we put them in
the closet. You get to pull one uniform out to
get one more game with that team. What uniform do
you pull out? Who do you play against?

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
And why?

Speaker 10 (01:33:11):
Okay, So if I had to pull out a uniform,
it wouldn't be one I ever wore. It would be
the one I missed and the uniform I never got
to wear, and my daughter's games and practices because I
was building friends of Jacqueline, and that sacrifice not in
the stands for Jacqueline Tarran is something I carry every day.

(01:33:34):
But I believe God called me to this mission, and well,
I missed moments with my girls, I was able to
give hope and love to thousands of children battling the
beast and their families. So my jersey is stitched with sacrifice, faith, purpose,
and it represents every child we've helped and every family

(01:33:56):
we've touched.

Speaker 4 (01:33:59):
And the remainder. No one fights alone.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
Nobody fights alone. Guys friends off Jacqueline dot org. And
and uh, if you're.

Speaker 1 (01:34:08):
An athletic director or if you're an administrator, or if
you're a parent, you're a kid in a high school
that wants to know more about what we're planning to do.
And I say week, because I'm gonna help this.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
I'm gonna help.

Speaker 1 (01:34:20):
I'm gonna help drive this thing in Southeast Wisconsin with
all these high school coaches and administrators, athletic directors and
players that I.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Talk to, you know, every week in studio.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
Here, we're gonna help Dennis Murphy and he's going to
be a friend of mine for a long time. Friends
off Jacqueline dot org.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Please go there.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
If feeling led to help them and continue this ministry,
hit the donate button. If not, if you have any
questions about this, get a hold of me. Ask Dennis
go on that website and you can either call or
send him an email, and trust me, he'll get back
to you because he's really passionate about this. Friendsof Jacqueline
dot org, Save Travels.

Speaker 4 (01:34:58):
My new Living them O one playing in the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
You got it?

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Thanks?

Speaker 2 (01:35:01):
Are you a Packer fan?

Speaker 4 (01:35:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:35:03):
Now right, that's your Giants.

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
Giants.

Speaker 1 (01:35:06):
They cut me, they cut you, did they really? And
you still love them? Yeah? That's awesome. Ryan's good to
see you. Great, Thanks, thanks for being here today, brother Spencer.
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