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.
Tuesday to you.
It is not nice.
I'm just
gonna, I
don't mean to be that guy
because of the weather because it's tax day.
Well, that's perfect tax
day because it is windy
and rainy.
Yeah.
Tax is done.
We must have done.
I don't wish you married
to an accountant.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's right.
Minos never thought about taxes.
Okay, I don't care who the person would be out in America if they really knew me and if that was my other person my significant whatever whatever I don't care if if I don't care if she had one of those jobs holding this weird talk to it this year Hold those signs out of the highway slow go slow Which was me the longest day in the world of any job to watch the clock.
I could be married to something like that.
Okay, and
She would say don't touch financials don't touch anything Anything don't touch anything
that's with
money Decimal points that stuff you you're not allowed to touch anything.
So yes, that's that's a wonderful wonderful trait to
have
Yeah, but you it's not open till midnight anymore the you know the post office is to
be part of the fun bringing
in the last second
line of cards government doesn't get any
interest.
Yeah,
so anyway, it's six
o'clock.
That was a
TV story.
It's on the table.
Let's go to a live shot of the I know it's on the table.
So we'll mail it.
But anyway, we've got to do something about that someday.
But anyway, someday.
Well, we don't have a lot of days.
No, I'm just talking about the whole.
Oh, I thought you meant you and I
complicated about
that.
Anyway, well,
today is, as I mentioned, it is windy and partly sunny skies coming up.
That wind is kind of nasty right now, though.
I'm going to say, hang on, Todd.
Oh, very little wind.
Yeah.
Four miles an
hour.
Oh, this says 13.
Whoa, really?
Yeah.
Oh, they're not going too hard here right now.
Alrighty.
Um, it is taxes.
You mentioned art day, like artists.
Yep.
People that do any kind of artwork.
Correct.
Okay.
Um, once again, like our guy, Spencer Nolan Young.
Yes.
It's almost scary watching him create something in front of you.
So those two pictures that he painted here, um, original works of art.
Um, and one of them we're going to be auctioning off at our event Friday at Epic.
I got to write something up that he painted that with a football.
I just think that's part of the cool thing.
I took a picture.
I thought
he signed that.
Did he?
Because sometimes he'll
sign in the back, in the back.
OK, great.
I think we're going to have them.
Because
that's that with with Spencer.
That's all the letter of authenticity you need.
And I am I'm going to we're going to bring him back here.
Right.
We have that event on Friday.
We're going to auction it off.
Bring it.
So are you
taking curly?
Yeah.
OK, I'll take Don Hudson.
It will.
But I think we'll put a minimum bit of 500 don't you think I would
absolutely Original artwork like that from somebody's famous to Spencer,
but I hope he's I'm gonna ask me feel sign at the front Oh sure you would
yeah,
he probably didn't think you wanted it.
Oh Man, yeah, but I'm gonna write something up next to it that it was done Right with a football.
I think that's
like my favorite football and a cleat.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's
pretty
cool.
Anyway.
Yes, yeah
We're gonna throw a picture of that up on the stream here momentarily so people can actually see it all right
And then the Don Hudson one I'm doing for the first homes of Green Bay for the veterans homes.
Do they have an event?
Um, they've got several.
Yeah, they do.
So I'm just gonna, you know, we're done.
We'll talk to Gail.
We'll get, there it is.
Nice, Todd.
Yes.
Yeah.
Aren't those just cool?
Very.
Just, wow.
Isn't it fun having a friend like that?
Yes.
You
know what I mean?
Somebody
who's
like really talented.
I don't have any friends like that.
And he, um... Oh, sorry, Todd.
I was gonna say all your friends are like that.
His fences been unveiled, right?
Oh has it I didn't know I'm
gonna be honest.
I've been staying away from that part of town recently I'm just I'm finding my way.
I almost feel like over there.
I'm when you move to a new city and you can't okay I know this section of these six blocks I'm trying to get my bearings on what streets are open because other like I said Saturday I didn't know which colors I drove
right way
around
you can go look at the fences because that
Side of Lombardi
is
open.
Yeah, that side is open.
So
you can still drive west or whatever that is.
You can still drive west, but you can't
come from down there to Ashland.
Right.
Yeah.
It is Titanic.
Remember in state, have you heard about this new thing, this 3D image thing?
Have you seen this time?
It's a huge breakthrough now that they're going to drop this down.
And it's going to be incredible, the detail of everything that they're going to find, even like the potential crash.
In everything.
Oh, wow.
It's like there's this all new type of thing now that goes right in there.
It's like unbelievable images.
Oh, yeah.
I'm surprised.
Well, if surprise they've never found any like skeletons or anything
or
clothes,
especially in that cold water.
Yeah,
because
like Lake Superior, they say, right?
Yeah.
When Todd sent this last night, I thought it was appropriate that.
Titanic day and text right same day.
I
realized that
I did not realize that somebody like did that
I did not realize you guys watch on your cruise
No
Jim had a whole production made out he wanted to play the part of Leonardo
DiCaprio
Don't, don't let go.
Today's laundry
day, Jackie Robinson day, very, very big day, Jackie Robinson day, number 42.
And you know, what he went through is mind boggling and understand that.
But I think sometimes we have a little bit of selective memory and must say, oh, that poor guy, what he went through, I got it, you bet, we're gonna give him his day, because nobody went through what he went through.
Well, there's a guy by the name of Larry Dobie.
who played for the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox.
He was only like a few weeks later.
And everything that Jackie Robinson went through, like all the guys for like the next five years or so, they all went through that.
And again, Jackie Robinson had to be the trailblazer obviously and not taking anything away from him.
But I don't think we, and somebody had to be that first guy.
Somebody had to be that first guy and in Branch Ricky made sure it was somebody that he thought could handle it You know could you know calm headed although Jack Robinson wasn't as calm headed as people thought but but they picked him but a guy by the name of Larry Dolby Went through this and he ended up being American League most valuable player.
He turned out to be a really great player But a lot of those guys even in the early 60s when they're playing and it wasn't so bad for those guys It wasn't nearly as bad once they got to the major leagues.
Okay.
Yeah
Because then okay, we're you know your teammates really but when they were down in those minor league teams in like South Carolina and Alabama, Alabama making Georgia Jacksonville, Florida Horrific for those guys.
Yeah, you know and so yeah, God bless Jackie Robinson So deserves this day But but there's a whole bunch of other guys that came behind him that really dealt a little bit more quietly with the things you want to okay get can give you a good
Trivia question what you got when Jesse Owens Told stick Hitler to stick it and won the hundred and stuff like that.
Who came in second?
I Know I know I just don't Jackie Robinson's brother Really?
Yeah Wow, yeah, and you want to know who was left off the tool made the team, but wasn't allowed to compete
in Berlin because of the closeness between the United States Olympic Committee member, the Olympic Committee itself, Avery Brundage and Hitler's people.
A guy by the name of Marty Glickman.
Okay, he was on the team, but because he was Jewish, they always found a way to put somebody else in his spot.
Marty Glickman became one of the top sportscasters in American sports history.
First announcer, the New York Giants, New York Yankees, all those kind of teams.
Marty Glickman became one of the top sports casters in American history.
Everybody knows that.
I know, but I'm just throwing that out.
OK.
Yeah.
A happy birthday to my favorite singer in the world these days.
Second favorite singer, Chris Stapleton.
Yeah, he's good.
Man.
He can sing any song.
And I got that Chris Stapleton station on my serious.
I don't think I ever change it.
I mean cuz all the all the artists are kind of like right,
you know, yeah,
man He's just great Seth Rogen is 43.
I almost thought he'd be older.
Yeah been
around for a long time
It's lived a hard life I would say a little
bit You know it was a really good show and a lot of the people in it became big stars and the show was canceled after like a year Freaks and Greek freaks and geeks remember that show.
Yeah, it was
a great show But these kids growing up in the 70s in high school
And then Seth Rogen, that's where he got his start.
That's
right.
I think James Franco got his start there.
They're about four people that really got their start
in that
movie.
Emma Watson is 35.
She plays Hermione Granger in Harry Potter.
Yep.
Do you remember when Lindsay Lohan co-hosted on Saturday Night Live?
Yeah.
When she'd come back for the summer and all of a sudden she had blossomed.
Tigers have brewers brewers having a tough little no, they lost again.
She's the five hits for the game Pictures are hurt They'll be an ISS tonight and Terry says I'll take this crappy weather over Earth kit quakes in California 5.2 less.
Yeah, San
Diego.
I mean that's something right 5.2 that once it gets over five
Yeah, it it rattles things.
Yeah, nobody got hurt, but it's the it's cool because they got cameras everywhere Yeah, that that shakes things up
I don't think, well, I mean, I guess you can fit in a lot of ways, but I've never seen people freak up more than people who are doing the news.
I suppose
you got all those
lights
and stuff, right?
That's
right.
Lights could
fall.
But the
meteorologists are okay, everybody.
We've got a 5.2 a year suspect.
Yeah, you're right.
They freak out, Martha, because they report on them or they read about them.
I think
they're just so calm when they do severe weather, right?
You've got to be
calm.
Yeah, you worked at TV studios.
Probably the camera people that would get hit by those big cameras first.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that could be very scary.
I could see why you'd want to dive under it.
Absolutely.
Well, I think that's cool that those kids were trained.
I don't know if you saw that.
But the kids, we had fire drills when we were kids.
Those kids, boom, they went right under the doors.
Oh, yeah.
I thought that was awesome, that those kids were trained so well.
I think that was the funniest thing in the world was when they had the drills, don't
you?
To get out of school?
Get out of school for
10 minutes.
Whatever it took, man.
We never did the...
Under the desk
right because
we know we didn't have
that that was the
class is like well
like our brothers and sisters once the once Russian the commies got the Bob You know that should have all those fallout shelter those yellow Yeah, the blood even just seeing those is almost like a scary thing now when you see that We did but did you ever go into we had a tunnel?
Yeah, we had a tunnel between the the priest's rectory and the at our school and we'd go into the tunnel
Like where the boiler room was yeah,
I know
everything that's where you're like a that was our follow-up shelter
for like a tornado Yeah,
I think it was like a community one because there were signs even outside the school that that was like a safe place or
whatever
It was still
Mentioned here it is tax day Whether or not great Green Bay 36 degrees out in 36 Oshkosh 34 it is windy.
It's a little rainy Supposed to get partly sunny skies today high in the upper 40s We'll take that what's a little more of the long range than tired.
We it's looking good.
I
didn't know when did we was it like Friday we declared Spring
yesterday.
We
declared spring
Britain you said
hey, but yeah,
but no, I think it's
Really starting to look good.
Maybe some drizzle, but no, I think we're in the fifties.
Right.
I like said, the UP had warnings again last night.
I don't know if they got hit.
They're looking for six more inches of snow.
in the U. P. So fifties Wednesday, mid fifties Thursday with maybe some rain, maybe some thunderstorms on Friday, 62 51 Saturday with a little rain Sunday and Monday, a little rain mid forties to 50.
Maybe a little rain Tuesday and Wednesday next week.
And then it looks like partly cloudy skies, maybe partly sunny skies Thursday, Friday, Saturday temperatures in the mid fifties to around 60.
Perfect.
for April, you couldn't ask for anything better.
Boy, I'll tell you what, though.
Looks like it's taking it right down to that last minute.
It is.
And there's crappy weather.
Those couple of days are surrounded by days of rain.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
So that
shifts a little bit.
And then that rain, when you look at the percents, and then if you really look into it, the timing on that can be in the evening too.
So it's not, Southern does it rain all day in Green Bay?
Yeah.
So I agree with that.
I agree.
But it's just like, it's like.
Think it's gonna be till like next Wednesday or Thursday before we really say right okay now the yeah now We're gonna have nice weather now.
We're gonna expect to be 60s and stuff it I was just gonna say one thing Todd Tuck one last more time or one more time here Todd about the craft pick.
Oh Yeah, I mean we're good.
This is the final week for our top.
Yeah, so if you haven't voted already for the 10
participants in the minor one, the mayor's top craft pick.
You've got until Friday at five o'clock to do that.
I will tell you right now that we have a lot of votes in, which is great.
And, but we have some leaders, right?
There are people, the people in top five are doing really well.
And then we have some people that need a little help.
So if you haven't voted already, wgbw.fm or wyss.fm click on the top craft pick vote.
And also next week, we will announce the winner.
between the businesses and also announce a winner who's going to walk away with $250 and gift cards from those participating craft vendors.
So at seven o'clock hour, we're going to, we're going to go through that a little bit.
Cause we can talk about all
10.
So we'll go through all 10 and give our comments on everything we would all they bring to the table.
Absolutely.
That'd be fun.
Absolutely.
I enjoyed all of them, but there's, you had a little drink yesterday.
He took a nappy yesterday.
That's the problem with this show.
It's so early and they bring in samples and I gave, I went to an open house and brought a can of the...
You know, they've really did a lot with packaging this beer just out of the tap anymore Some of the packaging is unbelievable that the stuff in Oshkosh and
yeah, I was watching a show and the guy was gonna be going to ask this one Go down this kind of date.
We're going to this craft brewery.
I don't know yours.
You know what order the coolest label, right?
And they'll think you know all about That makes sense
Order labels like a landscape or something
like
that.
And you'll be in.
That one label had had a snow shovel on there.
It had the dinosaur in front of the Neville Museum.
Boy, if that wasn't the Green Bay label.
But what you had yesterday, you really liked the taste of the... Bourbon.
Oh, that drink though too.
The lemonade.
Were they roast lemons?
So that's...
the summer drink.
We'll talk about that because I'm going to have that in the summer, but she took a lemonade sliced it on the grill and grilled them, grilled the lemonade and then used that in the drink and then her vodka and then time.
Put that in there.
There's one thing wrong with having the pictures up where they're at.
It covers the lens for the camera.
Oh, I was wondering about what just happened.
Why it went dark in here.
I look
better.
Leave it, Todd.
All
right, we'll do that in the morning.
A little backlighting.
Leave it.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
This is not just, when we talk about this craft.
Good morning.
How are you?
I'm supposed to say we talk about this contest.
What are you doing right now?
I'm just looking at myself look.
I know you look good too.
Thank you.
It's not just
beer
though.
Yeah, that's exactly right wineries We got some wine in there cider ease right that first guy we had on
from
Carragans.
Yeah, yeah, that's great stuff and he just makes that just that
I'm not I'm not just saying this I fall I'm gonna hit every single one of those spots and just to show I'm Appreciation for being a part of this, but they all brought something to the table that was unique where it's like um
Remember that one thing,
right?
We'll talk about that at seven.
They all have tasting rooms.
Yeah, and I'm sure they all have I don't they all have tours, but it seems like they all have like music festivals or music
stuff going on.
Yeah,
so absolutely fun.
I
want to promote all of
them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we'll talk a little bit more about that at seven o'clock, but you've got until Friday at five to vote and get in the drawing to win $250 gift card.
Nice.
That's a nice price.
That's
a great price.
Got texture, Westie Peer Middle School band playing at the brewery game tonight
says
Brian.
That's cool.
You got a drum line coming, right?
I do.
That's going to be... We had the Schwabbanon conductor and the assistant.
Is she the conductor?
The two of them were in here because they were at the St.
Patrick's Day parade in New York.
And we have an event coming up at the shelter in conjunction with the NFL next week.
There's nothing like a drum line, right?
I love it.
Even at Packer games, I love the drum
line.
And she was so nice.
She's like, oh, we can send the pep band.
I'm like, you know what?
Just give us the drum line.
No disrespect.
That's what I said.
I said, look, I was in the pep band.
Yeah.
Love the pep band.
But we kind of talked about it here.
And we would just like the drum line.
The pep band can come.
They can have some pizza.
They can give them a tour of the shelter.
But we would just really like the drum line.
Drum lines are phenomenal.
Aren't they?
If I was a musician, I'd be in a drum line.
Yeah,
I really would.
That'd be like the thing I would want to do.
Yeah.
And what time?
It's that's really difficult.
You're a whack-a-mole.
It's it's
really
see me play whack-a-mole.
But when you go to the games, people just gather around.
They
just love it.
You know, that's one thing people is.
Is Kevin.
Kevin's band could be wandering around that day.
Kevin Vaness.
The
Packer
Band.
Well, we tried to get him for an event and he said he was booked for five things already.
So I gotta believe you.
But what I'm saying is that a Packer game, like you get, you know, everybody tailgates and get there early.
Those bands walking around add a lot of, what, glitz, ambiance.
Oh,
it's special.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
No questions.
And yeah, he's great.
I'm sure he'll be working, you know.
Oh, but I forgot to say something.
So did you get the
press times yesterday?
Friday's it comes.
No.
Oh, I was in my mailbox yesterday.
Um, really great story on our guest here from a couple weeks.
So, Maldonado, the boxer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great feature story.
He hurt
his hand.
I know.
I know.
I feel terrible about that.
But
what a story.
I saw the story.
I saw the story.
Yes, I did.
I saw that.
That's cool.
I know.
I know.
Here's your drum
line.
I know.
I don't know if you could do this, John.
Wack-a-mole.
John would just
be with the sticks
because they don't know if you're playing
or not, you
know?
I think I'd be hot.
Terry says Chris Tapeau is in a bluegrass band.
Steel drivers were before he went solo.
Some good music.
I love those kind of steel drivers bands.
Quick break, back up for us.
For WGBW and WISS News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Wisconsin DNR says the state will have elevated fire danger through Wednesday.
Most of our area is listed as very high in fire danger.
Dry weather and high winds are leading to increased fire risks across the state.
Last weekend, DNR officials said there were 63 wildfires burning 135 acres.
The election season is over in Wisconsin, at least for a little while, but not in Wrightstown.
One week from today, unless a judge steps in, Wrightstown School Board President Angela Hansen Winker faces a recall election.
Nicole Verbetton.
A West Depeer teacher and Wrightstown resident is challenging her.
A petition by other school board members collected 1,200 signatures to ask for the recall election.
Hanson Winker has challenged the certification of those signatures.
The recall election is set for Tuesday, April 22nd.
Chaos is the word that U.S.
Senator Tammy Baldwin used to describe the roller coaster of tariff declarations, retaliatory tariffs, tariff pauses, and the stock market reactions
the past few weeks.
I do think it's appropriate to have tariffs and other sanctions that can be placed so that we can level the playing field for our workers and our businesses.
But when it comes to our allies, the two biggest trading partners Wisconsin has are Canada and Mexico.
President Donald Trump paused the Across the Board tariffs last week, a move that Baldwin hopes becomes permanent policy regarding our allies.
Baldwin made her comments during a virtual town hall meeting for her Northeast Wisconsin constituents last week.
I'm Lisa Hale for WGBW and WISS News.
For news anytime, visit civicmedia.us.
Well, the teams get ready to choose their top draft picks.
You can help Mino and the Mayor choose their top craft pick.
Northeast Wisconsin is home to amazing breweries, wineries, cideries, and distilleries.
And we need your help picking the best.
We've drafted 10 of our favorites, but which local craft beverage creator will go to number one?
That's up to you.
Mino and the Mayor's top craft pick.
Drafting Northeast Wisconsin's finest one sip at a time.
Now back to Mino and the Mayor.
Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mino the Mayor had a good look in eventually.
What?
Tuesday eventually partly sunny skies, but still windy upper upper 40s for the high Yeah, mm-hmm Had a good talk with Eric popkey yesterday from the Packers You know, it's funny because This is unlike anything this almost for them
This has to be kind of like when they would go to a Super Bowl and even though they're the big player or one of the big players and they don't really control everything going around the Super Bowl.
The
NFL tells you where, when, how, here, doing, doing, doing.
And it's kind of funny for to be in your own hometown and somebody to come in and do the same thing.
And this reminds me of when after the Packers won the Super Bowl, the first game they played here, Maroon 5 was here and Saints
Sunday night, I think, or Monday night.
Monday night and I remember going to the planning meetings and you know, I mean you've been in meetings with the Packers they kind of tell you what's gonna happen and But when the NFL's there they kind of listen like the rest of us Which is kind of cool the respect they have for the NFL is they own a franchise They own the whole thing the NFL does right and you the Packers have the franchise and and they're like, well, we're gonna do this and I was like, okay And it worked out great and they really
It was so much fun that that whole That whole evening is
just well, they know they're doing
they you know That's just it.
Yeah, and they don't really ask a lot about the price I mean a little bit, you know, but can we do this?
Can we do that or we'd like to do this?
We'd like to do that.
Maybe that's what they said But just some DPW things but anyway, that's what they're experiencing now because people are like Aaron What about this and he's like this kind of isn't our event.
I mean now the information's all out, but you know even
Uh,
somewhere Sanders isn't coming to town.
Shooter Sanders.
What's that?
Shooter Sanders isn't coming to town.
Uh, Deon Sanders son.
Oh,
for the, you know, for, oh yeah, yeah,
yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
He was, but
just that whole Travis Hunter is though.
Right.
And I think even on the layout, I, everybody's like, Oh, come on.
You know where it's going to be.
And I think they really had some suggestions, but I don't think the final decision was the Packers.
I think it really was the NFL as to where the stage was going
to be.
Well, I didn't realize it was a.
10-year project to get this.
Yeah.
Well, he said that yesterday that when they heard it was in Chicago.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Was there a little bit of a what have we got to lose type of
thing?
With a small market.
Hey, what was it?
Well, it was in Chicago 10 years ago, right?
And because, wow, when they started moving that thing around, yeah, let's throw our name out there.
And you're right.
Let's end.
Wow.
It was an essay writing contest.
After summer vacation, you come back.
Absolutely.
He said a thousand words like, oh my god, how could you come up with a thousand words?
And he's like, oh my god, I could only use a thousand words.
Actually, you know what though?
There was a very, very good, and I wish I'd seen this show when I was looking.
There was a very good Leave It to Beaver on last night.
And it was the one about when there.
How does this, okay, like connect this one.
Yeah, we're waiting.
Okay.
It was, you know, celebrating the independence, you know, the anniversary, you know, yada, yada, yada coming up fourth of July or whatever.
Okay.
So they're in school and the teacher was going around to different kids.
What do you think you do well that you could do for a class project?
And three of the kids, including the beef all said, um, posters because he had found his dad sketchbook.
His dad was like a graphic designer and he's like, Oh my God, I can have my dad do it.
All right.
So they go on the other two.
So his is terrible.
Horse has a leg that's missing or something.
Paul Revere doesn't, you know, he's weird.
Okay.
Terrible, terrible, terrible.
The other kids were perfect.
But the teacher goes, uh, Melissa, did you get any help on this?
Well, yeah, my dad helped and my mom and my older brother put on the, the cotton for George Washington's head.
Um, Tommy, how about you?
Well, my dad helped me a little bit, but they told me it was really bothering him.
to do the project.
No, that I was looking over his shoulder while he did it.
Cause then there's the beef, beef.
So beef got the price.
Beef got the price.
All right.
So we've got the NFL draft because Aaron did, is that what you're saying?
I've got a connection to beef.
Yeah, I'm trying to as well.
Would you
follow along?
No, it's one of those stairs.
Oh my god.
I try to weave.
I
try so hard to weave.
Okay, I just
what I'm
weaving at is is this okay?
You didn't think you're gonna win.
So you just kind of whatever whatever who walks with the prize the Green Bay Packers walkway with the prize.
Okay, the beaver walks with a
prize.
Okay
I heard Ward was really excited that.
Yes.
I'm sure June was too.
Well, did any of your moms wear a dress and high heels?
Anybody?
Well, you know what I was watching.
Here's my mom.
And pearls.
Pearls.
Pearls.
It's
like this exact good.
I had to come home from school.
Mom would have her dress and her high heels and her pearls.
And then after dinner, OK, Ward would come out with a nice silver tray and a little coffee pot and a little
and they would sit and talk about their day after supper.
And
after I fed the dogs.
Spotless.
It's like, oh my God, when you grow up like that, it's like how your moms were versus how they were on TV.
There were actually songs back then about like, make sure your makeup is right, make sure your hair is done, don't look sloppy, you know, because your man is coming home.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, do you ever, yeah, those read like 1953.
He's had
a
hard day.
You have a drink waiting for him.
Put his feet up.
Make sure your lips are done.
Oh, that's
right.
Yeah.
Cause there's, cause there's women in the office and men will be men.
There are actually lyrics to a song that say that.
Oh, I believe it.
Oh, I believe it.
Was there anyone that was really realistic?
You know what I
mean of real TV shows?
That would
be, cause you don't think, did you know Wally and the beef?
even had their own bathroom.
They had their own bathroom in their bedroom.
What kids had their own bathroom?
We had one bathroom for nine people.
How many did you have?
More, but that's yeah.
How many?
We had a lot of
kids.
I
had seven.
How
many
did you have?
Five.
Four.
Wow.
For
bathrooms.
Was it like three and a half bath
or was it?
Right, right.
That's
just because you know.
Showers or bathtubs?
We had one.
There's a shower with some bathtub.
You had showers.
We had a shower.
We had a bathtub.
Well, of course.
That's what I mean.
Because even in the beef in that they talk about baths, they don't talk about showers.
Yeah.
But you had showers.
Yeah.
But we had a bathtub,
too.
What's in your house now?
Is that, like,
department store?
I went back there.
We went back there, like, I don't know, six years ago, people were super nice, then.
bought it.
I wish I could have gotten back into my house, but it burnt down.
Oh, because it's fun to do it.
The people, I'll tell you what could be sad though.
I just want to say this.
If they didn't take care of it, it'd break
your heart.
Yeah.
So, but if they did take care of it, they want nothing more, but it's going to look smaller because you were a little kid when
you were there.
And
you're like, and
that is true.
I think that
was a little bit bigger than this.
I don't know.
We haven't done anything to it, but it it's people should do that.
You know, we I told you that guy stopped by my house that I live in now and you
know that one song is really apropos Um, what's her name Todd?
She's sweet Blake Shelton A mandel amber.
Oh, okay.
She does that song.
We should knock some door.
Hey, you just want to see my old home.
See that's that's great That's really apropos got text here.
I understand the bathrooms here, but did you have attendance?
But that was your lack a little this aftershave
People who never take that the clone.
No me neither brute.
Um, I always got uncomfortable in that guy standing there
One in the bathroom.
Yeah a little towel worst job
ever You hope he was there for a job and not just hang it out.
Yeah, that's true.
That's a texture Jim did have jacuzzi's Jim did have
jacuzzi's Okay
This summer maybe that's one of your goals is to go back to your home.
I would love
to the people I just want to say that we've done that a couple times because we live in two My parents
I mean I would have loved the
people were so Absolutely nice and if you call ahead the all you want to have lunch.
I just want to see the house But that is a fun thing to do because it's the memories like you think all have some good memories.
You walk in It's like wow.
Yeah, and I talk about bringing it back.
Yeah, I can't even
imagine I should have done that before it burned down.
That's too bad your husband.
Yeah
burned down to the ground
Yeah,
some sort of insurance scheme
or something
Pull this night of the year
No, no, I don't know I mean we weren't living there had been sold but still even when I drive past it's like to you know what I so okay You're gonna laugh go ahead.
Just get all your insults now.
All right.
Well, what's good?
Give us some
okay.
I'm just gonna throw it out metal detecting.
Yeah,
go ahead.
Yep I You're gonna metal detect up by your I
would have I wish
I would
have all the
touch football games and wiffle ball games and stuff like that you played in your yard or I'm not that I had any money but I mean who knows how much change could have been down there in those yards and that whole neighborhood I should have done that whole neighborhood well and there was stuff long before you were there well that's what I mean that our house was I think built in like 1840 or something like that so I mean can you imagine and I never did that
And I did it in my neighbors, my, it's the only time I ever yelled at my mom and just got really lambasted back.
I found an Indian head, we used to dig for iron ore in our neighbor's yard in the backyard.
Okay.
I think we could bring it to the mining company because they don't have enough iron ore with their, you know, and honestly, that's how we thought.
And I found an 1865 Indian head penny.
That's cool.
Which are super cool.
Every look for those,
yeah.
Mom washed the pants.
No more Indian head penny.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now yell that or that was not a good moment.
No,
not a good moment in Johnny's life.
How old were you?
Eight or nine.
Yeah.
Not, not great.
Not great.
You know, that metal detecting, is that still a thing?
Is that real popular?
Yeah, it was real, real, real popular.
Like, it's so, you know what?
We've gotten rid of a lot of the posers.
We, like he's in some kind of
club.
What?
It's a membership.
We got rid of some of the posters, some of the people that just think they're cool.
Oh, look at me.
I'm metal detecting.
You know what I mean?
With the bike shorts and tank top.
Well, that's me.
But I'm just saying it starts a lot of the other people.
So I think they just do it to look cool.
Whereas the serious ones like ourselves, we're uncovering history.
We're not doing it for ourselves.
We're doing it for- You find bottle caps that nobody
else does.
We're doing it for mankind.
We're doing it.
That's what we're doing.
I think, yeah.
That would be fun though.
I gotta admit that would be fun.
Oh man,
really cool.
I mean, I've never done
when
you got that thing
Oh, are you kidding me?
I got goosebumps right now Just say yeah, I'm getting a new one this year saving up for it.
How much are those things?
They could be a thousand bucks 1500.
Yeah, but you know, you got to invest to invest in the
earth right right and that's what I'm doing
But he's president of the club.
You probably have to have, you
know.
Well, I got my own club.
Yeah.
I got my only person in my club so far.
But I'm opening for membership.
I really am.
Have you paid your dues?
That's the
question I want.
I'm a little behind.
Yeah.
I'm a little behind.
A little behind.
I'm catching up.
I'm catching up.
All right, we're gonna start a break.
Quick break.
Pam Seidel, Executive Director of Fox City's Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Daryl Burnett, Automobile Gallery.
James Bond Collection.
Patty Newts, Green Bay Transit.
Talk to you soon.
Bye-bye.
Draft transportation information.
Back after
this.
WGPW 98.3 96.5 of WISS of course the civic media app your Milwaukee Brewers need to turn it around tonight against Detroit Tigers that ball game at six o'clock on WISS NBA playoffs getting started I said big time of year for pro sports and masters we just completed man I just keep reading about that about just I mean people are like I've never sat through something like that even if you don't follow golf and that was it was
It was unbelievable.
It
was
crazy.
I've never seen anything because the thing was, okay, you got the NFL.
Obviously the most popular sport in America.
But you know what?
I mean, guys are in their helmets and they got the dark glasses and the shields and they're covered up in uniforms and equipment.
You had to get in golf.
Man, are you naked out there?
Every emotion.
I actually, I actually thought Rory was going to cry one time.
the other day when he hit that one shot that was so terrible he literally I thought he was gonna almost like break down like just I can't believe this happened again and his his entire legacy was riding he his entire that he'll be remembered for one of two things
let's
see one of the very few grand slam lifetime members yeah okay or biggest choke artist in big tournament history
One of the two.
But he's young.
He could have played next
year.
No, he's
not young anymore.
We think he's young.
We think he's been around a while.
This is his 11th year trying to get that.
But he put a lot of pressure on himself.
Oh, I know he did.
But it's one of those things where you see some of these young kids coming up.
Holy
crap.
He's
35 already.
I mean, we don't think that's a little bit wild.
Yeah.
This is at the Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus.
Everybody smokes pack of cigarettes has some beer then Now
that's what I want to be a part of
absolutely
Absolutely,
then did you pour Arizona State?
Oh my I shouldn't say poor my alma mater did not represent well at the Masters The coach Arizona State golf coach got kicked out Okay Because he went to talk to a couple of his former players who are in on the practice screen beforehand Then he had a badge and everything but he's wearing shorts
You're not allowed around the practice areas if you're wearing shorts.
They kicked him out of the tournament.
His player is one that peed in the creek during the round.
Really?
He peed in the creek at the Masters.
Some people are
saying it's a lifetime band.
Yeah, I mean, that is still a little uppity.
Yeah, well, I don't know.
Was he a little lit up?
He was playing in the round.
He's playing around like Scottie Scheffler and somebody like him in the very first round There's a big delay and he really had to whiz and there's a like the raised Creek which is so famous it kind of curves and he went down to a spot where he thought nobody would see him and People saw him.
Well, I mean come on.
That's I
agree with that.
I million people
I I think
that's but also what if you do have to go I mean you're out on the well there are porta-potties Yeah,
right, but you got to find you know kind of you know every other hole or where you know kind of strategically placed or whatever
But that was, I mean, come on, man.
You're at the masters of all.
I mean, that's like, I take a leak at St.
Patrick's Cathedral in the back.
You know what I mean?
It's like,
seriously.
Go to the second pew.
Nobody's going to see you.
Right.
Or just simply hold it as long as you can't.
Well, to get to, like you said, to the porta pot, if you want to get to the clubhouse, that could be a hike, but I don't.
Yeah.
Wow.
I
mean, we've all let, let's be honest.
Let E cast the first.
If there's a man.
in this studio, or if there's a man in America listening and it hasn't peed outside, there's something wrong with
it.
I mean, come on.
I mean, I actually had to do it.
I don't know if I could tell us.
Go ahead, sure.
That's the night after
your Christmas party.
John, you can't do that outside.
Well, he
did.
It's not outside your house.
But that's like, you can get clipped for that.
Well, I know it's expensive
now.
It's in decent exposure, but it was...
One
in the morning I'm
walking from C Street to here and it was so maybe possibly those bushes
You Yeah, okay.
I don't I believe that everybody's done it
The cop.
Yeah, okay.
Well,
you know what I hate is when you're
on the road going C Street Take a nice bathroom in there.
That's not bad cuz
they didn't
have to go until after
I left
and you're
walking like that and it's cold One of those everybody's done it
Everybody Jim you've never repeat outside.
No, I said yes.
Yeah, okay, you know at the world party in the heart of the downtown I think I would find you could this public bathroom right here.
There
were four guys standing with me
Makes it a public bathroom Okay, okay,
all right.
Yes, I got this didn't John P and Kingsford's water supply.
No, no ish forming kids used to come into the Nagani water supply because we had a lake That's where we were even allowed to swim in it.
You couldn't do anything
Okay.
Oh, and they would come down and P in our water supply just to be that way.
Oh, it's where they did in the UP Johnny will Jim be taking it to a night or should I place our new bets together Tori something I'm not gonna talk about Tori It's a new type of betting that's taking place out in California of which I want no part of whatsoever Tori tell Todd tell Todd and Jim what we're talking about I'm not even gonna read it Tori because you're disgusting but go ahead and put what the new betting craze is in
California right now.
It's not good.
Really?
What's wrong with you?
Tori Tori Tori Tori.
Hey one more thing.
We were talking about Randy Wright coming on.
It's an interview I did with Randy very recently about the draft just in regards to the draft and what it was like in 1984 when he got drafted versus the way it is right now, right?
How much different is and Randy is one of the most insightful guys that we could ever ask.
I don't care what it is about the NFL.
Randy, what's your opinion?
And I'll take
it.
Oh, yeah
He's great.
Yeah, one of those guys
and it's gonna be interesting to see you see what the Fox City is kind of doing with the draft They're doing that mile of music.
I think that's like really cool that they're showcasing I do too a Mini mile of music to say look cuz they're gonna get people to come back for that.
They say this is really cool.
All you come back and that
was okay I'm gonna be honest with that was a big I went to a place yesterday in deep here and Talk to my hey with the treasures.
We don't know if we're gonna get a single perk in
Walking through our door.
We don't know you know everybody because you know the thing you got to remember Yeah, that's what it is.
Yeah, thanks Tori um But that's the big question mark cuz
I remember
something and we'll talk about that cuz like right if you if we're gonna go to a packer game in Seattle
We'd go two days early.
We'd go to the fish market.
We'd go to whatever whatever cuz get nothing else to do But here there's something going on every day
and every draft
and every you're competing with the draft exactly So that's gonna be interesting.
All right.
We'll hear from Randy Wright and his draft memories from a Green Bay Packer and we come
back
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.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
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Hate doing I hate doing I hate that so much
Jackie
Robinson
why do people hate that laundry?
You guys think like in the old days were it yet it I do throw it in there and hit the button
So I placed a bet for Julie the other day at the casino.
Mm-hmm.
She lost took Scotty Schaeffler.
Oh,
yeah, I think she goes by hotness when she bets on people If Brooks Kepke was in okay, she would have bet on Brooks
So, um, but I literally said I will make a, I will pay the money.
Okay.
If you just do my laundry.
Once an iron.
Well, ironing is different.
That sucks.
Yeah.
I thought there was going to be a
thing one time where you could just put your clothes in a thing and boom, they're ironed.
No, I thought somebody's going to invent one of those like a steam room type thing.
Like wasn't attached.
Remember they used to come out with those Todd?
You got to take it
to a dry cleaner.
That's, that's what that's rather than business.
They got, the shirts gotta go there.
That ain't cheap.
No.
Alright.
It's
just, neither...
Can't remember the last time I used a dry cleaner.
Nothing against somebody
just... I only
use it for my sport coats when they get stinky.
Yeah.
From sweating in them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You of course, regular
basis.
Since I got out of college, I've been going to get my shirts on the dry cleaner.
Seriously?
Seriously.
I bet
I... I have never brought a shirt to a dry cleaner.
I brought nothing except sport coats.
So this is just another one of how many bathrooms do you have in
your house?
That's just something that I've always, always, always have done.
And I'm sure there's stuff that you've always done that I haven't.
That's just the way you are and that's the way I am.
I've just always,
always have done that.
Did your mom ever have one of those old washing machines?
Cause this is so far back, my mom's goes, Todd, you might be in the same, in the basement.
My grandma had one.
Where they
got the thing that goes through the little, don't put your fingers in there.
Remember those?
I've seen those, but not it.
We didn't have that.
Okay.
We could afford that.
Do you dry clean your linens?
We got a text here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What do you think you're pulling over on, Chip?
Yeah, he does.
But that dry clean, it's, what is it?
350 a shirt?
I think it's like $7 a shirt.
Is it?
Yeah.
I don't think you've dry cleaned in a while.
Well, you want to bet there's a receipt in that
bag, I bet.
I just picked
some
up.
I don't think you paid for dry cleaning for a while.
There's
a receipt in the bag?
Let's find it, Jim.
Go for it!
I think there might be one, isn't it?
I just played the jump in the contest.
Can Jim find the receipt by the bottom of the hour?
We've got 21 minutes.
Actually, 20 minutes and 30 seconds.
They send you a
text, and it's... You'll find an old cough drop, a quarter.
And a ticket stop
from the I would tell you that a bombers
game in 2026 it was before was
married
Are you okay?
Are you one of those guys though?
Does somebody does Donna do it for you or do you actually do it because there's a difference?
Just kind of a pain to bring stuff there and then whatever and you're
okay
with that
If they give you that little red bag, okay throw shirts in there and drop it off.
They got a little tag Then they send you text.
It's done and go pick it up and do the billing and goes to your credit card You know what I had to do one time easy.
I just want to say John I just want to tell you guys don't think this is a Donna thing I did this before we were married.
I've been married 35 years heard.
That's why she married you So I've heard anyway, yeah
feeling is I'm gonna tell you a sick feeling okay a sick feeling is when you're living in Manitowoc and You bring a sport coat
to a dry cleaners in Green Bay.
And you got a banquet to do 60 miles north of there.
Oh, you forget.
And I got there.
I didn't know it closed so early on Saturday.
I had to go to Cole's and buy a whole new sport coat and everything for one banquet.
That sucks.
Now, what I would have done.
Yes.
Where did you take it?
Do you remember?
Was it Linderman's?
All the
way.
It's the only place I've ever gone.
I would have held the owner.
I said, look man, I have to get that tonight.
How would I know who they are?
How would I, I would have no idea how to do that.
I'll be honest with you.
He's my cousin.
I think I went to the Allaway liquor and bottle of something
for later.
That guy knows you.
Love that guy.
Love that guy.
I go
there too.
I love that store.
He is a really good guy.
It is
such a great old school
store.
He is, and he just sits on that little stool.
Yeah, he.
Anyway,
what the hell's wrong with your Packers?
Yeah,
no, he's
anyway
I
Love those old place.
I've been around how many years 50 60.
Oh my god, all maybe more now
and he
can tell you where everything is just all He'll tell you exactly where it is.
What shelf what whatever behind the thing right there You won't get off this won't move.
It'll tell you exactly where everything
is cool about him is if you go in there and you want to buy their time No, Elway liquor
If you want to buy something that you don't really know, he knows.
Exactly.
Let's say you want to buy a bottle of really good gin and you don't drink gin.
He will tell you.
Absolutely.
How much you want to spend?
I want to spend 20 bucks.
25 bucks.
You go, this is what you want to get.
Boom.
And it's there.
Wine and yeah.
I like that customer service.
I love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love those old school kind of places.
And he, he will talk.
Oh, he's
great.
But it's fun talk.
Well, yeah, it's fun talk.
You know, fun talk.
Yeah.
It's, I really enjoy that a lot.
He listens to us too, by the way.
Well, anyway, we got the draft coming up.
Of course, we've been talking about all kinds of different things, but one of the things I want to talk about is how unbelievably different is.
And I know I've told this story at Nazyam, but my very first day working
as a professional broadcaster, whatever it's called in Green Bay, Wisconsin was on draft day of 1984.
That was my very first day starting and Randy Wright was one of the players drafted.
And again, it started, I think seven in the morning in New York, which would be six here, right?
Started so six o'clock in the morning, the draft would start.
Everybody's set up in the Packers locker room.
They bring up roasted chicken for lunch, which was great.
I mean, but you'd be there all day.
You'd be there from six in the morning.
Till almost when you do your late show, 10 o'clock, you gather 11, 11, 30 at night.
They treated you guys that well?
Yeah.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah, Bob Noel was his name, the old equipment manager.
Well, that's nice.
OK.
Yeah.
So that was really good.
That way, I'll look forward to it.
But otherwise, just sit around for hours waiting, because you got one pick, and then you got 30 other teams that have 15 minutes to make a pick.
That's how long that would go.
It's just crazy.
But anyway, talked with Randy.
There's a little interview I did with him over the phone about the difference between draft 2025 and draft 1984.
Well, Randy Wright, first of all, how has the NFL draft changed from your time in 1984 till right now?
You know, that's a good question.
Fewer rounds.
When I came out in 84, there were 12 rounds.
It was all in one day.
Because the USFL was a huge competitor at that point, so they didn't want players that were disappointed in getting drafted in the 6th round, 8th round, 10th round to go sign with the USFL.
So it was 12 rounds, it was all done in one day, and it was a quicker process.
I also think now a lot of the testing and the studying they do is much, much more in depth than the pre-draft process that I had to go through.
So it's a much more complicated process now.
How were you notified?
I was over by by phone and in fact it was it as interesting as I was actually on the phone with San Francisco and they had said they had made their fifth round pick I was a sixth round pick San Fran had made their fifth round pick and they had said if you're available in the sixth round we're going to draft you and I don't know whether that was true or not true but they said if you're available in the sixth round we're going to take you we hung up and literally 30
minutes later the phone rang and I thought it was San Francisco and it was Green Bay and Green Bay had called and said are you still available or did you sign with the USFL?
I said nope still available having done that and they said you've been drafted by Green Bay and we'll see you in a couple days
Wow, so were you drafted by the USFL or what was that like when you guys had that little bit of a bargaining chip?
You know what?
It was a nice process and I wouldn't say
It was as good as it is today with free agency because there was no free agency back when I was playing and that didn't come into play until the nineties.
But it was nice having alternative league that you could use I was drafted by the Memphis showboats of the USFL.
And it was actually talking to them quite a bit in January and February but it wasn't the great fit I had started to hear that I was going to be.
on the draft board, fifth round, sixth round, maybe fourth round if you're lucky.
So I felt that the NFL was going to be a realistic possibility and the USFL wasn't a great fit for me.
So I decided to wait and I'm glad I did because Green Bay was such a great fit for me and such a good spot for me to go.
It worked out well for me.
You amazed at how big of an event this has become and second follow-up, are you going to by chance come to Green Bay for any of it?
You know i'm i may well i am a little surprised at how big it has become and how much of an event they make out of it and i will probably be up in green bay next year for the draft and it's a not so what is a once in a lifetime opportunity how many times are you gonna get to do that to be able to.
To be a former player for Green Bay and to be able to go up there and partake in some of the activities that are going on and to be a part of it is, I think it'll be pretty special.
So yeah, probably we'll be up there at that point.
One last question.
Are the bonuses pretty much the same these days as in yours when you're drafted?
Bonuses.
That's a trick question, right?
I will tell you a story.
I've got about a one and a half minute story.
When I was playing and I got drafted by Green Bay, I made a promise to myself, I will never ever look back and say, oh, I wish I'd played later.
I wish I'd played later.
And the reason I say that is in 1983, Terry Bradshaw played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, four-time Super Bowl winner.
His last year was 1983.
My rookie year was 1984.
So we never crossed paths, but we butted up next to each other.
He never made it his highest paid year what I made in my lowest paid year and When I found that fact out I said I will never complain about what future salaries are down the road knowing that I benefited at that time To that degree so I've I've salaries are a little bit different these days, but I'm grateful I had a chance to play when I did
All right, Randy right former Green Bay Packer quarterback talk about the difference of about 30 years 1984 to 2025 and and he does make a pretty good point there where right, you know everybody that came after Did better than the guys that came before and a lot of those guys even just because I mean, you know back in the day I mean when I was covering the Packers on a daily basis, you know mid 80s the whole thought through the whatever whatever and you know the glory year guys would come around a lot more and boy they would
And somebody might be make okay, let's say he's making you two hundred thousand dollars in 1988 or something You know that was pretty good money and and one of these you know the guys would say okay I was making 24,000 right you know so it's ten times more so it's pretty hard to begrudge the guys down the road from you because You're the guys that came before you
yeah, and
That industry is just it's but unbelievable change.
It's not incremental monopoly money
Monopoly money.
I don't know what sweat flip that switch, but
anyway, right
back or quarterback joining us We'll have some more people coming up like that down the road.
You said a quick break back at this
97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 and 96.5 FM WI assassin downtown
and Appleton I know we're talking a lot of the draft, but we should this is a once-in-a-lifetime once in a lifetime I mean and it's gonna be at least in our
lifetime
right and it's It's gonna be here and it's gonna be gone and although, you
know, it'd be really cool
If it comes again, if
they know well, yes, you know if it came here
And all the stars were aligned right and people said why hold that any other place the way we do
with the Super
Bowl with the Super Bowl?
And they okay, they've done some of those things now the Pro Bowl used to be in Hawaii or is it Vegas now or whatever?
NBA has kind of done that It takes away a lot of the groundwork where you're starting from scratch every year who knows I'm just throwing this out there
Not that I've ever tossed out crazy things before
in my
career.
Everything has been based on factual
matter.
Oh, yeah.
Vetted, documented, analysis,
backups, footnotes.
Right.
99% of everything I talk
about is that way.
Research.
Yep.
Yep.
Test marketed.
What
if this goes over unbelievably spectacularly well?
A tremendous experience
for the community.
If Del gets on his private jet and says, you know what?
Turn this thing around.
Yeah.
We're gonna have a Green
Bay, Wisconsin every year.
Who could complain I mean I mean somebody in in in where?
Seattle it's gonna say That's not fair.
This is Green Bay man.
This is where it began.
This is the
birthplace, right?
It's
right here.
I I think that would be the ultimate thing now.
I'm not sure the community would be all that for it Because all the different things and that still needs to
be played out get their mail for four days,
right?
Yeah,
all those kind of things, but I'm just saying doing that first one
Rolling the sleeves up.
Yeah,
jump it in that cold water.
Yeah, seeing how it goes, right?
Wouldn't that
be a good work?
That would be very, very cool.
Very.
It's going to be.
Yes.
Well, today we're going to learn a lot because
if there was something.
OK, I always mention this one place Fenway Park.
If there was something baseball related, it is going to be one time ever at Fenway Park.
I would think of a way to go to Fenway Park
or Wrigley.
They're both good.
Well, but I've been to Wrigley, so it's not even but.
But for the people around the country, you know, if the Packers aren't playing the San Diego, the Los Angeles Chargers, when is a Los Angeles Chargers fan going to come to Green Bay, Wisconsin?
You know, never.
But I mean, people could vacation in the New Yorks or the Boston's or whatever and still kind of, you know, do that.
But Green Bay is such a one stop destination, but you got to be a diehard packer or NFL fan, excuse me, to be a part of it.
I don't know.
If things go well, I think that's something the NFL could.
should consider.
And I'm just tossing out there as a wild card, but I'm just saying they've done that before taking things and say, Hey, you know what?
Let's just keep it here.
Yeah.
Could be a little pushback, but okay.
Yeah, that'd be great.
Look, I'm all for it.
Give me.
That'd be awesome.
But they're, and they're not, they wouldn't really be taking anything away from anywhere else because they don't, the other places, I don't know, where is it going to be next year?
Has that ever been decided
yet?
Oh yeah.
So two years, three years, two years.
Okay.
I mean, they've
announced them.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um,
where is the next one?
Do you know?
Yeah, I
don't tell me
I
should have asked you in that yesterday.
We're here.
Yeah.
Well, we could look that up.
Yeah.
But anyway, I mean, does that sound
crazy?
Pittsburgh, I believe.
Okay.
Let's go to Pittsburgh.
Oh my God.
Are you kidding me?
You would go to Pittsburgh.
That's the last
place in the world.
The only reason
I'd go to Pittsburgh is I'd go to Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
I want to see where Joe Namath grew up because I was the biggest Joe Namath fan in America.
People used to say I was so much like Joe Namath in high school.
It's mind boggling.
Pittsburgh is awesome.
Really?
Talk about a revitalized city.
Pittsburgh is awesome.
Really?
Anyway, we're going to have fun with it.
We're right on the cusp of this thing.
This
is going to be awesome.
Leave it off.
I like it.
But we
have some people coming in here to talk about, because this is far reaching.
So we've got the Fox Cities Convention visitor bureau coming in.
She's going to be great.
And then I'm sure the car museum is doing something with Dale Burnett running that place.
I
would imagine.
Well, they've got
the James Bond.
Oh, yeah.
Patty Kiwis for who runs transit here in
which is important.
It's great to have her on.
Right.
We're getting down to the nitty gritty.
How are we going to get there?
Before it was like, we got two months.
Right.
Right.
A month and a
half.
So she's
OK.
We got to do it in seven days.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's going to be fun.
Cool.
These
people.
Good lineup.
But people like like Aaron said yesterday, too, you know, start filling out your.
I don't want to call it a dance card because you made fun of me last time I said that but
I heard you say that on your weekend show too.
So, you know He uses that phrase a lot.
How did that work?
Do we ever figure that out how a dance card actually worked?
I Think you scheduled dances with different people.
Yes.
I think that's what it is was still is your dance card Am I on your dance card?
You know, it's time to leave it to be for episode.
I watch let's
dig in
lumpy lumpy Rutherford
went to, uh, he was doing, they were doing this contest, how many goldfish were in the thing.
And of course, Eddie Haskell screwed it up.
He told everybody, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
But he goes, okay, if I promised to tell you the exact answer, would you promise me one thing?
What's that, lumpy?
If I ask you to dance next time, you won't see, you got a sprained ankle.
I think I've had girls say, oh, I got a sprained ankle.
Yeah.
So anyway, but you know one other thing one last quick thing about the draft for bringing our guests I still think it's one of those things where if if the weather is Nice, which it looks like it's going to be during a thing.
Yes, I will say this I think people will enjoy getting out because if the weather is crappy You don't really want to do too much in you know what I mean, but if the weather is nice I think that will help all the outlying areas a little bit more great So it's like okay our team isn't drafting until three o'clock
Let's get up early and go to a door counting.
Let's go to an Oshka.
Let's go see EAA museum, you know, let's go to Appton and see the Houdini.
I really think if the weather is nice, people are gonna want to get out and about and enjoy more of Northeast Wisconsin.
And I think if they...
you know, go to Discover Green Bay or they, you know, download that one app.
There's a lot, a lot of info on there, a lot.
And that's, I hope they do that now though, John, that they just don't wait till they get here, because you want to plan a little bit.
But I mean,
like the EAA museum, how many chances do people have to go to the EAA museum if you're from again, you know?
the West Coast Denver.
What do
you come up just to go to the EAA?
Right.
Right.
If you like aviation.
Yeah.
Well, that's, you
know, if there's cars, like, right, you know, there's just so many things going on.
You know, maritime, if you like, man talk, you know, go to the sub.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
We're talking all things draft today.
Pretty much got the executive director.
Fox Cities Convention, Visitors Bureau, how the draft affects the Fox Cities, which is one of our favorite places in the state of Wisconsin.
We love going down there.
We're
happy to come down.
We have so much going on there all the time.
It's one of those places where whenever I do good I always try to think of a different thing like the one like last I had to go to Oshkosh for an interview last week for one of my Vietnam guys and but on the way back It's like dang it.
I wish I could remember the name of the place in Monashia We have that young lady
come on from Chicago.
Oh huggies Chicago
huggies It's like I want to you know what I mean?
There's always every time you go down there
I always have something else in the back of your mind since you're making the trip from Green Bay Oh,
yeah,
you got to find something else because there's such cool other little things in the Fox cities
Yeah, there are
or Pam's side.
Oh, hello Pam
And I think you know we all joke too because we always like even people in the Fox cities, you know people from Kokona don't going to Nina You have to pack a lunch, right?
It's not that far friends
and
see us
couple things we while a lot of things couple things we really love is is your chamber the apple did the present and your
airport
yes yes I flew in there yesterday I was I was down in a warmer climate
Arizona
Florida celebrating my brother's birthday but yeah flew into ATW and oh my god just yeah such great service and so easy
so convenient and so friendly and you have those people with their little can I help you and there and talk to them retired people I would love to
I want to give me a job there.
I mean, that is
just...
Please,
please summon Florida, give him a job there.
Oh, man.
Anyway, so how are things going in the Fox cities?
Wonderful, wonderful.
We're, you know, things are, we're here, you know, helping Green Bay gear up for the draft.
We've been actually part of the process since the beginning.
I remember when Brad Toll from Discover Green Bay reached out to me and said, so we're going to do a bid.
And I went, okay, and we do, we call it a friendly co-op petition,
right?
When there's big stuff coming.
northeast Wisconsin.
We all worked together.
Absolutely.
Because we're smaller.
It overflows.
And then he went, yeah, we're building on the draft.
And he went, oh, okay.
So we were there from the get-go because they knew they needed, you know, when you look at the size of a Detroit, you know, what the Fox City's become is a suburb.
You know, when you look at the other rings and the population and the density.
So they knew, you know, we had the extra hotel rooms and the extra airlift.
So the two airports could kind of work together and bring people in.
So we've been kind of a part of the process from the beginning.
We helped with the bid.
We provided some, you know, room data and some airline, airlift data.
So really, really excited for Green Bay, you know, to be hosting this event.
It's going to be a wonderful
opportunity.
hoping that...
We're all excited about it.
And how are you feeling it?
We've had Brad on here a couple times.
Aaron Popkey works
between Maypex and
Augustine.
We're still this far away from feeling it, probably.
Does that
make
sense?
We're going to talk about it a lot more because it's going to be here and gone before we know it.
So we're today is
really fast, I think.
And so, no, we've got some fun things happening in the flexies.
And I think, first of all, we know our role, right?
We're kind of that supporting community.
We've got a lot.
of hotel rooms still available.
So I think one of the things from a local perspective is understand there's still some great opportunities.
If you've got family and friends who don't live in the area and they want to come in for the draft, there's plenty of opportunity to stay.
Don't tell them to stay home because they can't find a room.
We've got plenty of rooms at the Fox Cities.
We've got some fun things going on Wednesday evening in downtown Appleton.
We have a song walk, which is being developed by Appleton Downtown Inc.
and The Mile of Music.
So it's kind of a mini mile of music Wednesday.
night in downtown Appleton, just a fun
little
event to play off it.
And then we at this
year.
Right in college?
Yep, right down in college.
I believe 10 venues.
There'll be music in 10 venues, so great opportunity.
That sounds great.
How about the hotel rooms you mentioned?
I think it's like 14 times, because I think there was an article I read that hotels were three to 14.
Is it, or do you know?
As far as
rates, you
mean?
No, I would put our rates on par with, you know,
Packer home game,
EAA,
wait, is what I call, is what I'm talking with my hotels.
And they deserve that.
Yeah.
And so yeah, absolutely, we got some great availability.
And we're doing some shuttles from Fox River Mall.
We're doing a park and ride at Fox River Mall.
Park your card, Fox or Moe, hop on a shuttle bus, come up here for the draft to really, you know, we're helping, obviously that just contributes to safety for people
and
making this an easy trip and
fewer cars on the highway going in.
That's where you really hit on biggest.
I will say this, Jim is kind of, I did certain things.
Okay, what are the things that there's still, it's still kind of a walk in space that could be a
big bugaboo.
And parking rides.
people are very comfortable with parking rides.
I mean, especially the Fox, who doesn't know where that is, right?
Everybody
knows where Fox River Mall is.
They've given us the whole section of their parking lot.
We've got six coach buses, real easy trip up, you know, on both Thursday and Friday and really keep the, like I said, safety.
And I remember when I was talking with Brad, I'm like, what's the one thing we can do to help?
And he said, help reduce the traffic.
Right.
And so by not sending the cars up here,
do you have a website?
Because you want us to pre-register for that, right?
Yeah, that's on foxities.org.
Go to
our website.
There's a banner on the top that's all things draft related.
Click on that.
And then the information.
In fact, 10 AM this morning, our shuttle seats go live open to the public.
We had been reserving them for hotel guests.
Now what's remaining is going open to the public at
10 AM this morning.
That's awesome.
All right.
Well, that's a great.
Service that you're off
and then Pam I'm sure we can look it up as far as the details.
I mean is it like a day-long thing or is it pretty
much ours is pre-register, so Okay,
you pick your slot
right you pick your slot you pick your you pick your trip up and you pick your trip back so noon two and four leaving facts over mall And then leaving Green Bay.
I think it's 9 30 11 and 12 30 a.m
And so you can reserve both spots, all reservations.
We're working with the folks up here in Green Bay.
There'll be a spot where that shuttle just picks you up.
Is
this new, Pam?
I hadn't heard about this
before.
We have been working on it
for the
last couple weeks.
We have been really reserving it for our
hotel guests first.
So now, like I said, at 10 o'clock today,
breaking news.
I'll buy you on the bear.
There you go.
Thank you, Bam.
Boy, how convenient it is for everybody in that area.
Oshkosh and
Apte.
That's fantastic.
I think that is a concern.
And then something's...
That would be mine.
I wouldn't drive
there.
If I lived in Apte, I wouldn't
drive.
Two things, right?
And
try to find places.
The congestion.
Because even on a Packer game, just one third of the people... Even a Packer game is
right through rights down there.
It gets congestion
ahead.
Absolutely.
And the other thing is that you hear some scary parking rates.
Yes.
You know, I don't know what it's going to be, because I think there's still some availability, but you hear some rates.
So if you can take the traffic and the rate away from me and give me six different options
on time, that's pretty
cool.
Yeah, that's great.
I'm glad.
Thank you for doing that.
Yeah, at Fax River
Mall, it's obviously free parking at Fax River Mall, round trip.
ticket is $60 on these shuttles.
They're nice Cobison coaches.
So really happy that the mall and Cobison have really worked with us.
But yeah, the mall, they're looking at their part too.
They're thinking, damn, we got a big parking lot.
It's April.
Come on.
It makes sense
for us.
It's one of the
things that we can do.
And yeah, if we can keep the locals off the roadways, that's going to help you up here in Green Bay with just traffic flow and congestion.
So happy to do it.
Have you driven around the stadium lately?
I have not.
You drive around the stadium after you're on the air here, you'll take the bus next time.
Yeah, I will see this.
So I was surprised just the other day.
I think it was on Ridge.
and fairly close to stadium.
And a guy had a homemade sign, $100 a day parking.
I don't know if they're not getting the word out ahead of time.
And once people start coming in, it'll be grabbed, you know, right away.
But I'm still surprised that we're basically a week away from people coming into town and something would still be available like that.
I mean, like I said, I am a little concerned that right the last minute, all this stuff is just going to
shrink.
So I told Johnny I looked at a property in front of our zones of property this morning before I came.
down here, and it's still available.
So I think price will make it less available.
Right.
Yeah, absolutely.
And we've been talking with our, like I said, our hotel rates in the fact cities are right around what you'd pay during a normal home packer game and EAA.
So that's to be expected in
a
high demand week.
And I've heard too that, you know, if you're looking for a family event Saturday during the draft is a really nice
family time.
All kinds of things happening.
Unbelievable.
That's kind of a little more casual,
you
know.
What are some of the things in your area though?
If you could like hand out a flyer for everybody that's from out of town comes to take your shuttles from Fox River Mall up to Green Bay.
What would you would be like your top 10 things?
Hey, folks, I know the draft is the reason you're here.
But what are some of the other things you might want to consider?
So obviously.
Just go to Fox River Mall.
We, you know, just an amazing destination, some great stores in the mall.
One of our top, really our top destination.
It's still a regional draw.
Go catch the Wisconsin Timberettlers.
Now,
the Brewers, of course, put them on the road during the draft because nobody knew what to expect.
But even at the stadium during the draft, they're gonna have some watching on the big screen.
You can watch from the club seats and watch the draft and have a little fun.
You have done quite a bit of viewing.
Yeah
opportunities in the Fox Valley.
Yeah, I think it's really cool.
I know that the stadium is one of them where you can just absolutely So I think that's
awesome.
You know we've talked about this
time.
I will say they utilize it even for like
um halloween last year that was like the hub they've done a really nice job of using that for other venues oh
yeah they they that venue especially the club seats upstairs they've used it for all kinds of great things and it's location right on 41 there
and more parking than you'll ever need
when they when they put their you know your corporate logo on their jumbo trying everybody on you know if you're having an event there
Everybody on 41 C's at local.
So they're really smart marketers beautiful facility.
They got the fun slide now, which is kind of like cool little claustrophobic.
I'm a little scared of But
I want to see you guys go down that slide.
No, no,
I can't
know.
He's
I told you
what
happened.
Yeah.
No, he's not no great America.
I'll go
you had an incident we had an incident great America
to to instance One was on the Lazy River
You get the Lazy River, like everybody goes on the Lazy River without incident.
That's just pretty open.
It is.
And it's not deep, right?
It's what is that, what, four feet?
Four and a half
feet.
The
depth doesn't matter, Jim.
Yeah.
And then you go on this inner tube, which is anybody.
My daughter says she's behind me on inner tube, my little daughter.
And I turn like this, and I lean too far, and the inner tube shut up, and I got.
Jettisoned out and my knee I could still show you the scar my knee ripped against the wall of the Lazy River So now these kids were screaming because there's blood in the
water.
Oh boy,
so they take me out So get that wrapped up yet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, one do these good things for my daughters We're going down one of those huge slides.
Yeah, okay.
Just wearing a pair of you know a nice basketball shorts for me Not to get nobody told me you got to really keep your feet together your legs together when you hit
and I
did and I two guys had it
Uh, assist me over to the
fence.
Oh, boy.
Okay.
So maybe
the slide isn't for you, but most people will enjoy
the
big slide at vaccine stage.
I'm just saying be careful.
Those are, those are more dangerous than people realize.
There's
thousands of people that put on that slide
every day.
And hundreds get
hurt.
And hundreds.
When you turn on the inner tube, you know it's round, you know it's, it's the weight shifts, it's gonna, it's just...
Pam, can you stick around for a few minutes?
We'll talk about something more productive.
We're asking a question.
It's a simple question.
Give us some of the things to do there.
You throw one thing and then you stop talking.
But to the stadium?
I don't know,
Pam.
There's
a lot of stuff going on
there.
We'll get right back to it.
We'll be right back.
Everybody don't come easy.
It comes easy down in Appleton because I actually say the Fox the Fox Cities Convention Business Bureau We're here with Pam Seidel and Pam, you know, you're you're the VCB or what do you call yourself
convention with CVB
CVB
So it's a bit soup and all
right you guys love that stuff
We touched on your great airport
and all
the direct flights you have and I just want to plug that again because you take it you've taken it what three times in the last few weeks to Savannah,
yeah to Savannah to Sarasota and to Punta Gorda and you know some nice direct flights, which is awesome.
It's so nice to get on the plane and just
Johnny and I have kids in
New York, so the direct flight now to Newark, and then of course we go to Nashville all the time.
I want
to go to Arizona,
right?
Phoenix, we've got a couple.
American added a direct to Phoenix as well too, so both American and Allegiant serve Phoenix.
Do they go Phoenix or Mesa?
I think one of them is Mesa.
I can't remember which is which, but.
I've heard that's like easier to
get in and out of.
Yeah, sometimes those smaller airports are really, really sweet.
And of course again,
supporting Green Bay for the draft.
Extra flights were added into Appleton.
We've got, I think it's an increase of like 1,800 seats, an increase of 1,800 seats from the normal on Wednesday alone between the four carriers bringing in extra people.
So that's been fun.
And we're gonna-
Looks like you're drinking a chilled beer there.
I just want you
to know what that- I know.
I know.
No, it's water.
We're
talking about
all
the
cool labels now on beer that that's
what
people look for.
You have
some watch parties, some things going on at the stadium, which is gonna be fun.
People?
Go ahead.
You said
there's rooms available.
I think I want to tell people who are listening in Appleton, Oshkosh to tell their friends.
And this is new.
I mean, this is a great thing.
Yeah, tell you, you tell your friends.
I think a lot of our people, you know, there's so much been so much excitement over it.
They, they're thinking that we're, you know, it's so loaded.
Oh my gosh, you can't get here.
Yes, you can.
We've got some great people.
I think
people are thinking we missed the boat.
Yeah, no, you did not miss it.
So absolutely.
Come, come, come see us.
We're happy to create some hospitality.
I mean, and the nice thing is, as I mentioned before, we're running shuttles, a park and ride from Fox River Mall up to Green Bay.
You don't have to worry about the traffic.
But
they need to reserve.
Well, they need to make reservations, beginning at 10 o'clock, our website, FoxCities.org.
You'll be able to reserve online.
Don't just show up.
Say, I'm
going to take
this one.
No, you need to reserve in advance so we can manage the traffic.
And there's
different times, six different opportunities that
you
thought this one through.
Both coming and going.
So that way we don't have everybody deciding they want to take one.
You reserve both times.
OK, cool.
And we've got the Song Walk Wednesday night, which, again, I want to give a plug to our friends at Milo Music.
and Appleton Downtown Inc.
They threw this together really fast, but about 10 venues in Downtown Appleton Wednesday night.
Many mile of music, there'll be artists.
Some of your favorite, more local, mile of music artists will be playing throughout Downtown Appleton Wednesday evening, so come on down and join us.
And the people are gonna say, this is awesome.
This is cool.
What you guys are gonna say is, why don't you come back when we have
hundreds?
You
ain't saying nothing.
There's also some great, another great.
And then we've been involved in this, both in downtown Appleton and in downtown Nina, they do video projection art.
So this is like, you know, everyone was into the murals, right?
Everybody was doing murals.
We've moved beyond this.
What do you
think are two murals here?
They're lovely.
Are they
great?
Spencer
Nolan Young, he's amazing.
He does some fence painting.
He does cleats for like all the teams.
He's sought after and he can really set his own price.
He painted those with a football.
That's awesome.
And a clean.
No brushes.
No brushes.
Yeah.
What we're doing is we're doing video projection on the sides of buildings.
Now, and I know that kind of sounds like, OK, what?
Downtown Appleton, they're going to be projecting on the front of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center.
If you know their big, oh, their big rotunda is gray.
They're going to be projecting some football imagery.
Downtown Nina has sides of green greens, poor house.
And then they have an alley where they've got some beautiful and it's all video projection art.
They're moving to.
football themes.
They've been doing sort of a spring theme.
They're moving to football themes.
So it'll be interactive.
It'll be historic video footage of a team.
That's cool.
It will be just, so both in downtown Appleton, on the facade of the Foxies Performing Arts Center, in downtown Nina, a site of Green's Poor House in downtown Nina, and through their alley that they have between Town Council and Zac could take it.
So head on down to one of those who just have fun stuff going on all weekend.
In downtown Nina, if you haven't been to downtown Nina recently.
We
had a young lady on the other day talked about downtown
Nina.
The plaza in downtown Nina is just incredible.
skating rink, just such a quaint thing.
It's like a Hallmark movie, should be in downtown Nina.
But they've got this video projection art, which is just so cool, massive, you know, imagery on the sides.
You can just kind of walk through downtown, see the different videos.
And it's kind of like changing murals all the time.
What if they want to talk about different destinations?
People from out of town would not be able to go maybe anywhere else to a place that during the day is an authentic German restaurant and at night is like a disco
and then there's Clio's Christmas every day.
I just tell people if you haven't been to Clio's I'm not I can't even describe it to you just go.
Yeah
Just go.
Just soak it in.
Just go.
It's
so nice.
And you come back in 20 years and that same person sent the bar
still
over there.
But what's nice about the Fox Cities is you really don't want to go someplace that's like everywhere USA, you know, with the CVS and Walmart.
And you have some less.
It's a cracker barrel.
You know, we've got so many great locally owned and run businesses.
Right.
And unique things.
Right.
And that's what people look for.
I can't think of top my head.
Our guy we had in here is
really
cool.
the German restaurant
and the
nightclub.
Oh,
the Obie Brauhaus.
Obie Brauhaus, yes.
Phenomenal
place.
Also, if you look at some other great German food, Marx East Side, one of the best supper clubs in all of the Fox cities, so he's got some great German food.
Nice.
All right.
Well, hey, this was great.
Thank you for coming down here and really giving people...
more opportunities.
And new
information.
Right.
Because it's been a year and it's like, oh, 250,000 people, you know, it's sold out when there's a packer game with 70,000 people.
But you're saying, look, there's opportunities.
And not only that, you're, you know, you're putting a lot more into it besides a
Hotel rooms.
You've got the shuttle service.
You've got events going on.
Yeah, thanks for doing this Pam.
This is awesome.
Do us a favor and touch
base with us in really early next week.
See where you're at.
You don't have to be sold
out
or anything.
Please keep us
up to date.
Absolutely.
We'll do it.
Thanks for having me.
Campsite
Executive Director for Fox City's Convention and Visitors Bureau and as Jim said, congratulations on what you guys have done.
You guys, I know you guys are going to rock it.
Let's just be
honest.
That you
do.
You know it too.
Darrell Bransky joining us in the automobile gallery right after this.
you
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This is Minow and the Mayor.
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John
Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back our number three to Minow and the Mayor.
Very special thanks having Pam Seidel, Executive Director Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, how the draft affects the Fox Cities.
They've got some amazingly wonderful things taking place there.
If nothing else, the shuttle, which is going to be great from the mall right downtown.
They've got some great things, almost like a mile of music taking place next week.
They got a lot of great things going on.
Of course, the airport, they're so easy to fly in and out.
Check them out.
In fact, there would be announcing some things at 10 o'clock this morning.
I check out the Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau.
They still have hotel rooms available.
They got a lot of stuff going on down there.
Don't lock them out.
FoxCities.org.
Yes, FoxCities.org.
Yep.
Joining us right now, Daryl Burnett, automobile gallery and event center located just down the street from us right here.
First of all, Bart Starr's car is going to be there and the James Bond car is going to be there.
But, Daryl.
First we have to talk about this day or the trap we're talking with Randy right And I told you the story you remember mine off your member go back this far.
Oh, yeah I drove over from Flint, Michigan.
I did with my stay at the arena motel with my wife and two little girls right and Drove like almost all night to get there for like was it six in the morning Darrell at Packer locker room?
Oh, I just remember we would show up and it was dark.
It was dark.
Yes.
You're right I'm not choking
I'm not choking about that because I walked over from the arena motel to the thing and it's like
Man, we're really having a draft now.
When I covered the lines, it wasn't that big of a deal.
You know what I mean?
It wasn't at all versus here.
I'm
like, whoa, this is.
Well, even in 84, it wasn't like the big show that it is today.
Right.
Each team kind of did their own thing and backers were no different.
Here's what we're going to do.
There'd be even like soap operas on.
And when like the New York Giants like Phil Sims, Darrell would break in.
Remember that?
Yes.
I'm sure the station got a myriad of
calls.
A million calls.
Because I broke into the soap opera, but it was big news.
But that's how we ran.
And you know, we used to be like detectives.
I mean, there weren't all these shows and all of these scouts out there and Mel Kuiper wasn't out there making predictions.
We had to do our own spade work back then.
Absolutely.
And you just like somebody get drafted and I got really lucky.
It must have been the next year, whatever your Ken Rutgers was drafted.
And just by just from some
and Cal, and just by chance, my old roommate in college was working at KNBC, and I just called him out of the blue, and he goes, yeah, we were sitting with him when he was drafted.
We're the only ones.
Oh!
So they put it on a plane to Milwaukee or something.
Because I remember we used to run to the bus station to drop off tapes.
What
did we, how did we do that?
Yes, we would.
We would shoot tapes or we would get tapes in and anxiously wait at the airport.
If the flight was late, you know, we'd drive a hundred miles an hour back to the station.
Do you remember what we would
do for the away games?
We'd have a
We'd have one guy, cameraman, a photo.
He would have to hold the equipment, do the interviews, yada, yada, yada.
And then when he was done, he would give them to one of the equipment
managers
and they would carry them back to the jeep, hand them to us at the airport.
Things have
changed.
Now you pull out your cell phone and everything gets transmitted.
Darrell Burnett automobile gallery and event center, but we had to go back to
draft days of the 80s.
Can I tell my favorite Randy Wright story?
Absolutely.
And I have to.
qualify this by saying Randy Wright was one of my favorite packers of all the nicest guys.
The nicest guy had a lot of pressure on him being a former Wisconsin badger.
But his very first game was against the Oakland Raiders.
Then Oakland Raiders.
Lynn Dickey got hurt.
Yeah.
And Randy Wright goes.
How we
long.
They still use that.
How we long.
Every time they talk about how we long as a player.
It's him just annihilating right.
And.
That was the soundbite after the game when Howie Long, who now is a big cuddly broadcaster, but back then he was just a typical Oakland Raider, a beast.
And he said in the post game interview, he said, when Randy Wright came up to take the snap, his eyes were as big as saucers.
And he said, I knew right then the game was over.
And he got a feel for Randy Wright looking across at Lyle Alzado.
Yes, just
Matt Millen at middle linebacker.
things got better for Randy over the years.
Yeah, they did.
But all great guy.
I still remember that
game.
Great guy.
It
was just fun.
But my guy to tell Jim, he goes, you guys ate that well in the locker room?
Heck, yeah.
Remember the broasted chicken?
Well, maybe you did.
I, you know, I was always working.
There you go.
You know, so that, okay.
I don't recall any of that, John.
There you go,
Daryl.
Some things never change.
So even though it was 84, that's our producer ringing the bell.
So Daryl, here we are.
Well, I want to talk about the automobile gallery.
There's what you say 200 events you do there.
I mean,
I drive
by there because I live over there.
You always have something going on there.
It appears to me, but you're doing something special with the draft.
I mean, there are going to be people in town.
I don't know how many because we don't know.
Right.
Even our previous guest before you said, you know, Appleton, there's we're
I think people have a fear we're sold out, and I'm here to tell you that
if you
have friends coming in, or if you know friends that are thinking of coming in, tell them to come in.
We definitely want people to come, and that's what we're doing is we're not only opening our arms, we're opening our doors, we're extending our hours during the draft, and we're inviting people to come in and not only experience the Bart Starr Super Bowl 1 MVP Corvette, because it's more artifact than it is automatic.
I have to
ask you something about that, Darryl.
I thought he had donated that to Boys Ranch.
That was the second one.
That was the second one.
The second one.
The second one he never actually sat in.
He, it was a red.
So he didn't have pictures of him sitting somewhere.
Okay.
And then he raffled it off.
They sold $40,000 tickets for a $4,000 car.
Wow.
And that paid off the land mortgage for.
So that car is now at Rawhide and we have the first one which Bart subsequently sold to Chuck Lane who was then the Packers PR director.
Oh yeah.
Lynn Dickie sold me his car.
Remember that yellow?
I remember that well and you know when we talk about that yellow.
Ford or Buick, I put my hand over my heart and I remember it very, very well.
But you know, I've said this before, I know it didn't work out so well for you.
Well, the
engine blew after a month.
Right.
But Lynn drove that car right up until his last contract.
I know.
And then he switched to a Mercedes after that big
contract.
But I will say this, you and I may have had the two most bright yellow colored cars
in Green Bay.
Yes.
And I had the Porsche.
I had that for 43 years before I finally sold it a couple of years.
years ago.
That's awesome.
So, uh, how are you feeling about the draft?
I mean, you have, like I said, you have 200 events and I want to, I want to talk about that, but I want to focus, we're going to focus on the draft because the draft is going to be over before we know it.
And I think we need to take advantage of this opportunity and whether it's going to be 150 or 250 or 500,000 people.
Um, I want people to get into this and we're extending your hours.
You've got to.
really cool display coming up.
Yeah, thank you for asking.
We took it upon ourselves not to rely on the NFL or expect anything.
And as it's turned out, we've had to book our own events.
And so we didn't do this by design, but
I
think Pam would be in line with you, sir.
We
waited, waited, waited to the point of, okay, we got to make this happen.
It's
going to be, it's going to be up to me or whatever the old saying
is.
That's right.
So it just worked out that I had been working on a James Bond collection for the last seven years.
I had the good fortune of knowing the founder of the Inflaming Foundation for 22 years.
And it was never in our financial strata.
I mean, we weren't even in the same hemisphere with what it would take to get a James Bond.
James Bond collection in.
And then this year, I added a Brits on the Bay car show, a British car show coming in August.
So I just used the occasion to pick up the phone called Doug Radinius, the founder of the Ian Fleming Foundation, and asked for one vehicle.
And he said, boy, your timing couldn't be better.
So the Griffith Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago was wrapping up its display of the James Bond collection.
Fabulous museum, if you've ever been there, on April 6th.
and we pulled together things at lightning speed, and I'm very happy to say that we're debuting it with an event at the gallery, April 22nd, as we kick off the Interpol Drive.
Oh, wow, that's perfect timing.
That's a
week from today.
A week from today.
That's awesome.
So tell me a little bit about the car.
Oh, it's car.
It's way up 12.
James Bond vehicles coming in.
We have the Lotus Submarine.
We have the Aston Martin with the skis on it.
We have the Jaguar XKR with the full arsenal, the machine guns, the missiles, all of that.
We have the famous Q-Boat that Pierce Brosnan drove.
And we have, oh, many, many other things.
Motorcycles, a Paravane.
I mean, it's just, it's a smorgasbord of James Bond is what it is.
Are they,
are they at one time formerly real cars, street ready type cars or they Hollywood
creations of cars?
James Bond is very different than a lot of movies.
Everything that they use works.
Okay.
Now some of it is in a different form.
They'll make three or four, but like the Jaguar XKR drives, that's what they actually
head on the ice, the Aston Martin ski, ski car, same thing.
There's spikes in the tires.
Everything works because James Bond was so far ahead, they would be introducing things, you know, three, four years in advance that finally came, you know, to fruition in regular society.
So they went out and made these things.
That's incredible.
It'd be fun to watch some of the movies.
And then, you know, see the car and it's, oh, that's the one we
saw last night.
Well, and we're going to have posters.
We're going to have original banners.
These banners are worth a lot of money that were actually in the subways in England and New York, original documents.
So this is, again, true history.
And it's hard to put our arms around, but this is a franchise larger on a much larger scale.
then dare I say the Green Bay Packers.
This is worldwide.
Trillions and trillions of dollars have been spent on nearly 30 James Bond movies since 1964.
Wow.
And like you said,
worldwide, there's big and
England
in different places.
They are here.
And that's a unique ownership, right?
Who owns that?
Oh, you know, we don't
have to get into
that, but
that's the best part of this story.
Right.
This this negotiation, if you will, went on for weeks.
The day I finally was able to tell our board of directors that this was happening was the day that Amazon MGM took over creative control.
of the Bond franchise.
How's that for a great time?
That's unbelievable.
That's cool.
So is this running?
Is it gonna be here through Sunday or what's the deal on
this?
No, we're going to have this for 365 days, but we're going to have a special launch next Tuesday night with Bond martinis, heavy hors d'oeuvres, and there's still tickets available if you'd like to come.
Oh, is this third not shaken?
That's, you know, you are a good James Bond fan, John.
You don't want to bruise the gen.
That's right.
This is
really cool.
This is big.
In fact, there was a good gentleman who came in the other day.
He had just taken his children to see the Bond collection in Chicago on the last day at the Science and Industry Museum.
And he came in and he said,
This looks like the ones we saw last I said these are the same ones you saw in Chicago.
Okay.
We got this is too big to just like
know
we're gonna talk more about this week and back Darryl Burnett automobile gallery and event center James Bond car collection back right after this
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things happening at the automobile gallery over the next week and a half about the biggest in our history I mean talking during the break it's like whoa
I don't know what the rest of the staff is going to do next year John
these
cars from the spy who loved me die another day I mean that's amazing that's
that that's here.
It really is.
And we were
talking before a part of the collection is in Germany right now.
Previous to that bonded motion was on display in London.
Part of that trance.
We had two 53 foot trailers and one 20 foot trailer.
When I say trailer, 18 wheelers come in and it was a job.
It was about a day and a half for us to get everything unloaded.
And you just don't roll them off the truck.
I mean, when you have a load of submarine, which was arguably, you know, it's worth over a million dollars.
I still want to see your guys park those things.
I mean, that's just amazing.
Well, once they're parked, they're
staying.
Wow Wow and then I this is really exciting too for the first time ever we have two models and it models hardly does it justice these are so intricate that the spark plugs even go into them but they're about two feet long and we have the Lotus submarine and we have the famous
1965 Aston Martin DB5 that Sean Connery drove in model form from a company called Agora out of England.
These are worth over $5,000 a piece because they are so intricate and they are handmade.
They are on their way and they're going to be part of the display as well under
glass.
Are you surprised sometimes that, you know, somebody might be normal guy, normal job or Lady River, but they've got such a passion for cars that aren't, that's not on the surface, but it's when you've got that passion, it is a
Deep passion, isn't
it?
It is amazing.
And this is even more amazing when you talk about the serendipity.
Last week, and you know, we're very honored to have people from all over the world come to the gallery.
But last week, we had a young lady come into the gallery on the day that the cars were arriving from the Faroe Islands, which is over by what, Greenland?
Yeah.
And in the last James Bond movie where he supposedly lost his life,
the Faroe Islands was where that took place.
And this young lady pulls out pictures of the tombstone that is on the Faroe Islands.
Now, I don't know the last time you've been to the Faroe Islands,
but I've never been
there.
And
for her to walk through the doors,
she was
so excited and she's continued
to stay in
touch with us.
But
how is that for a great
punctuation
of what we're doing?
That's exactly what I was getting at.
I'm going when you don't need a passport anymore.
This is great.
You have posters around town or I get the only reason I said that the next lady that's coming on is pike he was who runs transit and a lot of people are gonna be on the bus so put one in the buses because everybody's gonna be seeing those she's running them every 15 minutes and we're taking people to the draft and back from the draft all day all night well
thank you for Saying that because we are this is we realize what we have and so this is going to be the largest
campaign we have ever run.
You know, we're an offer profit, so often, you know, we have limited funds, but we know that this appeals to people
well
beyond the Midwest, you know, across the entire country.
I mean, these movies, who hasn't seen at least two of these, right?
Oh, I know.
And you can always depend on it being entertaining.
Oh, not even a question, Mark.
Not even a question.
I don't care if you watch 20 minutes, half an hour or whatever.
You're entertained for that whole time.
Exactly.
No question.
One other thing I want to talk about a little bit, just not to belabor the Bart Star thing, but obviously we lost Cherry.
And Bart Junior is the last of the family, really.
Can you just put it in words?
that hair, and that's what I've tried to do.
That's what I'm so disappointed.
We got the thing out here on the Walnut Street Bridge.
Got the Bart Star sign.
There's broken glass on the sidewalk.
There's barbed wire behind it.
It's just disappointing sometimes at some of the things we want.
It's almost like, you know, if somebody goes to your dad's gravestone, you want to see, you want them to see nice flowers that you haven't forgotten them.
I wish things would be cleaned up a little bit more to pay homage to Bart Starr and his family, what they've done for the state of Wisconsin.
And I just, I would agree with that.
I just want to say that you did hear that that school is he's probably going to have school and I think that's going to happen.
So I think that and it's the
part and Cherry school, right?
That's what I
understand.
But I don't
know.
Oh, I thought it was Bart and no, maybe I'm wrong.
Okay, never mind.
Yeah.
There's two options, the Bart Starr and also the Bart and Cherry Starr.
So there's
two options.
But that
That's great.
And because that's somebody who just not, because football gets a little bit overplayed, but he was just a really, and you knew him.
I mean, he's a really good
guy.
I've often said every professional athlete should be sent to the Bart Starr School because the way he carried himself, and I'll take it right down to the minutiae.
The way he signed his autograph, and I talked to Cherry about this, and I will say this too.
She had conversations with subsequent quarterbacks, Brett Favre among them.
And if you look at Brett Favre's signature, it's very neat.
Some listened and some didn't, but it was about be proud of your name, be proud of who you represent, meaning the Green Bay Packers, and sign an autograph as if you mean it.
And I've always remembered that because it really speaks to the man, the clarity, the...
charisma, the kindness.
Those are the things that really stuck out.
Yes, he was a great athlete.
But here's a guy, 200th pick in 1956.
And 10 years later, he has the first Super Bowl MVP Corvette.
That is an amazing run.
Now you can talk about Tom Brady and certainly Tom Brady is probably the greatest of all time.
But if you look at that 10 year span where Bart was on the verge of being out of the league.
to being the most popular player in the United States, not just the NFL, but the United States.
He was getting more male than the president.
What an incredible ride that was.
I just want to say one thing about, you know, all Bart Starr, you know, kind of smaller guy for quarterback, this and that, this and that.
But I was talking with, there was a guy
Bill Butler was his name, like a really reserved running backpack.
I said, tell me something about Bart Starr that, you know, we don't know.
He goes, we played in the winter basketball leagues.
He was a hell of an athlete.
People don't understand Bart Starr.
He didn't get there just by, you know, whatever.
He was a really good athlete that people didn't see.
Well, he said, you put him on a basketball court or baseball field.
He'll be the best one on the floor.
If you have time, I'm going to tell you the tie-in to the James Bond.
Now, I told Doug Radinius, Doug Radinius.
got the autograph of Bart Starr when he was eight years old in Depeere, Wisconsin.
And here we all, all these years later.
All comes back.
That's right.
Darrell, keep up the good
work that we love
what you're doing.
And keep us informed of these, OK?
I will do
that.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Thank you so
much.
Darrell Burnett, automobile gallery and event center.
Wow, have they got some cool stuff coming up between Bart Starr's car, James Bart, James Bond car collection.
Incredible.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.
Here's special thanks to Earl Burnett.
Some really cool things happening at the automobile gallery at a vent center with a James Bond car collection, the BART Star.
MVP award from the Super Bowl with the Corvette and great, great stuff.
We had Pam Seidel on Executive Director Fox City's Convention Bureau Visitors Bureau, how the draft affects the Fox Cities.
They've got some really cool things happening, including the shuttle from Fox River Mall, Randy Wright, former Packer quarterback, talked about the difference between draft day in 1984 and draft day.
Now we're going to have some more guys on, talking about those kind of things throughout the draft.
But Jim, introduce our special guest right now.
Well,
invited our special guest to come on, and she's going to be with us for the next half hour.
Then she's also going to be back here, because we're going to record my show, which you're going to hear on Sunday at one o'clock at Lean Local.
And we talk about the draft and all the great things going on.
And getting there and getting back is something that we want to talk about.
So Patty Key, who is?
Which
we're talking about a little bit, even with Pam Settle.
That might, in people's minds, the angst.
But, you know, everything else, okay, we can handle it.
But that is a scary thing when you're
from
out of town.
I don't want to sit in a parking lot.
And I don't want to sit in my car all day.
Don't want to sit in traffic.
Right.
Don't want to sit in traffic.
And
don't want to miss my little exit thing.
Right.
That's why we are here now.
Exactly.
Take it away.
Patty Kiwis, who is the director of transit.
And I can, Braggian writes, I hired you and I'm glad I did.
You've been, you're doing a great job over
there.
Thank you.
And I know you want to come in here and talk about your new electric bus and you're always so, you know, green and you do some great things, green Saturdays that you do, but.
I'm going to hold off on that.
I want to talk about getting to the draft.
From here to there is what we're talking
about, Patty.
Well, Patty, we've had Aaron Popkey on here a number of times.
And there's things going on.
Of course, at the stadium view, there's things going on at Badger State Brewery.
There's a
lot going on here downtown, too.
I don't want to
take away from all the effort that's been into it.
Parking traffic keeps coming up and we don't know a lot about it, right?
And you do.
So tell us if we're afraid of $150 parking or $100 parking or if we're concerned about gridlock.
Absolutely.
So that is, we've been getting a lot of calls about it too.
We are definitely here to help and hopefully make it a great experience for everybody.
So we have a route that we designed from.
It's called Downtown to Titletown.
You can park anywhere along that route and get on.
We do have some designated stops.
However, our drivers are awesome.
They will watch for people if it looks like they want to get on the buses.
You know, you can come downtown.
We don't have a tremendous amount of parking right at the transit center, but you can do some parking there or you can park anywhere along that route.
But we will be leaving downtown transit center.
We will be coming through downtown.
Which is on?
901 University, thank you.
And we will be coming down Washington, so Main Street to Washington, so people can come to- Right to here, this corner.
Right past
our studio,
caremeister, all that.
Correct, so there's the parking ramps, if you wanna come downtown, try some of the establishments, you know, enjoy yourselves a little bit before you head out to the stadium, leave that driving test, we are running this as a pretty close to an express route, so we expect it's probably gonna take us about 20,
minutes or so.
We will have buses constantly running.
I say that they're going to be coming through approximately every 15 minutes.
We can get caught up in traffic as well, so, but our goal is we are just going to have buses keep running and they're going to go downtown, down Washington, over well and then we will be taking Broadway to Ninth Street and then Ninth Street to St.
Agnes.
And there's going to be a lot of parking off of Ninth.
You
know,
there's just, that's a long street and you're on that thing all the way to what?
St.
Agnes.
Oh yeah, that's okay.
All the way down by Bay Family.
And so, and that was the purpose is for us to kind of stay out of that way.
So there are people that need to park, because the closer you get to the stadium.
I understand that they'll start charging, but I don't, there's
not gonna be kind of a charge down here.
No, not at all.
You know what I mean?
Okay, so you can't,
really, can they?
I would think they could.
Yeah, I mean.
Yeah, I would think they would be
able
to.
I'm just saying that I think people can park you can park in the in in the ramp
in the ramps and
but you know after six there doesn't cost to for parking but I'm just saying that
you can park at some of these side streets on 9th no that's what I mean there can't be I'm talking about the 9th streets of the world those can't be charged can they because those are city streets without meters.
That's
what I'm
saying.
I thought you were talking about if you park on the lawn, the people can charge you.
No, yeah, I understand that.
No, no, no, no.
If you're out on the,
yeah.
No,
no,
no.
That's all, yeah, there's no meters in that area.
That's the part where you're getting it.
Broadway, 9th Street, there's...
Right, St.
Agnes, which is, of course, is, like you said, Bay Family, and then the bus is going to swing around and it's going to drop you off.
Um, right on ridge in St.
Agnes, which is awesome.
Correct.
And the entrance is right there.
So, um, you know, we're obviously as, as a city department, um, Green Bay police department I work with very, very closely.
So, um,
Captain Allen over there has worked with me very well to make sure we have a nice safe spot for individuals, especially any of those that may have, you know, some mobility challenges trying to get in and stuff.
So that's great.
They'll be able to get off right there.
Buses will just constantly keep going.
They're not going to stop through that entire time.
And then, you know, it'll come, the bus will come back on ridge.
Unless one breaks
down and they have to bring out the world's biggest crane to get it out.
Remember that?
That was
in her
box.
I
know
it.
If that happens, you'll never know it.
We'll be under the radar.
It was
pretty cool.
Cause I've never seen something so huge that they used to haul the bus
before.
They used one of those, those grains to the records that they use for like, like, like, to take a semi.
And that wasn't your bus.
It was the other guys.
But it
was just sitting there watching that was like, Oh my God, this
is something.
We took a bus tour with the international foods are out here.
We introduced our special guest to you because I can't pronounce your last name right.
transit director and she runs all the transit.
Transit is more than Green Bay.
It's Green Bay Metro transit.
So you go to different municipalities and how many drivers do you have now?
So right now we have 23 drivers.
Right.
And you're looking for a couple more.
And
I applied when I didn't know what I wanted to do and you hired me.
Thank you.
Yes.
You kind of passed us up to come and do this.
I know.
You're a trouble
boss.
I applied and just did a background check and I was going to do that.
He was going
to come over.
He would have the fastest route.
I think
that was my only concern.
Honey, we've got 10
minutes.
It's
OK.
I think it's out there
now.
It can't be.
He took off.
Oh, now those game day rolls is what I really want to drive, because that's a good time.
And I always said this when I went and talked to your group.
very friendly drivers and customer service really is number one.
Safety is number one, but customer service is right up there with it.
Absolutely.
ARC drivers are absolutely awesome.
They have a lot of passion and dedication in what they do.
And you can see it in the smile on their face and all of those things.
And so we're super excited to be part of this.
They're excited.
Correct me if I'm wrong, Patty.
We've been kind of like chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit, chomping at the bit to really roll up the sleeves.
It's like, here it is, here's everything.
And it seems like it's been almost like this is the week for everything to come together, correct?
It is.
It's crazy.
After years of
planning and whatever, but the real stuff that's going to affect Mom and Pop and Joe and Marcy from WASA, this is the stuff
that's
important.
Yes.
And it's getting there.
It is.
And I think that's the, Johnny and I talked to a lot, a lot of people and this is...
the hesitation if there is any.
I think people, I think that game to experience is going to be just a blast.
And I think the way it's set up, I like the way it's set up.
And I think it's going to be affordable.
It's obvious it's free to get in, but I mean, even the food trucks and things, I think that's going to be affordable for families.
The weather looks like it's going to be on our side.
So I think the only, not hesitation, anxiety might be a little bit the traffic.
And you're taking care of that because this route that Patty just talked to you about, which I'll give you the hours on it, but where you can get on,
every 15 minutes for free, there's no cost to this.
And you drop them off.
One of the few things there will be no cost for.
And you can get in and then leave at that same place to drop you off, right?
That exact same spot.
OK, that's always convenient.
So the hours are, so this is going to be running Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Thursday and Friday from noon until 10 p.m.
And then Saturday from 10 till 6 and you can look at this and we could just go online and take a look at this right Patty
Yes, and I encourage people if you go on to our website It's right on our front page and we actually have real-time Data feed right there if you click and go on to our draft page You will see you can see the real-time location of these buses So if you are downtown and you're inside eating at Hager Meister
and you're not sure where that bus is, you can pull that right up and see how close it is to you, so you know when to get out there.
It basically is, right outside the door of Hagemeister, right?
It is.
Okay.
It is, absolutely.
And so anywhere along that route, when you go on that website, it is real-time data.
It automatically updates.
There's no delay.
You can see where that bus is.
If you're at the draft and you're wanting to leave, not quite sure when the next bus is coming through there, you just watch that lifetime feed.
It's right there.
So Green Bay Metro.org, and I'm sure
given this to all the hotels because
I know the hotels down here are
sold out and people can just jump on this and yeah this is very very I'm not surprised because this is the kind of stuff you do but this is just awesome and the fact that it's free speaks well of you the city the community
yeah the city you know the city's great with helping you know as
I'm so used to saying me.
As Jim had mentioned, that there is... It
would be okay if you said that.
Yeah, it is okay.
Trust me.
I'm
not going to say what that does, Sean, but trust me.
So, you know, over the years, the city has always supported transit, which is phenomenal, along with the other municipalities that we serve.
And the Packers have always been very supportive as they fund a lot of our service, too.
So we really appreciate it allows us to do
that.
The National Football League is depending on people like you to make this a great event.
Let's not, I mean, let's
be honest.
I would agree.
They need
you.
I would agree.
I mean, it is, you know, we have all, you know, all these meetings I've been in from police and fire and DPWs and all these communities.
I mean, it is phenomenal how well everybody's been doing.
And I know that I have heard in numerous meetings from NFL staff on how advanced and how ahead and how awesome of an experience it's been.
But I
do think there's been a lot of security, security, security.
It's like, okay, we got to get people there first.
You know what I mean?
And that's where
you
come in.
And I think.
Yes, absolutely.
You're going to be.
pleasantly surprised because you like full buses.
I love full buses.
I know you do.
I like them packed.
I just remember those game day buses, how much fun it is.
And even if the opposition team is on it, people just, something about buses that
are fun because you're not driving.
Yes, we may even make you sing, you know, wheels on the bus go round and round, you never know, you know.
Oh yeah, we do that.
And especially, Chris, hey.
Do you have like, you know, when we go on those tours like Hawaii or something and there's all that kind of, Hey,
we're going to hear from Wisconsin.
And then the guy kind of talks about things on the way there.
And then at the end, he says, Hey folks, I hope you enjoyed the ride.
A little bit of appreciation would be appreciated.
And instead of putting money in a, you know, this guy goes.
Let's
give them a round of applause.
No money.
No money.
No money.
No money.
No money.
No
tips.
But I could be that
guy.
Really?
Yeah.
We have some great drivers.
I'll tell you, they get these crowds going.
They do.
And
they wear Santa Claus.
They dress up sometimes.
They wear the hats at Christmas.
That's what I wanted to do when I came over and talked to you.
I just wanted to drive the game day around.
I wanted to dress to Santa.
Why didn't you hire him?
I did.
He passed me off to come over here by you.
I
did.
How about this?
Why don't you just switch jobs?
Come over here every week.
I did.
I did.
Oh, that might not be bad.
We could like switch roles.
I could see you talking
for a little bit.
I like the mornings too, which is what.
I was going to do there.
So
anyway, 5 a.m.
We start.
Nice.
So are you OK for the draft?
Are you up to date or up to whatever you want to call it for drivers?
So we are.
We have a little.
I will tell you it's interesting because, you know, you go to all these other communities that hosted the draft before they're much larger communities from a transit perspective.
Did you
actually go to Detroit?
I did not.
But I have been to the draft in Nashville.
Oh, OK.
On a personal perspective.
OK,
let me just ask you that then.
Just physical geography of where it's going to be.
Those are, what they call it, not the footprint of the draft.
The layout, the stage.
The stage.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What is?
Here, Green Bay is larger.
Really?
Green Bay is larger than what I've seen in Nashville.
Okay.
Interesting.
So we can fit that many people here?
We're going to do it.
Okay.
We have no choice.
It's like a wedding, right?
It's coming back.
That's right.
It's going to happen regardless.
That's the other thing.
This is going to happen.
Which just, it just is.
You know, we've been at it for well over a year.
I mean, you guys have been at it for, Aaron Popkey was saying, you know, long time.
It was a 10 year project, wasn't it?
That's what he said.
Yeah, they started way before.
I mean, a lot behind the scenes from their perspective, but it has been a long time.
And almost seemed
like kind of a whim, like, eh, what have we got to lose?
And then they come back to, okay, we need a thousand words of why we should.
But what a great way to show off the city, right?
I mean, you know, there's a lot of very unique history and all of that great stuff.
And I think it's, I think it's going to be great.
We're super excited for it.
And I think that, you know, is when you look at the history and our layout, I mean, people are going to come just because it's Green Bay, right?
And so that that is going to be totally awesome.
They're going to kind of a completely different experience, you know,
whether it's attending that trap itself, visiting our city, using our bus.
I don't think anybody has as awesome services as we do, but so all of it is going to be a great experience and then without a doubt, people are going to want to come back.
Green Bay Metro.org.
You got it.
We go
to that.
It's all there.
Right
on the front
page.
Real time.
Patty,
thank you
for what you're doing.
I think this is going to really help people who are listening.
They want to go.
They're not sure.
Now they can be sure.
Absolutely.
Leave it to us.
Any questions?
Give us a holler.
Last thing in the
world I would want to do would be to get my car one of those mornings and drive over there and not knowing where I'm going to park and try to figure out where I'm going to park.
Correct.
We will get you right there.
Yeah.
Door to door service for
free.
Thanks so much,
Patty.
You're welcome.
Great
make transit.
Awesome.
Back after this.
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want it.
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it.
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I think that's exactly
the type of person you want that role.
You know what,
we need somebody like her around here to keep him in line
in line now.
And think about hiring a female that was just, what, 20 years ago.
And the bus drivers are very male.
Some
of them just
came over from Schneider, you know, because they were driving over the road and
they want to stay
local.
She's tough.
Absolutely.
She's tough.
And I had her rules and she was great, but she also did a lot of
uh team building you know she'd have breakfast form in the morning once in a while you know just come back and bake potato and put the toppings on them just a lot of community things and that wasn't done before yeah and um she obviously treats them well i mean she's retained you know
Most of the people who are there when I left are still
team building exercise not tonight, baby is business time Remember that one time.
No, sir.
Yeah, you
used to point every Friday morning me and Nick You don't remember business time is business time you wag you wearing that bag your old team building exercise t-shirt.
Uh-huh No, no anyway Tuesdays we put out the recycles, which is very important But Thursday is business.
You don't remember that song Todd.
No,
so disappointing
but she'll be back this afternoon because we're recording we have a show on Sunday and it's going to be um stadium view um downtown green not downtown green bay uh the what the parks committee is doing they're doing a lot i was surprised when i read everything that the parks committee is doing so i just hope people i mean the people are going to enjoy the the draft but you know
Maybe after a day or two, they're going to want to see some other things.
I will say, I'm just going to throw this out
there.
We've kicked this dead horse in the face enough times, but I don't care.
I still think it's disappointing that we had the great heritage trail, something that is so cool that it's the history of the Green Bay Packers.
It's within walking distance of where the Green Bay Packers were created.
We sat in the bar of their Crown Commons bar where George Calhoun sat there with his dog and wrote out, you know, how they could do a football.
in Green Bay.
It's right here.
You got Vince Lombardi's office right there.
And I know there's still, but I mean, that would have been, can you imagine the number of photo ops there would be in front of those statues out here down at the corner?
And I understand they're building a big new, great place, whatever, whatever, whatever.
But with the draft, how they couldn't have found a way to keep those things intact somehow, some way, somewhere.
I mean, that's a big part of the heritage of Green Bay that was being recognized with that.
That's really disappointing.
I don't care.
I don't care politically.
Somebody doesn't like it.
Bleep it.
I don't care.
I'm just saying.
There's private money, too.
Exactly.
I just think that's terrible that
that wasn't
saved.
I
agree.
There'll never in the history of Green Bay.
There will never be a better time to show that off and show our heritage and how we've preserved it.
It's almost like the thing in Boston River with the Paul Revere trail.
It was that quality.
Yeah, it was that quality.
It was.
I mean, those statues were unbelievably.
Yeah, it's and I don't.
Where are they?
I think when you asked Daryl, which you know, he's got his, you know, ear to the ground.
Daryl, where are the statues?
I don't know.
But yeah, it's too bad.
Maybe we need to
get out here at the river.
They might have taken them
throwing over the railing
back here.
Who knows?
It's like the biggest
mystery
what
happened to the statues in Green Bay.
They've got to get
resurrected somewhere, but it's just, you're right.
I mean, could they have stayed there for, I don't know when they took them down, what, three months ago?
They stayed for another three months.
or relocate them, and it's expensive to relocate them.
Okay,
here's the thing that I
just have to scratch my head on.
What are we downtown Green Bay?
Are we the birthplace of the Green Bay Packers, and we're gonna recognize and pay homage to that unbelievable hands-on heritage of where these things happen, or do you let somebody from out of town come in and say, bleep you, bleep your heritage, bleep your statues, we're building something here, what are you gonna do about it?
And everybody says, you're right, that's the disappointing part, that somebody didn't have the courage to stand up more and say,
bleep this.
No, we're not.
Yeah.
Or, or, and I would have been insane if I was in one of those meetings.
I'll be honest.
Yeah.
It's just, but that's
just me.
And I think that they will come to life again.
It's just too bad we could have done it right away.
Absolutely.
It's, it's, it's not like this NFL draft, crept up.
Hey, buddy.
Luckily, I earned some 10 years ago.
I
agree.
I'm sorry.
And I know people say, mind you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
We're talking $80 million.
Fine.
We're also talking the heritage of the greatest franchise in the history of sport and where the birthplace was, which was about 20 steps outside of our window here.
And you couldn't find a way to save that.
Unbelievably disappointed.
That's a loss.
That's
an
L.
But we, we do still have, you know, the plaques that people can walk to, but I mean, you and I, but what's the starting point?
We work down here.
So we see people down there all the time.
So anyway, most
popular place in town it was,
but I guess, you know, if they don't know.
you don't know what you don't know.
So people are gonna be like, well, they don't know they were there.
So it's people like us.
But it's just disappointing.
It's really the same thing with the
Bart Starr thing that I tried so hard to get that thing cleaned up.
You did.
Went to the county board twice in their meetings.
You did.
Asked them to clean it up right there where it's, people are gonna come here and want to take a picture of the Bart Starr bridge and they're gonna have to have photo crop it.
So the barbed wire and the broken fence and the broken glass that's on the sidewalk there right now and all the garbage that is collected in the bushes there.
They're gonna have to Photoshop that.
to try to actually get, you know what we should do?
We should have John Kramer, our guy from the press times, stand out there and work, do that for the people.
When they take a picture, take out the barbed wire and the broken glass and the broken fence and the garbage behind the Bart Star sign here that we're honoring, we should have him there photoshop that so people would think that we actually cleaned up this little section for Bart Star.
Yeah, I
know, but a lot of good stuff going on.
You know what, now I'm just getting wound up.
Oh yeah, thank God it's...
8.58.
Todd?
Can we have another 20 minutes?
There's a lot of good stuff going on.
We've got the Booyah, we've got the fireworks, we've got a lot of cool stuff going on.
What
about the drone show?
I don't hear anything more about
the drone show.
Did
that
go fall by the wayside?
I asked for one thing, a
drone show, over the fox.
I think that's three in the last minute.
I'm combining them.
Okay.
All right.
I'm with
you.
All right.
We got some great
things coming up.
All right.
All right.
Let's relax.
I will see you tomorrow.
I am relaxed.
There's nothing good on TV.
Relax.
Oh, you're gonna play my song.
You turn to me and say something sexy.
Is that it?
I might get a bit of footwork in the morning.
Oh, yeah.
I know what you're trying to say, baby.
You're trying to say, oh, yeah.
It's business time.
It's business time.
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