Wisco Girls

Heya Cheeseheads! Join us this week as we discuss our claim to fame: DAIRYLAND and all things farming.  Let us know your farming stories by writing in to wiscogirlspodcast@gmail.com

Heya Cheeseheads! This week, we’re discussing all things “expectations.” As a Midwesterner and Wisconsinite, there’s quite a few. Expectations as a spouse, a daughter, a sibling, a parent, a friend, a worker, a keeping-up-with-the-Joneser. Which ones do you smash, and which ones do you pass?  As always, please write in any of your hometown homie tales to wiscogirlspodcast@gmail.com

Heya Cheeseheads and Happy Valentine’s Day Weekend! Have you ever heard the ridiculous tale of Otto in the Attic? Well before they ended up in California, Dolly, her husband Fred, and lover Otto were all Wisconsinites starting their strange deeds in Milwaukee. Join us as we discuss the woman who had the most stamina we’ve ever hear of, the lover she kept in her attic(s) for well over a decade, and...

Heya Cheeseheads! The dating world is a strange place to be, especially in a small town. Join us this week as we discuss our vastly different dating experiences, and maybe, just maybe, you can learn something from our mistakes. Right in time for Valentine’s Day.

Hey der Cheeseheads! Next for our alphabet soup series is the letter C, a very late episode about Christmas. But we talk about how Christmas is the best part of Winter so here's to hoping this cheers you up in negative temps with 2 months to go... Ya, we feel that too. There's nothing more traditional than a Midwest Christmas with the family. Overall we chat about our favorite Christmas...

Ope hey der Cheeseheads! Join us this week to catch up on the conditions out here in da Northwoods & cheers to 2023! 00:01 Happy New Year 03:18 Kate's Snowstorm Drive to Christmas in Vermont 17:00 Adding a Co-Host!? 24:35 Sav Gives K8 Presents (Sav's gift won't be 'til our "D" episode lol) 27:25 Sav's Wisco Holiday 33:13 Winter Phrases 36:00 Sidetracked: Cook...

Heya Cheeseheads! Join us this week as we travel to Waukesha, Wisconsin to discuss the outlandish case of preteens committing heinous crimes against a person they claimed was their friend, all because they couldn’t distinguish between reality and the internet’s creation of the Slender Man. We all know murder is wrong and Creepy Pasta isn’t real, right?

Heya Cheeseheads! We’re continuing our alphabet soup series, with the letter B for Besties. Join us as we discuss growing up as friends, being best friends with your siblings, and neighborhood gang.  Savannah shares a short story/excerpt about never truly having one best friend and we discuss the pros & cons of one best friend vs a group of friends. Find out how we navigated middle school with...

Heya Cheeseheads! We’re starting our alphabet soup series, starting with the letter A. Join us as we discuss the good, bad, and ugly of the phenomenon that is Wisconsin Drinking Culture.

Join us this week as we discuss the rite of passage that is Wisconsin Hunting. More specifically, the WI gun season. We may not be seasoned professionals in our kill records, but being surrounded by the culture that comes with this national holiday means we have plenty of tales to tell.

Heya Cheeseheads. Join us this week to catch up on what’s going on in our neck of da woods. 1:15: Kate’s family trip to Arizona 13:01: Sav’s week from hell 31:00: Terminology and weird Wisconsin laws 43:20: Cranberry spiders 47:00: Top 50 drunkest counties of the US 53:05: A frozen in time Christmas village 57:30 Proudly Wisconsin Cheese: The cheese curd

Heya Cheeseheads!  We were hit with a snowstorm last night, so what better time to post our FALL episode?! Have we mentioned what a fickle gal Wisconsin Weather is? Maybe two-tree times. Today’s episode is talking all thing Autumn in Wisco: A Bonfire Explosion in Maple Grove Hunt of a Lifetime’s partnership with fellow Wisco Podcast, No Eye Deer Why the leaves change colors Social Media Write-ins:...

Heya Cheeseheads! Join us with our new segment, Hometown Happy Hour, where we take our time with the weekly jibber jabber: discussing current events, local hangs, so Wisco moments, and enjoying some local eats and cocktails. 00:00-17:00- So Wisco week recap and local hangs/eats/drinks/events 17:00-26:00- Wisco terminology/phrases and fun facts 26:00-35:30- Starting with our first Midwestern curren...

Heya Cheeseheads. Join us this week as we dive into Dahmer part 3. The goal was to do this in three parts, but we didn’t want to leave anything out, so be on the lookout for Dahmer part 4, which will be posted immediately after this. Love ya! Sources Include: My Friend Jeffrey Derf Bachderf, Dahmer’s Confession by John Berowski, A Father’s Story by Lionel Dahmer, Stone Phillips 1994 interview, LPO...

Heya Cheeseheads. Join us this week as we dive into our final episode on this monster, Dahmer part 4. Thank you for helping us to get this out of our brains. Love ya! Sources Include: My Friend Jeffrey Derf Bachderf, Dahmer’s Confession by John Berowski, A Father’s Story by Lionel Dahmer, Stone Phillips 1994 interview, LPOTL, Netflix show, The Dahmer Tapes on Netflix, WIKIPEDIA

Hey Cheeseheads! Join us this week as we continue to unpack the truly horrifying case of literal garbage, Jeffrey Dahmer, and the human lives and futures and families he took during his reign of terror on the North side of Milwaukee. Sources today include: My Friend Jeffrey Derf Bachderf Dahmer’s Confession by John Berowski, A Father’s Story by Lionel Dahmer, Stone Phillips 1994 interview, LPOTL,...

Heya Cheeseheads! Welcome to the best Beer Chaser yet: The Halloween Special! Write-ins include a very special piece, Lake Hallie Spirits by local author Patti See, the times a friend of the pod was haunted by a demon AND a Wisconsin ghost dad, tales from Kate’s Door County Haunted Trolley Tour, and the promised scoop on the woman who had her first kiss with David Dahmer in our hometown.  Thank yo...

Heya Cheeseheads! Join us this week as we jump on the bandwagon this Spooky Season to discuss the knitty gritty that is the case of Jeffrey Dahmer. We all know at this point that he’s a puke stain in human form, but we hope to offer some Midwestern-- more specifically Wisco-- context to the social constructs, culture, and historical implications of this twisted tale. Sources for today include: My...

Oh hey der Cheeseheads! Back again to read local stories from friends and family as they share their favorite moments 'bout the Green Bay Packers.  Tales about what makes Lambeau so special, generations of season ticket holders, Frozen Tundra blizzards (of course),  how our friend got head coach, Mike McCarthy fired (allegedly), the Packers 2011 Superbowl win over Kate's dad's favor...

Heya Cheeseheads. You ready for Packer Party Part 2?! This week’s episode covers the history of The Pack from the 1960s to darn near current day. Included is the reign of Brett Farve, the hiring of Mike McCarthy, the record breaking of Aaron Rodgers, and the severe under qualification of Sav reporting on this information.

Heya Cheeseheads! The time has come to talk about our biggest hometown pride: Da Green Bay Packers. Join us this week as the least sportsy person ever (Sav) gives a detailed history of The Pack to a more sportsy person (Kate) in 1 of 2 parts. Topics discussed include the creation of the NFL team, the stadiums in which they’ve played, important key players, moments in history like The Ice Bowl and...

Hey dere, Cheeseheads! Join us this week as Kate and Sav celebrate the kickoff of spooky season with a lowdown on hometown Wisconsin traditions before moving Northeast and, yes eventually,  across state lines,  into Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Stories include a cryptid in the Wisconsin forest that has the head of a frog and the body of dinosaur, mysterious ghosts/geologic/swamp gas produced l...

Today we cover a rite of passage: The Wisconsin Dells As we finish up our thrift sale weekend, we'll discuss the history of this location as well as three of its top tourist attractions of all time: Noah's Ark Water Park, The Tommy Bartlett Show, and The Wisconsin Duck Tours. Information from today was found on Wikipedia and the history pages of the following: wisdells.com tommybartlett....

Ever been to a Wisconsin Thrift Sale? If so, you know it's a cultural experience like no other. If not, just listen to us babble for a good fifty minutes. Either way, we think you'll be entertained.

Coming to you from Kate’s garage in this one to discuss the way too fleeting magic that is The Wisconsin Summer. If you’re from Wisconsin/the Midwest, you know exactly what we’re talking about. The skeeters, humidity, state fairs, boat days, s'mores, and everything in between.