Monroe

So today's guest is a Wisconsin builder who star- has started over more times than most people will ever start at all.

Travis Hasse grew up in Monroe, played college football up at La Crosse, and was selling insurance when he heard a 1940 tavern outside Madison, which is just down the road from my house-

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... was going up for auction.

He's a true Montana boy, and the fun thing was is we actually horsebacked about 10 hours back in and camped, and I can remember him saying, "Have you ever been on a horse?"

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And I said, "Yeah, I've been on a pony when I was 12 at the Green County Fair in Monroe, Wisconsin," so.

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But what we do know is that for six days, the search crews on the coldest continent on Earth chewed through immense resources looking for him.

Carl Disch came from Monroe, Wisconsin, a small dairy town with more cows than people.

He was twenty-six that winter, trained as an ionospheric physicist and working for the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory, an arm of what was then the National Bureau of Standards.

His specialty was forward scatter, a technique that bounces radio waves off the ionosphere to send signals far beyond the horizon.

Conditions only got worse, and over the following days, the temperature fell to roughly seventy-nine degrees below zero.

The search stretched through from May ninth to May fourteenth, when, after six days with no sign of him, the search was officially called off.

Dish was presumed to have perished of exposure somewhere on the plateau, and back in Monroe, a memorial service was held for a young man with no coffin to bury.

The story might have ended there.

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and who am i gonna take off like who who are my ops that i need to please no um oh my Well, I will say last Sunday, my father and I went to Monroe for their cheese days.

And that was so special.

Tom and his wife, Melissa, were just wonderful tour guides for us getting to showcase their town.

Try that one." So I got to experience some of the, some of the imported beers.

Uh, but I guess the real, the real big, uh, experience for me, there was a brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin, Joseph Huber Brewing Company.

Mm.

They made a beer called Augsburger.