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Welcome to Macina Island Moments, hosted
by lifelong islander Jason Saint Ande. Through

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conversations and interviews with Folle Island locals
and residents, Jason will bring you the

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real stories and characters that to find
life on the island. Whether you're a

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seasoned visitor, new to Macana Island, or even an island or yourself,

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you'll be sure to learn firsthand about
the island with Jason on Macin Island Moments.

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Hi, and welcome to the second
episode of the Mackinaw Island Moments podcast.

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I'm Jason saint and coming to you
from Mackinaw Island. I first want

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to thank all our listeners from the
inaugural podcasts, and of course acknowledge our

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sponsor for this podcast, which is
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begins at Macina Island dot Org.
Today's episode, folks, I'm simply calling

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the Blues and I'll tell you what
I have the Blues on Macin Island.

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The weather has been horrible and horrible. I mean that it's been balmy and

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mild and void of all winter her
characteristics. I like winter. I've mentioned

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that in the previous podcast. And
you've heard me say that I like winter

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better than summer, and I do, but what we are experiencing is not

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winter. When the lake has so
much open water like it does right now,

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the temperatures come up and you get
fog. And let me tell you,

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we are getting the fog. Today, it wasn't as foggy. It

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actually lifted for the first time in
several days. I haven't seen the sun

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in days. These are the times
when it's not so fun to live here

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in the winter. But as I've
always said, when the chips are down

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and you start second guess in your
decision on about living on mac And Island,

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I have a little thing I do. I always think that there are

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literally hundreds of thousands of people who
save their time and their money just to

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spend a weekend or an afternoon here, and I get to be here every

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day. And that said, I
guess we'll take a little fog when the

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fog rolls. Anyway, I'm calling
this episode the Blues not just because of

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my weather induced mental state, but
also because I'm going to talk about the

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famous rare blue ice and I'm going
to dispel that myth and then I'm going

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to talk about Grand Hotel's blue ceiling. I'm gonna myth bust that one.

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And finally we're going to have our
We're going to have our first guests on

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the podcast, The Top Blue,
the Top Man in Blue on maclond the

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Chief of Macloon Police Department, Doug
Tapolski. This is definitely going to be

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a blue episode. So let's talk
about blue ice or rare blue ice.

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Some of you may have picked up
on the locals laughing about all the fuss

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about blue ice. Sorry, I
mean rare blue ice. Full disclosure,

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I happen to think blue ice is
cool. I think it's pretty. I

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even stop and photograph it on occasion. I always like to see it.

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That said, what makes it funny. What makes it funny is it's not

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rare. It appears every year.
I can't think of a time we didn't

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see it. It's merely caused by
pieces of ice when they push up and

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stack on each other and a little
snow on it, and the light refracts

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and there's some light bluish tint to
it. But what ended up happening is

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some marketing genius on the mainland,
and that's what I'm gonna call him because

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he came up with this. Some
marketing genius on the mainland added the word

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rare to it, and it took
off. And what's funny about it is

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it's not rare. It's not even
it's yearly. Some years it runs the

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entire western shore of the island.
Some years it runs the eastern shore.

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Some years it's all over the place. You know, it's a half mile

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off shore, sometimes it's a mile
off shore. It's all over the ice

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as you go across. I always
tell people, if you think it's so

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rare, go cut off a piece, take it home and put it in

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your freezer. Unfortunately, once you
cut it off and bring it inside,

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it's not blue anymore. It's not
refracting that light correctly, so it won't

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be blue. Even m Live got
into it with a recent article that stated

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it doesn't happen every year. Yes
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live on the Great Lakes, or
at least the Great Lakes I've been shaking

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their heads about this new manufactured phenomenon. So is it cool? Yes?

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Is it fun to see? Absolutely, But it's not rare or a phenomenon

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at least not to us. I'll
tell you what's rare. The sun has

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been rare the last ten days to
two weeks. But I believe I've covered

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that, So hopefully folks will stop
flocking across the state and across the country

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and seeing it all over national news
when a little blue ice rears its head.

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But I guess that's why they call
it the media. Huh. Okay,

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onto blue ceilings. A whole bunch
of you, including a lot of

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tour drivers, aren't going to like
this one. Why is the ceiling of

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the Grand Hotel blue? I know, I know it keeps the birds away.

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Birds don't like a blue ceiling.
It tricks the birds into believing it's

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the sky so they won't roost.
And now it even tricks bugs too.

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Okay, folks, you're ready for
this. The reason the ceiling of the

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Grand Hotel is blue the porch right, It's because around nineteen eighty five or

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nineteen eighty six, during a major
renovation, the hotel decorator Carlton Varney of

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the New York decorating firm Dorothy Draper, he looked up at the ceiling and

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said, paint that ceiling blue.
It'll look nicer in fat Carlton, who

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recently passed. He used to call
it Jefferson Blue, but it's actually Pittsburgh

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paint color. Do Kiss, d
ew Kiss, do Kiss. Yes,

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I'm aware that lately some paint companies
have come out with their own color called

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Macina Porch blue or something of the
sort. But trust me, folks,

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I painted that ceiling half a dozen
times. It's Do Kiss by Pittsburgh Paint.

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I know, I know, yeah, But we were told now a

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blue ceiling won't keep the birds or
bugs away? Is there some down South

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tradition about haint blue in bad spirits
or some malarkey or something like that.

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Maybe I don't know. This isn't
the Deep South, and I don't know

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anything about that. But why are
there any birds on the ceiling of the

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Grand Hotel? And I'll tell you, and I speak from experience, as

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my company spent fifteen years doing all
the painting and wallpaper fork Grand Hotel.

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The reason there aren't any birds is
twofold First. Every year, a product

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called roost Off is applied to every
ledge, every sprinkler, pipe, and

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crevasse that a bird might consider landing
on and taking roost. This product comes

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in a calking tube style cartridge and
you use a calking gun and you apply

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it just like you would cocking.
It has a consistency of liquid fly paper

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or really thick syrup, maybe toothpaste. It's about as thick as toothpaste.

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It's clear, and so you don't
see it, and when a bird lands

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on it, they feel the stickiness
on their feet and they immediately leave.

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The other bird prevention device is on
the front of the hotel and it runs

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from pillar to pillar. You can't
really see it, or maybe you have,

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but the the hotel maintenance department runs
fishing line. They run it from

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pillar to pillar and they run several
rows of it, probably about six,

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six or eight rows of it.
A lot of restaurants do the same thing

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that have open air seating or patio
seating. They run it across the top

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so the seagulls don't bombard you.
You know, when the hotel is having

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those functions, those weddings and those
cocktail parties, you can't have birds above

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you doing what birds above you tend
to do, if you know what I

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mean. So they take great care
and interest in preventing birds from hanging out

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on the porch. So I know
you heard it on a carriage tour,

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you heard someone else talk about it, or you read it on Facebook,

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so it must be true. But
listen, the reason the porch is blue

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is because the decorator said painted blue. One time, I was standing next

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to Carlton and he looked at some
of the balconies on the front of the

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porch and he said, the bottom
of those should be Jefferson blue as well,

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And just like that, we turned
them Jefferson blue. So, you

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know, it was funny. When
I was still working there, I used

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to get calls and always i'd be
on the fourth floor on the far west

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end, and I would come over
the work radio, you know, Jason

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Saint, and you have a call
in maintenance. Oh Jesus, it's you

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know, it's about a five to
ten minute walk. I used to call

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it a two and a half hour
drive to go from the west top floor

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all the way down to maintenance,
which is in the far east basement,

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So you walk all the way down
there, and invariably i'd pick up the

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phone and I'd say, you know, hi, this is Jason, and

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the voice on the other end it'd
usually be some gentlemen saying, hey,

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you know, I'm I'm gonna be
painting my porch. And I understand you

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guys use a certain blue to keep
the birds away, and I'd like to

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mimic that if you don't mind giving
me the formula, and I would.

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I would tell these folks, you
know, to save them the hassle and

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the money and perhaps the embarrassment when
it doesn't work, that you know,

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that's not why we paint it blue. And invariably these guys would argue with

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me, Oh no, I heard
it on a carriage to Oh no,

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I was told, I know,
I read it on the internet. And

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after the fourth or fifth time of
me trying to help people into not doing

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this for birds, I mean,
if you want to do it for aesthetic

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reasons, have that. It does
look nice and it, you know,

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gives a nice little glow when the
light's hitting it in a certain time of

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day. But you would think they
would say, oh, really, hey,

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thanks a lot. No, no, no, these these these folks

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want to argue with the guy who
actually puts it on. And so after

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about the fourth or fifth time I'd
pick up the phone, I'd say,

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hello, this is Jason, and
the guy would say, listen, I'm

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thinking about painting my ceiling. The
colors due kiss the colors due kiss d

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E W Kiss from Pittsburgh Paint and
it's flat. Thank you, have a

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great day, Good luck with your
project. So I guess you could say

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I'm partially responsible for the pervasive use
of Folks who have visited the island saw

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that blue ceiling on the porch and
then and then took the same thing home

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with them. So sorry about that, everybody. I just got tired of

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arguing. So okay, folks,
we've got a great treat for you.

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Now. We're having our first ever
guest on the podcast. As you may

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have heard me say in previous podcasts, mack And Island is an actual working

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town, all the same municipal services
you would see in any small town,

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and that includes a police department.
Joining me today on the podcast is our

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current chief of Police, Doug Tapolski. Chief. Welcome to the podcast.

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Oh thanks Jason, thanks for having
me. I'm glad you're here. I

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hope you're able to glean a little
bit from our discussions we've been having.

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Well, I've been listening and I
didn't realize about the blue paint at the

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grand I thought it was to keep
the hats away. Oh right, right,

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Jefferson Blue the do kiss. Yeah. As a matter of fact,

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anyone who wants to check my math
on that, if you'll just take a

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glance at somewhere in time, which
was released in nineteen eighty, By god,

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you'd see that that ceiling was white. Then. So anyway, Chief,

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can you give us a history slash
background? How did you end up

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the chief of police in Macleland.
Take us through your career if you would

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sure. I joined the Detroit Police
Department back in nineteen eighty six when I

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was twenty years old. I basically
wanted to get out of the house while

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I still knew everything. And I
worked there for four years, and then

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I went to the Dearborn Police Department, where I retired after twenty six years

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as a lieutenant detective Bureau. And
then I moved up to Manistee and I

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worked a summer driving boats for Sheriff
Chim m Cole on Lake Michigan. And

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you know, I was a little
bored. I went back to school.

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I took a job at the University
of Michigan as a police officer, and

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I finished my bachelor's degree and started
on my master's and to be honest,

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I really didn't enjoy working there that
much in the higher education environment. So

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the job on mcn Island came open
and I wanted to try something different that

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was still in Michigan. So here
I am cool, very cool. So

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Chief, I'm sure you get this
question a lot. What is the difference

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in a day at the MIPD in
July versus a day at the MIPD in

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January. Well, in the winter
time, our service that we provide most

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is transportation for people that can't get
around, either because there's no snow or

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because of age or infirmity. And
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the construction vehicles that come over.
I don't know that most people know that

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all of the construction of Manco Island
takes place during the winter, So we

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escort the vehicles so they don't cause
any trouble with kids going to school or

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you know, other pedestrians, and
you know, the population is way down

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in the winter, but we do
get contractors here as you know, all

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winter long. So that's how we
expend most of our resources during the winter.

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In the summertime, you know,
same thing as any other resort type

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location. We provide a lot of
police presence downtown and we also administer and

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police the e bike situation, which
as you know, has grown over here.

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So e bike issues take up a
lot of our time in the summer

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as well as just providing a police
presence downtown, right right, certainly,

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Chief, we sometimes are on the
same frequency fire and police. And I

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know you get a lot of lost
lost child calls that usually end in about

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five to ten minutes with unification with
their parents. After all these years,

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have we ever not found a missing
kid on mcan Island? No, we

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never lost a child or an adult. I found them all. Okay,

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what's your favorite part of the job, not just in law enforcement, but

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being the chief here on Mcin Island. You know, I think it's the

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same as my other law enforcement jobs, and that would be meeting interesting people

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and hearing their stories. You know. For example, here in the island,

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we've got everyone from literally billionaires to
the working class, and everybody's got

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a story, you know. I
know you've mentioned Dale before, Gallagher,

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who's former chief, and he's just
a fascinating guy, you know, at

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his age, he's still working every
day. Was he about almost ninety and

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I think he's ninety one or ninety
two now wow. And you know,

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one of my first summer, first
or second summer here, he came down

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to register his e bike and I
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you know, he introduced himself and
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Although he's still working. But when
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time, he had an e bike
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It was just ancient and it didn't
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had. But you know, I
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saw him riding around and asked me, you know, how come you know

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he gets an e bike permit for
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well, you know, Dale's leg
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You know, if you can tell
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So yeah, And it's it's just, you know, people like hearing their

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stories what brought him here to the
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moved here, or even seasonal residents. I enjoyed talking to a lot of

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the seasonal, you know, international
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it's the Jamaicans or Eastern European people. I I, you know, made

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friends with people from Translvant. Yeah. I asked them if they'd ever been

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the Dracula Castle, Dracula's Castle.
Of course, everyone's been the Dracula Castle.

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That's great, you know. I
we're hopeful to get dal on the

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show sooner than he's a great guy. Stories to tell. I bet it'd

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be about a six hour podcast,
just to scrape the beginning. You know,

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A central theme folks are probably going
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live on the island is it's the
people. So many people are going to

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come on this podcast and tell you
they just really like the people. Uh.

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What challenges do you face that maybe
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face. You know, I think
the biggest challenge, and it would probably

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it's got to do with just the
nature of the island is finding people who

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are a good fit to work here. And as you probably know, there's

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a hiring crisis right now in law
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service, emergency services across the board, so you know, it's it's it

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was, and it was getting like
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I was involved in the hiring process
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now post COVID. It's just,
I mean, it's it's very very difficult

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to get qualified applicants, and on
the island it's even you know, it's

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compounded by the remote location, the
desire to live maybe in housing that you

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don't own. You know, it
works for it works better for you know,

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single people. But we are lucky
to get Mic roots here with you

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know, with his kids. So
it's just a man of getting out there.

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Social media has been a great benefit
in recruiting because it gets you know,

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really gets the word out there and
we look for anyone from new recruits

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out of the academy who can find
a job anywhere. Now, I mean,

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it's just so easy to get a
job all the way up to retirees

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who were you know, still able
to work and for our seasonals. But

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we've been very fortunate. We just
hired Officer Mitchanowski from Claire County and the

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council was was gracious enough to allow
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you know, now it's it's a
situation where when you find some of the

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fits, you kind of got to
grab them. Sure. Sure, and

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Midge is a great guy. Shout
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I'm sure when you're you're traveling,
you must get a lot of raised

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eyebrows when folks here where you're from
or where you work, and maybe some

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ribbon about being the chief of police
on Mac Island. What is your favorite

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story or maybe anecdote you like to
tell about your job here? Wow,

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you know, there's there's so many. I mean, it's uh, it's

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it's a unique environment, which is
what I was looking for. And you

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know, we get the Mayberry jokes. You know, do you carry as

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a lot of people know I still
carry here on the island my forty five

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Smith and Wesson revolver. So the
old timers love that in the retired cops,

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but you know, I get the
Mayby Mayberry jokes. And uh,

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one of my favorite stories though is
you know, my my former coworkers ask

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me what's going on up here,
and you know there's I'm not going to

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say their name, but there's some
pretty well off people up here and they

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take us out on their you know, seventy some foot motoriat and I said,

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oh, I'm just on. You
know, so and so is a

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well known name, you know,
Motriat and Missus. You know, Smith

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is cooking us a turkey and on
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get them a little jealous. So, you know, just just a wonderful

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people out here. I don't know
if I should tell you the story about

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the roofers, remember that, because
I think we might I might segue from

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that story into the last time we
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so you know when I first got
here, I think I was here for

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two weeks and I hadn't even met
all the officers yet. And I went

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down to UH. I went down
to the Mustang, which is you know,

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is the only place open. And
I walked in and there was a

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kerfuffle starting between the locals and a
rough and ready roofing crew that was here.

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started, it started, and we

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were able to get everybody outside and
kind of separate, and I was in

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the middle and commenced the roofers to
go home, except for a loan holdout

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who pulled the claw hammer in the
middle of the street. And I've been

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playing clothes and well, I,
you know, I'm not going to get

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hit with a clawhammer. So I
pulled my pistol on and you know,

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there was alcohol flowing, and they
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and they left and we went to
their hotel to you know, finish

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our report, and they wanted to
know who I was. I said,

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I'm the chief of police, and
they said, well, what's your badge

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number. I don't have a badge
number, so we have to have a

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badge number. That's the law.
And so we've got the roofers quoting me

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the law. And I tossed them
my chief's badge and I said, you

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know, what's the number on there? And I guess there is no number,

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and you know, we started talking
and they were from Detroit, and

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I told him I used to work
for Detroit and you know, I didn't

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survived my time there by not pulling
my gun. Was somebody you know,

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pull a clawhammer. I mean and
Berner Highway. Oh you're from Detroit,

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and you know there tomb kind of
change a little bit. So I was

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wondering, what did I get myself
into here? You know, But that

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was the only time you know that
was gosh going on four years ago.

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that happened. That story went around like

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wild. That's another one of my
favorite island stories. You know that this

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is kind of like an everyday thing
in Detroit or you know, Dearborn or

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wherever down there, but up here
it's kind of unique because I was talking

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to somebody who spends the winters in
Florida after they came back, and somebody

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mentioned it and he said, yeah, I heard that story the next day

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in Florida. So I'm like,
geez, that reminds me. And you

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know folks who always said we're going
to tell stories and old time stuff here.

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Now let me speaking of a police
officer pulling their weapon. Let me

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tell this story. Now. I
wasn't there. I don't even know if

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I was born yet. It was
in the early nineteen seventies. The chief

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of police at the time was a
guy by named Otto Wandry. And the

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best way most people describe Outo Wandery
was he used a big sob. In

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fact, when he was riding the
horse, he looked like Mongol riding the

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cow and Blason sad coming down the
street. I've seen the pictures. Of

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course, Otto was retired from the
Detroit Fire Department. He had decorated several

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times. He'd been in some real
bad situations. He also was I believe

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he was sunk in the Pacific and
World War two, so yeah, quite

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a guy. Anyway, a bachelor
party had come to the island and they

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were whooping it up, and they
were tearing up the bars, and they

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were out of line and out of
control, and the local police officer went

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down to kind of bring some peace
and they ended up beating him up unconscious.

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And I don't know if Margaret was
the mayor then or Bud Emmons,

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but anyway, they called Auto down. They said you better get down here.

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Your your deputy's unconscious. So Otto
had to, you know, put

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his gun belt on at seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night. It's not

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what he wanted to do, and
comes marching down to town and he costs

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these gentlemen down by the starline doc
where it is now. And apparently,

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again I wasn't here. This is
mac and a lore, but I like

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it, and nobody's ever disputed it. Apparently they were going to surround Otto

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and they said, your deputy He's
laying there unconscious. What are you going

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to do? And Otto pulled his
pistol out, fired one shot into the

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sidewalk. Bang, and he said, that's the last one I'm wasting.

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Get on your boat and get out
of here. They'll do it, and

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uh, problem solved out of the
spot. So so I think you and

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Otto at least the only two stories
I know. And it wasn't the is

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Otto son Paul. Yeah, so
Paul. Paul's got a couple of brothers

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that are a Detroit police officer,
right, yeah, yeah, and they

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were. They were pretty well known. I found newspaper articles on them,

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you know, detective detrictive stuff.
And I've actually met one of his brothers

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up here. Yeah, the Woundries
are pretty well known in Detroit police and

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fire. So anyway, you took
a you took a gun to a hammer

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fight, Good for you, exactly. So I gotta dig you a little

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bit here, Chief. I see
the emblem on the MI I PD logo

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has a horse dead center and it's
a focal point of the seal of your

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cress. Chief, When is the
last time you were on a horse?

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Well, I think the badge has
a canoe on it. I don't haven't

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a canoe lately either, but a
horse, uh gosh, probably thirty years

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ago when I still lived in Detroit, we had the Detroit Mounted Stables were

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right by my house on Joy Road, and after Detroit PD moved out,

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the Buffalo Soldiers re enactment group moved
in there. So I stopped ei there

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once with my daughter, I believe, or by myself maybe, and they

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let me ride a horse around up
there. So that was the last time.

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That's a long way of saying along
about way of saying you don't ride

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horses, Chief. You know,
I was offered free horse riding lessons at

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the Equestrian Center here, and I
might do it this summer, But the

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ground looks a lot farther away when
you're sitting up there. You know,

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It's true. In my age,
I can't afford to be falling off of

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horses, Chief, I haven't been
on a horse since nineteen eighty one.

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Oh wow, I might try it. We'll see the summer. I'll be

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standing by Hey. Yeah, question
for you, because I'm sure a lot

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of your compadres down south would like
to know this. Have you ever met

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any famous people on the job here? On the island, or at least

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famous to you, you know,
a famous to me. The most famous

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person I think I've met was Paul
Keller, bass player, jazz guy from

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Detroit. And I'm sure there's been
more famous people, but you know,

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I'm sure they're incognito when they come
up here. But I was walking down

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the street and I used to love
to hear Paul in this group play in

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Detroit. And there's Paul getting off
the ball and I said, oh my

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gosh, it's Paul Paul Kellery.
He said, how do you know?

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I seeing Detroit all the time.
So he was up here to play at

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the at the Grand, at the
Jackey Club. He comes up twice a

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year for the Jazz Festival, and
so it was great to see him.

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Oh cool, Not who I would
have expected, you would have said.

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But like I said, famous to
you, Jeev, I'm gonna I'm gonna

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pry you a little bit here too. You talked about Paul Keller, but

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I think you held back. I
believe you met your all time crush up

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here. Oh that's right, your
favorite bond girl. Tell us about it.

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Jane Seymour. I guess she comes
up every three years. Or so

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for somewhere in time weekend, and
so I was able to meet miss Seymour

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and get a picture of her and
picture with her actually, and she's quite

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lovely. And I've got a picture
framed in a Mackinawe Island Grand Hotel frames

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that a friend of mine from downstate
sent me. So I've I've got a

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frame picture of her and Jack Webb
is Joe Friday on my final cabinet in

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the office. And I tell the
youngsters that come in that that's my mom

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and dad and they believe me.
Yeah, that's how old we're. Hey,

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I got I got a celebrity voicemail
message for voicemail one here, sure,

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all right, and I will tell
you whoever can identify the celebrity voicemail

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reader, I will send them the
first one that identifies them, I'll send

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them a Macina Island Police horse patch
and let's see, you're someone's going to

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recognize them pretty quick, I think. Let me pull it up right here,

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But on the horse patch will not
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No, not this one. Okay, here we go. Hello,

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you've reached the mackinaw Island Police Department. If you have an emergency dial nine

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one one. We are not able
to take your call right now, but

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if you leave your name, number
and a brief message, someone will return

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your call as soon as possible.
I don't call the police department to hear

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that again because I don't have it
up in the voicemail yet. With our

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new phones, I haven't figured it
out. But whichever one of your listeners

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can identify that celebrity voice, I
will send them one of our patches.

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Sounds good to me, Chief,
I'm stumped. Last question for you,

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Chief, who is on Facebook more
the police chief or the fire chief on

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mac and Island? Oh gosh.
You know. I don't keep stats,

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but I think between you and I
we probably run up the city's band with

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Bill. You know, I'm on
there quite a bit, you know,

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because you know, we're all about
people up here, and people seem to

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like it. I go to the
association meetings and they have an idea what's

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going on with the police department,
and that's another fun part of the job.

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Hey, thanks for being here.
I appreciate it. I know you're

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a busy guy, and I was
able to carve out some time from you

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and I appreciate that absolutely, and
folks listening, thanks long, thanks again

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for coming along on the podcast.
We want to once again thank our sponsor,

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the mac and Island Tourism Bureau.
Your trip begins at Mackinac Island dot

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org. I'm Jason Saint Andre and
this has been the Macina Island Moments podcast.

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Good day,