I love it. I love that song. Last day of august. I cant believe it. Tomorrow is september 1, its the day kids in Public School here in wisconsin head back to the classrooms. Today, august 31, is national mac maker day. There are a lot of people that t matchmakers, Million Dollar matchmakers and some people fashion themselves as matchmakers. It is always interesting to talk to somebody who has had success in this area wre they have somebody up that ends up being in love and or getting married. Have you ever set anyone up . Yes. If you have somebody smart in your life they will advice you not to. You is the them up . No after high school, but i felt bad and i actually hurt the friendship. So that was a little painful, but, it was actually a good connection for a while. And i think, that they had this article about what makes a good matchmaker whether you are doing it professionally or a friend trying to set somebody up. They said it takes a little social savvy, the ability to listen, and then it is an issue of timing. Thats true. I think that is right. I have set a couple peoe of them. I mean no, but because i set them up also under the gaze of you know this probably isnt going to work. If you are just set for going out and having a nice time i think you two would get along. Not necessarily this is going to be a love connection. I did do match making today. You did . Yeah it was for you. Oh, thank you. I matched you with my shirt. Omg. They are squirrels. These are squirrels. My shirt is all squirrels and i did this for you today. This is all for you molly faye. Because you know how much i hate squirrels. The whole shirt is made of skills. Oh, my gosh you the whole shirt is made of squirrels. This is the best match making job i have ever done. Thats so funny i cant believe you bought that. Molly has not noticed all morning. Literally i sit next to her i look. There it looks like a pattern did you notice it cameraman dave . No. Its so small. Amanda did you notice they were squirrels paul . Wearing those sharp glasses you didnt notice either . You have been right next to me. Chef mike did you notice it . Right away. Gilbert brown did you notice it was squirrels on her shirt . We werent close enough. I wasnt looking at your shirt. [laughter] he said nice pants. Got a lot of nice pants all right women are 50 more likely to do this then men, that is sing in the shower. In honor of that this is our soundoff question today, go to our Facebook Page, thats right. What do you sing in the shower . What do you sing in the shower . Um, i sing broadway and usually its um, from rent. I have never seen cats so i dont sing that. Lot of broadway show tunes, but i love not the whiz, but wicked. Wicked. [laughter] okay call me out i really dont know what im talking about. First up his nickname was the grave digger when he played for the Green Bay Packers remember he had that thing going on. Gilbert whenever he would sack somebody right. Gilbert brown knew his own life was at risk if he didnt do gilbert to the yellow couch along with dr. Rafael foss and the plan that helped gilbert lose 32 pounds which is nutrimost. Look at that picture. Look at you. Youre a big dude, you walked in and youre like so skinny. [laughter] see him crack a smile what up slim . Sitting next to the great doctor right here. Im noticing less of you. Thats good. I am happy. You are . Im very happy. C or do they like you bigger . Chicks still like the keg, but just a smaller keg. Not a sixpack. Ju amall s keg. I think this is one of those ingseople dont expect to see youitting herealking about. Why did you say, hey youav yo eye dept hartmen identity has been in your size why did you decide you wanted to 48 from congestive Heart Failure and i just had a younger brother pass away from breast cancer. People starting to go away right now. I didnt want to be that person. You look at a lot of Different Things you think you can help and you know, i found dr. Foss and omg. Is it true 32pounds in one month you lost . I know men can getre cancer i never actually met someone who had a male in their life die from breast cancer. Im sorry to hear about your dad as well as your brother. Thank you. How does the nutrimost 855burnfat program work and why do you think gilbert has been so successful with this program and plan . Its really simple. Were unlike anything else out there. You know all of the other programs out there, they give you the same exact program. Were all different. We all look different, thing going to react the same way to the same protocol . We cant do that. So our program the reason we really have no competition is because we create a customized unique program for each individual. Its completely personalized. We use our intelligence to figure out exactly what he needs, we give him a food list, well tell him exactly what his body needs to get himself balanced and it takes care of the underlying cause of the problem. When he first came in is not where it is supposed to be. [laughter] i was like that. Uhhuh. Exactly and you know, he made laidhis body out on the line fos team for many years a lot of abuse and aches and pains. He said im frustrated and im sick and tired of feeling sick and tired i and i want to do something about it. He has changed his life. Were so proud of him. Life is not the same. Uhhuh. What is his metabolic age. You mentioned changing your metabolism. When you come in to see us [laughter] can i tell them . [laughter] we measure a whole bunch of Different Things body fat percentage, body fat. He is a 45yearold guy. His age was that of a 77yearold man. Woe. When he first came in. Now, 40. How old are you again . He is younger than his real age. By about five years. [laughter] roughly. [laughter] thats what our clients are experiencing. People look younger they feel younger. Yeah, is it true i didnt know, i knew the grave digger nickname, but is it true people also called you big gilbert. They called me a lot of things. Always big. Not when i was playing unless mike or fritz called me that that meant i had to get on the treadmill. Being big and playing in the nfl was actually a good thing. It was part of your career part of your professional experience. Yeah because, fourth and 1 and third and 2 you have to be big to stop that double team. Thats what i did, but i aint choking nobody no more. You know what im saying. Trying to get my fix and this great doctor tells get my sexy on this great doctor tells me i sure will. You look at these pictures. I didnt look bad before, but i look tremendously good now. You see it in your face, this skinny little waist and tiny legs. I wouldnt say skinny little waist. Youre still a big boy. Thank you. Trim. Youre very trim. The muscles are coming out too. Cravings like so much of your identity you have a burger named after you dont you . This is like such a change i think in your mental shift of your identity and your persona. How about cravings how about things like that how has it helped you stop some of those . You know i call the doctor because i was if amazement i was a big soda drinker. My favorite place down the road was churchs chicken. I would go get a 8 piece and Different Things like that. Now, and everybody know me that really know me know i love to eat and i can throw down. Everybody knows that. When they see me they are man like are you sick something wrong with you . You know what im saying because, the doctor showed me ways where i can do things that i can feel comfortable in doing them. Confident in doing them and when i am eating these foods instead of getting the an 8 piece of chicken i cant go no further to a 3 piece. I dont drink no more soda. Everybody knows, man water. You know what im saying. Its just a great feeling to know that the doctor aint got to be standing on my shoulder telling me no, yup, no, yup, i can do it on my own. You have the tools. One of the things we teased people with was your high school weight. This is incredible. This is the first time is this true you weighed less than 300 pounds. I told the doctor this did probably the less i weighed since birth. [laughter] your mother hopefully she had a c section. [laughter] right. Thats a true thing to say though. Thats got to feel good people dont recognize you in some cases right . Its funny i had to run to ups yesterday to go drop some stuff off. And, i ran into Anthony Petis and we were talking people were wonder how many people know you have a m ma championship and super bowl world champion. They would say hey, hey hey. Youre gilbert no. Its kind of awesome. I just want to thank the doctor for showing me the way to do these things because, like i said my father passed away at 48 and i want to be around for a while. Good for you. Thats awesome. Heres information so you can contact dr. Foss at 855burnfat. Youre right in tosa. You have a Beautiful New Office there that we visited. People can go in and just get that assessment we talked about. Find out what your metabolic age is. What your fat per accept damage. You can set your own plan how much you want to lose which is great. Thank you both. Thank you so much for having us. Were very proud of gilbert. Yeah good for you. . . Couch for many years to come so thank you. Were excited. We have a lot more coming up on todays show including a program that teaches kids to fish. It takes milwaukee area young people out on the water to experience the Great Outdoors and hopefully make a catch too. Well tell, but that. Also ahead these local survivors have a very Important Message for others that happily ever after is possible. How they transform their lives into a real fairytale. After the break chef mike is back with his healthy fish taco that is good for you. Well show you the special ingredient that gives this dish some kick. Well be back next on the come on. You can do it dogs just wont quit. Neither does frontline. Introducing new frontlgold. With its new easy applicator frontline gold delivers powerful protection that doesnt quit for a full 30 days. Its new triple action formula is relentless at killing fleas and ticks. Frontline gold. For persistent protection you can trust. Good boy go for the gold. New frontline gold. [laughter] welcome back to the Morning Blend where were cooking with thunder bay. Yo mexican favorite, but this next dish takes on a cajun twist. Its got spice, its got fruit and most of all lots of flavor. Chef mike stigler is back from thunder bay to make blackened fish tacos. My parents were just at thunder bay last week. Is that right . Yeah. They should have said something. They are moving closer to where your restaurant is located. My dad was like i want to go and have lunch at thunder bay they loved it. They are moving to be closer to thunder bay. The things i think you do so well is sort of like seasonal things and making use of some seasonal whether it is fruits or vegetables or sort of making some healthy dishes that have great flavor. Definitely. We try to change the menu up a couple times a year based not only on what is seasonal and fresh, but als based on Customer Feedback and things they have had and told us they like and different ideas we get from different places so we like to do Different Things. This cajun fish t start in Something Like that. Something we tried a little bit one time got a lot of really good feedback and it ended up on the menu. Im going to show you who we put that together. That is the biggest skillet i ever have seen somebody use on tv. [laughter] it was so funny to see you using it. Just so casually using this giant. When you use cast iron you dont want to mess around with any sort of rachel ray spatula i like it. [laughter] i like to start with im going to incorporate this in and use it as a pointer. Shes not going to be able to move beyond the spatula. Anything else you say she will go back to the spatula. Were going to start with cod. Fish tacos traditionally usety lappa is one thing. Also traditionally its a breaded fish deep fried. We have atlantic cod. Im going to drizzle this with a little oil. Toss that oil around there and the point is when i put these seasonings in the seasonings will be able to sticktoit better. This is cajun seasoning i have here. Your traditional cajun blend, red pepper, black pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic, onion a lot of bold flavors. If you were doing this at home you could go all in and make it as spicey as you want or pull flavor. Doing going to make you snee . Every time we put this together in the restaurant, molly sneezes. When you use that at thunder bay molly is sneezing here. I can feel that pepper go right into my sinuses. Then i got this little bit i started before im going to show you how we put this together. We use white corn tortillas. Were going to use our nice soft corn we have a little bit of southwest slaw. This is cabbage that has a little bit of salsa as well. A little cilantro. Layer that right on the bottom. And then from that were going to go ahead where is the spatula . This is the taco here. [laughter] this is the cod here. Were going to move this here this way. Were going to go ahead and put the cod on top of the slaw. So that slaw is going to provide a little buffer from keeping the nobody wants soggy fish taco. No they dont. From that were going to put a little roasted pineapple and papaya salsa. This is pineapple and papaya which we hit on the wood fire grill a little bit. Salt and pepper, jalapeno and sweet chili garlic sauce. We didnt try to stay within the paraparameters this is cajun, ts is mexican. We solely thought about what tastoo and they bring a delicious kind of sweet and spicey and its just a fantastic tasting twist. Youre going to give me the giant one arent you . All right. This is on the menu at lunch and dinner at thunder bay. We have two of them. Im going to be talking for a while. Mmm. That sweet chili sauce. We have three on the dinner shared plate you can get them sit on the patio outside. Were going to have packer games on outside. We have two giant screen tvs out there. You can come in get fish tacos watch the packers game. Sit at the bar if its raining, have tacos stay have dinner thunder bay, milwaukee, wisconsin. Exit 294 stop by and see us. You use that spatula at the im going to give this to the grill guy today and say you have to use the famous spatula. I feel like you need to be outside at a giant grill. I dont get many days off i bring the outside in. Yeah. [laughter] i love it. That is yummy. Our producer will she kill me if i take another bite . She will. You can head out to thunder bay and get your own fish tacos you can find mollys parents there on mondays and thursdays. Thanks mike. Thank you. Good stuff mike really delicious. Thank you so much. All right still ahead, a lot of kids are heading back to school, but why more and more adults are hitting the books. Up next these women are dressed in character. How they have overcome significant adversity to create their own fairytale and the . . 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Angie kupper and two women in the film Erica Retzlaff and misti hawn. Welcome to the Morning Blend you guys. Thank you. Hello princesses. Great to see you. Well have to explain w you are here. Its a little early for us. [laughter] talk a little bit about the motivation behd this and what the concept is. Yeah, so basically we wanted to give people hope that happily might face. We reconnected people with the classic fairytale characters, but gave them a more realistic story something people can relate to. Instead of saying youre not a princess because youre not perfect were saying you are a princess because you have overcome your struggles. I love the idea of using i dont know if you would say humor, but Something Sweet and idealic, a fairytale to explain the complexity of life. The difficulty and the will t feel. So lets talk a little bit about each one of your stories. Your story is, youre Sleeping Beauty and its because you actually have narcolepsy right . Which is how do you describe to someone doesnt know it . Its a chronic sleep disorder. It causes me to fall asleep at inopportune times. Before i was diagnosed i was falling asleep at 20, 30 times it could last from a few seconds to several minutes and at least ten years before diagnosed. Thats the case for me. Do you know its coming on and do you fully go out . I didnt used to know it was going on which was really scary. But now that i have been diagnosed and im on medications and i have a better sleep schedule i can kind of feel when its coming so i do take afternoon naps and try to schedule it so it doesnt take over. You would probably fall asleep what at school . Yes. Behind the well a few times wheel a f never to the point it would cause a accident it was usually only a few seconds, but it was terrifying and so embarrassing. I always have been very motivated and school was very difficult. I never read a textbook to save my life. I just couldnt do it. I fell asleep in class constantly. In high school i was caught taking notes while i was asleep. It was like this in between state where im conscious, but not conscious. So it was a challenge, but once i was diagnosed it was kind of a finally at least knew what was going on. Very frustrated. Red riding hood what is your story about . Im a Domestic Abuse survivor. Ri was in an abusive relationshp for 15 years. One in three women are said to be in an abusive relationship. My story is i just decided one day i was started to question like red riding hood. This cant be right. This cant be what i deserve. I cant be everything that he is saying it cant be and once i started questioning that, and started looking at how it was effecting my children and the chaos in my household, i finally just, walked