Packers, Papal Funerals, and Wiper Blades

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Packers, Papal Funerals, and Wiper Blades

Maino and the Mayor · Tue Apr 29, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

All right, good morning everyone.

Johnny is on his way.

I think he's still a little bit overdraft, so he'll be down here in just a minute.

Did you wake him?

I did, I text him, but you know, I just know he was, you know, talked to him last night.

He'll be here.

I

don't know.

I'm

sure he's... No.

He's Mr. Health.

He'll be on.

He'll be down here just a second.

Kathryn Lake

All

right.

Yeah.

Good morning.

And Vicki, thank you for already texting in.

Happy Tuesday.

Tuesday.

Thursday, I wish.

Tuesday.

So yes, here we are.

Green Bay 61.

It's a beautiful day out there.

So we have to get walking again.

Actually, May 1st is still a couple of days because I like to start my diet on the 1st of every May.

But here we are.

May 4, two days, right?

Today is the 29th.

Today is the 29th.

All right.

All right, I got out this morning.

It's beautiful.

61

degrees, 63 in

Appleton, and

63 in Oshkosh.

I just wanted to get this ready, because I see he's, as we speak, he's walking through the door.

Oh, all right.

Well, good.

All right.

Well, he's here, but we're... There he is.

Let's give him a little...

All right.

Well, he wanted a special entrance, because since the draft is over now, he wants to have his own attention.

Good morning.

Ladies

and gentlemen,

live from upstairs,

here's

John Maino

John Bido.

I had my phone plugged in, and it didn't go off, and I woke up, and it's like...

And it's deader than, uh, did the lights go off last night or anything?

I don't think so.

No.

John Maino

So I know they didn't manage to walk, because they were on candlelight last night.

Oh.

John Maino

My phone's completely dead.

I had it plugged in all night.

Might be time for a new one.

Okay.

All right.

Oh, welcome.

Good morning,

John.

Welcome.

We went over the weather.

No, that's all we did.

We didn't do

anything.

We were missing you.

We didn't

John Maino

know

where we were.

I texted you.

It's dead.

My phone's completely dead.

Wow.

John Maino

So

that's

why we're

lucky that you're here.

John Maino

Because you can still be sleeping for the next three hours.

Because of this show, I can tell you a little story.

I talked to my brother yesterday, the priest.

Because of the show, I wake up early at 3.30.

Kathryn Lake

And I

do on weekends, too.

Yeah, I just do.

John Maino

It's sad.

I know I don't set the alarm.

I just get up.

So anyway, on Saturday was the Pope's funeral.

Yeah, I was there.

At least you wake up and you're ready to go.

Yeah.

But at 3.30, which is, you know, 10.30 over there.

So my brother, I don't know if I can tell the story, was at Quick Trip on Saturday.

OK.

And he works in Kimberley.

He was wearing his clerks because he had a funeral that morning.

Yeah.

And he's in Quick Trip.

and this lady's there and, oh, good morning, father.

And he goes, oh, how are you doing?

Good, good.

And she goes, you know, I got up and watched the Pope's funeral this morning.

That's great.

She goes, you know, that was on really early.

And he goes, oh, yeah, 330.

She goes, they probably did that because of the draft.

John Maino

Like, yeah, I swear to God.

Did she serve food at your...

Did her

John Maino

mom serve food?

But it's like, what do you say to that?

And the answer is nothing.

You just... You know

John Maino

what's so funny?

I just want to say that we talk about what's the word that we used yesterday, but it... Pornetic?

Well, how it is...

It's so believable.

I was telling Johnny this morning.

It's like my mom called yesterday and said, you know, what did you think of the draft?

And because she always Look after my job and I tell my mom everything.

John Maino

We're a guy from last week got signed.

That's awesome.

Did he been born?

Yeah.

Oh, that's awesome Cleveland.

Oh, all right Isn't that great?

Yeah, that is great.

Yeah.

Oh, did Mark call you Taylor?

No, it's it popped up on my phone.

That

John Maino

is awesome.

Yeah

All right.

So he's the guy that we hit on here who went to Marquette, which is

John Maino

a football

and then went to St.

Norbert.

Good.

He got, did he get drafted or did he get signed?

Okay.

John Maino

That's awesome.

Oh no, I think that's great.

Sometimes that's better because now like when you're free agent, you get like competition.

It's almost like being recruited all over again.

So somebody will say, Hey, we want to bring in where you give you a $5,000 to come on in.

Right.

Okay.

Um, getting on a little, Hey, this is so and so from Jackson.

We're gonna offer you 12 grand.

So that yeah, so that's a cool thing when you're free agent That is like great.

Yeah, I was so excited when I saw that

little apartment in a deep here.

John Maino

That's where he's working at I know that's what he did do But he's been going back and forth tomorrow get to train and from Pesh to go so what so I was happy when I saw

him a little good get news but Mark Houston and

We have to send a little congratulation text to him.

That is big, big news

John Maino

for a young kid.

But I was just telling one thing.

So watch your big old Dan Patrick thing last night.

And he had Bob Golikon, who used to be his sidekick all the time.

Or Michael, like Bob's his brother.

Michael, okay.

And they did 17 years, I think together.

Wow.

You know, the morning show.

Okay.

And they said, and Mike Greenberg with Mike Greenberg and Mike Greenberg kind of to him kind of because they offered Dan.

To go like it's a walk because they offered Greenberg a different show.

He said you want a new lineup?

He said okay, so he dumped go like and his son which was kind of weird,

Kathryn Lake

but

John Maino

whatever whatever okay, so I think but Patrick was asked Mike like is it weird?

You know was it weird at first?

You know, not, you know, it goes, you know, I got to be honest.

I get up at, you know, four 15 every day for so many years.

I'll still never sleep past four 15.

And this morning I was thinking, yeah,

Kathryn Lake

you

John Maino

will.

Yeah.

So I must have gotten sent 20 of those chewy things.

The chewy things.

Yes.

What chewy things?

The thing you showed me yesterday.

Oh my gosh.

So

you know,

I'm driving, I'm driving to work.

last night because I fell in for Khan on like nightlight.

And as I'm coming in, I get a, I get a message and you know, you're driving so you don't look at it too closely, but stopped at a train.

So I pulled it out and I was watching it.

Chimera was on a podcast.

Well, he hosted.

He hosted.

Okay.

And he's telling a story from back in the day.

And whose name shows up in the podcast, John Minow.

And the Hot Tover.

I

was

waiting for that.

John's actually told this story before But it was it was interesting to hear it from different perspective and I'm waiting to hear part two So tell the cell tell the first side.

Can

John Maino

we play it shoot if I had it on my phone I could just hold my phone.

I'll see if I can pull it up on the computer.

Okay

John Maino

I'll hold off.

Yeah.

Oh, you got to hear it But it's it's a long story.

So only he only did part one But everything everything he said so far was factual to the point of now.

I'm a little bit more PO chewy

For what you guys did to me.

All right.

Yeah.

You've got to hear it and then I can continue.

Happy Tuesday, everybody.

So just from what I was seeing on Facebook last night, like that area we were pointing to got hit pretty good last night, huh?

A brother ton of pound.

Yeah.

Neopit, that whole area.

Yeah.

There was some bad stuff up

John Maino

there.

Yeah.

Barnes were down and stuff.

Wow.

Yeah.

You could just kind of see from what you had there and that.

Just kind of how it was heading.

Like the wind pushed it or the lake breeze maybe pushed it north.

So yeah.

Happy Tuesday.

It is 61 in Green Bay, 63 in Abton, 63 in Oshkosh.

Forecast mostly cloudy this morning.

Sun later, high in the low 60s.

Perfect.

Finally went for a walk outside yesterday.

Didn't have to wear like a down coat.

That was nice.

John Maino

Perfect.

It's like you accept the little winds.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

That was, that was really nice.

Beautiful day here.

Uh, it is national dance day.

It is zipper day.

Did you, what kind of boots did you wear when you were a kid?

Buckle.

Oh.

It's black ones.

Yeah.

Those were the

John Maino

worst.

Oh, snow got caught

John Maino

in them.

I always envy

the kids that had the

John Maino

zipper ones because we were coming back from communion.

If you're one of those last people, community clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink clink

to sit out you know before the priest

yeah

John Maino

puts everything away

why don't button your boots

John Maino

well you never buckle those up those were that that would be the nerdiest thing a human being could do when you're 11

call me what you want what really yeah okay all right

John Maino

it is national um shrimp scampi day that's

good

John Maino

i'll take shrimp yep do you see the thing that's happened in norwans though no with the seafood industry the things have changed

I don't know if it's the winds or the tide or whatever.

So now it's seafood or seawater that's coming up throughout their whole supply and they can't stop it.

And a lot of those freshwater things and everything they think that they've got, you know, inland a little bit are dying off.

Oh, because now seawaters get in that's in their drinking water.

Oh, what a city.

John Maino

Yeah.

Has any city ever been built in a worse place?

I mean,

right.

Yeah, let's let's

John Maino

you're having another nature.

Yeah the entire time.

No,

I know

John Maino

yeah, but they said the price of shrimps probably go way up because of that Stop snoring week.

I need that.

I still got to get that test All right Let's pretend the top of the show didn't happen and let's give it a second tape Todd it appear

All

John Maino

right, uh happy birthday Uma Thurman 55

She did not do a lot after Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.

Did she time?

Not

John Maino

a ton, I don't believe.

Nothing, and she was the biggest thing going.

Andre Agassiz, 55.

I read his book.

Boy, did he grow up rough.

Isn't it hard to believe he's Iranian?

Oh, I didn't know that.

And he used to dye his hair.

Hmm.

Is that something?

I just...

But his dad was really old school, really mean to him, really pushed him hard.

Kerry Wilson, 57.

Is that one of the Wilson sisters?

Yep, the Wilson Phillips.

Well, she seems like she should be older.

She was the larger one.

John Maino

Yep.

Eve Plum, Jan.

That's right.

From Jan Brady.

Wow.

Michelle Pfeiffer, 67.

I always liked her.

So Michelle and Eve are the same age.

Isn't that kind of weird?

John Maino

That is weird.

We could have all been in class together.

And you know what?

I might have had a shot with Eve.

Especially when she was wearing her braces.

And she was cross-eyed

or

John Maino

whatever.

Daniel Day-Lewis, 68, one of the all-time great movies.

Wasn't he Last of the Mohicans?

You see that movie?

Oh man, he was unbelievable.

Was he also in Gangs of New York?

Was that Daniel Day-Lewis?

Who was the knife guy?

You ever see that movie about the start of gangs in new york like at the start of the civil war?

Oh, no, well all the irish Yeah, I'll have a different great and irish would have a gang the germans would have a gang

he was along with Leonardo DiCaprio Cameron Diaz Liam Neeson That's a great

John Maino

movie man.

Wow Jerry Seinfeld 71 Boy he lost his hair, huh?

I mean really

John Maino

I mean Willie Nelson

But he was dead.

No, he's alive.

92.

His actual birthday is on the 28th.

But the doctor accidentally wrote down the 29th on his birth certificate.

Oh, really?

His birthday was yesterday, but he celebrates it today.

John Maino

I'm still really happy.

I saw him and Chris Christofferson together at the Oneida because just in a little tiny room, it's like, man, these are legends right here.

They were cool.

Todd, does he give every kid in his family a job in the band?

Maybe, but his kids are really, really talented.

Oh

John Maino

yeah.

But he had one kid that was probably 17 and he said back to like a little carotches or something.

You know what I mean?

Just kind of every now and then do a little get on the bus.

That would be me.

My mom would be like, well, you got to have something for Johnny.

I can't carry a tune.

It can't come on.

You have to find something for Johnny.

That's what it would be.

He is, um, but his hope that he'll be known mostly for weed.

Right?

Yeah!

But he just does not back

down.

Think about

that.

He's defiant.

He's defiant.

Crazy from Patsy Klein.

He wrote that song.

All the songs he wrote before he became a household name.

Amazing.

Low key.

Oh man, I would like to hang with him.

John Maino

Right.

I'll tell you, he's one of those guys though too.

He's always been who he is.

Yep.

Yeah, he's

never.

Early on though, he had the slick back hair and the nice suits and stuff like that, you know, kind of like Conway Twitty and stuff like that.

Then

John Maino

Johnny Cash.

Yep.

They all had that.

Whalen Jennings.

John Maino

Yep.

Me.

Yep.

John Maino

I had that.

Yep.

All right.

We get sin break.

We'll try to find that video if we get a chance.

I found it.

I'm not able to play it because it's disappeared already.

Oh, okay.

John Maino

All right.

All right.

We'll be back after

this.

that every life must end.

As we settle on, I know someday we must go on.

Oh, I'm a lucky

Kathryn Lake

man.

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Hey, Willie

John Maino

Nelson, man.

Can't beat him.

Birthday boy.

John Maino

Birthday boy, 92 years old.

You know what's so amazing?

I don't know how this popped up yesterday going through things about with some old veterans.

from my books and everything and one of my guys died and he's from Green Bay I feel horrible about this but you know I'll tell you something when you don't get a daily paper and look at the obituaries you miss stuff

yeah

John Maino

you should get them online though I know I'm just not an online go-to-my-news thing I just I loved newspapers so much it's unbelievable but anyway one of my good guys who was in my book died

in 2021, okay?

At 104.

Yeah,

that's awesome, right?

John Maino

Isn't that

awesome?

John Maino

And I didn't know it.

Yeah.

John Maino

And it's like,

ah, probably should have been keeping a tab on him after.

I

John Maino

know, I know, I know, but this guy was so amazing.

He had something that I told him this should probably be in the National Veterans Museum or even the Smithsonian.

or the Pearl Harbor Hall of Museum or something.

And this is no lie, because he had just come from Mass, and he was up at, I think it was Hickam Field, okay?

You know, you talk about Pearl Harbor, but on the island, okay?

So the Japanese, I'm just gonna show it to you here, kind of.

Okay, so here's how the island was, and here's where Pearl Harbor is, here's where the Air Force Base was and everything, okay?

Well, when the Japanese came in, they came in from the back, sort of, and went right over and bombed the hell out of this first, okay?

And then went and did their other stuff in Japanese said so he was walking from church right there to go for breakfast They start doing it He runs in and starts pulling out planes and different things like that trying to put out for you know, that was so anyway He was in the middle of the whole thing.

Okay.

He was there when he saw the first bomb dropped at his field So that was the first bomb dropped in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

He saw it

It was his hanger Wow, so it was all done cool down He went in and pulled out a big piece of flak from the bomb that was dropped there So I would argue he's got a piece of the first bomb dropped in the entire attack at Pearl Harbor Which is the most infamous day in our nation's history isn't that amazing the first bomb dropped in the in America's worst day ever?

He's got a piece of

it.

John Maino

He's just kept it in his house

that he built by himself.

I kept telling him that, um, you know, you should probably this.

Yeah.

That's got to live on somewhere.

John Maino

Yeah.

The first one, that's a mate.

And he just took it out of the cupboard and showed it to me.

So I was greedy again, crying kids

John Maino

face,

Facebook or whatever that's, you know, marketplace.

John Maino

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I'll never forget that.

Oh, it just broke my heart.

Yes.

He was like the nicest guy.

He was a typical World War two guy.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sitting there talking to him.

He goes, yeah, it's one of the first ones to build an alleyway.

Here in, uh, you know, whatever you're, and, um, he said, yeah, I, I said, it's a beautiful house.

I said, you had a real craftsman build this with wood.

We goes, yeah, I did it.

My brother and I, same thing.

Oh, you're a carpenter.

Oh, no, no, I worked in the mail.

But I just, how'd you know how to build cabinets like this?

How'd you know how to whatever?

Oh, I don't know.

My brother and I did it.

Right.

John Maino

Yeah.

What was up with that era?

Yeah.

How did we lose

that?

I don't, yeah.

Yeah, I agree.

John Maino

I always feel like somebody's explaining, trying to do a science, explaining that whales used to have arms because they lived on land and then moved it.

And I don't know if that's true or not, but it almost seems to have happened to our generation of men.

I know there's a lot of them out there that can do stuff.

I'm not sure I'm getting this, but what?

John Maino

What I'm getting at, I think we're evolving away from that generation of pioneers and whatever, whatever, to something less self-reliant,

You know what I mean?

Just kind of learn.

OK.

I get

John Maino

it.

I bought a shampoo bottle.

That's not the worst thing.

I bought a shampoo bottle the other day.

As long as you're advancing.

John Maino

And I cannot get

those damn things to open.

John Maino

Well, that's the problem.

If we are, though, if we are, it's OK.

If we're not, it's not OK.

But if we are, if we're advancing because we don't want to

John Maino

stay in a better direction.

In

a better direction.

Right.

But I don't

know.

It's kind of like the

dumbing

B. The dumbing down of the human race to a certain

extent.

definitely a segment of our country that is being dumbed down.

I think just for instance, I, you know, like the Pope was on, you know, probably because of the draft, you know, it was, uh, really.

John Maino

Unfortunately, a lot of people didn't see it at the homeless shelter because they were at the cottages.

That's

John Maino

right.

That's kind of what.

I'm

John Maino

sorry

kind of what I'm saying

John Maino

that is still something no matter how many times I think of it It never gets old because you know, I just you know who I hear saying it in my mind Go who?

Kids from Iraq don't have right,

right?

Yeah, but what I'm saying is this this other thing is an older generation I'm just saying I think America's I don't think you can blame one

I just think, come on, we're too much.

John Maino

I'm blaming partially our generation.

We're not nearly as like proficient at hand stuff as those guys.

I

agree.

And we've moving away from that.

But yeah, that's true.

And I hope we're just moving to something better, more efficiency and better.

Robots to make the stuff.

I don't know if we are not but I I do want to say I think there's so much more media today than there was back

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course and

I think like even like my mom called yesterday and asked about this thing and it and I'm like just Yeah, this is things gonna be spun that it was the greatest thing ever and I said but you know like I told you when you read that said story with that the emperor, you know has clothes new clothes People got so worked up about it that no

They're just, we're told that and everybody, remember that

story?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course.

Do you... That's an Aesop fable, wasn't it?

Hans Christian Andersen, right?

John Maino

What are the

other?

Yeah, yeah,

John Maino

yeah.

All right, well, that's good.

I like, you know, I have my favorite.

I used to love that.

I used to love the, what should we call it?

Aesop's fables.

Oh, yeah.

We read all the other ones.

Tell me one of those.

John Maino

The one about the little, the guy that saved the king's kid.

Or did something?

Gee, there was a king?

And he said, the king said, I'm going to give you all this gold for doing this.

He says, no, all I need, your honor, is a grain of a kernel of wheat.

So that's all?

Yes, but could you double it every day for the rest of my life?

Absolutely.

How about the one where the bird

with the one?

I'll tell you that

John Maino

when I come back.

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John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Got a text here from Terry.

Did you see the name of the new elementary school?

Yes.

Barton Cherry Star.

Very nice.

That is so...

So cool really happy about that.

You know what we need to get on and you know, I was thinking about this too in regards to Introducing the Packard draft picks How cool would have been if Bart Starr Jr.

Was here?

Ah, wouldn't that have been a great person to do a pick?

Mm-hmm.

I mean that would have been just awesome But yeah the Bart and Cherry star I think you know what you want to be really nice if they said hey Can we have that statue of Bart Starr giving an autograph for the little kid?

Can we have that?

Put it over there put it over there and pay homage to the Bart star Think that'll happen.

I Don't know I don't know that it's

John Maino

afraid of breaking up the set.

Well, the set was was privately donated.

John Maino

I know that

was not cheap

John Maino

But it's sitting in a warehouse someplace.

I know And I don't know about you, but do you see any signs of anybody making any sort of a no even dorm?

Push to know

That got overshadowed real quick by the draft.

It did just yeah, just it was there one day and the next day it wasn't and Where'd it go?

I don't know.

Yeah.

John Maino

I

Anyway, I said this to you guys out here, and I'm just gonna say it on the air I'm really proud of the work that you guys did and the rest of the team with W ISS and WGBW did to Cover the draft but not cover the draft like all the other media.

We didn't we didn't hype what was going on

you know, at ground zero, right?

We really talked about the things going on in downtown, in the non-profits that we're putting at the Booyah event, right?

The food drive that DeLorean Walls was a part of.

The Jerevanese aspect.

You guys bringing in Spencer Nolan Young to do some artwork and then donating funds from that to local charity.

That's what I'm most proud of, because we really, we focused on the city and the community.

And the things we could control.

Absolutely.

So nice job, you guys.

Thank you.

I'm okay with that.

Yeah, I mean, I wish they would have done better.

I mean, I've been reading a lot about these businesses that we're expecting, you know, 30% which I don't think is a lot of to expect 30% increase.

I mean, that's a really just

John Maino

really.

Oh, yeah, yeah, Brian, I thought he meant the Packer Hall of Fame is donating their busts of Bart and Cherry's star to the school in 2000.

Thank you, Brian.

But I don't know, Brian, what you would think.

I still think that that beautifies.

I like that that thing of Bart Starr handing that autograph.

That's so different than every other statue you'll ever find of a sports figure or a military figure with a little kid in, you know, nor would be like showing these great poses and whatever, whatever.

And Bart Starr is like the only one, of course.

who would want or his family would want, not him playing football, but doing something else, being a great human being, giving an autograph to a little kid.

I love that about him.

That's a great

statue, but I don't, I think I don't like breaking up the set.

So, but I don't know, that's the, sure.

I

John Maino

mean, you never had a set of Sinclair glasses and one broke and all of a sudden the match set from the gas station are broke.

No, the very, I think, no, I'd keep the set.

I think that's a great, great.

great set those statues and i think that should find a home somewhere but

John Maino

do you really think it ever will be honest you think it ever will i mean you know this city you know the green bay packers you know the city you know the mayor you know this guy you know that you know every single moving part are they gonna somehow come together like it's the pope's funeral and find a good place for those

well if they do i weren't

A light blue

John Maino

suit.

Todd says, yay!

Sarah says, 100% yes.

I think it'd be awesome.

Well, Sarah's saying yes, Todd, and to what I said about us and our coverage.

Trying to do it leaning

to the local a little bit

more.

But

we didn't, whatever, I think next time, if there is a next time, we just, you know, for what the city and the county and the Schwabinah put up financially, there weren't a lot of strings attached to it.

And maybe they could have leveraged it a little bit more to say, hey, look, let's have an entrance on the east side.

Um, wouldn't you think for safety concerns, Jim, even for

John Maino

evacuation,

right?

John Maino

I mean, what if I mean, I mean, to say it, but what if something and, and you know what, we're not talking out of her head.

What if something really bad had

happened

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and you

got

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a quarter of a million people trying to get of what get out of one

exit?

Yeah, they had a couple more.

They had more exits than entrances.

The only right.

But I don't know.

Again, you

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know, after concerns, you think there would have been more something along those lines.

I guess what, you know, and people say, well, you know, was it successful?

Well, you got to find success.

What success is to you and to me and to other it's it's different.

But success to me is, you know, economic development opportunities for small businesses.

That's success to me.

But success to the chief is your arrest.

He didn't.

I don't think he has a big concern whether station view made money or not.

Or, you know, yet.

You know, to me, in Badger State, that's important.

So, you know, was it successful?

And that's what I was telling my mom that I said, yeah, I don't know, what is successful?

Success to someone like, I would think the mayor would be, did we get a message across to the 14 million viewers or to the, of who Green Bay is?

And I, to be honest with you, I don't think we were successful in that.

I think we were very successful and Green Bay loves the Packers and the Packers love...

their fans.

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And the NFL loves the draft.

NFL fans love the draft.

Right.

Yeah.

But

didn't

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we know that

before the draft?

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We did.

But I still think there's a little bit of that green base too small to host that many people.

All right.

So that's

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cool.

John Maino

Ten days fine, but you gotta, you gotta know what you're, you gotta be Nashville or, you know, Detroit or Kansas City to really handle the masses.

That's what I I think people around the world still look at green bases.

Oh quaint little that they're so nice, but this is too big for them.

Yeah Maybe

so we've overcome that right we've convinced people that look we can

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handle I think I will say

more people in summer fest on a daily basis.

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I'm gonna ask this

though.

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Where did people stay?

Where did that many people stay?

Yeah

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And I mean, there was still empty, you know, somebody did a video last night where they were driving around some of this.

Did you see that?

And it went from like a hundred and something to something to 40.

Oh

yeah, that I saw.

But I'm just saying that lady, the VCB lady in Appleton, remember when she was

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here,

she's like, look, we have rooms and that's like 30 miles or something.

So yeah, where did they stay?

That's a good question.

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Thank you and I made it 22 that one day.

I actually timed it.

We did the day we went to final act.

We made great, we didn't know where we were going, but we made great

time getting there.

The Appleton's close.

That's close to what you think.

Yeah, I don't know.

I just, when we were there, when, of course I didn't go there with you, but a couple of times I was there, I knew a lot, a lot, a lot of people.

So I just think there was a lot of local people that

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were there.

No

question.

So obviously they stay at home, but

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I don't know if they went I don't know if the locals the okay put it this way the guys I ran into I would say about 75% of them We're guys who are big sports guys and you know, whatever whatever and I think wanted to come for the event and see the draft draft itself I don't think those were the types that would have gone back.

We're back again tomorrow morning and we're gonna back again the next day I think those you know, I think I think what happened

There's no I don't know if there's any analytics and shows I almost have a feeling that on Thursday night That was so cool that a lot of people around the state were saying let's go Well, we don't have a hotel.

Let's just go for a day And that's what I think happened I think it's it's and then the weather was kind of crappy So even more people would come out than the next day, but I do think we had such an amazing

State of Wisconsin and UP because I guarantee you 90% of the the Lions jerseys you saw around there were from the UP even at Bell in that night I ran into like eight of them I think

So I think it was a little bit more of a local thing.

Yeah.

Again, anecdotal, but when we were there on Saturday, you know, they, they come out and you know, and I was going, yeah, you know, go pack.

They start that chant every time.

And then how many of you have been here, you know, all three days and people always reacted.

They say anything.

Everybody's like, yeah, you know, you know, so how many people here from New York?

Yeah, you know, nobody's there from New York, but it.

A lot of people cheered when they said, how many of you have been here all three days?

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But that doesn't mean anything.

It

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doesn't mean

anything with crowds.

I just want to say that the roar was louder than I would have thought.

OK.

So I don't know.

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I will say this.

I think that I'm so happy the Packers drafted somebody.

It sounds crazy, but I don't care.

I'm so happy the Packers drafted somebody the fans approved of because I remember I forget who it was.

I felt so bad for the guy who was he was watching with his parents and his friends and family and they

showed the crowd of Packer fans, and it was a whole booing thing.

Remember that?

I

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think I was at one of the bars doing the story, and even everybody in the bar booed.

It's like, here's this poor kid, so excited, the greatest day of his life, and so if they had drafted an offensive lineman from South Dakota State, it might have been that whole thing, just a cascade of booze.

So I was really happy for that, to be honest with you.

I thought Packer fans and everybody,

You're the most well-behaved for that big of a group I've ever seen in my lifetime.

Yeah.

On the other hand, it's not a popularity contest.

It's the GM's.

And as they say, you know, you listen to the fans, you'll be sitting with the fans.

So, you know, I just...

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Well, they didn't do it for that reason.

All I'm saying is just to make... To make the kid feel good.

May the kid feel good.

Yeah, I agree with that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's true.

I mean, that's disheartening when you're all excited and you hear the town you're going to booing you.

Yeah, we did a good job of welcoming all those

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absolutely

players.

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No question.

Sarah here says there are so many buses that brought people in from around the state.

I talked to some of those people.

Sarah, let us know.

Give us a quick call if you get a chance there.

That's that's true.

John Maino

Yeah, let you know about that

from Sheboygan and yeah, son, which is a good way to come here for the day.

But

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then you climb on the bus and you go back.

Right.

It's like summer fest busts, you know, go there, then get on and then go home.

And you know, I will say this to though, you know, I don't think we

The whole, you gotta do it one time.

You gotta do anything.

I mean, wouldn't you, like, I would love to build a house because the first time I built a house and you live in it for a while, you realize what you would change.

But you gotta build that first one before you really know.

And now in respect with this, when we were talking about events like downtown here and especially different restaurants and going to and everything, there was so much food over there at the draft and around a one mile block.

I don't know if many people walked away hungry.

From there.

No.

No.

As I said, you know, at New Community Shelter, we got a lot of donations.

And we were grateful for that.

But, you know, just as a capitalist, I would have preferred we didn't get any donations and people made money.

Because I think that was part of the reason we brought the draft here.

But I'm glad we got the donations.

There was plenty of opportunity.

What were there?

16 food trucks on the east side?

There are

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a

lot of food trucks because we walked around there and you know, you can only eat so much.

You can't support everybody, but Yeah, I think it was nice.

I again, I told you I asked me yesterday what I would give it for a grade I said a bee and I'll stick to that I think it was and I don't know anything about the draft I don't even know who we drafted but in terms of just the The concept having that here the invent I think that was I would give that a bee

And the way I judge success is that everybody benefits.

John Maino

OK, you weren't in Detroit.

No, you weren't in Detroit.

You were someplace.

No, it's

a Super

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Bowl.

Are you in Kansas City?

No?

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OK.

I'd like to know, though, as far as because we're a little bit of unique layout.

As far as we say,

we sent our team to the last four Super Bowls.

You know.

But the discovery made the visit.

John Maino

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they

went to the last four years.

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I thought you were still sending your staff.

You mean still on this?

Well, some of those guys went.

I know, I mean, still on your budget.

No, no, no, I mean.

We wrote emails.

Was that from the golden shoebox on your bed?

We wrote emails.

Did that Milton guards the whole night when you're not home?

We wrote emails.

We wrote emails.

I thought it was something like that.

I'm not sure what she was talking about back here.

They really, really had, so.

So that would be a junket.

Yeah.

That'd be a campaign junket.

Brian says statues should go to City State.

I agree.

Yeah, that's

been talked about.

I totally

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agree.

I totally agree.

Then they get out there, they get off the bus, take pictures.

Why can't we have it in front of something where they can spend some money too?

I mean, really have it downtown.

You can put a food truck next to

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it all

the time.

I know the mayor back at us.

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John Maino

Hey, welcome back.

Might only be hearing a beautiful Tuesday morning.

How is it in the outlying areas with those storms that came through last night?

Did you see, Todd?

I was up late here last night.

Actually, I was just, I was working on my book and reading and doing whatever, whatever.

So I didn't get to bed till about 12.

Um, but I was kept expected.

So I actually talked to Julian Manitowoc and the power was out down there.

So

they

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got hit somehow.

Definitely some rain and lightning and maybe a little bit of wind last night.

I'm not sure.

Okay.

And then he

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said, another guy's thing, or a thing he had a Facebook up in the town of pound.

heading towards privates, like a barn was down or something.

And so there are tree branches all over.

There was tin all over blown from barns.

And

let us know what you're seeing this morning.

Text in.

John Maino

Yeah.

Yeah.

Please let us know because that was a really, I mean, Brittany gave us a scary forecast yesterday of 70 mile an hour winds and ping pong size hail.

After she gave

that, I went, you know, I go to that club car wash.

Yeah.

Um, and my wiper blade came off.

Oh, it was and so I and I

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got out

and I was like wait So then I went to the lady and I'm like hey, I just went to your car wash and I go through it all the time Okay, what that monthly pass which I've had it since they opened anyway, can you say and she know mother pretty they've got that down They've got that down.

They've got that thing in the door and the no that ain't gonna happen

Even if it would, wouldn't happen with me, but I mean, even if you have a friend who would do that, it's hard to transfer that, John.

Okay.

So, but she goes, well, wait a minute, I'll go.

Not that I would.

Of course not.

I was just checking if their security was up to stuff.

What I thought, this was, anyway, so I said, when I went, oh, okay, so she comes back and she goes, I'll go find it.

She comes back and she goes, here it is.

But that wasn't exactly the point.

No, because it's more than that.

It comes off.

There's a whole apparatus to that thing.

So I had to take it to the garage and get it fixed because Brittany Storm scared me that we're going to have all this rain, rain, rain.

So anyway, I got that fixed.

So that was my.

John Maino

Did it get knocked off because of their stuff though?

Yes.

Oh, it

did.

It did.

It did.

But I it's been a year.

Could

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you just like pop it back on or

not?

No, because no, that's what I'm saying is there's the blade and then there's like.

Yeah,

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I know.

It's sweet.

I know.

And then

there's something that connects it to the... Anyway, I had to get a new one yesterday.

So anyway, it done.

But

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you're talking about losing those qualities that our grandfathers had?

I right now probably couldn't change my wiper blade.

I did.

I took it to a garage, man.

Yeah.

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I'm out here.

Where's my car?

I forgot my wallet.

I'd otherwise that hand

my man card.

I know I did back in the day But the guy was like five wiper blades exactly that was it every every car basically had the same one exactly you have to look up the year and model and this one works this way cars Yes, yes, no, that's true.

We do sound like old guys.

I

didn't but that's true though That is because the guy open this thing up.

I know that and yeah, so

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and we are

old enough to sound like

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old guys

But

then again, think about it.

Had I knew how to do that, I would have deprived this kid of a job.

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Well, if that's a kid's only job, maybe he needs a little kick in the butt to move on and upwards.

Just saying.

I'll tell you what, those kids that work in these garages these days, they're awesome.

They're so

smart.

What I like, this is what, and I said this about the draft and there's a little analogy here.

These kids today, they're smarter than I

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was.

I

don't say we were, because you guys were maybe smarter when it came to that stuff.

But they're smarter than I was, but their customer service skills are great.

They are, those kids, they look you in the eye and they're super nice.

And so I like that.

And as I said, with the draft, the days, the couple of days that we were there, those people couldn't have been nicer.

I agree.

They were, whoever trained those people.

And I think, who is that company that?

Is that Delaware?

Yeah.

Okay.

Delaware North.

Man, that is Disney.

Those guys knew what they were doing.

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I did not hear one complaint along those lines.

First of all, they had plenty of people.

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Although I gotta be honest with you, you missed some of the best food you could ask for by not being at Bellens, Bellens Sports Medicine thing.

Yeah.

They had this brisket.

And you know, you say brisket, okay, when you cook brisket right, just that right bit of the burnt, you know, like was it the butt ends or whatever it's called?

Yeah.

I mean, it literally melts in your mouth, doesn't

it?

Yeah,

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yeah.

I went back three times.

Well, I made Dom go one time.

I think Mark Houston got

it for me

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the

other time.

Anybody surprised by that

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information?

No, there was, that

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was, that is quite, I got to tell you, so when's Mark coming in again?

Friday, Friday.

That complex they have upstairs there.

I know we talked about it, but it's, you talk about state of the art.

You're, you'd think you're in an NFL teams, you know,

It was it was their own private type of thing whereas you got 12 year old kids using this facility Local athletes or anybody that gets some kind of you don't even have to be an athlete I mean you could you know fall down the stairs and whatever whatever and that's where they would send you It is so top the line.

It's incredible.

I don't know if people realize what we've got here Orthopedically if you're if you're a young athlete or whatever you are or old person needs a new hip.

Holy cow.

Is that a one-stop shop?

Yeah, that's a little bit

my point that it's too bad that didn't get mentioned.

Yeah.

I mean, it's that it's state of the art.

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That is the state of the art.

We

have people that come in here.

They fly in private just to go to that place.

I mean, that is an unbelievable facility that we have right here in Green Bay, like the medical college.

And, you know, we've got one of the fastest growing technical colleges in the United States right here in Green Bay.

And I just we got this best fish hatchery.

I don't fish, but right.

That's what it's called, right?

Fish when people fish a lot or when there's a lot of

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fishery

fishery, and I just

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like to fish a fish hatchery once We used to know that would no no no no no no no we had a fish hatchery Up in outside of Marquette.

It was for Lake Superior first.

It was a real big time Okay, and I mean it was constantly

field trips or whatever, and you'd walk along and you'd see these, you know, salmon that are this big.

That's awesome.

It is awe-inspiring when you go to that thing.

Yeah.

So, and the fact that you can be working in one of the greatest heart places or medical institutions and in 25 minutes you can be out in the woods hunting.

Like,

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that just doesn't

happen.

That just doesn't happen in the United States.

And I wish we would have sold more of that to recruit talent and people to come here and live here.

But, look, we love the Packers and they love us.

That's awesome.

Go, Paco.

Yes.

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No.

Todd, when we got Jim coming on from Harderama, are you going to do that in my place this year or not?

Into Rivers?

It's in your family's complex.

It is.

You would, you know.

We

got Matt coming out from the Meyer Theater.

I didn't put that on your

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list.

Yeah, I see that.

That's awesome.

Okay.

Then when we have time, I got to tell you a typical minor.

Or are you an idiot story?

That'll

be coming up at 7 30 this morning.

We don't have that.

Do we have that kind of time?

That whenever I think

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about it, it's going to make me cringe for like years.

There's center break.

Back after

this.

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