Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios and featuring TV and radio broadcast veteran John Minow along with the city of Green Bay's longest-serving mayor Jim Schmidt.
This is Minow and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Wednesday to I just gotta say I thought I'd be basketballed out.
Okay after the tournament And I stumbled on that bucks game.
Did you see the end of
that?
Oh, yes,
I did like one
of their biggest comebacks in history 26 points down with like nine minutes to go.
Oh, wow
It was like unbelievable as like somebody flipped a switch.
They were on fire
weirdest thing Well, yeah home Yeah, well, that's
great for
the fans.
Wow.
Was that something?
um
Okay, let me just say one thing and Brian, I know you're listening and please don't take this personal brand I'm just talking about the big-time college coaches on the national spotlight.
Can you say one thing?
So I saw a guy not an ESPN, but one of the guys went off a little bit too, but okay in the in the finals game the other night You know how many fouls were called in the first half?
Take a guess
I Don't think a lot for yeah,
you know we were called in the second half
at
the end of the game
Just the whole second half.
9?
26.
Really?
Yeah.
Do you see my point?
Yeah.
About how games, I hate it.
Make whatever
calls you want to call.
But if you're going to make that call or not make that call in the first half, please don't do it in the second half.
Because the guys have acclimated themselves to how the game is being called.
The coaches have acclimated themselves.
I don't know.
All the players, right?
Everybody.
It's like we're this how we played all.
First half there were no falls.
Second half went from four.
to 26, and I didn't see anything that changed with what the players were doing on the court.
That's the part that upsets me when they're not consistent.
Wow.
I don't care if you make bad calls.
I mean, that's a lot.
Make bad calls
all game,
and then people can adjust
and say, OK, I
know.
They're calling it tight.
He's going to call that.
But don't change it on the kids at halftime.
Wow.
I don't understand that.
And that's what I was talking about where the Badgers got so hosed against Duke that year.
You know what I mean?
Brian says obviously they got more tired and sloppy in the second half.
You're talking about the refs, right Brian?
Wow.
That, I mean that's,
that's
a lot.
That's crazy.
That's a lot.
So anyway, I mean that call over the back would not have been called in the first half.
Not at all.
I mean, we can go through the tape and I could show guys being taken down on rebounds and stuff like that in the first half.
And the second half, they called him up.
I just don't understand that.
Do they get together at halftime like the teams do?
Well, you know, I will
say this.
It's funny you would say that because the guy even mentioned, he said, you know, I wonder, you know, when the coach is going to the locker room, first thing the student manager or somebody gives him is a stat sheet and say, we only got four round rebounds.
We got to get more rebounds.
And he said, I wonder if the refs do that.
It's like, we've only called four fouls.
That
doesn't look good.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Do they do that?
Do they do that?
I ain't saying they do.
I ain't saying they don't.
Yeah.
Just saying my piece.
I'd love to discuss with somebody.
I'd argue it, whatever you want to do.
But I'm just saying, as a guy that has seen 8 million college basketball games.
And you don't really see it as much in others.
Like in NBA, pretty much the way high school, I don't know why it is on the big stage in college basketball.
These refs feel like they have to take center stage somehow.
I don't understand that.
Yeah I've seen it time and time and time and I it's anybody out there that follows college basketball religiously.
I want to say religiously, but as closely as I do and I have for 40 now almost 50 years Tell me if you've seen this
or not John huh sound an old.
Well, you want me to tell you about 1974
ball
game between No, that's
right.
You sure
Yeah, you, that's a long time to follow it, but yeah.
Yeah.
Cause I remember, I remember the day Norder Dame ended UCLA's like 78 game win streak or something.
It was the same day I won that football throwing contest at the March of Dimes Telethon at the Ishbring Mall with Jerry Taggy, Rich McGeorge and Charlie Sanders.
How do
you remember the stuff?
Well,
everybody does.
Can I tell you
what?
I remember we had a basketball game that night.
And I didn't, I was a junior on the great team, number three in the state at the time or whatever.
So I didn't play much.
Um, but I got in late in the game and I'll never forget the ball.
One of the bounce I was going to give it to, and the ref was way down court.
And he said, what, he wanted the ball.
I thought I'd throw off my arm.
I'll never forget this.
And I threw it.
I threw it like 10 feet over his head at bounce against the wall and came back at him.
He was about, he went like this, like he's about to give me a technical, but I just go, I went like this.
Let me go.
That's exactly what I did.
I never forget those.
He ticked at me.
So that all happened on one day.
So have I been following college basketball religiously for
50 years?
That's, that is.
Yes.
Wow.
Duck Williams had a huge shot for Notre Dame.
Notre Dame had a great shot.
Bill Lambier was on that team.
Of course.
I know that.
Billy Hanslick from Janesville, Craig.
We
can throw some stands out there.
We just never get a
chance.
Have I been following college basketball
religiously?
Yes or no?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
So I can talk credibly about that aspect.
This is funny.
Yeah.
Don't peek.
What are the frequencies of the radio station?
Yeah.
Brian
says 1590.
Yeah.
And 1100.
Yeah.
The
other
ones that doesn't count.
Yeah Yeah, good one Brian, I always get one thing mixed up 99.7 or 97.9 97.9.
I get that one except all the time couldn't people ask me I have to take up my wallet and look for the see what it says on there Hey when I got
a
point what 90?
There you go.
Yep.
No, you got that.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was looking at the middle one.
Okay
What were you gonna say, Jim?
No, I said when I got here this morning, I was, you know, how we do that, we're doing that draft contest right now with these, those 10 breweries.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the, and with the, that was in yesterday.
But what we have to do is do a contest for supper clubs, you and me.
Last night.
That'd be a lot of eating.
And I'm okay with that.
of 8,000 calorie meals a day.
Oh man, cause I just even locally here though, but I went to Rivers Bend last night.
I haven't been there in a while.
I'll tell you what, you want to talk about, I know they've had different owners or different start and go, start and go.
That is still like a go to place and you're
not going to
walk it away disappointed.
No.
Totally
agree.
And one of the, there's some friends were in from Atlanta and they want to go to supper club and we don't want to drive too far.
It's like, who's Rivers Bend?
And it was great.
I bet you haven't been there.
Still got the old-school feel told but salad bar a great old-school feel
liver and onions.
Yeah, would you like bacon or not?
Well, of course.
Is that really a question?
Do you judge your people that say no?
Do you say has anyone ever said no?
Do you say I'm straight?
What's wrong?
I should know that we're with a what would you like to drink old-fashioned?
Of course old-fashioned and then the press and I told him about that video The mulching not mulching.
I don't say mulching.
No the
you know when you put the sugar cubes in and um muddling you muddling muddling so we talked about that video and it was that was fun so that was a lot of fun it was a uh that was just a fun night there and you know the service is great and it's not it's priced right too it's not
No,
absolutely.
No question.
Good service.
Good or whatever.
Yeah.
I have zero problems with that place.
That was been like 50 years, hasn't it?
Right.
Yeah.
That's kind of Green Bay though.
That is
Green Bay.
See people there that.
The river's right on.
Duck Creek is right outside
the window.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Duck's in there.
So anyways.
Love it.
Love
it.
And you know when you park there, you can also go to what had been the VFW for a lot of years.
You had to be a member.
It's now the Duck Creek pub.
and they host the VFW events and that is right in the state they share a parking lot basically you can go over there and you can get some you know give you some advice folks either a pre uh pre dinner or post go there and ask for Johnny juice oh yeah and you'll have the best best drink you'll ever have so i'm just saying
that i mean i just that we had a great time you're are you out of there and
It'll be the most
pale orange juice you've ever
drank.
And probably the most
expensive orange juice.
I gotta tell you, man, you know what I drink every morning now?
And it's good and it fills you up.
The bed is protein powder.
And I mix it with just not juice.
I use a concentrate.
You know, I always fill up, but I just use tap water for my juice type things.
And I use the little things that you, you know, the little tank things.
Okay, right, so you just you don't even have to blend it I don't like using my blender like for the morning type of thing or you know with ice I mean that I heard somebody else use it one day and it
sounded like
yeah That's so he's doing a leaf blower that is loud.
Holy
cow
So I don't do that so you can just mix it up or shake it or ever But I'm telling you like whatever flavor you get like tang or whatever whatever whatever and buy that protein powder and it's well I want to say it's like 50 grams of protein or something something but the best thing for it It fills you up so much for so long
It's almost like a powder form of the ozempia or whatever type stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
I had liver and onions this morning.
That's good, though, too.
I did.
I did.
Liver is loaded with protein.
It is.
That is loaded.
I didn't need to finish the lessons.
And I know you were giving me crap yesterday because I'm eating actually another thing I had last night.
I had two grilled tilapia.
That's not a bad fish.
It's loaded with good stuff.
It's just an inexpensive fish.
because it's all farm-raised.
That's farm-raised?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, well, I think it's okay, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't think you told me that, but all right, well.
I don't think I knew that.
But you know what's good about it?
It doesn't have a lot of taste.
It has a little good taste.
It doesn't have that fish smell when you cook it.
Okay.
But it's the type of thing you can, like I'm trying to look for some recipes to add to it, because you'll
It won't overwhelm any like what's that like real salmon on the grill.
It's like you pretty much just want
this.
That's all you want, right?
Little lemon, maybe?
Yeah, but this you know, you're looking for something else So I was just do you know anything else for fish to put on?
I don't want to tartar sauce and
don't just Google.
Oh, there's so much on there pretty excited.
You know, it's one of those things I'm gonna buy six things and renews twice.
Okay, you know, but no like
enhancers for anything.
That's what I'm looking for.
Oh, yeah, there's there's so much on there.
I do that a lot because it's like chicken.
It's like, okay, come on.
What else?
But boy, there's a lot on there for that lamb.
Yeah.
Pork.
Yeah.
But anyway, I want to get back to that supper club thing.
I want to do that.
I want to talk to Pete about it.
Maybe we can
get a little contest going with the summer.
Have
you talked to your trainer about this?
No, I had no, he's not, he's never been the loop on that.
He's working right now.
He doesn't listen to us when he's working.
I don't want her
to feel
like a disappointment.
So now you have a guy as
a trainer?
I've been
following everything you told me to do, and I've been eating really good.
Yeah, no, I went back to the guy.
Remember he was here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So anyway, no, it's, but I... You've had more trainers.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just like
every six months
you cycle.
I can't, I need somebody
else.
Yeah.
That's
true It's all your fault your trainer.
Yeah,
did you do it?
I said yes I'm not seeing the results.
I want it.
It's your fault.
Give me a shot
I gotta set a quick break, man.
Do we have a lineup for you?
Andy Brady, Verizon's market present, partnership with the Packers, TJ Sorensen, that may be TJ or one of those folks from Sleep in the Heavenly Peace.
That is a great organization.
Ben and Tiana Malkor, crazy times for the real estate market right now, which is great.
Tori Wittenbrock, headlines of the press times.
That's always fun.
And Terry Barr, Slice of Wisconsin.
Stay with us.
Hey, welcome
back!
Got a Wednesday morning?
Who is it?
Is that Bruno Mars?
No, it's
Pharrell.
No, this is Pharrell.
Pharrell.
Oh, yeah!
He's the guy who used to wear the big, uh, bush hat.
Did he?
Didn't he
wear the almost like the World War one type hat?
I think I've seen him do that.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is
a yeah.
I used to use that at my state of the city because we had to keep, you know, Mojo going.
Just that's
great.
That song.
Yeah.
Did you
really?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow.
Oh, wow.
It's that old.
Oh, come on.
I mean, you haven't been mayor for a number of years, right?
When was your five?
Okay.
Well, I'll tell you how old he or that song is.
He was in the last episode of entourage.
which was 2012, I believe.
Okay.
Okay.
I was there from 2003 to 2019.
Okay.
Yeah, that makes sense.
I just didn't realize it was, it is, it's like 2014, 2013.
Right,
right.
We apologize.
You're just such a quiet era politically.
Okay.
Let's go to
the
phone
line, John.
He's upset that you know all of the basketball players, right?
But we can't remember when he was in office.
Was that you?
All
right, today is 33 degrees in Green Bay, 32 in Ampton, 32 in Oshkosh.
And where on earth?
trend.
Did you
see?
Yeah.
Everyone's going up, up, up, up, up.
That looks great.
Yeah.
Sunday.
Yep.
Yep.
That looked fantastic.
It is unicorn day.
All right.
It is international day of pink, which is that women's breast cancer day?
No, just in general.
Okay.
I can honestly say other than wearing things to on a breast cancer day with different events, I've never worn anything pink.
You know, some guys wear pink golf shirts and they can pull it off.
I can't pull off pink.
Oh, I know.
Really?
Yeah, I can't.
A couple pink shirts.
What?
I can't pull off pink.
So my thought process is you have to have a little something to pull that off.
I agree.
I think you need, you have to be, I don't know.
You got to be very manly to pull off pink.
In my mind.
I know.
I got pink shirts.
Give me a bell.
You got it.
I almost missed that.
President of War Recognition Day.
I'm gonna talk about that a little bit real quick here.
I was honored to speak once again yesterday at the right where you used to hold your meetings, I think, right?
City Council chambers.
City Council chambers yesterday.
A great event that the Denmark American Legion puts on, where what they do is take some of the top civil kids that are really, really interested.
in civil affairs, you know, civic affairs, and all these kind of things.
Those are good kids.
From all different schools, all throughout Northeast Wisconsin, and they bring them together for a one-day seminar.
That's it at the courthouse or at the city.
Yeah, city hall civics and at all different speakers and David let's say the da was gonna be speaking for me I think he spoke right after me, but I I could show you I should have brought down my computer I'm gonna have to get it show you the list of all the speakers But I mean it's a one day of all the elements of local government altogether, which was really cool, but what I did for my speech
What I try to talk these kids about is you know when you see the movies you read these national books or even national news and you see about these guys who did you know And women you know these people who serve their country you know in very very You know vital fashion I asked each one of them or about six of them what their hometown was and I would relate Somebody from my books from their hometown and tell a story and somebody mentioned they're from Pulaski
And I said, you know, psycharch and they're like, oh my God, of course, you know, you know, I said, you know, he's a prisoner of war for three years.
It's like, no, you know what I mean?
And when I tried to get across these guys and then somebody was from well, Cato, Manitowoc County.
Okay.
And I talked about Lester Ruzik, who was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for four years.
And they came back and, you know, society in those days, like I said, the doctors, they didn't know the term post traumatic stress.
But these guys went through horrific, horrific things, and doctors back then would just say, well, you got a case of nerves.
What kind of cigarettes are you smoking?
Oh, you shouldn't do it.
Try Chesker Fields.
They're more soothing.
They'll calm you down.
Have a few drinks before dinner.
That was the therapy they gave to these poor guys.
And what I try to get across is they're not the John Wayne's of the world.
They're small-town teenagers.
that what not much older these kids sitting right here and two years later they're prisoners of war of the Japanese and of the Germans so much respect for those people and don't even get me started my my Vietnam prisoner of war guys what they went through is beyond humanity so for today being prisoner of war recreation day recreation recognition day very important day if you got anybody from your community or even northeast Wisconsin
Find a way to honor them.
I mean, if you know where their grave is or their family or something, let them know.
Recognize this day.
This is a very, very, very important day.
Prisoner of war, appreciation day in our country.
It's also education and sharing day.
Todd?
Yeah.
Tell me more about that.
Well, sharing
what?
Information, smarts, that whole thing.
Love it.
All right.
Keisha Knight from Cosby, 46.
If all the Cosby kids got together to write a book.
Wouldn't that be interesting?
What would the book be about?
I mean if they really came clean see what how dark he really was if they knew like wow like if there were signs or Rumors, right?
Yeah, and they just like okay.
Let me ask you something when he was here And you you worked his show, right?
Yes, and he did he say hey, you know guy waitresses that want to you know, he'd left right away an
autograph No, he tea at his own plane.
He just went right to Chicago after the show
because he wanted to, there's more, what, activity?
What would the word be?
More dancing, more nightlife.
So he still had to party, even though doing a show up here, he just couldn't even spend the night.
Can't imagine what he did when he was up in the market.
I told you, he sat there for like 10 minutes, smoking a cigar on stage, and he finally goes, where am I?
Where am I?
But he was good, but we had him on Murphy's show one day and he went I bet 40 minutes
He wouldn't
stop talking.
There is and you know on back of the day is a duke with the commercials You don't miss a spot, but I want to say we went clean through for 40 minutes with Bill Cosby just talking kind of rambling But it's like it's still Bill Cosby
on
our show.
Listen, you just step back and let him Yeah, oh,
yeah, I know
Just tan a dark side, but I don't know how many people knew
nobody
did they I don't know when you said that you want the Cosby Actors and actresses to write a book.
Did they know you
know, right?
Obviously because it was weird what he did You know what I mean enough to put him in prison
for life.
Well, no, he's out now, but he know what I mean He was yes, so Cynthia Nixon from Sex in the City correct Dennis Quaid is 71
He that's
the
crazy
quake.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, Dennis.
He's a great actor.
Yeah,
I liked him First it's funny though.
I was watching him and something the other night.
It's like wow he got old Because I remember the movie first movie he was in breaking away Do you remember that about those kids that lived in Bloomington, Indiana?
And they're called the townies and they had the big bike race against the frats
Mmm,
no.
You remember that?
No.
He's going on it.
He's rambling because he
doesn't want to read the
text.
Okay, the text.
Mino!
Yesterday you had a brought several slices of quiche.
How's that protein powder going?
Michael!
Wow!
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To cover the cost of needed additional staffing, the City of Green Bay is considering doubling the hourly and daily fees at downtown parking ramps during the NFL Draft later this month.
The City Council will vote on the proposal in their April 15th meeting.
The merger of two national mobile carriers is resulting in layoffs across the country and right here in Wisconsin.
Civic media's Jimmy Cusca has more.
U.S.
Cellular is planning to lay off thousands of employees across the country impacting workers here in Wisconsin.
The company is being acquired by T-Mobile.
According to a filing with state governments notifying them of the mass layoff, workers will be let go beginning June 2nd.
The company plans to offer most of the affected workers similar jobs with T-Mobile.
In Wisconsin, 44 locations are impacted, mostly retail stores, as well as the company's engineering hub in Brookfield.
About 4,100 workers are affected nationally.
Workers affected closer to home include those at U.S.
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It's severe weather awareness week in Wisconsin.
Meteorologist Brittany Merlot tells us why.
Wisconsin averages about 23 tornadoes every year and 45 of them tore through our state last year.
This made it the third most active season ever.
with an outbreak of 18 twisters on May 21, putting the month's total at 22.
And severe weather season is about to spark, so you need to have a plan.
Make it now with your family and even friends.
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Now, once again, here's Mino and the Mayor, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here on Wednesday morning, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3 and 96.5 FM, WISS and of course, the Civic Media app, along with the 1100 AM and...
1590 a.m.
Very
nice.
There you go.
How you think of that one Brian?
Very smooth.
Brian, do you hear that one?
By the way, you got text here from Brian says More trainers than assistants to the mayor in Jim's life.
Brian.
That's
kind of true though.
Kind of true.
I would say the ratio for the timespan.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you, Brian.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate that.
I think it was 11.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I just showed you a video of something just so bizarre.
Oh, we got a phone call.
Oh, yeah, man.
Yeah,
Andy there.
Yeah, Andy Verizon.
Good morning.
Welcome to mine on the mayor.
Good morning,
gentlemen.
How are you?
We're fine.
How
are you?
Andy, this is
big.
This is big news.
This is great news.
I
just want to be sure.
to share this great news with you guys, all the listeners and everyone in the state of Wisconsin.
We got an opportunity to it yesterday.
But we
loved you guys.
We sure enjoyed your Super Bowl event that you had.
Many of us participated in that.
Now you guys are, what, a five-year deal we got going with Verizon and the community and the Green Bay Packers?
Well, it's a long-lasting deal with the community.
We're there to stay.
But with the Packers themselves, yeah, we've got a multi-year deal
We announced it yesterday, Mark Murphy, and I announced it yesterday to the public.
That really solidifies why we want to be around the community.
You guys, the Packers themselves, one of the founding fathers of the NFL and Verizon, the largest and best carrier in the state of Wisconsin, just makes sense to do more stuff together.
We're also obviously sponsoring the NFL and then with the NFL draft coming.
It made a whole lot of sense to spend a little more time in Green Bay, a little bit more money in Green Bay, and a lot more of our love to the Green Bay Packers.
Well, not only that, but let's talk a little bit about what you're doing for veterans.
Yeah, yeah, thanks.
So look, I'm a huge proponent of helping those who helped create the life that we live.
And certainly, you know, if we think about we get the opportunity to listen to your show, we get the opportunity to watch a football game, we get the opportunity to live our lives because of people who frankly sometimes gave their lives.
But in this case, what we're doing is we're over the next two years, starting with a million dollars for the NFL Draft.
We are paying off veteran debt in the state of Wisconsin, all on medical bills.
So think of this, there's about today in the Green Bay area, there's about $4.8 million in medical debt that veterans are carrying right now that unfortunately, some of them can't pay for.
So what we're doing is starting again, as I mentioned yesterday, we're paying off a million dollars in rate of maximum kindness.
We're working with a company called Producco.
What they effectively do is send a letter to these men and women that basically say that we're paying off your debt.
It is a real letter.
If you're a veteran and you're hearing this show and you get one, it is a real letter.
We really did just pay off your debt.
There is no, there's no hooks.
There's no secret other options that are out there.
We're just doing it because it's the right thing to do.
We also will then go into the following two years with the Packers and for every win they have, we'll pay off another hundred thousand per win up to a million dollars each and every year.
So if they win 10 games,
than great.
We got a million dollars.
They don't win 10 games.
We're still going to pay a million if they win more than 10.
Then we'll see what we can do to add more to the pot.
But I think it's a great opportunity for us to help those men and women who frankly, again, need it.
You know, there's those stresses in life.
If you think about debt, it's one of the biggest stressors you have.
And these men and women who helped, you know, free freedom in our country, they don't need to have that debt if we can afford it.
So that's what we're doing.
We're with Andy Brady, Verizon's marketing president, talked about partnership with the Packers and helping out veterans at the same time.
Andy, that is huge what you're doing for the veterans.
I work at a homeless shelter.
And medical bills is one of the things that can put people in homeless.
It can drive them in there, these medical bills.
And I just, when I read that yesterday, I thought, man, that is awesome.
The other thing though, I think that I just want to say is,
someone who attends the games, we cheer so loud when we score.
The other thing I think there was a big cheer for was that you're enhancing the cell service around
the
field.
I think we need that.
Let me tell you, it is a life's work, gentlemen.
I'll tell you, we've put a lot of money already in.
We've always been providing cellular services for Lambo, and of course we've got customers all across Green Bay and across the great state of Wisconsin.
But with the NFL Draft coming and then with our announcement with the Packers, we had to add a little to the network.
We added five new cell towers, six new small cells.
We added all a bunch of new and improved products inside the Lambeau field, inside the rest center.
By the way, we spent $21.5 million for the NFL Draft for coverage.
that stays.
So the great news about Green Bay is we built this, we probably overbuilt it.
We built it so well, but this stays past the draft forever.
And that's the commitment we have back to the community and the people of Green Bay.
And certainly all of you guys who are rooting on the pack every Sunday.
Oh, that's awesome.
So we get to enjoy this.
You kind of built it all out and it's going to stick around and we can use it for every game going forward.
or every time we're
there going forward.
The only thing that leaves is the stage, and other than that, everything else stays.
Hey, Andy, talk a little bit about the deck that you built, or the Verizon... Yeah, I guess the Verizon deck,
I
think.
Yeah.
Is that
what
it's called, the deck?
The loft.
The loft.
That's the loft.
The
loft,
okay.
Well, you know, you probably won't go... Well, you can go in there in September and in October, but it really sets a huge benefit when you get there to get even colder.
But it's a 6,000 square foot loft inside Lambeau field, temperature controlled.
Of course, all the libations and spotty cow beer or whatever you're drinking there.
But it gives you an opportunity to enjoy the game in the Verizon and the conference of the Verizon loft and charge your phone if you need to.
But at the end of the day, it's a great, great opportunity that the Packers and Verizon came up with.
Just as a it's a that's a cool part of the stadium at the end of the day.
That's
awesome, man What are exciting parts for you, Andy?
I mean you're getting involved with a lot of big type things As a marketing director marketing president, but this is you know, there's some great things happening Milwaukee in Madison, whatever But wow, we got a world stage coming up here.
Don't we
I don't think you guys quite realize how big this is we've again I mentioned we sponsored the NFL and over the last I think it's been the last seven NFL drafts with last year in Detroit
It was crazy.
And I think we can expect, we'll expect 250, 300,000 people into the city of Green Bay.
You can't just fathom how many people you'll actually see.
You think it's a big situation on game day.
Just wait.
This is two games at once every single day.
But yeah, it's a world stage for sure.
The amount of
of fun, frankly, that comes in and the amount of lives, those young men that are getting drafted, those lives that are changing, it's quite a scene.
And hopefully everyone that can hear your show and hear my voice today gets an opportunity to come out and spend some time.
It's worth the trek in.
Hey, Todd, if Andy has any friends that don't have places yet,
Towson guy in Madison, he could get a hold of it by the heck of a place.
Michael
and
Michael
listening.
We still have
some
simple
life hospitality.
If you
want to rent a really cool
place around here, Andy, we got some spots for you.
Right.
Hey,
look, I'm happy to help with hospitality.
I'm happy to hang out some chips, but I can't help with hotels.
If you're looking for that, you're out of luck.
You get a great cell service, though.
We got
a
good touch for
you.
Andy, juice for him.
Tell our listeners just a little bit about 5G.
I mean, it's talked about a lot, but tell me what that enhancement is.
So 5G in general is a faster version of how we connect to the internet from a mobile perspective.
There's very different degrees.
I won't geek out on how it's built.
But at the end of the day, everything that we're doing right now is allowing you to connect over a signal that basically allows more bandwidth.
to roll through your device.
If you think back, there's one, two, three, four, five Gs now.
We're working on our sixth one going forward.
That'll be another couple of years away.
But essentially, every single thing that you connect to is 5G.
And it just provides you the bigger bandwidth.
It's kind of like when you're going up 43.
uh, highway 43 and, and, and back in the day, it was two lanes.
Then maybe that was two G and then now it went up to four lanes.
Then imagine that the same 43 at, at a hundred lanes wide, that's what five G is.
Um, so it's quite a, it's quite a engineering feat.
Uh, and certainly, um,
here to stay.
That's for sure.
And no disrespect.
I've been in marketing Andy when he said how are they built and you don't expect the marketing guy to explain exactly how that's built.
You can talk the heck out.
I think the answer Andy is just dandy.
Super fast.
Nice, bro.
Great thing.
Market president, of course, Andy Brady.
Let me ask you one other thing.
I know we just got about two minutes left to go.
One last thing, there's got to be something personal about you with these veterans.
Yeah, you know, look, I'm glad you asked.
So father is, is a Vietnam veteran, brother, sister, father-in-law, grandfather.
Frankly, I think everybody in my family would be exception of me.
And I look at the Vietnam veterans in particular.
And I see all the stuff that they went through.
They had challenging lives.
My father included.
And you look at all the health problems that they have.
It was just at my parents' house in Atlanta over the weekend.
And it's hard to see sometimes.
And if we could help any of these men and women, the better off we are.
We started this with the Steelers last year, and I'm responsible for managing the Steelers at Browns.
the lions, the, the, the bears, I had to say the bears, uh, the Colts and, and, and the Packers.
And
we're going to give them to each team.
But when we started with, um, when you have a young man, uh, come up to you crying and, and hugging you saying that this is such a burden off of, off of his shoulders, it changes your life.
And, and this is just an idea that we had.
Uh, and frankly, what this idea has turned into is
What we're going to do is give $22 million in debt relief across my market over the next two years.
It is a substantial investment that we're making in the overall portfolio, and more importantly, it's a substantial investment that we're making into the men and women who...
who provide us the ability to live our lives.
Andy, we're running out of time, but I had to ask that question because I could hear it in your voice.
You weren't just, you know, giving a spiel about something your company's doing.
It was personal.
I heard it in your voice.
Now I know why.
Andy Brady, partnership with the Packers, Verizon Market Present.
Can't thank you enough for what you're doing, not only for our community, but for all of our veterans.
Love to have a beverage with you when you come to town.
You bet.
Thank you, Andy.
You got it, buddy.
Thank you so very much, and thank you for your dad's amazing service and your whole families.
Mine on the mayor back after this
Hey, welcome back come on on the mayor here 97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM WI assistant apt in Oshkosh, of course a civic media app worldwide and 1100 on the Amdahl if you're down by the lake sure manage walk area 1100 It's pretty good way to go in 1590 is a pretty good way to go everywhere else right Todd Hey, you said a little bit like Andy there from Verizon
When Jim goes, how are they made?
And by really smart people, what a great thing.
Andy Brady, Verizon's market president, partnership with the Packers, upgrading to, was it 5G in that area?
I could never get a call out of there years ago.
I mean, that's why I said that the the cheer was
I try to call somebody if you know like with my veterans.
It's like wouldn't go through.
And then what they're doing for the veterans is magnificent.
I want to talk more about that down the road.
But right now we're with Dan Vermeulen.
Sleep in heavenly peace.
We hand you guys on like about a year.
Yeah.
And then you guys were nominated for a big time community award.
Yeah.
I'll wear in your shirts, which was cool.
So I get the breakfast.
And let's just back up a little bit.
I don't know when you guys started, but you sleep is so important, especially for you.
Well, for all of us, you build beds.
And I think people... For people
that otherwise wouldn't be
in bed.
I think people don't understand
that, right?
Right.
Yeah.
Thanks for having me on.
It's a pleasure to
have you guys and I'll afford you guys do.
Yeah.
The word that we use is called bedlessness.
And we always say it's not a real word, but it is a real problem.
And it's a problem that we don't talk about a lot.
Food, clothing, shelter, all that's real important and still is real important.
But that seems to get the news media, the newspaper.
Isn't that true?
Let me just say one thing and Jim can verify this.
Come on out on a Sunday morning, a cold Sunday morning, okay?
Like maybe even this Sunday.
Make a walk of about six blocks, six blocks, six blocks, six blocks.
And you see people in some of the little enclaves of apartments, okay?
Or, you know, that new build, that one building I've always loved.
Is it the old shower and shoemaker type?
That alleyway in there?
Every Sunday morning you'd see somebody with an old tattered blanket sleeping on the cement.
So, I mean, you talk about if you're taking those people from there to putting them in a hand-built bed, what a huge life changer that is.
There's kids sleeping on the
floors, too.
Absolutely.
You know, we see it all the time.
That's our mission.
Our mission is no kids sleeps on the floor in our town, and we serve kids ages three to 17 and provide them a bed if they don't have a bed of their own.
Man, how excited are they when you guys show up?
Oh, yeah, it's amazing.
You know, to see the smile on the faces and you'll see the parents sometimes and Are you guys like the
normal parents though?
Cause the kids first thing you know what I do is jump on it like a trampoline.
Oh, you have
the parents yell at you.
We always tell a story about the kids.
The monkeys that jumped on the bed and fell off and bumped their head.
Everybody knows that one, you know.
And what the doctor said.
So you finding the users is not a problem.
No, no finding the kids isn't a problem.
I mean, we work with a lot of agencies.
a lot of school districts, child protective services, health human services department, all the shelters in town.
But you build these beds?
We build the beds out of raw lumber.
They start from two by fours, two by sixes, and one by fours.
Well, they're not gate just by saying that.
They're sturdy.
This is one of those ones you buy some on Thursday.
They shake all over it.
The metal
connector, they're made out of beer can aluminum.
Right, yeah.
No, these are sturdy beds.
you know, made to last a long time, bolted together with a five inch long leg bolt, you know, so it's not going anywhere.
If we build single beds, then we build bunk beds.
This is industrial.
Oh, so
you build single and bunk beds.
And bunk beds, right?
And where do you build them and how, tell me about that process and then we'll talk about the distribution of them, but where do you build them?
Okay, we've got a facility off of Limeville Road in Swamico.
on East Deerfield, the frontage road right there.
And we were just blessed by a gentleman who donated a van to us last year for do our deliveries in.
And now he's renting another space for us to put all of our finished product, all of our bedding in, which we've got like 700 blankets and quilts right now.
Where do you get them from?
All donated from the community.
We've never bought any bedding since we started in four years.
That's awesome.
And just saves us tons and tons of money.
And
volunteers, I
mean,
Craftsman like you that it doesn't have to be a craftsman.
Anybody can do it.
It's a small little simple job.
Even John can do it.
I bet you
Wow People to sweep up the sawdust
you're right.
You're
right.
I actually built bunk beds one time for my daughters and I don't think they ever used them I don't know what happened.
Maybe I didn't finish
that wobbly but
it just never yeah
fear factor
Yeah,
but I know what it was.
I know what it was.
So I got the top bunk built.
Okay.
Go to put the mattress on and it wasn't square.
So the mattress didn't fit right.
It was over and it's like,
yeah.
Yeah.
All of our beds are all made the same.
Are they square?
They're square.
Yeah.
They all got a safety reel on top.
That's nice.
Cause I
think a kid, yeah, it'd be a fear, right?
Fall
out of that.
That's a few feet.
I know a
guy fell out of bunk bed in boot camp and got a serious head injury.
Right.
18, 19 years old fell out of a bunk.
You
gotta have some kind of a railing.
Right.
All right, so you build those, is there, we build, every month do you build, or how does that
work?
During the winter time, we build every Wednesday night.
We open up our warehouse, we get a lot of kids coming in, getting service hours and things like that.
Oh, wow.
You know, so it's a way for the community to get involved.
How great is that?
And also camaraderie, you know, like.
Absolutely, you know.
You know, there's something we're gonna jump in, but we did an event last fall, feeding our starving children.
And we held down there, you know, a lot of it, but watching these young kids get involved with the energy they put into it, that was cool.
And they need to know they're doing, paying it forward.
And we have kids that do community meals too.
And we bring them there not to say, look, if you don't do good, you're going to end up here.
It's like, you need to do this as a good citizen, as someone who, you know, is grateful.
And that's great that you.
Engage the youth and some students need community service other students just do it because they they do it
right Yeah, good good story is last year.
We did an event with young life, which is a youth that's a great and
They came
up.
We're gonna set it right.
We want you to stick around.
Okay, come back there.
But we have some questions for you.
First one is, who do we contact to help making blankets for the beds?
That's for Patty.
Anybody else with questions here?
Dan Vermeulen, Sleeping in Heavenly Peace.
What a phenomenal organization.
Grassroots right here.
Hands on.
We'll be back with this.
Any questions?
Please let us know.
Back after this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios and featuring TV and radio broadcast veteran John Minow along with the City of Green Bay's longest-serving mayor Jim Schmidt.
This is Minow and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts.
John Minow
and Jim Smith.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, gallery number two, Minow the mayor, 97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 and 96.5 FM WSS.
And of course, the civic media at World Wide 33 degrees in Green Bay, 32 in Ampton, 32 in Oshkosh.
Forecast looks good.
Every day just getting high 30s, low 40s, mid 40s, high 40s.
It just, I like the looks of that.
60s.
Yes.
I like the
looks of that.
Can you believe that, Dan?
We're going to be getting
there.
Got a couple of texts here for Dan.
We're at Dan Vermeulen, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, an amazing grassroots company here that hand-makes beds for people that need beds.
Got a couple of texts.
Who do we contact to help making blankets for the beds?
That's from Patty.
OK, you can go to our website.
So if you go to shpbedsbeds.org and on there, look for the Wisconsin Deep Here chapter.
And there's a link on there.
We also have a, we have a couple of drop off places around town or if you have a large donation, we can come get that from you.
So.
All right.
And by the way, I just want to put a shout out Dennis Peters, our man from the glam band.
His mom has made.
Numerous quilts for our veterans and people showed if they can make a cup again, they're beautiful.
I bet they could use something like that
Yeah, yeah, we've gotten a lot of donations at one point in time I had 500 quilts in my house nice and you know now we've got a warehouse But even that's getting pretty full right now.
We've got 750 probably right now so
beautiful and I just wanted to say that
You make beds for singles or bunk beds for, really, you focus on three to 17-year-olds.
Right, we only do this three to 17-year-olds, so we're not doing the toddlers, we're not doing kids that are off to college.
But
it's not like you just bring in this frame.
You bring in the
mattress, the
sheets.
Once that's in the
house.
I mean, I could be 90 and I would have slept in the bucket.
You know what I mean?
It's not like you take them away, do you?
My point was is that they bring everything, the
sheets.
Everything.
It's a brand new mattress, it's brand new sheets, brand new pillow, new comforter, everything that they need.
And you need all that to do this because it's
obvious.
My 18 year old son is between jobs.
I'd like to urge him to volunteer somewhere.
When, where, and how could he get plugged into building beds?
Todd.
Okay.
We build every Wednesday night throughout the winter.
We're wrapping that up tonight is probably our last Wednesday night because we're going to skip the draft one and we've got a youth group coming next week.
But we've got a big build coming June 21st.
And again, you can go to our website SHP beds and look for the DPR chapter.
On June 21st, we're going to have probably have 80 to 90 people that are building beds for
kids.
And that SHP obviously sleep heavenly peace beds.
And you say our chapter, and I was telling you about my brother in law down in the Arlington Heights.
This is a national program.
It is a national program.
There's 350 chapters right now over the country doing this.
It's great,
man.
Is it?
Last year we delivered 72,000 beds.
Where's your passion?
Where's my passion?
Because it's like, when I could hear Andy's voice from Verizon, it was more than just, oh, we're taking care of veterans.
And then you take away a...
piece of the onion skin.
And he realized his dad was recovering Vietnam vet and everything that there's some there's a reason you're putting so much into this.
There is a little bit of it.
I lost my wife 10 years ago.
She passed away.
Our condition.
Sorry, sorry.
So I sat around lonely for a while feeling sorry for myself.
Got my dog trained as a therapy dog.
We did that for a while.
Then saw
a show called Returning the Favor that Mike Rowe, everybody knows him from Dirty Jobs, right?
Yeah, which
is a great job.
I'd love that job.
Yeah, you'd be good at it.
But he did this show on Facebook called Returning the Favor, and he was out in Twin Falls, Idaho in this little garage building beds.
I used to live in
Twin Falls,
Idaho.
That was my first TV job, KMVT, Magic Valley Television.
Just thought I'd throw that in.
And they were building beds for kids and he helped them out.
And now that show's been viewed over 10 million times.
And I happened to see it one night and thought, well, I can build beds.
I'm a pretty handy guy.
And looked up, closest chapter was down in Portage, Wisconsin.
And I built with them about three or four times.
And my mother-in-law is only beaver dam.
So it was a short drive over to Portage in the morning and build beds with them.
And finally the chapter president said, hey, I used to be a school teacher.
I know everybody in Portage.
Where are you from?
And I told him Green Bay and DPR area and he said, well, we need a chapter up there.
Wow.
So for a month.
Called your brother?
So I called my brother and, you know, so, well, I was not that.
Which is what you would do.
Absolutely.
It took me a little longer than that.
But it took me a month of every day waking up in the morning and this will tap on my shoulder saying, hey, you're the guy.
Wow.
And I'm like, no, no, I can't do this.
I don't put public speaking.
I'm not a fundraiser.
And yeah, next morning, same thing.
It's you.
So four years later, how many
beds have you built and distributed?
So in four years, we have built and distributed 2,360 beds.
In
how big of a region?
All in Brown County.
2,300 people that did not have beds would not have beds if you didn't build them for them.
2,300 kids.
That's mind boggling.
You just don't think of this area that
way.
And then when I was talking to Dan at the break and I'm like, you know, is that...
the rough areas.
And he's like, you'd be surprised where these beds go.
Even in, some people think Depeer would be have a little bit more wealth than maybe some.
Well, just because of house prices.
Right.
In the side of Green Bay.
And it's everywhere.
Right.
I grew up in the Depeer area.
And in the last four years, we've delivered 150 beds there.
Some of them just blocks away from where I grew up.
And it was, you know, it's a nice neighborhood.
Right.
And I don't.
We
just
don't know the backstories,
right?
No.
And I think, you know, look, parents' shelter is really important and you can sleep on the floor.
At least we have an apartment and you got to eat.
But, you know, it's eight, nine hours for a little kid, maybe 10 hours that they're going to be in that piece of furniture.
And that's very, very important.
And it should be quality.
The mattress should be quality.
And you deliver all that.
So, I mean, what are you
doing?
Our motto is no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
Yeah.
And I take it personally.
Yeah, I tell.
Um, but you're right at that age that, you know, three to 17, their bodies are developing, their minds are developing.
It's a mental thing and not to have a bed to sleep on every night, especially if one of their
friends
comes over and they
see that.
And if those two kids all of a sudden aren't friends anymore, you tell me that that person doesn't have a mean side, possibly.
And
exactly, you know, tell me this, John, does is it a bedroom?
If there's no bed in the bed, right?
No.
It's
a storage room.
It's a storage room.
I had to sleep three to a bed when I was growing up for a few years.
When both of my brothers came home from the army, and now I was out of the crib or whatever, I had to sleep between two full grown brothers.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You could have helped me out.
Yeah, I just want to talk and I think that's that's a great mission.
You're on and you're providing this I want to talk more about like, you know you losing your wife and kind of a little soul searching This has been good for you as as a person to meet other Men or and I
feel you would recommend for some of that suffers a very good
come around I think my brother
right don't just sit
around and my brother long down in Illinois is not dissimilar to you
Yep, if you can get out and do something and volunteering has always been a part of my life and my wife's life too.
So it was pretty easy once I got into it, but yeah, your network of circle of friends just grows exponentially.
You
must be pleased at the charity in this community.
Oh, absolutely.
It's unbelievable, isn't it?
The community is amazing.
Like I say, when I had 600, 500 quilts in my house at one point in time.
and the stuff, it just keeps coming in.
And everything that we've needed has been given to us.
We've received a $65,000 van to deliver.
Wow, nice.
Six of us can ride around in style and we'll have 15 to 20 beds in the back.
Do you have
any down times of the year?
Yes, we do.
That's why we expanded right now into the outlying areas is because this typically is when we go into our slower time, the summertime.
Okay,
could I borrow that van?
When
we get into August.
And a couple beds for my cabin.
When we get into August.
All the kids want, you know, we need to get kids back in bed for school.
Yeah.
All right.
Right now it's like spring break.
Ah, you know what?
We can make it through another month or two and then they're going to have summer.
And you know, teachers aren't so worried about it, but it becomes super important in August.
We'll do the back event school at UWGB with the service league.
Dan, I just got to ask you this, though, because, okay, basically you've done this for some neighbors running.
Have you seen one underlying reason that maybe people don't talk about why people who are seen?
lack of a better to phrase like normal neighbors, normal people in our community that we've grown up with and I think any one underlying thing that you see that puts people in a situation that they're very shocked sometimes to be in and you guys help out.
I know we've done a couple and similar to what the veterans were talking about is the medical issues, the medical pills, you know.
We had a mom, single mom and she applied for the bed for a four year old son and they had been in a shelter for two years because there were
in a car accident, and her fiance passed away, and the medical bills stacked up, and they were at Freedom House for two years.
And when they got out of there, you know, we delivered them a bed, and the little boy was not having it.
And one
minute, everything's fine.
Next minute, her life changes.
Yep.
And, you know, it can happen to
anybody.
Yeah.
And I just think it's, I want to go back to how important that piece of furniture is for someone.
And you know that.
Just for self-esteem.
Right.
Exactly.
And you want to, you want to be anxious going to bed and you know, you got to sleep on this floor with this, you know what I mean?
Going to bed, that's like, should be, look, you should look forward to that.
Absolutely.
We delivered a bed to a 12 year old girl.
It was the first bed of her life.
Wow.
She'd been on an air mattress.
Right around here.
In Green Bay, West Green Bay.
Just off of Mason Street.
A couple of
texts.
I'm in Oshkosh.
How can I find a chapter here?
Ricky.
There is a chapter in Oshkosh.
There's a chapter in Fond du Lac.
There's a chapter in Appleton.
There are 14 chapters in Wisconsin right now.
So again, if you go to shpbedsbeds.org and the apply for a bed.
If you're looking for a bed, there's an application button.
If you're looking to volunteer, there's a button on there to volunteer.
Could somebody do it for somebody else?
Like if they have no somebody in there, those people come.
Sometimes people don't want to ask.
Absolutely.
Got another text here.
Dan is selling himself short.
He's an amazing man.
He attends my church.
Thank you for everything you do,
Tina.
I thought that was TJ, but.
Maybe it is out of my glasses.
I haven't been struggling
with this screen lately.
Dan, thank you so much for being here.
And you know what's really cool is that just like what Andy said, when I heard it in his voice, there's more to just being a marketing guy and helping veterans like yourself.
I knew there was going to be something more that was motivating you in that way.
And I just think that's awesome.
And I'd like you to be a perfect example.
I got friends that just kind of bad things happen.
they get into a deep hole and it's tough, it's tough to climb out.
It's not just, oh, do this and it goes away, but maybe it's like steps in the right direction, right?
Right, absolutely.
If you can get out and do something, you know, our founder, Luke Mickelson, I mean, even the
people helping, you know, the volunteers.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Our Luke is our founder and Mickelson and he says, oh, he says that, you know, if you're feeling bad and feeling down, go and do something for somebody else.
Absolutely.
It will change your whole attitude.
It is.
And I think, and I love the fact that you're engaging youth
to do this, because that will continue.
They're gonna be like, that was awesome when they do that.
Like I said, there's some community service that some of them have to do other ones.
That will be a life skill for them.
And I think that's great that you're doing this.
Yeah, thanks for making the community a better place.
That checks a lot of boxes is what you're doing.
You're one of those people in this
area, man.
Makes a difference.
Really
cool
stuff.
Dan Vermeulen, sleep in heavenly peace, shpbeds.com.
Or
I'm sorry, .org.
If you're looking for somebody, if you need it yourself, if you'd like to volunteer, a lot of different areas you can help, please go on their website.
Dan, no lie, our deepest condolences for your wife, but what an inspiration you are to take that, to help kids that are sleeping on the floor.
It's pretty amazing.
All right, thanks, John.
Good
stuff.
Thank you, buddy.
We're going to center break.
Mind of the mayor, back after this.
Hey, welcome
back.
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here.
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Milwaukee Brewers at the Colorado Rockies.
Coming up at seven o'clock tonight on WISS.
Exciting time sports.
Why I'm not the NCAA is over.
You know, the Brewers kind of getting into that fun part of the season before you're out of a
pennant race and the box having that great game and the playoffs and everything.
So Packard draft coming up, kind of fun stuff happening right now.
I know, Dan, we've been talking about, you know, sleep in heavenly peace beds.org.
But what do you, your peer guy live here?
You got your pulse on the committee.
What do you think about the draft?
Are you hearing what's the buzz out there?
You got a lot of friends that you meet with every Wednesday building beds.
What are you?
I'm leaving town.
No.
Intentionally,
I mean Okay, I know a lot
of people
that are
doing that
I'm shocked.
Yeah, I don't want to do that.
So
I say I thought you were gonna say you know I signed up to build the the big stage and I'm you know gonna little side hustle money.
I don't
think it's this union card for that Yeah
You know, I know so many people that are doing that.
And I'll tell you, if I lived in a certain Ashwabana areas, I think I would too.
Just the daily getting around, getting around.
I know it's a once in a lifetime thing, but just your day to day, I wouldn't be, I wouldn't, I might've think about taking three days off and going to a cabin someplace.
So business.
I was surprised that there's gonna be some limited access to some of the businesses.
I would not like that.
No.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know how much say they had, but I think the,
Packers I think the NFL has a lot of say in this event
You know just but it's in their defense.
We're talking about 250 people coming in and out, you know, it's like
safety, right?
It's got to be safe and it's got to have it's got to flow
Yeah,
but I would rather that with like a cop on every corner directing traffic or something versus coming out of the widener like we were talking about an event Yeah
cars
coming 60 miles an hour from both ways and you got people that just been sitting there for three hours trying to look both ways and Jada
and then they didn't like the event and they had a great show
and it just like nobody liked it because the leaving was difficult and it was difficult.
Now it's 11 o'clock at night and I want to get home and so I think and the Packers have always been even worked with them when I was in office.
It was important to them that getting in and getting out was
important as a product on the field.
And I always respected that.
I'm like, I like the way you're thinking, because it's like, well, that's your problem.
Our only focus is what's on the field.
They're like, look, we want the Ingress Egress to be smooth.
And I always like that about them.
And it costs them money, right?
We have a lot of cops directing traffic there.
This thing here, though, there's a couple of businesses that were like, I don't know if I like this.
And they're like, you know what?
So, I mean, that's the way it's going to be.
It's important.
250,000 people is, what, three, four games?
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah, so we probably will not be delivering beds on the
west side of it.
I don't think they're delivering three days.
Did you
see that?
I don't think they're going to be delivering mail.
Right.
Yeah.
1200 people.
So anyway, but it's going to be a great event.
I hope, you know, I think it's going to be fine.
I don't know what the numbers are going to be, but it's going to be exciting.
And there's a lot of cool stuff.
There's a lot of stuff going on around there, but there's a lot of stuff that's going to be done downtown.
There's some things happening in other parts of the community.
So I hope people get engaged in some of that, too.
I just have to add one more thing about your program, Dan.
Obviously, you guys have Northeast Wisconsin pretty well covered and even down to the Oshkosh find a lack area, whatever you want to cut, you know, consider that part.
But what about, you know, there's some pretty, I shouldn't say rough areas, but you know, you go off to the West and some of these small towns here in Northeast Wisconsin, some of those, there's people there that really need help.
Do you guys extend that way?
Or do you have, you know, one of your agency offices there or anything?
Or how far would you guys travel?
Yeah.
So believe it or not, most of our chapters.
are on the western side of the state.
Okay.
Where we're missing right now is Manitowak Sheboygan.
Milwaukee does not have a chapter, believe it or not.
Really?
Huge need there, but to find that right person that would lock in and pretty much give up your life to do this, you know, because they're gonna get just run over by a bus when they put open up applications for Milwaukee.
Yeah,
that'd be, you know, on-slot probably not for many, right?
But where else do you say Manitowoc needs a chapter?
Manitowoc does not have a chapter, Sheboygan.
Nothing on the east side of Lake Winnebago at all.
I'll be
done.
So we're working our way that way.
We
now have Kiwani and, you know.
Manitowoc, Sheboygan are, you know, I don't know.
And they're building areas here.
Right.
Right.
Build stuff.
Right.
And pretty giving communities as well.
I mean, I just, wow.
So if there's anybody over in the Manitowoc area, reach out to me.
We'd love to.
to partner with you.
We've got a warehouse to build in.
A lot of chapters don't where they're just portable with pull up in a parking lot, throw their tools out and start building beds.
We have a warehouse to build in so we can make
the
beds.
Okay, go ahead.
And we would partner with somebody where maybe they have a satellite hub down there and we can drop off 10, 15 beds, everything that they need to deliver them and then they would have a team that would go deliver those beds.
What if somebody wanted to open up an actual thing with their own warehouse down there and build the beds there for local help?
They certainly could do that too and open up a chapter or so.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
Throwing it out there.
Anybody from Manitowoc to Lakeshore, Sheboygan, did you say?
Yep.
Those areas?
Yeah.
Let us know if you'd be interested in helping us out.
Heavenly sleep, excuse me, sleep in heavily peace.
Then call your brother.
Yeah.
And get the program going.
And then what about...
I think people are hesitant about fundraising.
People sometimes don't like that.
But do you have a major funder of like the lumber's got to be your biggest expense, right?
Right.
Lois is one of our national sponsors.
They give us $1.6 million this year as an organization.
Wow.
That's a lot.
And there's some discounted pricing in there also from them too.
But we'll take lumber wood from wherever we can get it.
you know, any local lumber yard that wants to donate some lumber or contractor, maybe we've had contractors buy us two brand new saws when they came out to build with us one day and said, Hey, your saws are in rough shape.
Here's $500.
He wrote a check.
And I think what people just sometimes need to be asked.
This is such a good cause that you're doing.
I mean, this isn't like the
awareness.
Right.
I mean, up until you guys first came on, I had no idea you guys existed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's just it.
Nobody knows about the problem.
Nobody knows about the bad listeners.
Nobody knows about the kids.
Nobody knows that it's a way that they can give back locally to the community.
Right.
And that's his locals.
And I think everyone has a soft spot in the heart for the youth.
Absolutely.
You know, I mean, you just can't give them a chance.
Oh, yeah.
You know what I mean?
Some
of those houses that people abandon and it's just.
dog crap all over the house or whatever.
And then you go into like the little kids room and the little girl or whomever still has pictures drawn hanging on her wall.
She wants to be a normal little kid.
They all do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was going to share that story about young life before, if we got a minute.
Yeah.
One
minute.
Okay.
So young life youth group came out and did some sanding with us last year and they had 35 kids there, put Palm Sanders on them all and sanded wood for two hours.
Great kids.
hardworking inner city kids and full circle comes around in August, walk into a delivery and boy looks at me and says, Hey, I know you.
Say I know you too.
You came.
We were delivering a bed for a sister.
Oh, and he was one of the kids that kind of made the bed.
He was one of the kids that was
helped building the bed.
I would just give me cool stuff.
I mean, I'm not joking.
I would just give me a goosebumps.
That's awesome.
Thanks for what you do, my friend.
Yeah, this is good stuff.
Folks, help them out in any way you can.
Dan Vermeulen, sleep in heavily peace, shpbeds.org.
That's right.
Awesome.
Thank
you.
You keep in touch with us, alright?
Thanks, Dan.
For WGBW and WISS News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Well, this isn't related to tornadoes, but the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is accepting applications for urban forestry catastrophic storm grants.
The grant funding was made available after Governor Tony Evers declared a state of emergency from March 29th through April 1st due to severe ice and snow storms across the state.
Individual municipalities, tribal governments, and some nonprofit organizations can apply for between four and 50,000
of grant funding to repair, remove, or replace trees in urban areas that suffered damage during the storms.
A day before his criminal trial was to begin, 56-year-old Scott Hayes of Waukesha pleaded no contest to citations of operating a UTV while intoxicated and operating a UTV with a passenger riding improperly.
As part of the plea deal, a count of homicide by the use of a vehicle while intoxicated was dropped.
The citations, fines and restitution of almost five and a half thousand dollars will be the only punishment Hayes will receive in connection with the death of David Wyman in May of 2022.
The accident happened in Oconto County when Wyman fell off of the UTV driven by Hayes and hit his head on the concrete in the town of Doty.
16-year-old Frederick Love Kennedy was sentenced to 10 years in prison, 10 years extended supervision and 300 hours of community service Tuesday for a shooting last April in Green Bay near Preble High that led to school lockdowns.
Love Kennedy was initially charged with attempted first-degree homicide.
but later pleaded no contest to first-degree reckless injury for the incident that sent another student to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Love Kennedy, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, will remain in a juvenile prison for the time being.
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Now, once again, here's Mino and the Mayor, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Man, we've had some inspiring people
on
today.
Andy Brady, Verizon's market president, partnership with the Packers, increasing the...
increasing the, um, 5G?
Yes, the Gs.
Increasing the Gs.
Increasing the Gs.
Yeah.
But also giving over a million dollars to area veterans.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, to help with their debt.
His dad is a Vietnam vet.
Wonderful.
Tom Vermeulen, sleep and heavily peace.
Tremendous organization.
They got a motto, no kid sleeps on the floor in our town.
going around building beds for young kids that really need them.
Just awesome.
And then I got somebody here, Deanna Melchor, moving with the Melchors, and you guys are invested in your community as much as anybody.
So
it's really cool what
you do.
I
mean,
you guys were huge with the toys for Tots, with the Marines, with getting kids in the area toys.
And so I mean, those are cool things.
CP Telethon.
CP Telethon.
Oh, I love that.
That's one of my favorite
things in here.
I called you.
You already checked out.
Attent
to it.
Oh, that's interesting.
You do.
I didn't leave her.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Bill, Jersey, Jersey, I got a showing.
I got a showing.
I got to go.
Somebody wants to see the Swedish board.
That's gone.
Congratulations on
that.
At 10-2, they start letting you clean up your desk.
And I did call then,
and
she just
left.
But the lady was smart.
She goes, can I take your, and I gave it to her.
But I said, make sure you get the credit.
So I hope you do.
But that's a
big part of your
whole
mission, isn't
it?
Yeah, be in a part of this community.
We live here,
we work here.
I
don't know if we want to start with your open house or end with your open house, but that's coming up tomorrow, right?
Yes.
That's going to be fun.
Yeah, we have our big grand opening.
I shouldn't say big.
It's going to be fun.
It's going to be casual.
We're doing a happy hour from four to six in our new branch office, and it's right on Main Street.
It's in the old town.
Crossing.
Crossing.
I always say square.
And we're on the second floor.
So we do have stairs to get to our space.
So I just want to let everybody know.
but you can park behind the building and our sign is going up today so you'll know right where we are.
I just love it.
I just want to say Old Town Square is a lot better than where I used to work at one time in real estate.
It's where the public market is going into right now.
It used to be called Old Fort Square.
And I had this lady and her daughter, elderly lady and daughter, and I said, it's right here in Old Fort Square.
And she goes, well, with you being the agent, you should call Old Fort Square.
Wow.
I
love it.
Thanks,
Grandma.
Holy cow.
You know how you're just
not expecting something?
Sometimes you're kind
of helping her across the parking lot.
Wow.
That, where you are, Deanna, is a well-built building.
Oh, it
is.
It is gorgeous.
I just wanted to go to Johnny's building, and that's being renovated, but that...
thing was put together, that was not a very well-built.
It was built in
the 70s,
wasn't it?
Right, in the walls.
And I had an office there, my campaign office.
And next to me was the, I think I told you that was the, the chiropractic office.
Yeah.
And I'd be in my office.
That's
where my office was.
It used to be the chiropractic, that was my office.
I'm glad they moved out, because I would be in my office, and the chiropractic office was next to it.
And we'd be on the phone, all we did was raise money, right?
And you'd be talking, you send me a hundred bucks and then.
The walls were
put together with spit.
I mean,
you
could hear everything.
They built
up trying to make it look like your place.
What was that?
3 inches, nothing.
1977 type
of construction.
Those walls were, I couldn't wait to get out of there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, this is gorgeous.
That's a beautiful building here.
The
parking's easy.
The parking's easy right behind the stairs.
We have external stairs on the backside right off of the parking.
But if you go around front, like if you're wearing high heels, you're going to have to go around front and use the internal stairs.
Every time I drive down Main Street in that area, I always got kind of one eye just on those buildings.
Like there's one.
Oh, beautiful.
It's like about four story one up there.
And it's like, I'd love to have like a office or something in one of those old buildings up high looking
down.
Yeah, just the history.
Yeah.
I know.
It's so neat.
So we were excited.
We went to the bar.
Do you know the history of the bar?
Kitty corner from you guys?
Is that cock and pull?
No, old crown.
Or no, crown
comments.
Oh, crown and common.
Yeah.
OK,
we did a thing there, but a video on how to make old fashions.
OK.
And the reason we took that is it's the longest running bar in Green Bay.
Really?
That's that
old part, that's
Green Bay that were you at.
So, isn't, wasn't that like an upholstery place at one point?
I don't know.
It was a, it was a, it may, I don't know.
It was a plastered place at one.
No, I forgot it wasn't upholstery.
I don't know.
But their back part,
they said it was a cool story.
George Calhoun, the guy that started up the Green Bay Packers dog, with his dog.
That's where he used to go and he'd sit and have drinks and start talking about the Green Bay Packers with guys around town.
So you want to talk about the birth of the Green Bay Packers?
Is that
what used to be like the standard?
I think it's called the parlor now, kind of the one that you can get to behind Crown and Common.
Yeah, we don't know that either.
Wait, did you put it someplace that were experts at Crown and Common?
You know what, I
only listen to this, I only know because that's where Ben and I met.
When it was
called boomers, and then it was top hat,
then
it was probably standard, and now it's I think in parlor or
something.
All right, but the history there, this is really important.
It's legit that I never knew.
Yeah, so Calhoun, who was the founder of the packer, and he didn't really got some recognition.
The packer statues that,
I
don't know where they are now, but on the
Park bench sitting there was George Calhoun with his dog.
That was him.
Everyone was like, who is that guy?
That's
Vince
Lombardi.
No, it's not Vince Lombardi, it's
George
Calhoun.
Who started the pack.
Without him, we would not have the Green
Bay Packers.
And he just got lost a little bit
with some of the players.
Yeah, didn't he?
He did.
I mean, God bless
Curly
Lambeau, but you
think he was starting from
here.
Yeah.
Everybody thinks who founded the Packers.
So he would
come in there with his dog and
they let
his dog come in and and here's a cool part though, too It was it was it was before prohibition, but then even during prohibition I think they just have like a little back room speakeasy type
thing or
they would go to okay, yeah, and and When old-fashioned started or before old-fashioned started they were making basic basically
bathtub gin, and you know, guys would have certain places to go.
I think
we did that in college, didn't we?
Absolutely.
Those wampatouli.
Absolutely.
But they would drink it, just tasted horrific.
Sort of like, what the heck can we do to make this?
So it's like, they experimented with different kinds of fruits and stuff, and mixed it up with the old fashioned thing.
And it's like, the term came up, just like, oh, this tastes like the old fashioned drinks we used to have.
So we started with gin?
I was
like
whoa in my mind give me the old-fashioned so it was the old stuff before they
were tasted right okay all right but
what's cool is that that's where he would set that's what he would be like George Calhoun was there I mean that's
Yeah.
Like if you're into- That's a landmark.
Yes.
Yeah.
I can see that out of one of my windows.
Yes.
If I kind of- You can.
That's what I was going to
say.
It's like, can he come in
here for me again?
Yeah.
They've got great pizza,
too.
They have the best, like, kind of New York style type
pizza.
They do.
Oh, and with the mushrooms that they sautéed their mushrooms, the garlic and butter put them on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tremendous pizza.
I'm
going to say my favorite all time there is pepperoni and green olive.
Oh.
Oh, gosh, that sounds good.
And he- It's so good.
And he's- The owner is from the East Coast, so I think he puts his own little- Brought some of that.
It's
delicious.
Yeah, I hope and
I just got Texan real
estate
Was
that from your her hubby
Anyway, that's that's cool part of town
and I
think people are when they come out to see you I think if they maybe walk around a little bit they're gonna see like
well
cuz I don't I think people drive through there.
I don't think they
get out and walk around.
Yeah, it's a beautiful area and
there's a lot down there.
I love it.
That's where we're walking like Saturday mornings.
That's just a cool walk.
It is.
Then cut through the backside of the park and everything.
Well, let's talk some real estate here.
Let's talk real
estate.
Ben and Deanna moving with the male course.
What is going on in these crazy days?
You know,
it's picking up.
It's picking up.
I think I probably should start with some of the listings that
Ben has
coming.
Let's do it.
And then we'll talk about, maybe after, if we come back
after the break.
Or pizzas, we can talk about pizza.
Yeah, I know.
I can
talk about pizza all day long.
Me too.
There's a lot of homes sitting in the market, so we've got some tips for buyers, I guess.
Listings that we have coming up, and I want to talk about, we have an open house this weekend on Saturday.
kind of hit.
So
it is,
nope, it's
actually,
we have that out there
too.
But this is going to be on, it's called West Point Center
condos.
And
it's right along the Fox River.
And so they are, there's six condos that we hope to get sold, even pre-sold, if possible.
Beautiful views of the river and high end there.
They started about 1.15 million.
Well, I will check one of those out.
Yeah, come and see them.
So
we actually, the, the open house is going to be at the showroom.
So it's not really, there's nothing to see on, on the property
yet.
So, and we have a website.
It's, it's just called West Point Center condos and.com.
And that's center, like S E N T R E. I suppose
that's
French.
Really?
Yeah.
Yep.
I'm
sorry, spell it for me again.
S-E-N-T-R-E.
Sorry, did I say S?
C-E-N-T-R-E.
C-E-N-T-R-E.
That's why I said really.
That's like a Canadian way.
Can you go to the Montreal
Center?
Yes, he's
from, he's the developers from Canada.
Okay, got it, got it.
So westpointcentercondos.com.
All right.
And we don't have the open house information on there yet, but you can see the showroom information.
So you'll know where the open house is gonna be, and we'll put the, I think it's gonna be from 11 to one
on Saturday.
And when you say showroom.
Yep, so it's the developer's office.
Okay.
We have everything in there.
So we have wonderful renderings.
We have some of the products that are going in so people can see it, touch it, feel it, and really see how it's gonna all come
together.
And where is
that?
That's in a Schwabonon.
It's right on the corner of South Ridge Road and Circle Drive.
Oh, that's easy enough?
Yeah.
Okay, awesome.
And what are the times and everything?
11
to one on Saturday.
11 to one on Saturday.
Yeah.
Oh,
standing.
Yeah, so that's coming.
Ben has a house hitting.
Tomorrow in Denmark in the upper
popular
area is oh my gosh.
That'll go fast.
I was there staging and taking pictures yesterday That town is so cute.
Honestly,
it's it's great.
I love Denmark
Yeah, that and I don't know if you've been to inspired spaces, but I've but that that is an amazing decor lighting and decor Business there, too.
So go to Denmark and check it out.
So it's one of my favorites
also go to Duck Creek Duck Creek slash
Denmark winery.
That's
right, another good one.
It's a great place.
They've been very kind to us too.
They've, you know, at Bay Area, they sponsored a lot of our things that we did.
So yeah, they're a great place.
But so yeah, it is a rehab home.
The investors bought it last year about this time and spent a year refurbishing it and adding a garage.
And
it is
gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous.
I'm telling you, Denmark, I know realtors, it's like, if you know if...
anybody selling in Denmark, please give us a call.
We've got a waiting list of people that want to live in Denmark.
And it's three bedrooms, two baths, beautiful kitchen, huge.
It's a detached garage, but beautiful new two-stall detached garage.
They've got a front porch, they've got a back porch.
It's wonderful.
And it's going to be in the upper twos.
I think it's somewhere around 280, 290.
These days?
Yeah,
I know.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
So that'll be hitting tomorrow.
And then we've got a bunch of more commercial property on Broadway listing as well.
Oh,
really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't know as much about that one.
Ben's kind of handled that
one a little bit more.
And like, you know, we've talked.
There's something about the weather going up.
Yeah,
that people are more willing to get out and walk around We're starting to see
when we're starting to see things hit the market, which we so desperately needed So it's it's real fun.
Okay, we got a lot more to talk about moving to Malacor is with Deanna back after this
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We're with the Anna Malkor.
Moving with the Malkor is really exciting time, exciting week, exciting weekend coming up for real estate and the real kickoff to the season.
Wouldn't
you say?
I'm going to say, honestly, we had talked about it last fall, Ben and I, that we thought the spring market was going to hit a little bit later this year because of the draft.
People hanging on a little bit before they put for sale sign in their yard.
I think we're starting to see that, because it's just starting to pick up
now.
People just want to get out of the house.
Yeah.
We've been in the house since Thanksgiving.
I know you get that little teaser for a couple of days.
Yeah.
I know.
We were so desperate to get out.
We actually bought a heater for our back porch and we sat out in our winter coats and blankets just to get some fresh air one night.
God bless you
because that
wind can come off that
river.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
So it is.
Also, now tell us about some of the you got condos.
coming to the market.
You've
got another great place coming to the market.
What about, what are you looking for for people looking to put their houses on the market?
Yeah, you know what?
We, well, and we still, I just want to do one more thing.
We've got, we're still really looking up in Door County for our buyers that are from kind of the Milwaukee, Cedarburg area.
And they, they love a harbor.
They love Fish Creek and being right outside.
They want to be on the water.
They're all cash.
They need four bedrooms.
anyone is thinking about selling, please give Ben a call.
So we can hopefully kind of broker this deal for them.
But yeah, they really want to get up there.
So I'm doing what I can for them.
Okay, I might have gotten this question wrong.
Yeah.
On my real estate exam.
Yeah.
And I might have broken the law.
But if somebody calls you for the lead, if somebody calls, hey, Mike, John Deanna, my great uncle.
needs to go to his home, got a great place, doesn't trust realtors, maybe, you know, I tell them it's from you, blah, blah, blah.
You talk to him, yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda, you get the listing.
Is it, is it legal for that guy to pay me a few bucks after it's sold for helping out?
Yes or no?
You're a licensed realtor.
No, I'm not, I'm
not.
So that's not, that'd be
illegal.
I'm not gonna go there.
No, that's fine.
All I'm saying is that would make it even sweeter.
It's like
winning
money.
That's kind of black and white, isn't it?
Yeah, I mean, I would say yes.
I didn't know that was in the guy.
I thought it was gray.
Yeah, yeah, beige is way off.
Hey, talk again about your open house tomorrow.
Yeah, open house tomorrow.
We have our grand opening at our branch office and it's called the collective and it's under Berkshire Hathaway Metro Realty.
Um, it is from four to six happy hour.
Um, come and have some, you know, refreshments and some good eats.
We actually, one of our realtors that are in our office, her husband is a chef.
So we.
We've got some good little snacks coming.
Okay, one
more time.
We
need the address.
The actual
address.
It's 1238 Main Street and that's Suite 21.
And you'll see our beautiful sign.
Beautiful.
Beautiful.
Yeah.
One more time.
What you got available?
Oh my gosh.
We have got so much available.
We got the condos out in Luxembourg.
We've got the condos coming on the Fox River.
Actually, they're starting to hit now.
We're going to have Denmark tomorrow.
We're actually going to have a house in Schmidt Park in the next couple of weeks.
If you're looking in that area, give Ben a call.
Really
popular
area.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We've got a bunch of commercial properties on Broadway that are either on the market or coming on the market tomorrow, actually.
What else do we have?
We have a condo up in Dorkoni that's available.
Yeah.
We've got a lot, yeah.
We're ready for you.
Tell them how
to find your website and look at everything you got.
You know what, for our website, all you need to do is type in benmelcore.com.
Okay.
Really nice and simple.
And then you can, if you have any questions, concerns, if you've got a home that you think fits one of our buyers or you're thinking about listing, you can give us a call at 920-495-7653.
that commercial property on Broadway and on Broadway is like, oh, it's Broadway, but you look at what the public market is trying to do.
I don't know if it is
anymore.
Right, that's what I was going to say, Johnny.
I
think the public market
is
there.
And I do think the city, and I don't want to speak for the city, but I think they may participate.
I
don't want to
speak for
them.
Yeah, you never know.
I mean, Broadway is, I mean, it is just becoming, you know, one of the hot areas in this whole community.
So, yeah, it's some beautiful locations.
It's all on kind of North Broadway in about the 400 blocks.
And
honestly, it reminds me, when I used to stay around Loyola University in downtown Chicago, and then go walk into some of the little neighborhoods, even like little Italy in the different places.
And it reminds me of those little Chicago
neighborhoods.
Boy, speaking of little Italy, they could, would that be awesome
to get some awesome restaurants?
Yeah, it would be.
That would be
perfect.
So
maybe a really, well, they've got Jake's.
I was going to say a pizza place, but there's already one there.
I love Jake's too.
You
know, but it's okay to have
two or three.
I mean, you got different styles.
It is.
And yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I agree.
But it needs something.
And I think something's going to happen.
One
more
step.
You know what I mean?
There's a
lot of ickies that you really need to
top it all off.
Across the street, things are happening.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Definitely, things are getting busy.
Give
yourselves a plug one more time,
please.
Oh, one more time, bedmailcore.com.
You can find these new condos at westpointcentercondos.com, and you can give him a call at 920-495-7653.
You
got it!
That's
good.
You made up for the bad time.
He made up for not knowing the frequency of the radio station he's
on.
Right, for two years.
Year and a half.
Oh yeah, it's right here.
and three quarters.
Hey, it works for me.
All right, and tomorrow at four
o'clock.
Four o'clock.
We'll see you there.
Stop by, say hi.
We'd love to see everybody.
That's gonna be fun.
And you guys could be working during the draft?
Oh, well, I mean, a little bit of both.
We're not gonna be able to show anything.
We're gonna be down there enjoying it like everybody else.
Outstanding.
As you should.
Hope to see you there.
Yeah, we definitely.
Diana, always wonderful having you in here.
You can leave him home anytime.
I
bet.
I bet.
Yeah.
I need him here for the spelling.
Ha ha ha ha!
Great point, you had a mallocore, please check them out.
Moving on to the mallocores, they've got some phenomenal places on the market.
We come back, we'll talk little headlines for the press times, back after this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios and featuring TV and radio broadcast veteran John Minow along with the City of Green Bay's longest-serving mayor Jim Schmidt.
This is Minow and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts.
John Minow and Jim
Smith.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
I remember three of mine on the mayor, 33 degrees in Green Bay, 32 in Ampton, 32 in Oshkosh.
Scattered showers today.
High on the upper 40s.
Milwaukee Brewers at Colorado Rockies tonight.
Seven o'clock coming your way on WISS.
Great lineup of group of guests that Todd put together again today.
Andy Brady, Verizon's market president, partnership with the Packers, and huge partnership with local veterans.
Dan Vermeulen, sleep in heavily peace.
Great, great organization.
They have a melcore.
Moving with the melcore is they will make things happen in downtown Gray Bay at all points beyond.
Check out their website because they've got a lot of great stuff on the market that will go fast.
And now one of our favorite segments of the week, Tori Wittenbrock and John Kramer, headlines with the press times.
Good morning.
And Tori, thank you for not making me feel like really old and like, you know, confused and whatever, whatever.
Because when I talked about how I got lost at UW-Green Bay in the
Union building downstairs.
What did you say?
Oh same thing happened to me multiple times freshman year.
You are not alone
Thank you.
I was that old guy just wandering already must have thought there's
some guy just looking at
It's
Afghanistan all over again walking off the airport
getting our Am I am I in a good neighborhood here?
I'm just curious
Yeah, how you doing John?
Uh, yeah, I'm okay.
I think okay.
Yeah, I'm trying to decide.
I know you're busy
Yeah, I'm busy.
You're all over the place, which is great.
Yeah, one thing, so I've taken pictures, game day pictures for the Green Bay Blizzard now.
I know.
So we got some great... They're getting some good crowds.
Oh, phenomenal.
Wow.
Yeah, they're almost full every game.
I didn't realize that.
I've
been to a game
for a
while.
Me
either.
And they're packing it in.
I couldn't believe it.
I saw that.
It's from your pictures.
That's
what
I'm
saying then.
In the article.
I liked your pictures and story on that dale.
Uh, the, the, um, the brewery that we covered.
Oh, yeah,
yeah, yeah.
No, no, no.
I, I, you know what?
We'll pass on that.
I was, I get a lot of newspapers.
I got that mixed up.
We want to, we want to thank you for our new,
would this be a meme that you created on us?
No, it's just that an
avatar.
It's a little, uh, my original image with
a
little, with a
little, uh, thinner now.
Yes.
In that picture.
Okay.
Thank you,
John.
Yeah, that turned out great.
That was a lot of fun.
Todd looks
the best.
Todd looks the best.
That puppet looks exactly
like Todd.
How come Todd and I have the big Google eyes?
You gotta put those on our, put those up, Todd.
That's totally the guy from... Who is he?
Yeah, so he's the guy from the, not the dentist, you know, the Rudolph.
Rudolph?
Oh, Herbie the Elf?
Are you talking about Yukon Cornelius?
Yukon
Cornelius.
Oh, wow.
Am I close?
Am I?
Okay, she's... I see it.
Okay, thank you.
Right?
You're... Cool.
Which one?
Which one?
Me?
You?
Oh,
he... Yeah, I can see that.
You can't hit a
red beard.
That doesn't matter.
Hey, can you change it?
Make
it red.
Yeah, okay.
I can work on that.
You can't Cornelius.
That was... You were pretty quick with that, so you must have thought a little bit like that.
You jumped on it right away, right away, Todd.
Yeah, I threw it up.
You did,
yeah.
Okay, say what you want about AI and complain about and everything, but it's a lot of fun.
If you know what you're doing.
Oh, yeah, yeah,
that's where we get off.
Exactly.
Well, Troy, once again, we were talking about you haven't talked to you since the G what we talked with the GB thing, but haven't talked to you since the NCAA women's tournament.
Right.
Just your views on that.
I mean, just some high quality basketball,
huh?
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
I mean, it's always really exciting to watch you got your brackets and everything and mine did not do well this year.
But I don't even do it
anymore.
Yeah, right.
I've given I don't do it.
What about
badger women's hockey?
Yeah.
And
that's amazing.
That's amazing, isn't it?
So when you started in women's sports, you were in a good era, because things had changed.
And again, for my, I'm so old that when I was a senior in high school, that's the first year they had girls
sports,
like in the state, in Wisconsin, Michigan, the whole Midwest was that year.
And I'm just so unbelievably impressed.
And I'm gonna make a little thing about a movie reference that almost reminds me of, the girls picked up those sports so fast.
and got so good, and you just keep seeing it growing and growing and growing.
It's amazing, because this is my lifetime.
We're not talking about the ladies in World War II that played baseball, and then you guys, I'm not talking about you.
Well, you know
what I'm trying to
say.
You know, it's very, okay.
But it reminds me of that scene of airplane,
where they go into a mission and it goes,
we're in the deepest part of a hidden, we're teaching them the fundamentals of basketball.
And one day they're like,
And then two days later they're doing flying slam dunks.
It's like you're your generation just picked up sports and just said Screw it.
We're just moving on without looking back.
Yeah,
but
have you seen the movie
airplane?
To be kudos to the how could you not have seen airplane?
She's 12.
You know what I watched the other night.
That was
crazy But and I just laughed the whole is lethal web or not lethal weapon.
Um blazing saddles No, no the other one the other one the other one the other one just like just like airplane But they're the cop ones with OJ Simpson
police academy.
No Todd Oh Leslie Nielsen OJ Simpson George Kennedy.
Yeah,
um, oh a police academy police squad.
No, no, it's
There you go.
There you
go.
Oh, we gotta
get your list.
They're all classic movies.
They're all the same.
But they're funny.
And highly offensive.
Right.
They are.
You couldn't play a lot of that today.
You couldn't make any of it today.
But if you have nothing to do, you're home alone with your dog, it's
funny.
Right.
Exactly.
Yes.
Just very good.
It's one of those escape things.
So anyway,
you know, one other thing that I thought about when I was coming up there, you're the women's facilities are so much like that soccer field now is so great.
And the softball versus 20 years ago, it was just, and I always used to think, how do you recruit to GB?
And they still get great athletes.
I mean, now it's awesome.
But when
When you talk about former athletes, how they had it versus how you guys, I mean, I don't think there was a weight room for women up till, you know, not that many years ago.
You ever talked to them about, wow.
Has this place ever expanded and exploded and become a great place for female athletes?
Yeah, I mean it was definitely a little bit of like a legend when I was there.
We would talk about like the deserted backfield that used to be their main field and how it was all like run down and like that used to be.
It was always wet and go for holes.
Yep.
You also have to give Title IX some credit for elevating that from a government standpoint to a legal standpoint that you and I think
We needed that because it was always in the shadows and Johnny had sisters.
I had six sisters and it's like
And fun fact I actually found out that cheerleading started off being like a men's sport and it wasn't until after World War two that it started switching to Prominently women so
thank God that
yeah,
yeah, you know George Bush W was the cheerleader you're the for coming out cheers.
Yeah,
cuz he didn't have any
Females on a co-eds so it was all in George Bush.
W was the guy with the big manga phone.
Yeah,
W did that.
Yep
Wow,
he doesn't talk about that as much or
owning the baseball team Anyway, I just think he's right about that and I think that it caught on
Very, very, very quickly.
And
I mean, it's definitely different too.
Like you can't really compare men's and women's sports.
I think a lot of people do that, especially with like the WNBA and the NBA, like, oh, women's sports aren't as entertaining or they don't get as much traction.
I think it's that, you know, it might be true to a certain extent, but you can't really compare them.
Women's sports are their own thing.
Women add their own sports.
And they don't
try to compete.
We're doing our own thing.
Exactly.
Do you find
season tick holders one or the other?
What do you
mean?
Do they follow the women's sports?
Do they follow the men's sports?
Do you think they follow both?
Take basketball and sport.
Honestly, I think that a lot of it, I mean, it kind of depends on.
each person because like a lot of times it'll be like somebody who grew up watching basketball and is like, oh, I love basketball.
And then you have daughters and you're like, let's see the women's side of it.
And that's, I think, a lot of what brought people to women's sports is having daughters or having people that are involved in women's sports.
And it's like, oh, this does open up a whole new side for fans.
Right.
I was going to say that.
I
would agree with that.
And it's great for parents who have daughters to see other.
And there's a future.
I
have to think, I know you were young, but I have to think the bratty, chastain era for girl soccer had to be huge, was it?
Oh yeah, for sure.
I mean, I remember growing up and...
It seemed to admit it's a little pedestrian, but my idol was always Alex Morgan.
So, um,
it was her teammate.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So I grew up with that whole era of, um, women's soccer players with Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo, all, you know, and they're like iconic.
And now, I mean, there's so much turnover.
There's a completely different squad than when I was 11, obviously.
I mean, they were like,
I want us like household sports names there for
a few years.
Exactly.
They definitely, yeah.
Yeah, so, I mean, I think that those girls were definitely game changers for lack of a better word for the sport of soccer because everyone idolized them.
There was not a girl in the soccer field that her idol wasn't Alex Cover of
Sports Illustrated.
Exactly, exactly.
So.
Yeah, it's funny though too, I was watching a thing where they had a reunion or something and a couple of them were moms.
You know, they had kids during the, you know, and they're these
elite
athletes and a couple of times they didn't have a sitter or whatever and the coach would call this meeting and remember one had to take her little girl who was like two or three years old or something.
And she sat through a lot of meetings and the coach goes, you lost focus in that second half.
You lost focus.
You're not focusing.
You lost.
Okay.
So I sit in this meeting and the little girl just starts and she, Peter Pence.
Okay.
And the mom goes.
Sarah, what happened?
How did you do it?
She was, I just lost focus, mom.
It was just neat that she'd been so around coaching talk that that's how she was.
And now she's this great young player.
I just
thought that was really cool.
It is.
And I think sports definitely give you a warped sense of time because...
I'm like I said I grew up idolizing Alex Morgan and then I had a total like mental breakdown when I found out she was retiring because I was like what my she was my idol she was the young like new hot girl coming on the scene and now she's retired and I have friends that I played with growing up that are going pro
Wow,
so one
thing I'm not to get deep into this but how disappointing and
picky with the hope solo saga the way that turned
out oh my gosh i know well i mean i like i said i idolized a lot of those girls and i'm i was obviously english lit major i was a big reader i wanted to read hope solos book and my mom was like nope not maybe not the role model for you isn't that something why why can't i read her book and now i'm like okay now i know why yeah
disappointing when that happens though but it happens
a lot, not a lot, but it happens more than we wish as parents.
You know what, Doctor?
You talk
about her boyfriend, or maybe it's her husband now, he was in the NFL, and he was troubled in the NFL all the time.
You know what I mean?
So it's like Jeremy Stevens, he got in trouble in college.
So it's like you put two people who, you know, I think they kind of fed off each other in a bad way.
Don't
beat your heroes sometimes,
right?
Exactly, right.
Tori Wittenrock, John Kramer, headlines of the press times, more right after this.
Upper 40, some scattered showers.
33 in Green Bay right now, 32 in Apton, 32 in Oshkosh.
Great fun time of the week.
Tori Wittenbrock and John Cramer, headlines of the press times.
Tori, a former division one athlete, soccer player at UW Green Bay and from sunny California.
Oh yeah.
And you're okay with the kind of wintery hand and the things and you're good.
I love it.
It's different.
It's different.
I don't want it to be 75 on Christmas morning.
All right,
I like that.
I like that a lot.
I don't know about everybody.
Your folks have an extra
room.
Yeah, I've definitely met some controversy.
Every time I wish that there's snow, everyone around here is like, what is wrong
with you?
So Tori, sports.
Yes.
Criticism.
Will you be critical?
Sometimes the coaches but I don't read the papers and I was talking to a reporter one time because yeah, they do yeah You know what I mean like I coaches I would say that too.
I
don't read the papers.
Oh, yeah, they do I know and so with like where's the fine line to cover in it and you can write your own like
Critical column like you know why aren't we doing this or why aren't you doing that?
Why aren't you recruiting this?
You know we've talked about writing like me having my own column and stuff like that But to be honest there's so much game coverage that we have why not give the students the spotlight so we have
interns that are helping us.
We have writers.
I've got myself.
We've got so many high school sports available that we're out there covering games.
I mean, we had, I had interns covering two soccer, girl soccer games last night at the West appeared to peer game and at Ashwabhanon girl soccer.
We've got baseball game coverage, softball game stuff.
We just don't have enough room.
That's kind of my point is that you have a lot of coverage.
Are you going to take an angle of opinions?
I don't know.
I mean, not at this point.
I just like,
Just like seeing the game telling the game for how it is.
Honestly.
I think what he's trying to say is you want to be a columnist like Christie Brennan people That's a natural you know kind of is I know it's been what even with reporters so from that to opinion being you know editorial some
of your
friends
Well, you start doing that you're gonna alienate half your
There's no question that that does happen, but that's
the
ultimate in in sports writing it wouldn't you say
I mean, yeah, it's definitely
An angle.
I don't know.
If you choose to take
that.
That's
right.
I never did.
I honestly wanted to just cover
the sports or whatever.
It's true.
Honestly.
Well, and we do get a lot of support from the coaches.
Like, I covered Faith Walder and Westapyr last week when they beat Ashwab Nan 3-1.
And their coach commented, reposted our story and everything.
And I've never had an issue with any of the coaches in my time.
So you like the space you're in.
Interviewing them or anything.
They've all been super supportive of the press times and super thankful for.
our coverage.
So in a small
town, how are you going to slam these guys?
No, I
understand.
But I'm going to say it in down the road is, you know, do you see a different route you're going to take with this?
I don't know.
I mean, I'm happy where I am right now.
I like what I'm doing.
That would definitely be out of my comfort zone.
So I wouldn't be opposed to it.
And the opportunities, even Gino for his before the final four and his press conferences, I've been doing this for like 40 years, whatever.
You know what he said is the greatest thing, the greatest thing sitting in here.
There's like twice as many female sports reporters as men.
And
he even brought that up.
He says, that's awesome.
Yeah, it definitely used to be a male dominated field.
And now women tend to be taking over.
So it's definitely an interesting shift.
It's only a matter of time.
Taking over.
When you're covering sports up here, and I know you guys are at a pretty elite level in California with those club teams
and everything.
I mean, that's outdoor sports.
That's golf, baseball, tennis.
Yes.
Soccer and everything like that.
When you come here, are you surprised though, how some of these girls who have, although there's, there's a lot more opportunity now to play off season with the facilities.
Okay.
Were you surprised at all at the talent level up here?
Yeah.
And I think that what surprised me more honestly was the, the community support, how there's so many people that like.
are behind all the high school athletes like they want you they want to see success from these young kids and that's really awesome because when I was in Southern California it was kind of like if you were good you did your own thing you did you took yourself out of school you did winter circle stuff where your training and your high school schedule revolves around your training and you're kind of private and keep to yourself and then go pro and that was like kind of the norm is like the really good kids wouldn't be playing high school sports wouldn't be you know involving themselves in things where they
could
or they go to one of those IMG
academies.
Yeah, they wouldn't even be in public school and stuff.
It would be like, oh yeah, I played with her when I was little and then she kind of fell off the face of the earth because she's doing her own private training, her own thing.
That was kind of the norm there.
And here it's like you see these kids through their high school careers doing, you know, club stuff,
softball, volleyball, all the different,
you know what I mean?
Different
sports athletes.
The football players at Dayport and Notre Dame and stuff.
And you, there's a lot of people from the community that follow these high school athletes and want to see them succeed through college and go on to the next level.
So.
And these kids that do go on, you'll keep in contact with them?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm.
I've only been doing this role for two years.
I know
it's like that's one of the fun parts.
Yeah, because it's pretty cool.
I mean, there
are a couple of
these kids that are.
Yeah, we're actually one of our previous sports editors.
The one that I took over for is starting a monthly column for us now that where he's going to reach out to a previous Green Bay local athlete and see kind of where are they now to follow up on them in their careers.
I think some of us would.
Enjoy
that.
Yeah.
And you know, if he's ever short or whoever's short on subjects, let me know.
Like I said, I've been covering
high school sports here since 1984.
Yeah.
How
are they doing, John?
They're dead.
Wow.
Wow, Todd.
I
mean,
I laughed.
We were having such a good show.
They're in the home.
That's what I meant.
They're in the home.
They're in the home.
So no, we do turn out some great athletes.
I'm interested in where some of them are, but some of the ones just recently, and I
keep talking
about my neighbor
kids.
And I still love the
profiles.
When
you guys do the profiles of the athletes.
The senior spotlight.
Yeah.
That's how
it's going.
Yeah.
My boyfriend actually grew up here.
He went to high school at Southwest, and he has his senior spotlight from the press time still pinned up in his room.
No kidding.
That's awesome.
So your
boyfriend is 17?
No.
Oh, sorry, I thought you meant he said
athlete there
now.
Just checking.
I bet John Kramer still has clippings from his days back in La Crosse.
No.
No?
I'm from Eau Claire.
Oh, that would be wise.
That would be wise.
Not a
lot of cross up there.
OK, we got one minute.
Tell us what you got coming up for the press time sports wise.
We got some softball games, baseball games coming up.
We covered Notre Dame baseball last week, and now we're going to cover them again this week.
So hopefully they can they can bounce back from that.
And I just want to say there's a special place in heaven for the parents that have gotten out to watch their kids play soccer or softball or baseball over the last two weeks, man, because they still show up.
And it is really.
cold and really windy and by goodness they're out there.
Still there.
Your parents never had experience that did they?
Oh no.
They just sat out there in 117 degrees to wash me with my
soccer.
Terry Wittenbrock, always fun having you here.
You're doing a phenomenal job as sports editor of the press times.
You really and truly are.
Thank you.
John Kramer, thanks buddy.
Always good to see you.
Yes sir.
Keep rocking man.
Keep up what you're doing.
Yes sir.
We're gonna start a break.
Terry Barr, Slices of Wisconsin coming up.
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Who are the two former Packers in my mind?
That I would have if you get them right.
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What do you think about that?
What
I'm thinking 63 was rainage you worry.
Well, he was 66.
This is 76 53 4 9 5 and if you actually we could go I'll tell you what we'll do we'll do this 4 is easy the 4 the 9 5 the 7 6 and the 5 3 if I gave those numbers to you
who would you come out to remit?
Because that's how I remember everything.
People think I've got this great memory, but I do that little trick that I know your professors or teachers say you're not supposed to do that because you're not really learning, right?
But I do that for everything, all right?
And I'm gonna give out a major prize package.
Anybody that would come up with who I would be saying for four, 95, 76, and 53.
If you get that right, you are magnificent.
Okay, I'll take four.
Take four.
Okay,
you got one right.
Okay, so do I win?
You know, go ahead.
Ninety five.
That's the only one I know was four.
Yeah.
Well, you get, you know, you win, you win.
Um, this pair of glasses that I was wearing yesterday, that's why I couldn't see the, couldn't read the screen there.
So just saying, just throw that one out there.
All right.
But that's how I remember everything.
I know you do.
You do.
It's just a weird thing.
I remember things.
And correct
names.
And yeah, that's, that's, and that is, um, very, very valuable.
Can I tell you a little ways how I remember things?
With the quarterbacks.
Yeah, okay.
I'm gonna throw it a name.
Okay.
Mm-hmm
hunter Enos
Okay, that's a little weird, but okay.
Well, that was his name
Okay hunter Enos
Enos and IS
Okay, no, it's hunting.
All
right.
I'm just gonna throw itself there I visualize.
Okay.
How would I go?
Okay?
What do you visualize when someone says hunter Enos
Enos?
Okay, Enos, okay?
Who do you remember?
Are you saying that on purpose?
Yes.
Okay.
I was wondering if Johnny was like a wick.
No, Enus.
Hunter Enus.
Hunter Enus.
You can look it up.
I got it.
I was just teasing you, Enus.
Okay.
All right.
So, you know, that's a Dale Carnegie thing is to visualize
things.
That's what
I do.
Okay.
I want to get, okay, Hunter, that's easy.
Okay.
Enus.
So I
take
Enus.
Enus.
Who's the only person TV you ever don't know of the name Enus?
I don't know anybody.
Dukes of Hazzard, the deputy sheriff.
I wouldn't know that.
So I could see that.
So Daisy Duke is talking to him.
It's like, Enos, what are you doing this weekend?
He goes, well, I'm going hunting and I'm going church because I'm a Christian right here in Texas.
Where did Hunter Enos go to school?
Texas Christian University.
That would be
a Dale Carnegie.
That's a good way to remember things.
That's how I do it.
Okay.
With everybody, there's some sort of little
thing.
Visualize
put
together anything,
right?
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
So that's how I do it.
Okay.
All
right.
That's That's good.
I mean I
can I believe that okay, so that's how you do it.
Yes Okay now, so what about the numbers?
These numbers mm-hmm.
I just I can see them You know on the program I could see them on the field with these numbers
So does So does every pair of numbers
Correlate to a packer player
pretty much.
Yeah, pretty much Some might be obscure cuz I'm
19
Yeah, they haven't had anybody really good.
That was a 19 Yeah,
I wouldn't know but
yeah,
that's a weird number.
Okay.
Um, all right Well, that's I was good, but I mean I'm going back to glory days.
Yeah.
Yeah, I usually do.
Yeah Interesting.
Yeah.
Well,
so anyway, that's why I do it
When people say, how do you remember some?
It's always something in my mind.
Some little story with their name.
And then it just stays there.
It
just gets locked in.
So that's how I do it.
But I could never do that in school.
You know what I mean?
I could never, never put that together to help me in school.
In like economics class or something.
You know what
I mean?
No, people are like, oh, you got such great memory.
You must have been great in school.
And I wasn't.
My mind didn't work like bookkeeping, economics, things like that.
Yeah.
If you wanted to torture somebody, but have them.
So I would have to do their like
memorization.
Yes.
Yeah.
But but
zero for the mechanical, the whatever, whatever, whatever's nothing.
All right.
Yes.
Well, it's been obviously work.
It's got me here.
Yeah.
Hey.
There you
go.
He's got me here.
And Todd's saying, thank goodness he wasn't better at school.
But anyway, we're going to talk with Terry Barst, Slyce, Wisconsin, a lot of stuff coming up.
And we were just talking with her today, 35, 36, 34, Indiana Malkor was saying, yes, thank you.
People now want to get out of the house without running from their car to a place to whatever, whatever.
That's always fun to do.
Go look at houses and yeah, it's great.
It's
the grilling season.
I'm starting to grill.
Oh.
Healthy tilapia and salmon.
Did you get your um bear
frag
one?
No, not yet.
I Got pick it up tomorrow.
It's in that truck.
I gotta pick it up.
Oh and then bring it back.
Yeah I'm gonna have here.
I'm gonna use that a lot.
Yeah, you will
I'm gonna use that a lot actually I was gonna ask Todd if I could bring it down here and keep it in the kitchen
Cause I just don't have a lot of room.
Yeah, probably not.
Yeah.
Thank you, Todd.
It would smell and it would not be, and you wouldn't clean it.
Well, we've been, we've been, we've been, we've been tossing stuff to Todd for the last 10 minutes, completely ignores us.
I bring up one little thing.
And Elvis and boy, here's that.
That was, that was something
that I'm working on our phone issue.
And I heard that.
I'm like, now I got to step in
on this one.
Thank
you, Todd.
All right.
Reboot.
Okay.
Oh, okay.
He was doing something down there.
So we're at Oshkosh tomorrow.
Yes, we are.
Oshkosh, that was a fun place to go.
And we
have a great lineup.
I was looking
at that.
You were going to have a
great time.
We enjoyed that.
And then back here on Friday.
Yes.
I will not, however, be doing what I did last time I came to Oshkosh and filled you all with wonderful apple strudel from Vintage Rose.
Oh, yeah.
Wasn't that good?
And your mom liked it, right?
She loved
it.
She loved it.
I got to pick her something.
I just gotta say that place, you know how sometimes there's places you go to and just feel good going there?
That vintage road is one of those places.
You just feel you got it.
It's off-suring road folks.
If you haven't been there, stop in.
Have some of their sweets that they make there.
Vintage
road and just to the west, first roundabout boom right
there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's really, really good.
And they're open.
Did you go there before I was there at 430 and they're open,
huh?
Well, I think they might have opened early for me, but they were there making all the stuff.
Yeah, maybe it's six Maybe it's five.
No, I don't want to say six more But if you get a chance folks or even want to grab some sandwiches for a lunch type thing.
Yeah,
oh, yeah
And there's sweets.
It's just even thinking about it right now I'm getting that kind of ever get that in your mouth or it's like you're just talking about something little and it literally like your mouth waters type of you
know how I was telling you this morning that we need to do a best of
Supper club.
Yes.
I still we talked about this a while ago Todd.
The other thing I want to do is the best burger I went to the right place.
Remember I told you that was like my favorite It's it it still is it just is so good.
I know there's a lot of great burgers I bought a quart of Booyah from there last week Takeout Booyah if we do that
best of in Oshkosh, Appleton
Green
Bay.
I was a little disappointed though.
They did not have my tortilla soup.
Oh yeah, you like that.
I love their tortilla soup.
Why was that fantastic?
Just awesome.
Okay, but Bessie Burger, okay, you gotta go to some out of the way places then though.
But those, I like that.
Remember they, I just saw something in the paper on those dive bars?
That's where we gotta go.
Yeah, I
know, that's what I mean.
I got a call from a friend of mine.
that we're talking about something else and we got into the whole burger thing.
But he liked that drift in.
Oh sure, I mean, that's a
can't miss.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Right.
It's a can't miss.
Anyway, this
is going to sound ridiculous.
That's where he wanted to go.
This is going to sound ridiculous.
And I've told you this before.
I've never been to Alice.
I know.
I think that is.
That would be my kind of place.
And for some reason, I got to go to Alice.
Yeah, you do.
And that's.
It's right down the block.
It is.
Yeah, that's a great place so we will
but there are some places that you just know it's gonna be good But what I I love going to smaller towns and just going into their downtown or on the outskirts and someplace that still has a schlitz beer sign Everything I love that those places
pretty good, but that's gonna be a good burger if there's a schlitz sign hanging outside
still got a jukebox Yep, well man quarter not the new ones you put in a quarter you play Merle Haggard
Yeah, maybe yeah, we gotta figure out a way to I don't know
That could be really fun this summer to do that.
And then that supper club thing, I don't know how far our reach is gonna be, but man, I wanna go to, I asked you this before, you've been to Black Otter?
Have not.
Okay, that's where we're gonna go.
That's where we're definitely gonna go to that one.
I haven't been to as many places as I should have in all the years I lived here.
It's like, I talk big about trying out these other places, but when it comes down to it and you got your money that you're gonna be spending,
Because there's nothing worse than going to a place and it's like,
ah, we got that green.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
But whereas you know a place is going to be good.
Yeah.
But there's nothing more fun than finding a place and out of the way place.
In Altoona.
I mean, Altoona.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
That's a good place.
I got to go there for their brunch, though.
Their brunch is
amazing.
Yeah, they got that.
No, it's not a good.
They have a lot of.
Oh, you know, or else we're talking to a guy yesterday about the golf tournament and everything.
Um, the buffet they have at the golf course in Bowler.
Oh, yeah, just yesterday.
We have to
promote that.
He's not
a crime rib.
And yeah, it's like, oh my Lord, does that sound good?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're going to talk to Pete about putting together some kind of, I don't know, supper club contest
this
summer.
Got texture.
Yes.
The right place, cheeseburger and basil.
Basil's is great in Denmark.
They get my vote.
Al's has a $20 quad cheeseburger since Williams.
What is it?
So instead of like a
double triple
four.
Yeah, that would be quad Wow, I mean, how
I don't know that your mouth
that Wow Wow
You know
what Williams, right?
Basil's would be up there.
He's so I don't know.
I don't know how we pick them.
That might be tough and then I don't want to make anybody mad because we love all our listeners.
I don't
know
what I want to get out of town.
Oh, yeah, totally.
I want to get out of town because we can just walk across the street to places here, which are great but just to experience other out of town kind of places.
We'll have to figure that out.
That could be a lot of fun and we'll have a lot of fun doing that too.
We still have we still have a lot of
Breweries to stop at before
no
question.
What's the thing when the 19th 18th 18th
the vow to stop what we won't be able to do within two weeks But some time over the next couple of months.
I vow I will get to every single one of those Distilleries
why not in the next
because I
was this week and I got a wedding this week in a Minneapolis
No way with everything I got going on two weeks to get to all of them.
There's like 12 of them.
I Think you do that.
There's 10 10.
Yeah, and then we have like a record.
No, I
I want to like go to one and spend some time.
Two a day?
Can I go two a day?
No.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
There might be some you could go to two in one day because they're close, but you know, some of our town of Dale and Fond du Lac and that's a lot.
That's, that would be tough.
And you know, they got limited hours at times.
That's
true.
Cause they're
not
summer hours yet.
But if I, when I go to, I want to really experience it.
Yeah.
Give them the time.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
We'll see if we can put something together.
All right.
But that's going to be fun.
All right.
We'll try to
work that
out.
Okay.
So for textures, we're sorry.
Todd's too busy doing mechanical stuff and electronic stuff and computerized stuff and things we don't know how to do.
Yeah.
So there.
All right.
Got that going for you.
which is nice.
He's not even paying attention.
He's there smoke coming out of something over there.
He's doing his other thing.
So one other thing I want to talk about with your, your organization.
Yes.
Okay.
We're going to be doing a thing here on Friday folks that is going to be spectacular.
This is going to be so impressive and so awesome.
And I'm going to tell you what it is.
So we've been waiting to get our man Spencer, who is the world's greatest mural type of artist in the world.
Okay.
He's unbelievable.
And what he's going to do is off to the side here.
We've got the two big, just like what we have behind WGBW and the big star type of, you know, things.
What we're going to do is spend, we're going to take those down on Friday.
Spencer is coming in and he is going to do two original works of art honoring the history and birth and everything of all things Green Bay Packers.
Okay.
We are going to put a shelf in between.
I've got, I think six helmets.
the first one we'll go back to I think basically the start of the Green Bay Packers and all the way through modern day got the old curly lambo type things we're gonna put on a display of old school Green Bay Packer right here and we're gonna be able to see it through our windows and we'll put it all over our Facebooks and everything like that and then we're gonna
Okay, hey, welcome
back!
Mind on the mare!
Wrapping up in our beautiful Wednesday morning.
Once again, 35 in Green Bay, 36 snapping, 34 in Oshkosh.
Gotta throw this one at you, Jim.
Okay, one, not political, but whatever, whatever.
It's the big story in the papers and everything today.
And I think it was Tori or somebody that said, what do you guys think about the potential of parking ramps doubling in price and parking meters doubling in price during the draft?
Yeah, I don't.
I saw that.
And then you also saw the thing on food pricing going up, too.
I would sure like it if you showed your local idea, wouldn't I'm sorry.
Say that again.
I would like it if you showed that you were local.
Oh,
I got you.
I got you, got you, got you.
You know,
we can do that for pools, right?
I mean, if you show that you're a Green Bay resident, it's two bucks.
If you're not, it's whatever, five, whatever.
But the Clark Center, I mean, same type of thing.
You can go in there as a guest
pass.
But I don't like when they take it out on the locals.
Yeah.
Because we've been here all year.
I mean, all life.
Yeah.
What about businesses that say it's going to ruin traffic for me?
This is going to be a rough couple of weeks here.
So I was, we talked, Don and I were talking about that.
I don't like that, that, because these people have worked hard to build the business and some of them are, you know, they're looking forward to this.
I mean, this is, this is the gravy that some of us, they
want to be involved.
And to inhibit their traffic flow is,
I don't know.
I would probably kick and scream a little bit.
I would.
I gotta admit it.
It's not, I think I would.
I know I would.
So I don't know.
If they agreed to it, well then, that's fine.
And I understand safety's number one, and that's gotta be the first and foremost thing for any activity.
The customers have got to be safe.
The flow of traffic, that's...
got to be secondary, but I just hope there's a way you can work at, you know, especially some of these more established businesses that, you know, they, and people want to go to people like Krolls, right?
I mean, that's the Butterburger.
I mean, who's going to pass on that?
So, um, but, you know, when they say that prices may, you've been buying this certain burger, I just wish they would do something for, for locals, because I don't know, I just don't think it's right that if you pay for what, what parking in the ramp is, what,
$2 an hour, $3 and take a pay six.
What?
I understand that.
I will say this.
I've talked to a person and they weren't sure yet, but they were like, okay, this is maybe the biggest thing that'll ever happen in Green Bay because we'll never have a Super Bowl.
Even Mark Murphy says this is the biggest thing we'll have in that way.
And there are some people where it's like, holy crap, and it's gonna, I'm gonna lose business.
over the biggest thing happening in Green Bay.
I had a guy bring that up to me, is that gonna happen?
I said, I have no idea.
I mean, we just got the traffic flow, who knew, who knew, who knew.
So I don't know who might be affected yet
or not.
But again, if you're gonna host this big of event, on the other hand, putting the devil's advocate, it's kind of like, well, if we gotta get in and quarter million people, I guess.
Right.
Like you said, 1,200 people aren't gonna get their mail for three days.
Could
they be
compensated somehow or something?
That's what I was thinking.
If you were a business and it was going to affect you, isn't there something that- I mean, they
talk about this because it would be millions upon millions for the community.
Well, how about giving a little something, something for the effort
to those who are going to be affected in a
negative
way?
NFL could open up their wallet for this.
Absolutely.
I mean, they've got millions of dollars.
They keep bragging
about
how
much money it's bringing into the community, but I got to see some guy who's got this little Bob and Pop business.
I got to close for the week.
If there's a retail business and their business goes down,
And 250,000 people show up.
Something's wrong.
I agree.
I agree.
If they're not compensated somehow.
Todd?
Well, I'm just, I'm thinking some of these shops may not be tourist attractions, right?
They may just be everyday businesses.
But then
their regular customers can't get to it.
That's exactly my point.
CLA, right?
I mean, that's where we get our taxes done.
They already sent us a letter.
Look, get your taxes in.
Don't come here and pick them up.
They're going to close.
And that I could see?
Right.
I don't think a lot of the 250,000 people are going to go get their taxes now.
I don't think so.
You know what I mean?
But there are other businesses that serve our community on a daily basis.
My guess
is they're going to have some parking attendance in their parking lot.
Oh
yeah, keeping people out or whatever, or renting it out.
Right.
Yeah.
But that's what I mean, no free parking.
No, I think that parking is 100 bucks a day or something.
Okay.
Well, even I think in the neighborhoods right around Lambo, it's at least $100 a day for parking, which I will say this.
I mean, why not?
For Green Bay, it's like, go to Chicago and just park.
Park in a hotel, if you're gonna go to Chicago, and you're gonna have underground parking, expect an extra like $70 a day, is it?
$70, $80 a day?
So I mean that's, I will say that part, I don't blame the people, the local people around there for
making what they can.
Four people in the cards, come on,
I'm
gonna take in
$25.
Absolutely,
absolutely.
Let me problem
with
that.
I am saying if it's a local business that generally would have had business for those days, I think the NFL should compensate them.
But I see Chuck E. Cheese is closing, but.
That was their decision.
I didn't know they were still open and I don't mean that in a bad way But it's like I would have taken my granddaughter's there if they are they still over by red lobster.
Yeah, I
Okay, I used
to take our kids there.
Oh my god, it was birthday party for I know 11 years, right?
Yeah, okay, all right
You know you every day there's something else right that's that's in the paper But I hope and we've talked about this when this is announced what you know almost a year ago
We talked about the economic side of it, you know, it's going to be fun.
It's going to be great to be there.
But, you know, we talked about side hustles.
We talked about, you know, the icing on the cake.
So I would be very disappointed if a guy was or gal was looking forward to, you know, picking up a couple of a few thousand dollars and think they can't.
That would be right.
The NFL commissioner makes, correct me if I'm wrong, it was $44 million.
I think it's now $49 million a year.
$49 million a year, the commissioner makes and talks all the time about how much money he's bringing into Green Bay.
And if I ran a mom and pop store and it's like, well, you're pretty much going to have to close for that week.
You're not making anything.
In fact, you're going to lose money.
I'd be a little upset with the guy that makes $49 million a year.
You think?
Hey, too bad.
Screw you.
Yeah.
You're out of business, but we're the NFL.
We can do whatever we want.
I would not handle that well.
No, I
hope.
You know what we'd say?
I think though.
I
would
make my presence known.
All right.
Yes.
All right.
We're out of time.
Hey, once again, your Milwaukee Brewers coming up, seven o'clock today at WISS out in Colorado taking on the Rockies.
Put your money on the Brewers.
Put your money on the Brewers tonight.
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