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Maino and the Mayor · Wed Apr 9, 2025

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

John Maino

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.

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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

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Thank you.

I was that old guy just wandering already must have thought there's

some guy just looking at

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It's

Afghanistan all over again walking off the airport

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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.

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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.

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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,

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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

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a

little, with a

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little, uh, thinner now.

Yes.

In that picture.

Okay.

Thank you,

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John.

Yeah, that turned out great.

That was a lot of fun.

Todd looks

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the best.

Todd looks the best.

That puppet looks exactly

like Todd.

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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,

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he... Yeah, I can see that.

You can't hit a

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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.

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If you know what you're doing.

Oh, yeah, yeah,

that's where we get off.

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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.

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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

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anymore.

Yeah, right.

I've given I don't do it.

What about

badger women's hockey?

Yeah.

And

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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,

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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

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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,

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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,

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but

have you seen the movie

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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

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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.

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No Todd Oh Leslie Nielsen OJ Simpson George Kennedy.

Yeah,

um, oh a police academy police squad.

No, no, it's

There you go.

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There you

go.

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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

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funny.

Right.

Exactly.

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Yes.

Just very good.

It's one of those escape things.

So anyway,

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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

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thank God that

yeah,

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yeah, you know George Bush W was the cheerleader you're the for coming out cheers.

Yeah,

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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.

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Yep

Wow,

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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

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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

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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,

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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,

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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

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Sports Illustrated.

Exactly, exactly.

So.

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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

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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

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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

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Wow,

so one

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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

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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,

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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.

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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,

John Maino

I like that.

I like that a lot.

I don't know about everybody.

Your folks have an extra

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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.

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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.

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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

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friends

Well, you start doing that you're gonna alienate half your

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There's no question that that does happen, but that's

the

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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

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that.

That's

right.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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I mean, that's outdoor sports.

That's golf, baseball, tennis.

Yes.

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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

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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,

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softball, volleyball, all the different,

you know what I mean?

Different

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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

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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.

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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

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high school sports here since 1984.

Yeah.

How

are they doing, John?

They're dead.

Wow.

Wow, Todd.

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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

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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

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boyfriend is 17?

No.

Oh, sorry, I thought you meant he said

athlete there

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now.

Just checking.

I bet John Kramer still has clippings from his days back in La Crosse.

No.

No?

I'm from Eau Claire.

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Oh, that would be wise.

That would be wise.

Not a

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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.

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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

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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 Maino

John Kramer, thanks buddy.

Always good to see you.

Yes sir.

Keep rocking man.

Keep up what you're doing.

Yes sir.

John Maino

We're gonna start a break.

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John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Special thanks to Ray Wittenbrock and John Cramer.

Headlines of the press times.

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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

I'm thinking 63 was rainage you worry.

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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.

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Take four.

Okay,

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you got one right.

Okay, so do I win?

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You know, go ahead.

Ninety five.

That's the only one I know was four.

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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.

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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.

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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

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hunter Enos

Okay, that's a little weird, but okay.

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Well, that was his name

Okay hunter Enos

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Enos and IS

Okay, no, it's hunting.

All

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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

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Enos?

Okay, Enos, okay?

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Who do you remember?

Are you saying that on purpose?

Yes.

Okay.

I was wondering if Johnny was like a wick.

John Maino

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

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things.

That's what

I do.

Okay.

I want to get, okay, Hunter, that's easy.

Okay.

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Enus.

So I

take

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Enus.

Enus.

Who's the only person TV you ever don't know of the name Enus?

I don't know anybody.

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Dukes of Hazzard, the deputy sheriff.

I wouldn't know that.

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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.

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That's how I do it.

Okay.

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With everybody, there's some sort of little

thing.

Visualize

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put

together anything,

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right?

Yes.

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Mm-hmm.

So that's how I do it.

Okay.

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All

right.

That's That's good.

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I mean I

can I believe that okay, so that's how you do it.

Yes Okay now, so what about the numbers?

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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

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pretty much.

Yeah, pretty much Some might be obscure cuz I'm

19

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Yeah, they haven't had anybody really good.

That was a 19 Yeah,

I wouldn't know but

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yeah,

that's a weird number.

Okay.

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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,

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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

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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?

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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.

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Yes.

Yeah.

But but

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zero for the mechanical, the whatever, whatever, whatever's nothing.

All right.

Yes.

Well, it's been obviously work.

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It's got me here.

Yeah.

Hey.

There you

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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

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the grilling season.

I'm starting to grill.

Oh.

Healthy tilapia and salmon.

Did you get your um bear

frag

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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

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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.

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Yes, we are.

Oshkosh, that was a fun place to go.

And we

have a great lineup.

I was looking

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at that.

You were going to have a

great time.

We enjoyed that.

And then back here on Friday.

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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.

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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

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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,

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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this

summer.

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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

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four.

Yeah, that would be quad Wow, I mean, how

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I don't know that your mouth

that Wow Wow

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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.

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I don't

know

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what I want to get out of town.

Oh, yeah, totally.

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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

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no

question.

What's the thing when the 19th 18th 18th

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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

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because I

was this week and I got a wedding this week in a Minneapolis

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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

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not

summer hours yet.

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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.

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We'll try to

work that

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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

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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,

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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.

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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

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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?

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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negative

way?

NFL could open up their wallet for this.

Absolutely.

I mean, they've got millions of dollars.

They keep bragging

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about

how

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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,

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I'm

gonna take in

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$25.

Absolutely,

absolutely.

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Let me problem

with

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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

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Okay, I used

to take our kids there.

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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.

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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

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hope.

You know what we'd say?

I think though.

I

would

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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.

We're going to a casino.

Put

your money on the Brewers.

Trust me on this.

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Trust me.

We all got to make money.

See ya.

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