From Teeth to Tailgates

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From Teeth to Tailgates

Maino and the Mayor · Tue Apr 22, 2025

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John Maino

Good morning.

Yeah, what's really nice out and it's okay, but it's still like two degrees above freezing.

Yep, but I talked to I will say I talked to my brother yesterday up in Negani The lake is still completely frozen.

Wow.

He said you can ice fish you can go snowmobiling over it They still have about a foot of ice and there's still snow banks about four feet high.

Yes Tomorrow's gonna be 70.

John Maino

I know

This is that weird time here.

And we even talked, I told him, I said, what's, he's like, what's it like?

Oh, it must be nice.

I said, but it's cold and windy every day.

There's just a cold wind.

I'm not trying to wind, but I'm going to wind.

There's a cold wind every

day.

It's got to be from the north.

Yeah, it is.

It's cold.

John Maino

It's crazy that wind the way it's been unbelievable.

But it's going to be warmer than yesterday.

Like 10 degrees, I think.

Okay.

I mean,

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yesterday wasn't bad.

The

wind was horrible.

Yeah.

John Maino

Yeah.

Um,

Hi Gents, got some texts here.

I hope you have a great day.

I hope Mino's tooth is feeling better.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Hey, Michael, I

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don't know.

I'll go, I'll run up to my apartment and ask it.

Yeah.

Cause I got it in a little baggy.

So not to have a science class, but you have to connect, when you do a root canal, you got to connect the new tooth with something.

And there was nothing.

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So my dentist asked me if I ever got my dentist asked me if I got punched in the mouth or something at some point

Did you say what you think?

Yeah,

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really?

Let you cast the first right who has me punch in the freaking mouth.

Okay.

Yeah cast the first stone So he said whatever that happened.

It broke my root.

Okay, so he said they can't fix it so

For the first time in my life, since I was baby teeth-wise, I'm missing a tooth.

They pulled the tooth.

But I have it.

I asked if I could have the tooth for a necklace.

So I actually have the tooth in a tiny little baggie right up.

I can go get it.

Do you want that?

Ladies

and gentlemen, welcome to Ed and the mayor.

Right?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Right, Ed Dean.

That's right.

Find the

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finger.

As a

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fundraiser.

Would somebody like

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a necklace made out of my tooth?

A relic.

Who knows?

Raise money.

Raise money for something.

For the kids.

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So let me

know if you want my

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tooth that they pulled out of my face yesterday.

But you know, that's

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that's serious what they're gonna do next if you if you do it I don't think we do it.

I'm gonna if I can get by missing one tooth Really, I mean, you got like how many other 50 my teeth teeth you have 32.

Yeah 31 What's

going

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I'm fine my coast is sorry for asking got another one

Luan says show the tooth I'll run up and get it if you want

if you want to get it later on yeah, okay Take a picture and put it on the Facebook page much later, but sure.

Yeah, it's good you Yeah, okay, yeah get it I'll bit on the necklace.

No, I've

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got none.

Are you do you have like a reelection party coming

up?

You're just dressed very well today.

You're

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wearing a Mare of Green Bay

sweater fan.

It's a Green Bay vest.

And you're a

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very nice, peachy thingy.

Rose.

Thank you, Rose.

I just, you look like you're going to speak to the Chamber of Commerce and announce your re-election for Mare

or something.

That's

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what

you

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look like.

I'm just being honest.

I've been there,

Jim.

I was with you for 20 years.

You were great.

Went to one without you, but yeah, no, I'm good.

I'm

John Maino

just asking.

No, John.

Okay.

I'm

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just... Well, you got something going on.

You look very...

You look very professional.

John Maino

Yes.

You look like the mayor that you used to be.

I'm just being honest.

All right, well, that's nice of you.

I'm talking to kids that stay no to drugs.

Just all right.

All right.

Oh my god.

John Maino

All right.

No problem.

All right.

Hey, Terry says happy Earth Day.

Respect Mother Nature.

You know, I'm so old.

I remember the first Earth Day.

I was in eighth grade in 1970.

Right.

And that was the first Earth Day.

But I will say this.

One of the things was to go out and pick up garbage.

There was like a lot of garbage back then.

And there was no recycling.

Was your teacher totally into it?

Our science

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teacher.

He was that guy.

Oh

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yeah.

He was that guy from Detroit.

Grew up in Detroit.

End of the world's gonna happen.

Comes up here

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and he's gonna show the UP how the real world.

You know what I mean?

That guy.

Our teacher, I think, scared us.

Though that was in sixth grade, right?

Your name?

But he scared us that if we don't do something the world is gonna end

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and it was scared us and remember the commercial that scared everybody The

won't the tear

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yeah,

oh, yeah, that was a little bit later, but

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yeah, that's been ranked as as far as the I'm gonna be spitting today.

I see that I'll just look this

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way stop bleeding anymore though.

I don't think Okay, so it was one of those things where they the most impactful commercials of history

that ranks as like the top 10 remember that no Todd's like no your your parents might remember it was it was just all this like it was a river and garbage

all

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over

the road yeah it was just yeah that

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guy

was not an Indian you know I

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know

He's like Armenian or something.

He's like, what the hell?

I can play a Native American

thing.

But he's like, you're peeing.

Talk about an ad campaign, though, that worked.

That's what I'm saying.

It was

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one of the most top-compelling, impactful,

and ever-intriguing.

I think people didn't litter after that for a long, long time.

John Maino

Yes.

That brought awareness to it.

That

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one, because I told you, I want it to be.

I didn't.

I mean,

Being a sportscaster was great.

Not but I wanted to be an advertising Creator I wanted to that was my dream.

I wanted red ads.

So that one was huge.

Oh, yeah, um, whereas the beef was huge.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah, I was watching that last night.

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Yeah, really?

Yeah, I just happened to go the greatest

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commercials ever

or the

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greatest impactful things Yep, there's one more.

I'm forgetting though.

It was the tear.

It was oh, I know what it was The egg frying in the

pan.

Oh, yeah, my outbreak.

John Maino

Yeah

The ones that sit with you forever.

I mean every one of us sitting here, right?

Actually everybody listening all 12 of you listening.

Let's be honest You remember you got two new listeners three those were Some of the things that stick in your mind, right?

Yeah of all the commercials

you've

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ever seen

very impactful.

You're right.

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Yeah You know another one that I thought was so phenomenal was the guy it was a Super Bowl commercial and he's it was a

Pepsi did a great job because they had Cindy Crawford that one time who was just Magnificent Magnificent.

I don't know why I shot her down when she reached out to me.

You're

I don't know

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because she was that she went to school at Northern Illinois And I used to do the games there.

No, and I think she hit on me one time.

I was too busy.

She's too tall But anyway, so it was the guy out the desert or out in the thing and he puts in his dollar bill for getting

And the dollar bill kept coming back out.

It was like too crumpled to do whatever.

And he put it back in.

And then he finally goes, yes!

And then it was.

I came

back out.

John Maino

Remember that commercial?

It must not have been impactful then.

I mean seriously.

I think I thought when you said the Pepsi, I thought that was Coke.

I teach the world to sing.

Well

John Maino

that was, I think that might be number one.

That was actually the TV show Mad Men that I loved.

I just think it's the greatest show ever series.

That was like the pinnacle of that show that this guy, he just freaked out from the business and the pressure of Madison Avenue.

And he goes to a commune and they're sitting there and he gets that idea of these people sitting around singing.

And that's where the inspiration for I'd like to teach the world to sing came about from that guy in that show.

And like it was based

on a true

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was based on a real character.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

And these kids were like sitting, you know,

these young hippies.

Yeah, that's

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what it was.

And I'd like to teach.

Right.

And he threw in the word Coke.

Wow.

And that

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revolutionized the whole thing.

That, yeah.

And some of those Budweiser, not Super Bowl stuff, but some of those Budweiser.

John Maino

Oh, yeah.

Pretty impactful, too.

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Yeah.

Michael says, Quiero Taco Bell.

That was huge.

That little dog for Taco Bell became unbelievably huge.

Got a thing here from Brian.

Johnny, really?

How many Nagani people are missing teeth?

Good question.

That is a good question, Brian.

I hear Jim is in the running to be elected pope.

You know, neighbors spotted white smoke coming from his kitchen window.

Either he did get elected pope or he's been to Michigan lately.

Sparky.

Thank

you, Sparky.

You know,

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I would be out.

You

would

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be eligible.

It's just a confirmed Catholic.

You don't have to be a cardinal.

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I thought you absolutely had

to be.

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I thought that was the big deal where the

Pope

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carried such a big stick as is he could Hire his replacements.

No, no those they vote.

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I know that but I thought

no

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No, I mean that's never happened and it never will

but I'm just saying that you know I was reading about

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him the Pope You know that he was a great tango dancer

Really

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in his younger days in Argentina.

He was a tango dancer.

I can

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see that he was a he

are

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Bart.

He was like a bouncer

at a bar.

Yeah

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And he's a great tango dancer, you know I got relatives that moved to South America from Italy after World War two Italy was so terrible that people just was poverty and you know the Nazis and the fascism and whatever whatever and They moved for jobs.

They moved to South America.

I've got relatives down there and Australia That's where that cousin of mine.

I told you pending his outcome of the trial for the kidnapping assassination of the prime minister how my cousin turned out

Take a different track and yeah,

John Maino

yeah got text here.

I love your show at all of my nose hair brain ideas Great way to start today.

What's hair brain?

By the way, I used my I'm not happy about this

Grecian all the I stuff.

Yeah, that's not working.

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What's only one day?

It's

a

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little bit of an

improvement.

Don't you know, I don't think so Todd You come over on this

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because it's not beef tallow.

I wanted beef tallow.

Yeah, and

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she got me be tallow.

Yeah.

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Yeah, no Seriously not even a little

I've not seen it, but I assess Todd

Not yet.

Okay, you know Give it some more time.

John Maino

I'm doing this for my class reunion is on July 9th.

Do you realize the people in your class?

Although

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I

just want to say this 40

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people die now for my class of 150 at 40 people die I just want to make it to reunion.

I just want to say

And this is a compliment.

John Maino

John in mountain.

I love mountain.

You know, we talked about great places in Wisconsin.

We don't go to if I could, if I won the lottery and so you can move anywhere you want to in the state of Wisconsin, I would move to mountain.

Mountain Wisconsin is like Colorado.

I mean, it's beautiful.

The rivers and the hills and the pine trees.

It's literally like mountain Wisconsin is like Colorado.

It is the coolest place I've ever been in Wisconsin.

I love mountain.

You're very you're very anxious about your class reunion.

I am you are you've been talking about it for over a year And you showed me that picture.

I think you're gonna be pleasantly surprised because some of those people look like your parents

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That's not nice to say

that one lady.

I said is that the lunch lady that just got in

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that's not nice as my old girlfriend

That was her

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girlfriend, okay, I'm gonna show you some

I think I was the ugliest guy in my class when I

was in the 8th

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grade.

I'll show you a picture.

Somebody posted a picture of our 8th grade class reunion.

I think I was the holiest guy in my class.

I mean, obviously- I see the pictures, we'll tell you.

Obviously, I- I'll tell

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you.

Change, let's be honest.

I mean- Okay.

No, I'm a hunk.

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John Maino

started.

You know some people can wear pink I can't I can't

I got um

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Todd where's the other time I don't think I read all the text you have the other text there Okay, here's my picture.

I'm gonna show you

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oh

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Was that the ugliest kid in class yes or no

I didn't think you looked that bad to be honest with you between you

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know

The top row that's still

no class.

Okay

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there.

Which one just got it glasses.

Oh, okay Marius

Yeah, I get it pig

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again.

I can't see that Dad, let me do this for you Hey, Nick.

Hello.

You're

John Maino

looking good middle

This that's you

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know the top row for God's sakes.

Yeah Now you look like the rest of

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them.

All right, I'm

Nick do you think I was ugly in the eighth grade top row middle

The dude the two dudes with the glasses are ugly

Yeah, yeah,

but you know what those glasses now are like a fat.

They are

you're like Clark Kent glass Yeah,

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so which one was your girlfriend?

Not sure was in there.

Oh, yeah, okay, but what do you think was that the homeless kid in eighth grade?

No, the two kids.

Yeah, yeah, okay

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You don't look that bad.

Really?

No.

Oh my god.

That's what I said.

All right, you're the only what you're though

He's very anxious about his 50th for some reason.

Yeah, I was listening on the way in yeah, why?

Because there's because there's 40 dead you're still alive dude celebrate I could have fixed it with the vice grips and some whiskey you know I actually asked the guy I said do you use

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like players he goes Literally, yeah, and he showed me the actual thing they do, but it's weird I mean I didn't get I asked I said do people get get do they get I see says well we only give gas for people that are very

Apprehensive it's just a cut it's not

me whatever you

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want, but it's not a painkiller.

He said it's a relaxer,

right?

John Maino

Yeah, so I never

said

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you're fine.

I was put out when I had my wisdom teeth pulled I was like 19 and they put me out, but I wasn't out I was I couldn't move but I could hear and see everything isn't that weird I can hear them I could hear them crunching and

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pulling

I know

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well that was the thing was pulling out my tooth yesterday

He was like ratcheting

and trying

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to get out.

And you can hear it, but you can feel it.

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Yeah.

Well, I actually, I was proud of myself.

I brought my earbuds and I listened to country music.

I said, I'm going to listen to Laney Wilson.

You people do what you can.

I can't eat these cheese curds, Nick.

Well, then

why

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you eat it on one side?

Jim,

they're

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hot.

Jim's

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got one there.

You

gotta have

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one.

So, Nick, yesterday we

had

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some.

Oh, yeah.

Todd's in them.

Jim looks great in pink.

Signed.

Liberace.

I

like the first part.

Yeah, thank you.

So people came in yesterday because we have something at the shelter this afternoon.

And I was telling them about you, your booth at the stadium view.

But our event is today.

I'm going to bring these to them.

I'm going to bring these to them.

You lost

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weight just the last time

you were here.

No, I've lost.

What are you doing?

I've lost weight since three months ago.

I'm on semi-glutide, which is a generic ozempic.

You've

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lost weight since the last time you were here, Nick.

Well, I

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probably have.

I've

lost 50 pounds in three months.

50?

Yeah.

I was at 300.

I think I'm at 249 now, but yeah.

So you're under 300?

I was started at 300, and I'm under 300.

Okay, I feel better about something then.

What's

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that?

Because we'd receive text.

That's it.

Let me get this right.

You're taking nutritional advice from a 300 pound guy who goes in the name of cheese curd, Nick.

Yeah.

Well, I'm getting help with, uh, with the generic, uh, uh, ozempic.

Do you take shots?

Yeah.

Shots once a week.

The wife does it because I don't like needles at all.

If you wave a needle in front of me, I'll tip right over.

Yeah.

You know what?

You

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know what's weird?

I'm okay with getting shots.

They don't bother me in the least, but I can't watch somebody like on the news during the COVID thing.

They all have the stock footage of somebody getting a shot.

I can't watch anybody else getting

a shot.

I can see that.

If it's waving towards me, if you're coming at me with a needle, that's how you're gonna knock me in.

That's how I'm done.

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Isn't that crazy?

Yeah.

But I could see- I could never give myself- If I'm diabetic, I'm gonna die.

If you- If you- I can't give myself a shot.

If you- If you cut your arm off right here, I'd hand your arm back to you.

Right.

I had no problem.

But you would have a needle in front of me?

I'm done.

I'm the same way.

Yeah, I don't know.

So how you guys doing?

How are you doing?

I'm doing all right.

You tell us,

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you're

at

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the epicenter

of Ground Zero, man.

48 hours.

You're my go-to guy on this.

And I got a couple people out there that are, like, what's your... Yeah, you are.

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You're kind of our voice of...

We had a guy here yesterday.

Like, what's really happening?

Because the spin is unbelievable when it comes to... Read the quick text for Nick real quick, though.

Okay, give me glasses on here.

My glasses are in a truck, so I can't see.

Nick, do food trucks take...

Carter cash for the draft

right outside of the draft Yes, I'm pretty sure inside the draft.

No No cash.

No cash.

I'm pretty sure it's just like title town and and Lambeau field but I would You bring cash just in case for the food vendors, but I know I guarantee you everything NFL related

like, uh, NFL shops is going to be their title town, you know, the Packers pro shop has going to have some boots outside and everything.

Um, I would bring a card with money on it and then I would bring some cash maybe for the food.

The food might have cash options, but just in, you know, I would lean towards.

We're doing both because we're not on the grounds.

But I mean, do

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you carry your own little credit card machine?

Yes,

we'll have we'll have three cashiers.

We're gonna have three cashiers going.

In fact, I got I went to AT&T yesterday to get a hotspot for business because a hotspot for business will will hotspot for business is different than a hotspot for like at home by hotspot.

You mean

internet or phone service.

I never know how to use

it.

Well, you don't want that backed up.

I mean, you

need to.

Well, no, you want to process cards.

You don't want to go offline and process cards just in case you give me a bum card.

So the business hotspots, what that does is it will, no matter what, get you signal.

It takes a slot.

So if I'm here as a business and you two are just going off of cell service, it might kick you guys off to get me my signal.

You know what I mean?

You might not have.

So I'm just getting that.

But yeah, we have got a thousand pounds of Kurds ordered to start.

And then we got 700 pounds in the back or 700 pounds on call.

We got 500 pounds of brats, 250 on call.

And then burgers.

We got like 30 some cases of burgers, 15 cases of hot dogs and a lot of stuff on reserve just in case.

Cause again, this is first and only time in Green Bay.

You know, probably in our lifetimes.

Oh, no question.

And nobody, nobody knows.

You know, nobody.

Great song, Todd.

Yeah.

Do you feel great?

Like we just got

a birthday today, 75.

Wow.

John Maino

Nice.

Happy birthday, Machine Gun Kelly, Byron Allen, Ryan Styles, Peter Frampton, Jack Nicholson, 88.

Hey, Jack.

Back with Cheese Curd, Nick.

Right after this.

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Obviously, this is draft week here in Green Bay and

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our inbound found the answer to your big question Who stole your black cowboy hat?

Yeah Cowboy day Yeah,

that makes sense.

You're a cowboy hat,

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never mind.

Jim had a really

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cool cowboy hat that he brought for me from someplace.

You need hospice.

Okay

And we had it here for a long time.

And Jim did the big event for his thing at Epic the other night.

OK.

And it was a Western theme,

which is

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cool.

And he's good with the cowboy.

And it's like we can't find the kind.

And then cowboy Dave walks in.

He's wearing your hat.

OK.

Well, good.

You came to drop it off.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Thanks for dropping off, Dave.

Thanks for stealing

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it.

Two days late.

Yeah.

Wow.

So, Nick.

Somebody stole Jim's cowboy hat.

Can you believe that?

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It's like a hundred dollar hat.

It was I got it for something

walk out.

It was an auction item.

They probably hawked it.

Maybe and I even said, did you call all the pawn shops?

No, but I did call I went to a bunch of places to look to buy one because I don't want to spend another hundred bucks.

Um, yeah, I can't find it.

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And you know what else?

I called some of our guests a regular guest, but I will say this because then I got a call on there's one

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thing that there's one thing I know cowboy Dave didn't steal from Jim.

What's that my shirt cowboy boots no Jim Morris cowboy boots the other day.

Yeah, Python Oh, pretty hot.

They weren't they were nice.

They think people I've got a text on those.

Yeah.

Yeah, they

were

hot But

that tooth ain't hurting you that bad Well, I did tell John when I walked in I said well, they're not crunchy so you can you know, yeah, they're soft soft and gooey the first words I said to Nick

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I Can't eat

Anyway,

I'm gonna bring those two are no, you're yes,

you're

gonna eat.

No, no, he told me

how to eat them in your car.

Well, yeah, he's gonna reheat them at home with him and his wife.

Yeah, Mrs. Mayer, Mrs. Mayer.

Who loves

you?

So you have been

one of our regulars, and you're probably our closest inside contact to the NFL draft.

It's true.

You've

been all the meetings.

You've been all

the meetings.

No, I haven't been in it.

I was actually at one NFL meeting, which was in June when it was their DEI diversity meeting.

Oh,

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well, you're kind of that though.

You're Argentinian or no,

you're Armenian.

Serbian.

Serbian, right.

I wish I was more than 50% Serbian because then that would probably be in there.

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Really?

All right.

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Man, why weren't you a great basketball player?

Some of the greatest basketball players in the world are from Serbia.

I know.

What's up with that?

And tennis.

I know,

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right?

Yeah,

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yeah, yeah.

Wow.

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So, and their women are kind of hot from Serbia, aren't they

though?

They are.

They are.

There hasn't been a lack of advertising on the NFL draft.

No, no.

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But there has been kind of a lack of details.

Well, I was.

Talking to someone who is kind of, if you asked him, he would say he kind of runs the downtown, the community.

This has been a little bit siloed.

You've been going to meetings, but I don't know that there's been a universal message

on... Well, here's the thing with the NFL.

Hour by hour.

And is that by design?

It is by design.

And it's happened, so me and a friend of mine, he's got a buddy in Kansas City that did the draft.

I know of a guy, Detroit 75 kitchen.

He's like three mobile food spots that are like stationary that he doesn't drive around.

He did Detroit.

I believe the guy in Kansas City, they weren't totally notified about anything until like April 7th, two years ago.

Detroit 75 kitchen, they were notified like on April 11th last year.

So,

It's by design because what the NFL wants to do, they don't want to take away from what's going on at present time.

You know what I mean?

Like what's going on right now.

To overshadow something.

Right, so like right now the drafts, so all eyes are on the drafts, so that's why they're leaving nuggets daily.

You know, they're giving you nuggets daily since the combine.

They don't want to take away from the combine.

They don't want to take away from the Super Bowl.

They don't want to take away from the playoffs.

So that's why they don't do that.

So after the draft, what happens after the draft?

Well after the draft is a schedule so in two to three weeks

the NFL schedule will come out.

You know, they'll leave you a nugget or two like that.

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They are very good at finding a way to control the media.

Right, and that's what they do.

They don't want to take away from the thing that's going on at the present time.

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And I will say this, having been in the media for 127 years, you want those things.

Because you know what, there's nothing worse than walking into a newsroom on a really slow news day.

Right.

But

there's a couple of things you don't want as...

I mean, it's probably you don't want duplication of effort, right?

I mean, if they're going to do Brad Paisley, right?

I don't know.

Do we really want to do five, six bands that same night?

We're doing it because we had our five, six bands booked.

Yeah.

Well, but I've also heard rumors of this is rumors.

I heard last night somebody told me that Brad Paisley is only playing playing eight songs.

Okay.

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I'm going to throw this one out at you,

but I heard it's a rumor.

I'm not.

Don't I'm going

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to throw another rumor out at you.

Yeah.

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47 no,

he's not I that one I that one I looked into Johnny.

Oh really?

Yeah, he's not coming.

Oh I Got pretty good source on

yeah, yeah,

I do yeah, that would surprise me if that happened

But it would change things.

Big, big, big time.

Right.

But if you would, oh yeah, or eight songs from Brad Paisley.

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But I'd be surprised if he did that because I was reading where he's come to Packer games with his kids.

I mean, he loves Green, but you know, coming to Packer, I would, I would think he would bring it strong.

Well, I would.

Um, I actually thought Brad Paisley was, or, um, I'm not saying Brett, uh, what's his name?

Um, that was here twice at Lambeau.

Kenny Chesney.

Yeah.

Kenny Chesney.

I thought Kenny Chesney was going to come because when the NFL was

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talking,

it was, but when the NFL said, that

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was crazy crowd

when the NFL said, we want somebody that likes Green Bay and has a bond with Green Bay.

because Kenny Chesney's been a Lambo twice.

I really thought that was gonna be the play.

I kind of did too, to be honest.

You know, so that's what I thought.

I

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figured it would be

country no matter what.

Yes, exactly.

I knew it would be country no matter what, but I really thought it was gonna be Kenny Chesney.

Yeah, I could see that.

I just hope everybody, and this has been hyped as a huge...

bigger than anything we've ever done.

I mean, how many times has that been said by everybody?

But it's true.

Well, it is.

It's better

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than a Super Bowl.

You couldn't get anything bigger in sports than

this.

But this is, though, isn't this bigger than a Super Bowl?

No.

No.

Well, yes and no.

Yes and no.

Yes and no.

None is for a one day thing.

The Super Bowl trumps everything.

Yes.

But, I mean, we've been at Super Bowls.

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Okay.

I think this is...

bigger than a Super Bowl,

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but anyway, go ahead.

Well, I'm just saying that with this, it's, it's a, I think it's a different type of crowd.

Super Bowl was people wanted to come to party.

I mean, they wanted to come to party.

Okay.

No matter where you, that's why like when we're in San Diego and it went to that one event, me and Larry McCarron and everybody, and they ran out of Budweiser.

Cause it, cause there's a formula that every city has 80,000 tickets to get into the game times two.

How many people come to the event and with the Packers it was like times five Didn't have tickets, but they want to just take part in the festivities aspect of it I think with something like this.

It's a little bit more of like if somebody's coming from Kansas City They're such diehard Kansas City fan, you know, maybe they're real

Hardcore fans more than the party aspect.

I

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don't think this could be that drunk kind of Super Bowl

type of event.

No, no,

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no You're

gonna have people getting drunk, but you're not You're not gonna have them you're not gonna have them come off the rails.

No, but then how do you

judge?

Well, then it's it's you can't you can't like I told like I told you guys off off the air You kid there.

This is a one-time deal here.

There's no this is what I did

This is what I did for my numbers.

I took my best single game at stadium view, vending, multiplied it times 30% because nothing.

Well, no, no, no, hold on.

And I plan that for the whole, for one day.

And then I multiplied that times three.

So I went, I went, you know, to make, make math easy.

Let's just say it 10,000 is a, is a number multiply that times 30%.

So that's what that's 13,000, 13,000.

Then I multiply that times three.

That's the product that I'm bringing.

So like $40,000.

So that would, okay, but that supports my argument that this is bigger than a Super Bowl because the Super Bowl is a one-day event, but it's spread out.

Three-day minimum four-day minimum when you get a hotel

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five days.

Well now.

Yeah,

I

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see

now.

It's even I don't know if I

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don't think you could get a hotel anymore in a Super Bowl hosting city for less than five days

All right, all right.

So here's the thing with the Super Bowl compared from within like when you went an hour or two hours You know when you went in 97, you know what the last you know, okay It's changed a lot since then see like now.

Well, no the last one was 2010.

No that when you said you went to San Diego

Yeah, that was 90.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So back then to now see my buddy in fantasy football Jarvis, that was a terror.

Were you there, Jim?

9%.

Horrible city to host a Super Bowl.

Yeah.

Horrible.

So one, two years ago when the Super Bowl was in Arizona, my buddy from fantasy football Jarvis went to errors.

He went there to do the fan experience, the NFL experience.

Right.

That NFL experience goes for like two or three days.

You know how much it costs to get into the NFL experience for the Super Bowl?

2,500 bucks.

Shut up.

No, to be a vendor.

No, to go into it and participate.

It's 25 spectator type.

Yeah.

The NFL experience, you get to like catch a football, you know, all that other stuff to do that whole and then see your, see NFL players, you know, pass players and stuff like that.

That's $2,500 a day to get into that.

Okay.

Wow.

But the NFL experience is the same thing that they're going to have here.

Which is gonna be over by title tone,

right?

It's free because it's free to get in.

Yeah

Wow $2,500 and that was two years ago in Arizona's $2,500 to get in for one day.

That's unbelievable.

And that was the day before the Super Bowl That was a Saturday before the Super Bowl.

Okay, I'll judge

Excuse me the success of this event by people like you.

I have a couple sources.

You're one of them a couple hotel people that are friends of mine a couple other people that are you know

Uber and I and I'm just curious is what their expectations are and everybody this is three times a football game, right a minimum Well, it's probably more than that because I got

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a

texture.

I

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hope it is He is completely wrong on that stop him with that information on the NFL experience.

Why my

buddy paid it He showed the receipts what this guy saying is the NFL experience if you go like we went to Dallas, right?

Yeah, the NFL experience is free the not

But not the one that yours was paid for, because you went through an agency.

Well,

my buddy did.

Went through an agency.

But the NFL experience where you run the 40 and get

the wristband, that was free.

Well, that could be free, maybe.

But my buddy that had where you could be with the players and everything else was $2,500, which is probably similar to what the pack was.

Was it an autograph thing?

No.

No.

But see, there's a VIP package that the drafts rolled out.

That was $3,000 a day for here.

Yeah.

$3,000, I think, I believe, for Thursday.

Sold out.

Sold out.

Sold out.

So when you say, when that guy says- That's those

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front row tickets, or

not front row, but I mean front and

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center.

But, but yeah.

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All right, we got center quick break.

She's Kurt Nick here.

He got questions about the upcoming draft.

Let us know.

He might have a correct answer.

Back after this.

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John Maino

96.5 FM WSS the civic media app and 1100 a.m.

and 1590 11 1150 nope you

had it right the first time yeah

yep 1590 yes sir am we're just talking at the break about all these guys with concussions they kind of lose it they can't remember stuff

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are you okay my dentist asked

me if I got

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punched in the face yesterday

to break my tooth sometime.

Green Bay 35 degrees.

It feels nicer than that, though.

Appleton 37, Oshkosh 34, at least right now.

We don't have that wind we had yesterday.

Cast mostly cloudy showers.

This is like the same time.

Who does these

as civic media media?

Yeah, who?

Brittany.

But Brittany did not do this one.

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She she needs to be more creative because every day for the last six weeks has been mostly cloudy with a chance of showers

My buddy and I'll go about my barbecue buddy.

He's he's getting ready for the draft too.

He's gonna be set up at the bar and His smokers he's got he's got a 2,000 pound or 2,000 gallon pit and I think a thousand gallon pit and He said with the wind and the wind is like a turbocharger to the

to the flames.

Well, yeah.

And then he's got it.

It's very difficult to get the smokers up the temp to start cooking, but once he does, and then once it's a turbocharger and gets it all going, he's just feeding the wood to it all the time.

And yeah, he's like yesterday, I talked to him three times, four times yesterday.

He's like, this wind, he's like, Oh my, it just whipping me bad.

You know, it's crazy.

And then a little rain and then it was raining in Algoma here, you know, spotty.

So the rain actually chills, you know, again, it's a struggle to keep that pit hot.

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I gotta ask you this I'm not you don't have to give me details and we've talked about this but you know Being a part of the event and have been a vendor type thing That nut is is substantial It's like the the break-even thing of do you make money or do you lose money or do you just tread water?

Oh, yeah, this is scary.

I'd write

This is scary because it's again, you don't have numbers.

There's nothing to go off

of.

And you guys have been, um, this has been hyped.

This is, and I hope it works.

I mean, I hope all you guys

are right.

We all do.

Yeah.

Well, we're not going to Bahamas.

But

I just even, and even the bigger companies, I mean, they've.

Look, there's some hotels that have

not a lot of things.

They've hired

extra people.

And I just hope that, my hope is that it all works because this has been talked about for a year and a small business like yours.

And

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this is us.

This is our community.

This is our reputation.

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We want this to be the greatest NFL draft in history.

And it starts tomorrow.

Well, it starts Thursday.

Well, tomorrow, probably.

Well,

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tomorrow's a

big deal going on at Lake Park tomorrow.

Right, right, right,

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right.

Everything going on, you know what I think is the coolest thing?

What's

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that?

That little kids bike parade around the whole

thing.

I think that's cool from eight to nine in the morning on Saturday.

I would love like

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granddaughters to be a part of

that.

That is

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such a cool

thing.

We're doing a lot of cool.

There's a lot of cool things going on.

NFL is actually getting, every team is actually getting a bike.

Did you guys know that?

No, I didn't think I knew that.

Yeah.

Every team is getting a bike customized to their team with their logos on every bike.

So every, there's going to be 32 bikes for the draft that every team will take home.

or take back to there's no kidding.

Oh, that's cool.

Yep.

The NFL is doing that.

Um, yeah, that there's a bike thing Saturday morning.

I believe it's from eight to nine.

They're doing a parade through the draft area with your, you bring your kid down with a bike and I'll let you scoot around.

Um, they got that 5k right here.

The 5k.

Yeah.

That's

registered.

Are you

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serious?

Yeah.

I can't get in now.

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Son

of a, I

know.

Yeah, but it's, you know, if that went, if Thursday.

is better than what they're forecasting.

And I don't think Thursday's terrible.

It's just showers, but I would think if that goes away, that this could be a barn burner because that was my biggest concern was weather.

And because I'm cooking out of a tent, you know what?

I'm not a truck, you know, where you have protection from the rain, you know, gas and oil or water and oil don't mix at fryer oil.

You throw water in a fryer.

It's not good.

Same thing with cooking outside.

So, you know, that was my biggest concern.

I just, somebody, a listener sent this in.

I just

want to make sure.

We said these things are free.

The NFL experience in Green Bay, that was my understanding.

They sent this in and said that in New Orleans it was 20 bucks for kids under 12 and on Thursday and then Friday it was $40.

But that was

New Orleans.

It is free here, isn't it?

So here, let me, because that listener chimed in.

So here, the NFL experience, the base part of it is free, but everything has a package.

You know, like we talked about in the last break, it's $3,000 to be right up front in the draft.

You know, you get to meet some people and that it was $3,000 for draft for Thursday night.

Okay.

My buddy down and when he went to the Superbowl, yeah, the NFL experience is free, but the package that he bought was $2,500 to probably do the meet and greet and everything else.

Okay, you know what I mean?

I guess I probably misspoke a little bit on that But yes NFL experience itself is free like to kick the field goals right and to do that stuff That's free.

Okay, but the stuff on top of that is not but kids just they don't need to spend that money Right, but there's plenty of things to do.

That's free.

Right.

That's free There is and that's what they're really promoting like the girl from the NFL yesterday when they had her meeting.

She's like there's a lot of

She said right out.

There's people that have not gone to a Packer game yet because tickets are very difficult to get, but you can go in the stadium in the stadium.

We've been talking about that for free.

I

think that's the

coolest part.

Well, I think

that's cool that you're taking the risk to be there too.

I mean, it

is.

Well, everybody is.

There's a hundred.

There's 125 food boosts in the draft area.

Okay.

And we're all, we're all taking a risk.

I think that's great.

You believe

in

the Packers.

You believe in the community.

So, right.

And, you know, like I said, it's.

You know, it's buckle up your, you know, it's lace up your boots and buckle your belt and away we go.

Well, we gotta remind

people to

support you guys,

too.

Well, right, yeah, support, yeah, yeah.

Well, it's not, it's not just, you know, the food, you gotta, you gotta support everybody.

Yeah.

You know, you know, you look at stadium views, got 18 bands in three days.

You know, that's incredible.

You know, the bar has, the bar has bands all the, all throughout the whole thing.

So does Andrewsies.

Quick

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question.

If I had done my Yuper village

Would that have been a success?

Yes or no?

I mean,

yes or no, Nick.

Oh, maybe,

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yeah.

Talk to the stadium view.

Let me come and set up.

It's a little late.

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No, it's

not.

Yes, it is.

I can show you the map.

I don't want to see maps.

I don't believe in maps.

Well, good luck.

We will see.

I got friends

coming to your place.

Kids that I rap don't

have

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maps.

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