Inspirational Art & Music

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Inspirational Art & Music

Maino and the Mayor · Fri Apr 11, 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

Schmidt.

You might want to welcome

us back.

Hey, yeah, welcome.

I can't be that DJ to talk into the intro of the song Here we go.

All right.

John Maino

There you go.

You're on hit the post.

You're on welcome us back and

hit welcome

Welcome

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truck driving record Wow Todd Magnuson Rocking

rolling Todd Todd, okay.

He's close Wow

As

he closes

the cover

of

Todd Benson, okay, you Have the record store and you got a turntable.

We never we have this first time we use a turntable in two years two years

Oh, it's this year and a half.

I've been 25

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years.

Turn

table.

I love it.

I just love that.

So nothing better.

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Nothing better.

Do you play one at home?

I mean, do

you have a home?

I sit at home.

That's all I listen to is his records.

Yeah, I don't have a CD player at home or nothing.

I mean, we'll put the radio on once in a while, but it's it's if we're going to put a really it's records have upstairs record player downstairs record player.

That's sweet man.

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Got some texts here.

I remember having a journey eight track from gizmo or eight to eight tracks have any

value?

You know, there's obviously the classic rock with anything the classic rock the heavy metal the punk rock cassettes I had like four cassettes or eight tracks Ramones MC five and those those sell for big money because they're they're rare, you know, it's the rarity of everything and

Um, there's a friend of mine that lives in Appleton who's got a big eight track collection.

So

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I remember talking to a guy that actually played the 1980 Olympic team from Northern Minnesota that like, but five guys there and they hated the guys from like Boston, Boston college and all those places.

And, and they got in a fight one time kind of cause a guy was wearing a Ramones shirt from Boston and they got, who's that?

They were all into country from up north and classic, you know, old ACDC.

Never seen stuff like that.

And the guys from East

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Coast were into the Ramones and they tried to play that in the locker rooms.

So different cultures back

there where you were

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from, meant a lot though, didn't

it?

Certain music, you listen to certain, you know, the metal guys and the punk rock guys and it's now...

I don't think it matters much anymore.

Everybody listens to everything.

And

rock and roll on.

That's got to give you some words comfort, but it's got to be fun to see young kids listening to stuff that

you

listen to when you are a young

kid.

You know what I mean?

Most of the young kids, that's they want.

That's all they want is all that old stuff.

You know, there's a my son.

Fleetwood Mac, right?

Young girl that comes out of the store, she's been coming since she was 13.

She's 16.

She was at ACDC last night in Minnesota.

Isn't that crazy?

That's awesome, isn't it?

I mean, she loves KISS and ACDC and Motley Crue.

It's like they discovered it.

That's what I get to kick on

up with.

Dad, have

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you ever heard?

Yeah.

But we got some texts coming in.

Coach Cathy, John Denver's greatest hits.

Oh, that was

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her first one.

That's popular again.

Is it?

All right.

For some reason, Office and John Denver records are going.

out the door like

really he's what a great his music is

it's it's you know 20 to 30 year olds buying John Denver records out of the blue what else would surprise you not God done really anything anymore at this point you know somebody will ask a random like do you have you know pure Perry League or yeah or Arios I always love their artwork

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pure Perry

like a

great artwork

on their covers.

Well, I was going to go back to John Denver.

What makes something, you know, sometimes they'll like a community, some island or something, it'd go on Facebook and somebody.

And then also it becomes tourists go there and sometimes they like it.

Sometimes they don't.

Yeah.

What is something like a John Denver, which has been

dormant for?

What did he die?

Oh,

wow.

Yeah.

What triggers something like that?

Maybe it's a song in a movie.

Yeah, I suppose.

I've

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heard that.

Movies soundtrack

sure you really

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bring back somebody's

you know something like Guardians of the Galaxy playing all these old songs The Elven Bishop songs and all these stuff awesome people are looking for those records.

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Yeah

On

and on,

on and on.

That was a good make-out song.

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It

was.

Did you actually, did you actually partake, John?

What happened to that girl, John?

Went to the other

side.

You know what?

I ducked

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her.

I broke up with her.

Because that

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hotter girl chasing me.

Another Texer.

Hi

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Spencer, making mom and dad so proud of your accomplishment.

All

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right.

Michelle.

There you

go, my man.

Honestly, I also got

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this one.

When I was at Todd's, I saw High School Kid by a Yes album.

Yeah, totally.

I love it.

You know, it's awesome.

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That

is pretty cool.

You know, and I'm always happy.

I'm like, oh, if you like that, you should like this.

You know, there's always that spur of the moment, spontaneous people in the store that are not

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happy to the American graffiti that gave so many.

Artists that had retired they couldn't get a gig.

They couldn't get a high school dance brought them back into the front center.

Didn't it though?

Yeah, yeah Politically but how sometimes they criticize, you know, baby boomers, which is what you know, we are and then they're picking up our music which is what we are

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Okay, I'm not okay.

Let me just ask you this though.

I got this on and on is Steven Bishop not Elvin Bishop

Sorry, I think I made out to him too.

But I shouldn't make out with him.

Like, because that would be a totally different outcome.

Different era.

Not there's anything wrong.

But different era.

It

wasn't joy bishop.

But

for those of you of a certain age group.

Right.

Back to my age.

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Wow.

But I'm not even joking about this.

OK, so his dad or his uncle, his family have those albums with something like that, because it's, you know, so not mainstream.

Does that give value to those types of?

Yeah, because there's it's

you know, if it's a local thing I'll have a section of local bands whether Milwaukee was Green Bay right there's Can't think of the guy's name had a band in channel and I have one of his records on the back wall

Oh,

and there's yeah,

I think that can be cool.

That's very localized collectable,

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right?

And the reason I say this I used to be a big football and baseball card collector huge Okay, and some of the most obscure names were the most valuable cards.

Yeah,

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because

They were in good shape a lot of times because they didn't get beat up and you know what I mean tossed around I mean guys I never heard of would be worth more than I don't want to say Mickey Matt But somebody that you would absolutely know

it's

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like who is this guy, but they had value

Yeah, you look at like like who would have collected a Bob Euker cards, right?

You know and now it's that moment.

Absolutely, you know just because I become what he's become

I get a kick out of people who are really they become more worth

dead and when they were alive.

I mean, look at Vince Lombardium for God's sake.

No question.

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No question.

And I, like with, I told this story a million times, I used to have a

I was an angry kid and when the Packers are get beat by like the Colts or the Bears, I would take the car, this is where I'd go in the backyard and I'd take, I'd tack them up to trees and take my BB guns and shoot their eyes out.

So I shot out Jim Brown, Johnny Unitis, some of the great

players.

Took my

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frustration

off.

My parents would have put me in therapy back then.

So your parents just, they didn't do that.

Go in the backyard and shoot.

Johnny's just being Johnny.

Right.

He'll grow out

of it.

Johnny, you need more

BBs?

Here we are.

50 years later.

So back to these youth groups.

Do you get asked to speak to groups or

do they come in?

I

haven't, no.

Is there some kind

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of... And we want people to keep texting your number one album.

Face other talk chat groups or whatever.

Not really.

I just kind of stay engaged with people through our social medias and...

You know, I'm always happy to answer questions and stuff and and people just you know when they come into the store for the first time, you know, it's a lot, you know, we have You know, 10,000 records on the floor.

I see lines

outside your store

when you have events.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, and you have that one event.

It's ridiculous, right?

Tomorrow.

What time do they start?

Oh, yeah,

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sorry, I remember last week.

What time do people start lining

up?

I have expect their line be there today already.

Wow, you know and as early as probably five o'clock tonight for sure

There'll be three four hundred people waiting outside.

Unbelievable.

Took it in for seven.

We open at 7 a.m.

You let him use the bathroom or anything.

I put a porta potty.

Wow.

Customer service.

That's our third year at the store.

Trisha says

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Bay City Rollers.

I remember that came

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out in like 1975.

Is it LISO?

LISO.

LISO.

Truth Hurts didn't become popular until it was in a Netflix movie.

Sarah.

So the movies are engaging.

Music whether it's older or newer and if it's a hit movie it really gets them the music has become such a popular thing and

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I remember the movie good fellas their soundtrack was really popular still

is

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it so yeah because it brought back those early 60 crooners yeah type things

and it

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gave them another career

there's a like a video game movie that even used like older songs like 50s and 40s stuff like the ink spots and stuff like that where they're

Now everybody's looking for those records and those are dollar records now.

I'm like, oh, maybe I can get five bucks for these.

Oh,

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yeah Text here.

I drew on my Bob Yooker cards colored in his teeth.

Dang We don't need that kind of language here.

It's amazing what I

Talk about movies, but not just

the music.

I mean, the community where it happened, the fashions that they're wearing, movies can really influence and bring things back that...

It's always been there.

It's always been there.

It's always been there.

It brings back a cool factor.

It does.

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brings back a cool factor.

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does.

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It brings back a cool

It was fun.

My dad owned bars my whole life.

So which bars he had lose next door pub in the 70s the Ritz on Pine Street and speeds and speed which

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was legendary.

I

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told you I told you that story when her Brooks the Olympic coach used to play for a St.

Paul's Saints.

I think they play against the iron or the Bobcats and he got he I said what was it like coming at Green Bank.

Oh man is so we played two games.

Like a Saturday and a Sunday or Friday and Saturday or whatever.

So it's been the night.

He said which was great and not

He said, we would fight like crazy.

And we'd all get together at speeds and chase women.

It was the greatest.

We all love coming to Green Bay because of a bar called

speeds.

Yeah.

And he had a stage.

So you do bands.

So when my brother and I were kids, we'd go help clean.

And we'd find guitar picks, drumsticks, and I'd find money quarters.

And the most exciting time was somebody would find a $5 bill on the floor or something.

And that was a lot of money in the 80s.

Absolutely.

People who've come to Green Bay living here.

They when they hear the name Green Bay, they think good things.

Oh, yeah,

I mean visitors and

winter loose.

It's just totally I know we did something right.

Yeah,

what was

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Broadway like back then

though?

But I brought it was a little sketchier back then.

I think Broadway is safer now than it's ever been Yeah, but even at that time, I think some people had a good time there.

I just don't I think it's just known right, you know, but that small town

big, big packers, you know, obviously, and I think it's just known as a, you know, you're pretty safe.

But, you know, but there was some not good

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things

happening.

Let's go

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back to 1977.

Tempe, Arizona.

Oh,

yeah.

Taken from the fire into the frying pan On and on, she just keeps on trying And she smiles when she feels like crying On and on, on and on, on and on Oh, Jimmy sits alone in the moonlight

Look

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And of course, the Civic Media app.

Nice day out there.

Forecast, Green Bay 33 right now.

Apton 34, Oshkosh 30.

High today in the low to mid 50s.

A lot of things going on this week.

Tell you what, how about a little Steven Bishop bringing us back to a great time and a great era.

You know what you should do tomorrow?

You should go down to the greatest record store in all of Northeast Wisconsin.

Rock and Roll Land.

It's National Record Store Day.

See you there.

See you there.

Perfect yeah, thank

you.

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Yeah,

I mean if this doesn't work out maybe we get you on a love song station There you go.

I'm in at night.

It'd be like you'd be like

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all

the depressed people that probably never saw

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this movie Play Misty for me.

Yes

remember that movie that movie

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top and that made that's that made that Put what's her name on the map?

Because they played this song the first time at Roberta Flack.

Oh, yeah, because that was

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in that movie because he was a discharge He was exactly like what I just impersonated and this one girl would always call up.

Hi, would you play Misty for me?

Okay, who's listening to that and and that was the whole theme

of that

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movie and that helped make her huge Got some other text coming in Michelle says I love the moody blues album.

That was actually blue My mom played it every day another on my first album.

I bought the eighth grade at shop go on military

Love Shopco.

They also had Shopco liquor attached to it.

That was always

a big stop.

The first store.

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Yeah.

I have hundreds of 45 records from my parents' supper club in the 70s.

Nice collection from Johnny Cash to Ray Conniff.

Nice.

Oh.

About a couple of years ago, I bought a really cool jazz collection from a restaurant.

And they were full LPs that they played these jazz records.

And I think it was in Algoma.

They had stamped on the records, never a bum steer.

And whatever the supper club

was, I can't

remember.

But.

They were, some of them were a little rough, but they were so awesome.

And the story that they played these records in the 60s and 70s, why people were eating at the supper club was just amazing.

That's fantastic.

You know, those old, you know, jukeboxes, boy, they would, you'd.

They would burn those 45s pretty hard.

That needle coming down, you get that tube burn.

My grandfather had a bar too, and so there were 45s from there, and then he worked at a junkyard later in life, and he would collect all these things, and so I would have them, and it was just

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awesome.

I want to be your grandpa.

I mean, that's,

I

would

do both those jobs.

I remember changing 45s out of my dad's jukebox, and...

Back then, they didn't care to keep the whatever 45 was going off.

So we had always had a stack of 45s and then the little 45 stacker and we just keep shuffling through those 45s.

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I saw a thing on Facebook, whatever guy he got.

Somebody said, pool table free.

You got to pick it up.

You got to do everything.

Don't touch it.

It was in rough shape as a bar pool tip took it home and took off some parts.

It hadn't been changed in like 20 years with the quarters.

The entire thing.

All the way around the thing were quarters like 20

years overflowing.

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Yeah, like but they didn't know until they took off

and

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cover

Yeah, and he said oh my god.

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This is unbelievable So that would be cool to have got another one talk about talk about what Spencer is up to okay We shall Spencer is doing and again.

He's using a football instead of a paint brush He's painting two iconic images of curling Lambo and I would say the other one is Tony Canada.

Oh

No, Don Hudson.

Don Hudson.

That's Don Hudson and Curly Lambo.

He's painting these live on the air.

You can see it on our live stream right now.

And what we're going to do, Jim's organization.

The new committee shelter.

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Whoever wants to buy these is going to go, half is going to that.

Mine is going to the first veterans homes of Wisconsin with that whole bunch that they're

just awesome gale and all

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and the whole bunch.

And they're going to be getting the proceeds.

So we're going to be putting these up for sale when he's done.

Look, that's just.

It's almost scary.

I

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know

it's been here what 45 minutes

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and he's using a football.

Yeah football.

He's

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using a

football

Unbelievable.

I later on I want him to tell us what's the oddest thing he's ever used to paint.

Okay.

It's got to be close.

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Yeah.

Okay.

We'll talk about that.

Hey, one other thing I talk about here, Todd, about your, your event tomorrow, which is absolutely huge, but we, and we've been talking about, you know, what people selling their up.

Let's make one thing kind of clear about what you got going

on

tomorrow.

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It's such a huge event.

We don't want people

getting kicked off.

People start lining up tonight or an event that opens up tomorrow morning at seven.

So.

And no buying records tomorrow.

So hold tight on bringing your collections in.

Saturdays in general are pretty tough for me to look at records.

During the week is always best.

Tuesday through Friday, we open 11 to five.

And I can look, I can go through a collection pretty fast.

I get a good gist of what's there versus condition and I can assess a collection pretty quickly.

But for National Record Store Day tomorrow, tomorrow is the day that people come in and they buy.

They buy.

Yeah, it's it's coming in by records.

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And why is tomorrow so spare?

I mean, why are people lining up like right

now to get into your store tomorrow?

It's the limited releases The wicked soundtrack we got one copy.

Oh my gosh, they press 2000 In the country in the country you have one one copy.

Yeah So it's the soundtrack, but it's a different art different colored records as a green record pink record So we got one copy which years ago

if they were doing such a low run, you got allocated and sometimes you would get none.

So the last three years, they've kind of said, okay, let's make sure every store gets at least one that participates

in

Record Store Day.

So- Do auction it off?

Or is it the first- Some stores do that.

I just, I have to put it out there.

I think it'd be more of a hassle for me to try to figure out an auction.

Right.

You know, and it's only, I think it's a $30 record, $40 record or something like that.

So-

That's not like a hundred dollars.

No,

like ten people

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all come in and they want that

right?

It's gonna be whoever's first.

We keep the line in order.

So whoever's first has their first shot.

And they might not even want that one.

So the chances of you're being third or fourth or

fifth.

Wouldn't you buy it and sell it to the guy behind you?

I mean, I don't know.

I

believe the first guy would.

Well, yeah, but not everybody's like you, Jim.

Sometimes, you know, it's a true fan that really wants it.

If these guys are gonna sit outside all night.

Yeah.

And you do have a porta-potty.

We do have a porta-potty.

I was trying to get a coffee vendor to be out there, but there's so much going on with the draft coming up and everything going on.

There's a tattoo convention.

It is just so much so I never got the hold of a coffee vendor.

Some

entrepreneur comes through with subs.

Yeah, they I've been in.

That's true.

They do that.

They do that.

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that's cool.

You got to feel good about that.

That's a fun event.

It's it's kind of used to be so nerve wracking.

And now I just keep increasing the order every year.

And, you know, I just

and for them, it's look, they all want to get their albums, but it's also kind of a cool thing.

Like, remember that?

When the store is open for what?

Thanksgiving, all that.

It's a camaraderie.

They have fun.

It's not a

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cool thing about it.

Just in talking with you, you might have somebody

16 years old and somebody 75 years old and they're going after the same elbow

Oh for sure, and that probably will

talk

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tomorrow

Hey, Mino, could you could you try the record one more time?

We'll do it one more time before we wrap that up for the day Let's see maybe a different cut this time.

Okay, do you think yeah?

Yeah, whatever you said.

I'm set for you

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Hey everybody, how we doing?

I know yesterday was Trucker Thursday.

You know what?

Today is also Trucker Friday.

You know

what we've got coming your way.

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I'm sorry.

That was a

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good day

for Trucker.

Yeah, thanks,

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Todd.

Why don't you just be quiet there for a second?

Hey folks, you got 20 seconds.

Truck drive and son of a gun.

This one's going down to all of our folks out there.

As I mentioned before, keep the shiny side up and keep the cops off your tail.

and bugs off the windshield.

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Now, back to Mino and the Mayor.

Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Hey, welcome back.

Mino and the Mayor here and a great look at Friday morning.

Once again, highs in the low to mid 50s today.

Our man Spencer Nolan Young is doing some unbelievable artwork live and in person, painting these iconic Packer paintings, which we are going to be auctioning off for both of our favorite charities.

Helping the homeless and helping vets.

This could be great.

What do you see his what we got doing here?

But we also have the nettle the nettle hill band for the Heights pub and part of their music.

I'm sorry.

I got a candy in my mouth.

So I'm not me.

So let's go ahead and introduce yourselves if you don't mind.

Yeah, we're the band, Nettle Hill.

We come from Menschelville, Wisconsin.

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Was it Iron Buffalo?

Iron

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Buffalo, yeah.

I love that place.

It's

still roaring.

I proposed my wife at that place.

Did

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you really?

I'm not kidding.

So you were bull

truck?

Yes.

That's a great place.

We sure were after.

Love it.

So Liz, it's you and your brother?

Yes, yeah.

And how's that working

out?

Great, I mean.

We always got along.

I mean, there are a few incidences as children.

Are

we going there?

Are we going there?

We've been doing along great.

All

right.

And then you brought this guy in.

Yeah, we're working on the adoption.

And John, you're all.

So we grew

up five miles down the road.

High school.

We all seen the same age.

Yeah.

Go Panthers.

Yeah.

Well, that's great.

And if you've always been in music, you seem like you.

Pretty much, yeah.

So I sang, I had like classical training and JD would like steal my guitar when I was when we were in high school, I think.

And that's how he learned how to play.

You

come across as maybe you had some parts of the school play.

Yeah, just a

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little.

Is there anything like we were standing outside letting them kind of do their own things.

Is there a, is there a better sound than a banjo?

Nah, it's awesome.

I mean, really, it's fun to listen to.

I mean, it's just you guys are fun to listen to I'm

a guitar player like that's my main instrument.

I picked this up over the years I'm still like I'm still learning this thing

my biggest

fear is like someone really knowing what they're doing hearing me like

So I

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went

and saw Earl's drugs play really I went out after that and bought a banjo.

Oh

They're tough.

They're really

are much much harder than I thought took lessons, but just I mean that is a great great instrument You can have a lot of fun with that.

So all right.

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Tell us about your history

How did you guys get you know, how'd you put it all together and make some money doing music?

Kind of a drunken night.

I was at a show in Manitowoc and The the bands were playing and I walked up to like the promoter of that Event and I said hey, you know my brother JD

Yeah, we sing together.

And we're in a band.

We could open, you know, for one of your shows.

And he's like, cool, that's awesome.

Two days later, he books us, but I hadn't told JD that we were a band yet.

So then we had to do all the things, come up with a name and get our 45 minute set list.

And then

we just went from

there.

That's incredible.

Tell me about the name.

Sure.

Yeah, on Nettle Hill, we were looking for a band name because we just made up a band.

A writer on the time we were looking for a name, there's an article in our Harold Times newspaper about the history of Cato, which is a town not too far from where we're up.

And that town's name was originally Nettle Hill.

She sends me that and says, what do you think about that?

There's our name.

There's always a cool story behind some of these names.

That's awesome, Jay.

That's very cool.

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You know what I want to do?

I want to buy there's a thought about it getting yesterday coming through there and I think it's off of P or one of those roads Cape that area There's that big old greenery.

Do you know what I mean?

Are they gonna turn that into something?

I think that'd be such a great big

place

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wouldn't it?

I think it's on Zilla.

You know what I mean, right?

Yeah, I think it's for

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sale.

Is it?

Oh

man

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make it happen.

Okay.

I miss I'm a

greenery and brilliant the same idea they turned it into a wedding venue It's really cool,

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but you know the place I'm talking about and it's just make

majestic standing out there.

Nettle Hill Coliseum, man.

That's what you guys are going to

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do.

I like it.

We're going to make it happen.

All right, you guys.

Here we go.

Introduce

yourself.

We're the band Nettle Hill.

This is our song, Seven Years.

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Beautiful.

Seven years since I've been tied down Seven years since I put on that wedding gown I got three kids, two girls, and a boy Now it's frozen dinners and broken toys Till he comes home

and roll our separate ways.

When we touch, I turn to ice.

If

I had to say I

Down the strip in their bachelorette crowns Looks like me way back in my prime Long black hair and nothing but time I did

my hair just

yesterday Looked down at my hand and found my first grave

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I wrote

that one.

You know

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what's so funny?

It's like, if you're just watching him and you know, beautiful voice, beautiful woman, the whole, but it's like, ooh, is that an angry person?

But you're doing

it in a really nice

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way.

That is so cool.

And what I love is the harmony is great, right?

But between siblings, it's just, there's just something, right?

And you've heard that before.

Tell us

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again about your voice training though.

What a beautiful voice.

Well, thank you very much.

I had some lessons in high school.

And, yeah, just like, I think classical training is the way to go, no matter what, you know, avenue you go.

But...

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So you're big into music theater.

What play would you put on that she would be the lead singer in?

Oh, boy.

He's gonna say son of music.

That's for sure, right?

She'd be the lead, I know that.

She's like,

yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I'm not gonna go out.

Her brother's laughing because, of course, I gotta told you that.

No, that's great.

You were just trained in high school.

Yeah,

I mean, I'd love to go back for some more vocal training, I think.

Right.

And

that's available.

Aren't you kind of pleased with the music and the arts and even, you know, Reedsville, but the whole area, right?

Manitowoc, the conservatory.

And it's

pretty cool what we have

here.

There's a lot of really talented people out there.

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So this guy runs the greatest record store in America, OK?

When are you guys going to have some?

When are you going to drop an album?

We got

one out from a couple of years ago.

We recorded it during the pandemic or whatever.

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Really?

So 2020, yep, on all the streaming things and such.

So

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that was on there.

But we're just about done with it.

Well, we're finishing up the second one.

I'm sorry, what are you saying?

You're always just about

done.

Did you say something?

No.

Tell us about it.

But I have that written down, though.

I asked you, Liz, where you're going to be playing.

But tell us about how we.

Find your music.

I want to listen to this right this website and streaming and all that.

Where are you?

Okay,

you can

take over.

I'm

the website maintainer IT guy We've got our music on you know Spotify YouTube all the places you can get it You can buy our CD on our website nettle hill band calm We've got the one out right now, and we've got another one in the works very soon

so on Spotify.

It's we just write down to nettle hill

Yeah,

okay, that's not all the albums called set fire to a perfect story.

I'm sorry say that again set fire to a perfect story on Spotify

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Are you the writer for all the signs?

No, I wrote some we all kind of write a couple here and there we all Even close they've wrote a few more this one will be a few more so

that's so awesome

Okay, just

top of do get together practice is it like

We play a lot.

We play a

lot.

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So it's like every week.

You guys are dairy farmers, right?

I'm still a, yeah.

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Did you guys literally ever practice in the barn type things?

Yes or no?

We usually make it into the house, but I've had to run off during practice to go check a cow timer

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too.

Really?

Wow.

Where are you guys going to be playing?

Where can we see you guys live?

So we're going to be... You can

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pick it up.

It's okay, Liz.

Test

her

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eyesight.

We're going to be at Thirsty Joe's.

That's in Michicott.

And that's going to be on April 19th.

So next Saturday, we're there from 7 to 10.

And

that's an awesome little community down there, isn't it?

I love

Michigan.

Right.

I agree.

Michigan shows up and they party.

They do.

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You don't know, I think it was Dennis that told us one of the craziest groups they ever get was Piper Newton, the town

of all Newton.

Yeah, they

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can turn it up there, too.

Yeah, Matt Toa County brings it strong.

They do.

Have you guys played the

wharf?

We

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were there for the glam band one time and but we didn't get so crowded.

It was a beautiful night So we're at the the sub place right above the submarine at the maritime museum and that sound coming over the water there at night Magical it's like amphitheater type sound.

Yeah, it was

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just so cool.

So you basically

Next

Saturday

next Saturday.

Yep.

And then April 26th.

We're at the Gray Fox, which is Fox Hills in Michigan again We're gonna be there from 8 p.m.

To midnight and then we'll be at tapped on the lakeshore.

That's like Manitowoc two rivers area We're there noon to three.

Wow.

That makes sure that's May

3rd.

Those are some nice places and that Fox Hills is another

place that's Yeah, they're great to us.

We haven't played at thirsty Josie at that will be our

our first time there, but heard great things about it.

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We get a quick break.

Nettle Hill, the Nettle Hill band, Heights Pub and Parlor Music Series, they are spectacular.

You're going to hear more from them as soon as we come back.

You get a fast car.

I want to take it to anywhere.

Maybe we make a deal.

Maybe together we can get somewhere Any place is better Starting from zero got nothing to lose Maybe we'll make something Me, myself, I got nothing to prove We got a fast car I got a plan to get us out of here But work another convenience store

Man is to save just a little bit of money won't have to drive too far Just cross the border and into the city You and I can both get jobs and finally see what it means to be a living Hey See my old man's got a problem Yeah but the bottle that's the way it is he says but it's too old for work

His body's too young to look like his.

My mama went off and left him.

She wanted more from life than he could give.

I said, somebody.

I'll tell you, when you talk

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about a voice,

huh?

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Oh my gosh.

Got a text there.

Missing you guys this morning.

Dennis Peters from the Glam Band.

Dennis, just a little under the weather right now.

Resting up for about 14 gigs he's got coming up in three days during the draft.

We've got Todd Magnuson, Rock and Roll and National Records Store Day.

That's tomorrow, folks.

It's so huge.

It's incredible.

But talk about some of the bands you got coming

in, Todd.

So then we do shows at the store as well.

And May 10th, we got an all-female bluegrass band coming, the Rosie Days Band.

And then Jenny Donner Spurs are going to be back from Portland, Oregon, be back July 1st.

Tickets will go on sale Tuesday.

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All right.

Awesome.

And again, once again, what's going on at your store tomorrow and where you guys are?

Record Store Day, 838 South Military Avenue.

You'll see the line of people waiting outside, wondering what's going on.

Open at 7 a.m.

Goody Bakes for the first 50 people.

Free coffee and donuts once you get inside.

Fun,

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fun day DJs.

Did you just call it National Record Store Day, or is it truly?

It's truly

National

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Record Store Day.

Really, so this is going on coast to coast.

And everybody does a little something different, but it's basically the same event in general.

It's to get everybody to come to the record store.

And spend the day and

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if there's still I mean tomorrow wouldn't be that day But if there's anything more fun than going like nice to be on the road for Green Bay and there'd be a record It's like there's nothing more fun than the nostalgic great feel when you're going through those bins It's like oh, I remember this eagle salvo.

I remember

the best part sometimes It's so therapeutic just to flip through the bins and see what's there and

and it brings back

memories

I can't believe well, I'm just wondering Todd to like if you do travel are there different types of

You know, are, is the collections at different stores around the, you know, sometimes you

see regional things, like, uh, down in Texas, I was able to find some like Texas rockabilly bands and stuff that are

kind of

obscure here.

Um, you get down south, you get a little more soul and R and B, um, just cause it just doesn't make it to Green Bay, some of that stuff.

So you see regional things.

You go to Minneapolis, you might see more replacements, soul asylum prints, prints, obviously, but, um,

it's it's uh

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i read something it's like i maybe i got this right maybe i'm exaggerating which i don't normally do but i

want to

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say it's

almost like

a hundred

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thousand dollars for that certain prince album that insurance policy we have is the black

album okay and it got

Pulled or he pulled

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it right

at the story and

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but so I

got

no

there's like maybe a couple thousand that got out So it's it's crazy that record if you find it, but then it's been bootlegged or been right, so there's there's fake ones out there, too But but that's the one the way it's yeah, was I right?

I think you may have been

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thank you.

I wasn't listening But yeah, everybody here though favorite musician or favorite

album that you ever

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bought and if we could do two real quick And I want to who influenced you to get into this and then you're playing it

Yep.

Go play guitar.

No, no, no.

Just do it as your parents or teacher or something.

I played a guitar hero once.

And then I put it down.

That's awesome.

And I picked one up.

And it was...

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First album or CD or whatever it

was that you're having.

My

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favorite one is Tom Waits.

Tom Waits?

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Very cool.

That's

my

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favorite.

I would say like my influence would be my Aunt Mary.

She was really she is really big into like a Christian kind of rock sounds like Amy Grant So she would definitely have been my inspiration first

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sounds like sister Aunt Mary

Patsy Klein.

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Oh wow.

Wow Do you do crazy?

I do.

Yeah.

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Can we hear crazy next?

I

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can even I

can jump

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in with you.

I do JD Probably most meaningful album purchases ever made with the first two white stripes records white stripes self-titled and distilled Wow, haven't haven't haven't had the same musical taste since oh

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nice Give yourselves a plug one more time

name of your band

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where you're gonna

be

We're the Rock and Roll Bend Nettle Hill.

We come from Menchilville, Wisconsin.

And we're going to be in Michicot on the 19th and 26th at Thirsty Joe's in the Gray Fox.

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Phenomenal.

Folks in the Lakeshore, you got to get out and see these people.

What do we got coming up next,

Liz?

Hang on.

We're going to do the art, guys.

We're going to do the art.

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Yeah, the debut

of the

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art.

Ladies and gentlemen, Spencer Nolan Young, who is the greatest artist in the United States of America, has just completed his two iconic original pieces of art.

These will be for sale.

One is going to Jim's homeless shelter, NEW community shelter.

The other one is going to help our first homes, a village of Wisconsin.

We're going to have those up on an auction type thing, right Todd?

Yeah, well, what we're going to do is we're going to give them to the organizations and then they'll contact the organizations, but we're going to show them off here.

We're going to have a display for the next

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couple of weeks.

So even if you're walking by outside on the sidewalk, you'll be able to see them.

That is awesome.

Spencer, congratulations.

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Thank you so much for doing this.

Can't wait to see all the things you're doing at the draft, too, buddy.

We'll have you on again, OK?

Real soon.

You're the best.

Tell your mom, sit hello.

All right, nettle hill band, ladies and gentlemen, closing up the week.

Listen close because they're phenomenal

When you came to me broken hearted lonely men nursing come

I think I hear another broken man

I said you

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