Draft Day Whirlwind

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Draft Day Whirlwind

Maino and the Mayor · Fri Apr 25, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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John Maino

your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Hour number two, Minow the Mayor, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 96.5 FM, WISS, coming your way in Appleton and Oshkosh.

Brewers on WISS tonight at 640, taking on the St.

Louis Cardinals.

Always a great rivalry.

Special thanks to Lisa Hale for joining us.

Is Nick still on there?

Nick, who was at Stadium View last night, doing his cheese curds and the whole thing.

It was great.

And now we're with Mark Hughes in Bell and Sports Medicine.

And I'm just, I'm not gonna blow smoke up your butt here, Mark, but I'm very honored that Dominic and I were invited to your event last night.

And it was, it was fantastic.

You guys, I mean, for being right there, what a nice event you put on.

And I was telling Jim first thing I walked into.

You can't believe this brisket I had last night.

This brisket was unbelievable.

That was really cool.

You guys put together a great event, and the cool part, Jim, is I've never been, I mean, I'm a patient of theirs, you know, with whatever, but I had never been to the upstairs.

They get an unbelievable workout facility that would be like an NFL workout room with all the cameras to video everything you do.

That's really cool, Mark.

We don't talk about that enough.

Yeah, I'll perhaps come back, talk about it another time.

I will tell you, I just left that building because I stayed overnight there.

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You slept there,

huh?

I slept there.

No one had to be back here, so.

But I'll tell you, credit to the entire, our staff, they have, they put on a great event.

We have an event still in the parking lot the next two days.

Yeah, how?

A lot of vendors out there, but, and then that floor, that was, we got everything cleaned up last night, out of there by midnight.

And our maintenance guys, the floor is up and by 6.30 when I left, it's,

We can see turf again.

So, you know, it was a, it was a great, I think it's a great way to give back to the community.

You know, we have one good shot at this.

Yeah.

We don't have experience.

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I embrace it, man.

Like you said, you've just had other people on.

Take advantage of

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it.

Absolutely.

Enjoy the time.

It's

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part

of the cool part about living here.

There's going to be some things we all probably did wrong.

And there's going to be some things we said, man, we knocked that out of the park.

I thought you guys

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did, Mark.

No BS.

Got a quick text here.

Can I add a birthday wish today to Brooklyn Tremble, love mom, dad, Oakley, and Colt.

Man, are those ever cool names?

The whole thing.

Brooklyn, that's a cool name.

Love that name.

Mom's a cool name.

No,

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mom.

Brooklyn, Oakley, and Colt are the names that's

incredible.

And the person who sent it in is Gretchen from Butternut.

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Okay, you got cooler names you're from.

Yeah, Todd, what's going on here?

Somebody go buy that book.

How do you

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have such cool names people?

Brooklyn, Oakley, and Colt.

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Wow.

I wish I was Colt.

Call me Colt today.

Colt.

Call me Colt.

Remember Colt McCoy, the quarterback?

Call me Colt

today.

That's too cool for you.

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Wow.

Todd.

Oakley, I'll take Oakley.

Todd.

Brooklyn, that's happening.

Todd.

Yes.

Is Colt too cool for me?

Yes.

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Todd is the most brutally honest person.

I've been this week, haven't I?

I have been this

week.

I apologize to both of you.

It's been

a long week though.

I don't know if it's because of the anticipation of the draft or because we've been a

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little OT.

That was

just day one.

We've got two more days.

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Hey, I got an event today.

That's gonna be pretty cool though.

Over at Heritage Hill, we're doing that.

People, you're invited.

I want to invite people over there at Heritage Hill today.

We're doing a little seminar or whatever you want to call it, a presentation for Jerry Vanesey.

to try to get him into the NFL Hall of Fame, or Japanese, try to get him in the NFL Hall of Fame.

He drafted 13 Green Bay Packers that are Hall of Famers, 13.

And we're trying to bring awareness to it with the NFL being here.

We're, we're, we're, okay, Brian.

You know who's right on today is Brian.

Oh, Brian's.

I was so snarky.

Brian had his, oh, it's, mine was more of a herb.

Really?

Okay.

No, I'm not.

I remember that.

I do.

No, I'm not, Brian.

You know what I am?

I'm a cult.

Shout out to cheese curd, Nick.

After a number of large adult beverages, those cheese curds were just what I needed.

I agree, Mike.

Yeah.

Man, is there?

Yeah.

By the way, Uber drivers made a lot of money last night, says Mike.

I heard there were 200.

Well, actually, the lady that drove the bus at your place said, folks, you don't want to miss the bus because the Ubers are $200 right now in this area.

Did you get that too?

No.

We had our last bus, I think, roll out at 11.30.

And credit to the bus.

I mean, I tell you what, everyone's done a great job.

And we were just saying off the air of it was a very good environment to be in last

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night.

It really was.

It was

cool.

We did not see a lot of drunks

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around.

I didn't

see any.

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Other than

me?

Out of control people.

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I get

you're going to have some.

And I think people, I think a lot of people did disperse after the Packers.

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And that probably

helped out.

But it was a very well run event by the NFL and the Grammy Packers.

Absolutely, no question.

And I think people maybe started with pricing, you know, six months ago or whatever, did a lot of chatter, but I paid $80.

You know, you look at that for, I think I was there, what, seven, six hours probably?

You know, because I went, that's not a lot.

15 bucks an hour?

But parking tickets down here for $22.

So I mean, I thought it was a good deal.

Yeah.

I mean, it was, honestly, I think, I think the

biggest

thing we have to remember is it was, it's the one time shot.

I just don't see, I mean, nothing against Packers NFL.

I just don't see it coming back

anytime soon.

It would be awesome.

So, but I think for what everyone kind of came together and planned what you felt like he had to do.

Um, some people talk, some people didn't.

Um, you

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know, it's where the mark, it's like being there.

I mean, it was over.

I mean, it was, the crowd was, whoa.

And then when I got home to watch the Packer pick and then you see the overhead shots of, of the, where you were, it's like, holy crap.

That's

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even

bigger than I experienced.

I think to give them credit to, I think that's another thing, you know, people talked about is the, the whole area is so big just to go in.

and check out what we call the title town park area where the turf is.

There's enough.

of activities going on right there, you could probably spend half a day.

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I thought the coolest thing of the entire event, other than your event, other than that brisket, other than that, the coolest part when we, Dominic and I, Thank you to

Minzo's on that

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one.

Yeah.

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We walked up to the top of, and I'd never been there before.

I'd never walked up Aaron's Hill.

Yeah.

And people were sitting on the hillside with the big screen watching.

It's like, that was the best place to be was sitting on that hill watching.

And I give this credit to the Packers.

They've done some movies during the summertime.

I have been told,

You could, you know, grab the blanket, grab your family on

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a Friday night.

That is, and they put up one of those very good screens with LEDs.

Boy, I tell you what, that's a great opportunity.

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Okay, I'm gonna be honest with you, that's a heck of a claim.

That's how, have you climbed up there?

That we're killing us a little bit, John.

Oh,

goodness.

Look on tubing there.

Have

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you

but I mean that's I that's a heck of a hill.

Oh, yeah, that's and that's like mark said that's great

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You don't

realize it's about halfway up.

It's like

holy crap.

So, uh We didn't go it was last year first game of the year.

My wife was gone and I brought my son up and

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We

we just kind of want we have a few people tailgating and you know what great place to watch flyover.

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Oh Because you can helicopters like you weren't those awesome.

Yeah, Jim complain Jim's the only person that's complaining When I was mayor we had jets

I like the F-14s, but I thought that was nice.

I thought it was nice.

Yeah, I didn't really complain.

I just said that was nice.

That's all I said.

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No, you did.

He said, what do you mean that was nice?

Because there weren't jets,

Jim.

I

said, he said,

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what

would you have done different?

I said, I may have called in the jets.

Did he complain

yesterday

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or no?

Well, he actually

gave me a phone number to call.

He wanted to make

a... You know what?

Can you, can you, well, you think it's going to do a fly over tonight again?

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That'd

be

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nice.

I

would.

They

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have some of those draws.

You had

flying

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around

those jets flying over that area.

Holy cow.

But that's awesome.

We always

have flyovers.

You think they would have come lower?

But like I would do the same thing I would do for the game.

Those are they don't have to do is turn on some people.

Let's see when we get a fly over tonight.

Yeah, let's see how much pull you have.

Thank

you, Todd.

Getting Roger Goodell on

the line.

Pay for that.

So I would I just think I would it was great.

The helicopters were great.

I was just just chills.

Why okay, let me ask you something

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Why don't you call?

Okay, so I love it correct me if I'm wrong What?

Yes, or no is Jerry Jones sleeping about 200 yards somewhere.

We're sitting right now.

No, he's in Dallas They showed it last night.

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Oh, I thought he was here in Green

Bay.

No, I Showed him in the in the war room

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in Dallas.

Oh, I thought it was in Green Bay

I don't know.

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But what I'm saying is you were in Jerry Jones private box.

He literally made you mixed drinks or whatever

Yes,

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why don't you call him invite him into our studio for the Super Bowl?

Yes

for the Super Bowl.

Yes to underscore that too.

So yeah,

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why don't you bring him in here?

I don't I don't know.

He's pointing like he's at the Northland.

He's not the Northland.

Whatever.

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Um, Mark Houston, Bell and Sports Medicine.

Just explain the event you guys put on last night and I will be honest with you.

You were like that one-legged man and a

Ash kicking contest you're on your phone cut the bus is and we're trying this was funny Jim So we're driving over or on the bus.

It took us what 40 minutes.

Yeah, there's we did have there was an accident.

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There's an accident So the driver of the bus of Jim's it shows Bellin medicine told me I have to stay on this rock cuz he was trying

to

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read right and the poor cop just goes lady Do what you gotta do.

It was like he was so stressed out with like a thousand cars in line.

He goes.

He's one of those people that

And he was just like, lady, just do what you gotta do.

No, it was, you know, it was a great opportunity to have some of our partners from businesses and schools, communities, some of our own leaders just come together.

But we pulled it.

You guys had one of one of our organizers out in the parking lot.

We have vendors that are doing things out in the parking lot, trying to give food back.

And, and then there's a whole bunch of more vendors.

That's the food side.

And then we also have more vendor selling stuff on a tent.

We had Jerry Kramer there.

YMCA was there doing activities.

Boys and Girls Club?

Boys

and Girls Club.

I think when we looked at the whole thing, this wasn't just about one thing.

It was how do we use our perimeter and say, how do we give back the community?

How do we say thank you?

And yes, I'd still encourage people.

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All day from 12 to 7 a.m.

I will say this.

I'm not going back.

Okay, just because you know what I mean?

It's like an experience and it was awesome and it was great But it almost you almost have to have a second day because like last night was so you know drinking of a fire hose type thing I don't think you had a chance to appreciate it last night So today would be a great day to get a better

late of the line when you're agreed.

Yeah, I want to go I'm gonna I'm going tomorrow.

I'm okay.

I'm taking today off But we got a lot of stuff to do today, right?

We got that booyah thing and then there's a

tailgate party with the super fan fest, but I'm going with my brother tomorrow, but I'm taking so I'm gonna go to your I'm gonna definitely go to that I'm gonna support and tomorrow

I will tell you I'm here and the weather is gonna be perfect It is gonna be a little bit cooler, but I'll tell you what I think tomorrow is gonna be the day to come as a family right to wander your kids down Taking the activities hang out for two hours.

It costs you nothing totally agree.

I think some people are leaving

Correct.

I think I think your die hard is gonna be out of there.

They make

come tonight tomorrow or last night tonight.

And then I think there's going to be a lot of families coming out there.

I think it's just going to be a great opportunity.

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And I will say this, go up on top of that Aaron's Hill just

to see the view of the whole thing.

But the NFL has got so many of these little things.

You can check out Super Bowl rings.

You can check out jerseys.

You can check out so many of these things.

And all you got to do is download that app.

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Hey, the police officer last night, when I did the thing, he goes, I go, I'm so proud.

There's like nine different levels of security.

Okay.

I go, did I do the story?

He goes, I'm very proud of you.

I go, really?

He goes, you know, you, bro, I didn't know you know how to use technology.

It's like, okay.

You know what?

If you take a look at another, I think the other thing, download the app and just familiarize it yourself with it.

Because if you get on that app, it tells you a lot, you know, from autograph sessions and we had a lot of people saying, I'm just going in for

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an autograph.

Okay.

I couldn't find the panini tent because Alec Ingold was doing an autograph thing last night.

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This is...

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in here, got a text here.

Paninis are right by the stadium.

That's where Alec Ingold was last night.

I wanted to see Alec.

Alec was doing an autograph thing.

Did you see him?

No, I didn't, but I saw that map where that's

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right by the

stadium.

Yeah,

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I

think

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it was pretty close to... I don't understand maps.

I can't read.

I'm like, the kids are my rack that don't have maps.

Just being honest.

Mark Houston, Bell & Sports Medicine here, hosted a phenomenal event last night.

Mark.

It's gotta be pretty cool when you think about it.

I actually thought that last night sitting in your place.

It's an amazing complex.

It really truly is.

I mean, it's state of the art, but

When you think about it, I mean, there's a lot of cities in the world and you're right there next to Lambeau Field and the National Football League and you guys are doing it.

It's it's sometimes I think we need to step back and appreciate kind of what we have here.

Wouldn't you

agree?

Yeah, and you know, I'm honestly, I'm blessed of just the way we kind of come in.

It's Brookwood Drive, Paralyze Paralyze Parallels Lombardi and I can drive in and see the Lambeau Field.

We can see the the the one of the signs and

you do have to catch yourself, pinch yourself and say, man, I've got it pretty good.

And we all do.

I mean, I think it's just like you said, now with what they have the entitlement on district, that even wintertime, it's not a game day.

Take your kids over to the atrium, let them just run around that floor.

I've done it with my son.

You know, it's like, there's a lot of pretty cool things we have up here.

I

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don't know if we appreciate it as much as

we should.

Yeah.

And you know, I suppose everyone does.

It doesn't matter where you are in whatever town, but it's some great opportunities.

You know, and it's

Again, this is just a, it's just a fun thing.

It's amazing what's, what's been here just for one day one.

We got two more days and to see how it goes.

And, but I think the, you know, it would have been a whole different thing if you said, Hey, it's $20 person to get in.

Oh boy, that, that's going to rub some people wrong so that you can go in.

It's free now.

Yeah.

Do you have to park?

Yes.

Do you have to buy food and you're going to spend some money, but it should be a great time.

Absolutely.

But you don't have to.

You don't have to know that you're right.

I mean you can and you can take the shuttles.

There are shuttles.

There's there's opportunities

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I I would I'll tell you I mean I'll tell you something and when we were driving out all those neighborhoods it did it seemed like a packer game because everybody's like tailgating and then you know the little fire pits outside but all those yards were filled with cars I will say that but with that being said the last thing in the world I would do would be to get into my car and drive around that area trying to find a parking place it's like take a shuttle

Wouldn't you agree?

Yeah, there was, I drove in yesterday.

I had a meeting.

So I was there at seven.

I would say at seven.

It was seven in the morning.

So I just left there at 6.30 to come to the station.

They're probably two to three blocks out already from our clinic.

Yeah.

But I think a lot of people just drove down earlier and found a place and just talked to the guy and

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said, look, you know.

But you do not like, whatever time we pulled up last night.

I don't know, five o'clock or whatever.

It's like you would not want to be driving a car looking for it.

Right.

No, I agree with

that.

But I mean, overall, I mean, everyone's going to couldn't nitpick, but I'll tell you what, we love the event that we had.

I love what the committee kind of came around and did on this.

And some people said, hey, I have no desire to come up and do those things.

But

I think it's also a day of event.

I don't

want to be debbie down.

I just want to say that with all the hype and being there.

It's really not the most exciting event.

You know, it's not like going to a Stones concert or something.

Yeah, sit and wait, sit and wait,

and then sit and wait.

Right.

You know, I agree.

But the people are friendly, like we talked about their families and we talked to people next to us.

But it's not like a concert or a game.

Correct.

Like basketball.

They're not

entertaining you.

No.

Between the picks.

Right.

Now you have to entertain yourself kind of.

Who's saying the national anthem?

You know what?

Someone asked me that.

I do not

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know.

I never heard of

them.

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I mean, it's great.

It's kind of a cool.

Style I get but I didn't know who that I would have assumed it would have been like somebody huge And I thought maybe I thought they were

gonna call you John.

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I know they actually did I said I was busy

But you know you I just I just want to say and that was great.

I'm glad it's here and I'm glad everybody was there But it just isn't

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a deal fighter.

I agree.

It's it's more

than Wilson jr.

By the way again

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Was he country?

A little bit, probably.

I don't know.

I'm not sure.

It was one of those things to be at and say, I was there.

Right.

You know, versus, oh my God, it was the greatest concert I ever heard or the greatest, whatever, whatever.

Tell me about it.

Well, it

was kind of, yeah.

I

agree.

And the rumor was that maybe you'll be flying the jets, John.

Me?

Yeah.

They talked to me about that.

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Did they ask you about that?

Did you turn that down?

No, you know who I want to be?

Do you want to know the role I wish I could play?

I want to be one of those snipers on top of Kohler Lodge.

Todd, there's snipers up there.

I know.

I will tell you that we are very well protected,

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not

just from Green Bay, not just from Brown County Sheriff, not just from State Patrol, everyone, because they have been great guys and gals to work with and did an amazing job.

The presence is there.

But it's not that I'd worried I bought it.

No.

Yeah, but yeah

some of those

guys they they come around golf carts with five guys on a golf cart Yeah,

that's great when you when you walk through and the dog wait we walk past the the dog and like I'm like your dog Yeah, what's the sniffing for explosives?

Yeah, it wasn't like for weed.

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It is secure You will never see more

law enforcement anywhere then around Lambeau field right now.

Is that true, Mark?

And they don't come around once.

I'm almost guessing they come around four or five times

in every

day.

I mean, they're very professional.

But they've

stayed under the radar.

Well, I thought for sure it was going to be something else.

But the VIP test exposes.

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OK.

So Mark, what's going on for you guys for the rest of the draft?

Like we said, we've got 12 o'clock till 7 o'clock tonight.

We've got a lot of food vendors.

We've got vendors selling stuff.

In the

parking lot.

We

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YMCA, bring your kids over.

Play some games.

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Wow.

Down underneath this

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marked early Lambo.

I apologize you have to sit next to this.

I'm getting a little

slippery as

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I'm sitting in this seat right now.

Little

slippery.

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Can I be honest with you?

So am I.

I'm not joking about this.

I'm not joking about these.

I'm wearing my like biker short underwear today.

Oh, yeah,

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and they are they're like slippery.

You got after notch my belt tighter.

Isn't that the truth?

It is.

That's right.

Remember that?

I told you I was at festival and they started dropping said my biker short.

Maybe I shouldn't even talk about this.

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Let's skip a move on.

But you got to get you got to get it over that those.

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I was going to say something with the picture up.

In the break, Jim and I, how much weight have both of us lost, Todd?

Because that was like... A ton.

A ton.

A

ton.

That was

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like the first day.

No, that was

before we started.

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15 years ago, right?

What do you guys think?

15 months ago.

15 months.

How much weight do you think we both lost from that picture?

I'm gonna go 13 to 15.

Yeah, you're exactly

right.

What about you, Jim?

Where are you at?

Seriously?

Cause you've lost a lot of weight.

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Cause I think I was 234.

Wasn't I Todd?

Do we have something like that right now?

I'm 218.

Ooh.

From a

linebacker to a wide receiver.

I don't know where I was, but tailback

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tailback.

What are you down to now?

I'm under.

Yeah, just done.

You're under what?

But I'm way under 200.

I'll never go to 200 again.

Ever.

I will never, ever.

What were

you in that picture?

Oh, I don't know.

Wasn't it 217, 218?

Really?

And you want 200 now?

Congrats.

No, tell the truth.

189.

Wow.

You're a slot receiver.

Yeah, you are.

You're a slot

receiver.

He's Randall Cobb.

Yeah.

Yeah.

John Maino

After going, hey.

Danny Amondola.

After going to the draft.

Hey,

after going to the draft last night though.

Oh, that's unbelievable.

John Maino

Hey, I gotta tell you something.

So when we're walking over from your place over to the thing, I go, Dom, look at that guy!

How big he is, okay?

And then we're sitting there and it's like...

That's the guy he was drafted to defense men.

People don't understand how big these human beings are in the national football league.

I mean, you're a big guy, Frank.

Yeah, they're big.

But these guys, I mean, this guy was like six, seven, three, oh,

these,

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these

tackles.

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Oh

my

God, are they

big and they can move?

Wow.

But that guy that we drafted, he's not that big, is he?

Six foot, 198 pounds, I believe.

The wide receiver.

Sleek.

So if I lost 20 pounds, I'd be here.

You could do it.

And gained six inches.

You know what looks huge?

I saw

Sean Jones interview.

He's six, seven.

Oh, yeah.

That's huge.

Yeah, you want that height.

He still looks

John Maino

big.

I thought that was cool.

I thought I'd be able to just kind of walk wherever I wanted to last night because I wanted to see James Jones who used to do our radio.

You remember?

Yeah.

You sit with Murphy and the boys and by being secure.

I mean, you couldn't get.

You can't.

You can't get.

I just want to tell people what you see on TV.

Ain't gonna be what you're gonna experience because that one area where you were because you're you know, you paid your way in or whatever whatever I mean anything.

I got whatever But it's like you're gonna be on the periphery kind of and you're not gonna be up there by Roger Goodell Because I want to go see James Jones was a great friend of mine, but I thought that was great.

They had all those Packers up there didn't

you?

Yeah, that was very cool.

Yeah It's

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it's awesome.

It's awesome.

Just have a lot of those legends back.

Yeah

Yeah, I mean, they're

my wife's judging everybody.

What do you mean?

Yeah.

Wow, Clay put on some weight.

Yeah, everybody.

Holy cow.

They do.

What

John Maino

did she

say about me?

Well, she didn't see you.

Okay.

I'm gonna show her

John Maino

that picture.

She

judged me.

Be

John Maino

honest.

I don't know if she judged

you.

John Maino

Okay.

She's a good kid.

She's a good kid.

Frank is here in the house.

She

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judges

me.

John Maino

I'm going to turn this over to Jim.

I'm going to turn this over to you while he's

dressed like this.

Well, he's had a couple of busy days.

You got a full day yesterday and then today again.

Yep.

Yep.

You know, I didn't think I'd do anything this week with the draft.

You know, right?

That it was no show.

Time off.

The phone started ringing and people started asking.

I wrote a show years ago called the Heritage Trail, Curly Lamble with Cliff Crystal.

And I played Curly Lamble.

So the Northland Hotel called me yesterday.

John Maino

I

would never.

No, you're way too big.

John Maino

Curly lamb was five foot eight.

Curly

lamb was six foot.

He was not.

Six foot two hundred pounds.

No, he

John Maino

wasn't.

That's what he says.

Okay.

That's what he says.

I don't know

John Maino

what he likes.

That's what he wants.

I've been involved in this work all my lifetime.

Nobody.

who says they're six feet tall is six feet tall because if they were legitimately six feet tall they'd say they were six one or six two okay okay so the guy is five ten and a half and

he says they're six feet yeah true or false true true that is truth truth yeah I am I'm I'm six three and two fifty so I'm a little bit bigger than Curly but you know Curly Lambert was a lot of the life character he pioneered the the forward pass you know and he had a tumultuous relationship with Johnny Blood and I just wanted to bring that

I don't know why I'm talking like this because I think

I don't

either.

That's

why it sounds

like the 1920s radio

John Maino

voice.

He grew up three blocks away from here.

He was on Irwin Avenue.

Calliwert owns the house right now.

And he was a hometown kid and made it 1919 pack.

They say John Heisman invented the forward pass, but he pioneered the forward pass, Curly Lambeau.

And he was a prolific passer from 1919 to 1923.

Then he became the head.

coach and you

played that part.

Do you mind if I correct you?

I correct me.

Tell me what you say.

And then the Northland called you and said, would you be a tour guide?

Yes.

And then Paul, would he play?

Johnny Blood.

Okay, I heard you with that accent.

You did use that accent.

I did.

I use

that accent.

Where's

that from?

It's called Mid-Atlantic.

Mid-Atlantic.

Well, all the Hollywood people talk like that.

That's correct.

And we'll tell you

another

thing.

Come on, chum.

And I was listening to your tour.

They asked me to give tours because I know a little bit about that place.

I learned some stuff from you.

You did.

Did you ever, like I said to that one, is that true?

He kind of makes it up as he goes

John Maino

along.

That's right.

I'm a

storyteller.

John Maino

Yes, that's what I am.

Anyway, it was great.

You know what you kind of sound like?

What?

The guy from, what was the music man?

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

Right.

Right.

Totally.

Totally.

Because I did hear Curly Lambeau talk.

I've never heard him

John Maino

talk.

You know,

I'd love

John Maino

to impersonate him.

So you can take liberties.

So I was taking liberties, like, because he loved Hollywood.

He married Miss California.

Yeah, he did.

OK, I guess I want to say something.

Can I correct you?

Sure.

OK.

Curly Lambeau did not do anything with the forward pass.

Oh,

John Maino

really?

That was Newt Rockney and Gus Dorius.

OK.

And they were working as lifeguards in northern Indiana.

And they had a football and during on the beach, they started throwing the football around and they were the guys.

Gus Dorius was the was the quarterback.

and Newt Rockney was the receiver at Notre Dame, and they pulled it out against Army, and they were like huge underdogs, and they pulled it out, and they threw like three touchdown passes in that game, and that's where it revolutionized the forward pass.

It wasn't curly lamblet at

all.

Well, no, I didn't say invented.

He pioneered it.

John Maino

No, he

didn't.

In the NFL.

John Maino

He didn't.

In

the

John Maino

NFL.

In his book, it says that.

Yeah.

John Maino

Do you want it?

You want it?

You want

it?

John Maino

Dude, you know way more than I do.

Can I tell you one other interesting fact?

Yeah.

OK.

The guy, who is the coach that took over, whence Curly Lamble resigned, who took over for him?

Oh gosh, 1950s, 1949, right?

Is that what it was?

I don't even know.

My grandfather's

John Maino

godson.

Was it

really?

John Maino

Gino Renzani.

How cool

John Maino

is that?

When my grandfather moved over from Italy, he lived with the Renzani's up in Iron Mountain.

How cool is that?

And then when Gino was born, my grandfather was his godfather.

Really?

So do you want to talk more old footballer?

No, I don't I just want to be curly Lambo today.

Talk like that!

I like your look though, man!

You talk

like Acme Packers!

What are you?

Well, you know, they wanted to look like he wanted to look like the Notre Dame's.

Remember back in the day, he wanted that royal blue look and canvas?

John Maino

You

know, canvas and it's a very... Buck skin holding your

John Maino

crotchal range.

You know what you like?

I

got a

belt on there.

You know, no helmet.

Again, you're the music man.

I am the music man

But

today we got the booyah, you know the the taste of the booyah in the Kringle contest and I'll be emceeing it today It's awesome as Curly Lambo, but I'm here to talk about a brand new musical like I can open it

John Maino

We don't care about that.

You don't care about we want to know okay first of all We want to know about what do you think about the whole thing going on?

Were you there last night?

I was not.

Oh, you want to I want to like I said that you perform

300 nights a year, and on an off night you go to see somebody else perform.

This is a band that my wife and I have loved, OK Go.

And they haven't put on an album in 10 years.

And for them to play in Milwaukee at Turner Hall is unbelievable, because they usually play like bigger places.

They're a big, big band.

They're an A-list.

It was sold out last night.

But what's sold out at Turner Hall?

I don't know, 3,000 people?

But it was a great concert.

I never loved Turner Hall.

Oh my gosh.

Do you think 3,000 fit in there?

What do you think?

I don't know.

I was just there about a month ago.

I was just wondering about Michael.

I would think about 3,000.

You know, it's kind of a big gymnasium.

It was the German,

whatever, built in 1853, where they got together

and they've worked stage on one end.

What's

that?

You paid a few bucks to park.

Actually, I got a park.

It's already across the street.

Four bucks.

Four bucks.

Wow.

Because there's probably

no game.

No bucks came, probably.

Yeah, no bucks came.

Yeah, if there was a bucks game, that

would be done.

I

was like, where am I going?

So, okay, what's the musical?

I just want to say that, how many tours did you give yesterday?

Because I heard you and then I gave about seven tours.

Yeah, probably about two.

So you guys did that

today?

No, it was just yesterday.

But Frank, what did

you do the tours for?

Well, there were people from all over.

So anyone

who

was staying there?

No, no, no.

There were people just walking in because they advertised tours

of the hotel.

And the tours were either from Paul, who was Johnny Blood, Frank Curly Lambo, or me.

Oh some guy who knew a little bit about the

the hotel the three

times it went bankrupt

so I talked about

that Frank the only reason I wanted trying to clear it up a little bit was I gave out WGBW cards quite a bit so they're gonna be listening today so Can I if you see him at the Booyah Fest might say hey you told me you know, yeah, I hope so

Well, he went to college in Minnesota

I don't know if it was Olaf or what it

John Maino

was.

St.

John's.

St.

John's.

Didn't he go back and teach there eventually to economics?

John Maino

Yeah, he was a smart dude.

Okay, do you know what he did during World War II?

World War II, what was he?

Because he, I don't know, was he in information

John Maino

or?

OC, OCS, where it's basically like...

the CIA, how that started over in the South Pacific, because he was brilliant.

And he was almost like a spy.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, that's why he got away with some of his crap in the NFL.

I

John Maino

mean, what

do you play for Curly?

John Maino

It's a really

interesting

John Maino

guy.

What else you

got going on?

So Brent, the musical opens up May 17th.

That's a story about a guy who can't make up his mind.

I wrote this show about Brent Farth, you know, 17 years ago, we toured all over the state doing this show.

So we thought we'd bring it back.

It's a good one.

It's for dinner and a show.

Brent,

Brent, we call him, is the best slow pitch softball player in Brown County, plays for the bar.

Yeah, but he's thinking about retiring.

Yeah, because there's a new upstart pitcher coming behind him, Darian Rogers.

And the stadium view wants him to come play slow pitch.

Lisa Purple texts him.

Well, he texts her back.

And let's just

say

it's a

story that you

will love

it.

Remember, Lisa Purple gets around and it's kind of your wife.

No, it's not.

That's Lisa.

My wife plays at least Amy Green, who owns the bar.

But anyway, his his buddies, Frankie Begallong, Johns and Chunky, they wanted to stay and play.

for the bar.

Who's playing Frankie?

Frankie Bacon Longjohns is played by Pat.

Oh, OK.

And Johnny, or I'm sorry, Chunky is played by Paul Evenson.

So they're my

buddies.

That

will be

fun.

And I

wrote most of the music for this show.

It's a wonderful show, May 7th through the 10th backstage in the Meyer.

John Maino

We got set a quick break.

Mark Houston, Balanced Sports Medicine.

Frank Hermans, let me be Frank Productions.

And Todd DePierre being snarky says, hey, John, how many times did you pull off the Don't You Know Who In The Hell I Am card last night?

Not that many, Todd.

Not that many.

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With a 23rd pick in the 2025 NFL draft, the 13-time world champion, Green Bay Packers.

For the first time since 2002, draft a wide receiver.

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Frank Herman's in the house, special thanks to Mark Hewson, Bell and Sports Medicine, who is hosting a tremendous event at their place right now.

If you get a chance to go over to Packard Draft, go around there.

They got some great, great places to go.

Mike Clemens is joining us here, sports director for Civic Media.

Mike, what'd you think of round number one?

Mike Clemens

How about that moment right there last night?

17 years as the CEO and president you come up with this idea 10 years ago Okay, maybe we could get the draft to come here and now you're standing out there.

It's you know decent enough weather in April There's a hundred thousand people in the parking lot.

They've got another 15 20,000 spillover that go inside the bowl and Then they hand you the card and goodies decided to give you yeah a wide receiver Yeah, and you go out there and you get to read that card.

I mean, yeah, even though with the parking

within a mile of the stadium in either the houses, the shops, the restaurants, a church was $100 a car, you know, and any other kinds of hassles, that was worth it.

That moment was right there worth it.

You know, you don't, he should have just dropped the mic right there.

So that's it.

And it's all yours.

That was something

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special.

Mike Clemens

Yeah.

John Maino

But it was almost overwhelming the number of people walking around, wasn't it?

Mike Clemens

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

John Maino

I mean, it's like.

Weird.

Mike Clemens

I mean, it's like, holy crap.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, it's it's amazing.

And hopefully the weather will hold up today.

I think the weather was

John Maino

great last night.

Mike Clemens

Oh, didn't you?

I

John Maino

mean,

Mike Clemens

it's it's late April in, in, in, in Wisconsin.

We could

John Maino

have asked for anything much better.

No, I don't think so.

Mike Clemens

No.

And so then we get into the in the media auditorium.

And then Brian Gudekins comes down after the whole round is over with.

And this was the first question that he was

asked.

Given the moment, given that it's here, given the drought, is there any even consideration of, wow, this is significant to finally take a receiver in the first round?

Well, I really sent in a different name, but Mark just announced what he announced.

So yeah, it is what it is.

Like he

Mike Clemens

made it up.

John Maino

Yeah.

I, you know what?

I've been seeing all last week, not to be that guy, but it's like, please draft a wide receiver.

Remember that, Jeff?

I've been saying that for years though, right?

John Maino

Please draft a wide receiver.

I didn't want another defensive back or offensive lineman.

Give me a wide receiver

Mike Clemens

was that Javon Walker was the last one.

Isn't that crazy 23 years ago or so.

So they get this kid out of Texas.

Yeah, who I seems like a great kid yesterday.

Yeah, Matthew Golden who eight or nine years ago guys He's living out in front of a Walmart with his mom.

We're going from motel to motel And then a family picks them up and he finishes, you know, three years of high school

He goes to Houston University, then transfers over to Texas, because that was an offense that the Packers felt maybe fit him better in tracking what he did.

And then there was this great moment last night, Jim, where I picked up on something.

I heard an announcement that Brian Goodenkin's, who doesn't do a lot of interviews like Ted did, was going to be on the Rich Eisen Show.

So it was actually on my way up.

I called one of our producers and I said, could you record that for me?

But I, I think I caught most of it, you know, in the car.

And after they get done, um, Rich Eisen says, okay, Brian Goodigan, thanks for being on the show.

Coming up next, Texas wide receiver, Matthew Golden.

Oh, oh, I should probably listen to this because this could be a guy, you know, that's on their list was, we'll see.

And so when they come back.

He talks to him about, he talks to Matthew about himself a little bit about that tough background.

He says, by the way, during the break, I noticed Brian Goodykins and you two talking backstage.

There was a little embrace there.

What's that all about?

He says, he said, have you seen him before?

He says, I was just in Green Bay two weeks ago, one

of

Mike Clemens

those 30 visits.

Well, how'd that go?

He said, it wasn't great.

This is the kid who says he just had met with Brian two weeks ago, sat down with him.

Matt LaFleur the other coaches and some of the players as well so So I asked both those guys about that and the kid you know the draft pick.

He's like, you know what he said when I saw him yesterday He said that and shook hands with them.

I'm just I'm starting to think maybe this is something you know Maybe there's something there and I asked Goody about a last night goes.

Yeah, I want to pump the brakes now Okay, you know, I'm because you know what he's he's trying to improve, you know his

His relationships with players like that, you know, but he hung around for that kid just to say hi to him.

But I said, did you ever think that, you know, 36 hours, you'd actually be picking that kid that he'd be left on the board?

And he said, you know, football decision, he was the kid that was left there.

But, you know, yeah, they both understood that was that was quite a moment.

That's cool.

So Goody knew that if he was on the board, he was taking him by the math, by the math.

You know, that's cool.

Yeah.

But a lot of coincidence.

Right.

Right.

What do you see today?

Maybe they'll get that defensive lineman that we talked about.

And like you talked about, there's so many that they can get.

And maybe they'll get a corner.

And maybe there'll be some sort of a deal for Jair Alexander, a trade away or something like that.

John Maino

I thought a little bit of a theme last night was anybody that can disrupt a quarterback.

Like they're driving a kid from Tennessee who's like, hey, he's light.

But he's tall and he can get to work quick.

That seems to be the trend right now in the NFL.

Quarterbacks are so good that

Mike Clemens

you got to find a way to... Well, just ask the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes how that worked out for them at the last Super Bowl.

I mean, that Eagles defense just was relentless all that time.

Exactly.

That's the thing right now.

They sent four.

They only needed to send four.

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