Ep. 3372: Thursday starring Michael Patrick Shiels

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Live across the Great Lake State. You're connected to Michigan's
most engaging and influential radio and television program, Michigan's Big
Show starring Michael Patrick Shields, presented by Blue Cross, Blue
Shield of Michigan and Blue Care Network.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
I'm producer and creative director Tony Cuthberts.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Now in the shadow of the Capitol Dome and Lansing.
He's heard from the beaches of Lake Michigan, to the
halls of power and behind closed doors. Here's Michigan's Michael
Patrick Shields.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Good morning world. Hey, good morning Michigan. This is doctor
John Wycoff filling in for the illustrious Michael Patrick Shields
on the Michigan Big Show. Is a privilege and an
honor to be sitting in his chair and having the
opportunity to talk with all of you. It's a beautiful morning,
a little bit chilly here in mid Michigan, but I

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hope where you're at everything is good. You're healthy and well.
My name doctor John Wycoff. I'm a functional medicine physician,
and what that means is I try to find the
root cause of chronic health issues. I've been in practice
for cheese forever, it seems like, but almost forty years,
exclusively in Lansing. I'm a Board certified family position, but

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I left that conventional world years ago and went into
an integrative approach to try to help people with chronic
disease get better. So that's what I do, and we'd
be happy to dialogue more about that. You can get
a hold of me at through our website at Wycoff

(01:45):
Wellness dot com. I'm located on Michigan Avenue twelve twenty
six Michigan Avenue and East Lansing. I'm just east of
frand Or just a couple of blocks, and you can
give us a call at five one seven three three
three seven two seven zero three three three seventy two
seventy and I invite you to join me and listen

(02:07):
to any of my podcasts. My podcast library is getting
bigger and bigger, has some very interesting shows. The name
of the podcast is Pathway to Wellness with Doctor John Wycoff.
It is on all venues that you listen to your
podcast on, whether it's on YouTube or Spotify, you'll find it.

(02:27):
Just go in and search for Pathway to Wellness with
doctor John Wycoff. Well, we have a really exciting show
this morning. I you know, Tony, don't you agree? This
is just an amazing lineup.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
We have doctor Wycoff, it's very diverse. We got characters
that I haven't expected to talk to on this show
in a long time. So I'm excited about it. It's
a worldly show and we're going to learn stuff together.
How about that.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
I think that really sums it up. I was just
just really pumped when I looked at the lineup of
guests that you and I were able to work together
and put together. We've got some people from the political world,
We've got people from a winery in northern Michigan and
travel and some local entrepreneurs here in the Greater Lansing area.

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We're going to talk a little bit about financial planning,
and we've got a couple of authors. So it's going
to be a great show. So I encourage everyone to
listen and enjoy and give us, give us some feedback
about how things go and what you like. So again,
a beautiful morning, and it's a privileged to be here.
I'm going to talk a little bit more about wycoff

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wellness and some of the things that we try to do.
We try to find the root cause for chronic health problems.
And you know, we're going to talk a little bit
later this morning about chronic disease with an author, the
director of the MAHA Action Group, Tony Lyons. I think

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it will be a fascinating discussion because chronic illness is
such a major problem in this country. It's estimated now
that over forty percent, maybe forty five percent of Americans
have at least two, not one, two chronic illnesses. That
is a sobering statistic. Things like hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, emphysema,

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chronic lung disease, inflammatory bowel disease, autoimmune diseases. And if
you took those numbers just a little further, twelve percent
of Americans have at least five count them five chronic illnesses.
Twenty five percent of women are an antidepressant medication. It's

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just become an epidemic problem. And this is a big
part of what moved me from the world of conventional
medicine to functional medicine. Trying to find the root cause
or find ways to help people treat these illnesses without
taking more and more pills. You know, modern medicine has

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a pill for every ill, and certainly it's very much
in play today. The big pharma and maybe even more
so big food is such a big issue in this
country and they have such control over our health. We
just don't appreciate that the food that we eat and

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in many respects is like poison. You just have got
to become an educated consumer and learn how to read labels,
how to make choices with the foods that you buy.
It's important from your meat and milk and grains all
the way down. And we'll talk some more about that

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with Tony Lyons and we'll talk about that throughout the
show today. But that's in a nutshell. A lot of
what we do at Wycough Wellnesses try to empower and
educate our patients on ways to improve health and wellness naturally.
So if we can be a help to you, please
learn more about what we do at Wycoff Wellness dot com,

(06:07):
Wycoblef Wellness dot com. Give us a ring at five
one seven three three three seven two seven zero. One
of my staff will be happy to talk with you
about what we do, or stop by our office. You
can stop by any time or open Monday through Thursday,
seven am till five pm. We're located on Michigan Avenue,

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twelve twenty six Michigan Avenue, just on the west edge
of the Michigan State Campus. We would be west of
the Harrison Roadhouse about four blocks and just a couple
of blocks east of frand Or and the Old Seers Building,
and you can stop in. We have an in store
store where you can purchase all of these supplements that

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we recommend to our patients. We partner with three or
four really outstanding companies that are in the world a
functional back and have the products that we think are
really quality and good for you. Our big partner is Metagenics,
and you can go online through our website at Wycoff

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Wellness dot com and click on the store tab or
shop here tab and go to our online store. It'll
link you up directly. You can shop on the store.
You don't have to be a patient of our practice
to shop on our store, and you can get I
think the highest quality multivitamins, will Maga three fish oil,
vitamin D, medications for blood sugar hypertension, diabetes, autoimmune disease,

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bowel issues, things to help with memory, things along any
chronic disease. Most likely Metagenics has got something that maybe
has some help to you. So please look us up
wycoff Wellness dot com, shop online on our store if
you give us your your email address, will put you

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into our queue and send you promotions that we do.
We do some specials during the year where we have
our supplements on sale both online and in store. So
I encourage you to, you know, start the process of
getting on that pathway to wellness and then look me
up on Spotify or YouTube with my podcast. There's a

(08:25):
lot of great topics about methylation, detoxification, functional medicine. You
know why you should see someone like me. You can
find me at Pathways Wellness with doctor John Wyckoff. Well,
we've got a great show coming up and a great
guest coming up. We're going to move into our first break,

(08:46):
but hang on, we will be right back.

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Speaker 9 (11:02):
DHL is investigating after dozens of autographed Taylor Swift CDs.

Speaker 10 (11:07):
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Speaker 9 (11:09):
Fans say boxes with discs that went through the Hebrewn,
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were delivered to homes. Signed copies of Swift's latest album
reportedly went through the hub on the way to the
US Postal service to be dropped at individual addresses. Leaders
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(11:31):
they gather more information on what happened. Rolling Stone is
out with its list of the two hundred and fifty
greatest songs of the twenty first century so far.

Speaker 10 (11:41):
Mark Mayfield fills us in.

Speaker 11 (11:48):
Missy Elliott's get Your Freak on his tops on the list.
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Speaker 9 (12:06):
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Speaker 12 (12:24):
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Speaker 4 (12:46):
Welcome back everyone, Welcome Back Michigan. Doctor John Wycoff filling
in for Michael Patrick's heels on the Michigan Big show,
so happy to be here, excited to be here. We
have a great land up of guests, and I'm really
to share and share share all of that with you today.
For those of you that don't know me, I'm a
frequent guest with Michael Patrick, and we're always talking about

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chronic health issues and medical issues and what's going on
in the in the world of medicine and how that
may help you, empower you and make better choices, make
the right choices. It's really hard in today's world, you know.
I see this every day. Patients come in and they're
just placed on more and more medications. And you might

(13:31):
think that this issue is just one for adults. Yet
I see it even in school age children. Now that
it's not unusual. As a matter of fact, I would
think the norm is probably where half of the kids
in the classroom we're on some type of mood altering
medication for attention add ADHD, anxiety depression, some their learning

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issue that can be somehow addressed pharmacologic and really modern medicine,
conventional medicine just doesn't know where to go with this.
They aren't they aren't trained in nutrition, they aren't trained
in the basis of neuropsychiatric disease and they just don't

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know how to approach it other than prescribing more medications.
And it really just amazes me when I see these kids.
These parents come in and they're just they're so confused,
their heartbroken because their child is not doing well with
other people, other kids in school, and the teacher is upset,
and you know, they're getting calls from the teacher and

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knows from the teacher, and like all parents, they just
want their child to be happy and do well, yet
they aren't seeing that happen. Then the child self esteem
goes down, they have a depressed mood. It's just just
such a sad thing to see. And I talked to
the parents and I said, listen, you know what has

(15:06):
been done to try to figure out what's going on
with your child. And they look at me like, what
do you mean what has been done? I said, did
your doctor even do some basic blood tests? Now, no testing,
and they may have had a neuropsychological evaluation, which is
all fine. But you know what we do at Wycoff
Wellness and this is with our adults too, is we

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start a process, we get some basic blood tests, We
oftentimes uncover things like underfunctioning thyroid gland that can cause
a lot of symptoms, even affecting your brain and energy.
We can discover underlying liver akidney disease, blood sugar issues,
insulin resistance, anemia. These are common things that your doctors

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should be looked at, should be looking at.

Speaker 13 (15:54):
Now.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
I'm not saying they're not doing that, but I know
that physicians oftentimes get caught up from the day to
day rigors of primary care and they just don't take
the time to listen to you. They don't have the time.
They oftentimes have to get on to the next patient.
You got your seven or eight minutes, and then you
move on, or even more so in the United States today,

(16:16):
you don't even see a doctor. You see a mid
level provider, a nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant. At
least when I was in primary care, we call the
mid levels. That's probably politically not the correct term. Now.
These are very skilled people and they have a role
in a healthcare system that's already strained where we just

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do not have enough board certified family physicians, internal medicine physicians,
and pediatricians to provide the gamut of care and they
can really do a great job, but with chronic, ongoing
health issues where you're trying to figure out root cause
your mid levels, and your primary care physician has not

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received the training that they need to get you on
a different path. So that's really what I do at
Wycoff Wellness is we try to get you on a
different path to wellness. And I encourage you to find
out more about us at Wycoff Wellness dot com or
join me listen to one of my podcasts anywhere that

(17:22):
you listen to podcasts, you'll find me. Just search Pathways
to Wellness with doctor John Wycoff, and I think there's
twelve or fourteen different shows in my library and we're
adding new shows every week, so I hopefully you'll find
a topic that is some interest to you, whether it's hypothyroidism,

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hormone imbalance. There's another issue with adults, men and women
women as they maybe get into that perimdalpozzle state, they
start having trouble with sleep, they start gaining weight around
their abdomen, they get more anxiety that stresses them out,
stresses their spouse out, stresses their kids out. I know
I had a menopausal early menopausal lady who was on

(18:08):
a hormone replacement cream, and she had a cute little
eight year old daughter, and whenever she was having kind
of a bad day or some anxieties, the child knew
she goes, Mommy, would you put on some of doctor
Wycoff's happy cream and that would make her kind of

(18:29):
chill out just a little bit. And even the child
you could see that her mother was going through these
emotional swings of menopause and perimenopause and really struggling to
handle day to day stresses. So at Wyckoff Wellness, we're
all about functional, integrated medicine. I order tests. I order

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every conventional test that I can when it's appropriate. We
can do blood tests, ultrasounds, we can order cat skins,
m our eyes, whatever we need. We refer patients to specialists.
I don't claim to be the end all for every
single problem that may walk through the door, but we
give it our best effort to try to find a functional,

(19:13):
integrative approach. It can be looking at lifestyle changing, diet
exercise supplements are a big part of what we recommend.
I really don't think anyone can optimize their health without
being on basic supplements. What do I consider basic A
methylated multi vitamin with methyl foldate in it, methyl B twelve,

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a omega three fatty acid, a fish oil supplement, and
some vitamin D three. That's the foundation. So everyone should
be on those and you can get those who are
website at Wycoff Wellness dot com. This is doctor John
Wycoff filling in for Michael Patrick Shields on the Michigan
Big Show. We will be right back.

Speaker 14 (19:58):
The type of inhaler's you for treating respiratory elements like
asthma are releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere and could be harming one's health. A new study
finds that the inhalers contain propellants, creating emissions equal to
more than five hundred thousand cars each year. Researchers warned
that the inhalers may be contributing to the factors that
create respiratory problems in the first place. The Cleveland Clinic

(20:21):
is weighing in on the growing popularity of creatine. Julia Zampano,
a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic, says it can
be very effective in.

Speaker 15 (20:29):
The athletic world. Creatin has been used for quite some
time and mainly in the powder form because it is
the best absorbed and it has been shown to enhance
muscle recovery and muscle growth.

Speaker 14 (20:41):
She says three to five grams of the monohydrate creatine
and powder form is most effective and recommends buying creatine
that's a third party tested. She notes creatine may not
be safe for some people with medical conditions and can
have side effects. Health update. I'm Scatpringle.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
You are listening to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
My name is Tony Cuthbert. Wall Street close lower Wednesday,
as the government shutdown rolled into its second week. Uncertainty
over the shutdown, along with a decline in oracle shares,
weigh on the markets. Gold prices top four thousand dollars
in ounce for the first time ever as investors hedged

(21:26):
their bets and moved into safe haven assets. At the
closing bow, the Dow lost ninety one points to forty
six six oh two, the SMP five hundred dropped twenty
five points to sixty seven to fourteen, and the Nasdaq
fell one hundred and fifty three points to twenty two
seven eight eight. The attention of investors will be focused
on an address from FED Chair Jerome Powell today. Powell

(21:49):
is set to deliver a speech at a banking conference
in Washington, DC, and could give indications as to the
future of possible interest rate cuts. Minutes from last month
meeting of the FED showed a majority of members supported
further reductions this year. Many Americans feel the US economy
is on the wrong track. Fannie May's National Housing Survey

(22:12):
found that sixty seven percent of respondents think the economy
is going in the wrong direction, compared to the thirty
two percent believing it is going in the right direction.
Findings mark a slight increase from August, when sixty four
percent negatively viewed the future of the economy. A key
part of the economic life that Americans were skeptical about
includes the housing market, as seventy three percent of respondents

(22:35):
believe it is a bad time to buy a home.
A planning document obtained by The Detroit News indicates that
President Trump is weighing the cancelization of over a billion
dollars in federal grants for General motors and Stalantis. One
grant a loan is four five hundred million dollars for
GM to put toward converting its Lansing Grand River assembly

(22:57):
plant to electric vehicle production. Staying in the auto industry,
Tesla is showing off cheaper versions of its Model three
and Model why electric vehicles. The car is called the
Model three Standard and the Model Y Standard, are about
five thousand dollars cheaper than the premium versions, starting at
around thirty nine thousand and forty one thousand dollars, respectively.

(23:20):
The new models will be available in December or January
and come after the federal government eliminated the seventy five
hundred dollars tax credit for electric vehicles. This is Michigan's
Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields. Be sure to find
us on our website amibigshow dot com. Right there you
can click on the segment you may have missed and

(23:40):
much more. It ismibig Show dot Com.

Speaker 11 (24:01):
NBC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Iran
can be part of the peace negotiations underway in the
Middle East. Trump gave a phone interview to Fox News
Wednesday night and said the peace plan currently being negotiated
in Egypt is about more than Gaza, but about peace
in the Middle East and claimed that Iran is actually
going to be a part of the whole peace situation.

(24:21):
Under Trump's plan, Palestinian militant group Hamas would release its
remaining hostages while Israel pulls its troops back. The President
said he also believes the hostage is still being held
in Gaza will all be released on Monday. Things are
getting heated as the partial government shutdown moves past the
one week mark. Reporters watched this Republican Congressman Mike Lawler
and House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys faced off at a

(24:43):
hallway on Capitol Hill because.

Speaker 16 (24:45):
You don't want to hear what I have to say.

Speaker 8 (24:46):
Oh, I'm listen.

Speaker 16 (24:47):
Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 11 (24:49):
On Wednesday, the Senate rejected two competing measures for the
sixth time aimed at bringing the shutdown to an end.
The Democrats plan includes healthcare reforms, while the GOP plan
would keep the government funding at the the same levels
until a larger bill could be worked out. The shutdown
has so far lasted over a week. The longest on
record happened in twenty eighteen during President Trump's first term,
and lasted thirty four days. Federal Reserve officials suppior to

(25:12):
support lower interest rates, but are split on how many
cuts should happen.

Speaker 17 (25:16):
Tammy Trujillo reports, according to September's meeting summary, there was
near unanimity among participants at the Federal Open Market Committee
that the Central banks Key overnight borrowing rate should be
cut due to weakness in the labor market, but individual
members expectations showed the group split ten to nine, with
the slim majority expecting two more cuts before the end
of the year. Meeting notes also show that officials were

(25:39):
concerned with the state of the labor market, but still
expected it to ease back to the feds two percent target.
I'm Tammy Tricheo.

Speaker 11 (25:46):
And Lakers legend Magic Johnson is going to be the
Grand Marshal of the twenty twenty six Tournament of Roses
Parati in Casadena. You're listening to the latest from NBC
News Radio. Google says its AI search mode is expanding
to thirty five languages in forty nations. The company says
that means AI searches can now be done in over
two hundred nations and territories in total. Google claims people

(26:07):
are asking questions that are three times longer when they
use Gemini Ai. Tazla is showing off cheaper versions of
its Model three and Model Y electric vehicles. Matt Matinson
fills us in.

Speaker 18 (26:17):
The cars, called the Model three Standard and Model why Standard,
are around five thousand dollars cheaper than the premium version,
starting at around thirty nine thousand and forty one thousand dollars, respectively.
The new models will be available in December or January,
hundred dollars tax credit for electric cars.

Speaker 11 (26:38):
And Meta says Facebook's algorithm is now updated so more
users can find reels they actually enjoy. There's now a
not interested function so users can note what videos do
not make the cut. It comes as some people are
complaining that the new ViBe's short form video feed looks
like AI slop chech report. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (27:19):
Hey, welcome back. This is doctor John Wycoff filling in
for Michael Patrick Shields. Good morning to everyone across the
state of Michigan. It's a privilege and a pleasure to
join you this morning. We have a great guest coming up,
someone who's new to the show. His name is Eric Weir.
He is an author, an author, an entrepreneur, a public speaker,

(27:41):
and we're going to talk about his latest book, Who's
Eating Your Pie, Essential financial advice that will help transform
your life. Good morning, mister Weir, you had morning right
to be on well, thank you for taking the time
out of your morning to talk with me and tell
us a little bit about you and your book. I

(28:03):
read through someone the information in your bio here. Fascinating
the information, but give us an introduction and our listeners
and idea of what this Who's Eating Your Pie book?
What is about? How can help them?

Speaker 3 (28:16):
Sure? Sure?

Speaker 19 (28:17):
Sure? What wrote the bike during? I wrote the book
during codes and knows how separated people were feeling and
disconnected and overwhelmed, and they were really down. If you
remembers the first reporce by the health organization, we're saying
things like twenty percent of the world would die. So
it is very depressed. And my first chapter is Permission

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to Dream. If you think about it, most kids, you
ask me what they want to do at five, six seven,
they have huge ambitions and dreams, and by the time
you're about forty years old, you just want a hot meal.
So I wrote a book using practical steps that anybody
could vasively change their life in the areas of faith, family, fitness, finance,
and friends with simple time tests and steps.

Speaker 4 (29:01):
I'm looking through some of the bullet points you've got
and just some really good information that I think people
do struggle with is, you know, how how do they
go about building wealth? And I think people do get
disenchanted and they do get depressed. They start saying, well,
you know, how am I going to make this transition
from you know, working forty or fifty hours a week

(29:22):
and I'm getting closer to retirement, and you know, what
should I invest in? What shouldn't I invest in? And
it sounds like your book is kind of a roadmap
and gives them some ideas of how to navigate through
that journey.

Speaker 19 (29:37):
It certainly does. If you think about our school system,
it teach us a lot of wonderful things. It doesn't
teach us about money. It doesn't teach us how to
set goals, it doesn't teach us how to dream, it
doesn't teach us how to take responsibility, and it doesn't
teach us how to focus on the most important thing
at the time. So these are things that I talk
about in my book that are revolutionary, but they're they're

(29:57):
old things that are brought back to review today.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Well, I think that's again very practical information. And you're right,
we just children as they're growing up. Unless their parents
take the time to really help them learn about money
and managing money and how money works and how money
can work for you, they just don't get that education.

(30:21):
I have three grandsons, and I spend time with them
each time we meet, talking about, you know, where you
wanted to go, how are you going to get there?
What are you going to do. I've got my oldest
grandson kind of starting a business, and I said, well,
this is really great. You know, you're really good at this,
but maybe could you mab branch out and hire some
of your friends to do some of this work and

(30:43):
increase your revenue streams. And so I think you're.

Speaker 19 (30:46):
Right, we really have a brilliant that's just absolutely brilliant. Exactly,
it's exactly some of the principles that are there, the
principles of leverage, you know. So that's a great thing
that we did to be doing with your grandchildren.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
Well, and I think it's so important that parents and
grandparents understand that. Uh, those kids and they just suck
up that information. They look up to you so much.
Now you you've you've done some other books also, is
that right?

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 19 (31:13):
I wrote, I wrote. I've written some other books and
have some similar on the way. I wrote one with
a founder of Reebok and Evander Hollyfield, uh and a
few others who wrote a chapter so how to Survive
and Thrive. My book's been translated into You're Pining to
several different languages, and I'm writing a book now called
the Victory Book.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Yeah, you are a busy guy and you're involved, you know,
doing other speaking I would assume around the country and
helping people plan and strategic thinking and things along this line.

Speaker 19 (31:48):
Yes, that's correct, Yes, I do all that involved in
different things, and from real estate. I've been involved in
entertainment real estate like top golf and uh, self storage
ideas and downtown urban revitalization just depends on. I've been
involved in film as an executive producer and the various
faith based films are helping to finance to tell stories.

(32:10):
But it's really it's really the principles that I'm using.
You know, it can be applied to anybody's life, and
it's really how do you make small change daily that
compounds over time. And most people they make two basic goals.
Either they think they're too busy to plan, so they
never make a plan. I never set goals, or two

(32:32):
they make them so gigantic that they're overwhelming into intimidating
they never start. And somewhere in the middle, as a
better way to be strategic, to take realistic plans, to
push yourself daily, make will you get one percent better?
And you look up after year two those plans that
you probably thought originally would have been unattainable, You're already there.

(32:55):
But it's consistency, it's structure, and it's it's resolved. Those
are the things that make the most massive difference in
anyone's life. It's not your education, it's not your IQ,
it's not your where you grew up, what part of
town is really going to be?

Speaker 6 (33:14):
You?

Speaker 19 (33:14):
Can you get the clarity in your head or where
you want to go? And can you make small steps
each day? And if you can do that, you'll be
just about unstoppable.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
I think you're exactly right. I've always lived by that
mantra and try to teach my staff, my employees, and
my family. I said, you know, don't worry about trying
to impress me. Just try to be a little bit
better person tomorrow. And if you can accomplish that, just
one little step better, you're going to be on that path.
And with what I do in my practice with Pathways

(33:43):
to Wellness my podcast, we talk about a lot of
those things. So just in terms of building wealth, if
you had an average guy or a gal and they're
working at their job and they're trying to invest in
the four one K, give this one or two things
that they can maybe start doing today that might put
them on that pathway to improving their lifestyle twenty years

(34:07):
from now.

Speaker 19 (34:09):
I think, you know, the best thing somebody can do
is I call it reframing, reimagining. Doing what you're doing
today and more of it is just going to get
you more of the same results. So if I meet somebody,
I met somebody who was in real estate agent years
ago and they had just lost all their assets and
lost everything, and I said, he couldn't feel What would

(34:30):
you do? He said, well, I would buy this textile
mill in my tent. Why would you do that? He said, well,
it's the value of the brick and the copper and
the wood is more valuable than the textile mill itself.
I said, okay, why don't you own it already? I
don't have the money. And I said, well, it's not true.
People who buy the brick, buy the textile, buy the copper,
and buy the wood do Why don't you make an offer,
really little ball offer, and yet use their capital to

(34:53):
buy it. Why would they do that. They're not going
to take the time to do this. They're just looking
to buy the copper. They're not looking at the structure deal.
Why don't you do that? Open attorney's escrow account, put
a deposit down those three categories. You's have to pay
for the property, and then you keep the profit in
the upside. He did that in the work. It's a
slightly longer story than that, but he did it within
ninety days, and he did it twenty times after that,

(35:15):
and it's something that he could have done it all
the whole time. All the pieces were in his head,
but he never gave a self permission to dream, and
he never thought about knowing what I now know? What
would I do differently if I had clarity?

Speaker 4 (35:28):
I think you're right getting people to reframe. I'm speaking
with Who's eating your Pie with author or Eric Quare.
How can people find out more about you or get
your book?

Speaker 19 (35:37):
Sure they go on Instagram and connect with me.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
At at at Eric Queer at e ri.

Speaker 19 (35:42):
Kwei r dot com. I'm also on LinkedIn, or you
can go to Amazon and find my book Very good.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Eric has been a privilege and a pleasure. God bless
you keep doing great work. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 11 (38:01):
INBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Israel
and Hamas have signed onto the first phase of his
proposed peace plan. Trump posted on truth Social that all
of the hostages will be released very soon and Israel
will withdraw their troops to an agreed uponline as the
first step toward a strong, durable, and everlasting piece. Many

(38:21):
Americans feel the US economy is not on the right track.

Speaker 23 (38:24):
Chris Karashio reports Fannie May's National Housing Survey found that
sixty seven percent of respondents think the economy is going
in the wrong direction, compared to the thirty two percent
believing it's going in the right direction. A key part
of economic life that Americans were skeptic about includes the
housing market, as seventy three percent of respondents believe it's
a bad time to buy a home.

Speaker 11 (38:45):
I'm Chris Kashio and Senate Republicans have killed the measure
that would have halted US military strikes on alleged drug votes.
The Democratic resolution was voted down along party lines on Wednesday.
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
Welcome back everyone, doctor John Wykow, filling in for Michael
Patrick Seales on Michigan's Big Show. It's a privilege and
a pleasure to be with you today. Many of you
probably have heard my voice on the show. I've even
hosted the show occasionally in the past, but I'm often
a guest and we talk about what's going on in
the world of healthcare, medical issues, and my approach is

(39:31):
an integrative, functional approach to try to find root causes
of chronic disease. So I'm really excited to speak with
our next guest, Tony Lyons, the director of the Maha Action,
a national movement dedicated to reversing chronic disease epidemic that
is just causing so much havoc to the US public

(39:55):
health policy and costs. So please help me join and
welcome mister Towny Lyons, Welcome back to the show.

Speaker 24 (40:04):
Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Thank you so much. Tough a little bit about what
you're doing with MAHA, and and you know, I know
that I understand the problem we have, but help our
listeners understand the magnitude of really what's going on with
chronic disease in the United States and what your group
and Robert Kennedy and MAHA is trying to do to

(40:26):
change that trend.

Speaker 24 (40:29):
Yeah. So, you know, we have the sickest people on
the planet, even though we spend three times the amount
of money that any other country spends. So we've got
just an embarrassing record. We have millions and millions of people,
millions of children also suffering from a whole host of

(40:50):
chronic disease that people just didn't suffer from before, and
that all around the world are in just much much
lower rate. So you know, we're the it's just most
powerful country on earth. We should have the best health
health outcomes, and we don't. So the issue is, you know,

(41:10):
why is this happening and what can we do to
stop it? And you know, one of the reasons that
it's happening, the most important reason is that so many
of our products have become delivering mechanisms for toxins, whether
they are drugs or food, or pesticides or vaccines or

(41:33):
virtually anything else. That we just have a system that
allows big companies to kind of prey on the American
public and to deliver these toxins to them for the
sole purpose of making more money.

Speaker 4 (41:50):
I think you're virtually you hit the nail on the head.
When I was early in my practice, I was training
in family medicine. But as I got into the real
world the practice, I found that my ability to help
someone with chronic disease it was really limited. I really
the tool I have was to prescribe more medications, and
there was no training about nutrition, lifestyle, toxicity, these types

(42:15):
of things. These are just words I just did not know,
and it was very frustrating. That led me down a
path of functional and integrated medicine. I left the conventional
world twenty years ago and never looked back. But I
think that in my early training, I thought that big
pharma was really the evil force out there. But as

(42:36):
I've come to learn, and what I believe now is
really big food. Can you talk a little bit about
how the big food industry is really contributing to chronic
illness in the United States?

Speaker 24 (42:49):
I think, well, you know, when you look at each
of these products, in each of these different product areas,
you sort of get the point that it doesn't matter
what area it is, It doesn't matter what the product
looks like, whether it's food, medicine, Like I said before,
you know, vaccine, use, pesticides, or almost anything else. And

(43:12):
with food, you know, you see more and more that
people have to focus on what's in it, not what
it looks like. So it's possible to have a strawberry
that's really healthy for you, or to have a blueberry
or raspberry, but you know, you can have something that
looks exactly the same that justice is covered in toxic

(43:33):
cancer causing pesticides, and so it's very difficult for the
public to see the difference. And that's where you really
have to have radical transparency. And that's why you're getting
with the new administration, is that they're really looking to
inform the public of what's going on and what the

(43:55):
truth is about all kinds of things. So, you know,
the idea that you can look at at something and
have no idea what's happening to you or what's going
into your body, that's a very scary thing. So we
need to inform the public about all kinds of different
things that they've been prevented from from seeing and from learning.

(44:16):
And when you have that, then I think people by
the millions will start to make better decisions and will
start to really exercise personal freedom. And then I think
they will look at things like health, nutrition, you know,
physical activity, sunlight, all kinds of things that have such

(44:38):
a big impact on them. And the idea that you're
just going to become more healthy by having a certain drugs,
you know, that I think is going to have to change.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
There, our listeners, we've got about a minute left here.
Tony's just maybe a couple of things that they could
do today to improve their pathway to getting healthy. What
what couple simple things that maybe they can do?

Speaker 24 (45:06):
You know, one thing I think is you know that
the simple things really matter, that that everybody ought to,
you know, take a long walk every day. Everybody ought
to get sunlight every day. Everybody should look at the
you know, at the products that they buy, look at
what the ingredients are, and and focus on common sense

(45:29):
that most of these things really are simple. If a
product has twenty ingredients in it, colors, sugars, all kinds
of things, it's just not something you should be buying.
And it doesn't matter whether it has packaging that looks
healthy or inviting. So, you know, those are things that
I think would get people started.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
Easy things to do. I always tell my patients too,
I said, when you buy fresh produce, if you're not
able to buy organic, that's fine, but take it home,
put it in the sink, add a little water and
vinegar soaka for a couple of minutes rinctant, and you'll
just be amazed at the stuff that comes out of
the berries and the fruit. It's just really scary to
see what's on them. Tony has been a privilege talking

(46:07):
to you. How can people find out more about your
Maha Action group.

Speaker 24 (46:13):
Yeah, they should go to Mahaaction dot com or follow
us on substack, which is the Maha Report.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
Thank you, Zary much for joining us on the show again.
God bless you in the efforts that you're putting forward.

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Speaker 27 (47:29):
In the Alds, Blue Jays knock out the Yankees in
Game four to clinch a spot in the AL Championship
Series for the first time since twenty sixteen. Tigers, with
a four run six crush the Mariners nine to three
to force a decisive Game five. Manager A. J. Hinch says,
the team is showing great effort.

Speaker 28 (47:49):
Proud of our guys because you know, today's game was
the symbolic of how we roll. You know, it's a
lot of different guys doing something positive, multiple guys, you know,
getting on.

Speaker 27 (48:01):
Base in the NLDS CODs with a four run first
hold on beat the Brewers four to three in Game
three to keep their season alive. Phillies did the same
towards the Dodgers eight to two. Now trail the best
of five series two games to one. Thursday Night football
Giants take on the Eagles at MetLife Stadium and the
Bengals will start newly acquired quarterback Joe Flacco Sunday against

(48:24):
the Packers.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
That's sports. I'm Ronza Moss.

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Speaker 2 (49:01):
Welcome back to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
In today for MPs, Doctor John Wycoff of the Wycoff
Wellness Center. My name is Tony Cuthbert and let's take
a look at sports, and of course we got to
start with baseball, as the Tigers have forced a decisive
Game five in the American League Division Series. They beat

(49:22):
the Mariners nine to three in downtown Detroit, so they
are even and we have a deciding game that will
take place tomorrow night in Seattle. One of the strangest
games I have seen in a while where the Tigers.
I mean, let's face it, doctor Wycoff, I know you
were working yesterday, so you don't have time to watch
a baseball game. But the Tigers, they were putting on

(49:43):
the act that they've been doing for the last month.
Early in the game and on their home field, they
were getting booed, and then they turned it all around
with a big, big sixth inning led by a guy
who is he's the highest paid player on the team.
He was an All Star this year, but most of
the time he's been with the it's been a disappointment.
Hovey Baiaz. He had a two run shot, he finished

(50:04):
with four RBIs. It was just really something to watch.
The rookie Troy Melton came out of the bullpen. He
got the winning relief. He was dominant for parts of
this So Game five, like I said, tomorrow night in Seattle,
it's a lone game, So it's around eight o'clock first
pitch on that one. And by the way, if the
Tigers do win this game, I believe the American League

(50:25):
Championship Series begins on Sunday night at eight o'clock. And
lo and behold, guess what the Sunday night football game
is this weekend? On Sunday night, the Detroit Lions take
on the Kansas City Chiefs. So you better be working
two TVs or find a way to split screen it,
or make one of the toughest decisions you will when
it comes to sports and what you will watch. Anyways,
we had three other games yesterday in Major League Baseball.

(50:48):
The Cubs beat the Brewers four to three. The Brewers
lead that best of five series two games to one.
The Blue Jays did away with the Yankees. We don't
have to see them anymore. They are out five to two.
Was final on that one, and the Phillies extended their season.
They beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles eight to two,
So those two teams will meet up again, as the

(51:09):
Dodgers lead that series. Two games to one. Like I said,
that game will happen at six oh eight tonight and
then the nightcap at nine o eight the Brewers at
the Cubs. Also big night in downtown Detroit tonight because
the Detroit Red Wings open up their season. They bring
in the Montreal Canadians, and the Wings are looking to
snap a franchise record nine year playoff drought this season.

(51:29):
It'll be the first full season at the Helm for
head coach Todd McClelland, who took over for Derek Loan
in the middle of last season. Puck to Ice seven
PM tonight. That is a look at sports brought to
you by Dean Transportation. This is Michigan's Big Show starring
Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 11 (51:51):
NBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Israel
and Jumas have signed onto the first phase of his

(52:12):

Speaker 23 (52:15):
Chris Katio reports Fannie May's National Housing Survey found that

Speaker 11 (52:36):
I'm Chris Karatio and Senate Republicans have killed the measure
that would have halted US military strikes on alleged drug votes.
The Democratic resolution was voted down along party lines on Wednesday.
I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 17 (52:48):
A classic fall day in the Northeast today, with temperatures
in the mid sixties across New England and the mid Atlantic,
with plenty of sunshine in the mid Atlantic and Southeast.
Pleasant for most of the day from DC to the
care Alinas, with highs in the upper seventies. Further south,
the front that soak the Gulf Coast is pushing east.
Scattered thunderstorms are expected in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina

(53:09):
with highs near eighty five. Sunshine returns to the Midwest
with highs topping the mid seventies across the Great Lakes,
the Ohio Valley and through Missouri. Mostly sunny and warm
in the central Plains with temperatures in the low eighties.
The southern plains, especially Texas and Oklahoma, stay hot with
highs in the low nineties. Another toasty day in the Southwest,
with desert highs near one hundred, where Phoenix and Las

(53:30):
Vegas picture perfect. In California with coastal highs in the seventies,
Valleys and inland areas will hit the low nineties. And
in the Pacific Northwest, a few showers will be lingering
in western Washington and Oregon with highs in the mid sixties.
That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 11 (54:00):
NBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Iran
in the Middle East, and claimed that Iran is actually
going to be a part of the whole peace situation

(54:21):
under Trump's plan. Palestinian militant group Hamas would release its
remaining hostages while Israel pulls its troops back. The president
one week mark. Reporters watched his Republican Congressman Mike Lawler
and House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys faced off in a

(54:43):
hallway on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 16 (54:44):
Because you don't want to hear what I have to say.
Oh listen, Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 11 (54:48):
would keep the government funding at the the same levels
until a larger bill could be worked out. The shutdown
has so far lasted over a week. The longest on
record happened in twenty eighteen, during President Trump's first term
and lasted thirty four days. Federal Reserve officials suppior to

(55:12):
support lower interest rates, but are split on how many
cuts should happen.

Speaker 17 (55:16):
Tammy Truheil reports, According to September's meeting summary, there was
that the Central Bank's key overnight borrowing rate should be

(55:39):

Speaker 10 (55:45):
I'm Tammy Trichillo and.

Speaker 11 (55:46):
Lakers legend Magic Johnson is going to be the Grand
Marshal of the twenty twenty six Tournament of Roses Paradi
in Casadena. You're listening to the latest from NBC News Radio.

Speaker 30 (55:56):
Disney is increasing ticket prices at its theme parks in
California and Florida. Ticket prices will go up an average
of five bucks on non peak dates. Annual passes will
go up between twenty and eighty dollars. The increases won't
take place until after October of twenty twenty six. If
you're taking a flight, you may expect some delays with
the shortage of air traffic controllers lately. NBC's Tom Costello

(56:19):
has more.

Speaker 31 (56:19):
Nashville and Chicago are the late breaking airports dealing with
delays due to a shortage of controller the aftera warning
the Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, and Boston could also
be affected. All fuel and concerned that what happened in
Burbank could soon spread.

Speaker 30 (56:35):
Burbank was forced to go for several hours without onsite
air traffic controllers. Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says skies
are safe, but air traffic controllers are more stressed out
than ever before.

Speaker 14 (56:47):
Now what they think about as their control in our
airspace is.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
How am I gonna pay my mortgage?

Speaker 11 (56:53):
How do I make my car payment?

Speaker 4 (56:54):
I have a couple kids at home. How do I
put food in the table?

Speaker 30 (56:57):
The La City Council took one more step toward raising
its trash collection fees. Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 11 (57:03):
On Tuesday, the council gave preliminary approval to increase rates
for the first time in seventeen years. A measure got
a twelve to two vote, but it still needs a
second vote and approval from Mayor Karen Bass. Under the proposal,
the trash collection rate for single family homes and duplexes
would go from thirty six dollars to nearly fifty six dollars.
Low income residents who qualify for the city's Easy Save

(57:24):
or Lifeline programs can get lower rates.

Speaker 30 (57:26):
Enjoy the lower gas prices while they're here. They could
be going up soon. Triple A's Marie Dodds as prices
spiked in September when the Olympic pipeline shut down. It's
back in operation, but now a Southern California refinery shut
down following a major fire.

Speaker 32 (57:40):
The refinery fire comes about a month after the Olympic
pipeline was out of operation. These types of outages can
really have a tremendous impact on retail gas prices here
in the West Coast region.

Speaker 30 (57:51):
Over the last week, the national average did fall three
cents to three twelve On Monica Nelson with your consumer
and business news.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Let's start with baseball.

Speaker 27 (57:59):
In the Alds, blue Jays knock out the Yankees in

Speaker 28 (58:20):
Proud of our guys because, you know, today's game was
getting on base.

Speaker 27 (58:32):
In the NLDS Couds with a four run first hold
on beat the Brewers four to three in Game three
to keep their season alive. Phillies did the same towards
the Dodgers eight to two. Now trail the best of
five series two games to one. Thursday Night football Giants
take on the Eagles at MetLife Stadium, and the Bengals
will start newly acquired quarterback Joe Flacco Sunday against the Packers.

Speaker 5 (58:56):

Speaker 17 (58:59):
A classic fall in the Northeast today, with temperatures in
the mid sixties across New England and the mid Atlantic,
with plenty of sunshine in the mid Atlantic and Southeast
pleasant for most of the day from DC to the
Carolinas with highs in the upper seventies. Further south, the
front that silk the Gulf Coast is pushing east. Scattered
thunderstorms are expected in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina with

(59:19):
highs near eighty five. Sunshine returns to the Midwest, with
highs topping the mid seventies across the Great Lakes, the
Ohio Valley and through Missouri. Mostly sunny and warm in
the central Plains with temperatures in the low eighties. The
southern plains, especially Texas and Oklahoma, stay hot with highs
in the low nineties. Another toasty day in the Southwest,
with desert highs near one hundred, where Phoenix and Las

(59:39):
Vegas picture perfect. In California with coastal highs in the seventies,
Valleys and inland areas will hit the low nineties. And
in the Pacific Northwest, a few showers will be lingering
in western Washington and Oregon with highs in the mid sixties.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):

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Patrick Shields.

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Michael Patrick Shields is on their.

Speaker 4 (01:00:36):
Good Morning World, Good Morning Michigan. This is doctor John Wycoff.
I have the privilege and the pleasure, and indeed it
is that filling in for the illustrious Michael Patrick Shields
on Michigan's Big Show this morning. Many of you have
heard me. I'm frequent guests on the show and talk
about medical topics. But we've got just a great show

(01:00:58):
left the next two hours, some really really exciting guests
and and maybe the most important and special guests we're
going to have this morning is our next guest. She
is the founder of Crooked Wine Winery outside Patosky and Alanson, Michigan.
This is an award winning winery that has panoramic views

(01:01:21):
of a sunning vineyard. She's an entrepreneur, she has a
business in Okhemists and most important, she is my number
one oldest daughter. Welcome Stephanie Milo to the show.

Speaker 13 (01:01:35):
Good morning Dad. That was that was a very nice introduction.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:41):
Well, you are so special in our lives, and you're welcome.
So tell me you're so busy. I never get to
see you because you're just always doing something. Tell us
a little bit about Crooked Wine Winery and vineyard and
and how that can be such an important part of
our listeners. And we have a lot of listeners in
northern Michigan, in your area, they may want to come
out and see you.

Speaker 13 (01:02:03):
Yeah, absolutely well, Cricket Vine Vineyard and Winery. My husband said,
your son in law and I are the current proprietors
of this beautiful vineyard, and you and mom have had
the pleasure of coming up multiple times over the years.
But we acquired actually just four years ago this week,
So we're kind of reeling in what our life has

(01:02:26):
been like over the last four years tending to this
beautiful property that's located just fifteen minutes outside of downtown Pataski.
We are part of a larger collaborative called the Pataski
Wine Region, and there are currently sixteen vineyards that participate,
located anywhere from Pataski to charlevoid A Harbor Spring. So

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we belong to a group of people who are enthusiastic
about wine, who love North Michigan, and who want to
give customers and those who get to visit this area
an amazing experience and help them see why this particular
area of the state is so important to our wine

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agriculture and our wine sales for the state of Michigan.

Speaker 4 (01:03:18):
So, if someone wants to come to your winery, and
I really hope that they will take the time to
do that, what can they expect in the experience and
what's going to happen when they walk through those those
big doors that you have at the front of your store.

Speaker 13 (01:03:35):
I think they can expect what we consider to be
the ultimate wine experience. And that's something that not only
do TED and I embrace, but our entire staff really
wants to make sure that every customer has an experience
that not only allows them to learn about our wine,
learn about the grapes that we grow, take in the

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beautiful scenery that's around our vineyard, but also build connections
to our wines and then be able to take them
home and share them with their friends and family and
share stories about what they saw and what they experienced,
and find opportunities to come back and do it every year,
over and over and over again.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
Well, certainly you can do that now. I know you
offered the ability someone could come up and just have
a glass of wine, or they can do a tasting
of several wines. Tell us a little bit about how
the tasting of multiple wines may work.

Speaker 24 (01:04:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:04:30):
Absolutely, we still we're one of the few wineries that
still does a traditional wine tasting experience. And if a
guided experience threw a selection of five different wines, each
customer gets to choose the ones that they would like
to try. Or if a customer needs some guidance or
just suggestions about the wines that they would want to
have in their tasting, we can choose those for them.

(01:04:53):
Like I said, our staff is very educated in regards
to all of our wines. We talk about the different
notes in the profiles of each wine. We talk about
how to pair it when it's different foods, or just
opportunities to enhance the overall experience as we're guiding them
through each of those wine selections. For those that are
looking for a more immersive experience, we do offer during

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limited parts of the year, so typically May through September.
We do offer a private wine tour. This is an
experience that lasts about an hour and for thirty dollars
per person. You get to spend time, usually with me,
just because I'm the one who gets to make the schedule,
but you get to spend an hour with me. We

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take a walking tour of the property. You get to
see the vines up close and personal. You also get
to sit in our back production space. We provide charcouterie,
and it's just a more intense experience behind not only
the history of the property, but about our wine making process.
Makes what makes Michigan grapes and Michigan wine so special

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and unique, and it also provides opportunities to secure special
discounts that wouldn't necessarily be available to a customer if
they just came through into our tasting room.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
I also know that you have a lot of events
and things going on at the winery throughout the weekends.
Tell us just a little bit about some of those
events said that maybe you typically have or maybe upcoming.

Speaker 13 (01:06:25):
Yeah, we host events year round, so we are a
nonstaff winery. We are open all twelve months of the year.
Our hours do very based on seasonality, but during the
summer months we tend to be the busiest. We have
live music, we've done open air art shows in the
summer months. We do things like private wine dinners, which

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are beautifully curated menus where we're setting up tables out
in the vineyard for our guests to really just experience
being so close to the great are eventually going to
turn into wine. And we even host weddings out here,
so there's an opportunity to see the vineyard in every

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season and experience something that's fun and unique and creates
wonderful memories.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
And I know you just hosted your first wedding there
and it sounds like that was a great success.

Speaker 24 (01:07:22):
It was.

Speaker 13 (01:07:23):
It was absolutely beautiful. The bride and the groom were
so not only were they so easy to work with,
but they were just so happy about how everything turned out.
And I will say for northern Michigan, we got very
lucky with the weather last weekend. We actually had an
eighty degree day on Saturday, which was not necessarily in

(01:07:43):
the plans. We talked more about what happens with the
weather snaps and it gets cold and how are we
going to keep guests warm? But we just got lucky
in terms of Mother nature, and I think she was
shining down on a very beautiful and happy bride and groom.
But everything was perfect. So it is a good reminder
that there are lots of things that we can do

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for those who are seeking a unique venue and who
also want to have a personal touch and a more
intimate experience for something as special as a wedding day.

Speaker 4 (01:08:15):
Steph, we've got about thirty seconds left. Just tell our
listeners how they can find out more about Crooked Wine
or winery and how to get how to get in
touch where you're at.

Speaker 13 (01:08:27):
Yeah, absolutely so. Our website is Crooked Vinewine dot com.
You can also find us on Facebook and Instagram at
Crooked Vine Wine. You can also search Crooked Vine Vineyard
and Winery and you should find plenty of references to
not only our vineyard, but the Potasky wine region.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
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Speaker 9 (01:11:02):
DHL is investigating after dozens of autographed Taylor Swift CDs
were reported stolen. Fans say boxes with discs that went
through the Hebrewn, Kentucky DHL distribution center were later found
empty when they were delivered to homes. Signed copies of
Swift's latest album reportedly went through the hub on the

(01:11:23):
way to the US Postal service to be dropped at
individual addresses. Leaders with DHL say they are working with
the shipper as they gather more information on what happened.
Rolling Stone is out with its list of the two
hundred and fifty greatest songs of the twenty first century
so far.

Speaker 10 (01:11:41):

Speaker 11 (01:11:48):
Missy Elliott's get Your Freak on His Tops on the list.
It's followed by the Yeah Yeah Yahs, Maps, Beyonce and
Jz's Crazy in Love, and the White Stripes Seven Nation Army.
The magazine says the list sets out to after the
full chaotic glory of twenty first century music, one song
at a time. I'm Mark Meefield.

Speaker 9 (01:12:06):
start at the box office. The third film in the
tron franchise is looking to make between forty five and
fifty million dollars in its debut weekend.

Speaker 10 (01:12:18):
Also new this week is Roofman starring.

Speaker 9 (01:12:20):
Chatting Tatum, which is looking to make between eight and
twelve million.

Speaker 12 (01:12:24):
That's entertainment. I'm Jaqueline Carl.

Speaker 31 (01:12:38):
Way down among Brazilians.

Speaker 8 (01:12:41):
Coffee beans grow by the villions.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
Welcome back and good morning Michigan. Some of you are
probably just waking up, and you know the first thing
that I want to do when I get up in
the morning. Is I've got to have that cop of
morning coffee man. Morning Joe. Well, our next guest, this
is his world and we're going to have a great
conversation with someone I respect so much and it's really

(01:13:05):
become a big part of my life. And I respect
him for many, many reasons, but most of all, I
respect him because he has to put up with my
middle daughter, Shanna. Welcome the founder of Big Bee Coffee,
founder right here in Lansing, mister Bob Fish, maybe big
big Bob himself. Good morning Bob.

Speaker 7 (01:13:25):
Good morning, a big happy Michigan morning to you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Well, thank you so much, And like I say, I
do respect you. There are three people I really respected
in my life. My son in law who married Shanna,
You and Mike McFall Because you have to deal with her,
and I tell you she is she.

Speaker 7 (01:13:46):
Is a pistol.

Speaker 19 (01:13:47):
We love her.

Speaker 7 (01:13:48):
She has done remarkable things for Big Bie Coffee in Cincinnati,
and it's it's really extraordinary. You have an amazing family,
You're you're.

Speaker 4 (01:13:56):
So kind, So tell me a little bit about the
Big Bie Coffee. I I've been so impressed as I've
learned more about Big b over the years and your
commitment to your employees, your commitment to the community. I
see this with Shanna and her stores in northern Kentucky.
She just is so involved with the with the community
and it just comes back to her over and over again.

(01:14:19):
And I know that's part of the underlying philosophy of
Big B Coffee.

Speaker 7 (01:14:24):
Yeah, for sure. I mean we've now grown to, by
the way, four hundred and fifty locations over that in
thirteen states. And you know we do that one location
at a time. We're one hundred percent franchise. So you know,
the ownership of Big B Coffee in your neighborhood is
your neighbor which I which I really love. And you know,

(01:14:47):
the thing about being neighbors is we take care of
each other. And the ethos of Big B has always
been that the community supports us and we need to
support the community. And it's symbiotic, you know, it is,
it's mutually beneficial and Big Bie Coffee's always been a
safe place to be. We've been doing this for thirty years.

(01:15:08):
We opened the first location Mike McFall and I March fifteenth,
nineteen ninety five.

Speaker 4 (01:15:15):
That's been an amazing run. And I follow you on
Facebook and I just I get such a kick out
of your post, and I know part of your passion
here at this point in your life is to really
link up with coffee producers around the world and tell
us a little bit about how that path and journey

(01:15:35):
is going for you.

Speaker 7 (01:15:37):
Yeah. So, my wife Michelle and I started an organization
called One Big Island in Space, and we traveled two
hundred days a year in Central and South America, Africa,
in Asia where these are all places where coffee grows.
But actually, I don't know if anybody noticed, but the
cause of coffee has gone up dramatically that that started

(01:16:00):
happening in twenty eighteen. And in twenty eighteen I read
a white paper that said that coffee producers are walking
off their farms, and I'm like, how could that be?
You know, the coffee business is so great. But what
I found out was that coffee producers most of the
time were paid less than what it costs them to
produce their coffee. And so what we decided to do

(01:16:21):
was change our buying model to a direct trade model,
where we would, as the end user, connect with the producer,
the farmer and eliminate as many of the unnecessary and
the various hands in between and take that savings, push
it down to the farmer so they could be economically viable,
so they wouldn't want to walk off their farms. And

(01:16:43):
it's really been a remarkable journey. We have five farm
Direct partners, and you know, it's allowed us to stabilize
our supply of coffee, it's allowed us to stabilize the prices.
But the most rewarding component of it has been we've
developed real signific against and deep relationships with coffee producers
all over the world.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
You know, that is got to be just an amazing story,
and I'm sure it's taking to some amazing places. Tell
us maybe, like the most interesting story you have from
either South America or Africa or Asia that you've come
across in your travels.

Speaker 7 (01:17:23):
Well, frankly, I mean everyone is interesting. I just got
back from Mexico City, where we produce a documentary on
one of our farm Direct partners, and they operate out
of Chapas, Mexico, which is a state of Mexico that
sits right up against the Guatemalan border. And the Chappas

(01:17:47):
is like the poorest state in Mexico, but it's essentially
a highly indigenous population mayan indigenous, so they often don't
even speak Spanish. They have their own mind and that
kind of thing. So we get really deep into these communities,
and we often stay at the farms where there's no

(01:18:07):
running water or no powdable water or no electricity. We
live with the producers, the farmers, and we really learn
about their production techniques and so on. You know, we
really only want to work with people that are treating
people right, treating the planet right, and investing in their community,
just like our Big B coffee owner operator franchisease. But

(01:18:31):
you know, it is incredible what you find out about
our world out there is that all human beings, you know,
want the same thing. They want food, shelter, clothing, They
want safety, security, and health and something better for the
next generation. And to walk side by side with these
people has been really an incredible experience.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Well, I think it does sound amazing. We've got about
one minute left, Bob. I know that Shannon mentioned to
me she was up here in Lansing and stay with
us and her mom for a few nights. And I
saw her about two minutes for the entire three days.
Because you had her working so hard, she was just
beside herself. But she's going to Nicaraguas, she said, with

(01:19:12):
you in a week or two.

Speaker 3 (01:19:15):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
You know, we lead farm direct trips with folks from
Big B Nation. Shanna's joining us and many others from.

Speaker 3 (01:19:24):
Big B Nation.

Speaker 7 (01:19:25):
We take Buris's, we take store owner operators, we take
area representatives like Shanna, And what I would say about
it is is a life changing experience when you go.
So I can't I can't wait to spend those five
days with Shanna and the Big B Nation crew.

Speaker 4 (01:19:42):
I know she's excited. If people want to learn more
about baby Coffee or a franchising, Big B dot Com
will get them there, I think correct.

Speaker 7 (01:19:50):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
Hey, thank you so much for getting up early and
joining me, Bob, and then enjoy that coffee this morning.

Speaker 11 (01:19:58):
Google says it's an ice search mode is expanding to
thirty five languages in forty nations. The company says that
means AI searches can now be done in over two
hundred nations and territories in total. Google claims people are
asking questions that are three times longer when they use
Gemini Ai. Tazla is showing off cheaper versions of its
Model three and Model hy electric vehicles. Matt Matinson fills

(01:20:19):
us in.

Speaker 18 (01:20:19):
The cars, called the Model three Standard and Model Y Standard,

Speaker 11 (01:20:39):
like AI slop Chech report. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Welcome back to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields
in today for MPs. It is doctor John Wycoff of
the Wycoff Wellness Center. My name is Tony Cuthbert. Some
news headlines across the state of Michigan. Harrison Township based
Holistic Research Group Incorporated is filing the second lawsuit challenging
a new twenty four percent wholesale tax on marijuana. In

(01:21:23):
their suit, like what was filed from the Michigan Cannabis
Industry Association on Tuesday, says the law is a violation
of the state constitution and it argues the law fundamentally
alters the taxation structure by adding an excise tax on
a commodity governed by the Michigan Regulation of Taxation a

(01:21:45):
Marijuana Act. He got all that. Maybe we'll get into
it more tomorrow with Kyle Malino Murr's news. Brown has
been broken on the first new school belt on the
northeast side of Grand Rapids in over sixty years. Grand
Rapids Public Schools the ceremony yesterday behind Aberdeen Academy, and
Superintendent Ladreon Roby says it is a testament to our

(01:22:08):
school community, our taxpayers who say yes, we believe in GRPs.
The school will serve pre k through fifth grade students
that are currently at Aberdeen Academy, with the six through
eighth grade students going to the new middle school at
Innovation Central. The thirty six million dollar school is scheduled
to open in twoenty twenty seven. The city of Portage

(01:22:31):
is now building its new Farmers Market ground was broken
at the site on East Center Avenue yesterday and will
feature three open air pavilions with fifty covered stalls, four vendors,
eighty eight compliant walkways, space for food trucks, picnic areas,
and a performance space. The new market is expected to
open in the spring of twenty twenty six. The Portage

(01:22:52):
Farmers Market was established in twenty sixteen and has grown
from five thousand visitors the first year to now wow,
thirty thousand. That is remarkable, Disney if you missed it.
As increasing ticket prices at the theme parks in California
and Florida, Disneyland and Walt Disney World are raising the
cost of a number of ticket and annual pass options.

(01:23:14):
Ticket prices will go up at an average five dollars
on non peak dates. Starting prices for tickets will not
increase until after October twenty twenty six. However, annual passes
to Disneyland will go up between twenty and eighty dollars,
so be prepared if you're going there. This also affects Epcot, Disney,
Hollywood Studios, and of course, the Animal Kingdom. This is

(01:23:36):
Michigan's Big show starring Michael Patrick Shields.

Speaker 11 (01:24:01):
NBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Iran

(01:24:22):
remaining hostages while Israel pulls its troops back. The President
one week mark. Reporters watched this Republican Congressman Mike Lawler
and House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffreys faced off at a hallway

(01:24:44):
on Capitol Hill because you don't.

Speaker 24 (01:24:45):
Want to hear what I have to say.

Speaker 10 (01:24:47):
Oh, I'm listen.

Speaker 16 (01:24:47):
Why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 11 (01:24:49):
would keep the government funding at the same levels until
a larger bill could be worked out. The shutdown has
so far lasted over a week. The longest on record
happened in twenty eighteen, during President Trump's first term and
lasted thirty four days. Federal Reserve officials suppior to support

(01:25:13):
lower interest rates, but are split on how many cuts
should happen.

Speaker 17 (01:25:17):
Tammy Truheil reports, according to September's meeting summary, there was
members expectations showed The group split ten to nine, with

(01:25:39):
I'm Tammy Trihio.

Speaker 11 (01:25:47):
Paradi in Pasadena. You're listening to the latest from NBC
News Radio.

Speaker 14 (01:25:57):
The type of inhalers used for treating respiratory la moments
like asthma are releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases into
the atmosphere and could be harming one's health. A new
study finds that the inhalers contain propellants, creating emissions equal
to more than five hundred thousand cars each year. Researchers
warned that the inhalers may be contributing to the factors
that create respiratory problems in the first place. The Cleveland

(01:26:20):
Clinic is weighing in on the growing popularity of creatine.
Julia Zampano, a registered dietitian with the Cleveland Clinic, says
it can be very effective in.

Speaker 15 (01:26:28):
The athletic world. Creatin's been used for quite some time,
mainly in the powder form because it is the best
absorbed and it has been shown to enhance muscle recovery
and muscle growth.

Speaker 14 (01:26:40):
have side effects. Health Update. I'm Scatpringle.

Speaker 4 (01:27:09):
Good morning, Michigan. This is doctor John Wycoff filling in
for Michael Patrick Shields. I'm Michigan's Big Show. I'm a
frequent guest. I'm a functional medicine doctor. I am in
the founder and owner of Wycoff Wellness in East Lansing.
We're a facility that really looks at chronic disease and
trying to find an alternative, integrative approach to wellness. So

(01:27:31):
if we can help you, give us a shout. Look
us up at Wycoff Wellness dot com or join me
on my podcast Pathways to Wellness with Doctor John Wycoff,
wherever you listen to your podcast. We have a special
guest in studio today. I'd like to welcome Nicole Noel Williams.
She is the President and CEO of the Capitol Region

(01:27:54):
Airport Authority. We're going to talk about some of the
great things going on at the Capitol City READI Airport
and maybe some of the challenges that are going on
right now. Welcome to call.

Speaker 35 (01:28:04):
Great to be with you this morning. I was going
to say to Tony, I love the intro music. That
was some good jam just for you. It really did
make you feel like you're on a heading off to
a vacation. So you know, I can kind of start there,
you know, as we're looking at passenger services from the
Capitol Region International Airport, you know, we're excited that Breeze
Airways has reinstated their NonStop flights to Fort Myers, so

(01:28:28):
we've got our Fort Myers back into the schedule, We've
got our Lando in the schedule with Breeze Airways, and
we continue to work with them on other future destinations.
But it's all about using and supporting these services that
we have here, so we're asking folks to make sure
they look at Breeze Airways.

Speaker 10 (01:28:43):
It's a low cost.

Speaker 35 (01:28:45):
Carrier that has three different type of cabin class services available,
So if you want to be as frugal as you can,
there's coach seating, there's the mid size seating kind of
like a comfort plus if you're familiar with flying on
Delta on a regular basis, and like a first class
type seating. So three different options that are available on
Breeze Airways and pricing structures to help support each one
of those. So check out Breeze Airways website. Or fly

(01:29:08):
Lancing dot com to get more details on them. But
we are also have announced to our NonStop international flights,
so NonStop. This is our sixteenth year of NonStop international flights.
So three flights weekly to Cancun, two to Puntakana, and
new this year is Cabbo. They all start the end
of January. They run until the basically your spring break

(01:29:28):
period of time, so the first part of April. So
super excited that we've got the new market of Cabo
coming back into the into the schedule for the Apple
Vacations flights. And then of course our legacy carriers, you know,
our Delta Airlines. It's getting us flights from here to Detroit.
Eliminate that drive going back and forth. The idea of
hopping on some public transportation going from point A to

(01:29:51):
point B. That's also a frustrating aspect. So hop on
the flights non stop right from the Lansing Airport with
connections all over the world easily through Detroit Metro and
then of course American Airlines with flights to Chicago hair
connections again to all over the world, as well as
nonstops to Washington, d C. So as we think about

(01:30:11):
the state's capital to the nation's capital. It probably transitions
into the next topic, which is our current federal shutdown.

Speaker 4 (01:30:17):
Well, that is something that I really do want to
hear more about because so many people, you know, airline
travel is just a part of our lives. And we
were speaking, we just got back from Italy and what
was watching this developed? So how is this shut down
affecting your operations here and where do you see it
all playing out?

Speaker 35 (01:30:36):
Yeah, you know, over the next few weeks, we'll see
how discussions occur in DC. But right now, you know,
think of your TSA agents as you're going through security,
our FAA, your air traffic control towers, your customers custom
border and protection agents that are at airports. They're all
considered essential central services. So they are required to work

(01:30:59):
even though not getting paid. Once the federal government finds
a solution and move forward with a budget, then they
will get reimbursed for the hours that they worked. But
in the meantime, they're working without pay. So I think,
you know, as like yourself traveling on a regular basis,
is making sure that we are aware of the fact

(01:31:20):
that you've got individuals they're showing up to work every
day to make sure you can get on your airplane
and get to your destination, whether it's business or personal,
and showing a little bit of extra grace now here
at the Lansing Airport. We haven't had any issues with
staffing across the country. There have been airports that have
been impacted by some of those employees deciding to maybe

(01:31:42):
work at a different job because they will be getting
paid and not showing up to their full time rule
as a TSA agent or air traffic control. So I'm
my recommendation to show up a little bit early to
the airport again. Operations in and up lancing have been
pretty smooth, so we haven't had any issues with staffing issues,
but be aware of the impact it has on those

(01:32:06):
that are working in and out of airports across the
United States.

Speaker 4 (01:32:09):
You know, I don't think we think about the real
world impact to the air traffic controllers and the TSA
people like many of this. They rely on that paycheck
every two weeks to pay their bills. And I understand
that the politics involved, but the you know, the real
world impact I can see where if they had the

(01:32:30):
opportunity to do a second job, whether it's a uber
or do some construction or whatever they but you know
they've got to do that because they've got to pay
the bills.

Speaker 35 (01:32:40):
Yeah, yeah, you can understand why there's there's been an
issue with us. And you know, I think it was
back in twenty nineteen we had they shut down before
for thirty some days and thirty five days I believe
it was, and the overall airport system was able to
continue to run smooth, ensure that there's safe and security
for both the traveling public the tenants at the airports.

(01:33:03):
So you know, airports across the United States are taking
every step that we can to help kind of support
those individuals that are still coming in and out to
do their job. But do understand that there's a significant
impact to those because of the shutdown. I mean, you
look at airports produce one point eight trillion an annual

(01:33:24):
economic output one point eight trillion, so significant impact across
the world, but especially back here in just thinking about
getting your trip from here to wherever you need to
go for business or leisure, Maybe show up to the
airport just a little bit earlier and feel a little
bit more cautious and aware of those agents and show

(01:33:45):
them a little extra grace.

Speaker 4 (01:33:47):
Well, I think it's so exciting that you're able to
offer service internationally. And I think sometimes even I forget about,
you know, I need to check the Lansing airport. Where
could they get me flight A Floral Florida A lot
so breeze Earlis is a great option, and certainly the
other international locations. What do you have anything new on

(01:34:08):
the horizon? You can maybe just give our listeners a
little bit of insight worth what what maybe look for
in the next few months.

Speaker 35 (01:34:15):
Well, it's it's definitely getting these Fort Myers flights kicked
off and operating and moving forward, and then also looking
at those international I mean we're on our sixteenth year
from when we opened up as a port of entry
right here in Lansing at the at the airport providing
those international flights. So again it's like you know, it's
a Cancun, it's the Puntakana Cabo. Contact your local travel

(01:34:39):
agent to find out more details and information. If you're
not familiar with Apple Vications, and you can go directly
to their website and or come to fly Lansing dot
com and we'll try to get you more details and
information pertaining to those services. Now we're always looking and
working with our our tenants, our partners, aviation partners, and
looking at opportunities for other destinations. But this is what

(01:35:00):
we have today and we need a vocal community to
help be supportive of those services by putting I always
say put butts in the seats of the planes that
we have in and out of Lancing and fly Lancing
first versus getting on the road and maybe flying out
of a different airport providing that economic impact to that region.
Support our economic impact right here in Lancing.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
We're speaking with the coal Noel Williams, the President and
CEO of the Capitol Regional Airport Authority. If people want
to find out more about the Capital Regional Capital Region
International Airport, how can they do that?

Speaker 35 (01:35:33):
Definitely visit us on fly lancing dot com. We're on
all the social social media and I know Catherine japangt
our director of Marketing, does a great job in getting
communications out, So make sure you visit us online and
get connected.

Speaker 4 (01:35:46):
Thank you so much the call for stopping in studio today.
This is doctor John Wycoff hosting Michigan's Big Show with
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Speaker 11 (01:38:01):
INBC News Radio, I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Israel
and Hamas have signed onto the first phase of his

(01:38:22):

Speaker 23 (01:38:25):
Chris Karashio reports Fannie May's National Housing Survey found that
a bad time to buy a home. I'm Chris Krahio, and.

Speaker 11 (01:38:47):
Senate Republicans have killed the measure that would have halted
US military strikes on alleged drug votes. The Democratic resolution
was voted down along party lines on Wednesday. I'm Mark Mayfield.

Speaker 4 (01:39:08):
Welcome back Michigan. Good morning, doctor John Wyke filling in
for the illustrious Michael Patrick Seals on Michigan's Big Show.
It is a privilege and a pleasure to be speaking
with you today and the hours are just flying by.
Our next guest is a great individual and friend. The
person I've come to no owner respect who is the

(01:39:30):
owner and founder of Stogy's Cigar Shop in Saugatuck, Michigan.
Those of you have heard me before know that I
have a real passion for saga talk I love Sagatuck.
It's a great place and I actually am going to
be there tomorrow and wrap up my summer. Unfortunately, but
I met Steve and looking for a looking for a

(01:39:51):
cigar for a special occasion, and he was so kind
and helpful. Because I don't consider myself and a cigar expert,
cause Steve helped me. Good morning, Steve, Good morning.

Speaker 39 (01:40:02):
How's it going Jen?

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
You know, it's just a great morning here in mid Michigan.
A little bit chili, probably a little chili down your
way too, but it looks like it's going to be
a great day. Well, tell us a little bit about
Stogy's Cigar shop and your approach and types of cigars
and what people really need to know about you and
your shop.

Speaker 24 (01:40:22):
Well.

Speaker 39 (01:40:23):
Stogy Cigar first started about four years ago. The vision
really for that store was to first showcased my Mentors
Premium blend cigars and it kind of evolved from there.
He's the one that came up with the blend. So yeah,

(01:40:45):
we're gonna have our cigars. They're gonna have notes about
light earth, a coco note spice to it for most
of them. We're gonna have it in Connecticut naturally Habano
and Maduro, and we do have a barber pool in
our arsenal as well, and then we do also have
some stronger stuff in our arsenal, and we have also

(01:41:07):
sweet things too, and then we also have some smaller cigars.
Everything that we do is infused, never sprayed, and I
follow that same type of deal with our mainstream cigars
and our boutique cigars, and I think that's what makes
us a little bit different sometimes in some areas because

(01:41:28):
I like to kind of spread it out. Not only
do we have our own blend, but we also do
some premium, mainstream stuff like most do, but I also
seek out a lot of different boutique cigars that sometimes
that can take a little time to do, but they're
going to be a really nice premium cigar that maybe

(01:41:49):
you've never seen before. And for my love of cigars,
I love it when people try something brand new that
they haven't had because there's just so many different cigars
out there.

Speaker 40 (01:41:58):
Well.

Speaker 4 (01:41:58):
I think that's one of the great things that shop
like yours can bring to the community is that you
can listen to what that individual is looking for, what
they like, what they don't like, and you can make
a recommendation that will really help them expand their cigar experience. Now,
most of your tobacco is grown in nick Raguas, I remember,

(01:42:20):
is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:42:22):
That is correct?

Speaker 39 (01:42:24):
Now, say one of our cigars that we have in
our in our blend, now that one's going to be
a little bit different because that one is going to
be one of our most powerful ones. And that one
is going to have like a Saint Andreas rapper to it,
and it's also going to have three laharo leafs. And
we also added a black pepper to that one, where

(01:42:45):
our other maduros don't. We just may add extra lahero
leaf that gives it a little bit more power that way.
That particular one that we add that extra lahero leaf
is also wrapped in newspaper the way the Cubans used
to back.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
In the day.

Speaker 39 (01:43:01):
I know a lot of people when they venture down
to Ebor City in Tampa, Florida, they see a lot
of those, and that's where that came from, is from Cuba.
It makes that cigar a little bit more dense, it
burns a little bit slower, and you know, if you
get your notes right and everything blends, you can have

(01:43:22):
a really terrific cigar, and that in that regard.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
Well, I know that the cigars that I've gotten at
your shop, and they have such a consistent burn where
you don't have to work overly hard to keep the
cigar burning. You get this amazing ash formed and the
cigar just burns so evenly all the way around. It's
just it's really a joy. And I smoke a cigar

(01:43:49):
every now and then, but I really do enjoy the
experience with maybe a little kognac or a little whiskey
and gild me a good way to wind down after
a stressful.

Speaker 39 (01:43:59):
Day, exactly. And thank you for that. Yeah, that newspaper,
it really does something more than just help create moisture
for the cigar. It really does make that thing a
little bit more dent. Even in our premium blend of cigars,
they burned really nice too. Now I must also say too,

(01:44:21):
I'm just having a conversation yesterday with the gentleman that
came into the store. You know, a lot of how
a person lights a cigar has to do with it
the wind being outside. So those are some of the
different things that you know when people light a cigar.
You have to really pay conscience to me personally, I

(01:44:43):
like to toast my cigar before I even you know,
put the hit in the mouth up to light it
so and then the gentleman never heard of that before.
Of course he was just starting really to get in
the cigars. But I love the education of cigars. I've
talked many years with my mentor, and you know, he
started from a child up into adulthood with you know,

(01:45:06):
dealing with cigars. So it was it was quite the
twelve year experience. He passed away, unfortunately, but he left
a really great legacy behind with his wife and children
who's taken over his side of things.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
Stee, we've got just under a minute left. Tell us
tell our listeners about how they can find you, how
they can get in contact with you. And in Faga Tuck.

Speaker 39 (01:45:35):
Yes, we are at one twenty nine Griffith, Unit one
oh one. We're pretty easy to find, right next door
to Saga Tucks. Grab and go with it, which, excuse me,
is another venture that my wife Rachel started over there,
which is a bodega style convenience store. We have all

(01:45:56):
sorts of things in there, from gourmet sandwiches to free
chips and snacks and just all different types of things
in there that the community always loves to have when
they're in town, when people are shopping.

Speaker 4 (01:46:13):
That is a great place. I'm glad you mentioned it.
You can also find more atogy Cigar Shop dot com,
s c O G I E S Cigar Shop with
an e dot com. Steve, thank you so much, God
bless have a great day.

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Speaker 27 (01:47:29):
a four to run six, crush the Mariners nine to
three to force a decisive Game five. Manager Aj Hinch says,

Speaker 28 (01:47:49):
Proud of our guys because you know, today's game was
getting on base.

Speaker 27 (01:48:01):
In the NLDS, CODs with a four run first hold
five series two games to one. Thursday Night, football Giants
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Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
Well, welcome back to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
In today for MPs, doctor John Wycoff of the Whycoff
Wellness Center, my name is Tony Cuthbert, and let's take
a look at sports, and of course we got to
start with baseball, as the Tigers have forced a decisive
Game five in the American League Division Series. They beat

(01:49:23):
the Mariners nine to three in downtown Detroit, so they
are even and we have a deciding game that will
take place tomorrow night in Seattle. One of the strangest
games I have seen in a while, where the Tigers.
I mean, let's face it, Doctor Whyacoff, I know you
were working yesterday, so you don't have time to watch
a baseball game. But the Tigers, they were putting on

(01:49:43):
the act that they've been doing for the last month.
Early in the game and on their home field, they
were getting booed, and then they turned it all around
with a big, big sixth inning led by a guy
who is he's the highest paid player on the team.
He was an All Star this year, but most of
the time he's been with the Tigers, it's been a disappointment.
Hovey Baiaz. He had a two run shot, he finished

(01:50:05):
with four RBIs. It was just really something to watch.
The rookie Troy Melton came out of the bullpen. He
got the winning relief. He was dominant for parts of this.
So Game five, like I said, tomorrow night in Seattle,
it's a lone game. So it's around eight o'clock. First
pitch on that one. And by the way, if the
Tigers do win this game, I believe the American League

(01:50:26):
Championship Series begins on Sunday night at eight o'clock. And
lo and behold, guess what the Sunday night football game
is this weekend. On Sunday night, the Detroit Lions take
on the Kansas City Chiefs. So you better be working
two TVs or find a way to split screen it,
or make one of the toughest decisions you will when
it comes to sports and what you will watch. Anyways,
we had three other games yesterday in Major League Baseball.

(01:50:49):
The Cubs beat the Brewers four to three. The Brewers
lead that best of five series two games to one.
The Blue Jays did away with the Yankees. We don't
have to see them anymore. They are out five to
two was the final on that one, and the Phillies
extended their season. They beat the Dodgers in Los Angeles
eight to two, So those two teams will meet up again,
as the Dodgers lead that series two games to one.

(01:51:11):
Like I said, that game will happen at six o'
eight tonight and then the nightcap at nine o eight
the Brewers at the Cubs. Also big night in downtown
Detroit tonight because the Detroit Red Wings open up their season.
They bring in the Montreal Canadians, and the Wings are
looking to snap a franchise record nine year playoff drought
this season. It'll be the first full season at the

(01:51:31):
Helm for head coach Todd McClelland, who took over for
Derek Loan in the middle of last season. Puck to
Ice seven PM tonight. That is a look at sports
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Speaker 11 (01:51:51):
NBC News Radio. I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Israel
and Jumas have signed onto the first phase of his
proposed peace plan. Trump posted on social that all of
the hostages will be released very soon and Israel will
withdraw their troops to an agreed uponline as the first
step toward a strong, durable, and everlasting piece. Many Americans

(01:52:12):
feel the US economy is not on the right track.

Speaker 23 (01:52:15):
Chris Katio reports Fannie May's National Housing Survey found that

Speaker 18 (01:52:36):
I'm Chris Karatio and.

Speaker 11 (01:52:38):
Senate Republicans have killed the measure that would have halted
US military strikes on alleged drug boats. The Democratic resolution
was voted down along party lines on Wednesday. I'm mark Mayfield.

Speaker 17 (01:52:48):
with plenty of sunshine in the mid Atlantic and Southeast
pleasant for most of the day from DC to the
care Alinas with highs in the upper seventies. Further south,
the front that soak the Gulf Coast is pushing east.
Scattered thunderstorms are expected in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina

(01:53:09):
with highs near eighty five. Sunshine returns to the Midwest
with highs topping the mid seventies across the Great Lakes,
the Ohio Valley, and through Missouri. Mostly sunny and warm
in the central plains with temperatures in the low eighties.
The southern plains, especially Texas and Oklahoma, stay hot with
highs in the low nineties. Another toasty day in the Southwest,
with desert highs near one hundred where Phoenix and Las

(01:53:30):
Vegas picture perfect. In California, with coastal highs in the seventies,
Valleys and inland areas will hit the low nineties and
in the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 10 (01:53:38):
A few showers will.

Speaker 17 (01:53:39):
Be lingering in western Washington and Oregon with highs in
the mid sixties. That's your national forecast. I'm Tammy Triheo,

(01:54:00):
NBC News Radio.

Speaker 11 (01:54:02):
I'm Mark Mayfield. President Trump says Iran can be part
of the peace negotiations underway in the Middle East. Trump
gave a phone interview to Fox News Wednesday night and
said the peace plan currently being negotiated in Egypt is
about more than Gaza, but about peace in the Middle East,
and claimed that Iran is actually going to be a
part of the whole peace situation. Under Trump's plan, Palestinian

(01:54:23):
militant group Hamas would release its remaining hostages while Israel
pulls its troops back. The President said he also believes
the hostage is still being held in Gaza will all
be released on Monday. Things are getting heated as the
partial government shutdown moves past the one week mark. Reporters
watched this Republican Congressman Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader
Hakim Jeffreys faced off in a hallway on Capitol Hill.

Speaker 16 (01:54:44):
Oh I'm listen, why don't you just keep your mouth shut?

Speaker 11 (01:54:49):
The Democrats' plan includes healthcare reforms, while the GOP plan
would keep the government funding out the same levels until
happened in twenty eighteen, during President Trump's first term, and
lasted thirty four days. Federal Reserve officials superior to support

(01:55:12):
should happen.

Speaker 17 (01:55:17):

(01:55:39):
expected it to ease back to the.

Speaker 10 (01:55:43):
Feds two percent target. I'm Tammy Triheo.

Speaker 11 (01:55:46):
Barati in Casadena. You're listening to the latest from NBC
News Radio.

Speaker 30 (01:55:56):
Disney is increasing ticket prices at its theme park in
California and Florida. Ticket prices will go up an average
of five bucks on non peak dates. Annual passes will
go up between twenty and eighty dollars. The increases won't
take place until after October of twenty twenty six. If
you're taking a flight, you may expect some delays with
the shortage of air traffic controllers lately. NBC's Tom Costello has.

Speaker 31 (01:56:19):
More Nashville and Chicago are the late breaking airports dealing
with delays due to a shortage of controller the aftera
warning that Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, and Boston could
also be affected. All fuel and concerned that what happened
in Burbank could soon spread.

Speaker 30 (01:56:35):
Burbank was forced to go for several hours without onsite
air traffic controllers. Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says skies
are safe, but air traffic controllers are more stressed out
than ever before.

Speaker 14 (01:56:47):
Now what they think about as their control in our
airspace is.

Speaker 4 (01:56:51):
How am I going to pay my mortgage?

Speaker 11 (01:56:53):
How do I make my car payment? I have a
couple kids at home?

Speaker 4 (01:56:56):
How do I put food in the table?

Speaker 30 (01:56:57):
The La City Council took one more step toward raising
its trash collection fees. Mark Mayfield has more.

Speaker 11 (01:57:03):
On Tuesday, the council gave preliminary approval to increase rates
for the first time in seventeen years. The measure got
a twelve to two vote, but it still needs a
second vote and approval from Mayor Karen Bass. Under the proposal,
the trash collection rate for single family homes and duplexes
would go from thirty six dollars to nearly fifty six dollars.
Low income residents who qualify for the city's Easy Save

(01:57:24):
or Lifeline programs can get lower rates.

Speaker 30 (01:57:27):
Enjoy the lower gas prices while they're here. They could
be going up soon. Triple A's Marie Dodds as prices
spiked in September when the Olympic pipeline shut down. It's
back in operation, but now a Southern California refinery shut
down following a major fire.

Speaker 32 (01:57:41):
The refinery fire comes about a month after the Olympic
pipeline was out of operation. These types of outages can
really have a tremendous impact on retail gas prices here
in the West Coast region.

Speaker 30 (01:57:51):
Over the last week, the national average did fall three
cents to three twelve on Monica Nelson with your consumer
and business news.

Speaker 5 (01:57:58):

Speaker 27 (01:58:00):

Speaker 28 (01:58:20):
Proud of our guys because, you know, today's game was
getting on base.

Speaker 27 (01:58:32):
In the NLDS, Couds with a four run first hold
five series two games to one. Thursday Night football Giants
take on the Eagles at Mettlife Stadium, and the Bengals
will start newly acquired quarterback Joe Flacco Sunday against the Packers.

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
That's Sports, I'm Ron Samoss.

Speaker 17 (01:58:59):
with plenty of sunshine in the mid Atlantic and Southeast.
Pleasant for most of the day from DC to the Carolinas,
with highs in the upper seventies. Further south, the front
that soak the Gulf Coast is pushing east. Scattered thunderstorms
are expected in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina with highs

(01:59:20):
near eighty five. Sunshine returns to the Midwest with highs
topping the mid seventies across the Great Lakes, the Ohio
Valley and through Missouri. Mostly sunny and warm in the
central Plains with temperatures in the low eighties. The southern plains,
especially Texas and Oklahoma, stay hot with highs in the
low nineties. Another toasty day in the Southwest, with desert
highs near one hundred for Phoenix and Las Vegas. Picture

(01:59:41):
perfect in California, with coastal highs in the seventies. Valleys
and inland areas will hit the low nineties. And in
the Pacific Northwest, a few showers will be lingering in
western Washington and Oregon with highs in the mid sixties.

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Patrick Shields.

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Michael Patrick Shields is on the air.

Speaker 4 (02:00:37):
Good morning World, Good morning Michigan. And unfortunately Michael Patrick
Shields is not on the air this morning. I am
doctor John Wycoff, your host, and it's a privilege to
be talking to everyone across the state of Michigan on
The Michigan Big Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields. We've
flown through two hours and we've got an hour left

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and it's going to be a lot of fun. So
thank you all for tuning in and listening today. As
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I'm a guest on the show fairly often, and I
also know Michael well and I own the Wyoff Wellness
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a couple guests today talking about financial matters, and it's
a privilege for me to welcome our next guest. She
worked for a Maor Prize Financial She is a certified

(02:02:27):
financial planner and she is an area of expertise they
called a CDFA, a Certified divorce Financial Analyst. Let's it's
a pleasure to welcome Kylie Mohammed to the show.

Speaker 13 (02:02:40):
Good morning, Good morning, how are you well?

Speaker 4 (02:02:44):
You know, I'm well, it's a great day and the
sun's coming up, and you know, it gets you know,
I haven't had to get up at four point thirty
in the morning very often, but it's a different world
in Michigan and in Lansing at five am. I know
that I did find.

Speaker 22 (02:02:59):
That out, but absolutely so.

Speaker 4 (02:03:02):
Tell me a little bit about your work with Amerorprize
and your work and your area of interest and how
people might how you can be helped to them.

Speaker 41 (02:03:13):
Of course, so today I'm actually wanting to talk in
the capacity of something called Second Saturday. Second Saturday is
a national nonprofit that hosts divorce workshops across the country.
We do these divorce workshops here in the Lansing area
as well as virtually and online, really focusing on educating
and empowering people who are considering or maybe even going

(02:03:35):
through divorce.

Speaker 4 (02:03:38):
Do you work with men and women who are in
that process and that's going to be certainly a settling
time for individuals and a lot of fragility and trying
to sort out, you know, what's going to happen during
a divorce.

Speaker 41 (02:03:53):
Absolutely, yes, both men and women are welcome to the workshops.
You know, we find that the best way to really
reduce the fear and the stress as you're going on
this emotional roller coaster is through education and gaining more
knowledge on how the process looks, what you might be
going through, some questions that are really important to you know,

(02:04:15):
each person's individual situation. And while we don't provide necessarily
recommendations in these conversations, we can help kind of hone
in on where someone might want to focus a little
bit more and start asking themselves some questions, you know,
things like how is child or spousal support calculated? Can

(02:04:36):
I afford to keep the house? Does it matter who
files first, and should I file first? How do we
even look at dividing our assets? We build a life
together and now we need to be mingle everything, So
how does that process work? So with the format that

(02:04:57):
we have, we have myself talking about the financial aspects,
We have an attorney that comes in and goes through
the legal issues and the legal process, and then you
have a mental health professional who helps give some strategies
on how to cope and how to deal with the
emotions as they're having some really hard conversations not only

(02:05:20):
with maybe their spouse, maybe the kids, if their kids,
involved other professionals and making sure that we take care
of ourselves during this time.

Speaker 4 (02:05:30):
So the second Santuritay program is structure to help people
with that time of difficult choices, especially as they go
through a divorce, with maybe an emphasis on getting trying
to get their financial issues in line, but giving them
specific concrete ideas as to how to move forward and
not just be lost and not knowing who to turn to.

(02:05:52):
Is that fair?

Speaker 41 (02:05:55):
Very fair?

Speaker 24 (02:05:56):
Yes?

Speaker 41 (02:05:56):
We want to be a support system and a resource
for anybody that comes to us. And during the workshop
is a really great time to get some one on
one questions asked. Well, maybe not one on one of
the group setting, right, but to get some some specific
questions asked. But then we're also here after the workshop
and we're available as a resource, and you make some

(02:06:17):
really good connections and build a wonderful support system, because
that's really important. During this time, people are not alone,
and so often we hear that they don't know who
to turn to, and so we're here to help that.

Speaker 4 (02:06:31):
I think that's true, and I think they get caught
up with the lawyering aspect of, you know, going through
a divorce, and certainly that has a as a role
and it's important. But I see patients too that are
going through those changes and they're very fragile, and so actually,
you know, the work that you do and the work
that I do sometimes are very similar. I think that

(02:06:53):
sometimes I'm as much of a psychologist as I am
a physician. Now, you listen to people, you have to
process what they're feeling, what they're going through, and maybe
just and maybe it is just.

Speaker 41 (02:07:06):
Listening sometimes definitely, and sometimes too, I feel like that's
what leads people to this position and considering divorces. Over time,
we grow, we change, we value things differently. You know,
what we where we spend our money might be different
than where our partner spends their money, and how we

(02:07:27):
potentially could be building animosity through that process.

Speaker 13 (02:07:30):
So to.

Speaker 41 (02:07:33):
Have that, you know, lens of value behavior what's important
to you when we're coming into these conversations is really important.

Speaker 4 (02:07:42):
And you would also see people just for general investment
advice if they wanted to get involved with whatever they
need to do to reach their financial goals and their
marriage is stable.

Speaker 41 (02:07:55):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so we help on the investment side
of things. We work on collaborative financial planning, so we
have great relationships with our clients that we talk about
how they're going to meet their goals and what they
need to do, and if their goals are met, how
do we make them better, how do we protect and
shore up any vulnerabilities. Everybody has transition in life at

(02:08:17):
any given time. Divorce is just one of the many
transitions that come up, and so life's not a straight line.
We've got to be able to pivot and just and
make make things better.

Speaker 4 (02:08:28):
We've got about thirty seconds left, Kylie. If people want
to find out more about a Mayor prize financial services
and you specifically with your office and Okamas. How could
they do that.

Speaker 24 (02:08:39):
Online?

Speaker 41 (02:08:39):
So there's Amareprize dot com that you can search me
as an advisor. You can look at Second Saturday Lansing
on Facebook. You can go to the Second Saturday website
search the location for information on registering for workshops.

Speaker 4 (02:08:53):
Thank you so very much, have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 4 (02:12:38):
Good morning everyone again, doctor John Wycoff filling in for
Michael Patrick Shields on The Michigan Big Show. It's a
privilege to be with you today. I hope you're enjoying
the show. We certainly have a number of really interesting guests.
As many of you know, I am the founder and
the CEO of the Wycoff Wellness Center in East Lansing,
just down the road from Frandor. We are a center

(02:13:00):
committed to integrative and functional medicine and dealing with chronic
medical problems, trying to find solutions other than maybe taking
more medications. I prescribe medications each and every day, but
oftentimes there is a different way, a different approach that
your conventional doctors may not explore with you or talk
with you. That's what I do find out more at

(02:13:22):
Wycoff Wellness dot Com. Our next guest is someone that
I'm very envious of. I think if I had to
pick a job, I might pick this guy's job. He
is the director of the Potoski Area Visitors Bureau. I'd
like to welcome Jim Powell back to the show.

Speaker 42 (02:13:38):
Good morning, Jim, Good morning, doctor John.

Speaker 3 (02:13:41):
How are you doing.

Speaker 4 (02:13:42):
You know, it's just a great day here in Michigan,
and it looks like it's going to be a beautiful
day up north too. And you must have an exciting
job that you, I would think, just have got to
be so looking forward to work every day because you
deal with such an amazing part of Michigan, a unique
area with culture and dining and golf and skiing and

(02:14:05):
boating and kayaking and hunting and fishing and wineries and
just all kinds of stuff. So tell us a little
bit more about the exciting stuff that's going on in
Potoski now and maybe for the next few months.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 42 (02:14:18):
Absolutely, And you know you're we're talking just at teak
season is starting here up for fall color, which is
always a big hit for our friends from downstate. It's
been a little late to come this fall. We had
a wetter summer up here, and so normally this would
be our peak period right now, it's probably shifting into
this weekend and in the next weekend as well. But

(02:14:40):
you know, the next two to three weeks up here
are going to be pretty amazing. And there's a lot
going on around our fall color time of year up here.
Everything from fall festivals at places like pond Hill Farm
to the Highlands to a skifest there, Ski October Festa
at Point n and a lot of other great events

(02:15:02):
are going on around the region. And it's a great
time to come up here.

Speaker 4 (02:15:08):
Well, I don't think there's ever a bad time to
go to Northern Michigan, because I mean, you've got such
natural beauty with the mountains, with the lake shore, with
the inland areas, and there's such a diversity of things
to do. It's got to be a challenge to kind
of get that all wrapped into, uh, you know, one
package for people. And I think people have to understand, boy,

(02:15:29):
you know, this is a special part of Michigan if
you and it amazes me when I talked to some
of my patients, I say, well, when's the last time
you went to Northern Michigan. And when's the last time
you went to Lake Michigan. And they look at me
with this like, you know, deer in the headline, look like, well,
what are you talking about? And and I go, But
you know when when when I first came to Michigan,

(02:15:49):
I fell in love with the Lake Michigan shoreline. And
I just can't imagine that you would grow up here
in Lansing and never go to see Lake Michigan. It
just amazes me. But people do.

Speaker 3 (02:16:00):
Yeah, that is interesting, you know.

Speaker 42 (02:16:02):
And again we are truly a four season destination here
in Potasky Harbor, Springs and the Pointe Valley. You know,
there is never not a good time to come up here.
There's always something going on. Like you said, summer and
fall tend to be kind of our peak seasons. But
you know, winter, with the three resorts that we have
up here, which is quickly coming around the corner here,

(02:16:23):
we'll be getting our skis out and.

Speaker 19 (02:16:24):
Getting ready to go on.

Speaker 42 (02:16:25):
That is a great time. And you know, spring is
also a great time to visit up here. It's a
little quieter. We always talk about spring as a time
of first It's your first hike of the year, your
first bike ride of the year, your first trip to
northern Michigan. So again we do feel that we are
a great year round destination for our friends.

Speaker 4 (02:16:42):
Down say, we'll speaking with Jim Pile, the director of
the Plasky Area Visitors Bureau, and I want to touch
on the Potoski Wine Tour if you'd be so kind,
and you probably made this connection. My oldest daughter, Stephanie,
owns Crooked Vine Wine and as part of the Potaska
Wine Tour, tell us more about the wine tour and

(02:17:05):
how if people are interest in that, how they can
kind of plug into that tour.

Speaker 42 (02:17:10):
Well, you know, I think the kind of one of
our little secretces is again we have this amazing, amazing
region up here with sixteen seventeen different wineries, you know,
and again this is a perfect time of year to
kind of come up here in two of those you
kind of pair that up with one of our fall
color tours around the region. You can hit two or three,
three or four in one day, you know. Certainly, and

(02:17:32):
again I am familiar. In fact, we did a group
event at Crooked Vine and Alance and this year and
really got to explore and enjoy that one. And certainly
one of the unique things, whether it's Greyne Valley Vineyard
or Macnot Trail Trail or spare Key, you know, any
of these. You know, again it's a great time to
visit is they all have something special going on this

(02:17:53):
time of year. And you know, again we're coming off
of a busy summer, quieter time, but you know, certainly
a day bouncing around the region, whether it is Tasky
Harbor Springs or down into the Point Valley, it's a
really great opportunity to explore the region and get all
the flavors that come from our local viticultural region here.

Speaker 4 (02:18:15):
Well, it is a great place to go if you
really want that kind of the get into the vineyard,
get with the grapes and talk to the proprietor that
that's what happens in Northern Michigan. And you know, really
what's happened at California has gotten to be a very
different experience where you really are kind of pressured to

(02:18:35):
spend a lot of money to taste some wines and
it's really changed its focus everything by appointment and it's
just a loss some of its lore. But boy, in
northern Michigan, you still have that small town, small individual wineries.
You can talk to the people that are actually putting
their hands on getting the grapes, you know, putting the

(02:18:58):
grapes in a patch up with whatever passion they have,
and however they brew the wine and put the wine together.
It's really great. So, Jim, if people want to learn
more about the Pataski area, well, how can they do that?

Speaker 42 (02:19:14):
Well, I would encourage them to visit our website Pataskara
dot com. Again, you're gonna find information on every one
of the wineries.

Speaker 3 (02:19:20):
You'll also be.

Speaker 42 (02:19:21):
Able to pull up our live webcams.

Speaker 24 (02:19:22):
Again.

Speaker 42 (02:19:23):
In that way we can get a good view of
what's going on with our fall color up here. Also
listening in restaurants and lodging properties. Deegles that they may
be offering individually on those, but you know it is
that's the best location to go to get information about
this region.

Speaker 4 (02:19:38):
Your website has just a tremendous amount of information, So
I agree, go to Potoski Area dot com find out
more about northwest Michigan and how much joy can bring
to your life. Jim, thank you so much for coming
on the show today. Have a great weekend.

Speaker 42 (02:19:54):
Great you two, and I hope to see you up
here soon.

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You are listening to Michigan's Big Show starring Michael Patrick Shields.
My name is Tony Cuthbert. Wall Street close lower Wednesday
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Speaker 4 (02:27:08):
Welcome back Michigan doctor John whe filling in for Michael
Patrick Shields on the Michigan Big Show. We're kind of
getting towards the end of the program. We have a
great guest coming up. He is the CEO of Douglas J.
Salon and Mespah and the Douglas J. Institute. It is
mister Scott Weaver. Good morning, Scott.

Speaker 43 (02:27:28):
Good morning doctor.

Speaker 24 (02:27:29):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (02:27:30):
You know I'm going to be better. It's just a
great day here in mid Michigan. And I know that
you've been just a big part of the East Lansing
and Okamus landscape for a long time, your father and
mother starting Douglas J and you and your brother carrying on.
Tell Us what's going on with Douglas J.

Speaker 3 (02:27:49):
Well, yeah, we have.

Speaker 43 (02:27:51):
We're actually coming up on sixty years since that first
Douglas J. Salon opened right there and East Lansing. As
you said, both my brother and I t J. Followed
in dad footsteps and licensed ourselves and you know, took

(02:28:12):
the mission of creating better opportunities for those looking for
careers inside the beauty business and wanted to expand that
and take that out a little further. And today we
have a footprint of the four schools in Michigan with
three salons professional salons as well, and you know, expanded

(02:28:36):
into the Tennessee market and even Lincoln, Nebraska with with
our schools as the latest. So looking to carry that
mission that mom and Dad set for so many years
ago and continue to expand that, you know, not just
throughout Michigan, but you know other areas as well.

Speaker 4 (02:28:55):
If someone hasn't been to a Douglas D salon, what
can they expect in terms of the service and the
experience that you offer.

Speaker 43 (02:29:05):
Yeah, we've kind of had the full service mentality and
all of our salons. Of course, the salon that it
all started at right there in Okimus, Michigan, is quite
a large salon and does offer pretty much all services beauty,
so you can have hair, nails, massage. We have our

(02:29:29):
traditional spa as well as recently have introduced some of
the medi spa services into that location as well. We
have a men's department for barbering going on. But we've
always looked at it to be complete in full service
type of experience for our guests that come in. So yeah,

(02:29:52):
we look to build careers for our hairdressers. Our price
points you know, are at a point where our sty
ilist can earn and build careers inside the beauty business,
offering both insurance and retirement plans for them. So really
looking at the beauty industry as building careers and not

(02:30:15):
just jobs. So you're gonna you can expect a high
level of service, a great consultation, meeting the needs of
what you're looking for. And uh, you know, again we
don't offer all the services at all locations, but yeah,
right there in our openus spot, we do. Uh, we
do include at all.

Speaker 4 (02:30:35):
Well, I know that if you make your passion about
serving others and area rovide that service, you're going to
be successful. And indeed you are if people want to
learn more about Douglas J Salon or the Douglas A Institute.
How can they do that?

Speaker 43 (02:30:50):
Well, you know on our education side for building careers,
and I will say a report just came out for
the labor which was amazing. It's a expecting the seventy
eight percent growth, which is doubling the pace of other industries.
And you can log on to DOUGLASJ dot edu and

(02:31:10):
check out each of our different campuses. We've got six
campuses across the three states, and look for careers inside
the beauty business if that's something of interest. And then
at DOUGLASJ dot com is our link to our professional
salons and from there you can see all the different

(02:31:31):
locations and the different services that are offered at each
of those locations as well.

Speaker 4 (02:31:36):
Thank you, Scott, Douglas J dot com. Learn more about
the service and the professionalism you can find at any
of his salons, will through his school. You have a
great day and a great weekend, Scott.

Speaker 3 (02:31:48):
Thanks so much. Factor take care.

Speaker 4 (02:31:50):
All right, We're going to wrap up this segment with
an individual that I know well known for many many years,
who is the owner and developer of Compass Point Dive
Resort and Ocean Frontiers, Dive Shop and Grand Cayman, Grand
Cayman Island. I'd like to welcome Steve and Broadbelt. Good
morning Steve, Good morning John. Hey, I'm so glad we

(02:32:14):
were able to make this work and we've got about
four minutes. Tell us just a little bit about Compass Point,
the resort and people sometimes get intimidated by being a
dive resort, but it's really evolved more of a family resort.

Speaker 19 (02:32:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 40 (02:32:31):
Absolutely. I went on the island of Grand came Island
and came An Islands, more on the eastern side, more
off the beaten path, on the side of the island,
and we're a small resort. You know, we don't have
three hundred rooms.

Speaker 24 (02:32:46):
It's just.

Speaker 40 (02:32:48):
Twenty seven rooms. And a lot of people that say
that are scuba divers, but more and more it's people
that just want to be away from the crowds, want
some piece of clients, don't have to fight for space
on the beach to read a book, and so it
definitely appeals to a mixed groups of people that, you know,

(02:33:12):
just looking to get away from all the noise and
enjoy some about beautiful sunshine.

Speaker 4 (02:33:17):
Well, I think you hit the nail on the head.
And you know, Cindy and I love Compass Point. We
love the Cayman Islands and our family has been there
and we send all kinds of people there. But there's
so much to do, even on the East end. People
sometimes get associated with Seven Mile Beach and all of
the hustle and bustle there, but through Compass Point. At

(02:33:39):
Compasspointdive Resort dot com, you can find information about land tours, snorkeling, kayaking, bicycling,
all kinds of stuff to do along with dining and
information about the resort. Anything new and exciting going on
on the island right.

Speaker 40 (02:33:55):
Now, although it's been there for thousands of years. The
new Crystal Caves as obctually opened for visitors so you
can go and explore this underground case system is just
ten minute drive away from us. And also the Queen
Elizabeth's Botanical Gardens and has gone through quite a few upgrades.

(02:34:16):
There's more stuff for kids to interact with, and the
Blue Iguana and the Blue Dragon program has expanded even
more than what it was before. So there are two
things on the top of my list to do when
you're not in the ocean.

Speaker 4 (02:34:30):
Of course, well, and Tappa's Point is associated with Ocean Frontiers.
I'll take you out and dive with or excuse me,
you just get with the sting rais. You don't need
to dive with them. You can just either snorkel or
just be in the water about waist deep. You can
get snorkel trips. The dive shop can show you where
you can go individually and do some snorkeling. I always

(02:34:50):
go to the Queen Elizabeth Botanical Park every time in there.
It gets better every time, and I agree that the
caves are exciting. Run points another great destination. If people
want to learn more about Compass Point Dive Resort, how
can they do that?

Speaker 40 (02:35:10):
Uh, eat of our websites Compass Pointdive result dot com
or Oceanfrontiers dot com joined at the hip. That's lots
of information. While just on our Ocean Printer's YouTube channel
has quit did video clips on there that will help
you do a nice picture of what we would do
and all the all the things that you can do.

Speaker 4 (02:35:31):
Well. Winter's coming everyone, so it's a good time to
think about getting away. The Cayman Islands exceedingly safe there.
There's just almost no crime. I have great restaurants great
things to do. You can be busy as you want.
Go to Compasspoint Dive Resort dot com or check reservations
at Oceanfrontiers dot com. They have a great staff. They'll

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be happy to help you plan that trip. See thank
you so much, have a great day.

Speaker 22 (02:35:58):
Have you ever wondered my health insurance costs seemed to
keep going up. I was doing some research online and
I stumbled upon some

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