Check out our interview with Waupaca Fire Chief Jake Waller. We learn about the fire department, what it takes to become a volunteer firefighter, and Jake's path to leadership of the department. We also have lots and lots of questions about fires.

What kind of future lies ahead for the young pilot of the Chief Waupaca tour boat? Well, if you’re John Sturm, this week’s guest on Curiouser, your first step is to write a book about the Chain O' Lakes' history. That helps you get into a prestigeous MBA program, which leads to a successful career in retail. But through it all, your heart never leaves the Chain, so in retirement you look for something to do with the farmland you purchased across the street from your home on Sunset lake, and decide to plant 5000 trees to supply your new cidery. Oh, and you also become involved with the Chain Skiers and set some goals for team success. 

This week on Curiouser, our conversation with Julius Lucht, personal trainer and manager of Anytime Fitness. We talked with Julius about growing up on his family's farm in Amherst, graduating into a world paused by the pandemic, and how he's pursuing his career helping people become fit enough to lead the lives they want to lead.

This week we interview a man who got his first gig playing guitar at the age of five. Kirk Tatnall is a talented musician who has made a career out of teaching, playing, and writing music books, and we're happy that he's our guest on this week's episode.

Since WAUP 99.1 FM has a lot of good stuff going on, we decided to interview the station's founder and manager Mark Gerlach. We talked with Mark about growing up in Weyauwega, how he made his way into, out of, and back into radio, and some cool stuff happening at the station.

Some artists paint with oils, some with watercolors and some with beeswax mixed with pigments. That last method is known as encaustic painting. To find out more about it and how one artist was led to work in the medium, listen to our intervie with Jessie Fritsch of Jessie Fritsch Encaustics and Buzz in Art Studios. Jessie is talented, accomplished, funny, and has an interesting story to share.

If you or anyone you know is walking around with a pacemaker or other implantable medical device inside their bodies, it may be thanks in part to Curt. Though he's retired, he's been keeping active in the work of setting standards for devices - it's serious work, but as we learned, Curt doesn't take himself too seriously. A great and interesting conversation!

This was a lot of fun - interviewing local radio legend and entertainer Jim King (a.k.a. Jim Schulz). Why a career in radio? It was a way to be an entertainer without winding up dead in the gutter! Lot's of funny and interesting stuff.

Had a blast interviewing Gordon and Carol about moving from Milwaukee to Scandinavia to start a couple of businesses - Odin & Freja's, and The Runestick. Very interesting and funny people.