One, two, three, four.

Get my shoes in the door.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Feels great.

I've got shot in Africa.

I'll do it.

I'm gonna do it.

Do take a look at this guy with the beautiful call about than just for me.

Got to share it with another.

I got to show to give that out on singing shout I'll take a look at your beautiful morning that earned to beautiful evening.

And look at the big, beautiful night and that's you wanna see that come along with me best god welcome to another awesome week here at experience this Gianna We're actually at the box factory for the arts and you can see some beautiful art behind me we're going to be talking about that next week so you want to make sure you check in on that show but today.

Oh, I'm excited for this one we're going to be checking off the dog pound not real dogs.

We're talking about hot dogs gourmet hot dogs.

And I have to tell you, my belly is full.

You're going to be wanting to watch that if you're more into maybe some coffee car guys and coffee.

Dave was able to check them out.

That's a really neat one that you don't want to miss.

But first up, Kelly and I were able to go check out the primates at the peaceable primate sanctuary.

This is a really cool place that you want to hear about here in Michigan.

Check it out.

Well, today we're heading down to the southern portions of Michigan to check out a sanctuary here.

Oh, my gosh.

This is so exciting.

I know we have some friends behind us here at the peaceable primate sanctuary and we have with us Scott.

Scott, this is such an amazing place that you have here.

Thank you.

I appreciate it.

Yeah, it's a great place.

Well, tell us a little bit about it, because this is really a first for experience, Michigan.

And we've never had anything like this before.

So, so exciting.

But first of all, it's a sanctuary for primates.

But where did you come up with this vision so about 20 years ago, I came up with the idea to start the sanctuary and wanted to give research primates a place to retire.

So once studies are completed or done, I wanted to be able to give them a good retirement, a good place where they can just be with other monkeys and have a great life.

So that was really the start of it about 20 years ago.

And this is a fairly new facility here.

When did you guys break ground here?

Right.

So here actually with animals on property, it's been about eight years now, so it took a long time to get all the infrastructure in, raise the money, the funds that we needed to do, the buildings and the construction.

So it's been a long process, but about eight years here that our first animals have arrived.

And how many acres do you have?

So we're just short of 80 acres.

So about 78 acres is what we have here currently.

OK, now we have two.

You call them the boys right?

Right, right.

Now what are their names?

Right.

These are the boys.

This is Dyson and Moe is this Dyson and Moses are brothers and they're now, I think they're going out about four or five years old.

So they've been here now.

So they've been here now for about a year and a half with us.

And they did come from the pet trade.

So somebody did have them as pets when they were younger.

Certainly something that we don't encourage at all.

Primates do not make good pets for before people.

So yeah.

So when Dyson and Moses got a little older and the people didn't want them around anymore, they contacted us and we said, Sure, we'll take them here.

And this is what the sanctuary is all about.

It's a place where they can come here and really live out a great life.

What's the transition like for them?

Transition can be a little tough at times.

You're taking them from an environment where they know everything so they know the people that care for them.

They know what is around them.

They know the environment that they live in.

Now they're coming here and they have to meet new people.

They have to meet new monkeys.

They have to have our they have to find out what our routine is here at the sanctuary as well.

So it can be difficult.

I would say younger animals probably transition easier than some of the older adult animals, just like humans in their habitat.

Right.

Well, we just like human children.

Human children in general.

Younger kids can adapt to different situations easier or quicker than adults can.

As adults, we kind of get set in our ways so monkeys can be the same way, but generally it can take anywhere from a couple of days up to a year.

It just really depends.

And we don't force that, I think.

What's the good thing?

The good point to make here at the sanctuary is we don't force them to do anything.

Yes.

So they have the indoor and outdoor space.

You know, what is their lifespan?

How long might they live out their time here at the sanctuary?

So again, it can depend average is mid to late twenties, but we have a baboon here now who is babbles and she's 34.

So she's considered the old lady.

I don't know any older here.

That's 35 right.

I'm in trouble for a baboon or for a baboon.

But yeah.

So she's, she's getting up in New Year's, but I would say average is is, is late twenties even maybe early thirties like you mentioned, very much like, like humans and but they all have their own personality don't they.

Very much so.

Very much so.

So Dyson, Mo Moses, perfect example, love to tear things apart and they're typical young boys like to chase and play and bite and pull and, and do all those things.

And if they can reach it from their cage, they're going to pull it out.

Any kind of grass or bras or shrubs, they're going to pull it all out.

That's, that's just what they do.

And I think one of the other ones that we pass by is named Jerry Wright.

Jerry, he is just beautiful, too.

Can we go check it out?

Let's go check out there.

OK, so this is Jerry, one of our retirees.

He is about 22 now.

23 so he looks like an old grumpy man just hanging in there.

He's an older guy, but certainly not grumpy.

I wouldn't call Jerry grumpy.

He's very stoic.

He's he's he's a very easygoing male baboon, which is great.

He is in charge of the rest of his group, but he's not too pushy about about how many people charge or how many how many people, how many primates are in his group here?

So in Jerry's group right here, there's three are females.

So we have Juniper, we have Violet, and then we have Olivia and Olivia.

His birthday is today.

Olivia's birthday is today.

So she's the birthday girl.

So she is in the hall.

Let me think she is I think she's seven or eight years old now.

You have a few different species here.

So what species is this?

So she's what we call an olive baboon.

So that's the majority of the baboons that we have here.

We also have him adria's baboons.

And then we have two different species of macaque.

So we have rhesus macaques and then what we call long tailed macaques.

There's a lot of special care that goes into this.

What's your background?

How did this come to be that way?

So my background was from the zoo world, and I was an employee, an animal caretaker at Brookfield Zoo for five years when I first started my career.

And then after that, I relocated to Chicago and was an animal caretaker at Lincoln Park Zoo for 20 years.

Oh, my goodness.

Before I resigned my position and left the zoo and came here to the sanctuary we also have a great dedicated team of employees here.

So everything from office people to our animal caretakers, I can take care of all these animals here.

So currently we have six animal caretakers.

That's job is just to make sure that they have all the wonderful things that they deserve.

Now, is there a special reason that you chose baboons well, the reason we're starting four for baboons and macaques is that there were no other sanctuaries that could take large amounts of baboons or macaques for retirement.

And there's not really another place like this.

There's only probably a handful these across the whole country.

Yeah, there are.

There are other sanctuaries that take primates, not a lot of them that take baboons, and some others that will take macaques.

But again, on a much smaller level, again, one or two here and there, but not large amounts of macaques like we just got.

You mentioned, do you have another species?

Can we take a look at them?

Yeah, most definitely.

Let's go look at some of the kayaks.

Scott, what is the name of this species called again?

So these are called resistant macaques.

And then we also have long tail macaques here at the sanctuary.

And what's unique about them?

Well, about recess risks are the ones that are used mostly in research.

They can be a little bit more on the temperamental side.

But you you do know where you stand with them.

So if they don't like you or they like you a lot you'll you'll definitely know it.

So that's a good a good trait about Reese's macaques and what's his name.

So that's Maya Duke.

Maya Duke has been here at the same year so Magic has been here at the sanctuary now for for about four years that that he's been here.

And he was retired from our research facility, a university and currently lives by himself here at the sanctuary.

But we will probably try to pair him with a female when we get a female and that he can be paired with.

What's the importance of putting them, you know, male, female together?

So social, social interaction.

Primates want to live together.

They don't want to live by themselves.

They want to live together and they want to be able to groom each other and interact.

It's just like with people.

Not many people want to be by themselves.

They want to be with with other people or they need some sort of interaction, even if it's on a limited basis.

Primates are the exact same way they want to be with other primates.

Yeah.

So I saw over there that there's some there that have a little bit of a long kind of longer hair.

What do they call?

So those are called ham dries baboons, and we have five of them here currently.

All right.

Well, let's take a look at them, because I love their hair.

Scott, tell us about this species that you have over here.

Right.

So these are some of our gamma driest baboons.

So this is Sammy who actually right now has his back turn to us.

He has his long locks right in the way.

Jealous.

So have a dry.

His baboons come from more of a desert environment versus the olive baboons which come from more of a grasslands or woodland type of environment.

However, dry has come from more desert type of environments.

Do they adjust well to the Midwest?

Them?

Yeah, I mean, they'll they'll do fine here.

He was taken from a roadside zoo here in the States and was brought here to retire here at the sanctuary with the females that are here now.

He's got.

How many did you say that you have here?

How many primates total?

47.

47.

What does it take to feed 47.

It's like 47 now it takes, it takes a lot of food and a lot of effort.

So we have done some great programs here at the sanctuary, one of them being groceries, donating produce that they normally would throw out.

So that helps us out a lot.

Also a lot of monkey food, monkey chow seeds, different grains and cereals.

We use a lot of that and we have a great kitchen here, by the way, that's probably nicer than my kitchen at home.

We do have a great kitchen and we also do have a person here that does all of our food prep on a daily basis.

But we also do have volunteers that come in and assist as well.

So we have a great volunteer program.

You can just reach out to the sanctuary through Facebook or through our website, find our number online, contact our office manager, and she can give you more details about that.

We also have an internship program right?

We do have a great internship program.

I'm really just kicking off this year.

We did started last year, but is definitely picking up momentum this year.

We're going to be working with Purdue and Purdue Northwest to get their students here to help out with our internship program because I know you guys are breaking more ground so more animals are going to be coming.

Obviously, you guys are a nonprofit so there's always ways that people can help, too.

You guys have some events coming up also.

Yeah.

Yeah, we have off yesterday.

Mono is coming up in two weeks.

So you can look on our Facebook page under peaceable primates.

Angel, get you more details.

OK, we also have a big event in October called Baboon Fest.

So you can come out and get some food and bring the family out and see some monkeys, hear some good music.

And we've got a lot of things from our gift shop t shirts and even monkey art.

You can even look at some of our monkeys because our monkeys do paint and you guys are open better than that is.

But you're not open to the public.

But people can still come and do tours and things like that, you know, Cub Scouts.

Yeah.

So we're not open to the public.

But yeah, you can schedule a tour through our office manager.

I guess I'm just calling the office.

If you have a group or you just want to bring your family out, you know, contact our office manager and show you on the schedule.

All right.

Well, great.

Well, Scott, thank you so much.

We totally love the tour.

We love getting to meet the primates and thank you for giving them, you know, they live in the library.

Right, right, right on the line.

They got a good thank you for coming out and it was my pleasure to show you around well, if you're hungry, there's a new spot in Michigan that's do you want to check out whether for breakfast or lunch?

The dog pound is the place you want to be.

We're here in Nappanee, and Lila is one of the owners here.

Thank you so much for having us.

Thank you so much for coming.

And this is a new spot that you guys have come up with.

How long have you been in this spot?

So we did a taste test in February.

26 and then we did our grand opening April nine.

So relatively recent.

Extremely recent, yeah.

And how's it been going for you?

It's been amazing.

The Nappanee community is phenomenal.

It's just been so much fun to get to meet everyone and get all the feedback about all the different hot dogs we're making and even get the community's ideas to implement.

Had a lot of fun and that's really what you're doing here at the dog pound.

You guys have some breakfast, but really you're you're so hot.

Dogs are so aware that, yes, right now we do have our full dog menu OK, in the future, we will continue to add on to our breakfast menu.

That's just kind of as we're rolling things out right now, we do our donut round, which is an old recipe is my husband's grandmother's recipe.

So their bread, donuts, they're hand-rolled and they're delicious.

So those are really fun.

They can be filled.

We also are starting some breakfast sandwiches with some different sausage and gravy and on biscuits, which is super fun as well.

So those will continue to grow as we continue to expand our breakfast menu.

And then you said you have kind of like a dozen different varieties of hot dogs.

I mean, when I picked out a dog, I'm like, OK, yeah, mustard.

That's my match.

Yeah.

But do you guys really go above and beyond?

These are more gourmet.

They are for sure.

So one of the things that we were very passionate about when we opened this space was ensuring we found the best hot dogs.

And to me that was Vienna.

So we waited to find a place that we could get it supplied to us through.

And when we did, we decided, OK, yes, it's the best hot dog alone, but now we need to do more with it.

So we decided to do amazing things.

Such as like the pepperoni pizza dog and the bacon blue and the bacon relish and then fish and all different fun kinds of different hot dogs.

Awesome.

Now, what did you guys come up with this idea so it's actually a probably a decade old idea.

And it was my dad's idea.

And many moons ago, I was a figure skater.

And when we would travel, we would always go find the best hot dogs, OK?

And we've always loved hot dogs.

Chicago, Boston, New York, everywhere.

We always find really good hot dogs.

And there's just not the same kind of like gourmet hot dogs in the area.

So we thought, what a fun thing to do.

And that's kind of how the idea started.

And we ended up walking through here one day seeing there was an open space and thought the opportunity has presented itself.

Let's do it.

Just leave it, just chill out.

So we took we took the opportunity.

And now you and your husband both have experience in the food industry.

We do, yeah.

How does that come in?

Yeah.

So we both worked in the food industry.

I worked as a server for quite some time.

He managed different restaurants when he was in New Jersey.

And so we've we've had our fair share of time here and the food space and so it just made it a lot easier kind of working into dealing with customers and the enjoyment of it.

Really, truly getting to know people in the community is amazing and getting to know your regulars, it's exciting to see them come in, getting their feedback.

You know what?

If we can get started, we can.

All of your regulars come in for his daily mail.

He's going to go into the whole menu.

That was awesome.

That's been great.

As well.

Awesome.

Well, I think we're going to get a chance to kind of look at some of the options that you guys have and maybe try something great that would be amazing.

Alex, you're also one of the owners here at the Dog Pound, and this is a gorgeous display I'm just some of the items that you have.

Yeah, you know, we have a lot of different options.

Our menu is really expensive.

My wife and I spent quite a while researching everything we wanted to do flavors.

And I mean, she was force feeding us hot dogs in taste, testing all the different flavors.

And it was really important to us that they visually looked really nice.

And also as part of that presentation, you get to taste all the different flavors and as you bite in through your tasting every flavor and through there.

So we've got a Memphis dog.

We split the dog up and put barbecue sauce in there.

Is that the trick you use?

Yeah, we split it open so that you can get that barbecue flavor inside the dog.

As well.

And then we got green onion on there, bacon, shredded cheese, and we finish it off with barbecue sauce.

That's a great one.

After that is one of our new ones.

It's the potato flutter.

We do a baked potato, we cut it open, we we fry it and then we go ahead and we add sour cream and cheese days and we have chili.

If people want to add chili to it and do it like a chili cheese dog, on a baked potato, that's an option there.

OK, this is our bacon blue.

We split that dog open as well and we put ranch in the middle of that one, heaping serving of blue cheese on their bacon and finish it off for the ranch again.

And then everyone's favorite.

This is your and this is the most favorite one.

Yeah.

And I mean, especially being in this area and using Vienna beef dogs, we use Vienna buns.

We use we use the Vienna Pickle in there and it's the sport pepper if they want it.

The onion, the tomato, the mustard and celery.

So it's a traditional Chicago dog and it's definitely one of our favorites.

This one's one of my personal favorites.

It's our barbecue.

Paul Pork, Mac and cheese.

It's on a brioche bun.

We split it open.

We put the macaroni cheese inside of the hot dog and kind of around it.

And then a heaping serving of our own Paul Pork.

We make our own sauce for that you mess that up.

Yeah.

And add our cheese sauce to it.

And every hotdog you see you gets served with the pickle.

The Chicago's obviously in the I mean, I think for me, like pickles, the finisher right?

Yeah.

Without a pickle.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

And we do all four combos and we're working on doing some other things right now.

It's, it's kettle chips and a drink, but we are working on our onion rings and french fries, fried pickles.

So we have a bunch of different options that are going to be coming up.

And so if you follow on Facebook on the dog, I'll be on Facebook.

And then also our website, the dog at ABC.com, our menu will always be up to date because my wife is awesome and is also runs a marketing company and design company as well.

So and then I forgot to talk about our donuts here.

I know my wife and myself like for these are my grandmother's recipes.

So it's kind of cause handed down.

I do a little bit different than she used to.

She always made an actual donut, but we call them our donut rounds.

We fill them with jelly and I've also made a chocolate version of them.

So we have a strawberry jelly, raspberry jelly chocolate and then our traditional cinnamon sugar.

And so those are your breakfast items.

Yes.

Yep.

We have that.

And we have our sausage, our sausage breakfast sandwich as well.

And we'll be adding to our breakfast menu as, as things progressed as well.

And you guys have some days where you just do certain items so people can only come on those days and grab which ones yes.

So on Wednesdays and Thursdays we'll have our chili.

It's a homemade chili.

It's my father in law's recipe.

Wow.

So my wife's my wife's dad made the recipe and so it's it's a more mild chili.

It's not really spicy, OK?

But it's homemade.

So we only do it a couple of days a week.

It'd be a lot to try to pump that out every day today and Friday.

Saturday, we've got to pull pork, mac and cheese, and we slow roast the pork.

It takes about 10 hours to cook hand poate barbecue sauce and make our own barbecue sauce for it.

And there it is.

So a lot of love goes into this.

And, you know, for all the ideas that you come up with, I know you're going to be bringing up more things, too.

What does that process look like when you're thinking of an idea and coming to fruition?

Generally, what where it starts is my wife is hanging out in the kitchen late and she's already closed up.

And I'm going to be coming back over here with the kids and she just starts cooking up and messing with the different ingredients we have, playing with the different grains we have.

And and and she's like, here, you got to try this one.

You got to try that one.

She's the original taste test.

Are you?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yep, yep.

So we she's definitely she's definitely the brains behind, you know, all of these flavors and and also the presentation as well.

Well, I'm going to try this one if that's OK.

Absolutely.

Which one was this one?

I that is the Memphis dog.

The Memphis.

So I love green onions.

I do.

I usually grow them.

And I know we were talking about gardening this year, too.

All right.

All right.

I know it's going to be a disaster.

Are you guys ready for this?

Oh, we are going to go hard on things around.

Show my face on that.

That's a mouthful.

Oh, my gosh.

So many flavors in there.

Yeah.

So a lot of our hot dogs are are definitely harder to pick up and eat.

But, you know, we do have coloring.

So if you choose to use a fork or a knife or maybe I'll do that next time, I'm pretty sure I have bacon barbecue sauce all over my face.

So, hey, if you want to get messy, Mary, make sure you check it out.

We're in Nappanee you want to come on down to the dog pound and, you know, work your way through the menu, get a little bit of everything.

It's a great place to have either breakfast and lunch so I love anything with an engine, so I'm happy to be here at car guys in Osceola today.

I'm here with Colin, who's the owner.

Colin, tell me, what is car, guys, and what do you do?

Car guys is all about cars.

We are in the business of maintaining them.

We keep them clean, we make them pretty.

We can show them off at our car guys and coffee event.

We put on a show every second Saturday of the month, once a month, and it's just a really fantastic show.

You see everything from exotics and classic vehicles that might have been one off.

So one of one stuff from the Studebaker Museum, we get cars all the time from from various places.

So it's just really a fun event.

And we like to put on that show because it's a lot of what we do and maintaining vehicles, we give them and give them a facet to show it off.

So once it's done in detail, they can bring it to the show and show it off.

So when it comes to car guys, OK, because as much as I love cars, like my car is not really a pretty car.

So when it comes to your business, I mean, do you have to have a really like awesome expensive vehicle to come and use your business or do you work on all types of cars?

Because sometimes I feel like these places are only for exotic cars.

But is that the case or.

No, we take care of literally everything.

Minivan cars, minivans to MacLaren's is a lot.

There you guys go.

What we said sometimes I heard that from another friend out in Ohio and it stuck.

But yeah, we we take care of everything from minivans and cars, daily drivers all the way up to classic sports cars.

We've even done cars from the late 1800s all the way up to 20, 20 to 20, 23 cars that are prototypes that aren't even in production yet.

So really we it's a very broad spectrum of what we work on.

So you did mention car guys and coffee, which I do want to talk about in a second, but what was your passion?

What was your drive behind starting car guys.

So what drove, what created car guys was really my lifelong passion of washing and taking care of vehicles and playing with little matchboxes.

And every year the little matchbox has got a little bigger and a little bigger.

And I got a driver's license and then I got a car and the obsession just grew.

And when I graduated college, I knew I didn't want to do what I went to school for.

I just wanted to pursue this passion of of taking care of cars and and making people happy.

That's really been that's been the biggest drive, is making people happy with their vehicles.

And so Car Guy was really just founded out of the passion of car ownership and making everyone regardless of being a car guy, love their vehicle again and feel that passion that we do about how we take care of vehicles.

Yeah, and it is true, though, if you take if you look after them, they do look after you know 100%.

So car guys and coffee.

What's that all about?

It's about sharing your passion that you talked about.

Yes.

So car guys and coffee 100% is enthusiast driven show there is there's no real formality to it.

It's you show up, you park, you enjoy coffee and donuts on us you get to talk with all these other car owners that are here at the show and you can leave whenever you like.

It's not a it's not a show and shine where you show up and you got to get your vehicle judged.

It's it's simple.

And you can show up and leave whenever you want.

And every time there's different vehicles, there's new vehicles here every single week or every single month.

And it can one show can be a lot of late nineties Japanese vehicles.

The next it could be all classics from, you know, late seventies.

I just you just never know.

It's a mixed bag every time and I've noticed as well.

So there's only so much you can keep talking to your wives about your or your husband's depending, you know, if the woman owns the car, there's only so much you can talk about it.

So when people turn up, strangers turn up, the community turns up.

It's so nice to share your passion with people that want to hear about it, right?

Yes.

I have met so many people at these shows everywhere from, you know, 80 year old guys who, you know, are might be alone and have nobody else to talk to about their vehicles and they make friends here at the show.

You know, I've had people that have moved from across the country show up and their phone at the end of the night, at the end of the day, is full of, you know, new friends to hang out with and all based around owning a specific vehicle.

You know, Volkswagen owners kind of hang out together and Mustang owners, Corvette owners they just all find they they all kind of wrap themselves around this passion.

And and that's what we we do here at car guys and coffee all right.

It's a call.

And you talked about the big variety of cars.

Tell me a little bit about the ones you're working on right now.

This thing looks like a beast.

Yes, it is definitely a beast.

This is a 700 horsepower 2022 ram trucks.

Wow.

So it's got the same motor from a Hellcat challenger or a Durango, and it'll smoke all four tires off the line.

It's one of the fastest pickup trucks on the road.

Yeah.

No, nothing.

What?

Lights on and sirens on?

It is ever going to catch that?

I just.

Yeah, it'd be tough for top one to catch to catch up to.

All right, so when people think of supercars like this, obviously, they don't always think about pickups.

They think more along the lines of this.

Tell me about this car.

So this is the Corvette 06 the the owner brought it in for a paint correction and a coating.

So we're going to be restoring the paint on it.

It's got quite a bit of a surface.

Scratches it's got some oxidation.

I think it was a southern car.

So the brakes are a little faded.

So we're going to be going through this vehicle doing a paint correction, applying a ceramic coating to make it easier for him to maintain and it's going to look like a brand new car when it's done.

So it's going to take all the age off of it.

All right.

So cars like this and a variety of many cars that we can see this Saturday, May 14th that tell us when it starts, the coffee and cars, car guys and coffee starts at 8:00 in the morning.

I recommend being there just a little bit earlier than that.

Just so you can get a really good spot Friday.

That's all right.

That's all the details, of course, on Facebook.

Make sure you check it out.

Search for car guides on Facebook.

You'll see it.

You do it every single month.

So if you can't make it this Saturday, there's plenty of opportunities to come right now.

Come the next month, we'll be here.

All right.

Thanks, man.

Awesome.

I'm glad you have followed your passions and I'm glad you're sharing it with people.

So that's nothing makes me happier.

Well, that's all we have for you today.

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