Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts,
John Mino and Jim
Schmidt.
Good morning!
Hello, National Football League.
We're in Titletown Green Bay.
center of everything good with football welcome today's day
yes today's a day we've been talking about this for over a year a year as my wife said last night she goes you know living in Green Bay you wouldn't know
the Pope died
God bless your plot.
We need a wide receiver.
I hope he prayed for that.
I think he did raise up on the balcony.
What were his last words?
So anyway, get him a receiver.
There was a joke in my family at a special family event.
You know, you're the meal, you do the mass, you do the blessing,
right?
Yeah.
You know, ours was always what Jesus actually said.
Hey you wops, get off the grass.
The first blessing came from
a rickio who owns belgios a cheese, you know, yeah huge company I've stood next to him at the sign of peace, you know,
I hate that I know I stopped going to church.
I swear to God I stopped going to church.
Yeah, that got a little because of the sign of peace People get very uncomfortable.
I hate that
but you know what I was at a thing.
Maybe you were there
It's funny, you and I have done so many of the exact same things.
It was for the Alexandria Center.
And the guest speaker, the main feature was Vince Lombardi's grandson, Joel Lombardi.
Oh
yeah, yeah, that was one of the first ones.
Yes,
and it was at Tuncheon launch.
And he said, I go to church pretty much every day.
But I sit I'm trying to find a church the biggest church can find to get as far away from people as humanly possible Because I hate the sign of peace He even admitted that he said so far back in churches So he doesn't have to do the sign of peace.
Good morning.
Vicky Vicky says good morning guys.
Hi Vicky.
How are you?
Vicky, where do you live?
You're one of our favorite listeners.
Where's Vicky from Fonda
like
Fonda like hello Vicky Vicky join Jim and I and Todd when we go to that one
Craft brewery in fond like we want to go to
yes, let's rock
right join us Vicki.
I'm serious
But wait to take the edge off that he is who's who's standing there, and I know it was a record and he just turns to be goes
cheese be with you.
Cheese.
I know.
So he's going to promote his own brand.
That's
cool.
It's funnier because you're right.
That's an uncomfortable thing.
Some
people hug.
Some people are uncomfortable.
So you don't remember.
I was an altar boy.
So we're going back to the early 70s where you had to put your hands on the other person's shoulders.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
It's like, are you serious?
Get out of here.
But anyway,
yes.
So that's good.
But we're today's the day Are
you excited that
we're here that the the NFL draft is finally here?
Do you do feel special today Johnny that this is it?
What are you doing?
I don't like the way my hair looks.
It looks the same every day.
So why today?
Oh cuz it's the NFL.
Okay.
Why we're seating Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, what just a little
just a
little
Yeah, bleep you to time you're
receding
Poor Todd.
So I like it I thought oh my god the one time because I feel guilty drinking all the soda here So I go through like three or four a day sometimes I feel guilty I wanted right so I thought yesterday bought some diet sprite Okay,
that's okay.
That's good,
and I'm gonna bring it in so I'm not gonna drink the company stuff, okay?
And I'm sitting there.
I spill it all over myself right in your crotch right in my crotch this morning
Right there when we were sitting there.
You didn't see it.
Oh, yeah.
I thought so.
I'm swimming on a floor.
I didn't know you spilled that.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to throw this out.
You ever feel like that guy that works at like a senior, like complex home and that one guy, I was, he goes, yeah, every day.
So I become that guy in portage.
And
then when you leave.
Those are the things they remember about you.
Not like the good stuff.
They're like, oh, he spilled that stuff.
Oh, yeah, he did.
Later in time, the Muppets actually put the old two guys from the balcony
in a home, and they were watching it on TV.
And that's you guys.
Wow.
I'm going to get better.
Hey, it is a beautiful morning out there.
Wow.
Isn't it
nice?
Hope it stays because I think the weather's a little bit iffy with all the stuff
but as long as it's warm I mean right I agree and I'll take it 55 and Appleton 51 in Green Bay at 610 Let's take some of this with a little concert last night across the river right here downtown Green Bay That kind of kicked it off.
It seems like
that was kind of you know opening ceremony.
Yeah,
you know
They did
well,
you know Skogen did but yeah festival sponsored the fireworks, but yeah, that was that was good
then you could just sit on your balcony and watch it, right?
I did.
Yeah, that's cool.
Listen to it.
Yeah, it was all right.
That's not totally my kind of music, but the people seem to enjoy it.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, I will say that.
I will say, I know Brad Paisley obviously country, which is Green Bay is country.
I mean, whatever you talk about the Rush people, you know, what sells out the quickest, it'll be country acts.
So that's not even a question.
But I will say this.
And again,
I don't care how many people come.
I mean, it's not like whatever, whatever, but I think Northeast Wisconsin has tried to roll off the red carpet as good as they possibly can.
What, you agree with that, Todd?
You know what I mean?
We've, we just BS for a living, but I think Northeast Wisconsin is really trying to embrace this.
Absolutely.
Yep.
And I think they want to show their best.
I mean, you look at what Appleton is doing with the Mylon music.
You look at what they did yesterday.
Too bad it got, it rained, but.
showing off the history.
Yeah.
That's something that other teams don't have, right?
Yeah.
Camp or somebody, they don't have history.
And that was a cool thing they did.
I saw that Kevin was there with the Packer Band.
Yeah,
from the
Venice.
Yeah.
So there was some cool things going.
Attendance is a little tough because of the weather, but, you know, we're trying to do our best.
I'll put it that way.
Like I said, I was at Hagenmeister last night, right across the street here.
I said, how's it going?
They said, well, they're feeling it now.
It's like, OK, right now they were feeling the influx.
Good of people.
good so and again I mean everybody I just you know what I the one thing that bugs me that we talked about before went on the show don't coach don't coach do you have to charge $17 for a hot dog or a brat whatever
Come on, man.
Just be normal.
Why do you feel that need to and I don't
think this
is
bothers me?
I don't think this is I don't care what a cost crowd the Super Bowl is
yeah, this should be a family crowd
They're gonna look they're gonna do a little shopping right, but Super Bowl you gotta admit all those guys don't care.
They don't they just choose corporate
It's my card.
Well, and in the price for tickets to go to Super Bowl, those are the people that have the money
to go to the game.
And you know what?
Most of the people at the Super Bowl or not, but a lot of them in Chipp, you know, they don't care who's playing.
They're not, they're not, they're there for the party.
Right, exactly.
It's a
people watching thing.
Yeah, that, and I don't, like I said, I don't, everything is so overpriced that.
That's kind of a deal, $16 a hot dog.
It is what it is, right, when you go to that.
But I just please people, but why do you have to gouge?
Don't.
I said to you this morning when I got here, the parking even seems more reasonable.
I mean, when you park at a game, it's $25, $30, and I saw some parking that's $50.
Well, that's not bad for a whole day.
Right.
Packard parking is like $3 or $4.
Absolutely.
I mean, three or four hours, and now you can park for, you know, eight, 10 hours at home, you're gonna be there, but so I think.
We're kind of a little late, but I think we're kind of finding our,
I mean, I want people who have never been here before to walk away and say, wow, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Northeast Wisconsin.
Good value.
This is people really reasonable beers, food, you know what I mean?
Walk away with versus let's try to grab every dime we possibly can from people coming into town.
I despise that.
I'm sorry.
And people can say, oh, it's supply and demand, you don't know business, bleep you.
I'm really looking forward to... I don't want bad Johnny coming out, Todd.
No,
but... Todd.
Todd.
That'd be nice.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
I'm looking forward to teaching next semester.
You always try to do relevant... Like I told you, when we teach, we don't like... We don't have to talk about Starbucks and these companies.
We have great examples of great companies right here in Green Bay.
Anyway, when we talk about the antitrust and the Sherman Act, you know,
Oh, yeah, collusion price fixing absolute Sherman act you kidding me.
Yeah Well, no sleep over that.
No, no, you know, you everybody knows that yeah, it's just about you know, it's It's about Mike Sherman.
No That's the comes to mind for me too.
He was a senator of this hundred more than a hundred years ago Ohio that just to make sure that that there wasn't collusion and right price fixing
with that lady that came on TV and said, well, somebody's going to do anything.
But that is why we have
that law
is saying, well, we all got together and we all decided $100 would be the price.
And anyway, I just think that's really funny.
I actually dealt with that in my
young business life.
I just want to say, but if you look at.
Why we have that that's exactly why we have it because especially it stymies competition and it gets you know anyway that so I'm gonna use that
we when I sold night crawlers Right two cents a piece and somebody else did a penny and a half for night crawlers.
I stole his sign
I thought maybe you sent somebody over there with the bat.
You mafia guys, you Italians.
Right.
You know my granddaughter said hoodie.
Grandpa John, tell me again why you keep a baseball bat in your car.
I said, tell all your friends.
I got on this, missed out on the draft stuff last night.
So Nick and the Wicks nippers at Paradise North Distillery.
Nice place on the bay.
Oh nice,
good.
Thanks Terry.
Okay, people chime in here.
Please text us.
Let us know what you think just in general I mean, we we're invested in this we want this to be great We wanted to we want people to walk away.
So that was the greatest NFL draft ever the community of Northeast, Wisconsin It was was wonderful.
So let us know reasonable good
value had a lot of fun.
Yep
Texas
let us know what you're experiencing so far today, of course is like huge day
Well, it opens at 10 the Packer experience NFL experience can't call it a packer experience NFL experience the buses start.
Yeah, we're gonna see people getting
right here on
Washington every 15 minutes
so
it's fun i'm excited about this i don't want to sound like one of those jaded kind of i'm gonna leave town
yeah no no
embrace it come on man some
other small things going on right i mean that the northland hotel has there's free tours from ten to one are
you working that day
i am
uh who are you again
you know what frank is um george calhoun
Paul
well, okay.
I don't even send I don't see Frank as George Calhoun.
He's wearing that jersey that I know but George Calhoun was like a short squatty kind of guy in Frank's like six foot nine.
Yeah, you should be George Calhoun.
No disrespect Who's Paul you pointed it was me So much yes nice of a
person
Anyway, that's that that's going on.
And but tonight's really the biggest night, isn't it?
I think so.
Absolutely.
But I'm just going to a party, too, right?
The only thing I know, man, I'm excited about that.
Mark Houston, Bell and Sports Medicine.
Yeah, that'll be great.
They're
parking lot.
They have music, all those
trucks, all the money goes to charity.
The only thing though, Jim, what?
OK, the draft again, 32 times 15, right?
Yeah, 15 minutes per team.
Yeah.
And the buses stop at 10.
I don't think the draft, the first round's gonna be over by 10.
Well, I,
yes, I don't know that, but we would pick around 10 if everybody took their 15 minutes.
Oh, they all do.
Do they?
Yeah, you know, and the reason why I remember talking with Tom Brotz, Joe Packer and Lyndon Fonte, they had back-to-back draft picks in 1989.
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Terry, that sounds.
like fun too.
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Here's John Mino and Jim
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Thursday morning the first day of the NFL Draft coming your way right here from the frozen tundra Green Bay, Wisconsin Come on in folks.
This is gonna be a fun time fun three four day get together.
It started last night fireworks that late part were pretty amazing.
Those
are good fireworks three barges.
They shot off.
Yes, that
got it started.
You know, I gotta say that after being in politics for 20 years, it is kind of fun.
Hang on, hang on.
Open the door
Michael Michael All right, Michael's bringing in things.
Okay Michael Freeman joining us simple life hospitality.
I'm server.
Go ahead.
Oh, I was just saying that It's fun to walk around have people like compliment the show like we're a story I know I was shot last night.
We're
Hagemeister.
It's fun to and thank you for saying something to
us
like that, you know
I like that it was just fun some people remember some stories.
That's like, yeah, that's right We did talk about that and
I
just nice to hear that.
I'm glad
I will
say this.
I know for good or bad though.
What's it?
Mmm-hmm two things that you're a little bit or tainted but not tainted tattooed or whatever Burning your guinea pig alive.
Yeah, I know that one did stay in the cowboy boots for some reason Well, that's all right cowboy boots.
I'll take yeah, yeah, but yeah
Hey, Michael.
Yeah, burning your guinea pig alive.
She's gonna hunt.
I gotta be honest, Jim.
Well, you're the one who didn't let that go.
Well, you're the one that
brought it up.
I didn't know.
I kind
of did.
I did.
You're right.
Anyway, but I just want to say that it's fun to walk
around and have people.
If you
ever run for a mare again, somebody might use that against you.
It'd be that lady that, but she went on, the lady that shot her dog.
Yeah.
But she also went on to be.
I
told you
my brother's shooting our dog, right?
No, let's hear
that.
But so I can transfer some of
this.
Pita stuff over to you seriously.
Yeah, I'm here Todd No, don't tell it so my brother who was a little I'm never gonna say which brother got three older brothers Okay, they're on the army.
They're all whatever whatever whatever Um became very successful one became county sheriff for 20 years another one a tremendous electrician in the mines another one great businessman, okay, I'm not gonna say which one But one of them was going to came back from the army
um the minos have a little bit of a Whatever and he was studying for a test in college.
Let's say short fuse.
Yeah.
Yeah, so and the dog was our dog was barking.
Yeah, and He told my dad goes I'm gonna shoot that son of a goes go ahead So my brother took the shot go in the backyard and shot her dog
Could you give him a treat to settle him down?
It's
like, where's Casey?
Brother shot him in your backyard.
OK, good.
OK, OK, people who
are mad at me
for accidentally burning my sister's guinea pig.
OK, John's brother intentionally shot his dog.
Then one
other time, the cops came into our yard and shot our dog.
It's a bit somebody.
What is that?
Oh, no, that.
All right, well, that, with you guys, that's kind of redneck up there, though.
Hey, Michael.
Hey, Michael.
I said you played football for
the University of Oregon.
He did.
He was introducing you earlier.
And I'm like, wow, I said I didn't know that.
I heard that on the radio down.
And actually, I have a great story about the University of Oregon.
I had the pleasure of visiting their facilities at the University of Oregon.
Which are phenomenal.
Probably the best.
Nike money.
The best in probably
professional sports.
And I don't know if you guys know this, but when you go to the University of Oregon, if you play football there, they tell you you will never wear the same jersey twice.
Every single, I mean, it's an unbelievable facility, unbelievable.
Phil Knight did them well.
Oh, very well.
Yes.
Yeah, very well, but I didn't I didn't I didn't play at you I didn't play at all.
I just thought I'd throw that out there I thought that was interesting.
Yeah, it was kind of an interesting Yeah, he never let the truth
get in the way of a good
never ever
ever ever.
We got Frankie winters coming up
Oh, remember Frankie mega donuts.
Yeah, we got him coming up on the show here in about five town.
Yeah, I got oh Okay, please don't broadcast outside
for the bus stop people welcome to green bay hear about our former mayor burned his pet alive buy some cheese brian come
on i've told you he's
terrible brian is a bad guy
but yeah bad
human being
Okay, we'll start something else,
but you heard
that
or Jim
Burgess?
No, we're not going to do that.
We're going
to talk about
Michael.
The buses
start pretty soon, Michael.
Boom, right down
to
the...
I saw that.
Yeah,
I
heard that.
That's going to be 15 minutes.
Exciting day.
Yeah, it is.
What a great day.
It's finally here.
Isn't this
great?
I'm so tired of people, so I'm going to leave town.
Come on, man, embrace it.
No, I think it's going to be great.
The weather should hopefully hold out and be a good day.
We
get a lady right outside.
No, that's a homeless
lady.
No, it's not.
No, she's cutting flowers.
She's trimming flowers or
something.
I mean, look at that.
When you
were married,
you didn't
have to do that.
Nobody gets a homeless person trimming flowers.
I
can't see.
I can't see.
I'm in a different angle.
I was just teasing you.
She waved
at me when I came
in.
Homeless person trimming the flowers?
No, nothing worse is Jim's helpers from at one high school who said there probably weren't as many homeless people there
for
that meal because they're at their cottages for the weekend.
Oh my
god.
That was fun.
Man,
that
was fun.
Michael Friedman in the house.
So we're going to talk to you.
You're coming.
You're on, right?
I'm here for a little while.
And yeah, I'm in and out because I know you guys have other guests.
But I've obviously been in town all week.
It's great to be here and thank you guys for all your support.
The person we're talking
about, she just texted me, hey, can I come run over to your studio?
No, she didn't.
She did.
All right,
all right.
Oh
my
god.
I told
them people listen.
Woops.
Wow.
Todd, her name is Lisa.
Yeah.
Yell at her, tell her, come on over.
She wants me to autograph
her book that she bought.
We'll
do that
when we get a break here.
Oh my God, how
funny is that?
That's just so.
Michael
Freeman is so good to see you.
You too.
You too, guys.
And man, this has been such a
great relationship what you've done, simple life hospitality.
I was telling Jim.
Yep.
He's got a, like my daughter in Madison, she used to lease it out for the CrossFit competitions and different things.
Made great.
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Frankie, Winters, live and in person.
My man, how you doing buddy?
Hey guys, how you doing?
Everything's going great.
How about yourself?
Doing exciting things here with the draft and everything.
And I think it's great that the Packers are really doing a great job of bringing back so many of you, your former players.
And it's almost like a, you know, a reunion, a class reunion when they have an event like this, they bring all you guys back.
That's gotta be fun, huh Frank?
Yeah, it is.
It's a great time.
It'll be a lot of fun to see a lot of the guys that have, you know, you don't get to see it very much usually during game day or game weekend for like a legends weekend and stuff like that.
But it's great to be back.
I'll be up there this weekend for a couple of days.
So it's going to be, it's going to be a fun event.
And I believe the Packers are going to have about, I want to say 20 to 25 form of players from different areas doing different things throughout the town.
and preparing for the upcoming draft this weekend.
And the fans are just as excited.
I mean, you like to come here and see your fellow teammates.
But I mean, all you guys, and I don't know if Mikosky's coming in, but Aaron Jones is going to be here serving pizza.
Serving food at your
homeless shelter.
At the homeless shelter.
And everybody's getting involved.
Haha, Dix is coming up and a couple of these other guys.
And we really appreciate that.
Spans of yours and the community and Bruce
Wilkins saying who used to line up next to Frank you
know I think that's great.
So thanks for
doing that is Well, it is this great.
I talked to Bruce last weekend.
He's uh He's gonna make an appearance.
He's coming off with some friends from Tennessee and it will be interesting It will get the it will get a perspective from all different fans from all right all the cities throughout the NFL and The company experience Green Bay.
I usually they only get the experience on
you know the weekends when their teams in town playing if they choose to come up here so it's going to be an interesting weekend you'll have 32 different cities representing all different parts of the country and hopefully they'll come in and experience it and hopefully the weather holds out for everything it's a great weekend and a lot of fun and it's going to be a great impact on
the economy for the city of Green Bay and the state of Wisconsin.
Hey, Frank, I got to tell you, though, even when we're, we had a girl here on the other day from the stadium viewing and Bruce was going to be there.
She mentioned some other guys.
They were good guys.
Weren't they Frankie?
Wasn't that a great, and I don't cover the Packers the way I used to.
I'm sure they stole a lot of good guys, but man, that was a close knit team.
in your era that you played for wasn't it I thought one of the most fun things when I'd be in the locker room I wouldn't even want to bother you guys is be the offensive lineman will just be sitting around just BS in so to speak but it was just it was like really friends along with being teammates wouldn't you agree
yeah it's it's uh you know we were a tight knit group we were you know it was you know it was a different game back then you know you know you
You did a lot of things with teammates.
You didn't have social media, so you could get away with a little more things back then than you could today.
But we had a lot of fun.
We did our offense line dinners, and then we made up with the defense line on Thursday night.
And we go golfing on Friday and then on Tuesday or the day after we get to hang out with each other and stuff like that.
So where it's a little different today where guys make a lot more money and tend to do a little more maybe charity things.
for their likings or community outreach stuff through the packers and stuff.
But it will be great to see a lot of these former players.
I'm sure I'll see a lot of them up there.
I'm not sure who else is going to be up there.
But it will be great to reconnect with some of the former play that I played with, but also guys that came in after me that you get to know in over the last couple of years coming back for games throughout the year and stuff like that.
So it's going to be a fun weekend.
Um, like I said, hopefully everybody enjoys it.
Uh, they'll get to see the city of Green Bay and, uh, we'll get back together with the old guys and kind of reminisce and, you know, talk about how we, how everything was so great back then, but, um, it'll be a fun weekend and look forward to it.
We're talking about Frankie winters
and what a weekend for these players, right?
These young players.
I mean, this is, this is it.
I mean, this is draft draft week or weekend.
I guess what we call three, four days of that.
And, um,
You know, do you recall that?
And what are you?
Well, Frankie
had a unique story when it came to getting into the NFL.
Hey, Frankie, it's totally
different from these guys that are going to be up here.
Go ahead.
Tell your story,
Frankie.
It was back when I got drafted in the 11th round, which don't even have anymore.
It was all done in one day.
It started early in the morning and it ended on, I believe it was a Saturday.
And then we'd even have a phone in college.
So I had to go to a college room.
I had to go to a college buddy's house because we didn't pay our phone bill.
We couldn't afford it because it got too expensive.
So we had to go to a buddy's house to get a call.
And by the time I got the call, I believe it was about 9.45, 10 o'clock, and there were a lot of adult beverages consumed.
And I got the call from the Cleveland Browns.
And it was super exciting.
It was, it was a long process.
Unlike today where they do it, they turn into a four day event, which is good for the fans and for the NFL and stuff, but it's a total different situation.
But, you know, it's good for these young kids.
It's going to be, you know, somebody's kids, it changes their life, you know, especially with today's financial contracts and stuff like that.
It's, it's, it's very, it's very financial rewarding for these kids.
And, you know, it could set them up for the rest of their lives.
So, um,
Hopefully take advantage of it and enjoy it enjoy, you know teams that draft them Because with free agency, you know, you know The players tend to bounce around a little more they did when I was a you know player You didn't have the you didn't have the opportunity to explore free agency and stuff.
What was your signing bonus?
I think it's
about like 10,000 grand maybe Alright too bad.
No, that was a lot of money.
It wasn't too bad.
No, but not like today
You could be a free agent and make a lot more money.
I think
Larry McCarran.
It's
going to be
right.
Larry McCarran
told me
that his I want to say his signing bonus was like $5,000 and the scout Red Cochran at the time called him.
He said, Larry, I screwed up.
I gave you too much.
I need half of it back.
That's probably true.
Yeah.
I mean, it was, uh, you know, it was unless you were first round that, you know, you did big bonuses back then one, you know, one really.
One really very financially rewarding for young, for the young guys come out of college, but today it's a little different.
It's a different game and you know, there's a lot of money to be made in these guys today.
Like I said, they deserve it.
And just look forward to having the opportunity to be drafted, especially in the first round, especially on Thursday night.
And it could be significantly impact that life forever.
I will say this, Frank, you never took a day for granted of being in the NFL.
Yeah.
And I mean, that's sincere.
You never took a day for granted.
No, uh, no, I mean, it's just, you know, it was, it's coming from the beat, you know, the upbringing of my parents, you know, my dad was, uh, you know, everything you earned, you had to work for.
And, uh, um, I was never expected to get anything for free.
You have to go out there and, and, uh, work hard for what you, uh, get either in, uh, in life.
And, uh, I think people do that.
I think it pays off at the end and.
You know and that's the way I approach the game and where I approach my life afterwards
Yeah, that's a good lesson
for anybody and everybody.
Hey
anybody you're keeping your eye on we we talk about a number of people anybody you with your experience
I don't really follow much of the you know the drafts and guys that are gonna come up and stuff, but You know, I don't I don't know.
I mean it's I'm sure this does
There's always players who are kind of underachievers, and then there's the people that come out and surprise everybody.
I couldn't tell you who was projected to be the number one pick.
I think it's so different today compared to when we came out where you used to come have scouts visit.
Now everything's done with digital TV and films and all this crazy stuff.
If everybody had, you know, the answer is who they were going to pick and stuff.
It's, uh, it turns out great, you know, but it just can make general managers, you know, keep their jobs or lose their jobs or lose their jobs, you know, so, you know, it's, uh, it's, uh, it's a crap.
Yeah.
Hey, Frank, I
gotta ask you, who was the Brown's number one pick when you were the 11th pick?
The number one pick when I think they had two first round, as I think on the first round that are in an early second round, it was Mike Junkin linebacker from Duke.
Yep.
And Greg Rikosi, who was an offensive center from the university of Miami.
Wow.
Did a number one draft pick that was a center and you were drafted 11th as a center.
Yeah.
You must
have thought your odds
were really long to make that team.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think he played like five years.
I played 16.
So that goes at a crapshoot, you know, right?
It's a
trade junk.
It never
became anything either, actually.
Well, trade junk.
And we might jump.
It was the guy from Duke trade junk.
It was his brother who played for the Raiders.
My three was a tight end.
So you're right.
I think I think Mike Junkham played maybe four years in the NFL.
So I'm like that.
So yeah, like you said, it's a crapshoot and
Yeah, sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
And you look at teams that draft, usually when I draft that number one quarterback, it doesn't work out like it's always supposed to.
But hopefully you can draft somebody.
Hopefully with the upcoming draft with the Packers, you know.
that Jackson, Mike, down at the bottom, not bottom, but like in the middle of the back.
So 23rd is a good player available and they draft them.
Frank, I get to ask you one last question for any young player that's going to be drafted by the Green Bay Packers over the next few days.
What advice would you give them about coming to the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin and the whole community, Northeast Wisconsin, whole state of Wisconsin, because we play for the Packers, you represent everybody.
What advice would you give them on becoming a Green Bay Packer?
Well, I would tell them just so when they come into Green Bay, they enjoy the history that's been there previously, the world championships and the Super Bowls that were won by the Packers that were there prior to embrace the community and embrace the history of the organization and to enjoy it because before you know it, it goes by in the heartbeat.
And 10 years later, you're either retired or maybe playing somewhere else.
I think my advice to a young player coming into Green Bay today or anywhere in the NFL is to make the most of it.
Don't take things for granted and work hard and keep your nose down and instead of troubling and make the money while you can and have a good time while you do it.
Yeah, that's great advice because it is the smallest market and I think some people
don't see that history that you just talked about.
And we really got a lot of pride here.
And yeah, that's, that's great advice.
Right.
One very last thing I was watching a thing where Chewy was doing a radio show.
He does now.
He told a story that you stole his, um, his, uh, thing, his skadoo thing for the, on the water, you call them a jet ski jet ski.
And you crashed
it
in the cops.
You blamed it.
You said your name was John Yerkovich.
True or false?
True.
Very true.
Yeah.
Very
true.
Wow.
and your goal.
Your goal the next day was not very happy with you and I walk you through.
Frankie Winters, you're the greatest.
All right, buddy.
I appreciate you guys.
You guys have a good week and hopefully get to see you around green bank
wherever you are.
I'm going to show up just to bug you.
Okay.
You're the man.
Frankie.
Thank you so very much, brother.
Frankie Winters here for the draft, just one of the all-time greats.
One of the all-time great free agent signings too.
Yeah, great advice, right?
Looks like the right way, embraces things.
He's
so normal.
Right, I bet that's the word
for it.
He's like so normal as a guy.
We used to hang out a lot and some of the mornings on IXX were rough afterwards, I'll be honest.
But anyway, all right, we're gonna set a quick break back with more right after this.
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Hey, welcome back.
Trucker Thursday, everybody.
It is draft day in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Appleton, Oshkosh, all points beyond.
Is there a better place to be in the United States right now?
Then northeast Wisconsin.
Yes or no?
Michael Friedman?
Yes or no?
Greatest place in the world.
Right.
Lisa Wheeler?
Yes.
Greatest place to be.
So we were making fun of you.
You were?
Yeah, Michael was.
Were you
watching
me?
No, no, you waved to me when I walked in, but then
he let
John go ahead.
He said, oh, some crazy ladies out there pulling up the flowers from the thing.
And then it's like, oh, no, that's not crazy.
That's Lisa.
Yeah.
Hi,
Lisa.
I'm not too crazy.
I didn't say you were crazy.
Someone else said
something.
But Lisa, tell
them what you're
doing.
Jim,
come on.
Jim, come
on.
Oh my God, I know her.
I said, I'm not calling her crazy like I know her.
There's a volunteer that's out there beautifying our city because the sign that says, welcome to downtown Green Bay, you were
putting in new flowers.
And thank you for doing that.
Well, you're very welcome.
You're a member of?
My pleasure.
The Downtown Neighborhood Association and Shriver was so.
gracious to allow us to put the sign over there and I put some flowers out there this morning.
Isn't that nice?
That's nice.
We
like that.
I mean, we're taking like, we want Green Bay, northeast Wisconsin to be like when people leave here to say, man, we went to the draft up there, never been there before.
That was awesome.
What a great place.
We're invested in that.
We want that.
We take pride in that.
And
that's great.
Well, you tell about your downtown association, what you guys do.
Well, what we're trying to do is bring people to the downtown area and we want them to realize this is a great place to work.
It's a great place to live.
It's a great place to visit.
So we want it to be beautiful and we want it to be a great place to be.
And boy, do they judge
it by little things like that, litter, you know, which you don't have down here, flowers.
I mean, they want to just see the, they want it to look nice, lighting, trees.
That's just important to a downtown.
And then what we have to do is compliment that with more activities,
right?
Absolutely.
a better job, but we could do even better.
Yes.
Um, I wrote a grant in the fall and we received the grant and we'll be doing starting cleanup sessions now.
Great.
Those are important things downtown.
Right.
Jim and
I did that last year.
We did.
Yeah.
Well, yesterday was Earth Day, right?
And we did
a, uh, we
picked up a lot of cigarette butts.
We did.
Even though that kind of made us mad.
I don't
know.
People still smoke as much as they do.
Oh, we,
uh,
is that
crazy?
Yeah.
Um,
And yet there's a cigarette, what
do they call it?
Right next to it.
Receptical?
Yeah.
And there's cigarette butts all around, and there can be 300 of them.
Isn't that weird?
Was
that part of your work release or
no?
Yeah.
We wore the orange
vest.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
We did a E-Cast the first stone who hasn't done community
service.
All the honors.
Hey,
I've
been there.
I've been there.
Me too.
We've all been there.
You have those.
those little picker uppers things, you know what I'm talking about?
Did you squeeze them?
Anyway, so we had to go to like this training session.
Can you believe that training session to pick a glitter?
But anyway, we're there and we're wearing hats and the lady's talking, just like he's in school, little kid.
He's picking up my hat, you know, when the lady's talking, just screwing around picking my ear.
I
untied his shoes.
And she was giving us that.
And the picker, he didn't know.
I untied his shoes.
And he's the good student who's trying.
I was.
I was.
I was trying to pay attention.
He's a nasty boy.
Taking copious
notes and John's.
I just kind of threw it all, but anyway, thank you for doing that, Lisa.
I mean, the city has run on volunteers, right?
I mean, a lot of volunteers and I.
But you take pride, talk about your heritage.
There's your family and everything.
Parents' plumbing.
What you
guys have done.
Yes, RJ parents plumbing and heating since 1967.
Yeah.
And we've been around a long time and serving the community.
And yes, I'm a Belgian.
Oh.
My family, my great grandfather came from Belgium.
Belgium and he was His parents left him on a bridge in Namor, Belgium and the police found him and Someone adopted him.
It's your grandfather my great-grandfather and he came over to the United States
Wow
Go back and find him.
What the hell did you do with that one?
Yes, I gotta
be
honest with you.
I'd kill their dog or
something.
I have one goal in
mind.
Well,
that's
great.
You married well, and your husband has done a lot for the community in the real estate world?
Yes.
Yes, he's been retired for a while.
Yes.
But yes, he did it at the time.
Banderzan in real estate.
I
bought a building from
him.
By the way, we got a text here.
Mongol, Michael, Steve, Michael, passed away.
67.
Mm-hmm ALS I gotta be I mean you almost hate to say it was a mm-hmm, but he was in such rough shape It almost might be a blessing that he's gone that poor guy never said it was the
worst It was amazing though.
He got into the Hall of
Fame.
I know
last year and
I think that was you ever seen anybody a
Expected more
than
he
was Dwight Dwight Clark if you remember Dwight Clark 49 he also passed away from ALS.
It's
just such a Horrible disease.
It is a doctor told me one time a long long time ago.
There are some things worse than death.
Yeah,
wow, and that was important Yeah,
yeah
All right.
So Lisa, what else is going on in downtown Green Bay?
Congratulations on being a big part of this.
We're here.
We're at the draft.
Today is, this is it, man.
Are you leaning into the draft, doing something with the grandkids?
Oh, you bet I am.
I'm going, I'll be there this afternoon with one of my granddaughters.
And then grand sons are coming in the saft later this afternoon.
Great.
We'll be down there.
Once you're agree though, let's embrace this.
Let's not be those nasters or
I'm
leaving town.
I don't want to.
Come on, man.
Embrace this.
Might as well.
It's not going to happen again.
Right, exactly.
And we have to support- And you're parking
around the stadium, but you don't mind the parking because it's going to a charity, which I think is awesome.
Yeah, St.
Mark's Church.
Yeah, that's nice.
And no, I don't mind because the money will go to the church.
And you have plenty of it anyway, so that's so losey.
Wow.
Hey, tell people why you want-
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.
We got a beautiful morning out there and I gotta tell you something, folks.
You wanna talk about talent, homegrown talent?
We got some homegrown talent right here.
To die hard northeast Wisconsin people who put their artist talents to something pretty cool regarding the NFL Draft stress the mind and Trent magic known Vandals Jim take
it away talking about the NFL Draft bringing out the best of the best some people been sitting on some pretty good talent waiting for today And these guys look
bad
They couldn't do it with them in a bar.
They couldn't do it for this time of the morning.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to tangle with either one of these guys.
But you're doing two things today.
You're dropping this great song that is unique to our community, the culture
of our community.
It's
not like this cheesehead song or it's not too much.
It's family friendly.
And you
also have a video.
So tell us a little bit about your two guys and then I'll tell me a little bit more about the song.
But first of all, introduce yourselves as your duo.
Well, we are known vandals.
I go by stress the mind.
I do the lyrics and Yeah, I'm
phenomenal voice by the
way.
Yeah, I
would not be I would not be a disjointed
Don't you think you
put
in your pipe?
Don't be honest with you.
Don't you think
he knows that?
In high school my teachers used to be like you should do radio you should do radio and I ended up doing music so I guess it's kind of close enough
Very soothing.
Yeah
I'm Trent magic.
I do all the production and I do the DJ stuff when we're live and hanging and playing shows and stuff like that But yeah, so I write all the music co-produced with him, too We both bounce a lot of ideas off together when I'm sort of producing what we are so right, right?
Yeah, okay, so you guys this
She said with an attitude that you had enough of that.
We grew up with that.
I love all that stuff.
We just were in the studio a few months ago, thinking about it, and we were talking about how the draft was coming up.
I was like, man, has anyone, to my knowledge, to your knowledge, has anyone ever made a song just about the culture and state of Wisconsin in general?
Like an original song.
And we couldn't find it.
We looked, we couldn't find it.
So we were like, we need to.
do that.
We need to make that song.
You sought
a little local talent.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we asked around and we're fortunate enough to get some cameos in the video.
I can't believe you didn't go to
Minow here.
He's always begging.
He's always begging.
Find the talent.
He'll tell you that he was like, I don't know, some school up in Michigan.
He was eight kids in the class.
He was
In a play.
Sure.
In a play.
That's all I know.
I have to say, Jim, if you use the terminology, your song drops today.
That was pretty hip for me.
That was
awesome.
I agree.
Thank you,
Todd.
Thank
you,
Todd.
So at
the
diver, anything
good that happens with the show is because of Todd.
Trust us.
Lies.
You
got Spencer Young in there.
We're a huge fan of his.
So are we?
Big fan of Spencer.
Actually, he's the one.
I got credit him for starting it all off.
So he actually, I had met him.
He did his paintings right there.
I was gonna say they look like Spencer's work.
You
know what he painted them with?
His mind.
What did he paint them with?
Worse, oh gosh.
A football and a cleat.
I was actually gonna say a cleat jokingly, but seriously.
We
took that to a charity auction for the new community shelter.
650 bucks that one went for it.
I'm going to mine
off for local vets.
Oh, that's the best.
He's a great guy, well good.
But you know what though that's something that Jim and I talk about and Todd we all talk about that it's like well we try to do with this little show or whatever is is bring out the great talents right here that are right around here you don't have to be from Chicago we've got talent
and we're sort of just starting too so like you know this song is kind of made for everybody in Wisconsin here we're from the state we love this state and
We might not be very known being the known vandals, but this was sort of a song we were hoping like,
hey, that is a great lot.
That is a great.
Yeah.
And we were like, let's write a jam that everybody can relate to and love
and just see where it goes.
Yeah, we just thought this could be played anywhere, any sporting event, any sort of like, it's family friendly.
It's good for everybody.
Everybody that's from here is even visited here for a while.
When you hear the lyrics and watch the video, you get it.
It is hilarious.
And
we're
going to be
hearing that.
I don't mean to sound like a weird guy.
You got the greatest voice.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It's like, damn
it.
Okay.
That's true now.
I'm gonna tell you.
Right.
Sorry, buddy.
What's your name again?
Trent.
Okay.
No,
no, no.
His voice is great.
It's
incredible.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you.
It just works out.
Works out that way.
You should hear him rap.
Yeah.
Let me hear a little.
Give me a little.
And you will.
Yeah, you will.
Right now.
What should we do?
Want me to beatbox and you can do the first
thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll beatbox and do the first ready to do the first part of the song.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, he's
I'll just beatbox real quick.
All right.
All right.
Let's start with the first
From out the deadly land, you know what?
Yeah, the cheese sad state.
Right up north, tucked in, right next to the Great Lakes.
This is a place we call home.
Never afraid to admit it.
Back in 1848 is where our story's beginning.
So sit and listen.
Let me tell you all just what we're about.
Stuff for hunting and fishing.
We never leave home without it.
And throughout all of the seasons, we're prepared for a blizzard.
We'll drive for the roughest conditions.
Back to the fishing.
We even do it on ice.
We drill a hole and drink a brew.
Believe me, this is the life.
Love it!
Alright, did the research on that one.
Little taste.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right,
right, right.
That's so cool.
Introduce yourselves again.
Tell a little bit about your background, what you do, and this whole thing.
Yeah, I had to get into this,
yeah.
Yeah, no problem.
So I'm Trent Magic.
Trent Brusky is the real name, though.
Don't tell anybody.
Okay.
Brusky?
Yeah, Brusky.
Yeah.
As
in
the old Packer...
Dr.
Brusky?
That's my grandfather.
Yeah, Hall of Famer.
Shut
up!
It is.
It is.
Dr.
Brusky.
Yeah, he's got a football card.
Oh my god.
I was at his induction to the Packer Hall of Fame.
That's awesome.
1993.
Yeah.
So
was I.
That is so
cool.
Wow.
So being him.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So he's my grandpa.
He's cool.
He was the first doctor the Packers ever had, I think, right?
You're correct.
Yeah.
That's
awesome.
Wow.
Okay.
Yeah, he should have been in the Hall of Fame a lot earlier though.
Absolutely.
I know who
I talk to
about
that.
Well, so I've been in a lot of punk bands and I've done a lot of like hip hop production and stuff in the past 10 years, but music's always been my thing.
Hip hop production.
And I used to make music for commercials and different things back in the day.
Todd, you probably know a lot of stuff about that, you know, absolutely.
But.
Him and I
have known each other all
the cool people.
You know
what I'm saying?
We are not.
He's quiet about it.
He's quiet about it.
We don't know anything about it.
Yeah.
He's known for two years when I think about him.
No.
I feel a connection through the glass.
I know.
I'm seeing that.
As a fellow
producer
of radio.
Yeah.
But so Luke and I have known each other for years and you know we've played in bands separately together at shows and just we've been great friends.
So this known Vandals connection was something him and I kind of always wanted to do but never knew it.
So
here we
are.
This.
I think that you're, again, I only know that we're dropping now because I don't know what's going on.
How do people, how do you launch something like that?
I mean, you're not
in a boat.
Well, very carefully.
I mean, obviously we're completely independent.
We don't have, you know, investors or bosses or anything like that.
So we just, with the video.
I would
encourage you to stay on that
track.
Right.
So the song, the song was, I had written the song for the lyrics and I'd come up with the idea for it.
And he was like, let me make a, let me make a beat for it.
And it just, we kind of went back and forth and it just kind of worked out perfectly.
And we need something kind of simple, but a lot of like kind of whimsical and silly because, you know, a lot of everybody from at least a lot of my out of state friends are like, Wisconsin, what do you have there besides beer, cheese and the Packers?
but we have those things.
You know what I mean?
It's all right.
It's true.
Well,
they also say, and mine own the mayor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then we have a... I know the former mayor of Green Bay.
Shut up.
Shut up.
We had gotten a hold of one of our good friends.
His name is Trace Passion.
Shout out to Trace.
Shout out to Trace, 1212 Productions.
He runs a media company called 1212 Productions and he's got all the camera gear and stuff.
He's like, I'm gonna get behind you guys and we're gonna make the most...
killer video video
as of right now
yeah it is dropped it is ready
everybody where people can see this
You can see it on our YouTube page right now.
It's just YouTube search for known vandals.
Look us up.
Or whisk them too.
Or you can search for whisk them.
That's actually speaking of whisky.
Who did that?
Whoever did.
Because you know what
we're very big fans of?
With all their craft breweries and everything.
Yeah.
They've gotten so great with their artwork.
Oh man.
With their
look.
I mean
it's like you'd buy something.
Oh!
We got shirt.
These are for you guys.
Thank you.
Who designed
that?
We did.
Yeah.
That is so cool.
You got a walleye on there.
You got a
walleye, some lures, some cheese.
That is so cool.
You get the right orange one.
I get the black one.
Thank you
guys.
That is really cool.
That's great.
How can we promote you guys more?
And YouTube is 20 years old today.
So
this
is
we're
rolling it
out.
So this will be a great
anniversary.
I remember I saw a video the other day where they were talking about how the YouTube creators were
only had 40 videos and they were terrified that was going to fail super bad or something.
Yeah.
So you
guys, okay, when you guys shoot a video, tell me, tell me about the process of shooting a video.
Well, I got to tell you the process for the video is, is a, it's a very collective process.
And we got so many amazing people involved with trace at the helm, our friend at 12, 12 productions kind of helping us lay out the storyboard for it, multiple locations, multiple great people involved, but really.
You just got to take the days and the time to make sure you're getting your shots right.
Having fun is super, super key when you're making a video.
And honestly,
you
can't fake that.
No, no.
Just having the
right people behind you makes
it all the better.
And he picked out.
He said, we're going to go here.
We're going to go here.
He's storyboarded out.
The guy's a wizard.
He knows what he's doing.
Yeah,
I do.
We've done commercials like it, of
course,
too.
Very dry, very tight, not fun.
And then we've also done, we've done some other stuff in bars with, like you guys with YouTube.
And it's just so much more fun, it's real.
It's rich.
Yeah,
yeah, production seems to just be a little more loose with the YouTube stuff.
Just a little.
Oh yeah, a little bit.
Yeah, you can.
You know, so you let Johnny smoke weed and he appreciates that yeah, just a little looser there.
I have no idea where
that came from
I don't smoke weed
Yeah, who's the one who always smoked weed?
Okay,
Mrs.
Schmidt of
all
the people amongst us in this studio Which one of us was kicked off the wrestling team for smoking weed Todd?
This
is great you guys are doing this and creativity.
We love that we We talk often on this show about the talent that's right here in Green Bay We just talk not just the talent in music and the arts, you know visual dancing authors, but
In the business community, too, you don't have to go to the East Coast and West Coast
and
look at the production with 1212.
I mean, it's
right here, you know, exactly.
It's incredible.
Absolutely.
And
we need to showcase that instead of cheese curds, which is great.
We're proud of what we have here in the Packers.
We got, I got.
which you guys haven't heard the song yet.
It's on all streaming platforms.
So
right now people can write now.
So I'm on Spotify.
So you can find it.
You have no idea what spot I'm on.
I'm on my phone.
I'm on Spotify.
You should have seen me
yesterday with our poor guy here, Jesse, trying to explain what an app.
is so
I can get into
the draft thing.
That was like uncomfortable.
That's
great.
That
draft app thing is, it's, it's, I appreciate it, but it's very interesting.
Yeah.
It's a lot of steps.
Wow.
No, you just Google it.
Anyway, go ahead.
Tell me about the, how do I find it on Spotify?
Sure.
So, yep.
So any streaming service
you
have, you can search with scant them or just type our group name.
Spell that.
So it's W-I-S-C-A-N.
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in Appleton and Oshkosh and points beyond and civic media worldwide and we're with two very very talented people who we are going to Allow or they are allowing us to debut their new song Todd Yeah, that's right.
We got it here first.
Somebody just we're good
to me Thank you
this man this is great us to tell
us again about your background how you want to just it's so
and again I
hate the term but I'm gonna throw it out it's so organic green Bay wise
yeah
Wisconsin wise
that's that's the whole again okay that's the whole goal so with this song you know Wisconsin this is for you this is for everybody from Wisconsin born and raised even if you travel to Wisconsin and it's like your childhood place away like you got to know a little bit about it and if you don't this Wisconsin song is definitely gonna have everything you could think of
Yeah, listen to the lyrics, you'll get it.
You'll understand it all.
Absolutely.
I
have to ask this, though.
Well, first, I got text here from Tina.
OK, I'm technically challenged.
Can I play their song with touch tunes?
I'd love to play it when I'm out having adult beverages this weekend.
Tina.
That will take about another month to pass,
because I
have to submit it to that company, but it is in the works.
There's that distribution stuff, digital, it takes time, stuff we can't control.
Yeah.
Okay, but there's something she can do now,
right?
Is there anybody on
YouTube?
Yeah, YouTube, YouTube, with scantum known vandals, just Google, just Google known vandals, with scantum, it'll come up.
All right.
Yep.
You guys ready?
Yes, sir.
Yeah.
Debut right here on Mino and the Mayor.
No stress.
Why don't you tell them where no vandals are from?
From out the Dairyland, you know it, yeah, the chiefs at stake Right up north, tucked in, right next to the Great Lakes This is the place we call home, never afraid to admit it Back in 1848 is where our stories begin, and so sit and listen Let me tell you all just what we're about, like stuff for hunting and fishing We'll never leave home without, and throughout all of the seasons We're prepared for a blizzard, flat bed, full with dry, for the roughest conditions Then right back to the fishing, we even do it all night We drill a hole and drink a brew, believe me, this is the life And at night on every Friday, we be frying the fish
Kickin' back at supper clubs, rakin' out the cribbids Never missin' a game, my time to cheer on the pack Golden Bruins, Bucks and Badgers, gettin' rowdy in stance So here we go, y'all, time to spell it out with us Raise it up on what you're holdin' to the place that we livin' Dub I S C O N S I N We rock up all of y'all, y'all amongst some friends Dub I S C O N S I N Have it snow fall, please it's never end Dub I S
These are my people and I'm thinking they're all second to none From Eagle River headed south on Highway 41 From all the east to the west and everyone in between If you're from Wisconsin then we all unite as a team Love her my factory workers and farmers making it happen Keep us running in supply for weekends up at our cabins And the old fashions makes it up you never go wrong Serpent cheese curds
We're the side of ranch and it's on Sing along around the fire Pressing up budgie pies And if you offer up abroad it's never gonna be denied And we sidle with the blaze on your camera We're quick, they're all our friends And all are welcome with the drinks that we sip So if you're taking a trip, we hope you stop on vibe We hold the door open for you and we'll say From the days gone by Pressing time and beyond Meanwhile in Wisconsin, everyone sing along Dub I S C O N S I N
Yeah, it's special shout outs to
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quick trip with brothers Miller, Bill and Brookie, PBR, 107.5 the fan.
Yeah, good day Wisconsin at the diver and no W wrestling.
Awesome!
Great
work
you guys!
That
is
so cool!
Thanks
so much.
Check all
the boxes, man.
Critical fashion.
Yeah, that's right.
Ranch dressing.
Yeah, everybody.
It ran just huge here.
And I don't know why.
It's great.
It's awesome.
I don't know.
It's good and everything.
Very
cool.
You can visualize the whole stadium jamming
into this.
Oh, my God.
We
spelled Wisconsin out in a fun way.
A number of times in a fun way.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, that could be.
Yeah, and then they got to the hotel.
Yo, yo, yo,
Ricky and Appleton.
Hey.
So
great.
We see you, Ricky.
That was great.
We see you.
Yeah, that's a lot of fun.
The chorus was our favorite part, because we wanted something that was like, anthem-worthy.
When you think of an anthem, you want to be like, singing along and just having a great
time.
Some of those songs back in the 80s where there was like, and I think one of them was, we built the city, and
it was based in
San Francisco.
But there were different versions depending on the market and radio you worked for.
We need to have them do an edit for us that mentions Mino
in
the mail.
Absolutely.
That was the big thing
with,
we
gotcha.
What's her name?
Um, the song was Nebraska.
What's your name?
Lady Gaga.
Okay.
She
did.
She did Nebraska.
She did Wisconsin.
Oh, nice.
You know, you know, that
whole
song is a whole
different
meaning that when you hear her say that was a while ago, I
actually
almost forgot.
I know, right?
She's been around longer than we think.
I know,
right?
Jim, you met her, right?
I did.
Then he got it, she had soft hands.
No, no,
no, that was soft hands.
No, that wasn't.
I met her the same day I met the Dolly Lama.
And he had the soft hands.
He had the soft hands.
Anyway, I got the soft hands.
The number one thing he
comes away having meeting the Dolly Lama, he had the softest hands.
It's like, really, what do you think he does?
Construction
on the side?
Did it feel like a chinchilla?
Oh, yeah, he's a bricklayer.
He's like, air chinchilla.
By the
way, who's the tattoo artist?
I am.
He is.
You
both got amazing ink on your hands.
That is
so cool.
I got a little fish because I love trout fishing with
my wife.
Yeah, see, we're the real deal.
Oh, I gotta mention my wife.
I love you, my wife.
Yes.
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New Isco weekend, Saturday mornings at
8.
we're joined by the legend, the magic man, Don McCauskey.
I still remember when his name was called back in the day with Forest Greg and Forest Greg talked about this great young quarterback from the University of Virginia.
Now, Madge, one thing you and I talked about one other time, you on draft day, it was an entirely different entity in 1987, 88, 89, that whole era of you and drafting guys like you and the Bryce Pops of the world and everybody.
And they all say the same thing, man, it was nothing like it is today as far as an event.
What do you, what do you remember about those days magic?
Oh, no, it was, uh, I mean, it was the first, you know, I think the, I don't know when the draft first became televised at ESPN, like, I don't know in the early 80s.
Yeah.
But, uh, I remember, um, yeah, there, there was, uh, I didn't know where I was going to get drafted because, um,
I got injured again in my senior year in Virginia.
I separated my shoulder, so my stock went pretty far down.
I didn't know how far it was going to go down.
I still went to the combine.
Wasn't still 100%.
Couldn't do the bench press, so stock went down.
So I didn't know where I was going to draft it.
So my draft day was very lonely.
I was in my college apartment all by myself.
The draft started at 8 a.m.
on ESPN and they only did the first six rounds televised.
So back then they had 12 rounds in the draft.
So I watched the first round and I saw four quarterbacks were taken.
Vinny Testa Verde, Kelly Stover, Harbaugh, and Chris Miller.
And I'm like, well, man, I'm writing the same bracket as those guys.
four guys already taken.
I got to be taken pretty soon.
I got to be coming up next.
And second round went by, third round went by, fourth round.
The draft went off the air after the sixth round.
I still didn't get my number.
I mean, still didn't get my call.
So I was just hanging out in my apartment all by myself.
Finally, it got to be 10 PM.
I'm like, I got to go to bed, man.
That was a long day.
I was exhausted.
I was so disappointed.
frustrated, sad, whatever, tears, all that stuff.
I didn't get my call till like midnight.
You know, and forest Greg called me and said, yeah, they were actually, you know, it's funny.
I got, I got a call from the Buffalo bills in the sixth round by Bill Polin.
Okay.
And they wanted to take me in a sixth round as it and turn me into a free safety.
Oh my, which was your
hometown though, your hometown Buffalo bills.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, you know, they had Jim Kelly and Frank Reich and I'm like,
Yeah, I'll pass on the free safety, even though it sounded, I mean, no doubt I could have played.
I played some, you know, a lot of it in high school and then you could practice some, even in college, my freshman year, but I was like, I'll pass on the free safety.
I'm going to be a quarterback in there, said, okay, you know.
So yeah, I got a call in the 10th round, midnight, and gotta be honest, I wasn't overly excited at all.
because I just was so disappointed.
So when Forest said, we're going to take it next week at 10th round, I said, okay, great.
Um, he said, uh, you know, well, we're really excited to have you.
I was like, I bet 10th round.
Yeah.
So, but, but when I hung up the phone and, um, you know, they told me what I'd have to fly out for mini camp in a couple of days, I just couldn't wait to get to mini camp because I mean,
Even though I got drafted so late, there was no question in my mind that I was as good as any of the first rounders that got drafted.
They just had no idea.
And I proved it.
You know, I mean, the guys in the first round were, I mean, Harbaugh, Chris Miller, Tessa Verde and Kelly Stoffer.
Yeah.
So he never played when I got to Green Bay.
You know, yeah, when I got there, I was, I was excited to compete.
And as soon as, as soon as I got in the mini camps, I saw the other quarterbacks there and I said, I'm making this team.
I'll probably start.
And I didn't know how soon, but I definitely was confident that was my attitude.
I have to ask though, did you, because I've sat with guys like at the University of Arizona where I covered them and University of Michigan and different places where I've, you know, you go to their apartments and their dorms, actually it was back then usually, and you'd sit there on the phone and ring and everybody would be, okay, hang on, don't answer.
And everybody'd get their cameras fired up or all set in the mics and be there like, hello?
Yeah, no uncle Bob.
I haven't been drafted yet.
I don't know Bob.
Uncle Bob.
I gotta keep the line open.
I'll call you when it's done.
They must have got 12 calls like that during the course of the day.
Did that happen to you at all?
It didn't.
It didn't.
Because I was just there in my apartment all by myself.
I had a roommate, but he wasn't there that weekend.
He lived in a couple hours away in DC.
I was there all by myself and I just wanted to be by myself because I had no idea what was going to happen.
I didn't want to have any friends hanging around waiting for a celebratory call because it didn't come.
A good thing I didn't.
So you got the call?
Probably the only person I would call my parents every couple hours and just tell them, yeah, no call yet.
And that was probably about it, the only conversations I had.
Yeah, it was a pretty lonely day for sure.
So after you got the call from force, the first call you made was to your parents.
Yeah, but not until the morning.
I mean, I got, I got called.
I think it was past midnight, you know, and I just waited until the morning.
I called him first thing and, um, well, it's your dad being a
firefighter.
He must have
thought there's a four alarm someplace.
Yeah.
I mean, but, you know, I grew up in Buffalo, New York, getting drafted by Green Bay.
I was used to the cold and, uh, you know,
with my Polish background, you know, the first day I was pulling into Wisconsin, I go through Pulaski and I'm like, hey, I might fit in pretty well.
Hey,
let me ask you,
Johnny
and I were
talking, Johnny and I were talking, a lot of people aren't coming.
I mean, right?
We're a little
disappointed.
16 it looks like of the potential.
I don't know how many they had, 40 possibles.
And do you think it's because of sitting in the room?
Not getting drafted cameras on you, or do you think it's just they want to be with their friends in a different hotel room?
Yeah, some some some players, you know families Just want to be at home with their family.
They don't they don't need the hype They don't need the glam, you know and it all blinged out in their ice and their diamonds and their you know
$75,000 watches and all this stuff, glasses, the worn on stage.
Everyone wears glasses.
I mean, I don't get it.
It's just a little too much for some players.
Some players don't need that, and they just rather be home with their family.
There's nothing wrong with it.
It's a big day for a lot of these first-rounders.
It's a huge day, so it's exciting.
But, you know, all that kind of glitz and glamour, it's going to be kind of weird and green, babe.
It doesn't.
I mean, if you go to New York or Vegas or someplace, you know, it kind of fits the green, babe.
That's not really the style, you know, so.
But that's what goes on.
And hey, these kids deserve it.
They worked hard and they're all going to be first rounders.
So if they want to be there, they should enjoy it.
And it's going to be a special day for all of them.
But yeah.
He's not
he's definitely not
and now
Jackson was at the quarterback from Mississippi Dax
Oh Jackson dark Jackson.
Yeah, he's not gonna be there because we just had the guy in the editor from Lindy's draft preview and he said guys guys do pay attention And I know sometimes it's all BS, but you know projections of whatever and he's
been projected at like 28 or 30 or possibly second day.
So he backed out because again, we talked to him and we joke about it because I became good friends.
I just mentioned with with a show with Brady Quinn's sister, Laura Hawke, AJ.
OK.
And I was joked about, you know, it started out with Brady Quinn.
Boy, I'll tell you what, waiting for a call from the Lions and the Detroit Lions select, you know, Joe Blow and his girlfriend, who was all over him at first.
incrementally started getting further away.
It
could be an embarrassing day for sure.
Frustrating, embarrassing.
I mean, like, no, what happened to Aaron, you know, right?
Right.
You know, went for number one, 24.
I mean, that's, I mean, still being drafted 24 is awesome.
You know, but, uh, but from being number one, I guess, and just being overlooked, I don't know, but it is, it could be disappointing, but, um,
But you just don't think these
guys with these diamond glasses and watches are going to blend in the Green Bay.
That's
what
I said.
It's going to look ridiculous.
It'll look great at Nicky's style, man.
That's not what's happening, man.
You know, when you're going out and Laura lying stuff, that's not how you do it.
Hey, man, I've got to ask, what kind of a bonus did you get?
Oh, a big one.
Big one.
$10,000.
I had $10,000 signing bonus and my base salary was $65,000.
My rookie year.
People don't realize
that.
That wasn't that long ago
either.
Well, that was the minimum salary.
I mean, as a 10th rounder, it's pretty much the same salary as a free agent, but I did get a $10,000 signing bonus.
So when I became the starting quarterback in the second game of the season, I was making $65,000 base, right?
But then we went on strike and I missed four paycheck.
That's a quarter of the year, man.
Probably made about 35,000.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
It's hilarious.
But, um, you know, a couple years later, I did a little better.
There's a reason
when we used to ask you guys to come on our TV shows that would give you a gift certificate for like a oil change or something at Arby's.
You guys would take those certificates.
Nobody turned them down.
That was good stuff
back.
That was good stuff.
Yeah.
That was different times, man.
Different times for sure.
You know, I tell some of the old stories like just the difference between what the players have nowadays and like just the players in the 80s and 90s, what we had, it's just, it's night and day.
These players have no idea how good they have it.
And, you know, rightfully so they should.
I mean, it's such a big business now.
I mean,
But the facilities and everything that goes on right now, the salaries, the rules, oh my gosh, they have everything going for them, their pensions.
It's ridiculous how nice they have it now.
And yeah, I'm not jealous.
I'm envious.
I mean, I think it should be like that.
you know, but back in the day, man, it was, it was, it was a lot different, a lot more humbling.
You know what, Matt?
We
actually
had, we had Randy right on a couple of weeks ago and we asked him about that.
And he said, you know, he said, you think you'd feel that way, but he said, I'll be honest here, that my first year I was talking with Terry Bradshaw, who came in to do one of the games or whatever.
And Randy and like his first year was making more than Terry Bradshaw made the last year he won a Super Bowl.
So
it's
like, you kind of got
to
put it in perspective sometime, wouldn't you agree?
No, it's all relevant.
Right.
It is.
And, you know, back then, I mean, after my third year, you know, when I was, I was the first pocket player, I think, to make over a million dollars a year.
So that was the start of something exciting there as far as player salaries.
But compared to now, it's just, you know...
It's just so, so, so different.
I definitely was appreciative back then.
You know what I mean?
Oh yeah.
I was able to buy my own car.
Yep.
I still, my first two years, I still had a roommate live by my partner, you know, Don Bracken.
We split, we split the rent on our little townhouse on Pilgrim way.
It was $500 a month.
It was $250 each a month.
And I can tell, I can tell people it was decorated with match.
Yeah, I know.
I know a shoulder mount of a buck.
Nice.
No, it was
a jackal.
It was a jackalope.
Yeah, I know part.
Grab it down.
You can call it a jackalope.
Yeah.
Those are fun days.
I've never seen teams closer together.
You guys, Robbie Bosco, Bracken, Eldale Greco, some of the I've never, I don't know if guys will ever be closer as a team because you guys almost bonded that way.
Wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, we did.
I remember last time I was on your show, we talked about the story.
We were in a bowling league.
My rookie year with all those guys on our Tuesdays or the day off, we were in a bowling league.
Crazy.
You would never see that now, but it was fun back then.
It was a different time.
We just stood in.
And the guys hung out in public a lot more.
There wasn't social media.
There weren't cameras.
There weren't videotaping guys wherever they went.
So we were able to blend in way more and just enjoy ourselves a lot more than they can, I think, these days, for sure.
Well, Don Mikowski, we sure enjoy having you on, my friend.
Kent, thank you enough for your great insight and always being a big part of our show.
Truly appreciate it.
Hey, love coming on with you guys.
Take care, my
brother.
All right, take care.
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As Wisconsin as a game of cribbage.
You've heard songs about truck drivers many times, so it's told me.
Now they pull out a pitch bird for six days on the road, about the Feather River Canyon.
Hey, welcome back!
Mino in the Mare and the Michael Freedman!
It is.
Draft day, ladies and gentlemen.
Just checked in with cheese curd, Nick.
He's getting the grill fired up out there.
He's got his cheese curds and his brats and his cheeseburgers and everything cheese.
He's gonna be at the stadium view.
We got unbelievably amount of things taking place in the area.
Special thanks to Don Mikowski for joining us and Michael Freeman, who is just one of the good guys that we've met during the course of doing this show.
And then don't be asked, Mike.
You're just my good guy.
I mean, well, it's cool what you do, but it's just.
Well,
thank you.
I think it's been now about a year.
I think since the first time I was on the show and we started talking about the draft last year and the excitement around it and how, uh, how, how people were going to rent out their homes and all that good stuff.
So.
You helped a lot of people.
We've been to three of your homes, haven't we?
Yeah, we've been to two.
You've been to two.
You were on at Greening Gold on True Lane and then over at... On Shadow, wasn't it?
Yeah, Shadow Lane on... Great place as both of them.
Yeah, and listen, we anticipated a lot more people staying in our homes, but listen, I think it's a great day for Green Bay.
It's a great day for the NFL to come to, like I said, the...
I think the cathedral of football, you know, I mean, to me that's, you know, I've been going to Packer games since I was five years old, 1970.
No kidding.
Yeah.
So we started, you know, I grew up in Milwaukee and we started going to Packer games at county stadium.
We had tickets there and then.
Worst place ever to watch your football
game.
Yeah.
It was pretty, pretty bad, but, uh, but you know, my, my dad and my uncle were very involved with having season tickets up here too.
My dad was very good friends with Ray Nitschke.
No kidding.
Yeah.
So, you know, uh,
great book, Meen on Sunday.
So one of
the best.
But yeah, it's, you know, it's an exciting day for Green Bay.
And I'm glad, you know, we've been a part of it.
And doing the best we can to help people, you know, with what they wanted to do with their homes.
And, but yet now time to celebrate and have some fun this afternoon.
Well, not only that, just one quick thing though, as far as like
I mean, people still want to come to Green Bay where there's Packer games.
You guys will still be renting some of these places.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
You know, from, from the draft, I mean, we've picked up some, some new homes for the upcoming Packer years, some really nice houses around Lambeau field.
So we'll be renting those out.
And then, you know, obviously we have all of our leisure homes in Door County and North Woods.
We're growing that portfolio as well.
And yeah, we, we, we're expecting it.
We're going to have a great summer.
So we're excited by what we're doing.
And it's really cool that you're so professional.
I mean, Jim talked about that.
like with his house and everything.
It's like, if somebody comes through you guys, you don't have to worry about some scheister kind of
whatever, whatever.
No, no, no.
Just when you came in this morning, the gift baskets, the welcome gift baskets.
So nice.
I mean, just local stuff, right?
Cheese, sausage.
Yeah, you know.
And the
coffee you put out, I love your coffee.
I said that last time.
Oh yeah.
And just, those are the little things and the background checks you do.
And I know people have asked you to rent their houses and you're like, yeah, that's not really our quality.
I mean, it's nice that you're known as
not up-up scale, but upper-scale homes.
Yeah, you know, we just want to provide a great experience.
You know, the management, I think I've talked about this, the management of the home is one thing, but we are in the hospitality business.
We don't run a hotel, but we run 150 small hotels, if you think about it, from the standpoint of the number of homes we manage.
And so creating those guest experiences, and you know, I brought those gift baskets in just to show you what, you know, that little touch, we were talking about this this morning, I was talking about with someone this morning.
that it's not the size of it and it's not the amount of the gift.
It's like the experience and the memories that's created that say, oh gosh, you know, when we stayed there, we had those local meat sticks and this local cheese and this local mustard.
And we just really had a great time.
And I think that's such a big part of it.
The only disappointing aspect of something that didn't happen, Johnny Juice.
Well,
I know we talked about Johnny juice.
Well, we'll have to work on Johnny juice.
I
would say that Nick fail I Should say a Nick a cheese curd Nick who is like kind of our street vendor, but has his ear to the ground He does he just hears everything and knows everything.
He did
call and say that Austin Strabo Airport one of their busiest
days
was this morning Yeah, that's good to hear right because I think yeah, some of us were concerned that
Is this gonna happen like we were hoping it was gonna happen?
Yeah, we're gonna hit 250 300 and it's like even last night And then somebody that taught us when we were talking about that he's like is there too much going on You know and we're not we're not feeling it because it's so spread out right it could be and but on the other hand if the airport I mean there's only really two airports right us and Appleton so if they're busy, that's a good sign if
this parking takes off and I know the shuttles in Appleton lady called yesterday and said they're filling up, which is awesome to hear that.
So that's good news.
So, you know, we'll see.
Today's the day.
Whatever it is, it's going to be here.
And, uh, and, you know, I'm, I'm excited to go this afternoon.
I've got my friends coming in from Chicago and Madison, although my Bears fans, I'm, you know, they're, they're good friends, but I told them not to wear any bears gear.
Cause I said, they might, they might get, you know,
why do I feel like anybody coming in from Chicago is going to be here?
to party?
Yeah, they are.
Trust me.
Trust me.
They'll be here about one and then our shuttle, our private shuttle, aka Lisa, is dropping us off at the draft around two.
Poor
Lisa.
That starts at noon today.
Hey, tell her to make me some more quiche.
Oh, you know, she made us quiche for, so we're all staying at her house.
And she's making us some quiche and she's got some breakfast pizzas for us as well.
Those are, I've never had quiche before and what she brought in that
day was just incredible.
It's really good.
And seriously, poor Lisa, hashtag poor Lisa.
Yeah, no, she's amazing and she's such an integral part of our company and everything she does for us.
I mean, it's incredible, the public relations and just the,
media side of things and just to support you give some like I'm
going to throw that out there.
If somebody somebody might be getting off a plane in Austin Straubel right now, they're getting in a cab.
They're driving around.
If they still are looking for a place,
what have you got
available?
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And
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Welcome back.
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WI assistant, Appleton.
where it is 53 degrees this morning, 52 in Green Bay, 51 in Oshkosh, morning showers, cloudy high of 60 today.
But you know what?
It is the NFL Draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Northeast Wisconsin.
We are excited about it.
We're not going to complain about anything.
And I just got, I just, I just, I forgot about what we got going on today.
I was going to wear something that wasn't so tight so I could arm wrestle Lee here, who's the Wisconsin arm wrestling president.
And I just can't because and then then plus the shoulder injury they have shrapnel and stuff.
But anyway, Lee Barnett.
How are you doing?
Good morning, guys.
Good morning.
This is this is cool.
This is because everybody arm wrestles, right?
Oh, yeah, everybody.
I
mean, for different things.
This is like the real deal, though.
Yep.
This is Wisconsin State Championships.
We're doing it at the Oshkosh Arena this Saturday.
State championship.
So what do you have to do to get like get there?
Do you have to qualify?
It's open to anybody.
All arm wrestling events are pretty much open to anybody throughout the whole world.
And age, weight class?
How does that work?
Well, we run several different divisions.
We have a kid's division, and we take the littlest person out there that wants to get up on the table.
You have female too, right?
Oh, yes.
I've done
stories on some of the female arm wrestlers.
mind boggling strong.
They go against the guys or is it?
They go women win, but they could make so much money going into bars and saying, I bet you five dollars, I could beat you in arm wrestling.
And when they know what they're doing, cause there's more, there's technique that you might not realize.
You think I'm a big tough guy.
It's
all technique.
It's 99% technique over strength.
And those women really have 130 pounds and they could put down a 250 pound guy.
Amazing.
Wisconsin has some very talented women wrestlers.
Yes.
Um, Daniel Everson and, uh, Shawna Wagner, uh, Brittany Heyhurst, they're right, um, out of Appleton.
So how fun is that?
Yeah.
Amazing.
And actually two of the two of the girls are going to be down at in all women's event down south.
I don't remember exactly where it's at, but.
So this is happening in Oshkosh.
That's the Saturday
this Saturday state state championships
pre-register.
Nope.
Just show up and show up before the time limits Kids could wrestle at 10 o'clock.
So you got to be there by 9 30 to register We have super matches.
We have I believe like 10 super matches where somebody calls somebody out Wow, we have Ron the legend bath Which is actually he's originally from the Wabino area now down in Georgia.
He's one of the
He's one of the legends of arm wrestling.
Do you guys do it weight wise or
anything?
We have
seven weight classes, but it's in like kilograms.
We don't know.
Is
that I hate that.
Well, because it's
an international system of weights and measurements.
No one
knows.
We don't we don't understand that when you sent it to us.
So tell us about what the weight
classes are.
So, um.
There's a seven weight classes for the amateurs in the open, starting at 63 kilograms, going up to 105 kilograms.
105 is basically a 231.
231
pounds.
Yep.
Okay.
And, uh,
but this is a kind of business or business, kind of a sport though.
Weight doesn't really matter as much as some of the other things we were talking about, right?
As far as with the technique and how to, you know, get the advantage over somebody.
Well, when it, when it turns out to be a tournament like this, weight does make a big difference.
Okay.
Because the guys,
but all I'm saying is being in bars in the U.P.
When guys with arm wrestling, you could have a guy 160 pounds who will humiliate some
guy.
He'll destroy the whole bar.
Exactly.
He'll destroy the whole bar.
Yeah.
Well, if they know what they're doing.
Yeah.
If they know what they're doing.
Yeah.
And there's there's quite a few of them up there.
Yeah.
You've been to bars in the U.P.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We do some tournaments and up in Iron Mountain.
Oh, no kidding.
Yeah.
Oh, you get some of those pizons up there.
They're crazy.
Yep.
There's a group up.
There's a group training group up there actually in Iron Mountain.
Um, Christmas scale runs that and they're great group of guys.
They'll be down here this weekend.
Does somebody walk around like a bookie and do there might be.
I don't know anything about that.
I stay away from that.
What can people win at your tournament?
It's just, it's just the words.
Okay.
It's just top four, top four in each weight division.
But that's gotta be a pretty cool
thing to say.
I'm the state champion arm wrestler.
Yeah, that is cool.
And we have a few national champions here in Wisconsin, so they'll be here competing.
So how long have you been doing this?
I started arm wrestling back in 1980.
Wow.
OK, so that's been a while.
I'm always curious as to what changes have you seen?
I mean, is it demographics?
Is it bigger than it was?
It's so much bigger than what it was.
I mean, just the development through social media.
Right.
It has just,
do you remember in wide roll, the sports used to cover the arm
wrestling championships and
that guy got his arms
snapped.
Do you remember that?
I see about four or five broken arms a year.
Really?
Wow.
Is
that because of the start or does that happen like in the middle of the
normally, normally the guy turns away from his hand.
You're supposed to look at your hand the whole time you're wrestling.
And if he turns away from it, takes the pressure off the forearm, puts it on the bicep.
It only takes about seven pounds of pressure to snap the bone.
I'm going to say that again.
As far as looking, why does that?
So when your arm rustling, you want to look at your hand.
You want to stay looking at your hand because that'll keep your shoulders square to your hand.
And when you look away, you know, you're trying to pull and it's just, it's human habit and human nature to look away from it and take your whole body into your arm and it takes the pressure off the forearm, puts it on the bicep and the bicep will take the bone and just snap it right in half.
Wow.
Wow.
Well
John you have to look at her It's a gruesome sound it is it completely silence is the whole room you had two of them last year at state tournament
Wow
the same guy
Broke two different people's arms.
Holy crap.
One right, one left.
Is he a local?
Is he a local guy?
Yeah, he is.
And just a complete free.
We don't want him coming into our studio.
This guy's only like 165 pounds.
That's the part that's, it's amazing.
And Michael, you seem like you know about this, huh?
A little bit, but I mean, I'm not an armor player by any means.
Not anymore.
But have they ever considered making it an Olympic sport?
They have tried and tried and tried.
Yeah.
Um, but there's too many different organizations out there that have little niches to their rules and designs that are tables and they're just too many differences.
If the world of arm wrestling would become completely organized, we'd be in the Olympics at a heartbeat.
I honestly believe that.
Wow.
Yeah.
Cause it seems like that'd be an international
type thing.
Yeah.
I would think so.
There's, there's an East.
Versus West series out there right now and there's there's so many different series out there I mean you can you can Google it and you'll you'll find arm wrestling all over the world.
You
wouldn't think there's a lot of variations though, right?
It seems like you're right, but
I'm sure you put your elbow on the pad grab the other guy's hand.
It's not that simple.
No, it's not
Wow, my brother always tells the story.
They used to crash weddings him and his buddy who turned to my brother and then go into wedding they take like
Boxes wrapped in nothing.
They're bigger like a phone book to drink for free and chase women and and they got busted and there was this real tough family The bearish Okay, all right, okay, but they're a hillbill.
I mean they were just violators.
They were terrible.
They got they got a side on front of their place You know brothers will be shot without questions asked just so you know But whatever so they crashed their way to dad is it and the guy said you know what?
Alarm wrestle you if I beat you you're not walking out of here.
You're gonna be carried out of here
And my brother beat him in arm wrestling.
And he's to this day, so that's his greatest achievement in his life.
Cause they literally said, you're going to be carried out, you and your buddy for crashing our wedding and drinking our beer for free.
So arm wrestling used to be a real thing.
That was like the test.
It is exactly wasn't it though?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
How did you get to be such a, were you ever a state champ?
I have a 26 national titles through wrist wrestling.
Well, what does that mean?
So wrist wrestling is a little bit different and that's an action in Wisconsin.
That's how we started Instead of having the peg on the table you would hold hands in the center of the table bring the arm bring the hand down to the forearm Right.
That's right.
And that's basically what you do in the bars.
How long do you think I could last against you?
I'll give you a couple of minutes.
I want to make sure you start sweating first.
Right.
I'll give you.
That's awesome.
Why are we
asking
the
question?
Why are we finding
out?
We're
doing fundraiser.
How
many seconds could my know last?
Well, no, you bet on this guy because he's easy to control the whole meat.
They go over under under a second.
Wow.
Thank you, Michael.
Wow.
So disappointing, Michael.
I'm sorry.
I
mean, if somebody wants to get involved with this, like what kind of training do you do curls in the weight room or what?
What's how do you get to be a good arm wrestler?
There's specific lifts you can do.
I honestly believe table time is superior to the weightlifting itself.
It's getting your tendons and joints and your muscles to remember the positions on the table and the pulling on the table.
But there's so much technique into it and learning how to curl your wrist the right direction and feel what
you know, oppose what the other guy is doing to you.
And we're with
Lee Bonnet, Wisconsin arm wrestling president.
Great, great competition coming up on Sunday.
Saturday.
I'm so sorry.
Saturday, the state tournament in Oshkosh at the Oshkosh arena.
It's $10 for how much is it to enter the competition?
Tell me that.
But then tell me, does this become a spectator sport or is this?
Oh, yeah, this is definitely a spectator sport.
And that's why we're going to the arena.
We're in Oshkosh arena and it's
You got 5,000 seating, people seating there.
Really nice.
Wow.
This is our biggest venue ever we're doing this tournament at.
Some of these guys
get their little groupies that follow.
Oh yes, absolutely.
And this event also is helping out the Christine and domestic abuse services.
We're going to have some vendors.
We're going to have some vendors there selling all kinds of different stuff and just come on in.
the concession stands will be open they'll be you know arena be selling food and beer and alcohol and let me
just see how you would do it
John okay that hurts
already okay
so if you
if you if you got my hand bent that way i'm done right that's
called a top
roll let's
call what
top roll talking to the microphone right
don't make
your butt here
no this is a top roll
that's
a top roll if we curl this way
I'm done.
That's a hook.
And the person's done then, right?
Well, you got to get down that far.
But I mean, how can you come back from that?
You don't have any more strength left, right?
It's
all how you work your hand.
You got to be working it, working it around.
But it's bending the person's wrist like the first thing you want to do.
It's whoever gets the most advantage off the start when the referee says go.
Right.
Who gets the jump.
That's what I mean.
And then we get the most inertia going.
OK.
It's hard to recover.
But man, there's going to be some matches you're going to see that might go two minutes.
Really?
The average, the average match is seven seconds.
Really?
Seven seconds.
That's
amazing.
I was like 12 with you just now and you were doing your best.
That's
all I could say.
This is so cool.
I would love to see this Lee.
I'm not kidding you.
This sounds great.
Doesn't it Michael?
It's very, very cool.
The kids and the special abilities will start at 10 o'clock on Saturday.
Our super matches will be at noon.
One o'clock will be the amateurs and the masters.
The masters is 40 and we have 40 and over 50 and over 60 over divisions.
And then the premier event, the open women's and men's open will be at 3pm.
Phenomenal.
Over 60.
Yeah.
Wow.
I've got a handful.
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We bought it Wisconsin arm wrestling president big event taking place on Saturday at the Oshkosh Arena
Did you have that in high school of this?
I'd be honest with you Johnny.
I didn't really know of this
of arm wrestling
not tournaments and no That's pretty cool.
He does that.
I
remember
watching the sport
and that guy had his arm broke Yeah,
remember that the only time I ever ever been involved in arm sorry an arm wrestling has been
after going out drinking.
Right.
Well, Michael, you
said you're going to be training.
What was your training regimen
for tonight?
Well, my training, I'm going to get to the draft at two.
Right.
And then I'm going to do 20-ounce lifts to about seven.
And, you know, those Miller light lifts.
And then you and I will catch up at seven, and we're going to wrestle,
arm wrestle, or maybe
even just wrestle.
I don't
think anyone wants to see
that.
I don't
either.
I gotta be honest with you.
I don't.
I don't.
So we're going to
have Mike Clem.
We got Pat Tracy coming up to discover Oshkosh, which of course where the arm wrestling thing is going to be.
We got Mike Clemens, who is Civic Media.
He's our sports director for the whole company.
And Mike is very dedicated.
Dedicated to the point where he is sleeping here at the stage.
Oh, are we not supposed to say that because it's illegal?
Didn't you say that?
I did.
I'm sorry.
No, he wasn't.
He wasn't sleeping.
He was just taking,
he was taking a break.
He was taking a break.
He worked all night here.
Yeah.
Yes.
Oh, Lee's looking at me like he wants to beat me up.
You know, it's one of those things though, too, with, with the Packard Trafford.
We were talking about this too, Michael.
And I mean, you've been invested in it for a year.
We have, we have two, but again, we get people asking about it.
It's like, again, folks, we don't know.
We're just gonna show up and see what it's all about because we've never been to one before
yeah I mean I think that there's so many things going on for for all ages yeah I love the fact there's a huge family element baby
baked in, which is great.
I mean, there's a 40 yard dash.
We could, we could do that too.
We could, we could dash.
Yeah.
She, no, I'm in training until I race that cow.
So I'm not going to do any competition.
My, my, my, my really good friend Chris who's coming up from Chicago, he and I have had a, a bet where, you know, we're going to do a hundred yard dash over a thousand, thousand dollars for the winner.
You know, and so are you kidding?
Are you serious?
Well, we're dead serious, but I haven't raced him yet because I've had my bad hips.
So a thousand dollars.
I told him I could easily beat him in a hundred yard dash.
And he's like, no, no way, no way, no way.
And I said, I promise you, I could.
I said, let's bet on it.
It's a thousand bucks.
So I have to work my body back into shape.
And then I'm going to raise it.
What
year is that hundred yard dash?
The next time the Packers host the draft.
Oh, nice.
Thanks, guys.
No, no, I'm within the next six months.
So we're both, we're all, we're both turning 60 this year too.
I'm turning 60 in July.
Okay.
You don't look 60.
I just don't be honest with you.
That's good.
You get that.
Do I look
60?
No,
thank you.
No, of course you don't.
You look 70, 75.
But you
know it's somebody, Ashree.
Okay.
Back it up, Mino.
What did you ask?
Do I look 60?
Yeah, you shouldn't have said that.
I
saw a thing in my face.
Okay, Todd.
Enough.
I saw a thing in my our Facebook for my class reunion.
Yeah,
and I put a thing on there about whatever and and somebody said I saw mine on TV.
He's looking older than all of us
Well, I saw that picture that one lady
everyone ages differently
I mean
that one
lady.
They'll look like the lunchroom that one lady looked a lot older in New
Jersey.
I didn't think I'm using that bomb.
How's that going
good?
Yeah
You know, I've seen I've seen that bomb before on on Facebook ad.
Yeah, and it's that tallow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I've thought
about buying it.
I actually saved it on my I've got it.
I got I just don't know if it
It's like it's helped me.
No, so I don't I don't need that much of it because I do have a very young complexion You do but that's that's my Greek blood.
That's my I'm adopted so my biological parents are from Greece Oh, that's my Mediterranean.
I didn't know that my Mediterranean.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, that's very cool.
Yeah, so wow
All right.
Well, whatever.
Tough day for me here.
Well, your eyes are so dark under your eyes that we just catching up with you.
Yeah.
It's those bad attacks.
There's one part of Italy where everybody's eyes are just, it's terrible.
I got it.
Earlier this week, I just want to throw this out because I just got a message.
We had DeLorean Walls on.
They had a fundraiser last night at First and Goal, right?
Raising a food for the local colleges.
Their goal was a thousand pounds, right?
Um, well over 2000.
Wow.
That's phenomenal.
Love it.
Again, another individual doing something cool in our community.
Absolutely.
Those are kind of people we want to hype as much
as humanly
possible.
Yeah, I saw.
That's
cool.
Yeah.
Great guy.
It helps all three colleges, right?
Norbert's, GB and TC.
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah.
No, good stuff.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Hey, Mike, I got to ask one more question about with the Packard Draft and you simple life hospitality.
You guys
are literally worldwide,
right?
Well, no, I was a company.
Yeah.
No, we rent mostly here in Wisconsin.
We have a few homes in Florida and we are actually looking right now at expanding potentially into Winter Park, Colorado, and also Joshua Tree in California.
So really, really cool.
The reason
I bring that up, because people have talked about, you know what I've talked about that.
And, you know, like, I remember we were going to rent a place in Nashville one time and it felt whatever, whatever.
But if people, you know, for summer vacations, wherever they're going, they could contact you and say, hey, I got an Airbnb in Yadda Yadda, right?
Yeah, we, yeah, typically we won't take on just one home in a new destination.
But, but we are, we are starting to look to expand outside the area because there are opportunities.
We're going to, we're actually in a few weeks, we're going to have a meeting with a company.
We're going to do a big project down outside of Nashville.
on the Tennessee River, a high-end luxury glamping, dome homes and tiny homes.
Has
Nashville become like the Mecca
in the country?
It's booming.
It's booming.
It's unbelievable.
It's unbelievable what's happening there.
So we're looking into a lot of different things.
But this is our base.
This is our home.
This is where the company started, where Wendy and Scott Schultz started it back up in Door County.
And that's, you know what?
That's our baby.
And we love Door County.
And it's great.
like security and you're saying, you're looking
at him.
Well, that whole scene was improvised.
Wow.
He said, make sure you don't call it ad libbing.
It's improvisation.
It was quite a process that Martin Scorsese put us through over a few days that it would come out like that.
It wasn't just like, hey, how you doing?
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Now, back to Mino and the Mayor.
Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mino and Michael and the Mayor.
I'm not exactly friendly with the former mayor right now, after what he said to me.
When
you heard the
break,
what was that?
What he said, he would not
feel the slightest bit of sympathy.
No.
Sympathy.
If there's rattlesnake, that's not everyone to have ever bit me in the face.
Well, can I just tell a whole story?
Can I just say this, though, in Jim's defense?
Thank you.
You were teasing a rattlesnake.
Not really teasing.
Four times he went out.
First he didn't, he just took a picture.
You were teasing a
rattlesnake.
Then he got some tissue in my vessel.
Then he went, got a coat hanger and was hitting the back of him.
And I said, Johnny.
Those of us who, you read about these things, this guy with the camera, I want to take a selfie with like the moose or something, get closer and closer and then the moose eats them.
People are like, yeah, he deserved it.
The lady with the polar bear?
Yeah, come on.
I mean, that lady who just recently was like,
come
on.
It's
people.
Pat?
I'm with the mayor on this.
Oh,
wow.
Wow.
I've never heard Patrick say that.
Oh, I know.
I've never been on this show.
I agree with the mayor.
Wow.
Love it, Pat.
Anyway, hey,
Pat, are you going to be part of the state arm wrestling competition in Oshkosh
Saturday?
I am.
I am so.
Excited that you guys were talking about it.
And I had to drive over here to the studio.
And so I missed the actual moves that he was doing.
It's all
technique.
He actually told me, he says, oh my God, for your age,
you are
you dominate.
You just you said, are you coming to the competition?
I said, well, I got the draft going on and everything.
So I can't do it.
But he
wanted a little humor.
He wanted to add to the tournament.
I was so excited that you had the arm wrestler guys in there because we are super excited in Oshkosh.
about bringing this event to the arena as they said it's their biggest venue and it's exactly the kind of events that we're trying to do and Ashkosh to just you know bring the community in and it's really a family fun day and you'll see all you know there's so much to do over there with the little vendors and all that and the kids can run up and down the bleachers until they tire themselves out so that's fun and the
money
Proceeds go to a non-profit, which is always a good thing for Oshkosh
Christina and Center.
Yeah, our domestic abuse housing shelter.
So that's always good.
It's becoming quite the spectator sport,
which I think is really cool People I'm gonna see some on Saturday.
So I'll let you guys know.
Well, I thought you were participating.
Yeah, you said you're participating pet
Oh, no, I know what happened there.
I would be participating on the sidelines with a with a glass of
beverages
on the clock.
Hey, I got to tell you something and we were talking about this and we had so much fun with our craft beer and everything over the last few months.
It had so much fun.
Congratulations on Todd's favorite hangout being selected as the dive bar in the country.
Right pat.
Yes.
Pete's garage bar.
Yeah.
Best dive bar in the United States.
How cool is that?
Those of you who are a Pete's garage bar Facebook fans, Pete's has now set his sights on best dive bar on planet Earth.
Do other countries have dive bar?
You've
traveled more than any of us, Michael.
Does Italy have dive bars?
Yeah, there's like
Yeah, just divey old restaurants, but not a dive bar where like you walk in and you get a shot and a beer for 85 cents.
Yeah, nothing like that.
Okay.
No, no, no, no.
So
I
just kind of the hub of the dive bar world.
I mean, it literally put us on the dive bar map.
It's
like there's dive bar tourism, guys.
Really?
You know, I still want
to pet pet.
I don't know how much time I got left on this world.
I'm gonna be honest with it.
I think the clock, it's like I'm on the clock with the draft.
But one of my goals in life is to own a dive bar.
Oh my
gosh.
That's my goal in life.
And live upstairs of it.
That's what Dawn wants to do.
And my wife, Dawn, she's always like, you gotta get a little bar.
I didn't want to say anything.
She's already contacted me.
Stay
away.
She wants
to go partners with
me.
Today, you
know,
it's funny because Todd sends us yesterday.
They like the syllabus.
What we have to do today.
Today is bucket list day.
So,
Johnny,
is that on your bucket list?
That's top of my bucket list.
Own a
dive
bar.
Own a dive bar.
I think that would be pretty cool.
That I could live in.
Live upstairs.
I don't know about living upstairs.
Oh, yeah.
I've always wanted
to live upstairs of a
bar.
The owning one would be pretty cool.
I
used to actually, for one summer, I was hired.
I used to clean up a bar, Toriano's Bar in Nagani.
And on a Sunday mornings, right after church, I'd go there.
And the coolest thing
because I would play pool by myself and play the jukebox.
And it's
like,
oh my God, this is
heaven.
I think, I mean, I live in Madison, as you know, and there's some amazing dive bars in Madison too.
But the atmosphere and going in and get a really ice cold
Miller High Live champagne of
beers.
Absolutely.
I mean,
delicious.
Absolutely.
Or a bottle of Schlitz.
I mean, come on.
Could not agree more.
Come on.
The
best.
Could not agree
more.
The best.
You want to be partners?
To be determined.
Okay.
Think about it though.
I mean, maybe maybe Jim's got to be involved.
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no,
no,
no,
no,
no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no,
no, no,
no
Big day.
Mike, I want to be your Joshua.
I want to be your Joshua tree guy.
Oh, Joshua.
What an
incredible.
Gosh, talk to this guy about what he does around the country.
What
are you?
Yeah,
not around the country yet.
We're getting there.
We're getting there.
But but no, we have we have some interesting locations.
We're looking at.
But I'll tell you, if you have never been to Joshua tree,
yeah, I don't go to
summer.
Absolutely one of the most spiritually
Grounded incredible places in the world.
It is it is magnificent.
You know, Pat, you know, whenever I come to Oshkosh to do our show, I always get lost.
I shouldn't say lost.
I like transversing the city.
You we've
we've we've we've
we've there are some absolutely stunningly beautiful big old homes in downtown Oshkosh.
Oh, yeah.
Aren't they all Pat?
Yeah, like the Victorian, the ladies and all that stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Why is it?
Why is it hard for you to to Oshkosh?
Don't you just get off by the lion's den there?
And you know, you know, that exit landmark.
Hey, John,
we're done with him.
John,
please.
Number six is open.
Thanks.
All right.
Michael, we don't know why John can't get off the exit to Oshkosh.
Some genetic thing.
You know what
happened that one time with Jim and I,
right?
I heard.
Yeah.
We were almost to Milwaukee.
I heard.
Yeah.
We're 40 miles from Milwaukee.
No comment.
Yes.
Well, we're no comment.
44 miles
from driving,
Jim.
Well, we're
talking.
Hey, so can we I prepared some draft content?
Okay.
Can I tell you guys a funny story?
Nope.
So in Oshkosh, we are we did a partnership with Appleton box cities, Visitors Bureau, and we did this giant national contest.
And we are going to give away one trip to we gave away two trips to the draft.
Okay, so two winners get to bring a guest.
So the Oshkosh trip winner is a Cleveland Browns fan.
Okay.
And he's coming with his brother.
And I'm all excited because I'm thinking that in my role as the Oshkosh ambassador, the tour guide, you never knew you needed, they're going to want me to like welcome this guy to Oshkosh and show him around.
No.
Nobody wants to leave on Brown's guy.
They do not want him to get waylaid on his way to the draft today, because I'm like, let me show the bars.
Yeah, yeah, I could see that.
No, no.
No disrespect.
I could see you being a way laying kind of guy.
Like if somebody decides to hang out with you, you're going to take them to all these cool bars, this cool stuff.
I could see you.
I could see you being that guy.
And
so I was a little upset until I read the draft order.
And he's got the number two pick.
So like these guys are going to be there tonight on a all expense paid trip courtesy of Discover Oshkosh.
They're staying at the hotel here and they're going to, you know, get them up there today and be there in the front row when they're Cleveland Brown shooter, shooter
Sanders.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
for exciting.
Is that what they
think?
No, Travis Hunter.
Travis Hunter.
You don't think he'll be first?
No.
No, no, no.
You still think
Cam is gonna be first?
Yeah, I think Travis Hunter is gonna be, well, unless the Browns trade that pick, which you never know, but he's kind of that once in a lifetime.
Yeah,
he's almost like a Deodd Sanders what he used to be.
Yeah, where you put him in any position.
Well, he said he wants to play both
sides.
I don't think that's going to happen.
And you know what?
With the
NFL, you get so beat up after a couple of games like that.
You know, that's a
heck of a prize you gave
them.
That is a path.
That's an amazing
prize.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're trying to put Oshkosh on the map and we had put us on
the map.
We take the seats.
Hey, we're in the back.
Yeah.
Wow.
We had 4,000 entries from all over the country.
And so, you know, now that gives us an opportunity to market, you know, on the along with the draft and come and visit the prize that it's a phenomenal prize.
Do that.
Well, it helps.
We do that.
I mean, we the city didn't do that.
No, Todd,
why charge of the city?
What's Oh, my gosh.
Let's do a contest, you guys.
And some lucky winner gets like to come in the studio and do something with
us.
We tried that.
They had to get a t-shirt or a coffee cup and not have to sit in the studio with us.
Pat got, Josh got 4,000.
We got four
entries.
Michael, tell them it's not as fun as you
think.
Pat, I'll give you a lot of crates for that.
That's a good one.
It's fine.
Being here is a great time.
What else going on in Oshkosh, Pat?
And we said this a thousand times, but we so enjoy coming down to your city.
We really and truly do.
We
want to embrace
Oshkosh.
Well, thank you.
And we're embracing you today because we've got two of our bars here in Oshkosh have shuttles up to the draft every day.
So
the bar,
which is obviously, you know, a big part of our life.
You know, they do this.
all season long.
So you can go to the bar in Oshkosh on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and they've got a shuttle.
And I want to say theirs is like 65 bucks.
What a deal,
right?
They drop you off.
They drop you off at the bar.
You know, so you've got a little home base up there.
And then our new ex golf place, which is really cool.
And that's going to we're going to do a discover Oshkosh ex golf, you know, it's a giant indoor golf driving facility.
But it's also like a little country club thing in there.
So they're doing round trip, uh, to the, to the draft to back.
They've got a hundred dollar package, but it's got food and everything.
So if you're in Oshkosh and looking to go up there, uh, this weekend, you've got some good choices.
Just go to discover Oshkosh.com.
And it's the
Bar in Holmgrenway, right?
Yep.
Yeah.
So I
mean, it's within walking distance.
It's right there.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
So Don and I drove up on Tuesday morning just to drive around and get the lay of the land.
And it is, it is phenomenal.
Isn't it guys?
Yeah.
It's
here.
Again, you know, everybody's different.
But with the people that say, I can't wait for it to be over.
Let's just embrace this.
Come on, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're super excited because our Ash Pop, Ashkosh popcorn makers were invited to come into the Draft Day Food Fest, which is part of the Bell and Health.
Big giant thing they've got.
We're
there tonight with Mark Houston, Bell and Health.
That's where we're all going to be watching.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, we didn't know that
Oshkosh had a special popcorn thing.
Did you know that, Jim?
I didn't.
The money
doesn't tell us anything.
No.
Right before the exit that you're supposed to get off when you come to Oshkosh, John, you'll see Oshkosh right along Highway 41.
You'll see it's before the final like exit.
You'll smell the popcorn John when you drive by on 41.
But so they are coming with seven of their of their flavored popcorns.
They've got 40 of them.
Wow.
Yes.
They my personal favorite old fashioned popcorn.
Okay, Nick, what are we doing our show in Oshkosh again, Todd?
A
couple of weeks.
Can you please get these people?
I will
get
Chris on.
Yes, Chris is the owner of Oshpop.
Yeah,
phenomenal.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So go over and see him.
If you have a chance, I'm sure he'll be there at the Bell and Health.
OK, they're in the parking lot.
Maybe we
can
go to that chocolate
store where everybody hated us, too.
It was just John wanted to cut the line.
That's where they hated us.
That's great chocolate, great people.
But
didn't know you couldn't cut in line in Oshkosh, Pat.
That's
what happened.
Pat Tracy, you're the best.
Let's cover Oshkosh.
We'll see you at the draft.
Take care of my friend.
All right.
Mike Clements, Civic Media Sports Director, joining us next.
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75 No, no
much later than that.
No, he was like yeah
82 or so.
He was
serious.
He was here
Not in our streets.
I'm gonna
make a wager.
This was in the 70s.
No, no,
it
was not.
Okay.
Well, it was
What what did you know?
He
was in the late 70s.
No, he was in the late 70s.
Nope.
It was not.
Just wait.
Let me think.
We're talking about this.
We're talking about this song.
Yeah, right?
Not 90.
What did you say?
I'm saying 79.
I said 77
Mm-hmm 82 Okay, so Michael Friedman says 82 Mike Clemens.
What do you say?
That was
my first guess
82.
Yeah, according to Google 1980 So I win.
No, you don't No, this isn't this isn't right.
This isn't price.
I won like how did you how did you win?
I said 79.
Yeah,
but it's I won.
No, you didn't win.
I'm closest.
No.
No, this isn't
Mike Clemens, how you doing?
Oh, that's right.
I saw
him at Summerfest in 82.
Exactly.
That's right.
Gotcha.
Exactly.
Mike Clemens, sports director of the entire civic media family over what 24 stations?
Something like that.
Something like that.
How's it going, buddy?
Good.
Welcome
to Green Bay.
Exciting.
Are you glad
it's finally here?
Are you one of those guys?
I'll tell you guys.
The best interview I've heard.
in the last several months about leading up to this huge day-to-day in this weekend in Green Bay is on this show and you guys talking Aaron Popkey.
I heard that on the stream.
Driving across
the state
the other day.
And he was giving you guys some stuff that I hadn't even heard yet.
But it was such a great story for him to say, look, we tried because the Super Bowl had been in other markets, but as Mark Murphy has told you
on
your show and everything, it's like, look,
you've got to have like 30,000 rooms in a 50 mile radius or something
like
that.
We've got 7,000
places.
Class A rooms.
And we don't need any more.
And plus I'm not sure the first week of February would be conducive to having a great football game in Green Bay.
They dodged the bullet in New York.
I was
there.
I was there.
And the next day after the game, they got eight inches of snow.
But at the end of the day, the NFL.
They don't mind if it snows.
They think it's funny.
Yeah, it makes good TV.
That's all they care about is eyeballs, right?
And breaking 133 million like they had this past year.
But at the end of the day, Mark Murphy says,
Maybe we could get the draft and to hear Popkey talk about how he filled out that pick work 10 years ago
with a thousand word essay.
It's like for the NFL draft, it comes down to doing a term paper.
Yeah.
That's what got it.
That's what it
was.
Aaron Popkey has been with the team now 30 years.
I remember he's an intern.
Me too with Jeff Blum.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And now he's, you know, the director of public affairs and he handles all those kinds of stories.
You bet.
Does great job.
Good interview on this show.
Thanks.
Well, you tell me, Mike, what do you think?
But heading into something like this, you know, we've all covered a lot of events.
We've covered Super Bowls, whatever, whatever.
But this is a different stratosphere we're going to because nobody really knows how this plays out until you just wait into it.
Right?
Yeah.
What I know for sure is this is that Brian Good consistent, exactly sure who he's going to take tonight, right?
That he'll probably when he had with the 23rd pick overall.
And tonight is just the first round.
That he'll go into it probably with about six or seven players right that he thinks are worth the first round and You know that you'll think that cam Mord will probably be the quarterback going of the Titans at number one And then this Travis hunter kid who can play both offense and defense, you know out of Colorado
You know, we'd go to the Browns, the next one, and the other players that come off the board.
Some really good ones.
There's a really good linebacker named Abdul Carter of Penn State.
He's amazing.
He might be the
best football player of all the draft along with this Travis Hunter kid.
Do
you remember LeVar, Errington, and those great...
guys that have pens, he reminds me of one of those types.
He does.
Penn State just gets those guys, don't they?
Michael, you're a big follow-up.
Khalil Mack.
Khalil Mack.
He didn't come out of Penn
State,
but
he might have.
But
same types.
Buffalo or something.
So
by the time you get to 23, if there's at least one or two of those players, you think that's worth it.
That's the one you put.
You stick to your math.
You stick to your math.
And the best.
How far do you think Sanders is going to drop?
I don't
know everybody thinks that he's kind of overrated
because his arm strength and whatever does he bring the whole package to the Party that you don't want.
Yeah, there's there's been some sort of media poison on yeah in the last few days, too That will be an interesting dream to see for sure.
That's always a danger, right that this PR marketing that happened to us
years and years ago, so
but I just
when you look at some of these guys that we brought in, it was more hyped than it was talent.
And there's teams that are pretty clever about this.
They find these knuckleheads in the media that say, hey, we're gonna do this.
And then these guys go on the air and they talk about it.
That was just exactly what they're not doing.
That
you're playing into their hands.
So you being, I mean, you're credentialed to get anywhere that you want.
Where, how does your night go?
I mean, you're much different than...
Well,
it's different.
It's different this year, Jim, than any other year, because normally during a draft, I just pull up to Lambeau Field and the parking lot's empty.
So today I'm really kind of concerned about how I get in that first day because of the security considerations.
But after that, they're also redoing our media area.
So they've put us up in a luxury suite.
I'm going to be up in a luxury suite for an office tonight.
Inside the stadium up on the fifth floor.
Oh, okay.
That's cool.
So I have like that But then they take us down into the media auditorium where you see that the floor news press conferences all the time Jordan love after a game We'll be in there and throughout the entire weekend as the Packers pick a player that we get to talk to the player on the speakerphone You know from wherever they are we talked to the Scouts we talked to the assistant coaches, and then we'll talk to Brian good against the GM
And Matt will sort of the head coach as the weekend goes on.
So we have all those stories for you over the weekend.
We'll have that every hour here on this radio station and across our civic media stations.
And then a recap for you on Monday.
Awesome.
That's great.
You're right in there.
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