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June 6, 2025 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I've been looking forward to this moment in time since
yesterday when the microphone went off and Joe Schreker said,
don't eat breakfast tomorrow morning. And so why Donna Schwabin's
gonna be in the studio at schwabin Fest this weekend.
And that means food. And you know I've said many
times over the years, you know, I pretend that I
don't eat food, and I say I'm not allowed to
eat food or drink in the studio because against the rules.

(00:24):
I'm in a point in my career where I don't care
I'm eating food in the studio. Go ahead, fire me, guys.
How you doing in studio? Nick, Jared and Pete from
the Domas Donna s Robins Society. You can find them online.
It's since e don O'Dell nau dot com. It's a
weekend of gimuch dik kite to celebrate in the schwabin Fest. Guys,
good to have you in the studio, Thanks for having us,
Thank you my pleasure. I love going to the Schwabinfest.

(00:46):
And you know this is not to you know, I'm
not I'm not a favorite of any one German organization
or another. You guys, know that we got the other
German societies that come in and there's how many of
them are there in the city, like forty or something
crazy like that.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
For ye, there's four four big ones. But that's a
great thing. We all work together. We scored each other
and it's yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yeah, that's it's it's like you guys, aren't you know?
It isn't like that scene from Anchorman where you're meeting
an alley and like having a gang fight. You know,
but uh, you all play well together. I guess you'll
have a parade. I guess. Usually there is one in.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
The Octoberfest we do for the first Swabfest being two
days fest.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
We did, I do it, Okay, that's all right. But
normally you see all the different societies with their banners
and flags and what the Usually these things are kind
of based upon what region the Germans emigrated from, you know,
like the Black Forest region or whatever. Where are the
where's the origin of the Donna Schwabin group.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yes, the Denswobin group. It came from the people came
from the Swabia region of Germany and they and they
went down the Danube River. So that's you get the
dough No now and the and the in the Swaben.
They went down to lower eastern Europe like Hungary, Yugoslavia area,
and they cultivate that land into the bread basket of Europe.
And they kept but they kept even though they're out

(02:03):
of Germany, they kept their German heritage or speaking, their
their culture and traditions. And then, uh, you know, after
after the war, they immigrated to the US because German
speaking people weren't so welcomed in those areas, so they
came here. And it's not just in Cincinnati, it's all
over the US and internationally I think they's some in
Brazil and another place to where where the Denniswaan people

(02:23):
had gone to. Okay, but it's a fun party and
keep their traditions and share them with the city.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
And oh it's a fun party. Yeah, let me talk
about that in just a minute here, because I am
enjoying the Well, it's the one I look forward every
year for is the Schwaben sausage, right, but you brought
in a new one this year. The meters meter wors
meters and this thing is it's a foot long, right

(02:49):
at least eighteen inches half a meter half meter and
it's on a bun. It's almost a full eighteen inches long,
and it is so good. If you're a fan of
what is a knockwurst or worst, this is like, you know,
eighteen inch long block hoarst. But I love how you
cooked it. It's almost like it's been It's a crinkly

(03:11):
natural case sausage exterior, which is cheap casing. Yeah, it's awesome.
My listeners are going cod well, you get to enjoy.
We're just listening to your rave about it. So you
can show up at Schwapenfest this weekend. First off, you
have events going on today.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Correct, starts today five point thirty. Here's eleven and tomorrow
one one to eleven.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
And where's it located?

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Forteen ninety drive badge road out in cold rain right
behind the loads the two seventy five right there at
that uh that corn exit and ra easy to find.
Plenty on site parking and.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Only on site parking for this festival. Only on site parking,
so there's no shuttle service from remote location ing like that, all.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Right, which is our Octoberfest. We do have bus ser
for this one, so it's a little bit smaller than Octoberfest.
So we can keep everybody on site, all.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
Right, That just means more for our food and drink
for us that show up, got it. Uh, Who's who's performing?
I mean, you've got multiple entertainment acts that are going
to be showing up tonight and we'll get to tomorrow
in a moment here, But who's who's going to be playing?

Speaker 3 (04:18):
The ploma band starts at five point thirty tonight or
from Saint Louis and then uh we uh they also
played Saturday starting at one to kick off Saturday, and
then we have our house band Alpin Echoes, which ends
the night at six thirty, and that's tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
Yes, Well what about what about Young Drupa yep?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
So the UGEN grouping is the youth group and they're
that's the name.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Yes, I remember enough German to know that young means
suggests young, youth, youthful, that kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
So those that's one of our four dance groups and
one of our five dance groups. Sorry, and uh they
are a is fifteen to twenty one.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, the klinic Kinder they started at four years old,
clinic kinder kind of kinder.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, they started four small children and they got the middle.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
Group of then the Yugen GROUPA, then the shop Botler's,
then the Tracting group and they go up to I
think eighty four. So it's you know, as Auntie said
the other day, you know, you can you can see
its need to having these five different dance groups. You
know where they learn and each one has their own
different type of cultural dance that's brought over from from Europe.
But you know where they where they learn it to
where they perfect it.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
And it's well, I think it's a cool thing that
that young people are still learning this. Yeah, you know,
the world's a never changing place and you think, you know,
it's like, does anybody really still do that? And yeah,
the answer is yes. And these German societies, everybody learns
how to dance. My wife, not German, has her uh
her drindle, and she ends up always there's usually an

(05:52):
elderly German Man who always ends up dancing with my
wife and every one of these things. My wife, you know,
she's an attractive lady and so you know, she loves
the dance and I don't dance, so I'm usually having
to keep my eye on her because there's some guy
out there dancing with my wife. Ran you didn't marry out.
I did. I told you that in the hallway. That's
why I tell people now I no longer care if

(06:13):
they want to fire me, because I'm eating in the
studio knock themselves out. And one of the reasons I
can say that is because I can retire right now.
I'm married. I'm married, out of my element. Anyhow, she's
she's listening right now.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, nice things about the youth group, Like we're teaching
the kids, you know, how to dance, and we're teaching
about culture. But you know, part of the fest is
it is a fundraiser and we send our kids over
to Germany and Austria every couple of years so they
can learn and see firsthand. So they go to the
Dennis swamping clubs over there, they can go around and
actually see, you know, where where the people came from
and what the cultures are over there.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Do you have a corresponding Donnas Trabert group over there
that you keep you communicating with it, coordinate activities when
you get there. Oh that's cool.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
Like the International I guess headquarters whatever they call it,
is over there. So yeah, they have a museum and
every of things. So the kids go over there. Oftentimes
I think they stay in other people's houses. And the
reason it really you really get to feel it that
way instead of being in a hotel, like you're really
in touch with the communities and the people.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah, that's that's a great idea. I never been to Germany.
I'd like to go. I've got friends together all the time,
all right, So you got the plumb man, you got
you only group and the shool plotter school plotter. That's right.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Shoe fallers are the one wearing a later hose and
jumping around stopping their knees and uh, I can see
in euro Trea Clark Goswald.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
And that's why we're actually were And yeah, I was, well,
I was gonna ask you later about the because I
went to one of the festivals, and I'm blessed the
schutzu In fest folks gave me a pair of leader hosing.
Nice people they are, they're cop that's next weekend. Yeah,
And so I wore my leader hose into a different

(07:52):
German event and I was told that I didn't have
the appropriate attire for that particular German club. And I
don't know which one it was, but there were I
think mostly walking around with the three quarter length uh
as opposed to the just sort of pant like shorts
that I have. So there is regional clothing too, So

(08:13):
what did my leader hosn't fit in with with with
with the yeah, okay.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Absolutely these are I think called boondjosen and and typically
those are four you know, it's a little bit colder
out because they're they're longer. But shoepoler is the same way.
You know, it's not always as sup Butler's. They might
look the same, but every dance and move is also
very regional. So some shoe bolers really stick to one
town's kind of moves, if you will, okay, ours is

(08:40):
kind of like the Greatest Hits collection.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
Just don't slap the person you dance with in the face.
Land up.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So we do have a dance called the the shoe fall, right,
So like you know, your plotler and you put your
hands out and the girl pied your hands on the
first hand and on the second time of ground the
girl will slap you in the face. Years ago, my
wife used to shoe butler and man. When I was
carried up with her, she got me.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
You know, there's so many opportunities for blue humor in
that statement, I'm just gonna let that rest, and right
there as we go into a break, we'll bring it
back a little about the Saturday activities and all the
other fun We're gonna have a Donna Schwabin Schwabbinfest beginning
tonight at five point thirty. Well for a moment and
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Speaker 1 (11:48):
Sticking with the German bumper music since my German friends
from Donna Schwaben are in studio for another segment talking
about schwabin FESTUS this weekend. It is a These are
just fun events and open to everybody. We're not doing
cultural appropriation here. I'm not German. They let me show up.
So fun food and music, entertainment. You got the young

(12:09):
people dancing, you got the old people dancing. You congestion
German garbage to show up in your genes that's okay too.
And beer. We talked about the sausage, but let us
talk about the rest of the food and the beer
that's available. Nick, Jared and Pete in studio from the
schwab and Fest. Now you are famous for the schwab

(12:30):
and sausage, which I mentioned. You guys make that yourselves,
most of it. Yeah, we make it.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
We do make it ourselves, but out a point now
where it's in such high demand. We give a recipe
to our local butcher wostlers out in Green Township and they.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Make who makes the other saua meter worse, which again
are fantastic. But you also have other things to eat.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, Friday tonight we'll have our rotisserie chicken from Octoberfest.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Famous ro tissrie chicken I might add famous.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
It's pretty good turned on a spit. And then tomorrow
we'll have our beef dinners. Then we'll have the Swaping Sausage.
On both Friday and Saturdays our dinners, and then out
in the fest we have a fest feel like the
meter Works brought some mets. We have a collection of
sandwiches like am and cheese, turkey, rubens those kind of.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Things, and ruben on salted rye. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Then we have our new uh it's our second year
for the Grabbing Go, which Jared here chairs up. But
it's a new booth I you know, kind of targeted
to be faster. So if you just want to broad
or in a beer, we have it in the same booth,
or a pretzel, you can go there.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
You just grab and go.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
It's all you know, pre made and well at the
fest right there, right, But we're trying to help people
get food fast and then also like families, if you
want to go there and get a beer, some for
your kid and a food all at the same time,
it's all there in the same booth.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
Well that's nice and its convenient feature. I see. You
also have the Limburger sandwich always I find memories. I mean,
I'm not a Limburger fan. I'll be honest with you.
I know. There is my dad and my grandfather, my
mom's dad, and he had a very small, small house
generally speaking of lexin Kentucky where where they live for

(14:11):
years and years and years anyway, maybe a twelve or
fourteen basement TV room, a little couch in there. My
grandfather would sit down there, and there were times when
he used to have a pipe or he'd have a
smoke or whatever, watch a football game. But my dad
would get down there and he and my grandfather would
eat Limburger sandwiches, rye bread, big flat, big hunk of

(14:32):
Limburger cheese, mustard and onions. And I'm telling you, that
small room would just just fill up with the stench
of Limburger cheese. You could walk in there. It's like, God, oh,
we love it, we love it. I'm like, I think
it was more of a It's like eating a ghost

(14:52):
pepper to ole. I was able to eat that, you know, yeah, right,
but you didn't really like it? Did you? A badge
of honor? You just it's a badge of honor. Yeah,
I choked down a Limberger cheese sandwich in spite of
how about it smells and there's people out there right
now going, oh, come on, limburg tastes great, tastes great,
just stinks. But they've got it there, so you can
do that. But I'm bump bump bump beers. You guys

(15:13):
have beer there, don't you. Well look at the list
A couple of beers.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Yes, we literally have every available German Austrian beer in
the city of Cincinnati. Wow, this is this is anything
that's available in keg form.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
We have it. That's a bold statement considering now do
you include like micro brews in that.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Because no, nope, only it's only imported German beers, all right,
so that they're not with chipping and everything. We're not
getting as many as we used to get a couple
of years ago. But now it's this is this is
the list of what's available in the city of Cincinnati currently.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
About that and mostly.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
You're not going to find them at a store or
even at a bar. They're they're really kind of hard to.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
Get, which is unless you're buying a hole a keg ye.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Or or palette of kegs. Sometimes it won't sell to
you unless you're buying a palette. But you know, I
think it's fun for the you know, our guests, you know,
they can you know, there's a lot of new beers there.
They try something you like, but also try something different.
We got the whole range of light, dark wheat. We
you know, we even have some rodlers, a grapefruit roller,
you like those kind of things.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
But that's an interesting beverage, it is, Yeah, and I
just find it so hard to believe that that grapefruit
beverage is German.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Well, it's because Germans don't know how to make light beer.
You know, they make full strength beer, then they'll cut
it down with lemonade or grapefruit juice.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's good. Had a grapefruit land in Germany. It's not
exactly a tropical climate anywhere.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Weller is German for a like a bicycler and that's
you know, so like if you're riding your bike and
you're exercising and you know you want a beer, but
maybe you know, and more refreshing, you know, after exercise,
they put a little grape preuit juice in there and lemonade.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
The traditional one is Logger beer half Logger beer. Half
tart lemonade and it's just something very fresh and you
can drink after a good days of work.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Maybe Corona where a line came from. Yeah, these are
these are the days that the predate white claw and
fruity bever fruity alcoholic beverages. Fair enough, Well, folks, you
know Joe Strekker has added the information on Donna Shrub
into my website at fifty five k see dot com,
so you get all the details and you can also
go to I mentioned it before I can mention it

(17:25):
again the Donna Schwabin website which is sincey with why
Donno d o nau and get the details and information
there as well. Guys, I cannot think enough for coming
to the studio bringing the wonderful food and give me
a little sample what we're going to experience tonight and tomorrow.
Tonight five point thirty pm until eleven pm. Tomorrow one

(17:45):
pm to eleven pm. Enjoy the fun, the festivities, the dance,
the food, the drink, the gimu to the kite which
is guaranteed give me like, do you know what give
me the kite is? It's fun. It's fun. Yeah, it's
a good.

Speaker 2 (17:58):
It's that good, warm, cozy feeling and we try to
make that for everyone.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
And it's it's like a general word for fellowship, but
good fellowship, you know, the experiencing the joy and the happiness,
the festivities, everything that goes along with it, just the
general air of happiness. Yes, if I can sum it up,
that's perfect. Wonderful guys, Nick, Jared Pete, thank you again
for bringing the stuff in. And I may grab myself

(18:23):
another schwab and sausage as I escort you out. It's
eight twenty six right now. If you have k City
Talk Station, we'll have more to talk about it. I
love to take a phone call too, or so jok
and open up the phones and we'll try to have
a little more fun as we get close to the
close of the morning show on this wonderful Friday. This
is fifty five KRC, an iHeartRadio station.

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