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Schmidt Happy Thursday to you the greatest day of the week, of course.
We've always talked about that.
It's a nice.
You know what?
It's a nice rainy morning Is that an oxymoron?
Yes,
cold.
Try to be optimistic.
I know we're gonna shoot it down on you guys.
You know you guys have become
I'm just trying so hard to get to be like not even summer just like where you can go outside and it's like Let's just go walk around.
It's nice.
We haven't had that in a long time.
What October?
days here and there, but just Saturday's good, you know
those
Hey, so there were some legitimate Tornado's that hit hot hot Like that's like legit tornadoes.
right and it's like holy crap Oh, you know, we almost joke around that, you know, it's northeast Wisconsin We never get bad weather, but it wasn't far from here that it was serious
No, I haven't heard.
Have you tried?
No, I mean, like in Arkansas and Louisiana.
I'm talking about Wisconsin.
That's what I mean.
You know, when you hear about those two, it's always like, you know,
Right this number of person dead or you know, whatever whatever I hate to say it, but yeah,
But it was still scary.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm gonna did I bring this up yesterday or no?
You make me nervous every time you're in our city.
It's like the pilot leaving the cockpit.
Who's running this plane?
It's
this thing right
Come on.
All
we could do things technically
Todd like we couldn't do this
I'm sure Sarah and everybody else is watching look at it Jim and I are we're in our own little cocoon and Todd leaves the control module All right, we had to get some stuff technically.
All right.
This is awesome.
Look at what Todd's doing here It's just it's magic when he does things on our computer.
He's doing these IT guys come in and Hey, you know, okay.
I'm gonna tell you somebody had a crush on Todd How come every time I say something to Todd he goes, oh god, yeah
Oh my god, I say because
say it out loud, but I'm thinking the same thing.
Yeah What who the first black woman I ever had a crush on Other than Todd Todd yeah, and no no you wouldn't know you're too young Jim would know this Other than the girl on the cover of the album for T1 a brass
a number one album for you like years Herb Albert and the Teowanna brass.
so yeah, no, yeah the only one the
Can I say black?
Yes.
Okay.
Sure.
Um the the lady in Star Trek Yeah, yeah, yeah
abs and that little mini skirt thing They gotta bring back me
we
Yeah, that's good weather for the bugs come out and everything Today is also learned to ride a bike day.
All right Can you just put a kid on a bike and push them and
really
very very still remember that my brother.
I got a bike for my birth there was St.
Patrick's Day There's too much snow and then it was probably like today type of thing probably 1967 and I got my new Schwinn bike right and With my brother on there and he just pushed me I still remember it's like why you either do it or your crash
And
right?
yeah.
But I think part of it might be, you know, once you're on that bike, if you screw up, you're gonna get hurt.
You know what I mean?
So you're so concentrated on making sure everything's good.
I mean, you're gonna crash otherwise.
I mean, it's like, okay, well, but you had the
yeah it was great great feeling
absolutely no question got it one good one coming up on netflix may 20th untold the fall of farf is that legit
see
right here really i'd never heard anything about this
medical fall.
I thought it was post football.
I know nothing about this.
Terry, please let us know.
You remember he came out?
little bit.
I'm just saying, is that the fall when when the word millions is involved?
It's not little
And you know what?
I mean,
Yeah, I'll be honest with Todd.
I could I got his I got his Personal cell sitting on my phone right now.
I could call him right now and be like hey, John.
How you doing, man?
Okay, he'd be great.
He'd be the nicest guy.
Hey, hey, Brett.
We're doing a fundraiser.
Could I whatever you need?
Okay, he's that guy
the nicest and this other thing that happened and I don't know a lot about it I mean it sounds stupid, but I am stupid when it comes to
government, doling out money, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada, okay?
It doesn't look, all I'm saying is just for me being, you know, not somebody in tune to all that world, it doesn't look good.
Right.
That's all I'm saying.
But I know him and I know he's had issues and whatever, whatever.
But deep down, he's as good of a human being.
You know, like, like, you know, what you grew up with is part of who you are.
And there's a part of him that's just such a good guy, and his wife is one of the most wonderful human beings I've ever met in my life.
So I've actually debated about getting him on the show, but I know a lot of people would be like, why are you getting this guy on?
He defrauded the country or the poorest state in the union.
Yeah.
background.
I know, and I hated what he did with the past.
I'm just with, me and Brett Favre are very
And his, his Chewy's thing is round two of Chewy's thing.
Well, I'll tell you, I'm going to ruin it for him.
Okay.
So Mark Chimera is doing that big thing now.
Um, what's Chewy and Buds?
I think it's
some like that.
All right.
So he did episode one, which involved me.
If you've seen this ESPN Milwaukee, um, the time they came Brett Favre and Mark Chimera came on my radio show, uh, my Sunday night radio show.
and I didn't even know this until watching things.
The reason they came on the show is that Brett was in the doghouse with Deanna and she wouldn't let him go out after the games.
So he used the excuse to go out was that he's gonna be on Mino's TV, Mino and Chewie's TV show, okay?
But they brought in a case of beer into the radio station, all right?
And yada, yada, yada, this is when Brett was on, because Brett and I were gonna do a TV show.
We had a statewide TV show set up.
Um everything was set Sunday night after the game was gonna be huge and this was the year they won the Super Bowl in New Orleans and I'll never forget his agent bus cook called me said John come on over to Brett's house.
We go over to Brett's house and Are you gonna pay attention or?
All right, so anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, it didn't work and yeah, so anyway, Chewie's doing some things on his his podcast now about that so whatever
So anyway, I'm in a school principal day, which is awesome.
Dominic Giardi.
If you're still out there, man, you're the greatest principal ever.
my Jacinta.
Didn't have to be named after Saints.
Was there a Saint Jacinta?
I had Rose, Rose Wilma.
Sister Rose Wilma.
Yeah,
Oh Russ St.
Rose.
Are you kidding me?
She's unbelievable.
Okay, uh chocolate Parfait Parfait, okay.
Um,
don't
don't know what a parfait is.
I'm gonna be honest with you You know what I'm gonna buy you don't I'm gonna buy at the Dollar Tree today though
I'm so excited.
Salmon?
Besides that.
I
Here's what I'm gonna buy.
I'm buying a cake pan.
I've never bought a cake pan in my life.
You know why?
That's cool.
You're gonna make a cake?
No.
Because what Lisa brought us in from Michael Friedman's company, simple life hospitality, when she brought in that quiche, I want to make quiche, but I don't have a pie pan or a cake pan.
get ready.
So they're doing that upstairs.
And
like, oh
God.
That was really good.
That was really good.
Um, but it's not that hard.
I don't think the only thing, but here's the deal though.
So yeah, but I don't want the crust cause I don't eat carbs.
Well, here's the deal though.
You either buy the crust.
which is loaded with carbs or you try to make your own which I can't do
So I'm gonna try to just butter up the whole thing.
I'm gonna just
Yeah
Yeah,
It was
well.
I don't know that thin though.
I mean anyway, yes, cuz I don't eat I literally don't eat I haven't eaten a carb in like six years
okay, I'm gonna say something about that I'm gonna say something about that.
Okay.
I'm gonna say something about that
Um, I came back, I did a, I will talk, but I went to an, oh my goodness in Appleton.
What a wonderful, I was honestly, I'm glad I had sunglasses on because I, I, there were a couple of times I had tears in my eyes looking and talking to people.
I was talking to these and everywhere you sat or everywhere you were at this event, I was at yesterday.
It's like everybody lost somebody in Vietnam and their pictures were there and
right?
And they're so young!
My God!
The older
But you're right,
So I'll talk more about that and my carb thing and the whole thing, how this relates to me.
I'm just gonna weave this whole story.
the
No.
We'll talk about it when we get back.
OK.
Wow.
All right.
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Six days on the road and I'm a gonna make it home tonight How funny is that song was written within walking distance of where we're sitting right now?
And he wrote it in between songs
The band singing that
worked right over here W. J. P. G. I think it was really yes
Yes.
It was a disc jockey I didn't even know what the I think was W. J. P. D. At the time.
He was a disc jockey
here in Green Bay, and he wrote that song literally while he was on the air during, you know, he'd play music, play some records.
Hey, come on, Conway, Twitty.
And he wrote that song, steps away from us.
There you go.
All right.
Yep.
And that's something.
Wow.
But Todd can't you see it the old disc jockeys you spin some records play three in a row or whatever Oh, yeah, and you got time.
He literally wrote that song within Five minutes of walking there.
That's awesome.
If I don't artificial hip, too But yeah, so that's why I love that's really something I had in my radio show right before he died and then who was it Todd Redid it.
I don't know country I but they had to take out the lyrics about the little white pills
So your brown had a hit with so your brown.
Yeah, but he had to change the lyrics.
Yeah about little white pills.
Yeah.
Times change.
Amphetamines.
Oh my God.
In sports, they called them greenies and they would have a big jug where you could just reach in and grab as many as you wanted.
I don't know.
That was just their white and they're there.
I know there were white on the speed, but speed was called greenies.
Whereas amphetamines that pro athletes used to use all the time.
I mean, like all the time.
I mean major league baseball, right?
They would have like a bucket of greenies, which were in fact I don't even know would be like the legal term nowadays.
I don't know.
What would that be?
I Don't know.
I don't know if we use a lot of
I mean do they even have a
Okay, but weren't they the same as what they used to sell on the shelves?
I remember this too because when soap wrappers were on
And I hated soap operas, but that was the only thing on TV, the edge of night.
Remember those shows?
yeah.
And they would advertise these weight loss things for women.
they were,
No, they were selling it over there, selling it on TV.
It was the same things, but you know, you take one or you take 10,
You know, which the guys would take for sports.
And then they died of heart attacks when they were 47.
Yeah.
Yeah, but that's why they had to change the lyrics of that because it was advocating speed.
Yep.
Yeah, and that means yeah Text here part of the Brett Farrer thing is his legal problems And when he was with the Jets.
You know what Todd yeah, you're the producer.
Yep, you control everything we do
In fact, anytime anybody complains about anything with the show, I say, call Todd.
Because I tell him, anything we say is what Todd tells us to say.
I don't go that far.
I do.
Thank you, Jim.
Well, I go even further.
I offer his phone number, his cell phone.
But what I'm saying is, do you want me to get Brett Farver in the show, yes or no?
I
I would say yeah, why not?
because
know that I understand that Todd, but that thing about taking welfare money understand that I do like is a so tainted by that that it
Pretty well.
I know okay, but by you know half of the people they're listening and another half probably hate him for doing that I mean things have gotten so Jim you got to be honest with me since you got into politics.
How have things changed?
Hey look I see it all the
know it's sad.
It's almost like the Civil War.
You're either on the Confederate side or the you know what I mean?
I mean it is.
I mean it kind of
between a little bit
you know I remember when Diana was the nicest human being I've ever met and I told about my sister who passed away from cancer, you know was dealing with cancer and She sent me a boy.
She sent my sister a book up into Gwynn, Michigan autographed, you know Fight the fight where with you anything you ever need.
I'm here for you know what I mean
They could have eight million people contact her and she took the time to write the nicest most heartfelt genuine type thing to my sister to me that means a lot, you know
think?
All right,
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, you're in a
fire on the show
And I understand why people, and I understand that whole, I don't know, what's it, state money, state funds?
They're supposed to go to like, disadvantaged and somehow I got whatever, and am I not defending them?
too many strings.
What's attached to it, right?
Okay, you know what the heart okay, I'm gonna tell you the hardest job I ever had in my life was Jim And this is the one thing in the world you and I can relate to okay, hmm You're working for an entity that Lives on the goodness of other people right I
you know what I mean give donations.
non-profit you you live on that I do yes, but I did too right
That's such a fine line you have to walk.
It is.
Because you might accept from somebody else, and then somebody will say, I'm not giving you any more.
True?
Very.
It is such a tough job.
Yeah.
OK.
We're going to set a quick break back for us.
Hey, welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here, and good luck in Thursday.
You know what?
You can't ruin a Thursday.
I'm just sorry.
Todd.
All right.
You just gave me a walk a really now look outside.
I know yep.
All right for okay.
Can I just say something that just?
Pissed me off Walk in here this morning You're 12 steps.
What?
Well two things number one somebody bought some fast food and to send just throw all their garbage around the sidewalk right outside our window Just look right up.
You know what I mean?
It's like
You order food, you eat your food, and you can't walk to a, you have to just drop all your garbage right here on the sidewalk.
Well,
What the hell, what happened?
There was a delivery person that works for one of the companies.
Right, okay.
That.
pulled up out here and I don't know if they had food for somebody they were dropping off like one of those each streets or Uber eats or something like that.
And then for some reason, I don't know if it was that food or something from his car that ended up.
Oh,
really?
Okay.
but yeah.
Well, no, but that's the one I could see me doing.
my old days, when I was immature.
But it's like, right on the sidewalk, I like step over it.
You know what I mean?
It's like, how were you raised?
Do you think, if you brought back your mom and say, hey mom, look at me, how well you raised me, I threw all my stuff right here and
you know what I mean?
I did the next
and I kicked it
I'm in a path for myself by kicking into the street Okay, let's go with our text here Todd you read our text.
you know Todd, you know nothing that pees me off
You're always like doing too much during our show.
Yes.
Would you stop working?
God, I hate people that work.
All right, Todd makes a good point.
We're trying to do a show and you're working.
Let's do what Todd said.
All right.
So here's our first text.
Absolutely should have bread on.
This is actually the perfect time or the perfect type of show and the two of you are perfect for that type of interview.
I
like
there.
And that
I still
lunch,
that was a terrible.
You know, I felt bad.
You know, I want to get I want to get Bart Jr.
on because I remember him trying to help his dad of the golf cart and the pouring rain.
It's like, oh, it's like, remember that?
Oh,
And then I will say this on the extreme opposite end.
When Farve was you know at the Lambo the big so it was so hot.
It was my remember that There's like a hundred degrees.
What's
hottest day?
That was great.
Yeah,
Yeah
that long I was live for the whole thing.
Yeah,
I still remember you don't you don't use cringe worthy type things.
Oh, yeah So I was doing a thing for NBC 26 at the time with this young reporter who was co-hosting with me, okay, and Deanna I said Deanna far I said yeah, it shows
And she comes like, John, I just want you to know I've been asked by everybody and I'm not doing any interviews except for you because you were so good to my family and my dot, you know what I mean?
Nothing about Brett just because you were so okay.
So we do the thing and so we taped it.
And Todd, you would appreciate this more than anybody, the inner workings of broadcasting, okay?
Young reporter, wasn't from around here.
Nice girl.
She goes, we're with Dianne Farve, or no, Diane.
Where's Dianne?
I love that.
Yeah, but you know, and it's just like ah It's Indiana said John you're the only one and I tell the younger you go ahead and start with Diane far Wow, and I just and Deanna looked at me and I looked at her and it's like I'm sorry So we couldn't use the interview.
We had the only interview With her that night.
We couldn't use her.
She kept calling her by the wrong name.
does get annoying.
Say something about that though, Jim.
And because I was with Noah yet, Noah.
Cornelius.
Yes.
Yeah.
Wonderful young reporter.
He was actually, we, Chuck Wellens and I, we did the Vietnam thing yesterday in Appleton, went to one of those little restaurants that I love, Mary's.
It's not yada, yada, yada corporate.
It's Mary's restaurant.
I asked that girl the way I said, dude, how late do you serve breakfast till we close?
You know what I mean?
That's
are good places.
It's three in the afternoon or whatever, you can get an omelet.
Love those places.
Totally.
It's one of those kind of places.
That's a great restaurant.
So anyway, actually Noah was there and I told him about what a great, just sitting there having lunch.
I said, what a great job you guys do.
But what you were saying about the two year thing, NBC 26, I give them credit on this.
Um, they're trying to change that by, I think they're the highest paid, um, media station in the area.
Okay.
Cause they want these young reporters.
They almost wanted to like, you know, cut your teeth there.
That's fine.
But then once you cut your teeth, we still want you here.
But unfortunately they're giving these young reporters such great experience.
Like this one that we had Ted Stefaniac and I for high school football games, she would always come on and it's like, what happened to Olivia?
She's got a job in Kansas city.
I'm like the Kansas City top 20 market goes.
Yep.
From green.
So what I'm saying is you're right about that and NBC 26.
I give them credit.
They're trying to change that by paying them more because they used to pay these kids.
Horrific.
I mean, you could work anywhere and make more money.
OK.
So they're trying to change that like learn your community.
It's almost like the press.
Gazette used to be where it's like, you know, if a reporter from the press, Gazette called you.
They had credibility because they've worked in this area.
and you've been a how many different reporters in your 16
many different reporters came into your office who didn't have a bleep and clue?
different
old
I
do I do but it's a little bit disingenuous
which is a great word that I'm just throwing out there.
I don't even know what it means.
Okay.
But they should do their homework before is what I'm saying.
Or they could do that for you.
Yes.
But you're
I
Time killer.
Time killer.
That's a time killer.
We never time filler of time filler, but as we cut time.
We never do that in the media
that every day of my working life.
Read them, Todd.
Michael.
I'm not, am I angry?
Okay, cause I had to walk through somebody's garbage into the studio.
Oh, that's
Todd,
you're talking
Yeah, I do.
Go ahead.
So on Monday, the President signed an executive order, and I guess the essence of the order is that truck drivers need to be proficient in English.
And proficient is, you know, you got to define that, but if you look at our fourth grade reading test scores, some of these kids aren't proficient, but they want them to be proficient in English and
obviously in speaking but in reading as well because evidently there's been some issues with with with language barriers with not be able to read signs properly so I don't know who lobbied for that I'm gonna guess it's the police state police but so that goes into effect I think today and that's why I said there's an executive order signed I
will say this I don't know anything about that part of it the whatever um but as a police officer
What do you do when you pull somebody over and they don't really speak English?
I think about it.
What do you do though?
You get any police people out there what law enforcement?
What do you do
know I would imagine they need that right?
I mean
like that's right in New York three o'clock in the morning and you're in the emergency room, right?
that would they do
Oh,
I was in Congress.
He had a TV show.
You know, the secretary of transportation.
Anyway, he's kind of in charge of putting together the parameters of what proficient means.
This is going to be interesting, but I think I don't know.
It didn't get a ton of coverage.
I didn't hear about it till this morning.
So.
Anyway, that's when Brian, when he asked about the executive order of this, that came out of the White House on Monday, and I think it's effective today, I think, but don't hold me to that.
Sean Duffy.
Yes.
Sean Duffy.
Oh, Sean Duffy?
Everybody knows him.
Oh my God, absolutely.
I was with him like two weeks ago.
mine, too.
We
I Will say this if they take away every trucker that can't be proficient in whatever they say then the trucking industry will take a big hit There'll be a lot fewer truckers on the road,
that I know I will say this my mother didn't speak English and She started school and she was traumatized because she was bullied so bad because she could not speak English She only spoke Italian to the point where my grandmother who ended up doing time in federal prison went to school and smacked the hell out of her teacher And if my kid was bullied because they couldn't speak English I'd go to school now to smack the hell out of that teacher
I'd smack them till white stuff came out of their heads.
If they bullied my kid, I'm just being honest with you.
Yeah, when you first come to the country, like my family did on a boat when my grandma was pregnant from Italy.
I thought it was your
Well, I'll tell you what, if your family came over to talk, I would smack the hell out of your family.
I'd smack the hell out of your dad.
All right.
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Thursday morning is also made.
This is something we're devoting our day to this May day of prayer
Well, yes and although I went to a Catholic school Yeah, and May day was the day for the Blessed Virgin And we would remember that you'd walk around a tree Or something Jim doesn't seem like
remembers that well, I'm a better Catholic than he is obviously
Call your brother the priest.
Don't you remember May Day?
You guys didn't have to do with them.
My sister, that was a big thing in my family.
She was selected Queen of May Day for the Blessed Virgin.
No.
Thank you.
Apparently
Yeah.
And it started today.
Well, this says May day, while often associated with secular traditions like spring festivals and celebrations of labor, it also holds a significant Catholic connection because of the month of May being the month of Mary.
Thank you.
That's awesome.
I'd never knew that.
No, but I was in Catholic.
So we didn't grow up in Uganda either.
Thanks.
God, we got
that's a theologian theologian.
I just quick, I
Hall of
Pope,
Last interview with the
didn't play the
that.
But this kind of play.
Hey, hey, okay, I'm not.
Don't be too much fun of him.
No, I know I'm going to spend a couple extra
Years in hell for this.
Okay, but I think it's eternity.
So I will say this.
Can't you see was it Vance?
Yeah, okay.
Oh, you're Pontiff yeti and it plungers goes Did you see that it's kind of like a When the hell was that?
True you know his handlers the guys in the Swiss Miss costumes.
Yeah came and said
lot of
So who's on your shows on Sunday?
We're going to talk about the conclave because I think, again, I love the draft, but I did think that sucked a lot of energy out of this community.
And I think we can talk about other things.
I think something that people are interested in.
I mean, there's 1.4 billion Catholics.
about half our community that's listening is 47% are Catholics.
So anyway, I'm bringing in John Girotti, who is like studied in Rome.
I called him to say, look, I need someone to come on my show.
Can you give me a name of someone who understands the conclave?
Why do we elect a pope?
Is it representative?
You have 20% of the people live in Africa and 20% of the cardinals come from Africa.
And just I'm interested stuff that I have.
And I think people will find this interesting because we're going to talk about term limits and everything else.
about this election of the pope so he's and he said look when is it night he said i can come tomorrow which was yesterday i said that's not gonna work and he but he's coming on thursday
to actually today I'm gonna record the show.
You know what's so funny?
Little things that stick, I remember 4th grade River, sister Wilfrida explaining that about the white smoke versus black smoke.
And I still don't understand it.
Well, you'll have to listen and I'll say.
You listen, I got,
this is gonna be pretty.
But they burn something special, right?
I'd bring him on this show, to be honest with you.
I would like to know.
Can I be honest with you on something?
I swore I was going to be cardinal.
I I had thoughts about being a priest, but I thought that was kind of like anybody can be a priest What I want to be a cardinal.
I'm gonna know why I think it's cuz they they look cool in there the red and
like you.
I'm just throwing this out there.
I'm just throwing this out there.
I thought about being a priest.
So did I.
really did.
Okay, a bad part of me though, I wanted to hear people's confessions.
Jim,
secret?
honest.
Right.
There's the secrecy
Let's
cocktail hour with priests.
Do they yes or no share confession stories?
so?
Never.
Never.
Four deep into the bourbon.
I thought you're going to say, I gotta tell you this one.
I'm going to name any names when he sells
this.
I think I would have been a great priest.
on?
Yeah, a bunch of tax coming in.
just throw it out there.
Hey, hey, first of May, outdoor things begin today.
Just saying my grandpa always said that, Tori.
Well, you had a dirty grandpa.
Yeah, I did.
Tori, Tori, Tori, you're banned.
for the rest of the show.
Um, John is correct.
We used to make May altars at home each May.
Statues of the blessed Mary surrounded by flowers every year.
Jim's mom would remember doing this.
I'm sure
I mean, we had a little coming in there to have the May Queen and the whole thing.
Maybe that was like Old Testament or something.
I was going to be a bishop.
But I hate walking diagonally.
Brian.
joke.
Hey, Brian, you're bad.
Oh, man.
Brian, Brian, Brian.
If the best you got is a chess joke, you're banned for the rest of the day.
Tori and Brian, you're both banned.
Watch the movie, Conclave.
Wow, Tina.
with the secrecy.
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