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Bratfest 2024 · Ask The Experts

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  Eight fifty thirteen ten WIBA, a little over a week away from broadfaest.
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  Oh yeah, it's going to be a great, great year at Broadfast.
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  We'll talk about entertainment and some of the other events going on at Broadfast.
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  And joining us this morning is Jeff Schrader of course with Broadfast and Jeff before
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  we get rolling on all the just cool things, and you know who doesn't
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  love Broadfast, Let's talk real quick about volunteer opportunities. I know for organizations,
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  they've got their applications and there's a number of fantastic charities folks can volunteer
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  to work for or work their work hours go to. Let's talk about how
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  that kind of all works when it comes to volunteers. Jeff, oh sure,
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  I'd love to. And thanks again for having us on. You know,
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  it wouldn't be a Broadfast without kicking it off on thirteen yet. Now
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  I know it's really I know it's here when we have our conversation and tell
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  you what's going on and what's newest broadcastppreciate it. Yeah, we're I'm on
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  Willow Island right now. Kevincaff and I are marking tenth with a GPS unit
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  and we've got the broad ten going up. We'll be working for the next
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  three days, four days, and we'll all the way up until next Thursday
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  getting this place ready for all of our volunteers and all of our guests.
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  The volunteer situation has always been a challenge, you know, and this year
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  we're not bad. On Friday and Saturday. We've still got some spots open
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  both for set up as well as during the festival and teardowns, so there's
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  there's opportunity for charities to earn money. And to the way it works,
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  as you've asked, is that a volunteer organization or any individual volunteer signs up
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  for a three hour shift for example, and then we raised the money that
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  we pay to the charity to twelve dollars an hour this year just to help
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  encourage for participation and that charity. We paid to the charity that twelve dollars,
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  and the volunteer earns money for their charity or they pick one of the
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  broadcast Broadfast charities to donate their time too. And that's how we raise one
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  hundred, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, probably a little bit more this
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  year over it's done two point seventy five million since we started, and this
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  is over forty over forty years now we've been raising funds for the charities in
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  the Dame County area. And it's a lot of fun and a great way
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  to kick off summer. And it's a great way for families to get together
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  and you know, show the people in their family, the children as are
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  growing up, just you know, how to do something for something other than
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  yourself and provide for a good cause. It is. It's a fantastic cause.
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  It's a great great weekend of events course Memorial Day weekend out on Willow
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  Island. It is broadcast more informationvolunteer opportunities, uh a different event opportunities,
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  musical lineups as well, all available at broughtfest dot com. That's brought Fest
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  all one word dot com. All that information right there on the website.
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  And it's interesting, Jeffrey, when you mentioned, uh, the GPS stuff,
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  I someth that is that is something that has never dawned on me,
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  is when you guys walk out there, Uh, you've got a blank slate
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  and but you've got to kind of put together this this puzzle and for folks
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  like for example, what take your Brought to Work Day, which is one
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  of the most most finely tuned machines in all of Madison. How everything flows
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  that day. It is It is impressive to watch. But it's weird now,
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  as when you mentioned that, it's weird to think that there's a that
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  there is a point where that plan is like we are literally starting with a
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  blank slate and it's such a such a fantastic thing. And of course take
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  You're Brought to Work Day. For folks who don't know, let's talk a
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  little bit about that event. Well, you know, to your point on
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  the GPS, Yeah, we Kevin and I would come out and we would
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  line up the corner of the big broadcast sixty by one hundred and twenty with
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  a couple of trees, and once we would line it up, then we
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  kind of mark it off. And once we got that set, then the
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  rest of the festival kind of revolved around that. And then we decided,
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  well, why don't we use a GPS. And his friend at Nighter Excavating
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  came out and he GPS did. We came out the next year they cut
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  down the trees. I mean, if we hadn't GPS, it we'd still
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  be here trying to figure out where to start. And yeah, now it
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  goes pretty well now and the take you're brought to work day is it's an
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  amazing you know. We get out here about three thirty four in the morning
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  and on Friday the twenty fourth, and everything's set up so that we have
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  a couple of lines for large orders and small orders. I mean, if
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  you want one brat, you can drive through. If you want one hundred
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  brots you can drive through. It does help if you have bigger orders.
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  The pre orders so that we can get I'm ready for you. And between
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  six and nine we'll probably do twenty thousand brats and probably another ten thousand between
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  nine o'clock and noon we have delivered. So we work with an organization called
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  Do Good Wisconsin that delivers brats to businesses all over town. And all that
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  you have to do is call in and he'll bring one hundred and two hundred
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  broads to your business and you can treat the office and have a picnic and
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  celebrate the Memorial Day for all this glory kicking off again this Friday, the
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  twenty fourth, running through the Memorial Day weekend. It is broadfast It's back,
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  brought to you by Johnsonville and Metcalfs and Jeffrey. You mentioned Kevin.
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  I love seeing both of you out there. You know, there's never a
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  slow moment. There is just so much great stuff going on. Let's talk
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  about some of the music I know here at thirteen ten WIBA, we'll have
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  an opportunity for folks to win some VIP passes to see the Village People.
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  They're one of the headliners. You've got a little something for absolutely everybody when
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  it comes to music, don't you. I think it's one of the best
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  lineups that we've had yet. I think I say that every year. But
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  Michael Alexander is our music director, and we've got Village People. On Friday
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  Night we've got Bobaflex. Saturday we have Lanco and then Quiet Riot. That
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  will be a night. I mean that Saturday night, it's gonna be a
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  great night as well. Sunday we've got Neil McCoy and then we've got Tiger
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  Lilly Gold, a couple of young ladies from Nashville that has two Country Music
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  Awards nomination, one for Best Album and one for Best Song. They finished
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  in the top five. I'm really looking forward to that. Actually, their
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  seventy five bands, three days of free music, free live music, and
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  I mean I anticipate this is going to be a crazy weekend. It should
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  be great. Folks. Got time to plan forward, get everything ready,
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  whether it's getting stuff ready to place your order for take your brought to Work
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  Day. If you're gonna do a big order, you're gonna do a small
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  one or a big one. You can still just head through. But as
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  Jeffrey mentions, if you got a big one, it helps a lot to
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  pre order just so they are ready for you. And again it's a well
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  oiled machine kicking off with take your broad to Work Day and then running through
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  the entire weekend music events. Great things for the family and a fantastic charity.
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  Jeff thank you so much for all you guys. Do say hi to
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  Kevin for me as well this morning, and look forward to seeing you at
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  Broadfast coming up in just about a week from now. Well, I appreciate
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  it. I appreciate the opportunity of sale or everyone. And now I know
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  Broadfast is coming because we had this discoversation. It's official. Jeffrey sure Schrader
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  with Broadcast the website, and I did that too. You know, every
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  year I've I've got to get your name, your last name wrong one time
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  in the website broadfest dot com. That's all one word, broadfest dot com.
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  Dan o'donald comes your way next right here on thirteen ten, dol.
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