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Matt.

Kill em and Kevin Mullen.

Actually, welcome into the 419, powered by CTE and presented by Retro Wealth Management.

I'm Kevin mon Gretchen de backer.

I kill him.

We're just chatting as the cameras turn on.

Yeah.

You know, when I do my ten second countdown and you guys, tell me that I'm angry.

I love it.

Oh, I people don't understand.

I presume because it's, you know, public radio.

And this is a tremendous amount of counting.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I've never done so much counting in my life.

Yeah.

People are counting up.

People are coming.

Now.

10s.

So we have to wait.

When do we start?

Two seconds to the five seconds.

Countdown.

Let's.

We tune him out regardless.

Whatever.

Yeah.

All right.

In three.

Two.

Yeah.

It's Wellness Wednesday today, and we need it presented by work spring.

Our good friend Paige Johnston is coming back onto the program.

And we're going to talk about a topic that Matt has zero interest in.

That's right.

Environmental wellness.

That's that's the thing.

That.

That's a that's a real strong career move for me to say.

Yeah.

On the air.

Who cares about the outside?

Yes.

Yeah.

No.

Paige has become a friend and dear friend of the show.

It is a timely, presentation today as we've been waiting to get outside.

And then we usually use a bunch of excuses to not get outside.

So we've got a calendar of things to talk about, not just from the perspective, but how you should kind of be thinking about this.

And for most people, it does take a commitment to putting this on your calendar, in my opinion.

And I'll show you, and, Paige, I'll talk about some ways to get out and do it.

Cool.

My in-laws sent a photo.

They moved up into northern Michigan.

Oh, and there is still four inches of snow on the ground at their house.

Oh, I couldn't take that.

Nope.

Nope.

So, I mean, do we think that we are officially in spring, so to summer or.

Yeah, I think according to the Farmer's Almanac, which the two of you.

I know.

I was just reading it this morning.

That's right.

That's.

Nevermind.

That was only Farmer's Almanac.

That's totally different.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Farmer's only.

Farmers only.

Yeah.

Only farmer's is different.

That's where you subscribe?

Not to me.

Lonely farmers.

Wait, wait.

What is it?

I don't know.

Yeah.

And that's the show.

Oh, no.

The publisher.

I'm going to list the last frost warning.

Mother's Day weekend, which, of course, moves a little bit, but you should planting, which is, May 9th.

That's the one.

Yep.

Anyway, I think we're in the clear from the weather perspective, but from a planting and I guess overall perspective, the last frost warning historically has been that way.

All right.

There's your planting advice from higher Biologist Almanac today.

But we also botanist I don't know what it was to green genes.

Hey.

April 19th.

We've got, big show downtown celebrating for one nine day ag mode.

Yes.

2 to 6 dates.

Barbecue is going to be there latter for one night is going to be their make your own joke mode t shirts will be there.

The Metroparks PBS kids will be there.

I love, riveting competition between me.

That's the second act chain.

This started as a joke, but I don't know that it even was ever a joke for Matt.

I thought it was a joke.

It is.

How many ribs is you want with, a contest?

So, Emmett.

What?

We've what we've not said yet.

Yet is who our guests are going to be this year.

Come on.

Awesome.

I mean, Paige is great, but this show, this is here.

You.

It's going to be amazing.

Okay.

Okay, let's announce the guest.

Kevin, do you want to go?

You want me to go?

Do it.

Okay.

The first guest is going to be the music director of the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and the artistic director of the Toledo Jazz Orchestra.

Alain Trudel is going to be our first guest.

Very excited for that.

Did you have something?

Nope.

Keep going.

Then we're going to have Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gerken will be our second guest.

And then Toledo famous big wig.

Yeah.

He is.

He is big.

Is big.

Yeah.

And local legend Chris Wormley will be our third guest on the show.

Whitmer High School alum, Michigan, a Michigan man, Michigan football player out of the NFL.

All that against him?

And, now he's got his, Wormley Family Foundation doing some really cool things and has, a celebrity softball game.

Coming to fifth.

Third in the summer.

Oh, Kevin love the arm wrestling.

Chris.

On for 19 days, which I think is brave.

Yeah.

I mean, we can do a lot with one hand, so let's let's be clear.

I can use my leg.

If he would still win that.

Yeah.

So big guests.

Really excited.

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All right.

So it's well, on this Wednesday here on the 419.

We're going to be talking with, Will Rogers Ski and Isaac Hacker.

A couple of juniors from Saint Francis to sail school.

That are the, les visionaries of the year.

Very cool.

We'll also have Tech Lido.

So we've got, Darlene Cox and Christine Kromer coming on to talk about that second year.

Great event.

That happens to be in the Metroparks.

But certainly, just, let's plug the thing with just the person.

But first we're going to have Paige Johnston from work.

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Thank you.

Welcome back into the 419 It's Wellness Wednesday presented by Works Great.

We're joined now by our good friend from works bringing friend of the show, Paige Johnston.

Paige.

Welcome back.

Thanks for having me.

Do you like to be identified as a friend of ours?

Yeah, I want it.

Okay.

It's.

We've done it, but I wouldn't.

I don't think we asked for your consent.

I think you're about.

Yeah.

I never thought about asking consent.

Me identifying some friend.

Yeah.

Okay with that?

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's right.

Okay.

Do you want to associate the safety word for friendship is no.

Yeah.

Just for folks that may not have caught your previous conversations.

So you are a senior wellness consultant at work spring.

I'm actually the wellness director at work, but that's what I that's that's what I totally fine.

So I just see you up for that.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Because we're friends, we do a lot of cool stuff at work.

Spring in terms of wellness.

I mean, we do a lot in air space too, but wellness is kind of my sweet spot.

So what we really do is try to help organizations find different wellness programing to input into their organizations and build up their culture.

So everyone feels kind of well-rounded in all different areas of life.

At the risk of going down a road that you don't want to go down, on a TV or radio program, I mean, just works.

Never get it wrong.

Yeah, of course there's no right way.

Right?

And wrong way.

Everyone gets it wrong sometimes.

Trial and error.

Just personal preference.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's hard, but I think, like you expect, like you're the expert, right?

So like, of course you're getting it right every time.

But I think the reality that it's it's hard.

It's so hard.

It's personal.

It's.

Yes, exactly.

Wellness is very personal and it's different for everyone.

So one of the things too is you kind of have to try some different things until you find the sweet spot.

Especially working with companies because everyone has a different of cultures, right?

Different dynamics.

You work with a lot of different people in different industries.

So I mean, some things work for others and they don't.

And unfortunately, sometimes we don't get it right, but we really try our best to do so.

I've been using avoidance is not the best.

Not the best.

Yeah.

well I don't we usually don't recommend that sort of short term success.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Long term maybe not so much real success.

Yeah.

Yeah sure.

All right, so the topic of the day is environmental wellness.

What does that mean?

So we really look at it as somewhat tied back to mental health too.

So looking at how it really impacts you personally by being outside and doing different things in the community and making sure that you're really taking a little bit of what you like to do and making a little movement out of it.

So here in Toledo, we have a ton of different things that you can do, especially outside.

So yesterday I was like 76, 77 to the whole week.

It's going to be in the 70s and sun.

Yes, it's a perfect time to get outside.

And what you'll see is you'll actually see your mental health also be impacted because you're outside and your stress hormones will be down even 10 to 20 minutes of being outside makes a huge difference.

So that's some of the things that we're really talking to.

Our groups that we're out this week is take advantage of this nice weather because it's it's been a long time since we've had it.

And everyone you'll see is just happier.

It goes all the way back to grade school days, where we used to beg the teacher to have class outside when it was nice.

But what during the workday?

What can you do to get a little bit of that outside energy?

So it's it's hard in some buildings, but even sitting by a window moving where you are working.

So if you're sitting at your desk, some people can't always get away, but maybe moving space.

So maybe you can't sit necessarily outside but move from your desk to a window or go sit in, maybe like a more communal space and be around others.

That can make a huge difference.

As you say, I've been keeping the window open in my office.

I was in Sylvania and it is like even if it's just a little, a little cold, just having that open.

Yeah.

Makes it makes a world of difference, right?

Plus it needs to be able to, So but that's not dissimilar to almost everything we talked about.

The individual does have to make a commitment to it.

Right.

So, it I know this is going to be tried or seem obvious to most, but it, it does bear repeating.

Any hacks or any way to say, you know, is this something that you have to commit to on your calendar?

What's a good way to making sure that you're getting to your point?

These things only take 15 or 20 minutes.

But that's what people say about a lot of things and don't actually make the time.

We do a couple little things that people need to get themselves started, or to make a commitment to, at least the baby steps.

Yeah.

So one of the big things that we're seeing people do is, okay, we're going to take ten minutes before we actually take lunch and sit down and eat, and we're going to do a lap around the building, or we're going to go outside or ever even we can eat lunch.

And then we can just walk around and start moving a little bit more.

That makes a huge difference.

Or before you go home, black on an extra like 10 or 15 minutes before you even get home to stop at a park or metro.

Parks are so close, you could do a quick lap around a different trail and then get home still at a decent time, even building in just a little bit of extra movement and planning.

Making sure you have a plan so you can't talk yourself out of it.

Acting like it's an appointment is huge.

That is such good advice.

Inhaling and exactly that way.

I think there's little things as well.

And we can get to the outdoors, here in just a second.

But not choosing to take the closest parking spot, you know, stuff like that.

I know that seems dumb, but that, I frequently joke, about wanting to leave the show.

No, I remember that.

We joke about that.

Yeah, but you're not joking.

Are you a freak?

Anybody got it?

Gretchen.

Gretchen is for the Lee Harvey Oswald of jokes.

So I was a comedian.

Since I work in the park, I play that, was hysterical.

The, I mean, I am the person who works in the parks the most.

That has the least amount of stuff, right?

I mean, yeah, that just is how it works.

So there are little things you can do, but I love that ten minutes right before you get home, before you hit, inevitably, the couch or whatever the metaphor is there, that's it's tough to get back up then.

Yeah, it's it is it's and one of the other things too is if you have a buddy, whether it's at home or at work, you're saying, hey, do you want to go do this with me really quick?

And if it's just someone else to hold you accountable, it helps to to just challenge yourself with others like, hey, we're going to each get 20 minutes of moving in today.

Doesn't matter how, but movement is.

Gretchen.

The farmers are meeting online.

Just acreage.

I would think that that gives just a real opportunity.

Right.

But they're on the tractor.

Yeah, you could change the tractor, right?

I do, yeah, but I'm saying they're not getting the movement that they.

That's right.

Got you I thought yeah.

Do so I mean met I mean we're talking about steps, right?

I mean I know.

Yeah.

Like, you know, I mean, we're talking about that was magic.

I'm going over chasing after the dragon.

Well, you see me run.

So sorry.

Yeah, I think you're trying, steps.

Right.

So everybody's got, you know, I feel like everybody's got some device on their wrist now that is keeping track of how many steps they have.

Is the is the number one, right?

Yeah.

You're right.

That was, Yeah.

I'm sorry.

Sponsor this.

I'm not sure why.

So I think it's about wellness.

Yeah, right.

That's right.

I'm going to attempt to ask a serious question.

Kevin, is this ten out of 10,000 steps?

Does that matter?

I mean, it's recommended.

It's definitely better to get more steps, but you don't want to be aggressive with it and try for like, 25 or 30.

But 10,000 is usually pretty standard of someone being active throughout the day.

So is that where that number came from?

It's yeah, it's activity.

So one of the things are two is maybe you're not getting 10,000 steps, but you are making sure you're blocking out 10 or 20 minutes of movement or even micro movements where it's like, oh, I'm going to stand for a little bit, or I'm going to take a call and do a walking call, which some people find a little frustrating, but then you're outside, and then the person on the other line too is like, oh, if you're walking, I'm going to walk to.

And it just helps boost more activity across the board.

Catch up on your voicemails, things like that.

Yeah.

Do you use a stand or do you or anyone at your office use one of the standing desk?

Yeah, we have standing desk and they do make a huge difference.

And before we didn't have them, we would like set our laptops up on on different tabletops that were higher just because the interns hold them.

Yeah, exactly.

No, but it makes a difference to stand a little bit because you get really tired when you're sitting all day.

So if you're standing a little bit and you're moving just even a little bit more, sure it helps your focus and your mental clarity.

That's I've got a standing desk, in my office downtown, and I love it.

Yeah.

I mean, it's it, I, I don't set, like, sometimes they recommend, like, setting, like, a timer or something to remind you like to switch.

But more often than not, I'll just stand all day.

It's great.

Interesting.

I mean, do you guys, you get.

You guys don't know.

Just I try to, I move locations.

I have sort of decentralized, work experience.

So I get up and move probably every hour and just screaming about the work, or make sure that I meet people that make me have to get up and go somewhere.

There's a myriad reasons for that.

But you're probably now privy to after my life.

But, but I do want to make mention of it as this is not selfish, motivated because any green space can, you know, check the box for this, including the block around your home.

But we do have a metroparks in five miles of every Lucas County resident, but there's 120 plus city parks.

There's a tremendous, Wood County has a great park system led by a really great individual.

Sweeney has a rec league, and a great park system as well.

And people are just kicking off for their, you know, spring programing, which, almost every institution has a continuum of services or a way to get you in.

So there's a lunchtime walk, or you can walk around the manor house, if you're interested in going to Wildwood.

But there's something activating all those spaces.

But people can, as they have for almost 100 years, visit the trails.

In the metro system and others.

And they're, well, maintained, certainly.

But there is a mile walk.

There's a half mile portion of it, the ways that plug in and plug out of it.

So I think, Paige, to your point, just do something.

We have a bunch of people as to the other systems that can answer calls, say, you know what?

Where should I go?

Or what's something I can do in my lunch break?

Is there something we can do in 30 minutes?

Ten minutes, 20 minutes?

Watch X amount of steps.

So all those things can be somewhat catered to you.

But the outside does do this.

You don't have to be training for pages a runner.

You have to be training for a marathon, to get this for the intrinsic value of the outdoors.

Vitamin D just a little bit.

Sun on you makes a big difference.

We've been all.

If we have the blood test this morning, all of us would be vitamin D deficient and certain of that.

Because that's just the nature of living in northwest Ohio.

Right?

So sitting on a park bench, looking at water, walking from your car, as you said, park bench gets it going.

And there's a bunch of different places to take in.

We have a trail challenge at the park system, which also gives you, a reward system, which is decals to put on your water bottle to visit all 19 of ours.

But man, is that going on now.

What's going on now?

Yeah.

What is a way that that people can get their kids and family involved?

To, to motivate them to get moving, too.

That's great.

There there are a lot of programs for young kids too.

And I live in Sylvania, so my kids are in the Sylvania Recreational, all the different sport.

And it's it's a very low cost activity to get everyone involved.

There's a lot of volunteer opportunities for parents to have zero experience, so that kind of helps dabble into teaching them how to play.

Different sports are getting active.

The city's coming up.

I think they have A5K and then like a child's fun run before.

I think these are these are some things that are going on in our community that you can easily do to get engagement.

Bird weeks coming up.

Isn't that in this first two weeks of May.

And that's a big thing to where people can just get outside and show their kids the different birds and different activity that we have, right here in northwest Ohio that you kind of overlook once you're here and not really thinking about it.

I'm wanting to inspire my coworkers or my employees to to be more active, to get outside more often.

What are some of the examples of workplace programs that you've seen that are successful?

It's really lead by example.

If you seem really stressed and I have no time for movement, I'm can't be active or I can't do anything today, other people are going to kind of trickle down and feel that too.

So if you're taking time like, hey, let's start our day as a walking meeting, or let's take 5 or 10 minutes or I'm going to actually sit and eat my lunch outside today and everyone sees you do it.

Then people start to feel like they can do it too.

Not that leaders aren't very busy because they are, but I think if you start to do a little bit, they'll kind of follow.

Yeah, you're meeting anyway.

You might as well where to go.

Is there a a point where like I mean, I imagine there's a point where you can take it too far, but like, how do you know that?

You know, the difference between creating the opportunity and forcing a behavior?

I could jump in and and one thing to me is this has nothing to do with weight or weight loss.

So that is something that we always try to, dial into the parks experience.

This is about, I guess, fitness to some degree.

But this isn't about your esthetics.

We want people to feel good or or improve or or use the muscle between their ears as much as anything.

So I, I'm sorry to, cut in before an actual expert in this space, but I think that's important.

This isn't about you or making you feel bad about yourself.

It's the inverse.

So I think that that is a danger or something that we have from the Metroparks perspective.

Try to thread that needle.

The, our challenges are to just go out and do something.

We don't want you tracking calories or anything like that.

We want you to track feeling good.

And that's a big piece too, is you you.

You'll notice even if you're out this week, you feel better once you been outside or even like 10 to 20 minutes of sunlight can affect your mental health.

There's a ton of studies out there about just being outdoors, and when you really tie it back to fitness and it's like, oh, I have to run today, or I have to be an active for at least an hour and it becomes really obsessive then.

Then it gets a bad, just it's a bad association associate.

We have got some of the same Francis kids in here.

So I hate to say this in front of them, but being an adult, you've got plenty of stuff to feel crappy about.

You do.

You don't need to add more on to your life.

Yeah.

I mean, you want to feel good and it is just being active, being outdoors, making sure you have some clarity.

Vitamin D is huge and like you said, we're all here in Ohio where it's not necessarily the sunniest place, but the more you're outside, the better you feel.

And that's what's really important is how you feel.

Okay, Johnston with Work Spring here on a Wellness Wednesday on the 419 presented by Work Spring.

Thank you so much.

If people want more information that works for them, where can they find it?

Work spring.org website.

All the stuff.

Walk on down to your office, right?

Yeah.

We're close.

We're on Jefferson.

There you go.

That's awesome I get it, I get to come see you guys.

Yeah.

If only if only because I can walk there to get a call we can meet.

Yes.

Yes.

Great.

Love it.

Yeah.

All right.

Thank you so much.

When we come back, we will have Will Zuber and Isaac Hacker from Saint Francis the Lost visionaries of the year.

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That's what our next guest did.

We're pleased to be joined by three juniors from Saint Francis de Sales School.

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They were just ski while me running.

Running in order.

Isaac Hacker, Will Xavier, Joe Ski and Aiden Britt.

From Saint Francis.

Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here.

Yeah.

Thank you for having us.

You guys are the LLS Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Visionaries of the year.

First of all, congratulations.

Thank you.

What's, What is on?

Yeah.

Isaac.

What?

You tell us what?

What is the visionaries of the year?

So it's a program where students can get involved.

Our task was just to raise money for blood cancer awareness, blood cancer research.

So we are tasked to head a team of students and to reach out to our community.

Whoever we know, family, friends, and raise money for the cause.

Well, why was this important to you?

I think, personally, I had the opportunity, before this campaign began to go to Toledo Hospital, and I was able to tour a pediatric care unit for cancer.

It's very touching, as you can imagine.

Very sad and kind of convicting, you know, spiritually.

So that definitely got me involved.

I've had multiple, relatives that have died of cancer.

So that was definitely a personal initiative.

And I was just happy to get involved, get some exposure, you know, in the business world, because as you can imagine, that's a lot of networking.

So I thought that was very valuable.

And also just to work on some of my leadership skills.

Sure.

Aiden, how about you?

Why why did you want to get involved in this program?

This, program obviously looks good in college, but then the deeper meaning is like the suffering that happens from cancer, another world.

I just want to do my part to make an impact on that.

And do what I can.

What did what did the team look like?

Right.

So it was obviously the three of you guys, but then what was the broader group that was involved in the height and weight?

Okay, all tell me, how much did you guys.

So you guys were the top student program in northwest Ohio?

Yeah.

What was the total amount you guys raised?

So initially, for our finale, you know, when they, announced all our stuff, our number was $173,000, you know, but we actually received some exciting news a couple days ago.

I put in petition to welltower.

Yeah, to, basically be put into a voting style donation, you know, a program.

And this wouldn't have been decided or announced until the campaign was over.

But I learned that you can still donate to the cause up until June 30th.

So I figured it may not be recognized, but it'd be a great way to, you know, just add something you know, personally or speaking, having a deeper meeting.

Actually, this is after the yeah.

The for you.

So that got us up to just about $190,000.

Amazing amazing amazing incredible.

And so the the other less they don't necessarily manage how you guys can do this, right.

They might give you a few tools in the toolbox, but basically they let the team go out and do whatever they want to try to raise this money.

So what were some of the things that you guys did?

I mean, they have some like, things for us to do, like a letter writing campaign.

So we all made a list of addresses and letters.

We made one letter and we kind of blasted them out there.

So that was like, for our kickoff.

And then after that, they have us do some little things here and there, some text messages like that.

But I think the best thing was family members.

I think, and like friends of my parents, sure really helped.

I mean, obviously using my dad's connections or, parents connections is kind of how you get out there.

And we're very successful in doing one lesson for the rest of your life, too, just frequently who you know and honestly what you know.

So, you know, I think we should put you on the spot.

There's a part of that that was more of a challenging challenge, the year between not just experiencing them.

I regrettably have been I had multiple experience in a children's oncology ward.

It is, a nightmare in different ways.

Not that there aren't success stories, but, usually less regrettably.

But from the networking standpoint, none of you seem particularly shy to me, but your comparatively young people, was there something about this that you had to kind of put yourself up to, or you thought was difficult?

I would say, one thing for me, just kind of on, a leadership, you know, front, I would say you kind of always run into maybe a lack of motivation or some different people really not being as, you know, active as some other people.

So I think that was a really valuable lesson that I learned in leading a team.

Yes.

Trying to kind of overcome that.

And then like you said, with networking, I would say people don't even realize, like how hard it is to get in touch with people.

You can have a phone number and email anything you want.

Not a one off, right?

It's not.

You know, you really have to pry.

Yeah.

And that's kind of where the success is found.

If you can just keep trying, keep trying to get through this year and eventually you will.

All right.

What about you?

I mean, I would agree, I think being a kid helps you and hurts you.

Yeah.

I mean, obviously going to an adult can be scary.

Like we presented to some companies and going up in front of their, their like, C-suite executives or whatever kind of it's kind of scary at first, but I think getting over it and just doing it like, I don't know, you just build this confidence and then it's just it gets easier and easier.

But also being a kid helps you because adults are like, oh, it's a kid coming to me.

Like it's harder to say no, right?

Yeah.

So for something like this, it definitely is.

It definitely is successful, I should say.

Yeah.

I'd also say like the had to do a few presentations because this is not my strength, but I knew it going into it and I knew that like, it's a good life skill to have something I could improve on throughout the campaign.

So I was glad for the opportunity.

Now with the team, I'll do these together.

Where you guys sort of divide and conquer.

Usually us like the three of us.

We had things, we had one of our, one of our team members kind of went above and beyond.

She did some presenting on her own.

Yeah.

So we were really impressed with that.

But we kind of had a monster that we could have gotten her.

So you guys did.

Why?

She showed.

Great.

Sure.

Okay.

Yeah.

What is it about Saint Francis de Sales High School that, the mission or what you're learning there at school that that teaches you or encourages you to become involved in things like this?

I would say the first thing that comes to mind is, servant leadership.

That's a really kind of fundamental idea at our school, something that we're always learning about, talking about.

We have different, you know, seminars or, you know, different classes and opportunities to learn more about that with servant leadership, obviously, you know, with Catholicism and some of the stuff that we believe in, that's a really key idea of, you know, gentle humbleness.

Right.

And stuff like that.

Yeah.

Kevin you could have learned from that.

Kevin, you had a question that we interrupted.

I was going to I mean let's talk about the team.

So you guys you describe humble Mr.. Kevin.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Explain it to me.

That would be great.

Maybe like a few steps.

How much time we.

Yeah.

Oh, right.

Wow.

Yeah.

All right.

I see how it is.

Yeah.

I'm gonna make a phone call to father role as well.

And out of here.

Yeah.

No talking to me about the team.

Yeah.

Like I said, we had 18 people, I believe, including us.

So from four different schools, our school, Ottawa Hills Center, LA, and then one from the school and airport.

So.

Boy.

Okay, say, John, they say John's Jesuit, I search.

Yeah, yeah.

And 5901 airport.

Yeah, yeah.

Give or take.

Yeah.

No, it's all good.

Yeah.

So I mean, how did you get those other students involved?

A lot of them were friends.

Like, really close friends.

We kind of just.

At first we started approaching people, and we were like, hey, would you be interested in doing this?

And they're like, sure.

And then after we started to kind of word spread a little bit and then we'd have a few people reach out to us and ask, hey, can we be on your team?

And we're like, yeah, like, are you willing to do this, this and the other thing or whatever?

And they're like, yeah, like that sounds like something I'm interested in.

So it's really impressive that you from the, you know, decided to do this, built the team, led the team and raised that much money.

It's truly truly amazing.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Did you did you have any pushback from the pro cancer movement?

You know, we did have someone, we approached and we said, you know, could you get in touch with your dad and, you know, we're doing blood cancer research and blood can't unite.

He says, why would I donate to get more cancer?

Like cancer sucks.

Yeah.

Oh, good.

We agreed on that first.

Yeah.

We're not researching how to get.

Yeah, yeah.

What else are you guys involved in?

Either at Saint Francis or in your.

In your community or with your families.

At Saint Francis.

I'll go with that first.

I, I'm involved with whatnot.

We're all a national honor society.

I'm on the baseball team.

What position?

I'm an outfielder.

Okay, so.

Yeah.

And then, I do some other things, like we we were.

Were we on the leadership cluster?

Yeah.

Yeah.

So solution leadership.

So kind of helped with this whole thing.

And what like some clubs like ski club or and just like some sort of ski club.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

What about you guys?

I, one of the one that I'm most, you know, kind of active in is, Team Pep.

So have you guys heard of that?

I was I was in the first team pep class.

Really?

Yeah.

What is team plum?

Peers educating peers.

There.

You take it away.

Yeah.

No, no.

Do you find no one wants to listen to me, too?

Yeah.

I'm in briefly.

It's it's basically a way to kind of educate students on a more personal and comfortable level about some really serious topics.

That's great.

Ones that kind of aren't, you know, conventional to talk about in the classroom, but are definitely realistic.

So we try and make like a comfortable environment.

But, I think with Team Pep, there's a lot of public speaking just getting up.

Really intimidating.

Yeah it is.

I've never had a tremendous fear of public speaking, but, yeah, he's underselling.

In in good for you.

You you're speaking to large groups of high school kids about, sexual abuse, and an overwhelming amount of really challenging things.

There was some role playing in my time, which was really difficult to do.

And it's, I mean, you're talking to your peers, in other schools.

I mean, one time we did it, like 1400 kids.

Yeah.

And I was like, man alive.

But in my time, they they picked you to do it.

That's so they still.

Yeah, it's that means that you're the how they selected you is.

It's the people who were trusted the most amongst the classes.

So, that's that's a that's what your friends and peers think about you.

So congratulation.

Thank you.

Yeah.

And how about you?

Yeah.

Oh, I guys, it's, National Honor society.

So usually if I play soccer for, say, France's position, defender center back.

I'm in.

I played second college.

Where?

It's prom.

We just had it.

Oh, boy.

How was it?

Oh, good.

Good.

Private school prom.

Yeah, yeah, some nice venue.

Check it.

Pinnacle in Miami.

Okay.

Nice.

But like you said, it's school prom.

This is rapid fire.

It's now time for Gretchen's wacky quick quiz.

I'm gonna ask you for rapid fire questions.

Gretchen's going to ask you each to describe Toledo in one word, and then you're going to work together to give us your nine favorite things in Toledo.

All right, now, hold your hand for that.

We'll do it.

What was the last photo you took?

Photo?

Probably just like a selfie, I don't know, I mean, like a bunny, I don't remember.

That's right.

That's all I took was probably ten minutes ago when I walked in, I thought that the studio was really cool.

I just took a picture.

All right.

Great.

I think it was, my work schedule.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it.

All right, what's a question you would ask your pet if you could?

What's your life like?

Like, I just want to know.

Like, if they enjoy sitting around and being a dog like their dog.

And the first one, I think of.

Yeah, sure.

I would probably ask him if he likes me.

Yeah.

Just so I know for sure.

Yeah.

Oh, that's, that's my dog.

Or she keeps stealing my socks.

Yeah.

Okay, that's a good question.

Not your dog.

And that gets even weirder.

What's something what's something that you find aid or something you know, or something you find utterly fascinating.

But other people are just completely bored with your work schedule.

You're your slack.

I say, I think other people are interested, but, like, space and all that.

Like, yeah, they just the new Artemis.

Do they just.

Yeah.

I've been obsessed with them.

That is so cool.

Yeah.

All that, I would say onstage kind of tip off in space, but I'm also a little bit of, like a conspiracist.

I kind of like it.

Yes.

Yeah.

So you think that was produced in Hollywood, is what you're saying?

No, actually, no, I don't just think it.

I can prove.

Not not the time.

So my answer is not going to sound as important anymore.

But I was going to say I just did a presentation about, like, black holes.

Yeah.

And I was like, you just look at the size comparison of, like, how tiny we are in the universe, right?

Exactly.

It's like, yeah, how is that?

You just won't tell everybody it, right?

What's a movie you think is completely overrated?

Overrated movie?

Well, first, I'm a big movie guy.

But I wasn't a huge fan of Dead Poets Society.

Yeah, everyone loves that movie, but I thought it was a little bit overrated.

Okay, you might have to go to Isaac first.

And, I mean, I would just think recently Project Hail Mary, I really, I really, really liked the movie.

I, I think that the beginning was a little bit dragged out.

And that's what you can see in a picture of Ryan Gosling, right?

Yeah.

So okay.

Don't you me these are two of them.

Calm down.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's let's just jump right into Gretchen.

Okay.

Number of a word that you would use to describe City of Toledo or the region home.

Stay alive.

Good comment.

Opportunity.

Excellent.

All right, guys, we're doing this together.

I need nine things.

You can, yell at me because I'm not going to write them down anyway.

Your favorite things about the city and or region.

And we can work together on.

Yeah.

Okay.

You've met these guys before, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay.

It's a little pickle.

Little pickle.

She's, Nice.

Okay.

Favorite restaurant?

Favorite places to a restaurant?

Your mom's name?

Baby Park.

I like the real seafood.

Real seafood.

I love it.

It's going.

To win.

You guys, when you go outside, what's your favorite Metropark?

Oh, Oak.

Open a man.

Love that.

Mountain biking.

Okay.

Done.

Biking.

I can take that one, too.

What else are we doing outside or indoors?

What do you like?

The rock climbing place?

Yes.

Adventures?

Yeah.

Love it.

You got three more.

Okay.

That's trivia.

Let's go outside.

It's little art museum.

Yeah, Museum.

Okay, put that underneath the Metroparks.

Okay.

My hands, my hands.

Okay.

You're closing this out, brother.

Let's go to the restaurant.

Nancy's steakhouse.

Nancy's okay.

You think anyone who said that?

Yeah.

All right.

Good job.

Awesome.

Thank you guys for being here.

Thank you so much.

So much appreciate.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Well done.

Incredible what you guys have done.

Thank you so much.

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There's so many cool things happening around the region.

Always something for you to find, to keep yourself entertained or kind of push you outside your comfort zone.

We've got a really cool event coming up, again this summer.

This is year two for Tech Lido.

We're joined by Darlene Cox, Kristen Comber, thank you so much for being here.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And it's appropriate that we're closing the show, with this.

Right.

Because it is a night event closing out.

Of course, from the wonderful weekend and in downtown, just as you guys did last year.

So what is tech Lido?

Yes.

So Tech Lido, I would like to say in three words.

Unity.

Love music.

It's a free electronic music festival in the way that this came about is, my husband Dennis and I, we volunteered at the very first DMF, which is the Detroit electronic music scene.

Was that 2000?

Okay.

So when we volunteered, we saw what it did for the community.

You saw everybody out there, I mean, and every gender, every nationality, every age.

And it was just beautiful, the music, how it brought people together, and everybody working together for the good and positive impact for the community.

In fact, that year, the city of Detroit gave DMF over $300,000 as an investment.

Amazing year or two.

They ended up their return on investment in the economic impact that it created was over.

Let me check this real quick.

So I want to make sure I get this because this is wild, right?

It is $90 million of economic impact that it made on the city of Detroit about environmental wellness.

I mean, getting outside, dancing to some fabulous music with friends.

I mean, there's not much really better than that.

Tell us about the date of this event and where it is.

It's at the ribbon, if I'm not mistaken.

Correct.

Yeah, yeah.

So we are having it.

Saturday, June 13th from 3 p.m.

to 11 p.m.. And, it's going to be at the Glass City Metro Park.

We're going to be using the entire ribbon area.

The, the party is going to be providing wonderful food in the garden and we're just going to create an atmosphere of fun dance community.

We're going to have a kids area this year that's going to highlight, bubbles.

We're going to have some TSA students doing some face painting.

We just really want to make this event free and open to everyone.

And different uses of the ribbon is getting attached to it.

They've had a fashion show there that was fabulous.

This will be the second year for this event.

Obviously there's roller skating, but it's such a cool venue.

Well, thank you to Matt for opening the doors for us, because if it wasn't for you saying yes and having a belief in what we wanted to do, we wouldn't be here right now.

When Dennis and I, we actually had three tech lidos back in 2014, 15 and 16, that was all funded by me and my husband.

So the the last year is when we had the first one that was actually at the ribbon, we met with Doug, our buddy Dougie Fresh, and we were talking about, you know, he was talking about doing a roller skating disco party or something like that.

Well, my husband's like, why don't we do Tech Lido there?

And he's like, that's when he got a hold of you.

You said yes, hooked us up with Matt.

Katie and you guys are the best partners.

I wouldn't want to grow this with anybody else.

Tech lido.

An event, an organization or both.

I would say it's both.

So, we did start a nonprofit this year.

Legacy of Light Foundation, which we are able to get sponsorships through Legacy of Light and Fun tech Lido.

It's it's a lot to put on a festival like this, with sound and all of that.

And, last year we ended up raising just over $10,000, and we threw a free festival for the community, for everyone, all inclusive.

And we were able to give back $5,000.

And that was a good natured and Metroparks.

Let's talk about, the stars of the show, though.

I mean, it isn't all terrible.

The music is great.

So the so talk to us about the lineup, if that's even the right way to articulate.

Yeah.

This year we've got three stages.

We're expanding.

We've got, I think up to 13 artists.

Wow.

Wow.

Fans 16.

I'm sorry.

It's just that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

The three of us and our headliner is DJ Heather, a woman, female from Chicago.

Oh, she's an international DJ house music.

It's going to be something that everybody can dance to, but in every stage we're going to have a little bit something different.

So there's going to be something there for everybody.

It's going to be great for the kids.

It's and again, like I said, this music is all inclusive.

And we want everybody to come.

I that's I was going to ask you if, if some people are like oh I don't like techno music.

So I'm not going to go that's, that's, that's not all it is.

Oh absolutely.

Love it.

I know we mentioned a couple times, but talked about the breadth of the music.

You say it's for everybody.

What is it for everybody actually, yeah.

So when you talk about, you know, the styles of music, you can look at techno, house.

And you know, sometimes people are spinning R&B type music and techno beat.

You know, you listen to the things on the radio in movies, you have that beat that just going in.

It's danceable for anybody and it's really fun.

I mean, really, you're you're throwing in jazz, R&B, all this stuff is being mixed together to create music, you know?

So it's really something that you feel.

Yeah.

In the sound that we're bringing this year is going to be bigger and louder than last year.

So the ribbon is going to be thumping, you know, what we really love is being part of Watershed Weekend.

Yeah.

And we are you know, we just imagine everybody coming over from one side of the river over to the other, over the MLK, over to Tech Lido, to be able to experience it where they may not have ever thought of mean.

That's why I'm going to this event.

So I think Watershed Weekend will help us out.

And bringing in new people that can actually experience this and watershed weekend.

For those that don't know, it's June 11th through the 14th.

It is a big weekend to celebrate the 50% completion of the City Riverwalk and looking forward to the to the next 50%.

So there's tons of things that people can do that weekend in downtown Toledo.

The risk of it being embarrassing to me.

The first concert the two of you went to, Aerosmith.

Very.

That's on the, sports arena.

Yeah.

What's your what's your best?

A little embarrassing, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That's right.

Yeah, yeah.

And now you're having Tech Lido in this scene, right?

It's full circle.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

I was a kid, and my mom took me to see the Letterman.

Put your head on my shoulder.

Yeah.

So where was that?

I have no clue.

The sports arena.

I don't live in.

Probably the sports area, but how about you?

Barry Manilow at UT University of Toledo.

Play for cred.

Counting crows at the Stranahan.

There's a couple I went to with my parents as well, but I don't I don't know.

Yeah.

Beach boys at the at the Bluegrass Bowl, with Memphis gospel.

Yeah, that was a big deal.

That was it?

Yeah.

You guys were that.

What were yo Toledo?

I like doing, like, That was a big John Stamos with the Beach Boys.

Oh, my God, John Stamos.

Oh, yeah, you had me with John Stamos.

It was great.

What is your vision for for Tech Lido like five years from now?

If, if someone's asking you about to just be able to go and not have to keep doing so.

Yeah.

So, you know, I envision taking over the whole waterfront.

Sure.

And I see masses of people just like we did when we were sitting there at DMF.

Yeah.

The feeling that you get just looking out at the crowd and just seeing some such a diverse crowd.

Yeah, but you see the smiles on their face.

You see people laughing, you see people that don't know each other exchanging information and becoming friends.

You know, I see every state coming to Toledo and activating this city.

That's amazing.

Most importantly, what does someone wear I think that this is it casual.

I think it's casual.

I think that we just had last year, it was a little bit warm, so we had people taken advantage of the water features there.

We had people dressed in all kinds.

But I will tell you that as the evening progresses, we're going to get a little glowy after 9:00.

So we're going to have some bird's eye view circus.

We're going to have a little bit more of, kind of glow in the dark rave experience for the adults, obviously.

But yeah, I don't know if you are.

I have been in the cave, for over a decade.

What's bird's eye circle so far?

I've.

You circus is going to come in and perform some glow experiences with some flow artists and some, some acrobatics up in the air and stuff.

That is terrifying and wonderful to watch.

So remind me, so if you went to year one, give me a couple things that you the year or two or add ons other than I think more, right.

Which is always something that people, are excited about.

But what are a couple things that added to both of you like the best of the new?

I think this year I'm really excited personally about the kids area.

I have young grandchildren and the glacier is their favorite metro park, so I want to create ways to just create more engagement so people stay longer and they want to have fun and everyone will do something more for their children sometimes than they will for themselves.

And I just want to inspire that.

Totally.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I'm really excited to see bird's Eye View circus.

Yeah.

There.

So it's it's nice people to.

Yeah.

To see the lights.

We're really excited to be working with them and, you know, going off what you said as far as what to wear, come as you are, all I can say is this is about authenticity.

It's about being yourself.

It's about dancing.

However you want to dance, and it's about moving however you want to move it.

And it's, you know it.

That is why this is so welcoming to everybody out there.

You, presumably the two of you have never performed a music festival before.

Tell me not to.

So much.

The, the gentleman from Saint Francis.

What is one of the more challenging things to actually keep this in?

You were anticipating, getting people involved sometimes.

I, I love volunteering, so I'm really passionate about that.

So I think it's easy for me to translate, to try to excite others to do that.

And I think like the gentleman was performers and kind of staying inspired and not feeling when you hear no like that, that's the end of the road.

Yeah, right.

It's really just have to kind of dust yourself off and keep going.

And knowing that this community wants to support others and desserts, that's how is it possible for me.

So I am lucky enough to be dating Dougie Fresh, the Toledo ambassador, and he's brought me into so many people's lives and started talking about this music festival.

And Darlene and I just hit it off immediately, so I love it.

Yeah.

What?

Know what?

What has been a challenge for you?

So the easy part is the music and throwing the event.

The hard part is, I guess I would say, so grateful for the city of Toledo giving us that resolution, because I really think that before, when we were trying to do this, there was no support.

And I think people after year one have seen the success of it, have seen the positive impact and what this makes for the community.

And I think the hardest part for me now, is just getting the funds that we need in order to put off the best show that we possibly can to bring back as many people as we can.

I mean, just in so many areas.

I mean, that's the challenge, right?

There's a certain there's a small percentage of people that can see a vision when it doesn't exist.

Everybody else has to see it.

Yeah, to believe it and buy into it.

But I love, you know, when I look back at what DMF did and how the city funded and then they got their economic impact here, too.

I mean, that's what this music can do.

And it's, you know, ongoing for years that it could be bringing people into the city.

I mean, it's not just an event.

Your people are going to hotels, people are running cars, people are going to restaurants or shopping.

They're doing all kinds of things while they're here for the festival.

All right.

It's now time for Gretchen's wacky quiz.

I'm gonna ask for rapid fire questions.

Gretchen is going to have you describe Toledo in one word.

And then, Matt, you guys can work together to tell Matt the nine best things in or about Toledo.

Question number one.

Where were you born?

Rossford, Ohio.

Toledo.

All right.

How would you spend a rainy day?

Reading in silence in my chair?

Yes.

Reading.

Meditating.

What's the bravest thing you've ever done?

Come on.

The show business, I the the KeyBank building.

Yeah, yeah, with the Victory Center.

Yeah.

No chance.

That's hard.

That's hard to be.

I will support them in any way other than.

Yeah, rappelling from a building.

If you had to create a nickname for yourself, what would it be?

Nerd.

Tornado.

Yeah, I like I like it.

What's the one word you would use to describe the city of Toledo?

Or the region evolving love.

Okay.

All right.

Perfect.

All right.

Nine of your favorite things.

City and or region.

Let's do it.

Museum of Art, Toledo Metro Park and Flash City and openings are my two favorite.

Yes.

Tony Pecos neighbor did for it.

All right, we have we have the zoom.

Zoom?

Yes.

She's at Pecos like that in there?

Yeah, like I love, I just love to walk this, like any metro park I can get into.

So we, one left, one left.

SIP.

Yeah, sip.

San Diego court.

Good.

I was gonna say I like sip way better than whatever it was before it.

Oh.

Sufficient grounds.

Rude.

Oh, and that was big.

Was in the well.

That's right.

That's what I meant.

That's what I mean.

Oh my goodness.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Best of luck this year.

If people want more information on Tech Lido where can they find it?

Tech Lido Dot live.

All of our information is there, from, you know, lots of click buttons and, volunteer sponsorship.

How you can be involved.

Deej?

Line up.

Where are you going to go?

There's even FAQs on there.

So if you have questions, check out this site.

And then there will be some questions.

If not, reach out and we'll make sure we get those FAQs on the site.

Know before you go.

Thank you so much for being here.

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Bring the topic of the day environmental wellness.

And I mean page is always great I love it.

She is great.

Yeah.

She's the director.

He's the director of wellness.

Yeah, yeah.

She's not just a senior wellness consultant.

She is the director of all wellness in really all of Ohio.

Yeah it's accurate but yeah I like it.

We're all the young man from Saint Francis.

We're so good.

They were good.

Yep.

It's encouraging I think every time I have an interaction with somebody in the high school kids.

Right.

The young man we had from, Saint John's on the show, the young man from Saint Francis, it's a reminder that, like, we're.

We're okay.

We're gonna be all right.

Yeah, yeah.

That's right.

In fact, the faster we can pass it to them, maybe the better, right.

And then, of course, tech lead.

It was such a cool event.

Yeah.

Something different.

Yes.

Right.

When I think about a music festival, I don't instantly go to, Sure.

Electronic music.

But I think the story of that is, is probably not terribly unique.

But I think it's worth mentioning that's a group of people that got together to do it because, yeah, they like those things and wanted to bring one to their hometown.

Right.

So that that is important to highlight.

And I think it does go to the wellness, theme.

I agree, doing stuff for other people, getting together with your friends and doing something fun and throwing a huge party and dancing outside, I mean, come on, bettering your community, the whole boat.

What does that do?

Some of that, I mean, when I talk about, like, Jeep Fest is not about the Jeep.

Yeah, right.

It's about community.

It's about coming together.

And so yes, we all sort of like the Jeep.

So we come together for it.

But really it's bigger than that.

And that's what, you know, Tech Lido is that I don't care if you like the music or not.

Right.

If you like people in you like Toledo.

Yeah.

Come on out with the.

It's gonna be great.

Yeah.

Awesome.

April 19th for one nine day, we've got an exciting show, live taping, interesting mix of mode.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're going to have you get Elaine Trudel from Live Arts Toledo.

We'll have Lucas County Commissioner Pete Gherkin.

And then also Chris Wormley, former NFL football player.

So one of the things that we are slowly releasing is I'm challenging each one of our guests to different things.

So, Elaine and I are going to have a trumpet off.

Oh, he's going to win.

Then, Kirk and I are going to do a small, I would describe it for.

You need to finish that sentence.

We were gonna have a small, athletic, competition.

We are going to do a cone run.

Okay.

In in in Monument Row street.

His wishes hold a cone and go running.

That's right.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

Yeah.

Or sit.

And then Chris Wormley and our beloved Shane, and we're going to have a rib eating competition, the fastest to eat a rack of ribs.

I need to let Chris know this is coming.

We will have an ambulance on more information online.

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