Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are
your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Good morning.
Happy Tuesday to you.
It is nice up there.
70 today.
No way awesome.
It is just a perfect beautiful morning, man.
Why don't you do my walk this morning?
Yeah, right?
I was thinking man It's a great time here to get up early get out through the sun's coming up and the birds are Popped their heads out of the nest and the yeah seagulls are swooping on the you know sailboats are sailing.
Yeah, you know why they start tweeting what?
What makes him do that?
What?
What when the sun comes up the light?
Yeah, no.
Oh, I think we know is that why was that one of rooster crows do or whatever?
Pretty much.
I think yeah thing.
Yeah, you didn't know that I knew that I was wait.
I was waiting for this like really like mind-blowing You
know what I despise
and after seven hours and I wish there wasn't a law against Oh And people are gonna hate me for saying this there's a law against it.
Yeah
Yeah
Murder
morning doves.
Oh
when they're outside your window at like 430.
Yeah,
well the sun's not up down.
They're not cool.
They cool by head of time.
They're the early risers.
Gotta hate morning.
Right outside your window.
I've tried everything to get rid of them short of a pellet guy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I hate them just to know it.
I don't think you'd win any Morning Dove calling awards.
Yeah.
Maybe it wasn't.
Oh, okay.
That's good.
Happy nurses day.
Yeah.
Love them.
God bless the nurses in the world.
That's that is a unbelievable.
I'm glad we're recognizing that today.
My daughter who's in she's dead.
You don't realize how.
all the work the nurses do.
It's unbelievable
what they do.
I agree.
Couldn't agree
more.
I mean, these doctors walk in everything.
It's cleaned and it's out ready.
They work so hard.
I mean, here, but everywhere.
But we have an appreciation for nurses because they take care of us.
But from the other side, doctors got to really appreciate nurses because they do everything.
Let's be honest, a lot of the work.
I mean, yeah, they do a lot of work.
No question, man.
And I think a lot of times they're, they're really the communication piece, right?
Absolutely.
You tell the nurse what's going on.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
They are.
I mean, although you got to admit one thing.
Hmm.
Nurses state.
Boom.
What do you think of?
I think of a lot of nurses.
I know.
Yeah.
My
sister.
Yeah.
But you also think of a female, don't you?
I do.
And there's lots of guys
that are going to talk about male nurses.
Yeah, because
that's getting a real big thing.
Guys that are medics in the in the military.
That's true.
When they get up, they become nurses.
Yeah.
And
it's great.
It's a great career.
And you know, you can really not not to do for the money, but if you work the holidays and some overtime, you can.
That's
serious.
Like
in
the first couple of years, because you can sign up for that.
It's amazing what
I just read one of those things about, you know what you could expect after so many years.
Yeah.
with this one nursing thing was $176,000 a year about that.
That's a lot of money.
That's a lot of money.
It is.
That's a nice, that's a nice wage.
And we need nurses and
we're getting a little bit older and nurses or yeah.
Yeah,
no question.
But you ever wonder what they are like, you never know sometimes the person you're meeting with when you go for a doctor's appointment or something.
You never quite know who that person is right before the doctor comes in.
Well, you think again, you're expecting the doctor to be a male.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And
so what do you mean?
You don't know.
Yeah.
Remember, I told you how to go meet.
They screwed up my thing.
They had me come down for the meeting before the blood work and then whatever.
Right.
But because the doctor's on vacation, but I didn't I didn't really know what that was.
It was a female, but I didn't know was she a doctor, was she a nurse, was she a, you know, I wasn't quite sure.
Physicians assistant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Exactly.
What's the, what's the hierarchy of those
things?
I think it is a positions assistant.
Okay, it's a doctor positions assistants and then you then there's I'm gonna look that up at the break because my sister's one of them But it's amazing.
They can do like like yeah, almost everything.
Oh, yeah But you know the big money goes.
Yeah, I know I Would you ever try stethoscopes?
I'd love to just try those one time.
Wouldn't you see what that sounds like?
Never
did that like in school.
No.
No.
Oh my goodness.
No Put a kid in medical school.
You have them all over the house.
Yeah, we got these.
Yeah, those are cool.
Yeah, it was all they look cool, too
That's what I
mean.
That's what I mean.
They look
cool.
Just walk on.
Absolutely.
You like to
walk on a plane with one of those?
I still think one of the favorite things is in old movies where they're beginning with the pregnant lady and they're smoking.
The doctor's smoking.
He's in the room.
I love those old movies.
Just a doctor's smoking period.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
What do you got here?
Terry says, had a great May 5th yesterday.
Nice fajitas.
Dinner at Los Banditos.
Oh, you
could have came to the community shelter.
That's what we served last night, fajitas.
I was a little stressed out because some people who signed up didn't, they started, you know, people drop off, you know, I'll be there, I'll be there.
It's like, well, I'm, helpers, helpers.
So, because with fajitas, you know, it's obviously the tortilla and then the chicken, that's what we had chicken at that steak.
But then there's all these things to put on it.
You want some cheese, you want some cream, peppers, olives, salsa.
So, and then you got, you know, the rice and then you've got the fruit and then the dessert.
And we only had two servers for that.
Well, it was supposed to be more, but yeah, Kyle can come and then Jesse was sick yesterday.
So anyway, I grabbed two.
There was some kids there from Notre Dame that were kind of.
just working on another project.
You guys are done with that project.
You come over here.
So, but there's just a lot to a fajita, but what a great
way
to celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
Absolutely.
It was
fun.
Brian says, Carpe Diem, boys, seize the day, make your show extraordinary, hashtag all positive texts
today.
Now look at
this, Brian.
Brian.
Yeah.
No, no, he
won't.
He won't change.
And thank God for that.
We love it.
He's just setting us up for some.
Trust me.
He's sitting there next
to
his wife.
Watch this.
Yeah.
Watch this.
I'll stop him up and nail him.
Next dollar.
Next dollar.
Right.
How about your UW Green Bay softball team headed to Cleveland State for the Horizon League tournament?
Goal Phoenix ladies.
Kyle.
Thank you, Kyle.
very nice um this is a great time of year for sports for like high school sports and everything oh yeah actually yesterday when I was just walking through the what park is that it's where we met last year to do the pickup the cleaning thing it's the dog park yeah down there
But anyway, um, it's just just walking through that part.
I don't I like walking through that park when I go to CVS, but it's like it was the first time you smelled fresh cut grass and the dandelions were popping up and it's like, oh, if you could bottle like right here, this next couple of
weeks, see me a military guy say that that was something that they missed.
Yeah, absolutely.
The smell of fresh cut grass.
You're sick.
You didn't see that.
I rack.
Nope.
Nope.
That's exactly.
And when you, what do you think?
I always think of football practice or baseball practice when you smell that fresh cut grass.
You guys summer summer, but I mean like golf course type things where there's just something about that that just conjures up and that's a great nominal
Who wouldn't like that?
Yeah, no, that's just yeah, it's great.
Got no tix or nurse practitioners That's what I was trying to think of to be honest with you.
Yes nurse practitioners are very similar to physicians assistants.
Will you that's the term is what is the difference between a nurse practitioner and a
Yeah, that's what I mean.
It's almost like the military.
Yeah, like
a sergeant and
a
little tenant, you know, whatever.
Yeah, okay.
I don't want to say for sure, but I think like they can actually write prescriptions.
They can do all that kind of stuff.
I think the question is what's the difference between a physician's
assistant?
That's what I mean.
She does.
She's in the ER.
She's talked about this guy had cut himself up like with a chainsaw.
She was right there.
What was that?
That was a subconscious
gesture to you,
but
anyway, but I'm just saying that you know was right in in the midst of that so I think physicians assistants are Pretty much in charge till the doctor shows up.
It's a legendary story up in the U.P.
This guy Cut himself really bad with chainsaw and on the woods and stitch himself up with fishing line.
No, yeah
Wow
Yeah, talk about having those, you know, because I would just lay there and go, okay, I'm done.
Yeah, I'd give up
and he ended up this guy.
He's one of the only guys from UP ever to play pro football.
So really he did then he just get himself to a hospital.
That's incredible
that he
stitched himself up.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'd see a tourniquet.
Yeah.
But
I'll check it.
Check if he's still alive, Todd.
All right.
His name is Len.
St.
Jean, played for the New England Patriots, drafted by the Packers.
Whitney Park, Sarah says.
Whitney Park.
Yeah.
Yes.
Thank you, sir.
There's something about that.
It's my name in an old school, old town kind of park.
That's going to be one of the oldest parks in Green
Bay.
Yeah.
That's what I mean.
There's something cool about it.
He is alive, by the way.
He's alive.
OK.
83 years old.
Let's try to get him on.
That would be great to talk.
I'm
serious.
Wow.
That
is pretty
cool.
Yes.
Yes.
You ever take Milton there?
Where?
Whitney Park.
Well, of course, all the time.
We were talking about this guy with the chainsaw, he stitched it up, I'm like, what?
How do those dogs all get along?
It's like, I'm surprised that, you know.
Well,
yeah, they, you know, it's up to the owner.
It's amazing.
They chase each other and they
play.
That's what I mean.
I've watched Eric put, and it's like, wow.
Yeah.
Once in a while, there's a dog that.
A kerfluffle?
What do people do?
Carry mace?
No.
No?
I
don't.
Have you ever?
No.
All right.
My god.
When you're kind of fun to make somebody wants
to see what it'd be like that burns.
Yeah.
Yeah Anyway, I know that park.
That's that's a dog park and there's we need more dog parks in Green Bay.
I They're great and some dog parks are little dogs big dogs.
Look, yeah, it'd appear that would they have a great great dog park over
there.
What along the highway?
Yeah,
yeah, that that's a good one But anyway, no, I like Whitney Park, but I think we need to do a couple more of those
right today is no diet day, which is great.
I'm there
Didn't even know it, and I was, didn't even know it, and I'm celebrating.
I've already celebrated
this morning with a
big breakfast.
I had a fajita.
I was so mad yesterday.
Okay.
Why?
And I'm eating so good, I told you, all my wraps were lettuce and turkey.
That is, I'll give you a lot of credit for that.
To use lettuce as a wrap.
I think, you know what I think?
I know you're supposed to, but.
You know what I think I'm doing too much of protein, protein powder.
I put protein powder in my eggs, make, I think that's pretty unweight, but I think it might be solid muscle.
So, that's heavier.
Not seeing it, but okay.
That's good, John.
Let's get a nurse practitioner on and see what she says
about that.
Do those, okay, do those scales work that say?
Body fat,
yeah.
Do those work?
I
don't know how, I don't
know.
How can they?
Because they don't know how tall you are, but it's not with your feet.
Does
it sense
your feet?
If they turn into a blob, it's like, look at these dudes.
Those BMI things on there, that's an expensive scale.
I know.
You know what we used to have that was another one of those places I got fired from, one of those weight loss things.
That could be anywhere,
right?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Remember?
Oh, yeah, those are horrible.
They would give you one to measure your body fat.
But you never know if they were accurate or not.
I don't think they were.
Well, I think whether it's accurate or not,
It's a barometer, right?
So you got a starting place and
I'm so
mad on that before they let you go Couple of months.
Oh, that's all right.
I'll give you credit for that.
Yeah, some of those guys
weak Well, they that was the thing I had to They actually kept a scale at work that okay, and I when I do the spots that have to weigh in and I'd lie.
Oh Oh,
that's a little
pressure
No problem.
Um, yeah, but I was saying I was so mad when I weighed myself yesterday morning because I was so good I walked to 10,000 still not 10,000 but I you know did some steps and Eating good eating nothing, but eggs and protein and cheese and just all good
Protein stuff
for you
and I was 222 I got it I went from 218 to 222 like we actually took a sharpie in a piece of paper I just wrote 222 and I right there when you're looking in a mirror in my bathroom Yeah, you can't see yourself.
It's gonna get this big thing with just my weight on it.
I was so disgusted with myself
Yeah, that's good.
We should put that in a refrigerator.
You should put it on the mirror.
That's got it in the
mirror
It's also beverage day.
No homework day.
I never did homework.
Did you guys do homework?
Of course we
did.
I couldn't.
Who can't?
What do you mean you couldn't?
What was I going to do, Jim?
Was I going to do it after school?
Had practice.
After practice, got to eat and then feed the dogs.
Got to take the nap.
Then what?
Feed the hogs.
Then like bonanza, son.
Yeah.
Manics.
Exactly.
You
need to study at my house.
I couldn't.
There's a whole bunch of stuff I could not have.
Don't blame me.
I'm trying, I'm trying,
I'm trying, it's a
stone.
Good
morning, John.
John, we got a real show.
Anybody
else wake up with that this morning?
Last couple of days.
But we probably hear
it
in my
voice
a
little
bit.
Clearly
before we came to work, but
yeah.
I was walking.
I was working out.
Michael says, whatever happened to Johnny Juice?
It's coming back, Michael.
Michael, I'm working on some various recipes and some various, you know, it's actually really good.
I'm going to tell you something.
Let me tell you something.
What's really, really good?
Just take that tang that I do.
You know the tang, the squirty tang.
Yeah, seven bucks.
Seven dollars three dollars.
No, I paid.
Well, OK, shop the right place, Jim.
OK.
All right.
Is there anything is there anything where you feel like when more than when you go to all these and somebody says, would you like my card?
Yeah, that I thank you very much.
I
think she was
just
kind of hitting on you a little bit.
I
do too.
I do too.
Those carts are quarter.
But they're really.
I know, it's not like, well, find a quarter.
It's a valuable quarter.
You got, you
do one of two, they get you.
Yeah.
They know how to get you.
I think that's cool.
You brought your own bags in.
I know.
I feel very proud of myself.
Yeah, that's good.
I feel very old, but I feel very proud.
Not plastic.
Did you bring in like those?
No, I bring in the big one.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Those are
handy.
Those are all these bags.
They're handy.
Can use those for a lot of things.
Got my
jumper cables in one of them in the
back.
Nice.
That's, I'm sure that's the intent.
No,
just saying
they are they're
they're strong
strong.
Yeah,
I've done book signings where that's what I've carried the books with
Yeah, they
will not break they will not tear on you.
No, they're awesome What else good not today George Clooney 64 years old Bob Seeger 80.
Is he still performing Todd?
No, he did his final tour a few years ago That George Clooney,
you know, it's that well, who's the guy his play right now?
Julie Isn't George Clooney playing in that guy who used to be a reporter?
Good night and Edward Murrow.
Yeah.
Was he doing that?
Okay.
That's George Clooney, right?
I think so.
Greta went to that.
Okay.
Tickets.
Guess how much ticket is?
$300.
$800.
$800.
Can you believe that?
Wow.
Like good night and good luck or whatever he signs off.
Yeah.
Speaking of that, did you
do anybody that went across the street?
I just want to say that that was a lot of money.
Probably 500 bucks now, but it's unbelievable.
Everything's gone up.
You know, just everything.
Housing, food, but even theater tickets.
It's crazy.
Actually, I think I'm going to the movies today.
What's Tuesday?
Oh, it's Tuesday.
That's $5.
Yes.
Yes.
There's a movie about Iraq.
I want to think it's just called Warland Warland something like that, but it's 2006 in Iraq So I'm gonna go see that but I've been waiting for the Tuesday $7 special.
Okay.
Yeah It's also gonna be 70 degrees out today.
You sure you want to is
it?
Yeah, I know tomorrow's gonna be 56.
I want to go tomorrow because then I
have to pay full price
Yeah, okay, all right
just yeah
you see the movie ticket these days
no i don't go to move
they're like 14 dollars
wow yeah
so if you can get them at half price
i'm telling you um i like you know the she has to buy what do you have i don't even know what we have at home but you can go and get these you can buy movies or get them for free like i watch conclave right i think everybody did they said that they watching that movie was up 3500 that was unbelievable but i'm just saying did you see it oh yeah
I don't believe that.
What's the word?
What's that?
Well, the conclave.
No, what is conclave?
Yeah, what is?
The cardinals doing their smoke stuff.
Okay, what's the gist
of that?
Who's going to get the, who's going to be the new pope?
Right.
You didn't see.
You know, it's funny.
There's lots of news.
These these
guys comes in.
They think it's an imposter and it's I don't want a spoiler alert.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, so on the news though, it's funny.
It's just like national news.
All these bishops or cardinals are coming out of the thing and like, you know, you're you're ecstasy or whatever they call it cardinal.
Any comment?
It's like they're rock.
It's like they've got paparazzi all over them They're like rock stars.
They said everywhere they go in Rome.
Yeah, they're followed by all these people,
right?
You know, they they scrambled the signals for cell phones and that did that's it's it's secrecy I mean So I don't know it's gonna be interesting if it happens today, maybe tomorrow talked about that last night at that How
much they make it's a good gig
the Pope.
Yeah, what does the Pope make?
They hit a salary in there.
Look, John, that's one of those things.
What does the president make?
I mean, it's kind of, isn't it kind of who cares?
I mean, how much expenses do they have?
They've got unbelievable staff.
To that line
of
work.
Yeah.
He gave a lot of his money away.
Pope Francis.
Yeah, but there's a salary.
I guess 300,000.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Don't hold me to that.
All right.
Whatever.
I mean, charge of the world.
But they get
everything for free, right?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
So if you went to lunch with the Pope, yeah, would you pick it
up?
I mean,
he's got that
big hat.
He's got to have a big
wall.
I think it right.
Hey, you're positive.
Hey, I forgot my wall.
Yeah,
I don't
know.
Also teach your appreciation day.
That's a big day, man.
Teach your appreciation day.
How cool is that phenomenal?
All had our favorites.
Yep.
You know,
pet week, you got a whole week for the pets.
All right.
Does Lisa do anything special for her spiders?
I don't know pet
week.
I don't know
Childhood depression awareness day very important very very very very important day for that You know, you wonder did kids not be as depressed back in our era or is it just coming out more than they were depressed or
You know I'm saying I do I do I was it undiagnosed.
Yes.
Was it
undiagnosed?
We talked about Alzheimer's too.
Is that a little bit like right?
Yeah, right
Would think the ladder I think it was undiagnosed.
Yeah, it was there, but it was just kids back in the 30s 40s Yeah, yeah, all right
brewers back in action taking on the Houston Astros in Milwaukee again a nice home stand take a place here 605 on WISS You know we're talking all winter about some of the things we're doing this summer It's like almost here now.
I know it's almost here.
Yeah, and then I don't have a boat yet.
I Want to go to a
bruise game
though.
Yeah
I do.
Well,
I
will
tell you this coming
up on Friday.
We're going to have a free ticket Friday giving away brewer tickets listening in for that.
We'll be doing free ticket Fridays all summer long.
Really?
Oh, fantastic.
Hey, we got a good lineup today.
We've got Ted Ludov coming here from the Ashwabra Community Band Concert.
He's a great guy.
82nd Airborne.
He was.
We got Ollie and Nicole.
Neville Public Museum, Mung American Day, which is awesome.
One of our favorites, Sean Katzbeck from Marinette is coming to town to talk about the boat races, which is going to be hugely popular.
And Lauren Nisbeck from New Leaf Foods is coming on in to talk about their community orchards that we're always a part of.
What?
Yeah.
Nice to hear something.
No, no, no.
I know.
You're laughing.
No, she's not.
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Brian says if it wasn't for positive texts, or if it wasn't hashtag positive texts only today, I'd point out the senior discount and how it works for movie tickets.
Brian, told ya.
There you go.
Told ya.
I think you can also buy them in advanced.
Yeah, you
can.
You
can order your food in advance.
No, but I think, no, I think if you buy like, I don't know, I'd look at that one time.
If you buy like,
Your subscription or if you buy like 10 or 15 or 20 you get a discount, but you got to use them I think it's a user to lose it.
I don't go to the movies I mean I go to you know one every couple of years,
okay?
I hate just I'm gonna admit something that
falls
asleep.
I'm gonna admit something I might give up my a crock membership
I
went three times and
I did I
keep tweak my Achilles remember yeah,
and I then
I lifted I hurt something in my back.
Yep
I really
was
hoping my granddaughters would come so I could use that water park that's there.
It's amazing water park.
Yeah,
you know, I've taken some time.
I and Todd, you asked me last week.
I was going to ask you again.
Have you been to your trainer?
So my trainer switched his schedule.
I told you that.
No, that's BS.
No, no, he had a baby.
I thought it was a
sheet.
It was.
And then I went to the sheet and that was like, so, so, um, so I thought, you know, I'm just going to take a break and, and, you know,
relook at my life, you know, do I want to work out in the morning, evening, after the radio show?
I just, I need to make a plan.
I have taken some time off.
I'll admit that.
I, though I'm,
yeah.
Cause you're your old trainer, the one who's at your Christmas party.
She's been texting me.
She's like, Hey, I got some free time.
You want Jim slot?
I'll work out.
You
should do that.
She's a, you need a trainer cause you won't go without a trainer.
Well, you don't know that the
problem.
Here's what I do.
I get the last time you went besides those three times before that, but I get the wise right across the street.
I can see from here.
I injured myself because I go too hard.
That's what you need to
train.
People are like, slow it down, slow it down.
I haven't been working out for a while.
I know.
Come on.
Right.
Give it a break.
And I don't.
Huh?
Yeah.
You just get into just sweating and just.
Look at that guy over there.
That's been the history of my life is I overdo right away overdo I overdo even with like work type things people like relax chill And I just don't have I'm not wired that way so I'm just saying hey Todd.
Okay Bob seager Did you go to his concert in the gun in the Connie in Green Bay?
Oh, you didn't know the home.
It's got to be ten years ago now But ten years really yeah,
and it was
at the Brown County
was a rash
rush was open then yeah
I'm gonna say, cause Louis and I were doing our show.
Mine on Louis.
So that was about 2015-ish.
This says 2017.
2017.
Okay.
Man.
He, I still think he was one of the greatest performer.
I mean, you get your liberaches and all that, you know, whatever, whatever.
To me, Bob Seeger, for my whole general, my like, you know, when I, when
I would agree,
my whole lifespan has been Bob Seeger.
I mean, his first hit I want to say was Catman Do in 1975.
Right time
I'm off to look it up.
Okay,
but I mean he's you know what I mean It's like somebody you just kind of grow up.
I mean you just kind of it's there in your whole
life
Elvis was you know by the time I listened to music Elvis was already
Which is a new start.
The Beatles were Springsteen.
Yeah, almost the same
though Yeah, I would see I would that would be a very very close.
They both started like 75 were both their eras where they kind of get started Yeah, and that was that's come all the way through you're right
and then
consistently
good but
Then that would go like if you say well who own that decade or who own that that yeah, I would say you'll see with that But then Michael Jackson kind of own yeah,
yeah, no question.
No question.
No question So who owns it today?
I don't know
No,
we're not but I don't know is there anybody?
That's not an older type person that would tell who's like you know like we're talking Seeger is like
our entire lifespan.
You know what I mean?
From high school all the way through now.
Springsteen.
Springsteen, same exact thing.
And then who is there now?
Then Michael Jackson came in and kind of owned the 80s.
And like, who owns, who's like, if you say, oh yeah, that's definitely the 20.
Because
you're right, you buy it to Michael Jackson.
I think of the 80s.
I mean, just
you think of the moon walking and all the, you're right.
Yeah, totally.
And Elvis, you think of, you know,
before
that, I mean, Elvis,
Beatles, you know, then whatever.
But who owns
it today?
Yeah.
The glam band.
No,
I don't know.
I don't even know how to really answer that, right?
I don't know.
I mean, there
isn't really, is there?
Can you?
I mean, that's been around for like, let's
go.
No,
it's going to be.
No,
who is
Taylor Swift?
Taylor Swift.
Taylor Swift.
No.
But you know,
she has a lot of current stuff, though, you know, I mean, she had some stuff not that long ago when she redid her albums and stuff like that.
But does she continue to have hits now?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, she certainly is somebody that Terry just texted in Lady Gaga might be that.
Yeah,
well, you should.
Yeah, it's down there.
Holy
two million people.
You see some of the
things that they busted people for terrorism wise.
Yeah.
I mean, it was unbelievable.
Yeah.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Um, but you know what I'm saying?
As far as somebody like like my my sisters, you know, when they were in high school, the Beatles.
Became big and then that was with them for until the Beatles side, but I don't know if there's anybody like that anymore.
That's generational
Taylor Swift's gonna run a long long time
Yeah, I agree.
Yeah, it's just I mean she
kind of
owns it right now.
Yeah, she really
does Anyway, all right, but it's that's Todd remember how big that was when we started in radio.
Oh, yeah, I mean it was the individuals were so big
and
You know, in the eighties, the big thing was if you had a movie, that soundtrack had to be packed with hits.
And I always say this whenever I play Kenny Loggins, if you had a movie in the late seventies or the eighties, you had to have Kenny Loggins out footloose, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Top gun.
Yeah.
That's right.
Every, every
movie.
Beverly
Hills cop.
Yep.
Yeah.
Yeah, they did.
That was a big part of it.
And they had the big time entertainers performing the soundtracks.
Even, oh, you know who in my favorite used to be?
Um, Carly Simon.
You gotta like Carl remember the
James Bond movies.
Yep.
Yeah Remember all the cover sure
I knew we were going there.
I did You know I do it was also the back of my
mind You had no idea where we're going don't give me that But Todd this summer we got a lot of great stuff happening around here, and we're gonna be talking about Okay, here's here's I know you're no longer the mayor, but you still got some pull with that, okay?
Well, the guys from Marinette, when they're down here, Sean, talked about what they're doing on the river up there this summer.
I think this incredible body of water right behind us.
I know they have their fishing tournaments.
I think that is a spectacular place.
And with the river deck, that body of water has to be used for something.
Yeah, it's, but it's a little tricky.
One is that's, that's an active channel, right?
I don't know.
I don't know this Marinette ever been up there to see that.
You mean?
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't
know, but what I'm saying is it's such I mean with that deck in the hole.
I mean, we've had ski shows there.
But I think it would be cool down in Providence.
They they just filled out these gondolas with like a thing of just fire.
And they just go by and people just gather just that's that's it I said today.
I was with the mayor I'm like he goes I get we're gonna go down to the to the river tonight because the gondolas are coming down Okay, I went down there and it's just packed I couldn't believe how many people were there in thousands.
They line but I don't like in Venice.
Yeah, but there's a Like a bucket, but it's huge and they put logs in there and there's fire
Oh, and the guy just goes by and I I was expecting you know fire works or something or the guy to jump off or just do some kind of it just goes by and I'm like that's it because that's it the people love to see water and Any activity will draw people.
I really think why another water thing.
I didn't know that about the Floating gondolas gondolas.
Yeah with fire.
All right.
Anyway, we got to do something like that.
You're right.
I have a
Yeah, I'm gonna be talking.
I got a good interview coming up.
I'm talking to Brian Johnson.
Okay, maybe Brian can get it done.
Well, he's the president of the city council.
Yeah.
He's also very active and on Broadway.
Yeah, that's right me.
I was I
was sitting there actually last night.
I went and sat up by the river.
Okay, that's
I love doing
that.
It was the
most perfect night and I was just sitting there and it's like here I am sitting here.
Here's this unbelievably beautiful body of water.
So many things I think could be done right there.
All
right.
So we got Shawn coming down from Marinette.
By the way, I got a text here from Vicky.
Taylor Swift is still releasing music.
She has music waiting in the wings to be released.
All right.
Okay.
Thank you for that, Vicky.
All right.
Although Vicky's having a hard day, didn't she text at the start?
Ah, it's a long week.
It's Tuesday, Vicky.
Vicky's Tuesday.
Yeah.
Hang in there, Vicky.
That happened.
Beautiful Tuesday.
Hang in there.
Once again, we got Ted Ludoff coming up with the Ashwabanan Community Band Concert Series.
Ted, a great friend of mine, a great veteran of what he has done so much for veterans, can't believe it.
Ollie and Nicole are coming up, talking about the Neville Public Museum, Mung American Day.
So with those gentlemen, the other day that we're all in our studio.
Those are good people.
Great.
It was at the event in Appleton, and they remembered it very well.
And they're like, you came on your show.
They are some of the nicest guys and John Kaler, who we've had on the show.
We just simply had him on and he works really closely with them.
And he says, you want to talk about a bunch of people that did not get the credit they deserved and have never really sorted out on their own what they did for the Americans.
And you know, the untold story is what happened to the mungs.
We obviously know the mungs who escaped and survived.
They didn't just get on a boat and buy a ticket.
Escape through the jungles every one of these people and we're in those camps for years I mean their stories are just they are incredible.
Yeah, and they come here and they're just great citizens resilient, you know and We can learn
a lot from them
absolutely
like oh, you know, that's like I said they're here, but you know we're here for
It's amazing.
I, when I was back in office, it didn't happen, but I really wanted to create, you know, how you go to bigger cities and there's, you know, Chinatown or there's the Italian area.
And I just wanted to, on the other side of Monroe, just make like a, a, a monk community with the, with, I mean, they're, they're food, they're healthier.
They know, they, they smoke a little bit more.
But, you know, and they're, there's just a lot of things that they do that I think we could learn from.
And I thought that would be
cool to have like a little culture
there, but that
didn't fly with some people.
Yeah, there's a lot to learn and you know, I mean, there's great kids in every culture, but their kids do pretty well.
Yeah, no question about it.
But I've talked to helicopter pilots in Vietnam.
In fact, I'm working on a story right now.
And he talks about where very seldom, because they'd get called out for a helicopter shot down.
And the race was on, man.
Do you get there before the Viet Cong get there?
And there was always a race where the Hmong, they would know what would happen and they would get there first.
They'd beat everybody to the scene.
Knowing the VC were on the way or the North Vietnamese, but they would get there to save those guys from that helicopter Wow, they said inevitably when they got there among we're already there It's like how they knew how they would ever
think
about
nobody had any
idea But somehow there they were to rescue those guys.
They didn't have GPS
They was just unbelievably
and
guys with parachute out of
their plane be shut down and they parachuted and all of a sudden There's four or five mung to take them to a safe place
Again, you know what I mean?
What they did is I don't think that story has ever been told good enough as far as what they did for American troops in Vietnam.
Incredible.
And they paid the price too.
They sacrificed for it because of what happened.
So I can't wait to get them on.
That's coming up at 7.34 this morning to talk about them, all the respect in the world
for those folks.
I'm glad to honor them too at the museum.
So we'll get a little more detail on that.
Absolutely.
Todd, one other thing we need to talk about just one last time.
What's that?
All the other people that work for Civic Media that took home some really nice awards.
Yeah, it was amazing.
You know, we said yesterday that Brittany had three awards.
That was just the number ones she had.
And just she had like three or four or five number twos as well.
Unbelievable.
You know, yeah.
Social media personality of the year.
Bam.
She won that.
She was in second place.
Where were we on that?
Oh,
yeah.
We took third.
That's not well.
Well, it wasn't not not not not social media personality social media content you won third place
Okay, give us okay.
Do me a favor
that we
gotta
do.
Yes.
Tell us give us
some give you
reviews on that they don't I
can tell
you
know, you know
What?
It's the same stuff everybody's been saying for two years.
Show up on time.
Be prepared.
Do a little.
Do a little
radio.
We're gonna start doing that.
Two years, Johnny.
Two
years.
No, give us a category.
Give us a category.
People, if you were voting people, what category would you come up with for Jim and I that
you think we would win?
Well, we're not gonna win social media because we don't know how to do it.
No, but it could learn.
We're handing out a prize patch.
We're handing out a prize
patch.
Give us the category you think we would definitely win if that category existed.
And we're going to win next year.
Yeah, big time.
Back after this.
Seeger's 80th birthday.
I actually, okay, you ever think about this in your funeral if you want a song
to be played?
Too much crying.
Huh?
Too much.
With every?
Well,
I have Bob Seeger rolled me away.
Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
Yeah.
10 hours out of Mackinac City, stop to the bar to have a brew.
Met a girl, we had a few drinks.
I told her I decided to do.
How
great the art.
Back to
back.
Hello there John.
My good friend Mr. Ted Ludoff, Mr. Luto as we used to call him on my other radio shows various times over the you've been with me for how long?
I'm guessing.
25 years or so, way back to your days in the WBAY studio, which is about a quarter of the size of this studio here.
So that's how far back in fact, I was driving in, I was thinking about when my children were younger, who are now 32, 30 and 28, there used to be little tanks that would bring in Christmas toys and other things for you years ago.
That's how far back we go.
Isn't it almost hard to believe, and Todd, you can verify this, it's almost like,
You could do a lawsuit about terrible working conditions, having to work in that studio that we had.
Doesn't that seem like it would even be legal?
It was horrendous.
And all the equipment that we have down the hall in another room was in that studio.
Was right next to us.
Were
you ever a guest on a gym?
Yeah.
The tiny, you had to sneak
around equipment.
I was always surprised at how, I wouldn't work in those conditions.
And like I said, it was probably, I don't think it was legal fire things.
I just don't think it was legal.
but the way they but then the
coffee thing everything was right outside so people are always getting coffee
and conversations the other one was um they'd been on a few of those stations and you go downstairs and you go in there and i swear to god that was a broom closet that's where the guy was just this little there was an i could fit one
chair i know i know where you mean
yeah and i was like
This is where you I mean, yeah,
that's I've seen how far you've progressed than John
Windows no
we had a window in that one remember it looked into the hallway
And you
know it's so funny I remember having like Ed McMahon
Remember
a big
man and a big man who's this huge guy.
He was wedged in behind her in that studio.
Oh Frank Garson Frank or oh,
yeah,
he hated
it.
I love him.
Oh, I know Yeah, we
done yet.
Can I go now?
I think he's great.
The
only
time we ever got blown off worse of a guest was the time we had Paul Horning on
the
phone.
He thought we were in Sturgeon Bay for some reason.
Hey, you could tell he was just done.
Hey, I'm almost to Green Bay.
I'm losing.
You're really bad here.
I'm almost to Green Bay.
Oh,
Paul.
Ted, you go way back with all the different military things that I've been involved.
because you are a very proud member of one of the most elite units in the United States military.
That is correct.
So during my military days, I was a member of the 82nd Airborne Division.
So I'm a lifelong paratrooper and comes a lot of pride being in that unit.
We always like to say, and it's very true that when the president needs someone to go somewhere fast, they call us because our mission
was to be able to ready to go anywhere in the world within 18 hours notice.
So we had to rotate through various cycles as a member, training, support, and readiness.
So if you had the right in this, you're the one that was going if there was something happening.
And by readiness, I mean, you guys were like ready to roll, right?
Correct.
I mean, so you see the.
the movies, TV shows where the soldiers have go bags, that's a real deal.
Because when you get that call, you gotta go.
No, I was in during the mid to late 80s.
So cell phones weren't really a thing there.
So that means you had to stay close to a phone.
You could really not go out to a ball game, go to the bars, whatever.
And so you rotated on that ready status, and if you got the call, you were going.
Wow.
So, but I was very fortunate when I was in from 85 to 89 that it was a relatively calm time in our nation.
We had a couple of skirmishes, skirmishes that people may not remember, but we sent some people down to Panama
to get
Noriega
when
he's hiding out and we sent some troops down to Honduras, but you know, relatively small scale.
So I was, I was fortunate.
I remember guys that got deployed for
the Panama thing and they
I don't the media didn't really cover it as much in but our guys were in there like a month ahead of time just laying in the jungles right watching they said that sucked He said that is not a place you want to be laying in the jungles with the different snakes and they said that these centipedes are like a foot long
They can
walk and buy and
you can't move you can't make a sound right?
So that's that's a different animal that you have the pathfinders They're the ones that go in early so they'll parachute into the enemy line or be on the enemy lines and They're doing their the recon okay
But they're so paratroopers.
Absolutely.
Oh, yeah, yeah, right, but it was right.
So I mean
Like I said, that's a different animal, though, wanting to be in the jungle for a month at a time with no support.
Just lay in there.
Yes.
You can just lay in there.
That's right.
Wow.
Yep.
Well, we're going to be talking about something else you're involved with, of course, now with music.
We've got some text here.
Todd from DePierre says, that studio you had was smaller than the smallest closet you can even imagine.
Good thing Nick had to sneak into the smaller side
of it.
All right.
Thank you, Todd.
Another one, text, 2026, new radio award category.
And now the award for two hosts that most resemble Stadler and Waldorf from the Muppet Show.
Wisconsin Broadcasters Association had their awards banquet last week.
And Johnny and I took second.
And we're not second place winners.
We're sore losers is what we are.
So we asked our listeners, we're going to win a category next year.
That's twice in a row we came in second, which we're done with that.
So you want a tailor maker on category?
Right.
You want a buffalo
bills?
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But
anyway, so we're asking our listeners here now.
Got another one
here.
And now the award for first place in the cranky old guys in the morning
category.
We could win that one.
So it's
likely to have three shows going on at the same time.
Yes.
Right.
Like the last one's good.
But I would go ahead with
the mayor first place in the participation of radio category study.
is unhinged a category.
It's not a bad thing.
It's my favorite thing about the show,
Sarah.
All right, I think we could win that.
I do too.
Unhinged category.
All right, let's put it in for that.
Talk
with Teddy, talk about big things over in Ashwabana, and we want to hear your career as a drummer.
Absolutely.
That's pretty cool.
Two
things you and I have in common, both paratroopers and both drummers.
All right, we're back with Buddy
Rich.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Our number two of mine on the Marin on absolutely perfect Tuesday morning 51 right now in Green Bay 15 Alton 15 Oshkosh no wind whatsoever forecast in the low 70s man you can't get much better than that roof should be open in Milwaukee tonight should be maybe they can get something going let's hope so
Ted Ludov is here.
Ted, a long time great friend of mine and very big with the community band in Ashwabara and something that I didn't know you had such a long history.
You're telling Jim here that you started out being a drummer when you were how old?
I was in seventh grade.
Okay.
So my musical history goes back to sixth grade in middle school and I started out as a trombone player.
Okay, now that my parents would have taken the drum thing.
It must
have been a good kid for them to let you bring a
drum set into the house.
We lived in the country and my mom worked during the day, but I had to work during the day.
So summertime is just me at the house.
So when I started as a trombone player in sixth grade and the band director told me at the end of the season, you don't have the ombra sure, which is your lips strength to be a trombone player.
He said, maybe it'd be better as a tuba player.
I thought, I don't want to be lugging around to two players with seventh grade boys.
So I said, well, how about if I try percussion?
And he said, okay, we'll put you in a percussion.
We'll let you try drums.
Typically being a percussionist, they want you to have a little piano background because you have the various mallet instruments that you play bells and cellophones, that type of thing.
But they let me in.
So I started playing in seventh grade and played percussion in the school bands all the way through my high school career.
Did they let you, did you get into the triangle and the
xylophone?
Did they play?
Everybody plays that Jim.
Yes.
Everybody.
I was just going to ask you, were you ever the whip in, uh, in sleigh ride during Christmas time?
I played the whip.
You guys
might as well talk Latin.
I have
no
idea.
This is
fun.
I've enjoyed it.
No, I just didn't know how they,
so you, they
ran you through all the, correct.
So that's cool.
That's a good teacher.
It wasn't that much later in my life where I actually had the courage to play the mallets and I'll explain that in a moment, but.
What Todd's talking about is a big whip.
So two big pieces of wood and drink sleigh ride.
Yep.
And you gotta be right on with that.
Oh my gosh.
They're looking right at you.
Right.
Exactly.
It's a solo.
Yeah.
So then I played through high school and then after that, I went to play D three basketball down at Carroll College in Waukesha.
Well, basketball schedule band didn't work.
So I gave up drumming.
So I had a 30 year break and then mid forties.
I hit my midlife crisis.
I thought.
I always wanted to play the piano.
So I started taking piano lessons when I was in my forties.
Wow.
Did you take them online or did you actually go sit?
I actually went and sat down with a with a local instructor.
Wow.
So it was a blast learning how it was one of those things were okay.
I'm just going to play long enough until I recognize a song that I can play.
I don't want to be Elton John, but let me.
recognize Jingle Bells.
Well, the first song you're playing, you know, a real simple song.
So I kept on playing and I still play a little bit once a while, not a lot, but it gave me a good background.
And then from my piano lessons, got me back into music and then I started playing drums again.
So I picked up the drums, bought myself a drum set, put them in the basement and luckily I got connected to a band.
So here I am.
10 years later with his band still playing something a little
magic about this guy understanding parents and understanding wife And I bet it wasn't that hard to pick up right
no I mean it's right people do that a lot right especially with piano the big thing was I already knew how to count right and that's a big thing being a percussionist right able to count one two three four or whatever so that helped me with pianos and I had to learn all the notes but the nice thing about learning about
playing piano is now I could play those keyboard instruments, those mallets, the xylophone, the marimba, the bells.
So it's a lot of
fun.
Was it more fun relearning it in your forties than it was back in the early days?
Well,
it wasn't really more fun.
But when you're an adult, right, you know what you're doing.
So you're not being pushed to do anything.
So I took it on my own free will to go start taking piano lessons again.
And I enjoyed it so much that I kept on playing and I think I took piano lessons for five or six years.
and I can just see you sitting in the lobby with only six or seven year
olds.
It's like, what's that guy doing
here?
And your parachute jump boots.
Right.
That's pretty cool.
You did that.
I think that's awesome.
I want to play just a little audio real quick so that you guys can understand what we're talking about.
I actually played both the horse and the whip at the same time.
Now that took a little something.
Here we go.
Check this out.
Check this
out.
Here it comes.
You got to get that right boy.
So what is
that?
It's like you said two pieces of wood that you slap together and it just has the right tone to sound like a whip.
Yeah,
right So I'll tell you one of
my
So one of my longtime memories though is I went from trombonous in sixth grade to playing percussion in seventh grade so they start Okay, I'm okay.
I'm just gonna when you say percussion you
mean
Drums but percussion what he's saying is that's the pressure everybody just thinks it's the drum and then they but there's the bass drum there's a xylophone there's the maracas there's the triangle
okay
that's the percussion you sit you're kind of in the back okay
the vibra strap
the
vibra
slap and there's how many people are air in that section
three there's
there's six
oh yeah in our band in our percussion section
I know you guys you're tossing out these terms like never
what was
the term you just used Todd
the vibra slap
yeah
That sounds
something kinky.
So the whole point of this is 712 encouraging you to come to
Mexico.
Yes.
So what I was going to say, one of my lasting memories that I've kept throughout my life is sixth grade trombonus, seventh grade and percussion.
They kept me starting me in the real easy stuff.
So I remember started seventh grade.
I'm in the band and it's a hot day.
in the band room, no air conditioning, and he's got me playing the bass drum, which is basically the easiest thing to do.
He
just
watched the director and beat, beat, beat with him.
Well, I wasn't keeping the beat, and
he chewed me
out.
You could throw the whole band out.
Oh, yeah.
So that made an impression on me, where I always keep an eye on the director.
And that's the main purpose of the percussion is to keep the beat for the rest of the band.
Wow.
It's like
the bass player in a small band.
You really just keep.
Okay, that's so that's great.
You did that and you obviously studied it because you Picked it up again.
So you play that in the alleyway.
It's called the alleyway village band or
what is it?
We are called the AVB community, right?
So it used to be the alleyway village band, right?
So we there's a little disconnect there.
So we lost our support
So we went from the Allaway Village Band, but we wanted to keep the acronym, AVB.
So now we just call ourselves the All Volunteer Band.
Oh, OK.
So it's AVB.
We play at the Ashwabanaan PAC.
Usually.
That was good thinking on your part.
That broadened your reach.
So it kept our brand, basically.
Everyone knew the AVB.
So we've continued.
I
guess you've answered the question, but do they get paid?
No, okay, cuz like the city band that plays Wednesday.
I think it paid correct.
They get a small stipend.
No, it's not that small 36,000 a year with Pales guy
three
thousand I
Wow,
so I that volunteer been a plus he's got a really good volunteer band to correct.
Yeah, my neighbor plays a
texture height from Waukesha Annie is it any or any
and
any
that's my
sister-in-law.
Okay.
All right, so
she's two again.
Okay.
We got your
brother-in-law here.
He's just
educating us.
So you direct a band or you play in the band?
I'm a performer in the percussion section.
Okay.
That's awesome, man.
I love to see that.
How often do you guys practice?
So we practice once a week.
So we have concerts from September through May of every year.
So our season finale concert is next Monday the 12th at seven o'clock.
So that's our grand finale.
So I want to encourage people to come on and
check it out.
Absolutely.
It's free.
It's free.
I just saw that.
Wow.
No advance ticket sales, no service fees on your credit
card, nothing like that.
Wow.
And there's great parking there.
I don't think a lot of people have been there.
Right.
I mean, that's a great venue.
But so the venue is 735 people.
Wow.
So it's a big place.
It is.
And we would typically get anywhere from four to 600 people.
Perfect.
There have been a couple of concerts and we've been playing there now for four years.
There's been a couple of concerts where we literally have to close the doors and people are watching on a video screen.
Oh my gosh.
In the
lobby.
And you're basically, you are connected with the high school, correct?
Or no.
No.
Our separate
building.
Well, the building is
connected, correct.
That's what I meant.
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We're going
to change
that.
And
you have
a soloist comment.
That's kind of cool when you guys bring in.
Right.
So our band itself, it's 75 members.
So it's an extremely talented group of musicians.
And then periodically, like every other concert, we'll bring in a vocalist.
And this time it happens to be a young woman named Lucia Suarez.
She's a junior at Green Bay Southwest High School.
So we're going to bring her in.
singing a couple songs with us.
That's cool.
I just, there's so much talent in this community
and
you must know that because you're in the arts and I remember I went to a UWGB basketball game one time and they had a not, they had like this old barbershop.
They had somebody sing and I'm like, I want, I call them like, why don't you have, you got a lot of talent in this school.
You should feature the youth and it's good for them too.
I
mean, it's good for them to get out there, but yeah, I'm sure she's very excited about
this.
Like I said, 4 to 600 people, that may be the biggest crowd that she's ever performed in.
I don't know what her history is, but we had a rehearsal last night and she's saying, and you'll be impressed by her.
We're
at tentlude off AVB community band concert.
Talk some more about this here, Ted, about, you know, proceeds and different things that you guys are doing with this.
Correct.
So
we are non-profit group.
So.
we are thankfully able to get a sponsor for each of our shows that pays, because we sell to pay rent at the AVB and for some of the support production people.
So we get a sponsor in local florist, funeral homes, various people.
So this week, our next week's concert is sponsored by the Vietnam veterans of America, Chapter 224.
And so they're actually sponsoring our concert.
And then also, periodically, we'll do various community-sponsored events.
Like during December, Norma, our Christmas concert, we'll have a food pantry for Paul's pantry.
This month, we are having a spring cleaning collection, and that was sponsored by the AmVets group here.
So we're encouraging people who come to bring cleaning and household items.
hygiene items for veterans.
So, you know, toothpaste, shampoo, pledge, Windex and that stuff that people that veterans need and the AmVets will collect that and then hand them out to the veterans.
So we are a free concert.
We do ask for donations.
So after the concert, there'll be band members standing in the lobby collecting money if you're gonna donate if you do, but it's totally free.
Couple things on your concert.
Are you?
That's a big band 75
that's a
little
herd
cats once in
a while Are
you looking for I don't french ones are you looking for people to join or?
And that's one question and other tryouts
there Yes, basically there are so we're pretty well established.
So we pretty are pretty well set with our band.
However, we occasionally need backups
people or regular members are gone.
So if you go to the AVB community band website, you'll be able to basically say, Hey, I'm interested.
And then they'll run that through the process.
And whenever we need backup sites, this concert, we have
I think three or four backup players because other people in the section are going to be gone.
Here's the crown.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
That's all.
Tabloodov AVB Community Band Concert coming up this coming Monday in Ashwabadan right next to the high school at the PAC.
Right.
We got to talk more about this.
I'm just fascinated.
I had no idea.
Do you remember when I had the drum in the studio at the old station?
I used to play March of the Urquois.
That I don't
remember.
I
do remember a lot of
stuff.
Wow.
Back after this.
Welcome back to mine on the mayor at 722 right now with Jim Schmidt and John Minow You guys I had to play something for you.
Yeah, cuz I was mentioning the vibra slap earlier, right?
Yes, and you're like, oh, it sounds good to kinky and all Johnson
this is
probably one of the most famous songs with a vibra slap in it.
Okay ready for this?
I'll tell you where it comes Right here
That is a Vibra Slap.
What is it?
How do you make this?
What do you
enjoy this?
It's kind of, it looks like a little horn.
It's a flat horn and it's got these little pieces of metal inside with a arm on it and a knob at the end.
You hit the knob and that makes the little pieces of
metal inside
flap around in that
little wood.
That's the Vibra Slap.
I was thinking of the one with...
That's a GUIRO, I think.
GUIRO, OK.
OK, John.
OK,
John,
here's my proposal.
I am learning so much
here.
Is this Unbeltad?
I didn't know yours.
We'll teach you how to really play clave.
OK, here we go.
All right.
Here's my proposal to you then, John.
Put it on the symbol.
Because you've never been to the Ashwap and on PAC.
Right.
You come to the concert next Monday.
We'll let you in for free.
With a donation.
I can do that.
I can do that.
Come on up and stage afterwards.
Uh-huh.
And I'll give you a little tour of the percussion section.
No kidding.
I'll maybe let you play the triangle for starters.
Wow.
And if that goes well, maybe the claves.
OK, OK.
All right.
Let him try the cymbals.
Well, yeah, do the cymbals if you want to do the crash cymbals.
Right, right.
That's awesome.
That's a great instrument.
And it goes well.
Well, the drum set there on my right.
Whoa.
Look out.
Oh, wow.
There
it
is,
baby.
You gotta be pretty coordinated to play the drums.
Not that you're not John, but that's a tough,
that's
hard.
You're literally playing with all four limbs at one time.
If I was a drummer, I wouldn't use the foot pedals.
They'd love to have you in the
band.
Got a
text here from
Mike Ted is a good man and he is a packer expert.
That too?
Well,
I'm a sports guy.
Do
you give tours there or you seem like you'd be one of those guys?
No, I don't.
Okay.
I mean, you're probably a little
young for that.
But eventually, right?
That'll be on your
list.
I thought about it, but I found some other side gigs.
So I don't need that one.
I
got to go back to your paratrooper days.
So what was that training like?
I mean, obviously you're a well-fit guy.
So I came in and imagined you at 19.
Right.
But looking back, how tough was that?
Well, it's very tough.
I mean, it's a three-week course.
And so each week they have a different phase that you're doing and it column column eights in the third week then is when you actually get to jump.
So you have five jumps during your third week and two of them are night jumps.
So that
I
mean, besides jumping out, then you're jumping out into the dark sky.
That was a weird experience.
And it's dark.
Jim did a night jump.
Well, he had his eyes
closed.
I
jumped.
I
heard those stories.
So there's no lights.
I mean, when you jump, it's not like you're jumping into a city or something.
There's no lights.
Correct.
Because the whole purpose behind the Airborne, the paratrooper unit is the mission is you're jumping behind enemy lines.
So you have a relatively low altitude when you're jumping anywhere 900 to a thousand feet And so you're low because when you're jumping behind enemy lines if they see you You don't want to be in the air very long so you want to get down as fast as you can and you have the element of surprise No, it's not
And that's the idea, though, is you don't want to be in the air very long if they see you coming, because then they can shoot at you, obviously.
So you jump out.
You shoot must open right away.
Right.
It's attached to a static line that automatically deploys for you.
Wow.
But jumping out of the nighttime is wild.
Like, how are
you?
Well,
you get the toggles and everything, but how do you navigate so you don't hurt yourself?
Right.
In the military, in.
the 82nd.
Flashlights on his
shoes.
You're typically jumping out anywhere from 100 to 500 people at a time.
So in reality is the parachutes are not very maneuverable because you have so many new jumpers that they're worried about them new jumpers trying to maneuver and run at the other parachutes.
So basically you're at the mercy of the wind.
Okay, you just jump.
You just go along for the ride, huh?
You're along for the ride and you're hoping to get
to the ground as fast as you can.
You know what would be my biggest nightmare about jumping would be?
Somehow I could see myself getting caught on like a high power pole.
Oh, yeah.
One of those kind of things.
Oh!
It's possible.
I mean, one of our training missions is we jumped onto an airfield.
near base because back in the 80s a big thing in the world was taking hijacking airfields.
So we were training how to take over an airfield back to get it under control.
So we would literally jump on an airfield, an airport, and so we are literally landing on a concrete runway sometimes.
people were falling onto buildings.
It was ugly.
I mean, so there were definitely accidents that happened, but usually in training, we're jumping into a wide, wide open space.
I remember the Israelis did that.
Remember, and Tebi, was that the name of the, remember the time the whole plane was taken hostage?
I had it at an airport.
Yeah.
And remember
that?
Yeah.
And they, the
Israelis, well, I know the Israelis did.
No, that was
before.
Yeah.
Okay.
That was before.
Wow.
But you're right.
That was the big thing as far as those hijackings at airports and everything.
That's correct.
Yep.
Well, those night jumps, that's pretty cool.
You did that.
I mean, that's still scary.
It is scary.
And one of my best memories was during training, you're not supposed to be jumping when it's too windy or wet or anything like that.
Well, one time we had this major, major training operation going on.
So they said, we don't care for training.
We don't care for 20.
You're going out.
So I jumped out.
And the cloud cover was about 200 feet at the time.
So I jump all the way down, I get out to the ground and I'm gathering my parachute and everything else.
And I look around and the most amazing, one of the most amazing things I've ever seen is all this low cloud cover comes all these paratroopers jumping out.
And I say, man, if I was the enemy, I would not want to be seeing that.
Wow.
Good stuff.
That's pretty neat.
Tantaluda.
Okay, give it one more time here Monday night.
AVB Community Band, May 12th, next Monday, 7 o'clock at the Ashwabnaan PAC.
It is free.
You'll hear various music from Mancini in Sousa and John Williams Star Wars, Let It Be from Frozen.
This is your grand finale, too.
This is it.
This is our grand finale.
So hopefully,
new people come out to the show.
Right.
And they're walking on even darn.
I have to wait until September for another concert.
Thanks for doing this.
Absolutely.
I'm
so impressed.
I'm serious.
It's a
great time.
Good for you.
Ted
Ludev, ABB Community Band Concert, 7 o'clock Monday.
Sponsored by the Vietnam Vets.
That is correct.
Ted, thanks for what you're doing.
Thanks for serving our country.
You're very
welcome.
Thanks, guys.
We're going to set a quick break.
Allie
and Nicole coming up.
From local stories to local voices, we're shining a spotlight on what matters right here in northeast Wisconsin.
It's more than just talk.
It's about connecting with the community.
This is Mino and the Mayor.
Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor, and a beautiful Tuesday morning.
51 in Green Bay right now, 50 in Aptin, 50 in Oshkosh High in the low 70s today.
There's no wind out there, so my sailing class is probably going to be postponed.
No, my goodness.
I'm just saying.
Sailing class.
Makes a lot of stuff up here, ladies.
I'm like, go kayaking instead.
Special thanks, Ted Ludoff, AVB Community Band Concert, Monday night, great, great event taking place there.
I can't believe how big that 750 at whole.
735, yeah.
Wow.
Well, we got another big event coming up this week.
We've got Ollie and Nicole here from the Neville Public Museum talking about Mung American Day, something that I am 100% in favor of and have all the respect in the world for the Mung Community and so does Jim.
So welcome.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for having
us.
This is a great event and I want to get to later you talk about to wear some monk clothes and I'm sure you got some too as gifts John but I got you know the black shirt you know which is somebody made and then the silver like chain stuff you put around you it's just it's awesome so I'm gonna be styling that day anyway go ahead so tell me about the event.
Yeah, so we have our event on Sunday, May 11th at the Neville Public Museum, and it is from 12 to 3, and it is a celebration of Hmong American Day.
So there will be food, there will be different performances like music, dancing, and different cultural displays.
I know Nicole can talk a little bit more about what she's planning on having at the event too.
Oh yeah, we're very all excited.
Well, first of all, I just want to kind of touch base a little bit about the history of Hmong.
It's originally the original full name for that is the Hmong Lao Veterans Day.
And
it became on May 14, Governor Tony Evers acknowledged that over 1,000 Hmong Lao people fought alongside the US troops during the Vietnam War.
So this one day it's actually to recognize a a bill that was put into place and it is supposed to be
Excuse me, it was supposed to be put in place to really remember that in 1975 was the anniversary on May 14 is really marks the anniversary of the last aircraft that was lifted in Laos in 1975.
Talk a little bit if you don't mind your family history in regards to I have so much respect for the monk because like I've talked to so many Vietnam guys like one of the guys I just
spoke to recently as a helicopter pilot.
And he said whenever they got the call that a helicopter had been shot down, you know, they'd have to send out other copters.
And so many times they would get there in the mung somehow some group in the middle of the jungle knew exactly where this and they were there taking care of the Americans.
He said what they did is is so under appreciated or under reported that it's it's a shame.
Did your family ever talk about some of the stories what they used to do how they used to help the Americans?
Oh,
Oh, definitely, definitely.
My dad, who is actually one of the...
first Hmong Lao veteran survivors that settled in 1976 here in the US.
And I'll quote what he shared to me when I spoke to him about Hmong Veterans Day.
He said, the United States has since then became our homeland.
And he stands proud to bear arms with the country as strong as the United States, who believes in we the people.
And even at age 85, he expresses that he lives still to serve the US Army defense.
He especially thinks.
you know, Governor Evers for making Hmong 14, Hmong, I mean, May 14th, a day of remembrance for the Hmong Valhalla veterans.
That's awesome.
That's
great.
And
I, so very familiar with Hmong community.
They've done so much for this community.
And what I like is you've really held on to your traditions.
We just dedicated a restaurant here, not that long ago, and you had the dancers come out.
And you do that at the Brown County Arena, you have your
festival.
And we have our festivals, and then I'm doing the summer.
The huge thing at Depeer, the summer.
And I think that's great that you've held on to those traditions, and your equally as very, like your dad just said, this is his home.
Yeah, it has definitely become Hmong and you know, we recognize it as really as a Hmong Veterans Day, but it's also Hmong American.
You know, we've become Hmong American because we made this place.
I have to
say one thing a little bit funny about this.
I was in real estate and I had some wonderful Hmong clients, okay?
And we're in
this house
showing this house's family and their two teenage girls and for the closet if you open up to see the closet there was like almost like please do not touch please and there's all these statues and
like incense type things all these different things you know please do not touch please not touch they asked the girl i said oh i said is this what you you honored you pray to these they're like we don't know we're from kakana they
were very much assimilated they were not first generation they're the third generation
i don't know what that
is
That comes to everybody that people has adapt, you know, has adapt for changes.
Right.
Yes.
Changes is good.
So it is good.
But also this year actually marks the 50 years celebration that Hmong has been in the U.S.
too.
So with that, you know, we're doing a lot of celebration.
Like I said, we're bringing a lot of the Hmong outfits, you know, like Jim has shared here.
Please wear if you have any Hmong artifacts or anything that you want to put on your body that day.
You're very welcome to do that.
I
have a cool instrument.
You guys gave me two.
It's.
Oh, OK.
It seems like it's bamboo, like different pieces that are bent.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah, and that is all hand-made too.
Anything that you see that's going to be artificial that day that we bring to show it's all hand-made.
You may have to teach me how to use it, but sit
in my
house.
There are a lot of extra celebrations happening because it's that 50-year anniversary this year, but this is actually the third time that we will be having Hmong Day at the Maple.
So this is the third year we've done it, and it started out with just a partnership between Nicole and some other community members who reached out wondering about doing some kind of event at the museum, and it's been a really wonderful partnership.
A really big part about the museum is we really want to work with all of our local communities to collect, share their stories through either exhibits or programming.
and this is just really perfect.
So it's been such a great partnership.
I honestly think Nicole and the community and the...
partners who work together on this do a lot of the work because they're working on bringing in everyone who's going to be either participating in the event via vendor or actually doing like a dance or something, one of the performers.
So they do a lot of the work and I just help facilitate they're doing the brunt of that work.
I just think it's awesome.
Isn't
that great to have people like that?
She's awesome.
They do all the work.
And it's been wonderful seeing the event too.
So like I'll be here for the third time as well.
And each year it's a little bit different.
It's been really wonderful watching.
everything.
What have you learned?
What have I learned?
I have learned about different instruments that exist that I've never seen before.
And like listening to just the music and actually one of my favorite things too is when like last year to seeing some of the younger performers dance because they're bringing in I think an element of their culture but also like
bringing in more of like a recent like youth energy to it.
So it's really fun watching them kind of combine all of that together too.
That's awesome.
And then
you'll be sharing your culture as well.
You're bringing food.
Oh,
yeah.
I love that food there.
And we are encouraging the youth to be very involved this year.
Recognizing.
I had one of my
Vietnam vets tell me though to never if I'm at the house of among family.
Okay.
Two things.
I made two mistakes.
He said never drink their rice wine.
Really?
I've never heard
that.
Not in the morning.
And then they gave me, I walked in and it's like, what, that's the greatest smelling thing.
And it was, it's the, and I got allergies right now.
And I still got some of this.
It's the hottest spice I've ever managed.
It's like the color of that, like an orangish kind of flaky kind of spice.
Saw that here right
there.
That's a great spice.
They do sell that here.
They do sell that at the monk stores.
Okay.
What is
that?
It's a, it's a very hot monk tradition spice that is again.
homemade.
You know what I've actually done with that when I'm just totally completely stuffed
up
everything?
I'll just put it in a hot water, in a bucket of hot water, or a pan of hot water in the stove, and I'll just put my head over it and then have that steam come up through my,
and it just clears out your head like
you can't believe.
What's that made on it?
Is it some kind of a pepper?
Yeah, it's made of home traditional seasonings, herbs and all put together.
So yeah, it has a very good, but it adds this more flavor to every food.
It's
phenomenal chili,
right?
Yes.
Oh, I'm glad you got to taste that.
That's
excellent.
You don't forget it.
Hey,
when you do something like this, what message do you try to get across to the people representing the Hmong and what they've done in our country?
for 50 years now?
Well, on that day, especially on that day, we like to really, you know, bring it up front and talk about, you know, what the sacrifices that were took, the sacrifices that were made in order for us all to be here.
But we are really grateful for those sacrifices.
And especially with the Hmong Lao veterans, we recognize their courage that
in 1975 and we all recognize and we are here and we are Hmong Americans today and we are proud to be part of the community and this day recognizes and remembers that, you know, Hmong...
all the more here we are here today because we're accepted like places like the we think Beth you know for allowing us the space to have this on a special day and making it public to the community because the museum holds a history of Green Bay and all that comes together and so being a part of the museum means that we
We, the Hmong are a part of Green Bay and we were very, we were very blessed and very honored that we were able to share that with the museum.
Were you born in America?
Um, well, no, I came as a refugee with my, with my family in 1976.
Do you remember it at all?
No, I was only 10 months.
Oh
yeah, 10 months.
Okay.
But did they talk much about what it's like in those camps and waiting to come to America?
And I mean, they didn't know, I mean,
Again, the ones I've talked to and even my my soldier friends, you know from Vietnam I mean they saw what they went through.
I mean they went literally from being hunted I mean hunted like remember we had the guys in here and they talked about they were just like hunted animals in trying
to get
out of wows
Do they
ever talk about that?
Oh, yes, definitely definitely and they will have we'll have some speeches on them and they in regards to those tragic experience and The three reasons why you know among the troops.
I mean the US
troops had asked the Mongols to be a part of and fall alongside the U.S.
troops and all that courage and in all that success to be able to be a part of it.
So
yeah.
I find that interesting that you, to assimilate in the United States, you picked pockets.
I mean, Minneapolis.
Was that a
Wausau big area
one time?
Right, Wausau.
In the state of Wisconsin it would be Wausau and Green Bay.
Yeah.
That's just interesting and I'd like to think Green Bay was accepting.
I'd
like to think that our
community was, and a lot of good people here in Green Bay.
Oh, definitely.
Yes, definitely.
So I think that's
pretty neat
how that all worked for both cultures, right?
And accepting the diversity, because, you know, Green Bay holds a lot of diversity too.
And everybody's got different cultures coming into Green Bay, so it's all good and a part of it.
But especially, like, you know, you guys have all mentioned that, you know, the Hmong people,
They, they know the layout of the land and that's why they fought along the US troops because they know the layout of the land.
So being a part of it and all the sacrifices that were made, but you know, till this day, it hasn't been forgotten.
And that's what Hmongi day is about in May 14 is to remember all that Hmongi veterans
day.
I think I heard negative about the American troops from the Hmongi is that they would teach the little kids swear words.
And there'd be some words coming out at the dinner.
And
I love your culture, but your funerals.
So when I would show up, it was like, cause I was the mayor for
a few years and then they
would, they would bring out like
the
good stuff, like the Jack Daniels and that's a little early for me.
No rice
munga.
I had
to call my wife one time, pick me up.
So
wonderful having you both here, all the respect in the world for your culture, your tradition and
thank you for what
you did.
Allie, thank you very much for everything you do at the Neville.
Everything else good?
Everything is great at the Neville, yeah.
Tell me again, Sunday?
Sunday from noon to three.
So either stay for the whole event or stop them by for a little bit to check it out.
Great.
Music, food.
Music, food,
dishes,
different things to see.
And the dress.
Lots of entertainment and instrument playing.
So if you bring that, they could probably play for you that day.
Does your dad live around
here?
Does your dad live around here?
He does.
He lives in Appleton.
I'd love to meet him.
Oh, yes, he will be there that day too.
We'd love to meet him.
Definitely.
Thank you both so very much.
It was great.
Thank you.
We
come back.
Sean Katzbeck.
I want to just fire up the boat, take it up and down the river, going about 120 miles an hour.
Which is what Sean Katzbeck
is going to be doing
with Run the River boat races coming up the Marinette area.
Christy Ellison is joining us.
You one of the racers there,
Christy?
I am one of the
racers.
Just like the pedal to the metal.
Captain, she's going to run this thing.
Tell us, how did you get into this?
Like these are fast, they go fast.
These are fast.
Like scary
fast.
Like.
Anywhere from 55 if you're about 11 years old to over a hundred.
I mean they raced in 11.
They raced in 11.
That
is fast.
It is fast.
It is fun.
I
bet.
Wow.
And so there are one person in a boat.
One person in the boat.
Three types of boats.
You got a hydroplane which we lay down in.
You're laid down in you lay down Now you're laying on your stomach, okay, and you control the exhaust pipe with one foot and the motor up down with your other foot Think about going down the interstate about 90 miles an hour on your stomach,
right?
I
mean everything
Don't you feel like when you can see the ground or the surface, it feels like you're flying and you look
like
20 miles an hour.
I mean, could you see 105?
And that's hitting concrete.
I mean, water, it's not giving it that speed.
But water gives.
Concrete does.
Water still hurts.
I've done that.
Been there, done that.
It hurts.
We also have runabouts, which is more of a V-bottom boat that cuts through the water versus going over.
And we have...
I'm going to hold that.
I'm
going to back up.
Oh, yeah.
Tell everybody what we're talking about here, Sean.
Oh, yeah.
That's right.
We've got to jump to the middle of it.
No,
no.
It's exciting.
Yeah.
So in June, the first weekend, 6th, 7th, and 8th, there is
going to be boat races on the Menominee River in Marinette, Wisconsin.
We've found a section in between the two dams.
Actually, Christy was out there yesterday making sure that everything was safe and marking everything to make sure that they would be able to do this.
And we'll be doing it on the 6th, 7th, and 8th.
It's pro boat racing.
And the number one thing that I'd like to really push, it's free.
You're not paying to come see this.
It's free.
You just come and watch.
Wow.
Is it
all drag
racing?
No.
Okay.
Not at all.
This is all circle track.
Whoa!
Circle track.
There'll be a big starting clock up on the shore.
Okay, this
guy has had this body of water for 16 years, 10 feet behind us.
Why didn't he think of this?
This is a good one.
We have race here in Greenback.
Have you?
I haven't personally, but they used to race up by the dam in Depeer in the 80s.
Yeah.
Oh, no kidding.
I did not know that.
I think yeah, this is really cool what you're doing and I think and the speed you know Americans or whatever.
Yeah, I
like speed You're right Goose when you talk about this is a weekend event right this is Friday Saturday
Friday Saturday
Sunday and Sunday as well.
Yeah Friday is gonna be testing and tuning.
Okay,
so that'll be just
I'm
testing yeah time trials just kind of feeling out the water I guess also Christie was telling me that like
These engines are so specific that they even check the humidity, stuff like that, so that it runs at its best.
Is there, we bring our lawn chairs?
Yeah.
How does that, okay.
Bring your lawn
chairs.
All
right, we sit along.
Yeah, along
the
river.
Yeah.
He's going to have lots of vendors.
I was going to say, I hope
there's food trucks and
everything else
there.
Food trucks, beer, you know, beverages.
beer, water, soda, all of
it.
This is exciting.
I just think it's going to be awesome.
We're going to talk a lot more about you, how you got into this business, how you got the courage.
to lay on your stomach and go 100 and some miles an hour.
I only go 90.
My kids go
100.
Come
on,
mom.
Yeah,
this is it.
You're traveling back.
Only 90.
Only 90.
Yeah, we got to just say this.
So what are those other things you just brought us in here that look really good?
Oh, fry pies.
What?
I've never had a fry
pie.
So the Amish.
Sounds super healthy.
Two of my favorite things, pies and fries.
That's my other
thinking.
So the Amish.
make these.
This is from Yoder's Bakery, and it's basically a deep fried pie.
So one is peach, one is blueberry, one is apple, and they're delicious.
See, you got...
Raspberry, I think, right?
Yeah.
You're gonna be wearing that.
John just dives in.
Show that Johnny this while these do look good.
Oh my gosh, that looks great We used to get something like this where kids they had them in those little They used to be like the hostess.
You still
love those.
Yeah.
Yes.
They still make them.
They still make them anymore, but they still make them.
I
haven't seen those
in years.
Yeah, very popular when we were young.
Yeah, that was what you got when you went on a field trip
That was a big tree.
That was a big
tree.
They weren't
This
is so fresh tasting it's unbelievable.
It's a bakery in Marinette.
It's actually a bakery in Chano that must drop them off here and when I saw them I said
Now I know
what I'm going
to get those guys.
Wow.
Just what they need.
Yeah.
You know what a buddy of mine does?
A buddy of mine, like I was going to get him on the show today to talk about a certain thing.
He says, I can't, it's my day tomorrow to drive the Amish to their doctor appointments.
Oh, wow.
OK.
That's
what he
does.
That's pretty
cool.
Talk about volunteers and what we do.
Volunteers are huge.
They take people to their medical points, but this is just really focused on the Amish.
I think that's.
I
think it's your language.
That's a lot of cool opportunities to do that.
You're going to be coming back here, Sean.
And Chris, we're going to talk a lot more about this.
Run the River Boat Race is coming up in Marinette.
Yep.
We're talking about how you get into that.
I mean, you just don't.
Get in with something for 100 miles an hour.
I mean like what you don't build it in your garage
Actually, you do
There's a lot of events that are going on, you know, it's
yeah,
it's summer in Wisconsin, but this is so unique Sean was in here run on maybe a month ago talking
about
yeah, I would
I'm going.
I mean, that's going to be fun.
I just think it's something I haven't seen before.
I don't remember that stuff in the 80s and it appears.
So yeah, that's going to be fine.
Yeah.
How popular are these on Saturday mornings in the nominees?
If you know what I mean.
I certainly know what you mean.
Be back tomorrow with shot and Christie.
Run the river.
Back after this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin, live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Governor, number three, Mino and the Mayor.
And it's gorgeous looking Tuesday morning, 51 in Green Bay, 15 out, 10, 15 Oshkosh, high in the low 70s tonight.
What a perfect night for Brewer baseball.
Hosting.
the hated Houston Astros 605.
W I S S will have that one for you tonight for was trying to get things turned around a little bit with the way things have been going.
We've had some fantastic guests today.
Ted Luda from the AVB Community Band Concert that's taking place on Monday over the weekend at the Neville Public Museum among American Day American Veterans Day for the mung which is phenomenal.
And now we're talking about a
really cool thing taking place in Marinette coming up.
We got Sean Katzbeck and Christy Ellison run the river boat races coming up in Marinette and Christy, we got to just jump right into it here.
Daddy taught you how to be a boat racer.
That is correct.
When I was 14 years old,
I came downstairs.
It was tradition in our family that Santa Claus decorated the tree on Christmas
Eve.
So when you went to bed, there was nothing on the tree.
Did you guys have a special room where you grew up that was Santa's workshop?
Thanks,
Todd.
No, no, we did not.
But I walked downstairs.
What do you think of kids that did?
Oh, did he have a special room?
Yeah.
Santa's workshop.
We did not have a Santa's workshop.
And they
closed it off for like.
I think his workshop for like four days decorate
the tree.
I think they stayed up all night downstairs.
Well,
yeah, but we had no we had the yeah, it was different.
It was I don't know.
I thought everybody did it till I got on this show.
It's like oh my god.
I lived in a
bubble.
Anyway, you know we're talking about cool people.
I had a woodshed.
Yeah, exactly.
We had somebody on the other day and she's in the bodybuilding competition that was held over the weekend here in Green Bay.
And it's just, you know, you talk about the cool factor of your mom.
You know what I'm saying?
Well, she teaches kickboxing at her daughter's school.
There's
a cool factor there.
Can I have a cool mom?
Your dad
is going to say it's going to be who's got the coolest dad.
My dad's a speedboat racer.
Yeah.
My dad raced when my dad was 17.
His dad gave him an old 15 horse Johnson and said, if you can fix that.
you can have it.
So he built a soapbox and started racing.
When my younger of my two brothers was nine, he started racing.
When I was 14, I walked downstairs and under the Christmas tree was a motor on a motor stand.
So go to school as a girl.
What'd you get for Christmas?
A motor.
Let me ask, were you excited about it?
I bet you were.
I was, because I was a little mad that my brother got to race before me, and I was the oldest.
I
can see that.
We had bad sisters too.
So you got into this.
Was this always a thing, this small boat racing?
We
don't really see a lot of
that.
So the American Powerboat Association, which is our sanctioning body, is the oldest motorsport sanctioning body in the country.
It's been around since 1903.
And my category, the professional racing category, PRO, is the oldest category in APBA.
So this is what we grew up doing every weekend.
I lived in New York as a kid, and every weekend we were on the East End of Long Island in New Jersey or Connecticut racing.
And believe it or not, all the guys that we raced with that, my dad passed away in 2001, but there's still guys that raced against him.
They're either out there racing or wrenching on motors with us.
Can you make a career?
I mean, a full-time job.
I take food off the table to do this.
In fact, I was off for 15 years while we were in the military.
My dad would call and say, I've got a ride.
You gonna watch my kids?
No, but I'm not coming.
When I came back after he died,
I started a folder and I put all the bills, ordering helmets and life jackets and my brother said, stop.
If you figure out how much you're spending, you're going to quit.
That's good advice.
A few things like that.
So I wanted a couple of things.
How many boats are in a heat, like in a race?
And this is my second question.
At that speed, God forbid there's an accident, but has that happened?
I mean, at 100 miles an hour, that's fast.
Yeah, it hurts too.
So.
The rules for us, we never have more than 12 votes on the race course at a time.
If the course is small or narrow, the...
Judges stand will decide maybe the officials will decide we're only gonna let 10 if we have more There's gonna be a full field is 12 boats and what they'll do is Friday Which will be doing a Marinette will test all day and people think we're kind of pre-Madonna's these are two stroke motors They run on methanol and castor oil
and they have very finely tuned carburetions.
So what we're doing out there is you want the right propeller for the right size race course, but you're also checking spark plugs every time you go do a test run.
You don't want to cook the motor.
by not getting enough fuel.
So we're adjusting air and fuel with the jetting in the carburetor.
For all the motorheads out there that understand that.
The
type trials are just more than time.
It's
tuning.
It's just tuning, tuning, tuning.
Some guys over tune and they blow the motor up before they get to the race.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't humidity play a big factor?
Absolutely.
And the air can change overnight.
You actually
want cooler temperatures,
don't you?
Cooler air makes for much more power.
Absolutely.
Did you guys okay?
I used to work in Flint, Michigan.
Bolt Racing was real big in the Detroit River.
I think you get that series used to be on the Detroit River.
As a matter of fact, it may be coming back.
Oh, okay.
They just had a big visitors and convention bureau and our office managers out there.
That was a cool setting right down town like that.
Yes.
Okay, I want to, these things aren't cheap.
I mean, you know, they got, how many participants you have?
So I would say 15.
You might have 60, but a lot of people race more than one class.
Okay.
All right.
So anyway, there's what I'm saying is there's a cost to this and
it's
free.
So like, how does
there's like a hundred?
How do the economics
work?
They're saying,
are
you, are you bankrolling this
yourself?
Yeah, that's me.
Wow.
Yeah.
There's like a hundred.
There'll be a hundred boats, over a hundred boats and about 60.
All right.
And it's from 10 to five both days.
Yeah.
10, 10 till.
No, from noon to five, 10 o'clock, they'll probably start.
We'll start testing at 10.
We usually test for a couple hours.
Guys have to have test time.
We'll start racing somewhere around noon after the national anthem, get the safety boats on the water.
We like to be off the water by five, because that is beer time for us too.
Well, we'll be there long before five.
Our drinking team has a racing problem.
Okay.
What are the different heats?
Like, is it ages?
Is it the quality
of the boats?
Yeah, it is.
It is all about motor and boats.
So and age comes into play in the kids class, which is a it's an OMC 15 horse OMC, which goes about with a racing lower unit on it.
So it'll go about 55 miles an hour.
They started at nine and we can restrict the carburetor at age 10, a little less restriction at age 11 up to 16.
No restriction on the carburetor.
You have governors on them.
It's it's just a little restrictor, which is same thing.
Okay.
Let me ask you this thing Okay, so the fastest I've ever gotten a boat was in Oshkosh 12.
No, no It was actually no it was for a fishing tournament.
It was a largemouth bass fishing tournament
Oh,
that's those guys are crazy.
That's cuz it's just like, you know national anthem and okay stand by unbelievable, but and it's just
So
how fast would that have been I know I was on actually interesting once again late gosh gosh.
Yeah, and it was like 55 60.
Okay,
and that's good.
I was scared.
I was in front of the boat.
Yes, I was white knuckling hanging on yeah, and that's only I shouldn't say but that's 50 foot where I
thought it
was like that's half
That's half so you'll have classes the classes are done by the
CC or the displacement of the motor just like motorcycles, so we've got 125 175 250 350 5 7 1100 CC motors my one of my sons runs 250 and 350 CC hydro, so he'll go about 95 to 100 in the 250 and then probably 100 to 105 in the 350 and that's
Getting wide open.
Um,
okay now to you lady Bobby Yeah, you tell me with
11 people on either side of you.
I mean five in either side.
That's how
can you see?
Ask
her how you see how do you see
anything?
You don't according to her
you get out front So the way the races run it is there's a big digital clock that'll be up on on the shore
We fire a gun, it's a bird banger, and then the green flag goes up.
You have two minutes to get out onto the race course.
So you'll see people milling in circles.
At one minute, the white flag goes up and they fire another bird banger because it's sometimes we just see the puff of smoke.
You don't always, if you're got the flags behind you.
Now you're going to see everybody getting together and coming down and they want to go, you want to hit that starting line at zero.
You get there before you're disqualified.
You get there too late, you're going into the first turn into a wall of water and spray.
All
right.
I want to touch on the safety of that.
So are you obviously wearing helmets?
I am wearing a Kevlar suit.
Are you
tethered to the boat?
No.
No?
No.
I'm wearing a Kevlar suit, a life jacket with leg straps, a helmet.
I wear Kevlar socks.
Well, I used to.
I guess I did blow one off on a wreck, but I have booties that have Kevlar in them.
And some people wear gloves, some don't.
It just depends on how they can feel the throttle.
The throttle is with your hand.
And then if I go into a turn and the back end of the boat feels like it's walking a little, I just push on a pedal in the back of the boat and it drops the motor down.
I would take my hand off the throttle.
Well,
you can't idle.
I wouldn't have gotten
in the boat.
I don't even take my hand off the throttle to go into the turn.
You go into that turn, full pipe, full throttle, all the way to the apex, then you back out, you let it slingshot around, and once it's straight and the motor's winding up, pull everything up.
Is it true that the first one to show everybody how to do it is going to be Sean?
Yeah.
This is amazing exclamation points who knew is there an announcer on the side like you call
Yes, we have an announcer now.
We also Where's
the bookie station?
He's
not joking he's trying to bet on who's gonna be the next pope
I
did I
brought the odd sheet in here.
I'm like Johnny.
You see this
so we have the runabouts those guys are kneeling
Okay, and this is all open cockpit.
So you go over you fly the runabout guys They don't have they don't drop the motor up and down they control the pipe with their hand and the throttle with their hand Some of them have an air assist on that.
There's a lot of back thrust on those motors Those guys are still up there at a hundred miles an hour and they're having their own little internal competition there
Crazy and you'll see one guy that
runs
Look about how much is
my motor which I run 175 CC hydro my motor cost about 4500 to $5,000 depending on whether you can get it when people are always selling them
The boat I have is made in my motor is made in Italy.
The boats made in Italy.
And unfortunately, that guy doesn't make boats anymore.
It's the best boat I ever had.
Wow.
And I probably paid about 4,000 for that.
The lighter, the better, right?
I take it
too.
Too light.
You're going over.
You're
flying.
Wow.
Her nickname
is Ricky Bob.
Both are cooler than us.
Do you guys stick around?
Yes.
Yeah.
Shot in Christie.
Run the river.
Coming up early June.
Back after this.
Hey,
welcome back.
Michael the Mayor here and a good look at Tuesday morning.
Special thanks once again.
Ted Lutoff, huge event coming up on Monday at the Ashwabanaan PAC, the big AVB community band concert expecting over 700 people for that.
Ali and Nicole from the Neville Public Museum, Mung.
American Veterans Day, which is phenomenal.
And two very cool people right here, Sean.
Katzbeck and Christy Ellison talking about running the river, the boat races in Marinette coming up June 6th through the 8th.
Yeah, it's going to be, you know, we're excited to be hosting this.
And this is something that we're looking at basically creating a relationship with Christy and the APBA that will then sustain.
that'll continue to go so that, so every year we'll be doing this.
This is just the first year.
So obviously there's going to be some, some hiccups.
We've already, you know, it's interesting because there's things you don't think of.
And Mayor Jim, you probably can appreciate this.
I had so many contact me say
Um, hey, I've got MS.
Is there going to be, um, handicapped parking?
I didn't think of that.
Yeah, we'll make sure we do that.
Another one, um, hey, my son has autism, but we follow, and these are people from outside the area.
These are people from down in Illinois.
This gentleman from Illinois is like, yeah, we, we go to all these races, but my son had, it has autism and I'm like, good to know, you know, and he's like, can we bring our dog?
He's not from our city.
Well, of course you can, you know, I mean, it's got to be leashed, but but
yeah, yeah Okay, I mean this is a for you.
I mean, it's like, you know, we talked about the NFL Draft for about a year and a half and we only got one shot kind of saying with you you're a little bit of a walk in space So I would imagine you have to depend on Christie here.
She's a lot of
advice been phenomenal.
She is she is yeah
But what
I
think you've got going for you, one is you've done big events, but this is unique.
You know, sometimes the concerts and yeah, the musicians are all different and absolute
fireworks are all different.
But you know, there's there's a comment there.
There's nothing like this.
I think this is really going to be that's why Mary.
This
is
going to
be huge.
It'll be huge for us.
It's going to be fun.
I'm the city of Marinette has been over the top.
Just.
helping with everything.
We got our fire department and police department arguing who's going to be testing the boats.
I bet.
They both have been talking with Christy, hey, how can we get on that boat?
And
getting participants, is it an organization?
I've surprised this many people do this.
This is a family sport.
It really is.
How
many family members do you have involved?
So at one point,
All of my children have raced.
My oldest son and my middle son still race, they'll be up there racing.
They are both local here union guys.
That's why I get to leave early and pull the race trailer so that they can, you know, scoot out on Thursday night.
We're going to Ohio this week to race in Springfield.
My brother races, my younger brother used to race.
He's you know, everybody's got that crazy guy in their family.
He's that guy we lose track of him sometimes my and my youngest niece races So I race against my niece and my brother races against my middle son and then the older one was in the military for ten years Was in the infantry and deployed a lot so he just came back last year and he thought he'd never get to race again But we got him hooked up
In what you will see up there is second third fourth.
We have one family that's fifth generation racers We used to bring my kids friends like you can always use pit crew and then they'd all go home and ask their parents I want to race boats like John.
She's looking for
a welcome.
Yeah, really
He's trying to hook me up, get a job, build the ships up there as a welder.
My son is a welder, but he says he's not working outside in Wisconsin in the winter.
He works
in the shop.
I want you to know I've worked an angle and I got you covered.
Thank you.
We are we are we are gonna be talking about that.
All right,
all right They've got a huge Navy contingent in Marinette, they'll all be up there I'm sure
they will be up there because the Navy is now starting in an electric boat program Yep, and APBA is working with it's 20-something universities around the country the Navy wants to start moving to electric motors on some of these ships so
The kids, the engineering students that are working these programs, we've got guys from my category, because I've got all levels of education are helping them, but the kids are not allowed to drive the boats.
So we had hoped to have some of the electric boats up there, and I had a ton of drivers like, we'll go drive them, we'll go test them.
So we're going to be in the future, I hope, we'll have some of the electric boats at
intermission.
We had Princeton coming.
What ended up happening was, you know, just new administration, new cuts, new, and they're just not sure where they can
allocate money.
Princeton University?
Yes.
Wow.
They just settle a speed record with their elected vote.
Yes.
Imagine Princeton wanting to hold a record.
Wow.
That's pretty cool that you're bringing in those.
I just, Sean, just
a word
of caution.
So you're going to help John get a job.
Yes.
Let me just predict the future for you.
In a month when he comes back you can say John
I can help you get a job.
I can't help you keep a job.
That's true,
Sean.
We're going to keep promoting this.
This is fun.
What else you got to come up the Marinette area?
We are always busy.
Yeah, we're just signed in a contract for a Eagles tribute band that will blow you away.
Oh, neat.
Oh, this is
I got to hear it yesterday.
They're getting
they're all the seven bridges warm up.
You can put them on top of each other, you would not be able to
tell the
difference.
Wow.
Yeah.
So we're doing that.
We've got a train show coming up, a model train show that I think will also be, you know, like you said, Mayor Jim, you can do even the bands.
Yeah, but I'm trying to find those unique things that will
really kind of bring people.
But what you've got going for you, I mean, from the Blues Fest is you have great hospitality up there.
I mean, you just.
Yes, we do.
We've got great people, but you've got great
welcoming and
great beer, great food.
That's a fun
place.
By the way, you said that.
And guess what?
That's that is the tribute.
Wow.
That is.
Wow.
Well, that's
awesome.
It's
going to be fun to mention about your don't want to live up here.
work outside
what
would know you mentioned about your
son my son but he was doing his apprenticeship they were like do you want to like the shipyard he said not in the winter
well you had one that lived in the u p word they live in the u p
he lived oh i know where it was um
i bet he didn't work outside no
he worked at like pizza hut then but he did call me six months that's one of the best jobs in the u p everything was don't you know
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
I tell you, man, we have had some just phenomenal, interesting
Guests
here.
No, I mean you know that they're really interesting, you know, you
know They're really good guests when you almost forget you're on the radio
because you're so into what's waving his arms.
Okay, guys
But Sean and Christy man run the river the boat races and Marinette coming up six to the eighth of of June Allie and Nicole here from the Neville Public Museum among American Veterans Day
That's coming up on Sunday at the Neville Public Museum.
Ted Ludoff about the Ashwabana Community Band Concert, AVB coming up on Monday night.
And now we've got Lauren Niesbeck.
Do I pronounce that right, Lauren?
I remember last
time you were here.
I spelt around like three
different ways.
You say it with an E. It's with an I, so it's Nisbeck.
Nisbeck.
Yep.
German?
Yeah, very German.
There you go.
New Leaf Foods Community Orchards.
OK, I'm going to let Jim handle this.
because 90% of what he's going to ask you isn't for a community.
He's not doing a community service for people.
He has a passion to create an orchard, and this is no lie, in his yard.
Actually, there's a lot behind his yard, and he thinks you're going to be the person that's going to facilitate it.
So I just want you to know
what you're walking into.
I hope I can
help him.
No, what you're doing at this time is encouraging people.
You're planting.
different trees like things we don't think about pear trees and tell me what you're doing the 10 places then we'll get to mine
and we did you know what you taught us last time we're here that trees get pollinated
yeah yeah well pretty much any any plant needs to be pollinated for the most part so
yeah
yeah it's really it's good that I'm like
So where are you going with these trees?
So with the trees actually just Friday we were at three different schools in Green Bay putting in New Orchard.
So we were at Franklin, McCullough, and Jackson.
three schools back to back, you know, running from one place to the next.
So it was, it was a busy morning, but it was good.
And actually it was funny.
Um, yeah.
So
it was, uh, pear trees, cherry trees and apple trees.
And usually what happens is we'll work.
So we work with, um, like a representative from the Green Bay school district.
And she is like our liaison between the schools and she's like, Hey, this one, they want XYZ tree.
So then we order it based on that.
And so it was just a nice, easy, like they all were like, yeah, the pear.
cherry and apple all sound good.
And your goal in this is to get children, youth to understand that we can grow these trees here, which remember I told you last time, I didn't even know we could grow a pair of trees in Wisconsin.
You're like, yeah, we do it all the time.
You open
our eyes.
Everybody knows about cherry trees and apple trees.
But I mean, I thought that was that was unique.
So the kids come out, they help with the plant, and then they learn about.
about how the pollination works and how the fruit works.
It's an educational piece for the
school.
Oh yeah, for sure.
And it's like, it's also unique because each school kind of, they can decide how they're going to specifically use their orchard.
So at Jackson, Jackson Middle School actually has a pantry and they are hoping to like use some of the produce they grow in the orchard in their food pantry.
And it's like, anyone, anyone who sends their kids, they're like the families, they can go use that.
So they're going to be growing food that they can also go to like the families of the school.
So how many trees did you plant then?
And one tree is in...
And how big are they
when you're playing?
So we call them saplings.
So they're just about two feet tall right now.
We get them from nurseries, and you can't really buy a tree that's fully grown from a nursery because of the upkeep.
Why would they grow it for like 10 years there?
They're going to grow it, get it started for you and sell it.
So about two feet tall.
And at Jackson, we actually just expanded their orchard because they already did one with us last year.
So we gave them two more trees.
Franklin and McCullough got about six.
Can they
grow for bear fruit now?
So they are.
It is going to be a couple of years before they're seeing any fruit, but you know, you got to get a plant to seed sometime, you know, so, so they're just, you know, the kids, they're really involved in the planting actually, and you're teaching them how, um, how deep you got to go, how to use the shovels, you know, got to be safe.
And actually McCullough Elementary was probably a class of maybe.
Kindergarteners the first grade and they all had pajama days so they're out there digging in their PJs and it was it was really cute And those
kids because is that k8 because they'll see the they'll see the fruits of that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, what's
it six years to?
Oh,
I don't know I'm not the most expert person I would say a couple a couple years maybe maybe like
Three or four years can
explain explain what you guys do explain your whole mission
Yeah, yeah, so we're all about trying to kind of make a sustainable local food system So just having more access to stuff that's grown here where you don't always have to go to the grocery store Or like if you know not not saying that everyone random people can come up to these schools and just like pick
the fruit because they are meant for the children, like they are meant for the students.
But you know, that's one piece in the community.
Like schools are a big piece of the community.
So if you've got schools who grow their own food, they can use it in their cafeteria.
Like I said, the food pantry.
Um, and then we did a orchard at New Leaf Prep Academy over on the West side, um, like out towards Howard area.
They, uh, use their fruit.
They call it snack.
They just call it snack.
And they have like every day the kids are in charge of like making some snack for everybody.
Like they cook it up.
That's their fruit right off their land that you donate.
Wow.
So your mission again, as you said, the new leaf is to get people to be more sustainable, right?
If we go back to live off the land, but do you get into chickens and other things that
are allowed?
No, we're pretty much plant-based for now.
We're trying to just like give people the means to grow food.
We don't necessarily get into farming or any initiatives like too much like that.
Um, you know, we would love to, if we find out about some kind of, um, organization we would maybe partner with and say, Hey, these guys are doing this.
And, you know, we would co-host something with them or we would promote, you know, there.
Speaking of fresh fruit though, I got to say this.
You got to try one of those fried, uh, turnover thing.
The fru- the raspberries in there were so fresh tasting.
They look great.
They're like, Amish, they're
unbo- you got to
try one.
Are they from an Amish store?
Yeah, yeah, from, oh.
And Sean, oh, I think he said yeah, Sean or I sell them up in Marinette.
Yeah,
okay.
You got to take one.
Yeah,
I've heard really good things about the Amish bakery So
tell me new leaf has been around for some time.
I mean I guess 15 20 years, but it's had some different focuses But right now it's it's I was it fair to call it just that it's an educational
I would say it is the focus is educational, but we do
You know, like we are doing our plant sale right now.
So that's one thing, you know, go
ahead and talk about that.
Oh, yeah.
So, so right now we're actually the very tail end of our, what's what we call the bountiful branches plant sale.
And so, um, I know you're asking earlier at the start, you know, what about growing an orchard?
Um, you know, how does someone like an individual do it?
And the sale is kind of our, um, you know, means for people to do that on an individual level.
Do people really want to do this?
Cause he's passionate about it.
He's serious about
it.
And I
will say he's got.
But do most people have enough room to do something like this?
You know, it really depends on the plants that you get.
Some of them, you know, we sold out of sugar maples right away, and those are big trees.
You're gonna need some space for sugar maples.
But, you know, we've got little raspberry bushes, and those don't take up too much space.
So, you know, it depends exactly what you're trying to do, but I would say there's kind of, you know, something for everybody.
Yeah, you can...
grow something.
If you've got the determination like he does, I see him over there.
You know, I gotta say
this.
I
gotta
say this.
I've never been good at keeping a tree alive.
You know, you
buy the Arbidites or whatever they're called.
Buy a Yucca king.
Arbidites.
Aren't Arbidites.
Arbidites.
You ever plant those?
Yes.
How many, what percentage made
it?
Probably 100.
They are
not always hardy.
Sometimes you have to wrap them in the winter to keep them.
See it all brown.
Oh, yeah, that's a question.
Do these trees got to be, I don't.
Am I real big on maintenance?
Do I have is there a lot of maintenance to these trees like in the winter?
Like he's talking about you got to wrap them and put heaters next to them and all that
You know, I think we try to go for plants that are more hearty like I'm gonna use We sell June berries for example and June berries are North America But more so Canada where they grow so they're very hearty.
So every plant is gonna kind of have a Like a zone level, you know, like a
I've never heard
of that.
Juneberries.
It's not like
a bug.
Yeah,
it does.
Well, you're thinking the June bug.
Yeah, those are ugly.
No, those are ugly.
Juneberries.
Juneberries are pretty.
So how do we
get connected with you?
I mean, we're fortunate that you come on a radio show, but how do people get connected?
I think this is really
interesting stuff.
Yeah, so our website is newleaffoods.org.
And that's kind of like our one stop for everything that we do.
And on there, you can see we've got our email context.
So it's just info at newleaf.org.
Also, that's where you can sign up for our newsletter.
And we post, you know, we have links to all of our social pages on our website too.
So that's really like the main place I would send people to go is our website.
And our sale, the Bountiful Branch of Sale is still up there.
And it's running through this Saturday.
So I mean, you
guys based out of
So
we're, we have an office on Broadway.
Okay.
Office on Broadway.
All
right.
So you're right here.
All right.
That's awesome.
Um, and, and I think this could be a project.
That's a long-term project,
but you
know, you got kids that are, what, for second, third grads, like, Hey, you guys, we're going to build this.
Absolutely.
It could be fun.
We're on Broadway.
Oh, we actually, we have a church out of Trinity Lutheran that we rent out of them.
So got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Got it.
Okay.
I mean, it's
been walking distance.
Yeah, it really is.
Okay.
Cool.
Well, this is great
that you're involved in something like this.
Yeah.
Yeah,
it's great.
It's great to be involved.
And like, you know, when I started, I wasn't, you know, too knowledgeable about plants and growing.
And I'm still learning, you know, I'm not the most versed person on the team for sure.
But because I like to go out and talk about it, you know, I do my best kind of spread the word.
So.
But I think everybody wants to grow something.
And there's studies that show if you do that, it's a better quality of life.
Oh, yeah.
It's good for like mental health.
It is.
Well, that's the big
thing with the Door County farms, where the gentlemen come down.
And it's this is.
What they use to help battle post-traumatic stress
and things
like that and giving but not flower garden vegetable gardens for the people so I mean that this is no lie.
This is Mentally, this is a very important thing
for a lot when you study.
I agree
aging and quality of life, they very much encourage you.
There's a lot of things they encourage you to do with socialization, but gardening is way, way high on the list.
Yeah, we actually, I could talk a little bit more about this.
I don't know when we're going to break, but we have a new project coming up starting.
May 18th actually, we're calling it grassroots in the garden.
And so heavy on the education focus, we're trying to get people involved in, I'm not sure if you guys heard of Seymour Park Food Forest.
Also right in this neck of the woods.
So we are getting a series going where we're gonna have a mentor every month lead a educational session in the Seymour Park Food Forest and they're gonna be- That's right off of Ashland, right?
That's right off of Ashland.
That's a
decent size garden you guys put
in
there.
Is that done by you or is that done by the neighborhood association?
It's a collaborative thing.
So we have a hand in it, but so does the neighborhood association So yeah, we kind of all just do our part to maintain it and then new leaf like what we did is we raised money by you know going for grants to get a means to do these educational classes So, you know, that's gonna be something that new leaf is hosting, but we're really trying to say hey, you know anybody
please come to this because it is a community garden, you know, growing space.
We're trying to get more people involved and just learn how to like take care of it, how to use, you know, some of the food that you get out of there.
And I
think part of your education is you don't need a ton of land to grow,
you know, a lot of food.
We got my mom who's 92, I think she's 92.
Anyway, just to stand a flower bed, it's only four feet.
And I can't believe the.
produce yeah we did that in our village and
after our veterans village we did and the guy made us a bunch of the boxes and one of our great friends Cody who comes in brought us this great soil that was and it was mind-boggling I mean they were probably about the size of this desk it was I mean they were coming in with bags and bags and boxes vegetables for the whole year off that
six little garden and I don't know if you guys know but newly if you used to do a lot of garden boxes for like 10 years we had the garden blitz
I don't know if you guys have heard of it, but we used to go and you could buy garden boxes from us and we'd go put them in.
You know, it was a really huge project for us and it was really successful, but ultimately we decided to kind of
Pivot and go focus more on like the permaculture so these trees and plants that come back every year.
Where's the garden you're having?
Great stuff.
Awesome.
You're
doing this
learn
they get a good person as their representative learn right nisbeck
Yes, you got it.
We're in this back
the German new leaf booze community or a church one more time when's the sale and
this Saturday may 10th
and on Broadway
Trinity Lutheran Church.
That's where, yep.
And the website one more time.
Yep, so newleaffoods.org is gonna be your stop for everything.
Great.
Yep, including the sale.
Thanks for
what
you're doing.
Yeah,
this is good stuff.
Yeah, of course.
Progress
reports.
Thanks for being here.
We'll get to that quick break.
Back in.
secret in honor of his 80th birthday.
You are not in charge.
That's
all
I'll say on that.
Sean sitting in their back there like you like, you know, he knows, he knows how it
is.
It's an old
disc jockey.
He used to be my boss, kind of my boss.
Well, I guess we kind of work together in leadership roles.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great guest today.
Ted Ludoff once again, AVB community band concert that's coming up Monday.
Yes,
and
a Schwabban that's a great name for that because everybody thought it was the Allaway village band, right?
And then you're thinking well, let's see now they moved it's gotta be a Schwabban village band because they're both villages And he's like no no no it's the all volunteer band.
I think that's cool They have 75 members, which is a lot.
They don't really
When I said you need people, he's kind of
like, eh, we're quick backups maybe.
Right.
So I think you gotta try out.
But yeah, that was cool.
I was shocked when he said how big, what, 800 seat capacity?
Yeah, 735.
That's
incredible.
That's a thousand, so that's a good venue.
Right.
That's great.
I mean, for being at a high school basically, so to speak.
And that's a great, yeah.
And then Allie and Nicole from the Neville Public Museum, really interesting.
I talked to Nicole afterwards.
I'm going to meet her dad, 85-year-old veteran fought for the Americans.
uh, in Laos, um, the mugs, they got a great, great Mung American Veterans Day at the Neville Museum.
That's coming up this Sunday.
And it's free.
It's new to three.
And then
they got the, you know, they wear some of the best outfits, right?
Even when we're at that thing, you know, to the colorful and they do dance, they do music, and then they're going to have food there as well to celebrate
and
then educational, um, speakers as well.
So that's, I
mean, you don't have to go from total three.
Just, you said just pop it.
Right.
Any time and then Sean and Christian were talking to run the river both races.
What could Christie kick our butts and like pretty much
everything?
She
Yeah
I Imagine she has all boys
would you okay?
Let me ask you something.
It doesn't look like there's space in those boats for anything else, right?
Would you go for if there was would you go?
No way
not not at that speed
not at that I think
50s fast, you know,
yeah,
I do I think that's fast in a boat No, I wouldn't know okay, and you see what I kind of said to her there, you know with this
12 boats in a heat and 100 miles an hour.
There must be some action.
She goes, yeah, she didn't really do.
No, I didn't go back there either.
That's like that.
No, it's almost like don't let you walk away or
swim away from a lot of
those.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've seen it where they've got airborne.
Well, that picture she shows of her kid.
Yeah.
It's not even on the water.
Yeah.
Amazing.
God bless them.
That's gonna be fun.
Stuff taking place in this area over the next few weeks.
It is.
Let's summer, right?
Yeah.
I mean, everybody's right.
Everybody just let's get out.
Let's do
something.
Yeah, just in all parts, right?
And it will be an Oshkosh Thursday.
They've got a ton of stuff.
I'm sure they're kicking off there.
And that's just going to be fun to people.
The weather is great.
Let's get outside and you don't have to get outside and walk by yourself.
There's so many events.
Yeah.
And a lot of this stuff, if you think about it, is free.
Yeah.
You know, down here at the city deck and, you know, it just, yeah, just this is a good time of year.
So let's
enjoy it.
You know, it's also Red Cross Week.
Oh, yeah.
That's an organization.
I'll tell you what, that doesn't get a lot of pub, but I had a friend that worked for them out of Chicago action.
She'd have to go to these different disasters or something.
She said, you have no idea the Red Cross people, what they deal with when they get to a place.
I mean, you talk about boots on the ground and needing stuff and needing the blood and all those kind of things.
Okay.
Now I got to ask you a question.
What am I got it guys?
I was going to get on this week.
He said he had to go donate platelets.
Is that plasma when they say platelets?
Yeah.
That's where the blood goes back in.
They just scrape off the platelets.
What are they paid now?
I used to do it when I was in college for $10.
Oh, no,
no.
No, it's much higher than that.
And you'd be in the bars at night, and everyone would have that one bandaid in the same place, because everybody gave blood to get their $10 to go drive.
Yeah.
It always
makes me nervous that they're kind of located close to casinos.
It's like.
Eh?
But 45?
I don't know,
John.
I don't
know.
I don't know.
Oh, it's
more than
that?
She knows.
Oh, come on.
Come on, man.
That was a while
ago.
I'm not telling you that was a while
ago.
That's
why I said I didn't.
Come on in here.
Well, I'm still sitting here after my show.
Hey, nice to see you.
Yeah.
Well, I just, you know, from, you know, I just graduated from college.
So I actually have kind of a fear of donating blood.
So I haven't, but I used to have friends that I would, I would hear maybe 80 bucks.
Wow.
Yeah.
And you could do it up to twice a week, right?
I think so.
So
that's serious money.
80 bucks just for
that.
And it just,
it's relaxing.
It gets maybe dangerous then because then you want to do it, you know, you want to do it more and more because it's free money.
But there's also, if you
haven't done it, there's incentives, like opening up a check in account or something.
There's incentives to do it, to join their organization.
That'd be gambling money, though.
I mean, I really would.
Okay, get 80 bucks or something, and you're going to put it on the Brewer's game for tonight.
Or the Pope.
The Pope, whichever gets the new Pope.
I have no comment.
I just thought that was so funny, I was like, hey, no comment, no comment for me.
But you turned that, yeah, I don't know.
80 bucks,
Lauren?
Well, that's just what I heard, you know, I had friends.
No, I think you're right, because that was a
long time ago.
Okay, one thing I was going to ask you, how much do your trees cost in general?
I
know you gotta, they're all
over the place, but in general,
you have to buy a pear tree.
Well, they're all, they're all the sale, we keep it even, $10.
Oh!
They're all $10.
Well, it's $10?
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
That's
cheap.
And you know, it depends what you buy.
How much would that
be at like some other store, like a nursery store?
Oh gosh, probably a lot more.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, like, and what we do is, you know, we're an on profit, we raise money because this is our mission.
So we want to make it affordable for everybody else.
So our goal really, you know, we're just, it would be awesome if we break even.
So it's not a big, you know, we're not trying to raise a ton of money from the sale.
It's more so to prioritize people.
people being able to buy it, you know.
Do you sell plum trees?
We sold out, but we do.
Yeah.
Is there any tree
that you can grow inside?
Oh gosh.
Like just even
just put it by the window.
Off the top of my head.
I don't don't think so, but I'm not, I'm not sure I'm your expert to ask.
When
you get that Dylan guy, I want to talk to him about.
maintenance, right?
Cause I want to, I want my trees to obviously bear fruit, but like, do you have to spray them once a year?
And I don't want any of those chemicals in my
yard.
Okay.
You know, Lawrence, Lawrence, giving you that look again.
I'm Jim.
I think I've explained four times.
I've got a guy for
all that.
No, I'm getting the two minute warning.
Pay no attention to the man behind the
window.
Great mission.
that you're
working on.
I think it's awesome.
So do I. Well, you asked about maintenance and honestly, I'm going to say the grassroots that I mentioned earlier, grassroots in the garden, part of it is learning, you know, how to take care of the plants throughout the year.
So something, do you guys know what pruning is?
Yes, that I do.
Where you, if you've got like too much growth or something is dead on the tree, you got to cut it back.
So Dylan, Dylan Wies from NWTC is one of our mentors for that program.
He's going to teach you all about it.
So just
give me his hourly rate.
All right.
That's
awesome.
Hey, Todd, he's already asked her to go to his house to look at where he wants to put his orchard and determine if he's got enough room.
I
know.
Yeah.
Give him some kind of
estimate.
I told you to just be more about him than the community.
That's
funny.
Lauren,
you're great at your job.
Thanks so
much.
Thanks for having me.
Always fun having you on.
Appreciate it.
We got to go over and
have a great, beautiful day.
Go Brewers against the Astros.
you
