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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
some guy just looking at
Afghanistan all over again walking off the airport
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.
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.
been to a game
while.
either.
And they're packing it in.
I'm
Oh, yeah,
avatar.
It's a little, uh, my original image with
little, with a
Okay.
Thank you,
Yeah, that turned out great.
That was a lot of fun.
Todd looks
like Todd.
yeah.
Okay, say what you want about AI and complain about and everything, but it's a lot of fun.
that's where we get off.
Right.
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
badger women's hockey?
Yeah.
And
sports,
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
Yeah,
have you seen the movie
You know what I watched the other night.
That was
police academy.
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.
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
yeah,
Yeah,
Yeah,
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
Exactly.
Do you find
What do you
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.
I
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,
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,
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
Exactly, exactly.
So.
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
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
so one
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
beat your heroes sometimes,
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.
I love it.
It's different.
It's different.
I don't want it to be 75 on Christmas morning.
All right,
Your folks have an extra
Yeah, I've definitely met some controversy.
Every time I wish that there's snow, everyone around here is like, what is wrong
Yes.
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.
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.
Well, you start doing that you're gonna alienate half your
the
I mean, yeah, it's definitely
An angle.
I don't know.
If you choose to take
right.
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
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
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.
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
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,
you know what I mean?
Different
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.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm.
I've only been doing this role for two years.
I know
are a couple of
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.
that.
Like I said, I've been covering
keep talking
you guys do the profiles of the athletes.
The senior spotlight.
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
athlete there
No.
No?
I'm from Eau Claire.
That would be wise.
Not a
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
Thank you.
Yes sir.
Welcome back.
Special thanks to Ray Wittenbrock and John Cramer.
Headlines of the press times.
Great local newspaper.
Also special times with Deanna Malkor.
Moving with the Malkor tomorrow night.
They've got their big, big grand opening open house at their new address, 1238 Main Street and Green Bay.
They've got some phenomenal places to show the West Point condos that are starting up.
West Point Center condo.
They got just some great places.
Please check them out Ben malcore.com 920495 7653.
Okay, if I throw out 7653 I Want to know if there's any I'm gonna Todd we have a price packages Todd's working on phones.
I'm gonna throw this out as a as a texture thing when I say 7653
Who would I be thinking in my mind?
Who are the two former Packers in my mind?
That I would have if you get them right.
We're giving you a price package.
What do you think about that?
What
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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
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?
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 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
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
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.
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.
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.