What Happened to Spring?

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What Happened to Spring?

Maino and the Mayor · Tue Apr 15, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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John Maino

Tuesday to you.

It is not nice.

I'm just gonna,

I

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don't mean to be that guy

because of the weather, because it's tax day.

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Well, that's perfect.

Tax

day because it is windy

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and rainy.

Yeah.

Tax is done.

We must have them done.

I don't.

Because you're married to an accountant.

Exactly.

That's right.

Minos never thought about taxes.

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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 way 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

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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

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to be part of the fun bringing

in the last second

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line of cars government doesn't get any

interest.

Yeah,

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so anyway, it's

six o'clock.

That was a

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TV story.

It's on the way.

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.

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Oh, I thought you meant you and I

complicated.

Yes.

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Anyway,

well, today

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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.

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Whoa, really?

Yeah.

John Maino

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.

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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

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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.

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Because with Spencer, that's all the letter of authenticity you need.

And we're going to bring him back here, right?

We have that event on Friday.

We're going to auction it off.

Bring it back.

So are

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you taking Curly?

Yeah.

OK, I'll take Don Hudson.

But I think we'll put a minimum bit of 500 don't you think I would

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absolutely Original artwork like that from somebody's famous to Spencer, but I

hope

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he's

I'm gonna ask me feel sign at the front Oh sure you would

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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

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Yeah, that's pretty

cool.

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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

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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.

So I'm just gonna, you know, talk to Gail.

We'll get there.

It is nice.

Todd.

Yes.

Yeah.

Aren't those just cool?

Very just.

Wow.

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Isn't it fun having a friend like that?

You

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know, it's like really talented.

I don't have any friends like that.

And he, I'm sorry.

I was gonna say all your friends

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are

like that.

Um,

His fences been unveiled, right?

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Oh has it I didn't know I'm

gonna be honest.

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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 we I drove right

way

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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

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come from down there to Ashland.

Right.

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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

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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

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realized that

I didn't realize that somebody like did that

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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

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DiCaprio

Don't, don't let go!

Today's laundry

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day, Jackie Robinson day, very, very big day, Jackie Robinson day, number 42, and you know, what he went through was 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 Hitler to stick it and won the hundred and stuff like that, who came in second?

I know, I have no idea.

Jackie Robinson's brother.

Really?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

And you want to know who was left off the tool, who 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 there.

OK.

Yeah.

A happy birthday to my favorite singer in the world these days.

Second favorite singer, Chris Stapleton.

Yeah, he's good.

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Man.

He can sing any song.

And I got that Chris Stapleton station.

Am I 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,

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man He's just great Seth Rogen is 43.

I almost thought he'd be older.

Yeah

been

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around for a long time

It's lived a hard life I would say a little

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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 I do yeah, it was a great show, but these kids growing up in the 70s in high school

And then Seth Rogan, 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.

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Emma Watson is 35.

She plays Hermione Granger in Harry Potter.

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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

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I mean that's something right 5.2 that once it gets over five.

It's yeah, it it rattles things.

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Yeah,

nobody got hurt, but it's the it's cool because they got cameras everywhere Yeah, that that shakes things up

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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

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could

fall.

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But the meteorologists are okay, everybody.

We've got a 5.2 a year suspect.

Yeah, you're right.

They freak out monitor 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

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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.

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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

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minutes.

Whatever it took, man.

We never did the...

Under the

desk right because we know we didn't have

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that that was the

class is like well

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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 really

scary and

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everything that's where you're like a that was our follow-up shelter

for like a tornado Yeah,

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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

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John Maino

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 When did we was it like Friday?

We declared spring

yesterday.

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We

declared spring

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Britney said

hey,

but no, I think it's

Really starting to look good.

Maybe some drizzle, but no, I think we're in the fifties, right?

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Cause 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

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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 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 yeah, so it's not the southern.

Does it rain all day in Green Bay?

John Maino

Yeah, so I agree with that.

I agree, but it's just like it's like

Think it's gonna be to 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 and I was just gonna say one thing Todd Tack 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 graphics.

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 wiss.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.

I'd like to talk about all 10.

Yeah.

So we'll go through all 10 and and your comments on everything we would all they bring to the table.

Absolutely.

That'd be fun.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Sure.

I enjoyed all of them, but you had a little drink yesterday.

He took a nappy.

Yeah.

That's probably the 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

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yeah, I was watching a show and the guy was gonna be going to ask this one Go down to 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 labeled with like a landscape or something

like that.

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And you'll be in.

That one label had it had a snow shovel on there.

It had the dinosaur in front of the Neville Museum.

It just, boy, if that wasn't the Green Bay label.

But what you had yesterday, you really liked the taste of the.

Bourbon.

With the bourbon.

Oh, that drink though too.

With the lemonade.

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.

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Why it went dark in here.

I look

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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 what 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

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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.

Yep.

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.

That's a nice price.

That's

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a great price.

Got text here, Westie Peer Middle School Band playing at the Brewer game tonight

says

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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.

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Even at Packer games, I love the drum

line.

And she was so nice.

She's like, oh, we can send the pep band.

They're like, you know what?

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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.

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Aren't they?

If I was a musician, I'd be in a drum line.

Yeah,

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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 ever play whack-a-mole time?

It's

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never

seen me

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play whack-a-mole.

But when you go to the games, people

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just gather

around.

They

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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 he

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was.

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

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special.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

No question.

And yeah, he's great.

I'm sure he'll be working, you know.

Oh, but I've got to tell you something.

So did you get the press times

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yesterday?

Friday's it comes.

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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.

Heard

his hand.

I know.

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I know.

I feel terrible about that.

But what

a nice 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

really

know if you're playing or not, you know?

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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.

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Now back to Mino and the Mayor.

Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Mino the Mayor here again.

Look in eventually.

What?

Tuesday, eventually.

Partly sunny sky.

But still windy upper upper 40s for the high.

Yeah.

Mmm Had a good talk with erid 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

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NFL tells you where when how here 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.

Yeah, they played here Maroon 5 was here and Saints

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at 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 going to 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 were like, well, we're going to do this.

And I was like, hmm, 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,

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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,

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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

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didn't realize it was a.

10-year project to get this.

Yeah.

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Well, he said that

yesterday that

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when they heard

it was

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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.

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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.

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Yeah, we're waiting.

Okay.

It was, you know, celebrating the independence, you know, the anniversary, you know, yada, yada, yada coming up for the 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 cotton for George Washington's head.

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.

And then there's the beef.

Beef, anybody?

No, I think, so beef got the prize.

Beef got the prize.

All right, so we got the...

NFL Draft because Aaron did is that what you're saying?

I've got a connection to be yeah, I'm trying to as well.

Would you follow

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along?

No, it's one of those stairs.

Oh my god.

I I try to we So hard to we okay, I

just what I'm

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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,

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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?

Well, you know what I

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was watching.

Here's my mom.

Pearls.

Pearls.

Pearls.

It's

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like this exactly when I'd 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

cups and they would sit and talk about their day after, after supper.

And after I fed the dogs.

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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, is right.

Make sure your hair is done.

Don't look sloppy, you know, cause your man is coming home.

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Really?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, do you ever, yeah, those read like 1953.

There's some crazy

stuff.

He's had a

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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.

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Oh, I believe it.

Oh, I believe it.

Was there anyone that was really realistic?

You know what I mean?

A

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real

TV shows, TV show.

That would

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be, cause you don't think, did you know Wall-E and the beef?

even had their own bathroom.

They had their own bathroom in their bedroom.

John Maino

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.

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I had seven.

How many

did you have?

Five.

Four.

Wow.

Four bathrooms.

Was it like three and a half bath or was it?

Right, right.

That's just

because you know.

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Showers or bathtubs?

We had one.

There's a shower with some bathtub.

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You

had showers.

We had a shower.

No, we had a bathtub.

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Well, of course.

That's what I mean.

Because even in the beef in that they talk about baths,

they don't take much showers.

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Yeah.

But you had showers.

Yeah.

But

we had a bathtub, too.

What's in your house

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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 that bought it.

I wish I could have gotten back

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into my house, but it burnt down.

Oh, cause it's fun to do it.

The people, I'll tell you what can be sad though.

I just want to say this.

Um, if they didn't take care of it, it'd break your heart.

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,

hmm.

And that is true.

I think that room

was a little bit bigger than this.

And I don't know.

We haven't done anything to it, but, um, it, it's, uh, people should do that.

Um, you know, we, I told you that guy stopped by my host that I live in now and you know, that

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one song is really apropos.

Um, what's her name Todd?

She's sweet Blake Shelton Amanda Lambert.

Oh, okay.

She does that song.

Well, she knocks on door.

Hey, I just want to see my old home.

See that's not great That's really apropos got text here.

I understand the bathrooms here, but did you have attendance?

Yeah, but that was your lack of little this aftershave people who ever take that the clone?

No, man, broot.

Um, I always got uncomfortable in that guy standing there

On in the bathroom.

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Yeah, a little towel.

Where's job ever?

You hope he was there for a job and not just hanging out.

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Yeah, that's true.

That guy said texture.

Jim did have jacuzzi's Jim did have jacuzzi's.

Okay, go ahead.

I lost my chain of thought.

Empty braille.

Anyway,

it

is as

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

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have done that before it burned down.

That's too bad your husband.

Yeah

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burned down to the ground

Yeah, hmm some sort of insurance scheme or something

Pull this night of the year

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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 out all your insults now.

All right.

Well, what's good?

Give us some okay.

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I'm just gonna throw it out metal detecting.

Yeah, go ahead.

Yep

You're gonna metal detect up by your I

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would have I wish

I would

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have all the

Touch football games and wiffle ball games and stuff like that.

You played in your yard.

I'm not that I had any money, but I mean, who knows how much change could have been down there in those yards.

In that whole neighborhood, I should have done that whole neighborhood.

Well, there was stuff long before you were there.

Well, that's what I mean.

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 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 that's how we thought.

And I found an 1865 Indian head penny.

That's cool.

Which are super cool.

Yeah, we look for those now.

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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

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moment in Johnny's life.

How old

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were

you?

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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 though?

We've gotten rid of a lot of the posers.

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We,

like he's in some kind of

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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.

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We're doing it for mankind.

We're

doing

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it.

That's what we're doing.

I think, yeah.

I 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

Yeah

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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

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they can be a thousand bucks?

Yeah, 1500.

Yeah,

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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

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know.

Well, I got my own club.

Yeah.

I got my only

person

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in

my

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club, so far.

But I'm opening for membership.

I really am.

Have you paid your dues?

That's the

John Maino

question I want.

I'm a little behind.

Yep.

I'm a little behind.

A little behind.

I'm catching up.

I'm catching up.

All right, we're going to set up break break break break.

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John Maino

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 the 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 that was it was

It was unbelievable.

It

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was crazy.

I've never seen anything because what 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.

Yeah.

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

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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,

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he's not young anymore.

We think he's young.

We think he's been around a

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while.

This is his 11th year trying to get that.

But he put a lot of pressure on himself.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

This is at the Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus.

Everybody smokes pack of cigarettes, has some beer, then get...

Now that's what I want to be a part of.

John Maino

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Then did you pour Arizona State?

Oh my, I shouldn't say pour.

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 were on the practice screen beforehand.

Then he had a badge and everything, but he's wearing shorts.

Yeah.

You're not allowed around the practice areas if you were insurance.

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

John Maino

saying it's a lifetime ban.

Yeah, I mean, that is still a little up at it.

Yeah, well, I don't know.

Was he a little lit up?

John Maino

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 a 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.

It's

I agree with that.

I million people

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I I think

that's but also what if you do have to go?

I mean when you're out on the court.

Well there are porta-potties.

Yeah,

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right.

But you gotta 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 gonna see you.

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Right.

Or just simply hold it as long as you can.

Well, to get to, like you said, to the porta-potties, if you want to get to the clubhouse, that could be a hike, but.

I don't know.

Well, I

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mean we've all let let's be honest like he cast the first if there's a man in this studio Or if there's a man in in America listening had it hasn't peed outside.

There's something wrong with

yeah

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Yeah, I mean come on.

I mean I actually had to do it.

I don't know if I could tell us I could probably go ahead sure

that's that's that's the night

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after your Christmas party

John, that's you can't do that outside.

Well, he

John Maino

did outside your house,

but that's like you can get clipped for that.

Okay.

It's expensive.

It's

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it's it's in decent exposure.

Yeah.

But it was

one of the morning I'm

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walking from C Street to here.

And it was so maybe possibly those bushes.

You.

Yeah.

Okay.

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I don't I believe that everybody's done

it.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well,

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You know what I hate is when you're

on the road.

Why'd you go in C Street?

Take a nice bathroom in there.

That's not bad.

Because they

John Maino

didn't have to go until after I left.

And you're

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walking like that and it's cold?

One of those, everybody's done it.

Everybody.

Jim, you've never peed outside?

No,

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I

said yes.

Yeah.

Okay.

You know what the worst part is?

Not the heart of the downtown.

I think I would find, you could, there's a public bathroom right here.

There were

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four guys standing

with me.

Makes it a

public bathroom.

Okay.

Okay.

John Maino

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're even allowed to swim in it.

You couldn't do anything.

Okay.

Oh, and they would come down and P and 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 shall 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 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.

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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 because they're gonna get people to come back for that.

They say this is really cool All you come back and that

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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, sorry um But that's the big question mark cuz

I remember

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something and we'll talk about that cuz like

right

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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

John Maino

every you're competing with the draft exactly So that's gonna be interesting.

All right.

We'll hear from Randy Wright.

It is draft memories from our Green Bay Packer and we come back

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