Speaker 1: I've been looking forward to this moment in time since
Speaker 1: yesterday when the microphone went off and Joe Schreker said,
Speaker 1: don't eat breakfast tomorrow morning. And so why Donna Schwabin's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the studio at schwabin Fest this weekend.
Speaker 1: And that means food. And you know I've said many
Speaker 1: times over the years, you know, I pretend that I
Speaker 1: don't eat food, and I say I'm not allowed to
Speaker 1: eat food or drink in the studio because against the rules.
Speaker 1: I'm in a point in my career where I don't care
Speaker 1: I'm eating food in the studio. Go ahead, fire me, guys.
Speaker 1: How you doing in studio? Nick, Jared and Pete from
Speaker 1: the Domas Donna s Robins Society. You can find them online.
Speaker 1: It's since e don O'Dell nau dot com. It's a
Speaker 1: weekend of gimuch dik kite to celebrate in the schwabin Fest. Guys,
Speaker 1: good to have you in the studio, Thanks for having us,
Speaker 1: Thank you my pleasure. I love going to the Schwabinfest.
Speaker 1: And you know this is not to you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not a favorite of any one German organization
Speaker 1: or another. You guys, know that we got the other
Speaker 1: German societies that come in and there's how many of
Speaker 1: them are there in the city, like forty or something
Speaker 1: crazy like that.
Speaker 2: For ye, there's four four big ones. But that's a
Speaker 2: great thing. We all work together. We scored each other
Speaker 2: and it's yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's it's like you guys, aren't you know?
Speaker 1: It isn't like that scene from Anchorman where you're meeting
Speaker 1: an alley and like having a gang fight. You know,
Speaker 1: but uh, you all play well together. I guess you'll
Speaker 1: have a parade. I guess. Usually there is one in.
Speaker 2: The Octoberfest we do for the first Swabfest being two
Speaker 2: days fest.
Speaker 1: We did, I do it, Okay, that's all right. But
Speaker 1: normally you see all the different societies with their banners
Speaker 1: and flags and what the Usually these things are kind
Speaker 1: of based upon what region the Germans emigrated from, you know,
Speaker 1: like the Black Forest region or whatever. Where are the
Speaker 1: where's the origin of the Donna Schwabin group.
Speaker 2: Yes, the Denswobin group. It came from the people came
Speaker 2: from the Swabia region of Germany and they and they
Speaker 2: went down the Danube River. So that's you get the
Speaker 2: dough No now and the and the in the Swaben.
Speaker 2: They went down to lower eastern Europe like Hungary, Yugoslavia area,
Speaker 2: and they cultivate that land into the bread basket of Europe.
Speaker 2: And they kept but they kept even though they're out
Speaker 2: of Germany, they kept their German heritage or speaking, their
Speaker 2: their culture and traditions. And then, uh, you know, after
Speaker 2: after the war, they immigrated to the US because German
Speaker 2: speaking people weren't so welcomed in those areas, so they
Speaker 2: came here. And it's not just in Cincinnati, it's all
Speaker 2: over the US and internationally I think they's some in
Speaker 2: Brazil and another place to where where the Denniswaan people
Speaker 2: had gone to. Okay, but it's a fun party and
Speaker 2: keep their traditions and share them with the city.
Speaker 1: And oh it's a fun party. Yeah, let me talk
Speaker 1: about that in just a minute here, because I am
Speaker 1: enjoying the Well, it's the one I look forward every
Speaker 1: year for is the Schwaben sausage, right, but you brought
Speaker 1: in a new one this year. The meters meter wors
Speaker 1: meters and this thing is it's a foot long, right
Speaker 1: at least eighteen inches half a meter half meter and
Speaker 1: it's on a bun. It's almost a full eighteen inches long,
Speaker 1: and it is so good. If you're a fan of
Speaker 1: what is a knockwurst or worst, this is like, you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen inch long block hoarst. But I love how you
Speaker 1: cooked it. It's almost like it's been It's a crinkly
Speaker 1: natural case sausage exterior, which is cheap casing. Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: My listeners are going cod well, you get to enjoy.
Speaker 1: We're just listening to your rave about it. So you
Speaker 1: can show up at Schwapenfest this weekend. First off, you
Speaker 1: have events going on today.
Speaker 2: Correct, starts today five point thirty. Here's eleven and tomorrow
Speaker 2: one one to eleven.
Speaker 1: And where's it located?
Speaker 2: Forteen ninety drive badge road out in cold rain right
Speaker 2: behind the loads the two seventy five right there at
Speaker 2: that uh that corn exit and ra easy to find.
Speaker 2: Plenty on site parking and.
Speaker 1: Only on site parking for this festival. Only on site parking,
Speaker 1: so there's no shuttle service from remote location ing like that, all.
Speaker 3: Right, which is our Octoberfest. We do have bus ser
Speaker 3: for this one, so it's a little bit smaller than Octoberfest.
Speaker 3: So we can keep everybody on site, all.
Speaker 1: Right, That just means more for our food and drink
Speaker 1: for us that show up, got it. Uh, Who's who's performing?
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got multiple entertainment acts that are going
Speaker 1: to be showing up tonight and we'll get to tomorrow
Speaker 1: in a moment here, But who's who's going to be playing?
Speaker 3: The ploma band starts at five point thirty tonight or
Speaker 3: from Saint Louis and then uh we uh they also
Speaker 3: played Saturday starting at one to kick off Saturday, and
Speaker 3: then we have our house band Alpin Echoes, which ends
Speaker 3: the night at six thirty, and that's tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Yes, Well what about what about Young Drupa yep?
Speaker 3: So the UGEN grouping is the youth group and they're
Speaker 3: that's the name.
Speaker 1: Yes, I remember enough German to know that young means
Speaker 1: suggests young, youth, youthful, that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: So those that's one of our four dance groups and
Speaker 3: one of our five dance groups. Sorry, and uh they
Speaker 3: are a is fifteen to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Well, the klinic Kinder they started at four years old,
Speaker 2: clinic kinder kind of kinder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they started four small children and they got the middle.
Speaker 2: Group of then the Yugen GROUPA, then the shop Botler's,
Speaker 2: then the Tracting group and they go up to I
Speaker 2: think eighty four. So it's you know, as Auntie said
Speaker 2: the other day, you know, you can you can see
Speaker 2: its need to having these five different dance groups. You
Speaker 2: know where they learn and each one has their own
Speaker 2: different type of cultural dance that's brought over from from Europe.
Speaker 2: But you know where they where they learn it to
Speaker 2: where they perfect it.
Speaker 1: And it's well, I think it's a cool thing that
Speaker 1: that young people are still learning this. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: the world's a never changing place and you think, you know,
Speaker 1: it's like, does anybody really still do that? And yeah,
Speaker 1: the answer is yes. And these German societies, everybody learns
Speaker 1: how to dance. My wife, not German, has her uh
Speaker 1: her drindle, and she ends up always there's usually an
Speaker 1: elderly German Man who always ends up dancing with my
Speaker 1: wife and every one of these things. My wife, you know,
Speaker 1: she's an attractive lady and so you know, she loves
Speaker 1: the dance and I don't dance, so I'm usually having
Speaker 1: to keep my eye on her because there's some guy
Speaker 1: out there dancing with my wife. Ran you didn't marry out.
Speaker 1: I did. I told you that in the hallway. That's
Speaker 1: why I tell people now I no longer care if
Speaker 1: they want to fire me, because I'm eating in the
Speaker 1: studio knock themselves out. And one of the reasons I
Speaker 1: can say that is because I can retire right now.
Speaker 1: I'm married. I'm married, out of my element. Anyhow, she's
Speaker 1: she's listening right now.
Speaker 2: Well, nice things about the youth group, Like we're teaching
Speaker 2: the kids, you know, how to dance, and we're teaching
Speaker 2: about culture. But you know, part of the fest is
Speaker 2: it is a fundraiser and we send our kids over
Speaker 2: to Germany and Austria every couple of years so they
Speaker 2: can learn and see firsthand. So they go to the
Speaker 2: Dennis swamping clubs over there, they can go around and
Speaker 2: actually see, you know, where where the people came from
Speaker 2: and what the cultures are over there.
Speaker 1: Do you have a corresponding Donnas Trabert group over there
Speaker 1: that you keep you communicating with it, coordinate activities when
Speaker 1: you get there. Oh that's cool.
Speaker 2: Like the International I guess headquarters whatever they call it,
Speaker 2: is over there. So yeah, they have a museum and
Speaker 2: every of things. So the kids go over there. Oftentimes
Speaker 2: I think they stay in other people's houses. And the
Speaker 2: reason it really you really get to feel it that
Speaker 2: way instead of being in a hotel, like you're really
Speaker 2: in touch with the communities and the people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's a great idea. I never been to Germany.
Speaker 1: I'd like to go. I've got friends together all the time,
Speaker 1: all right, So you got the plumb man, you got
Speaker 1: you only group and the shool plotter school plotter. That's right.
Speaker 2: Shoe fallers are the one wearing a later hose and
Speaker 2: jumping around stopping their knees and uh, I can see
Speaker 2: in euro Trea Clark Goswald.
Speaker 1: And that's why we're actually were And yeah, I was, well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you later about the because I
Speaker 1: went to one of the festivals, and I'm blessed the
Speaker 1: schutzu In fest folks gave me a pair of leader hosing.
Speaker 1: Nice people they are, they're cop that's next weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I wore my leader hose into a different
Speaker 1: German event and I was told that I didn't have
Speaker 1: the appropriate attire for that particular German club. And I
Speaker 1: don't know which one it was, but there were I
Speaker 1: think mostly walking around with the three quarter length uh
Speaker 1: as opposed to the just sort of pant like shorts
Speaker 1: that I have. So there is regional clothing too, So
Speaker 1: what did my leader hosn't fit in with with with
Speaker 1: with the yeah, okay.
Speaker 2: Absolutely these are I think called boondjosen and and typically
Speaker 2: those are four you know, it's a little bit colder
Speaker 2: out because they're they're longer. But shoepoler is the same way.
Speaker 2: You know, it's not always as sup Butler's. They might
Speaker 2: look the same, but every dance and move is also
Speaker 2: very regional. So some shoe bolers really stick to one
Speaker 2: town's kind of moves, if you will, okay, ours is
Speaker 2: kind of like the Greatest Hits collection.
Speaker 1: Just don't slap the person you dance with in the face.
Speaker 1: Land up.
Speaker 2: So we do have a dance called the the shoe fall, right,
Speaker 2: So like you know, your plotler and you put your
Speaker 2: hands out and the girl pied your hands on the
Speaker 2: first hand and on the second time of ground the
Speaker 2: girl will slap you in the face. Years ago, my
Speaker 2: wife used to shoe butler and man. When I was
Speaker 2: carried up with her, she got me.
Speaker 1: You know, there's so many opportunities for blue humor in
Speaker 1: that statement, I'm just gonna let that rest, and right
Speaker 1: there as we go into a break, we'll bring it
Speaker 1: back a little about the Saturday activities and all the
Speaker 1: other fun We're gonna have a Donna Schwabin Schwabbinfest beginning
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Speaker 1: Sticking with the German bumper music since my German friends
Speaker 1: from Donna Schwaben are in studio for another segment talking
Speaker 1: about schwabin FESTUS this weekend. It is a These are
Speaker 1: just fun events and open to everybody. We're not doing
Speaker 1: cultural appropriation here. I'm not German. They let me show up.
Speaker 1: So fun food and music, entertainment. You got the young
Speaker 1: people dancing, you got the old people dancing. You congestion
Speaker 1: German garbage to show up in your genes that's okay too.
Speaker 1: And beer. We talked about the sausage, but let us
Speaker 1: talk about the rest of the food and the beer
Speaker 1: that's available. Nick, Jared and Pete in studio from the
Speaker 1: schwab and Fest. Now you are famous for the schwab
Speaker 1: and sausage, which I mentioned. You guys make that yourselves,
Speaker 1: most of it. Yeah, we make it.
Speaker 2: We do make it ourselves, but out a point now
Speaker 2: where it's in such high demand. We give a recipe
Speaker 2: to our local butcher wostlers out in Green Township and they.
Speaker 1: Make who makes the other saua meter worse, which again
Speaker 1: are fantastic. But you also have other things to eat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Friday tonight we'll have our rotisserie chicken from Octoberfest.
Speaker 1: Famous ro tissrie chicken I might add famous.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good turned on a spit. And then tomorrow
Speaker 2: we'll have our beef dinners. Then we'll have the Swaping Sausage.
Speaker 2: On both Friday and Saturdays our dinners, and then out
Speaker 2: in the fest we have a fest feel like the
Speaker 2: meter Works brought some mets. We have a collection of
Speaker 2: sandwiches like am and cheese, turkey, rubens those kind of.
Speaker 1: Things, and ruben on salted rye. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Then we have our new uh it's our second year
Speaker 2: for the Grabbing Go, which Jared here chairs up. But
Speaker 2: it's a new booth I you know, kind of targeted
Speaker 2: to be faster. So if you just want to broad
Speaker 2: or in a beer, we have it in the same booth,
Speaker 2: or a pretzel, you can go there.
Speaker 1: You just grab and go.
Speaker 2: It's all you know, pre made and well at the
Speaker 2: fest right there, right, But we're trying to help people
Speaker 2: get food fast and then also like families, if you
Speaker 2: want to go there and get a beer, some for
Speaker 2: your kid and a food all at the same time,
Speaker 2: it's all there in the same booth.
Speaker 1: Well that's nice and its convenient feature. I see. You
Speaker 1: also have the Limburger sandwich always I find memories. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not a Limburger fan. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I know. There is my dad and my grandfather, my
Speaker 1: mom's dad, and he had a very small, small house
Speaker 1: generally speaking of lexin Kentucky where where they live for
Speaker 1: years and years and years anyway, maybe a twelve or
Speaker 1: fourteen basement TV room, a little couch in there. My
Speaker 1: grandfather would sit down there, and there were times when
Speaker 1: he used to have a pipe or he'd have a
Speaker 1: smoke or whatever, watch a football game. But my dad
Speaker 1: would get down there and he and my grandfather would
Speaker 1: eat Limburger sandwiches, rye bread, big flat, big hunk of
Speaker 1: Limburger cheese, mustard and onions. And I'm telling you, that
Speaker 1: small room would just just fill up with the stench
Speaker 1: of Limburger cheese. You could walk in there. It's like, God, oh,
Speaker 1: we love it, we love it. I'm like, I think
Speaker 1: it was more of a It's like eating a ghost
Speaker 1: pepper to ole. I was able to eat that, you know, yeah, right,
Speaker 1: but you didn't really like it? Did you? A badge
Speaker 1: of honor? You just it's a badge of honor. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I choked down a Limberger cheese sandwich in spite of
Speaker 1: how about it smells and there's people out there right
Speaker 1: now going, oh, come on, limburg tastes great, tastes great,
Speaker 1: just stinks. But they've got it there, so you can
Speaker 1: do that. But I'm bump bump bump beers. You guys
Speaker 1: have beer there, don't you. Well look at the list
Speaker 1: A couple of beers.
Speaker 3: Yes, we literally have every available German Austrian beer in
Speaker 3: the city of Cincinnati. Wow, this is this is anything
Speaker 3: that's available in keg form.
Speaker 1: We have it. That's a bold statement considering now do
Speaker 1: you include like micro brews in that.
Speaker 3: Because no, nope, only it's only imported German beers, all right,
Speaker 3: so that they're not with chipping and everything. We're not
Speaker 3: getting as many as we used to get a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago. But now it's this is this is
Speaker 3: the list of what's available in the city of Cincinnati currently.
Speaker 1: About that and mostly.
Speaker 2: You're not going to find them at a store or
Speaker 2: even at a bar. They're they're really kind of hard to.
Speaker 1: Get, which is unless you're buying a hole a keg ye.
Speaker 2: Or or palette of kegs. Sometimes it won't sell to
Speaker 2: you unless you're buying a palette. But you know, I
Speaker 2: think it's fun for the you know, our guests, you know,
Speaker 2: they can you know, there's a lot of new beers there.
Speaker 2: They try something you like, but also try something different.
Speaker 2: We got the whole range of light, dark wheat. We
Speaker 2: you know, we even have some rodlers, a grapefruit roller,
Speaker 2: you like those kind of things.
Speaker 1: But that's an interesting beverage, it is, Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: just find it so hard to believe that that grapefruit
Speaker 1: beverage is German.
Speaker 2: Well, it's because Germans don't know how to make light beer.
Speaker 2: You know, they make full strength beer, then they'll cut
Speaker 2: it down with lemonade or grapefruit juice.
Speaker 1: That's good. Had a grapefruit land in Germany. It's not
Speaker 1: exactly a tropical climate anywhere.
Speaker 2: Weller is German for a like a bicycler and that's
Speaker 2: you know, so like if you're riding your bike and
Speaker 2: you're exercising and you know you want a beer, but
Speaker 2: maybe you know, and more refreshing, you know, after exercise,
Speaker 2: they put a little grape preuit juice in there and lemonade.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: The traditional one is Logger beer half Logger beer. Half
Speaker 3: tart lemonade and it's just something very fresh and you
Speaker 3: can drink after a good days of work.
Speaker 1: Maybe Corona where a line came from. Yeah, these are
Speaker 1: these are the days that the predate white claw and
Speaker 1: fruity bever fruity alcoholic beverages. Fair enough, Well, folks, you
Speaker 1: know Joe Strekker has added the information on Donna Shrub
Speaker 1: into my website at fifty five k see dot com,
Speaker 1: so you get all the details and you can also
Speaker 1: go to I mentioned it before I can mention it
Speaker 1: again the Donna Schwabin website which is sincey with why
Speaker 1: Donno d o nau and get the details and information
Speaker 1: there as well. Guys, I cannot think enough for coming
Speaker 1: to the studio bringing the wonderful food and give me
Speaker 1: a little sample what we're going to experience tonight and tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Tonight five point thirty pm until eleven pm. Tomorrow one
Speaker 1: pm to eleven pm. Enjoy the fun, the festivities, the dance,
Speaker 1: the food, the drink, the gimu to the kite which
Speaker 1: is guaranteed give me like, do you know what give
Speaker 1: me the kite is? It's fun. It's fun. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a good.
Speaker 2: It's that good, warm, cozy feeling and we try to
Speaker 2: make that for everyone.
Speaker 1: And it's it's like a general word for fellowship, but
Speaker 1: good fellowship, you know, the experiencing the joy and the happiness,
Speaker 1: the festivities, everything that goes along with it, just the
Speaker 1: general air of happiness. Yes, if I can sum it up,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. Wonderful guys, Nick, Jared Pete, thank you again
Speaker 1: for bringing the stuff in. And I may grab myself
Speaker 1: another schwab and sausage as I escort you out. It's
Speaker 1: eight twenty six right now. If you have k City
Speaker 1: Talk Station, we'll have more to talk about it. I
Speaker 1: love to take a phone call too, or so jok
Speaker 1: and open up the phones and we'll try to have
Speaker 1: a little more fun as we get close to the
Speaker 1: close of the morning show on this wonderful Friday. This
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