
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 Wednesday to you!
A little chilly out there compared to yesterday.
A little different.
What did you say about your friends up in Marinette?
No, um...
Superior oh superior up 82 degrees yesterday 42 right now Fifty degree drop overnight.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, you ever love it.
You ever spending time in that area up there though.
No, I just know
I mean like I told you I'm so old I specifically remember I know I've told you story a million times But I remember watching the weather forecast out of Duluth and I'm talking like north northern, Wisconsin north
Western, Wisconsin, that whole little area
up there,
okay, where you got Lake Superior and you got Canada, you got whatever.
And I remember that night when they said they've lost contact with the Edmund Fitzgerald.
And I'll never forget, that was this crazy scary of a night, you know, it was one of those nights when the
the telephone, what it rains and then it freezes right away.
So then the wind was like 60 or 70 miles an hour.
So then you, all you hear is the ice breaking on the wires all night long.
It's cool.
It was one of those kind of things.
So, but yeah, they dropped 50 degrees overnight, but I went for a walk yesterday, Todd.
That was a nice
job.
I was going to do, I was going to do 20 minutes.
That's like, no, I'm doing a half an hour.
And I got half, I got half out.
It's like, it's too nice.
It's,
it's, and you were going to go, we talked about the yesterday morning after the show, you were going to go to a movie and I'm like, dude,
you can convince me to not do it.
Today you can go, but
now it's full price.
That's right.
It's full price.
But like somebody said yesterday, senior citizen discount.
Is that every day?
I don't know.
Maybe that was just the Tuesday too.
No,
Tuesday is for
everybody.
It is.
Yeah.
Tuesday,
it's discounted for everyone, but they've got a senior citizen.
That's such a huge market.
Yeah, they've got to do something.
You know what?
They wouldn't take that, though, for green and gold.
Because it wasn't national.
They had a big sign right on the door.
Hey, senior citizens.
So, you know,
not that any senior citizen would complain
or would demand or anything.
They're discount.
No, I don't know.
I'm going to be one of those that does.
I'm just going to take advantage of everything.
I think most of them actually up for some of it now.
Oh, it's only 50.
It's unbelievable.
They're kids.
But I'll never forget.
I think it was in Chicago first time.
They said, um, are you AARP?
I go, what?
I go, uh, I'm feeling fine.
I said, why?
She said, well, you'd have whatever percent.
And it was like 30 bucks.
Oh, I. And
I'm
like, yes, I am.
I am not too proud to take advantage of a good deal.
Hotels are the best to get those kind of deals.
Oh, no, you won't do it.
Wow.
I got discounts other places though,
right?
I mean, I, there's other discounts you
can get.
You know what they say when you walk away from the desk?
Hey, that old guy doesn't want his
discount.
That guy, why wouldn't he take it?
I don't know.
It's like 90, isn't it?
Told you I had to go get counseling over a drive turned 60.
I just
could
not
believe that.
But anyway, still can.
But anyway, I'm getting around it.
But no, even those breakfasts and things, when you see that little menu, like now, it's only a couple of bucks.
I'll pay it.
I'll take it.
In a heartbeat.
In a
heartbeat.
Absolutely.
But especially
if it's a girl thinks, she'd be like, she thinks you're younger.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And I'm not going to say, well, look, you know what?
She'd be like, what?
Yeah.
So that's what I think.
That's what my ego's telling me.
Maybe she would say, well, of course you are.
Well, I will say one thing, though.
It's a little shocking.
Well, actually, I mean, this shouldn't be whatever.
But it's a little offending when they go the other way.
Cause like the dino stop down here to right by my beverages and stuff.
And it's right by those wonderful, the nicest group of young women.
They're all from Nepal.
And they always have a smile on their face and they're always a good, you know what I mean?
Just the most polite people.
And, but they got that real, everybody must show an ID.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And the girl, the audacious, it's okay, sir.
You don't have to.
I was offended by that.
Yeah.
We
went,
we
went some place.
What was the epics?
I don't know.
We're at some place and the guys like the guy in front of me They said you know IDs and the guy goes really you're gonna card me guy goes we card everybody do there.
I'm next he goes, okay
I went through the most humiliating experience humanly possible in regards to something like that that time, so I'm tainted
I'm scarred
at that.
What happened at
the gas station, that other gas station, the shell station?
Yeah, what
about Sunday morning?
This is a couple of years going to let you gas shell station leg
view.
OK, Sunday.
OK, this underscores Sunday
morning.
It's going to buy some wine, sir.
It's not nine o'clock yet.
Yes, it is.
It's nine o'clock somewhere.
Late packer
game, three o'clock packer game.
All
right.
Good to have an Italian dinner.
OK, going by a bottle of wine from the gas station.
All right.
Yeah barefoot ladies.
I like barefoot ladies.
You were by that.
Oh Oh,
yeah, it's not barefoot way a ladies though.
It's um It's really bad for something something.
Yeah.
No,
okay.
Um Do you drink communion wine?
It's about the same thing.
I just
bless it Sounds that way.
Yeah.
So anyway, so you went there the girls went there.
Yeah girl asked me for ID
And I laugh.
I'm like, okay.
First time since 1979.
No, we have a new policy.
Everybody has his car.
I said, okay, I don't have my wallet.
I said, I live five minute walk away from here.
I can run and grab it if you want, but there's what you're gonna have to.
I said, are you serious?
I can't buy this wine.
Just know I'm sorry.
Wow.
I had steam coming out of every.
I mean, that's part of my human body.
Like you're not 21 or what is it?
But again, I have to tell you, having worked in that industry, if that's the rule,
I understand.
And, you know, they have a secret shopper come in and they don't check.
I understand.
You lose your job.
I understand
it.
I almost pulled out the don't, you know who I am, but I didn't.
I'm sure.
No, sir, I
don't.
I listen to Y 100.
Yeah.
So anyway, all right.
Okay.
Well, so I go back later that day.
To buy some and different girl and I go, um She goes, okay, that's you know six dollars ever I go.
Um you forgetting something She's oh, I'm sorry.
What I go.
You're not gonna card me She's no okay the girl here earlier Said she cards everybody and I wasn't even able to buy my six dollar bottle of wine She says well that is true We do have a new station policy about that but to be honest with it anybody that has a lot of gray hair and looks older than my dad I let it slide
That's what I would think.
Wow.
And I had four people standing in line behind me.
And when I, they know who I was, cause they're from ledger and I turned and each one had their head down with their
shoulders.
You
know, I know to walk of shame is that was a walk of shame.
I bet that my friends was a walk of shame.
Yeah.
Pretty small bottle of wine,
$6.
Okay, whatever.
All right.
Good morning, fellas.
Chris Vinnie.
What's up, Vinnie Vincentio.
Vicki, good morning.
Vicki always says good morning.
Hello, Vicki.
Right.
I got another one here.
Terry says seniors get everyday matinee prices of $7 before four o'clock.
Now that, there's a lot in that, but that makes sense, right?
Before four, because nobody goes till we go to movies at night, right?
Yeah.
Or maybe you guys go earlier.
No, I don't.
That makes sense.
There's something weird about going to a movie during the day.
I know.
That's what I'm saying.
I think that's a good.
So $7 every day.
That's a really
good deal.
Actually, a great deal.
I never knew that.
Neither.
Is that Marcus?
I guess, huh?
Yeah.
Well, they
want to know.
Wow.
Boy, that's a business that certainly got monopolized or whatever you want to call it, huh?
But and everybody just threw in the towel on those guys because, oh, your big screen TVs and stuff.
There's nothing like the big screen, you know?
I mean, it's just.
It worked.
They made some changes.
They served beer.
They got better seating, but they survived.
I met that Marcus guy.
He was in my office one time.
Really?
The guy?
The guy.
Because they have obviously some people there.
But he wasn't like he came to see me.
He was in Green Bay for opening a new theater
or something.
And
then they just stopped in for 10 minutes.
Brian is setting us up.
Brian is setting us up.
I was just going to say.
He's setting us up.
He's setting us up.
Hope you guys have a spectacular day
Brian hashtag positive tax, right?
Yeah, we'll see watch watch all that one goes
14 keep an eye on that guy
Terry says yes, it's Marcus cinemas Actually, you know where I'd love to go sometime to watch and he's had a couple But I think it was like Star Wars or I think is it going on right now Tarleton.
What's
that airing Star Wars?
Does that serious?
I don't know what's going
on.
I don't see much advertising in him, except on like his marquees when I go by.
But I think that'd be fun to watch one of the kind of classic movies that you would have seen the first time like in that theater.
Yeah.
Like I said, I remember watching Hoosiers in the Meyer Theater.
Yeah.
You know, 86, 87.
That was like the place to go.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Like I said, I'm just not a movie guy, but yeah, that's seven dollars.
We'll do that, not this summer, but maybe in the winter we'll go after her.
Matt and I, what's her the first movie start, like 10 in
the morning?
I have no idea.
Matt and I, it'll be like after this, get some breakfast, then go to the movie, because I fall
asleep.
I fall asleep.
Can you think of anything that would put you to sleep more?
The only other thing in the world, and Julie's gonna be mad when she hears this, she's, it's fine.
Take a woman.
And boy, this is sexist already.
Take a mom with their child and their spouse to a planetarium.
And have them sit through a whole planetary thing without toes enough.
No, the colossus star is aligned with the solier yada yadas.
Planetary, when they start giving the talks, it's fun to
walk around.
But when it's
dark.
And they got those little things old.
That is such a comfortable setting.
So I had to go to a lot of stuff.
I'm thinking about something else.
Go ahead and then I'll tell this
story.
I went to the Wildlife Sanctuary Hazard fundraiser.
Oh, I'm here.
You've got to come here.
And one thing, I love my job, but you always sat in the front so you can't leave.
This guy, they brought in some expert about birds.
And it just went on and it was like, it was almost Saturday night live.
It was, and then he would name these birds with the name was funny.
That was the only
one that was, I'm telling you, you know, you've given plenty of speeches, but you have 20 minutes, 25, maybe 10 minutes of Q and A. Two hours, two
hours of
just another picture.
And this is the, oh
no.
Have you ever had to stop
anybody?
I had to stop a guy.
A speaker that I hate because it was that it was in Appleton.
It was at our big fundraiser We do our dining out thing.
Yeah, okay, and Jarts was gonna be our auctioneer Or
was our
oxygen but it was during the week.
So we told the guy hey 20 minutes max the speaker 20 minutes at 46 minutes Tim Cote who's come on this show.
Oh, yeah, he's just Johnny We got a wrap and cuz Jarts was like John.
Can you do the auction?
I gotta go cuz I gotta leave so we'd wrap and the guy was so offended.
Yeah
I bet this guy would have been it just and I think some people are looking around think is everybody but You really when you set those times you almost got to stand in the back with a yellow or something a red
I know because they lose
track and they look they're excited They've worked a lot on the look
and it's not an easy thing.
No to get up and speak like that It's not an easy
thing, but you get the other crowd you think the crowds is engaged, but yeah, that's those
yeah, yeah, okay I'm gonna tell you another
Some guy who's really popular here in Green Bay had a 70th birthday party.
Were you there?
He had that comedian up?
I was just thinking about this.
I was at his 50th.
And it's like that seems like you know the old guys at seemed like it was fun.
I was at his 50th anniversary.
Some people were
wearing those shirts at his 70th.
From his 50th,
okay.
the comedian that he and everybody was like, it was like uncomfortable.
You know what I mean?
Like sometimes it's kind of funny and it's like, okay,
come on.
But they went up on the stage.
They got him off.
Wow.
Really?
I swear to God.
It's like, well, okay, thanks for coming and stuff like that.
Wow.
Yeah.
So
I think the 80th
is gonna
be better, but that was funny.
I mean, it was
just, but boy, just, I don't know where you got to be found this guy.
But can you be so uncomfortable when you're sitting there?
Right.
And that's just, yeah.
By the way,
I want to hear your story when
we get back.
Oh, yeah.
Sarah says, follow the Tarleton on Facebook.
Sarah.
OK.
Yeah, we should.
I want to hire Sarah on something.
We're not going to pay her.
Because we don't have any money.
She is more attuned to everything going on.
I know.
In this area than any person I know.
She is.
And she's bumping up every place.
I've offered to hire her.
Yeah, she's plugged in.
Sarah,
do you have a home or do you just wander around from event to event to event?
Because I see you at every event.
Yeah,
she's great.
We're hiring you.
We need people like that to get the world out.
I agree.
That's one of the problems.
Anyway,
we're helpless.
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Forecast mostly sunny high in the low 60s today That's about the way it is today kind of a strong wind coming directly from the north that one is right the flag is still half masked on the Courthouse, but no one else would that still be for the Pope No, no, okay
Um,
it's
just
oh
government
brought it up hard enough.
I'm good.
It's like, oh, hey, you're supposed to do that last week.
Oh, hey, break time.
Let's go.
Yeah.
No, I don't think so.
Got a couple of things here.
Apparently the Malva shows movies in deep here says Brian.
The Malva shows movies in deep.
All right.
Okay.
Do not know that.
You I'm going there.
I still have been
there.
Yeah.
There's a party I got invited to the over there.
I'm sure you got it too.
All
right.
Um,
Got this one from cowboy Dave.
I'm still waiting to see and glorious bastards at the Depear theater I've never been in the Depear theater.
Oh, that's and I'd like to I'd like to go in there sometime You know there there was a thing that the guy try started up.
Oh, man.
This has to be order pizza up
there the Depear theater,
okay that cuz a guy one time I'm sorry tried doing that at the Tarleton Because I remember it was back when me and Vinnie were doing a show.
I remember that's how far back that guy goes
And it just didn't quite beer and pizza.
That was like the first one in the area.
What do you mean it didn't?
I thought I liked that.
You didn't like it?
No, no.
No,
it's fine.
It didn't succeed.
It may have
been.
It may have been the movies he was choosing.
Maybe they were top notch.
I don't remember that to
see that jazz thing.
And we ordered salads.
The price is a little.
More because of course say the entertainment was free.
Were you talking music theater or movies?
No, I'm talking
Tarleton, right?
Yeah, I like the seating
there.
We we I don't know what your point was.
We so we ordered food and it was great
I don't enjoy you there to watch
jazz
a movie.
Nope.
That's what I mean You were there to watch live performance.
Okay, and that's more of the dinner theater type thing, right?
Which people do all right, so you're saying going to a movie it didn't didn't quite seem to get that same thing Yeah
good guy to us really pulling for him we did shows over there and yeah you know that dinner theater shtick those people make a lot of money I mean like these former actors who you know tell you a funny story when I was living in Scottsdale and still going to school at ASU and Bob Crane
Was in that was a weird Bob Crane who was Hogan from Hogan's heroes right?
How'd he die town for Scottsdale theater really?
Okay?
In fact, you know that I'm okay.
Okay.
I I told the something you guys have in common, but I don't
think we should talk about it No, no, I'm mentioned in a review in the Scottsdale newspaper for one of my performances I'm
sure you will you got everything.
So anyway, what was Hogan doing down there dinner theater?
And
what did
he
do?
Because he's a comedian?
Oh.
You know, he was, I don't know what the play was.
Okay, I didn't know much about him.
I just know he was a very
creepy guy.
But I knew one of the guys from our theater department, okay, had a small role in the thing.
And they said he was a creepy guy.
Okay, Drake from the beginning, they said he was a creepy guy.
He said he always walked around in a bathrobe that was a little...
Too much undone thing behind stage.
Well, I think a lot of performers back then did because that was their way of something, something.
But that's what I remember about him saying.
Yeah.
And then he was.
Then he thought he was.
Yeah.
But anyway, we walked around in a white bathrobe all the time, drink between shows, running danger.
Yes.
Right.
Oh, did he?
Oh, yeah.
I could see that.
He did.
Oh, I could totally see that.
He did.
Anyway, that's when's the last time you ever wore a bathrobe?
Doing time I've ever you know the
last time
what
the last time I did minus I was even embroidered.
It's a packer one.
I guess those are good robes over there
Actually, somebody might have thought I was a little freaky because this it was that time we're in New York and just by Unbelievable we got off the subway at 42nd and like 5th Avenue
happening
and it's like while we're here right and there's a
Howard Johnson a holiday in right in the course like you wouldn't think holiday would be downtown Manhattan And we walked in it's like hey out of the blue there.
You don't have anything, right?
Well, we just had a cancellation.
It was a Saturday afternoon And they said we'll give it to you for their lowest rate.
Wow, but it's a penthouse suite Wow,
yeah, I didn't jump in that
so they had robes.
Yeah, they're ropes Yeah, so not only that I see these guys coming with these big carts of food
And they got like a almost like a banquet room just for the people in there You could go back you get food and bring to you so I put on the bathrobe So I'm just walking around in that place getting so much for I think I went back like seven you went
to the concierge lounge in your bathrobe.
I Hate when people do that.
I
don't know if
that's
what it was
called.
Well if they had all the food there Yeah, it was for that's that that was those top counts concierge lounge you were in that's for you get
Food that's something to get free drinks.
I have to say okay free drinks You went in there with your bathrobe when people do that.
I'm like, okay
It was
a
high-class bathroom.
Jim poor guy.
Yeah, okay.
I've seen you before
it was a New York City Yeah, I think on Fifth Avenue bathroom.
Yeah quick somebody take a picture of me.
I wish I could have fit in my suitcase It's just too fluffy couldn't get super
exposed, but that is cool when I had the bathroom.
Oh
my god
And those are ever really nice.
Yes.
Oh, yeah
They made huge money.
I mean even that guy cuz it was Union.
Oh, yeah, were they're doing just at this bit part He said Bob Crane was making like $2,000 a week and that was 1978 or something like that.
Yeah, he was making I mean so I mean, you know people said oh the poor guy used to be such a star and now he's doing dinner theater It's kind of like the Branson thing.
Oh, he used to be at the Grand Ole Opry like you said poor guys at Branson
you get on the road
again.
Why would I never?
No, there's some money to be made in those kind of things.
Especially those older guys.
Like we like to see that,
you know,
absolutely.
There's there's an audience out there.
No question about it.
It's not.
I mean, tell me your daughter once she's done with her medical career, if she wanted to follow her true passion, you could she could do that year
round.
And that is a and that's something that you can do.
You're
right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, there's no doubt.
She's going to do that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think it's cool.
Got a couple of things here.
Brian, Kate, now we're getting Johnny should just warden the robe when you left Brian.
Hey, that's a poor guy influence.
Yes.
That's what they think.
That's who they think they are.
Terry says he appeared theater first movie.
I said there was a kid was planted of the aides with Charlton Heston.
That's that was a land breaking movie wasn't it?
Boy that get your hands off me you damn sticking ape That makeup yes for that time phenomenon.
Yeah, but to see these monkeys talking.
Oh, so cool.
I guess that a quick break back
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Minow in the Mayor.
Here's a good look in Wednesday morning.
A little chillier, as we mentioned, than yesterday.
54 out there right now, and that wind coming from the north.
At 10 to 12 miles an hour, a little blustery.
Appleton 54, Oshkosh 55.
Forecast mostly sunny, high in the low 60s.
Pretty much a week, it looks like.
But I did see some eights popping up for next week.
Eighths, but 70s this week.
This is gonna be a good week.
I'll take that.
Yeah, no question.
Today is National Tourism Day.
All right, you going anywhere?
Sheboygan.
Got lunch today.
Got some
double brocks.
There's a great Italian restaurant.
You would love it in downtown Sheboygan.
Somebody else.
You know what's funny?
You would say that, Jim.
When I was in real estate, I was showing a guy a place down there, whatever, and he'd come up from Milwaukee.
And he said, hey, do you have time for lunch?
Because he's a really nice guy and everything.
His kids had gone to St.
Norbert and everything.
And he was a dentist.
And I said, nah, I can't.
I got to go back and show another.
Because there's a phenomenal Italian restaurant here we're going to.
It's good.
And that was the first time I'd heard about it.
And then I mentioned to somebody else.
They said, oh, you don't know about that place?
No, that's anyway.
Yeah.
I'd like to talk.
When Dennis comes in, he was all.
Dennis was more excited about going to dinner on Sunday down in.
Waukesha or West Alice, then he was about the Whammy's.
See, he said there's his favorite Italian restaurant.
Where?
Maja?
Magianos?
In West Alice?
Yeah.
Or either way, one of the W. West Alice, Waukesha.
The event was in West Alice.
One of the W towns down there.
But he was all excited about that.
Yeah, you find a good Italian a really good one and that's this thing throw tomato sauce These
these guys this place you walk in I mean, of course little garlic, but they their appetizers unbelievable then their waiters and waitresses They hired the right ones.
Yeah, it's that this place is that's great, man I'll look up the names next break,
but I have all the different types of foods wouldn't you say that?
real Italian, really good Italian food.
Really, like about 90% of the Italian food you find is all pretty much, you can do a blind taste test and it'll be the same.
And then when it's that 10% different, it really stands out.
But that 10% different is one of its old recipes.
And
secondly, it's been cooked, it's not fast.
They've been cooking that for
a while in the back.
Absolutely.
Yeah, that's just, yeah, they're such good food.
Love it.
Anyway, so that's what I'm
doing too.
I mean, even to my family, when they'd have a guitar, well, I was almost an all day,
I mean, my dad would go to 530 mass Sunday morning and by quarter to seven, he was starting with the Palenta and the veal and the that was an all day thing.
Awesome.
Yeah.
I got a text.
You have a vision of Jim wearing a robe with an Ascot slippers and a pipe.
Michael,
that Michael, that's hard to use, man.
No,
no,
no, no.
What was the name?
Playboy guy.
Yeah.
No.
Hugh Heffner.
Hugh Heffner.
Yeah.
I can see Howard Hughes doing that too.
Another weird guy.
Wow, here's that movie about him.
What's his name played him?
Leonardo DiCaprio.
It's a good movie.
Okay, then.
Thank you, Michael.
Yes, today is Children's Mental Health Awareness Day.
Very important.
You bet.
Tremendously important.
Tremendously.
Skilled Trades Day.
Good.
Love it.
If I could go back in time, I would be 19 years old and I'd be getting a...
plumbing, electric, something, right?
I wouldn't do that.
And you would be sitting here now?
No.
You'd be sitting at one of your cottages.
Yep, I'd be sitting in my cottage with your homeless people.
We're wearing a robe and an ascot and smoking a pipe.
People
have no my reference to that.
Yeah, I know.
All right, we'll tell the
story one more time.
One more time.
John was not
picking on the homeless
when he said that.
Because this is something when it pops into my head, I burst out laughing and I can't help it.
There are certain things that just, it just reaction.
And this is where we worry about, you know.
Our youth.
Well, we worry about, we just worry about, you
know,
stratification
where
it's like.
people live in different bubbles.
And we really have to have an understanding of there's, sure there's people who fly in private jet, but there's also people that don't know where they're gonna eat tomorrow.
And we have to have that understanding.
Well, we went into a group of kids, great kids that were helping
out from a high
school in one of the wealthier suburbs in Green Bay.
And they came to serve on, was it Labor Day?
I thought
it was Memorial Day.
It was
Memorial Day weekend.
So they came and Johnny was serving too.
All right, I'll just tell you the story.
Okay, so we're serving and we usually served like last night, we had 138.
people came.
It's always over 100.
Well, in this Memorial Day, it was, so we had these kids coming from this wealthy high school and they're standing there.
It was slow.
It like 70 people like, man, it's really slow today.
Memorial Day weekend.
The guy's like, you know what?
They're probably all up at the cottages.
No,
the homeless are at their
cottages.
Anyway,
so sorry, we're done with that.
But you would be at your cottage if you took the, and I think that's great that we honor trades.
And they don't brag like they should about their wealth.
Like, you know, like- Well,
I wouldn't
even say this.
You ever see their trucks?
Yeah,
I'm saying that the
trucks, the cottage,
the
next to no
debt.
I think it's great, man.
But
if we have to talk about that more, I
think, I think we grew up thinking, you know, the white collar was gonna
make more money than the blue collar.
Absolutely.
And I'll tell you what, it is not that way.
Nope.
Nope.
Nope.
Totally agree.
Uh, roast leg of lamb day.
Love it.
I can't think of anything worse.
Yeah, I don't want to
celebrate that either.
I'm celebrating this.
I didn't know we had our own day.
I'm sorry.
Lamb is like the only animal I feel bad for.
It's like, why do you have to eat them?
Can't let's just let it be.
The taste of damn good.
That's what
we
eat.
Shave them or whatever it is they call.
I know, I know.
Shucking them or whatever.
What's that called?
No, shucking you.
Shucking.
That's corn.
Well, yes, it's corn.
It's oysters too.
What's it called?
Shearing.
Shearing.
Shearing.
Today is also the great American grump out day.
So try not to be grumpy today is basically what it is.
Okay.
I'm not gonna breathe.
How about this?
Don't breathe today,
John.
I was thinking the same thing for me.
Wow.
Great American grump out day.
I like it.
Eagle Eye Cherry is 57.
Remember him?
I do.
Saved tonight.
Yes.
Yep.
His sister Nina Cherry, Buffalo Stance.
Didn't know that, but there you go.
I'm gonna say that was about 1990.
Buffalo which one
Buffalo
stands possibly 80s 90s.
Yeah about that
Tracy lords 57.
Yeah started her career young she did and then became
legit legit correct Jim.
Do you know who Tracy?
Pretty quiet in this time
Talked
about that a year ago.
I just don't that's not my thing.
Anyway, that's great.
I'm glad you guys enjoy this part
Astros at Brewer's 1135 today and W ISS and Gateway Day had the roof open last night.
Absolutely today.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
Hey, the kid from Pittsburgh Is walking The kid who fell out of the leeches that oh good good good.
How many I was good.
He was paralyzed from the yeah neck down
Yeah,
okay.
I'm gonna say one thing and that's poor and I've always I told you
Yeah, with 22.
Okay.
Okay.
Let me just say this.
I've always had a fear of that.
And I'm not joking.
Even at the old county stadium, I remember an opening day sitting up along that right field line and how low
the railing
railing was.
That's
not cooked to code anymore.
Wow.
Yeah, that could.
I mean, somebody could be walking, especially if it was a taller guy, higher center of gravity.
I mean, you could literally,
you could push
push a guy right over those things.
Hmm.
Well good.
I'm glad to hear that.
Why did he why
did he fall over?
Well, they said he was just excited and you know, it's he was a taller guy, I guess and just kind of, you know, whatever.
Okay.
All right.
More things are coming out as they always do.
Yeah.
At first it was alcohol was not involved.
Then it went.
I'm not making accusations.
I'm just telling you everything that just things kind of come out in piecemeal sometimes alcohol is not involved.
Okay.
Then it was like oh, they believe he had two beers Okay, then it was well he had just doused himself with beer after a guy hit a home run Do you kind of start seeing me?
Maybe he was a little
if you had two beers there.
You don't have
any people Yeah, doused himself in beer.
Yeah, I see again Shouldn't lead to a guy breaking his neck or whatever, but all I'm saying is
I saw that
that
Oh that
was gruesome.
I'm almost surprised they keep showing that video because it's so gruesome.
The way he falls.
I know.
Oh.
Um, I don't know, Jim, Google Tracy Lords at work to find out who she is.
Okay.
Brian.
I will.
In fact, do it while Donna's looking over your shoulder.
I didn't
throw on that one.
The newly divorced former mayor at Green Bay.
Who gets the dog?
I get a call from corporate because Jim's on the corporate Wi-Fi.
Is Jim looking at Tracy Lawrence online?
It's show prep.
Free ticket Friday and W.I.S.S.
and WGBD
starts this
Friday.
Let's talk about that.
So baseball.
Baseball.
We got tickets for the Brewers in every Friday during the summer months during the season.
We are going to
on W. I. S. W. G. B. W. And across the civic media network.
You got a chance to win free ticket Friday.
It's a text to win contest.
So coming up Friday morning, we will have a word for them to text in for a chance to win.
Love it.
Yeah.
It's fun.
Love
it.
Love
it.
Love
it.
It's
such a fun
time
down there.
Stadium's great.
No
question.
I mean, I'll tell you what, all the people I remember in County Stadium, they're like, God's the last where Hank Aaron played him.
You're right.
It's all great, but.
You could talk to any media person in the United States from back in the air in the 70s or 80s or whatever They will tell you Milwaukee County stadium was the worst facility in professional sports locker
rooms were
awful players didn't like it Horrific you would have
terrible
for the fans.
Oh
worst
place ever to watch
a football game.
It
obstructed views.
Yeah, I was just No, it's terrible.
Yeah, it was terrible this stadium.
They have I know you've been
there but that
is I love it.
It's services great.
Yeah, food's good.
Yeah,
but I remember they don't take cash
Oh, they don't hear that?
No.
You know what I was surprised?
Okay, the whole time we were driving up to the draft through those side streets where people were renting out their yards.
Okay, kept seeing the signs.
We accept Venmo.
Yeah.
Is it Venmo?
Vemo?
Venmo.
Venmo.
What exactly is that?
Don't tell you're talking to the wrong guy.
So basically, it's just an app that's attached to your bank accounts, right?
And your phone.
And from there, you can send that to anybody else who has that app.
So if you had Venmo right now, it's a tot and I need you to spot me at 20.
If I had that in my account, I could send it to you.
Do you have to get charged like $21 for doing that?
Where's the money in that?
Yeah,
where do they get their cut?
Well, sometimes when people send you large amounts of money and you want to transfer it to your bank account, sometimes there's a fee for that.
Right.
But generally, like if you use Cash App and stuff like that, there's no fee to send that money.
It just goes.
Well, that sounds cool.
Boy, cash is like just disappearing sort of, isn't it?
Yeah.
I mean,
you
wait.
I don't think that's good.
I don't.
I don't think that's
good.
No, I agree.
But I'm just saying, it's like there's so many people.
When they don't take
cash, it's like, are you, and yeah, I told you that there were some that was challenged in a couple places that wait, you're discriminating if you don't take cash because it's homeless people, maybe I have credit cards.
That's
true.
there might be people who have money that don't like credit cards.
They're just a cash person, you know, under the mattress type people.
And I don't like that.
That happens.
There's a lot of places in Nashville that don't take cash in you.
It's weird when you're like, oh, that's like, but
you and I experienced that twice.
Yep.
Both ways.
Yes, it's inconsistent.
One place only.
The last two times I've ever gone any place couldn't get, well, the one place had the ATM, which was good.
We went for breakfast.
and the lady wouldn't accept credit cards, then we went to have a beer and he wouldn't accept
credit cards.
That lady who wouldn't take credit cards.
and then I went and I dug through my car under the seat and I found one of those old checkbooks.
And I wrote her a check and I'm like, this is a lot riskier than
my credit
card.
I didn't even know if the
count was
good.
You knew how old it was, just from the checkbook holder, the nice, fancy little holder
thing
they always used to get you.
I
just want the picture of Jim rummaging around under his seats in his car.
I had a lot of quarters and I'm like, okay, I got enough.
I
don't know what you want less that or me trying to climb in over the back.
There you go.
Inside of my car and I got hung up on the top of the seat
or either of you in a bathrobe.
Let's let's this morning.
Let's discuss with that.
People.
I kept this.
I remember the first time I was traveling Arizona driving from Michigan to Arizona and boy there are two things that my
Cause I hadn't done anything like that.
Number one, and not to try to sound weird here, I maybe shouldn't even throw so, but number one, my brother made sure I had a gun.
And then number two, I mean, when you're traveling cross country back this, I mean, you know, um, and number two was that my sister was a banker, said you forget the cash, don't take a lot of cash travelers checks, travel.
I didn't even know what a traveler's check was.
Right.
As good as casual.
Wasn't that the tagline?
No, don't leave home without it.
Oh,
that's right.
That
is one of the express
checks.
Okay, you know hard.
Okay.
All right.
Maybe you're right, Jim.
I think
they had their own travels checks, but yeah, make or express I I've had that
I'm watching this TV show on Netflix or whatever it is and Really interesting.
It's funny.
It's a comedy.
It's called Detroit boys.
I think of the name of it It's about this guy who's gonna hit Chrysler as his contacts or as his clients and then he died suddenly
So his son was taken over the company would just kind of a screw up.
You know, they're trying to get Chrysler.
They're not gonna
get you know, they mean it's like that's I'm got runs a hot tub thing late at night and but it's just funny when they're talking about different things and This like somebody will say something out of the blue and it's like that's the slogan.
That's the hook.
Oh, yeah
That's the hook.
It's not from sitting in a room and I've experienced this too It's not for sitting in a room with a bunch of people so you got your notebook write down some really creative ideas They don't happen that
way.
No, they don't and in some
companies pay a lot of money to people like that.
My McDonald's and, you know, I don't know how much they got paid for that.
That didn't last very long.
But, you know, you just better off with just listen to your customers.
What do they say?
Because that's, that's who you're, that's who's paying the bill.
So anyway, yeah, there's a lot of things that come up, not from the corporate world.
They just come up for happenstance or sitting in a hot tub, sitting in a bar.
It's like, that's
awesome.
Yeah.
I wonder how many businesses tagline would be?
Let's just say Mino and the Mayor is a brand.
Mino and the Mayor, we suck.
Because how many times, you know, all the... That wouldn't be bad.
We're
at number two.
We suck and we got
people that still listen.
There's a difference.
True.
Got a quick text
here.
Went to a
supper club near Kelly Lake last week and found out they only took cash.
Glad I had $75.
It
says cans, I'm not sure.
Hey, Misty.
$75 cans in my wallet usually wouldn't.
They did have an ATM.
Menu had nothing about cash listed.
Yeah.
See,
that does happen.
I
wonder what happens when the people are like, I don't have any cash.
Do they just say, OK, we'll take your credit card?
I'm always interested in their tax return.
When they take only cash?
Yeah.
I'm sure they claim
everything.
I would.
I'd climb every day because I don't want to screw over the government.
But I mean that, yeah, that's see, I'm OK with that.
Some bar up in Kelly Lake and cash only.
That'd be fun.
That's kind of throwback.
Let's
let's see something we've got for a price package.
We've
got we've got I can do a twenty five dollar gift card this morning.
All
right.
One.
All right.
We're putting.
Let's see.
What are we doing?
OK.
Like what we were talking about because I'll be honest, I I got pulled off into a in Arizona.
Into a at a mall and they say would you like to watch a couple of videos for us and just write down your opinions?
We'll ask you some questions So it's one of those focus group type things and I forget what it was about something I never heard of ever again So it didn't make it and I remember this one lady throw it a couple of things and the guy was like Could you stick around?
Oh, and it's like oh
She's creative.
Yes, and she was just a person shopping at the mall awesome, okay
I tell you that.
So can you imagine when
that guy went back to corporate
took all the credit for it?
Absolutely.
And you know what I mean?
It's like, here's what I came up with.
And it was some lady with her kids at the mall came up with some great slogan.
Yeah.
And you knew it at the time.
Everybody else in the room was just kind of like, wow.
Yeah.
That's perfect.
And the
guy's like, yes.
So $25 gift card to us, our tagline, mine on the mare.
Finish.
OK.
And it's gotta be this slogan.
Yeah, it's gonna be like seven words or something Yes, you'll grow to love them first entry go ahead you'll grow to love them mine on
the
mare if you be
mine on the mare
you'll grow to love them if you become a centurion Sorry, okay, let me look at that.
Okay,
you'll grow to love them
Trust us.
Trust us as a TJ.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you, TJ.
All
right.
TJ is in the lead for the $25 gift card courtesy of Nicollet National Bank.
Thank you very much, TJ.
Appreciate that.
We got some great guests coming up.
We got Mary
Beth and Michael coming up, talking about the Mocktail Bash.
Now, this is a big deal.
And it
should
be.
And it should be.
It's a serious, serious thing, and it's great.
Mocktail Bash, Mental Health America of Wisconsin.
It's coming up on Saturday, 6 to 10 in Appleton.
The keynote speaker.
is Kristen Waite LeBotte, keynote focusing on her recovery journey, author of the book, and unlikely addict.
And then the MC will be Jason Ryan Lovett, who has been all over as an actor and things like that.
Television, I mean,
they're guys big time.
No question about it.
What a great event taking place this Saturday in Appleton.
And that's great.
Fox City's is stepping up again.
That's a great company.
They supply a lot of, they support a lot of things.
So the Mocktail,
Bash, you can, if you want more information, right?
It's just MocktailBash.com.
Yes,
okay.
I'm trying to find the location time.
They'll be in here just early in several minutes.
We'll ask them.
Yeah, exactly.
Let's ask them.
All
right, but Saturday, six to 10, what an important thing this is.
Oh yeah.
Mental health from America of Wisconsin, Kristen Waite, Labot.
This could be fantastic.
Got some other entries here.
Mino in the mirror.
Okay.
Oh, this is me.
Yeah.
Okay, like bold on cheese.
Cultured and necessary.
That isn't that nice.
All right, cheese cultured and necessary.
Why is the mold on cheese necessary?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Okay.
I don't know.
I like it.
We'll take it.
We'll take it.
We'll
take it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
What?
Let me do
this.
I want to do the first part.
No, no, no.
You got the segment.
Who's this last one from Todd?
Which
one?
The very last one.
Michael.
Michael last one's there.
Ready?
Mine or the beer?
Mine or talks?
The mayor pretends to listen.
There's that regular.
One more.
Mine on the
mayor.
Like an annoying foot, they just don't go away.
What?
I don't know what that
means.
That might be the winner just because we don't understand it.
Wow, okay.
They just talking about how you complain about your foot all the time.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts.
John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back our number two, Minow the Mayor here, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 FM, WISS in the Civic Media app and AM 111590, 54 in Green Bay, 54 out to 55 in Oshkosh, high in the low 60s today, mostly sunny, kind of breezy out there.
Brewers on getaway date today, taking on the Houston Astros.
Once again, should be a nice day with the roof open.
1135, we'll have that ball game for you coming this way on W.
I S S and as we mentioned, it is free ticket Friday coming up on W I S S and W GB W. Um, we're going to be giving away free tickets to Milwaukee Brewer ball game.
So we've got, you know, we were talking yesterday.
What's a great time of year?
Cause it's like, okay, winter's over and there are so many cool events that are taking place right now.
And we got a couple of folks here, Mary Beth Hendrickson and Michael Berge talked about the mocktail bash.
Jim, tell us all about the
mocktail bash.
That's, is this new or have you been doing this?
for a number of years, tell us about it.
It's a great vision.
It's a great purpose.
And I see Uplift Warmline.
Tell me about your organization.
Go ahead.
And Mike, can I
just say who you remind me of a lot?
Daniel Day Lewis.
I'm not sure who that is.
An actor.
That's a series of unfortunate events.
Maybe Last of the Mohicans.
Jason's an actor.
I know.
Maybe it's him.
Maybe you are.
I know.
In
another.
Life, maybe.
I'm not sure.
It was surprising.
By the way, you said you were the first person to ever say something nice to me when you walked in the room.
You said you've aged well.
Oh, you
have.
They're both of you
guys.
Okay.
All right.
It's my tales.
My tales.
I
lived in Appleton since 1987.
I remember John Mino on.
And, like, I just can't believe I'm meeting John Minow.
Like, wow, we end the mayor.
The good mayor that, like, everybody loved and respected.
Like, wow.
You've had that disappointing of a life meeting.
Those are the
two
highlights, man.
OK.
You're young
enough to get out for it.
Tell us about the amnesia event that you guys are putting on.
And what a great place
it's going to be.
The whole
stat.
And the folks are going to be there.
So you two, please just take it away.
It's your show right now.
So this is our second mocktail bash.
So we're with Mental Health America of Wisconsin, which is a statewide organization.
But we've been spending the last two years really trying to get more events and programming in the Fox Cities and Northeast Wisconsin.
And so last year was kind of a kickoff to doing a lot of that and raising awareness.
This year, we're excited to be back for a second year in a row.
What's the purpose?
Yeah, the purpose.
Today, I
just want to say, today is mental health children's awareness.
That's like honoring today, right?
Great.
I think what Johnny said too, like, what's the purpose?
Education.
Mental health.
So May is mental health month.
And mental health is such a stigmatized thing.
We're doing so much better, I think, than maybe 20 years ago, but there's still more work to do.
And
people are recognizing it like we used to hide it, didn't we?
Right.
And now more people are way more comfortable feeling open to share that they struggle or a family member struggles.
like everybody's impacted.
So like we should all come together.
And then the other piece is recovery.
And so there are so many places where somebody might be in recovery and they're like, okay, I want to go out and have fun now.
Like what is there to do?
And they're like, I want to do something besides we joke like, what is there to do?
Go to Walmart or, you know, church and not that those are bad places, but you know, if you used to go out a lot, what can you do?
So we're like, can we replicate a really fun night without alcohol?
And so that was our challenge last year.
I think we succeeded.
Yeah.
Let's do it again.
Are
people more willing to admit because.
Let's be honest, there was almost a stigma and not that line go where you'd be in a bar and somebody had ordered a water or whatever.
It's like, oh boy, you're the life of the party.
You were almost like put down if you didn't drink alcohol.
Is that fading away a little bit,
Michael?
Yeah, I think so with the mocktails and then other options.
And then people just
being
like, yeah, I don't drink alcohol.
And actually I wake up tomorrow.
I don't feel fat and sad and depressed and regretful.
One rumor in my wallets that actually I slept really, really well.
And I remember everything I did and said the night before.
And how we like transition from like hanging on to our youth to adults where we start being fake and everything like that and feel we gotta, you know, have this facade and it's lost somewhere.
And I think in a lot of ways people drink myself included.
When I did, I gave up three years ago.
Best decision I've ever made.
I'm saying that in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
That's all right.
I love it.
But at that same time.
Hey, I'm gonna be honest with you on something both you got.
I guarantee we've got some people listening right now that this is gonna
hit real home to them so please go ahead don't hold back if i can
all right well uh i say this john mino and jim schmidt is like you guys and being uh who you are and everything like that to give you example of stigma we came in here a few minutes ago and then you're like hey you ready i recognize you last moheakens and all of that hopefully you're like yeah these guys are decent people but at the same time john mino and the the mayor
I'm a
huge fan.
Oh, God!
I just swish his hat around.
And like,
suddenly, that's stigma.
You know what I mean?
Flip just had around to the Bears logo.
And I did
the
same
thing at the
Pack
of Bear game in 2021.
Like, I was like there, I was with seasoned ticket holders.
I was like connecting more so with Bear fans than I was Pack of Fans.
I was like, what's going on?
It was my own issues and everything like that, but I was completely sober.
I was, I was like, I wasn't drinking.
Well, I'm Cali sober.
All right, at that game and everything like that, but like...
Yeah, and I had such a great time.
I really, really did, but hopefully, well, share your thoughts as far as stigma right now with...
There's a bear fan that's sitting in here.
Yes
very green and gold.
Yes
that part's okay cuz they still suck So we'll
be okay, you
know what I like I love the fact that that bears new coach Said that about how he wants to beat Matt LaFleur cuz I'm gonna taste up Matt LaFleur
He's got a little that French Canadian.
That rivalry needed to be renewed a little bit because it's a fun, great
rivalry.
It is.
Yeah.
The Vikings kind of moved in on that rivalry.
And I'm glad it's back to the Bears because our dads.
Bears were the, you know,
the
biggest thing.
And it went back to that, I hope, I think,
because it's,
especially, you know, Rodgers played a little bit into that wheel new and all that.
So that, but I tell you guys are a little sensitive.
I was a friend of mine, big, big Bears fan, just crazy about the Bears, hates the Packers.
He was going to come up.
We're going to meet at the draft.
And Clay Matthews said that he was so offended he didn't come.
He just powed it.
He just powed it.
I'm like, give me a break.
I said, there's other bear, they're bear fans there.
I mean, that was a good time, but he, anyway, you guys are,
it's a, but it can be a point to connect.
Like, yeah, I give each other
that's a
rivalry.
And I've told these guys, the bears president, George McCaskey,
as
a classmate of mine.
No, kid.
We sat this way from each other and he actually got me a job down there.
So he's a good friend.
So I mean, I pull for him, right?
But not against the Packers obviously.
If you get the emotional one, same thing with mental health and recovery and addiction.
I've drawn some parallels there and everything like that.
You know, it's really, really true.
You miss out on it.
If you get offended, then maybe that emotions point you towards something.
How did you stop?
Drinking?
Yeah.
I promised the Lord I would quit.
And I would never touch it again outside of communion.
And man, he's come through since then.
That's, that's the only way that works.
You really gotta give it to a higher power.
It's just, you just, you can't do it as talented as you are.
You just, there's some stuff you
just.
Yeah.
So like as a mental health organization, like, hey, we've lived and breathed this.
That's, that's why we do it.
We're not trying to take your money.
We're like, we don't want other people to suffer.
We don't want other people like be, go.
you know, teeter between like this horrible baseline and sadness and darkness where you want to take your life for like the last five years.
Like, we want you to have hope and find that connection in some way and tap back into that youth and be yourself and identify however you want.
And I think the LGBTQ community like really opened up a lot of doors for all of that.
Why can't we unite as like mental health?
Like, hey, I struggle with mental illness.
I've been battling schizophrenia for 35 years and I'm okay with that.
That's me.
You know, that's fine.
It's incredible.
It really is.
It works with a lot of people like what you were or what you are or
whatever always will be I mean just this It's just the way you're like your life and you've got it under control.
Yeah, I'm really happy for you proud of you for doing that But we've uh mental health though that umbrella it just doesn't have a good connotation There are people that are very healthy that go to therapy that it's like it's okay They're like that's what I do like we go to the I go to the doctor a lot.
I'm not I don't know that I'm
uh hypochondriac but you know i want to be healthy you know i know no one gets out of here alive but i'd like to be the first to do that oh wow
that's
great but people who go to therapy are like very quiet about it they should just say look that's what i do i feel better my life's better so
there's a great there's a great lyric in i love the singer jelly roll
Oh, yeah.
Isn't
he awesome?
And he's got that one song.
Do you know Jolly Roll?
Why?
Two dozen.
I've
never heard music.
Oh, you haven't?
No.
Oh, my God.
But he's got that one song
I'm going to rehab.
About the first time he walked in, there was a basement of this church, and he was like, you know, nervous and sweating and like, oh, man, this is how good.
And the guy next to him who's like, he said 20, he says, right in the song, it's true story, 20 years clean or whatever,
but
he'd still come to all these.
And he said, son, let me tell you one thing.
There ain't one single person that walks into this room on a winning streak.
You're all in the same boat, relax.
Isn't that a great way
of putting it?
It is.
It's a connecting piece.
Absolutely.
Tell me how your passion is, Mary Beth.
So I'm quite passionate about mental health for personal and professional reasons.
And a couple of years ago, Mike Lynn and I got connected and we were like, hey, like why don't we have more things in our area?
So we started looking, found Mental Health America of Wisconsin, saw that they do things statewide, but there wasn't a lot of targeted stuff in our area.
So we were like, how can we do this?
And so we've been working on different initiatives.
events in Green Bay and the Fox Cities.
We've had, we partnered with Jabasso, The Skate Park, which is an amazing organization.
We did a mental
health check them out.
Yeah, they're super cool.
We did a mental health night there.
We do a weekly walk at Heckrod in Manasha, which anybody can show up.
And a lot of the, so a big barrier that we've seen though, is that some people need some events or programming, you have to have like a diagnosis to come.
connect and we were like, you know, some people don't even know if they have a diagnosis and that doesn't mean they don't need support or can't connect to people because like you guys said, everybody struggles with something.
You know what, you just handed me this card on the skateboard and I was just reading the back.
Can you read that's kind of a little small print for these glasses.
I hear you.
Good, good for one free day.
No, the
other one.
You're going to take skate lessons.
All
right.
Our mission at Green Bay
I know it's what was it Stanford Green Bay
Action Sports
Organization right is to develop our youth social physical and leadership skills by partnering with the community to provide access to action sports and educational opportunities.
Oh, that's a great place that I mean, I'm familiar with the guy that started it.
He passed away, but it was just that's got a great group behind him and I think you got festival and now I think you get a sponsor in there, which is going to help and We need you can never start too young with
I think that's your point on this stuff here is, you know, and to get an outlet and to be with people that that are maybe I struggle is not the right word, but people who are in the same boat you are.
That's important.
Children's
mental health awareness day.
So tell me what are the chances?
That's great.
Hey, so there's my tail bash.
Tell me.
We walk in or the cost.
Tell me about what's that event.
So it's $25 to come.
We have a great beverage sponsor, Forward Beverage, out of Wausau is providing the macktails for the evening.
And we have a hummus, healthy appetizer buffet from the pharmacy here in Green Bay is catering it.
Those are.
Good friends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And the ticket is $25.
That includes your buffet.
It includes your first mocktail.
And you get to hear the speaker, Kristen Wheat-Lebot, who wrote a book and unlikely addict.
And she has a phenomenal story.
So back in 2005, she... We're going to
send her a quick...
I want to
hear
this.
Pick it up right
there.
Okay.
Yeah.
That was good.
I mean,
next question was to tell me a little bit
about her
and her book.
Sounds good.
This is really good stuff, both you
guys.
This is awesome.
Thanks for being here.
Quick break.
Yeah.
Back with more with Mary Beth and Michael Berge.
Music.
Wednesday morning.
We've got some tremendous guests with us right now, ladies.
Jenna, we've got more coming up.
But Marybeth Hendrickson, Michael Berge, Mocktail Bash taking place this Saturday at South Greenville, Grange.
Did we take Prospect you said out of
Appleton?
At the Prospect West.
It is his historic setting, right?
Wow, farm building.
It looks like a gym, you know, old school gym with a stage and this kind of like a church basement.
It's great.
It's great.
I just come from the building, but I guarantee you'll have a great time.
www.mocktailbash.com.
And the pharmacies are sponsors.
We all love them.
They've been on the show numerous times.
So we're going to go to this event for $25.
And this is Mocktails.
a speaker that's coming, and she's got quite the book.
Just don't, you know, don't.
Not a spoiler alert, but what does she talk about?
So in 2005, she was working as a nurse at Children's Hospital.
In Milwaukee?
In Milwaukee, I believe.
And she, we hear those stories, or you see it on the news, like, nurse arrested for diverting drugs.
She was somebody that was...
She had an active addiction to opioids and alcohol at that time.
And she was stealing drugs from work and got caught and was arrested.
And that felt like her rock bottom.
But actually, she pivoted, she's been in recovery since 2005.
And she actually started a peer support network for...
nurses who have substance use disorders.
So she was actually able to take her really hard time in her life and turn that into something really amazing to serve other nurses.
She actually got her RN license reinstated as well a couple years ago.
She did time.
She did.
She was actually served six months in jail.
Long, long
time.
Is
that a common thing, but look like medical people get involved with.
the diverting medications.
Yeah, the opioids and millions of health care dollars are towards that major
thing.
Opioid addiction is no, it's no
boundaries.
Right, medical, there's kids, there's, we said that that's such a city thing, but it's in the rural areas.
I mean, you wouldn't believe it in this part of the, I mean, a little bit about that.
It can affect anyone.
So to come to this event, we're gonna show up at this event, $25.
Pharmacies supporting that you're gonna have a speaker there and just really a networking opportunity Who would you like to see in the room?
Everybody and we want you to wear your lime green We have a prize for the person wearing the lime-iest outfit because lime is the color for mental health awareness And there's gonna be contests that you can participate in or just watch other people participate in and laugh
Sounds like a great event.
It's not
this hardcore
You know, pounding it to your head, you gotta stop
drinking.
Right, stop that.
I can just give a little talk to it.
Absolutely.
It's the end of nurses week, and we gotta, I guess, speak, you know, a nurse that's coming that, like, a warrior nurse that, like, hit rock bottom and all the shame, and then, like, reinvented herself.
Right.
Sober and came back.
That's what's so great about, like, conquering addiction and alcoholism, like, Steve-o.
You guys know Steve-o.
Sure, absolutely.
He said, like, that's the one disease that you have to become a better person.
After battling that like then you ever were prior whereas every other disease is so so different than that That's a good point and she did and then I think what we talk about the opioid crisis and we talk about the abuse and diverting medications and big pharma and everything like that is hey, we've got wonderfully legal cannabis infused drinks that will be available at this mocktail bash So you don't have to worry about being anxious.
You don't have to worry about
all that fear and everything like that.
You have the choice.
We're not pushing them on you or anything like that.
It's 2018 Pharma Act.
They found this loophole and everything like that.
It's medicine to some people, but hey, too much of a good thing could be a really bad thing.
But these are wonderful made by a chemist at a Wausau Forward beverage company.
And his wife, we're all about love and peace and helping people.
And here they are.
And it's really, really taken off.
So that's the option there.
So like I remember for myself being an addict, alcoholic, all of that.
Broken man.
I was like, I don't like going to events without something on board in my system.
It sounds so bad.
You know, it does.
It's not, though, because I know Jim and I have done a billion different events where somebody has to speak and whatever, whatever.
Yeah.
And you know, some of that social anxiety is a really thing.
I mean, I've seen people almost like
paralyzed getting
people.
You think that would be
great.
And they they are there in the bathroom, throwing up.
Yeah.
So nervous.
It's like, wow.
Really you?
But I just, yeah.
So they take things to take the edge off.
You
know, it's better if we be talking to someone, talking them down.
But you said that this mocktail can serve that purpose without hard alcohol.
You
don't mean
much too.
They make every flavor of drink both ways.
They have soft cocktails or social seltzers.
They call them.
And it's the same flavor, same drink.
One has the little bit of something in it.
One does not.
And honestly, nobody will know which one you're drinking.
They're poured into it.
Yeah.
And what's
great about this event too is like parents can bring their 16 and above, like bring youth into this.
Like let's bring this up and start talking about it even more so than just two adults who have already been struggling that long.
You know what I mean?
So they're going
to be, help someone who's struggling a little bit, that one's recovery.
Do you have a booth or are you just going to be there working the crowd?
How does this work?
Because some people, they really want to...
They really want to recover, but they're not there yet, you know?
And
just
so you know, we're running close on time here, but I got special dispensation from the Pope in there
that we're gonna
keep you up for a whole another segment.
Is that okay?
We don't
do this very
often because it's
so regimented, but this is so
important.
The conclave going on right now, we don't know who the Pope is, so we just, they gave it to Todd for this, for today.
I'll just make a little change.
He's a fill in Pope today.
He's the fill in time.
That's how you talk
about
your boss.
It is.
Oh my goodness.
There's such
good
energy in you.
Yeah, you should be here when we're not on the
air.
You can
just tell.
All right, so, but people, again, I want to know, you say it's for everybody, you know, there's, but that everybody is people who maybe,
feeling they're struggling a little bit with alcohols, with drugs, with mental health, and they can come to your place, they can hear a great speaker about how she turned her life around.
And you gave a great testimonial to when we just started.
Thank you.
You've just scratched the surface, I think, on what's behind your wall
there.
But what he talked
about...
I'm trying.
But I've been to plenty of those meetings, and like you said, you just had a...
turn it over to someone else to a higher power, you know, and it was funny because we talk about, you know, Catholics are in church because they don't want to go to hell and people are in recovery because they've been to hell and they don't want to go back.
He's a
great
boy.
I like that.
So, yeah, absolutely great.
We've got a quick
break.
Marybeth and Michael Berge, Mocktail Bash coming up this Saturday in Ampton.
Stick around, okay?
You guys
okay?
Alright, cool.
Awesome.
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Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.
Man, a couple of phenomenal guests we got here right now.
Marybeth Hendrickson, Michael Bergey, talking about the mocktail bash taking place in Appleton this Saturday night.
We also have our contest going.
We want to see how creative our people are.
We've got a $25 gift certificate to see if any
if you could be creative advertising type of people.
Come up with the tagline.
Come up with
the tagline.
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We're giving you
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We are.
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So you ready?
Here's
some of the
people in the running,
okay?
It's mine on the
mayor.
Yeah, here we go.
Here we go, you start.
Mine on the
mayor.
Politics, punchlines, and possibly bad advice.
Mine on the mayor.
The athlete's foot.
No, like athlete's
foot.
Like athlete's foot.
They just don't go away.
Mino the mayor.
A show about everything.
Thank you, Chopper.
Thank you, Chopper.
And now that we're going to do that one again.
Isn't that nice?
Mino the mayor.
A show about everything.
That's good.
Thank you.
Mino the mayor.
Informative, entertaining, and engaging.
But wait.
That was supposed to be the slogan for the first place morning show.
My bad.
Wow.
Sparky, that hurt a lot.
Sparky, really?
Sparky, that was very nice.
Hey, Sparky, let's grab a live wire.
They just had, they just had this, the WBA, Wisconsin Broadcast Association, it's statewide.
Hundreds people dominated, actually more than that.
And they have this big event last weekend and they have the best morning show and we took second.
So we're not happy about that and this guy just rubbed it in a sane Sparky Sparky saying that
oh that was that take line
was for the first number one I know bar here.
Okay.
Mine or the mayor making it up as we go There's a listener Proving daily everyone is cooler than us.
Thank you.
And it's true and one more here
mine or the mayor
well
What did you expect?
And you get to work with Murphy in the morning like 30
years.
What's he doing now?
Oh, yeah, he's golfing for a living
basically.
We actually, I don't know if you've seen that social media and everything, but Bill Murray will show up at places randomly at college parties and all this.
Okay.
Bill Murray is wired, you know, he's legendary and all of that.
And so yeah, my friend and I were watching, what about Bob the other night?
We got an actor as our emcee.
Jason Ryan love it was on General Hospital and he still looks
Gorgeous your emcee was on general hospital for Saturday.
Yeah repertoire It's it's all this lady that makes that magic happen and all that's cool Yeah, and he's he shared his story last year and we were like blown away That's the thing you start being vulnerable and open at these events and it feels safe and you're not gonna be judged and all of that It's like oh wait.
Yeah, I struggled to and that's like the cool thing of the night.
You know what I
mean?
Yeah
I'm sailing.
I'm a sailor.
Keep sailing, Bob.
That's from what about Bob?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I missed that.
That's Bill Murray's Richard Dreyfus.
Yeah.
I'm far away from shore.
I'm a
sailor.
This great movie.
So we're building up momentum on this thing.
Are you serious?
You're going to give away some tickets?
Yeah, it's $25.
That's double what we gave away, because we only gave away $25.
They gave only two tickets, which is $50.
How do you want to do the ticket giveaway?
Just text in?
Or you got a question for them?
Like, what percent of people?
No, we won't do that.
That's hard to
argue.
They can look it up.
Yeah, whoever gets closest to this is all right.
We had three counties, the amount of suicides.
in two two thousand twenty three whoever could guess that the closest number is that that be all right.
That's OK.
I'll be honest.
But yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah
but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but
yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah but yeah
Please text us, and we literally do a random thing where we'll draw a number of which texture it was, and that's what we'll do.
All
right.
So we're going to have text between now and as long as you're on.
Hey,
Michael.
It's 27, 27.
It's 27, John.
Is this the mine on Michael's show?
I didn't think so.
Oh, you got me with that.
Wow.
We're our special guests.
We got these amazing individuals, but when they come up with ideas, I got a lot of setup in.
Yeah.
I understand.
I respect that.
This is, I
do.
This sucks, too.
All right.
It's this Saturday, though.
It's 6 p.m.
in Appleton.
My favorite morning.
If you'd like to go to this event, then this is for everyone, but really people who want to learn more about addiction, people who want to learn more about mental health, you want to hear some great speakers that have gone through a difficult time.
This is a good evening.
Bring it all to the surface.
Right.
Bring it all to the surface.
Talk about it.
Which is awesome.
We'll talk about it.
And
it's okay to have fun not being drunk.
Right.
Believe it or not.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The walk away a better person.
You can show up alone.
And you're gonna find someone there who doesn't drink your place.
It's super easy, but I'm
saying if you go to a wedding, you're like, oh, I'm the only one who doesn't drink here.
No, even even if you would show up and you pregame a little bit.
I didn't know they had a name for that, like drinking before you go places.
That was just something we kind of hid.
But then all of a sudden it's like, oh, yeah, I pregame too.
And now
it's
acceptable.
If you even showed up after having a few drinks prior or like, I know, or you got a water bottle out in your car that's got a little vodka in it, just in case that's like bad side.
But but at the same time, it's not
to bother us.
You're like smell like alcohol.
It's like that may trigger some people to be honest, but yeah, at the same time, if that is what you would have to do to come address your uncle or your family member that's struggling so much and you're looking for that connection and we connect you with resources like and Mount South America, Wisconsin's got proactive results and all of that.
Fine, fine, yeah, no judgment, that's the thing.
If you show up and you had some drinks or you got them in the park, it's okay, it's out in the country, nobody's gonna care, we just want you to come and enjoy yourself.
Everybody's welcome, so you don't need to be sober to come, so I think that, I mean, I'm not saying to show up drunk, but I mean, you don't need to be like, you don't need to be like somebody who doesn't drink, there won't be alcohol served there, but it's for everybody.
A big thing too is,
allies and so like even
if
you don't identify as somebody that struggles with mental health or maybe you're like I don't know anybody come anyway because what we also need are just accepting
people in our society and that's like a huge way to bring down stigma too.
So
this
event is literally for anybody and it's great to see.
So actually we have a cool thing that when you come, we have these bands that they're like bracelets and they're different colors and you put it on what you identify.
So it's I or somebody I know struggles with a mental illness, that's one color.
I or somebody I care about or something like that, however it's phrased.
has a substance use disorder, or is neurodivergence.
We have like four different ones.
And so the cool thing is-
Can Johnny wear multiple?
Yeah, Johnny's cool.
All up to my elbow?
I'll have all four.
I don't mean to make light
of it, I'm sorry.
No, no, it is true though, because like many people are like, well, I need one of each.
And I'm like, yeah, put them on.
And then when you walk around,
that's
cool.
kind of another way to destigmatize, because I'm looking around like, oh, look at that.
We're all in this together.
And
then you're not saying, why are you here?
Right?
Right, right,
right.
And
there's no name tags on or anything like that.
Yeah.
Yeah, judgment-free zone.
What a cool event.
Thank
you.
I mean, I just, I hadn't heard of this before.
This is your second one as well.
Yeah.
And it's sound like any fundraiser you've ever heard.
And we got really, really great prizes.
Not that it's all about that, but that's what's so great.
Like $300 gift card to a tattoo place.
A little sketch in Appleton.
Like this painting by the Chicago artist that's like goes for 500 bucks, which I said to where I said, well, I'd be like 1,200.
Yeah, you don't say that to an Italian artist.
But yeah, like really good stuff we want to give back.
We're not just trying to get your money.
If you want to share something, that's okay.
We realize cash is.
And you can get you can email us and ask if we can get you free tickets to it's not about that It's about the connection and met the way I'm gonna ask you guys a
question now Somebody's listening and they want to text one of us or something later and say hey, I can get a hold of them I just like to I don't want to set up an appointment at a such
and
such I just need to talk to somebody about I'm starting to slip a little bit or whatever whatever.
What's the best advice to give them
the
Reestablish the warm line.
Yeah.
So, um, well, if you go to, um, the, um, mental health of America website, there are already lots of resources on there.
Um, and there's a lot of things we have several support groups in the area, um, that are going on.
And then those like kind of.
low-key supports, like that walk that we do every Sunday night.
And that was a thing that came to us, too, where we were like, so many people, there's a stigma, like we were chatting between things.
People are maybe hesitant to go to therapy or to a support group and to walk into a building.
So we're like, where are the people?
Let's put ourselves out there.
Originally, we were like, we should have a building and a place where people could come.
But that costs a lot of money.
So we're like, OK, let's put ourselves out there.
Let's go to where people
are.
And
actually, I think we've connected with so many more people.
It was not on purpose.
It's just because we didn't have a building.
But we're like, OK, where are people?
Men's mental health is such a big thing where that's not talked about a lot.
We're like, where are men?
Well,
somebody said a
lot of them are at work.
A lot of them are out doing activities.
Well, let's do some things for that.
So Mental Health America is working on a workplace wellness thing where they'll partner with companies to help with that.
So we're trying to go to where the people are at versus waiting for them to come to us.
Because when somebody's struggling,
It's really hard for somebody to reach out for
help.
That's what it is to realize and think like, okay, either meds or whatever path you choose or therapy or on ability or like.
Any of that, like you got to take that step.
There's work on the other side of battle addiction and mental illness.
And we'll do lots of work too.
We want to help you and all of that.
But you can just meet us halfway or corner of the way.
We'll take you wherever you're at, you know?
That's awesome.
So it's just mocktailbash.com if you want to learn about the event.
Yeah.
Everything's on there that you just talked about,
how
welcoming it is and how much knowledge can be there.
And really, but you talked about it's really the socialization.
It's really talking to each other about.
Struggles right yeah the way to come out of it and we got a great author coming in to talk about it So that's my I
know I gotta say one thing about that though when you have an author like that you say to your you know Somebody's beating themselves up.
I mean she was probably making six figures right as a nurse
Successful career plus
title.
That's that's the most respected.
We're like honored and Tigris career We all agree
with that one.
Yeah,
so what I'm saying is if that can happen to somebody like that
Yeah,
somebody that we look at that like we would go to for help to give me some advice.
It can happen
anybody Yeah, the devil's after all of us, man.
Yeah, anyway,
yeah One other thing about her opioid though is that like a lot of people they're past
to opioid addiction is actually something they were prescribed legitimately from
a
physician.
And so somebody gets in a car accident and they are prescribed something and that's where it starts.
So that's literally why we, none of us can predict for us or our family members or people close to us who might be impacted one day.
I just said a new thing with Brett Favre and he
was
on
a
podcast.
And it wasn't some, you know, big medical, it was this guy's pot.
And he said, I gotta tell you something.
He said, I took Vicodin for pain once and I needed it for pain.
And I think it was when he sprained his ankle really bad against him, played against the Bears.
But anyway, and he said, every other time, I took it for recreational.
One time, he said he took it for the pain.
And it's like, oh, and that's it.
So I mean, it's
so
easy is
what I'm saying with that, isn't it, though?
Yeah, you hit that next thing, you know, your entire bank account of $12,000 is gone.
Yeah.
I did like anything to survive.
You were convinced that you need that to function and survive.
Well, I wish I had a $12,000 bank account,
but it's
another story.
I got more money than John Minow.
No way.
No way.
Nothing Jim Schmidt.
No.
Well, what's
the matter?
You guys are awesome.
Mary Beth Hendrickson, Michael Berge, Mock Tillbash.
Last time give yourselves a plug the who what when where and why
yeah this Saturday yeah
this Saturday May 10th 6 to 10 p.m.
At the South Greenville Grange in Appleton you get your tickets $25.00 Www.machtail bash.com and all proceeds are going to the uplift warm line So come on down we really want to see you all
right guys do us a favor Give us a report afterwards like either next week or the week later or something something how it went
what you feel like you accomplished with people.
You know
what
I mean?
Because so many times we have people out like this, then we never hear anything more.
And we want to hear
more
about this.
Yeah, we want you
guys to follow up if that's okay.
Absolutely.
Okay, cool.
Thank you.
Thank you
both so much for being here.
You're welcome.
Important stuff.
Important stuff.
Thank you.
All
right,
we're gonna
start a quick break back after this.
Hey, welcome back special thanks Mary Beth Hendrickson Michael Berge Mocktail bash coming up Saturday if you need some information Please let us know also if you're looking for tickets text us a title do a little bit of a drawing there and somebody's gonna get two free tickets $25 a piece, so please let us know got some more text We're still giving out a $25 gift card for the best tagline
If you were working for an ad agency and you had to do Mino and the Mayor for a great tagline, we got some other, we had some great ones so far.
We got Mino in the Morning.
Mayhem.
Thank you, Tina.
Nope, nope, nope.
You didn't do that right.
You said Mino in the Morning, so that's not right, so let's back out.
Mino in the Mayor.
Morning
mayhem.
Nice.
Not
bad.
Not bad at all, Tina.
Mino in the Mayor.
Mostly meaningless.
I like that one.
That's great.
I like
that one a lot.
I got another one here.
Hey guys, I'm so sorry.
My last one wasn't very nice to you guys.
Here's another mine on the mirror.
Unlike the train.
No, mine on the mirror.
I like the train that gets stuck.
Wait.
Wow.
Unlike the train, Todd gets stuck waiting for.
They tend to go off the
rails every
morning.
There you
go.
Todd likes that
little.
Well, it's a little.
It's a little.
It's a little.
Sparky, but I see a little work.
He's, you know, because I mean, this is, I mean, seeing a bumper sticker spark.
So I mean, you know, something that billboards
bumper stickers.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's all right.
We'll have to.
Hey Sparky, we're not like your electricians getting paid $100 an hour, you're okay?
We gotta get to the point real quick.
Hey Sparky.
We're up against the clock.
Exactly.
Come on now.
Hey Todd, we got some hard-to-rama tickets to give away as well, correcto?
Yeah, I do.
I've got some technical problems I'm working on, so you guys are up for this.
We've got tickets for the eighth and ninth.
I've got a pair for each day.
and we can give them away this morning.
Phenomenal.
We talked about that.
We had the... Jim Paltz.
Right.
Who was in charge of the Heart of Rama Tourism Event, which you hosted last year, weren't you?
Well, it's just one of the auctioneer type things.
They actually auction off toilet seats.
I
know.
And I want to say it went for like $5,000 last
year.
They have cheaper things, but wow.
But that's the emotion and
that goes to the Heart
Association, right?
Yeah, and the big thing they're doing is buying the...
Amphibs?
Yeah, to
go to the schools and to the businesses, which is great.
So they're going
to have to fund raiser.
Mark Hewson is so mad at us right now that we can't think of a name, but that he brought in here and displayed for us.
But it is a lot, a lot of fun
and they have the theme is.
Focus on the 80s.
I mean, when
you went last
year, it was more
Star
Wars or Sputnik.
That's what
it was.
Special guests that they have coming in are obviously Ben Chan, who we all know him, Mr. Jeopardy.
Chris Roth, Ms.
Wisconsin, Mandy Genord, Jeopardy's Ben Chan, to River City Manager Greg Buckley, Harderama veterans Chris Cornelli and Rick Gerald, and comedian Charlie Barron.
Food is sold, pre-show, and hot dogs will be available at intermission.
Beverages are sold all night long.
They also sell t-shirts, sweatshirts, notepads, koozie alls with a hard-to-rama logo for this year.
Show dates May 1st to the 3rd, and then May 8th to the 10th at the Two Rivers Community House, which, if you've never been to, is one of the coolest venues in Northeast Wisconsin.
I love that place.
They maintain that.
Greg Buckley, who is the city manager, who's retiring, is going to be one of the guest hosts.
He deserves a lot of credit for keeping that town so clean, so updated.
You
know what?
And it could be 1946.
Right.
And it's like nothing has changed.
You know what?
We always talk about that architecture-wise.
You've got these beautiful old houses.
You know, all the ornate stuff has been painted over or ripped out or...
Arts have been replaced.
This is exactly from the day it was built.
Yeah, it's great.
And how old do you think that place is?
100 years old?
Yeah, I'm sure it was early.
Yeah, it's awesome.
So anyway, but they do so many things for Manitowoc County and that whole area about there with any different types of hard things.
Once again, Hardorama, non-profit comedy variety show put on six nights a year in two rivers.
It's their 52nd year.
50 second I think it's gonna work.
They've been doing this heart association donations of automated external defibrillator AEDs Automated external defibrillators.
So you go to this
comedy shows comedy skits, right?
And it's just some great people some great MCs and look at where the money goes because we talked we've talked about that on this show a number of times and you know what Bellin does but what companies do too and
these things can save lives big time and they're so easy to operate and you just listen to what they're saying and so anyway two rivers need some of these and so does man talk and that's why we're having this fundraiser
there we got this one of the biggest fundraisers every night is the live auction that takes plenty 20 minutes before the show this auction called the best seat in the house is of a new
painted toilet seats signed by the cast and crew.
The best seat auction has become a friendly competition between local businesses and individuals who bid on it and probably display their seat in business or home.
The seats have sold anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 nightly.
I don't think they are having mocktail.
$5,000 for the best seats in the house.
Yes.
Look,
I actually signed it last year.
Did you?
Oh, yeah, you're actually now.
I remember who went to Bartow Builders.
Oh, you asked me about that.
Yes.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yep.
So there you go.
Okay.
That's
who it
was.
All right.
We got more special guests coming up, man.
I'll tell you what, Mary Beth and Michael, God bless you.
Folks are doing some great things.
They're helping local people.
Um, we still got Kevin Van Esk coming up down the road here.
We got John Kramer at the press times.
We got the Neville Public Museum.
I was just telling the intern about that.
Have you been to this, Daddy?
I
have not.
That is great.
Sounds like something I would like though.
You would love that.
That is a great, great, great event.
And that's, Kevin's gonna talk more about it, but
it went to that last
year a couple times.
The interns going I think so okay.
Yeah sounds great And again, we still got our contest going give us the tagline for Mino and the mayor and then fill in the blanks from there Todd is going to be the judge and jury
Todd's leaning towards that most meaningless mostly meaningless.
I don't
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I like that one a lot.
I know you do
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Alright,
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Yeah, a lot more like that
That's because you and I we gotta take a break because we're the ones doing it
so Todd when we're good Okay, we're giving away tickets on Friday, right?
We're not giving away tickets for Friday show or for Friday's game or anything
No, so that
the Brewers I'm talking about
right
Brewers isn't until Friday.
I actually
had a couple of texts on my phone asking about that Okay, no problem.
We'll talk about that down the road We got to come back with John Kramer headlines of the press times Justin and James Neville Public Museum heroes club event a lot more stuff coming up
you
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
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Okay, it's something I would love to do.
Yeah,
we
love history.
So go ahead and
introduce yourselves and tell you guys what you guys got coming up
Okay, my name is James path and I am the curator at the Neville Public Museum nice
And I'm Justine Kemfer.
I'm a Hall of Fame and Stadium Tourist Coordinator for the Packers Hall of Fame.
Outstanding.
And you guys have done some nice things in conjunction recently, haven't you?
Yeah.
So over the last several years, and this has been going on for a while, actually, we're a part of the Brown County Federation of History Organizations.
So ourselves, the Neville Public Museum, the Railroad Museum, a number of the Historical Societies, all get together.
monthly and do professional development and all kinds of things, but we annually host some sort of community event.
So it used to be called a history treasure tour and now it's referred to as Brown County history days.
So it's a week long affair of free events for the public at each of our member institutions.
All right, so we're going to go to the railroad museum.
We're going to go to your place.
And you're going to, what is it?
Showcase or speaker?
What happens
there?
Each organization has planned their own event.
So at the Neville Public Museum, we have our new traveling exhibit, Darwin and Dinosaurs.
Our educator, Ali, will be doing a talk about the exhibit and then going in depth.
So you guys don't say dinosaurs and you guys have a line, aren't you?
Let's be honest.
That's why they're out in front.
You can't miss.
No.
But then other organizations are doing talks on...
things like their programs like Heritage Hill is doing a talk about the history of their organization and the hill and things like that.
All right.
Yeah.
Well, that's cool.
So that's the 13th to the 17th.
Is it one of days that what you're doing or how does this work?
It's the 12th to the 17th.
12th to 17th, sorry.
And it depends on the day.
So typically there's one to two programs per day.
And there's a couple of organizations that are doubling up.
So like the Railroad Museum, they have a program on their gratitude train or train car.
and they're hosting twice during that week of the same program.
So people have multiple opportunities to get there if they can't make it one day.
I
think sometimes people come here and there's some good development going on here, but the history here is so rich and it just isn't.
I mean, we were the first before Milwaukee.
I mean, this was discovered here.
I mean, this was the oldest settlement, the first settlement in Wisconsin.
And I don't know how far back you go, but there's just a lot of history to celebrate here.
And if we don't celebrate our history, it gets torn down.
John Kramer.
What was the light back then, Jim?
I'll tell you, I won't say something that's pretty cool, though, as far as the lines that opened my eyes.
When I go walking, like on the Fox River Trail, a lot of times I'd rather go.
South and then turn that way and whatever whatever or north rather than turn that way and there's that one plank It's like from this was the trail in 1600 or something.
Yeah, that's
what it goes that far back
totally Yeah, yeah are the history of the region is extensive.
It's unbelievable.
Um, yeah
But to be standing right there on this
exact trail that we're right,
you know what I mean?
That's cool
the jizzies came in so yeah Yeah, it there's just the long lots everything about this places and if we don't talk about it
We forget about it.
And there's so much, people might say, well, so-and-so is doing this or this suburb is doing that.
But what we've got here that no one will ever, is the history.
And it's just, there's so much to be shared.
What are you gonna be talking about at the Neville?
Like what will your
focus be?
There's so much history here.
For our specific program, we are doing the dinosaurs a bit.
Specifically, our educator is talking about a the exhibit and the mega fauna and things like that that were around at that time period.
But she'll also be talking about things like the bone wars and which is an archeological or a paleontological battle that went on during that time period.
And she'll also be talking about why we don't find dinosaur fossils here in Brown County.
Because of the glaciers, they moved them all
down to other areas, right?
They weren't far from here.
I mean, South Dakota, right?
I'm sitting right next to two dinosaurs.
Oh, yeah.
I'm just here to make jokes.
I like it.
I do.
Why don't you just text them in,
OK?
So when someone comes to show up at your place
for the
Packer history, what will your focus be?
Yeah.
So I mean, you were talking about Brown County history and how extensive the history is in the area.
Obviously, people associate Green Bay a lot with the Packers, and that's wonderful for me.
However, like you were all saying, it goes far beyond that.
And so for us, we have our draft exhibit, which has been open now since July.
But what we're actually focusing on is the art collection that's in
the stadium.
So we have free admission for anyone from four to six PM.
And then we're also hosting many art tours.
So 30 minute tours.
Those are those pictures on the wall in the
box area?
Oh, that's cool.
Those are some
great pictures.
We have over 500 pieces of original artwork and photography that doesn't really get to see a lot of action.
You'll see portions of it if you go on a stadium tour.
But there's not a whole lot of information publicly about the artists or those art pieces and their inspirations.
So we will have some of our tour guides hosting those mini art tours to tell people a little bit more about that.
That's great.
That's
something
that you're right about that.
Just maybe like, don't get the opportunity to see that.
You want to have whatever.
Was the hall
of fame opened during the draft?
Oh, yeah.
How was the business there?
It was good.
Good.
Yeah, it was good.
There was so much going on and so much people could go and see.
And so we did pretty good business those three days.
That's awesome.
I want to ask one quick question about the history when you're talking about history and, you know, Green Bay and the Packers itself and that other cities don't have something like the Packers Hall of Fame.
I don't know if people around here realize that this is such a once in the country type of thing and your folks have done so and it's not that old 1976.
Well, I guess 50 years old.
But I mean, we're not talking that was started in the 20s.
You guys have done such a great job in the ones that folks that came before you at really, you know, honoring pain homage
to those that came before.
The one you have now that
That's not that old, what, 10 years?
Yeah, it opened in 2015.
So originally, the organization was founded in 1967.
Oh, 67, I thought
it was 76, because Gerald Ford was here
for the... 76 was the opening of the original permanent facility.
Prior to that, it was just displays in the Brown County arena.
So, yeah, we've been around for quite some time.
We celebrated the 50th anniversary a number of years ago.
But it is the first...
hall of fame that's dedicated specifically to a professional football team.
And so, yeah.
That's
better than Canton.
I'm sure people have
said that a lot.
I
have heard that.
I've actually never been to Canton.
I've been to all the other major institutions, the hockey hall of fame, basketball hall of fame, all that.
I've
been
to
Evleth, Evleth, Minnesota,
hockey hall of fame.
in Toronto.
Oh, never mind.
I was thinking about the American hockey hall from that's up in Evelyn.
And you guys really did a great job of that.
And I'm glad we're selling it.
And then you said Heritage Hill.
Is there we buy a pass to get into all three or how does this work?
It's all completely free.
So we have the information on our website, on our Facebook, on our Instagram for people to take a peek at.
We have some
ads and schedules running in the newspaper.
Okay, I'm gonna ask for the website a couple times, but can you give it to us now?
Yeah, it's browncountywihistory.com.
Okay.
Do you want me
to show you a picture that I would be willing to donate to the Hall
of Fame or
for the exhibit or anything?
Yes or no?
Yeah.
Oh, that's precious.
That's really nice.
That's me.
at eight years old in the original Packer Hall of Fame, which was in the corridor of the Brown County thing, Paul Hornings Jersey, his actual Jersey.
You know what I'm thinking right there?
How could I get that off the wall?
That's what I was
thinking.
Zero security, nothing.
There might have been like a piece of twine separating you from...
these game used jerseys that nowadays be worth $20,000 probably.
But that's the humble beginnings versus what you guys have now.
Isn't that cool?
It is very cool.
I don't know if it's going to end up in the actual Hall of Famer that way, but maybe your office.
I would love that.
I only have a cubicle.
We'll get you like a pocket size one
for you.
Send that to me.
I can probably clean it up a little bit.
Would you really?
Yeah.
All right.
I will.
All right.
Thank you.
Because then she might really want it.
There, yes.
Hey, one thing though, too, both your show, tell me your passion.
Like, how did you, were you the kind of kid that used to be like, I was dig for rocks and look for fossils and things like that?
Me or these guys?
Those guys.
You can talk to.
You're coming up.
We're going to talk about
your big exhibit coming up.
I'm
just here to crack jokes.
Yeah,
doing a great job of that.
Yep.
Okay.
So I guess my background is as a kid growing up, I was a dinosaur kid.
So surprise.
Imagine that.
Surprise.
And then.
My family just, our vacations were always to museums.
So
it's kind of what sparked my interest.
Museums and zoos were our family vacations.
So, and then I got to follow my dream and do it professionally.
Did you metal detect at all?
I did not metal detect.
I'm
a professional metal detector.
Oh, thanks.
Whatever you ever found.
What?
How about you?
Todd, can you turn off actually now both their mics?
Just could talk to this gentleman
could do that.
We're speaking the same language here.
Yeah, I know in the mayor tell just a paleontologist.
I got another I got another one here.
I know in the mayor because your uncle's Facebook rants just aren't enough.
That was pretty
good.
Just put mine
on.
Do you guys still get stuff?
I mean, people like found in their grandma's attic type things.
I mean, for both of you guys,
what's that?
Yeah, go ahead.
Yep.
Well,
it seems like daily our collections managers getting contacted with stuff, wedding dresses, photo albums, trunks, all that kind of stuff.
And people really want that to go to someplace where it's going to live on.
And you have to say no, because once
in a while, I know I don't like doing that.
I know you do.
But
that's pretty cool that people want to preserve things and have it live on and no better place than a museum.
Right.
Exactly.
And a bigger part than the artifact for us is collecting the stories from those
people.
been to the EAA Museum too
and
they too get offered quite a few things
and
he's like, look, we love it, but we can only do so much at such a
time.
I would love to come to your storage room one time and just see all the stuff that's not displayed.
Yeah, let's set up.
I would love that.
You have a lot of stuff there.
Oh, yeah.
We have over 100,000 artifacts and then over 4 million feet of film.
and over a million photographs in our collection.
So, wow.
Yeah.
And it is pretty well organized too, isn't it?
Yes.
Like the photographs, like I was telling the last time one of you guys were here and I was talking about for my book I wrote on World War II veterans and there was a plane, a bomber plane called Miss Green Bay.
And there's like one picture of it
and you guys had it.
Yes.
Yes, we do.
And I'm sure it's numbered and putting it really nice.
That's what I mean.
They found it
right away.
Yeah.
How about what would packer type things, what walks through the door some days?
Oh, all kinds of things.
Lots of autograph stuff.
And for us, it depends on, we have what's called the collections policy.
So, you know, most of the stuff that we prefer to collect is going to be things that are game used or like again, have a really good story attached to them that's going to kind of fit into the story that we have.
But
A lot of times we're getting things like people want to, don't want to cause family drama and about who's going to inherit it, so they'd rather just donate it.
I
can see
that.
That's
actually smart, you know.
But I'm sure some of the stories, we gotta vet a little bit because I remember that guy was, I don't know what's he on here, but he's just talking about.
Oh, Tony, Tony Geesey.
Do you know Tony?
Works for Heritage Auction.
Okay, I know people who work for them, but I don't know that person The
other thing that antique roadshow remember they were
here.
I was talking to a guy about that because you'd be careful with some of the stories Anyway, I'm sure you guys bet that and have some great things this is gonna be fun And this is a family thing and you know if it's five days.
It's nice.
You don't have to do everything in one night So I
love this what
you guys do man
if you need somebody to help volunteer and help out I'm that guy just
Give me the key to the storage room
or
hall of fame or whatever.
I'll just for
our listeners.
She's rolling her eyes.
So I just
sweep.
John, tell them they can trust me.
I'm
rolling mine.
All right.
Great.
Great.
Back after this.
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We're with John Kramer, Headlines of the Press Times.
And
go ahead.
I was just going to say, we want to talk about the Brown County historical days, which is coming up.
And this is a great thing for our community, the 12th to the 17th of May.
And what you could do is go to.
I thought there was like five or six places.
There's like 15 places.
So you got to go to the website and find out and you take your family It's free and you learn about what what their focus is and I think that's really cool How you're all showcasing something very special to your organization that I think
we should do more of this stuff because after they go, they become ambassadors for our city and then friends come into town and they're like, what you gotta do?
You gotta get over to the Neville.
And some of the people, I think a lot of people have been there, but there's a lot of people that haven't.
I don't hurt your feelings.
Oh, that's
okay.
I
want more people to come.
I don't
know.
I mean, I'm sure 99% of the time, people bring you stuff that you've sort of seen before and we've got some in storage.
What would like, Friday morning, somebody walks in and says, hey, I heard you on the show.
Would like to donate this.
Would you be interested?
Go ahead first, what would like, ooh, okay.
I think we're always looking for Lambo era stuff.
That it's tricky to find.
We only have a few jerseys from that era.
One of our most prized possessions is the Don Hudson jersey from that era.
And correct me if I'm wrong, you've never been able to find an Acme Packers jersey, is that true?
I believe that that's correct.
Wow, isn't that something?
Yeah, I mean they only existed for that one season, only for a few months and so,
You know, we've seen it in pictures, but they were probably repurposed or, you know, just lost a time.
I mean, that would be almost like the Holy Grail wouldn't it?
It would be
very interesting to find
that.
Yeah.
How do you like my collection of stuff here?
It's very nice.
Yeah.
Like that.
Those are all my personal collection.
I love it.
Yeah.
Thank you very much.
Don Hudson wore that helmet.
Where'd you steal those from?
What's it to you?
How about yourself?
For us, we've been around since 1915.
So we're trying to collect probably stuff more.
from like the 70s till now.
1970s?
From 1970s.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have a lot of stuff from early, early, like early 1900s, but we're trying to collect and represent everybody in Brown County at this point.
So we're trying to find stuff from
people now.
Oh, I got stuff from the 70s.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
Remember those plaid pants I had on?
Am I
prom?
Jim, you probably have some big collar shirts, right?
I do.
Boots.
I got, I got, I got, I got.
All right, Jack, tell us about what you got going on
here, buddy.
I got a ratchet can't get rid of besides
that
I know so we got the nwtc Showcase coming up.
So that's Thursdays for a digital art showcase I gave Todd a hard copy of the invitation be nice if you actually show it up to something for once
I know
and Jim considering you teach out there.
It'd be nice to see out the showcase and look but with that's this weekend That's Thursday
Thursday or 30 to sit tomorrow.
You had a pretty successful car show out there.
Yeah, unbelievable Yeah, I
covered that for the press time.
Yeah, I've been out there for that
when I spoke
When I did the interview with the gentleman, they had over 600 cars at that time, and they were hoping for a thousand.
Why is that one so popular?
I mean, there's lots of car shows, but for
whatever it is, that one is phenomenal.
But just at WTC, and I do teach out there, you have stuff going on there all the time.
And that's just a very, very active campus for not just the students.
I mean, you guys are really engaged with the constituents, or the constituents with the people who live here.
You're no longer a mayor, Jim.
You're no longer a constituent.
He still tends to the result of minions.
I guess.
No!
Bow to me.
No, no, no.
It's packed.
Anyway.
It's great.
You're very open.
You're not, like, close to the
door.
No, so all the different programs have stuff going on this time of year with the graduating students.
So the digital arts showcase is one of them.
And there's free food.
Huh?
John?
Where are you looking at me?
Put on by the culinary arts students.
So you can program out there for
that.
That's a really popular program, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, it is.
It's great.
So those guys prepare food for the school, too.
So it's an awesome opportunity to try some amazing chow by those folks.
Are you involved with the veterans group out there at
all?
I'm not.
I've
got enough
going on.
Yeah.
How'd you like covering Packers minicamp?
I love that.
Did you see those?
Absolutely.
Very nice
job.
Yeah, those turned out great.
It was a phenomenal experience.
And I ran into you at the draft.
Oh, yeah, so yeah, I was lucky.
I was just walking around taking fun fan photos and good experience for me.
That
was a great event.
If you're in the fence, that was a great event.
Exactly.
So I was talking with these guys and I mentioned to you, anybody that has any complaints about that event has no concept of putting something that large together and all the little tiny pieces that make that huge thing function and function so well.
Yeah, when you look at the draft that started at five o'clock, that was really almost secondary to all the other things you were displaying
there.
The draft itself, because you couldn't get close, but all the other stuff going on around it was a lot more interesting than the actual draft.
I mean, after the first round, I mean, yeah, God bless those second, third, fourth rounders and stuff, but it was a lot more interesting to check out all the stuff that the Packers and the NFL had going on for the
fans.
the
inside defense thing.
That was very successful.
Well, Justine, give us a quick pitch one more time about what you guys got going on.
Yeah, Brown County history days next week, the 12th through the 17th.
Lots of events, locally free for everyone.
We look forward to seeing you there.
And the Green Bay Packer Hall of Fame.
That would be it.
Yep.
Our
tours.
Keep it rocking.
My man.
Yep.
And then.
Come to the Neville for our dinosaur program and make sure you check out our website.
Yeah Great things one and the Neville Museum for those who live here.
It's still is it's still free for a couple hours on one morning today is our free day Okay,
too as
well.
So
we are
open from 9 to 8 p.m.
Vietnam veterans from the area who haven't been there There's a nice little memorial right behind yeah in the river.
Yep,
that's right behind our building every Memorial Day and every Veterans Day I know people that go right there to that one spot Yeah, so because you guys were the first ones to do anything for Vietnam vets.
Yes
So that's why they hold that one near and dear.
They were there.
They were supporting Vietnam.
That's before it was cool.
If you know what I mean.
So thank you for that.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Justine, you ever need some help over the whole fame?
You got my number.
All right, I'll let you know
when you get called.
You know, when are you going to call?
I'm
free this afternoon.
I'm busy this afternoon.
We'll figure something out.
All right,
we'll
work on it.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back here, Mino and the Mayor.
Good looking Wednesday morning, 54 in Green Bay, 54 in Ampton, 55 in Oshkos, high to the low 60s.
Mostly sunny, good looking week.
coming up Milwaukee Brewers at home today.
They'll have the roof open.
I'm sure 1135 will have that game for you right here on WISS.
Well, joining us right now, a couple of guys that I'm sure are gearing up for the summer, the big summer events taking place.
Although it seems like this year there hasn't been a downtime.
Has there been?
We've got our man, Darren Johnson, Daddy D and Kevin Vaness.
Daddy V. Good morning, everybody.
How you doing?
I like that Daddy V and Daddy.
I like that.
I do.
And you guys do so much for this community.
I love your shows, Daddy D-Bend, and many of them.
And of course, Kevin, you, there's just a little better musician.
And I want to get this music hall of fame going.
You're going to be in there.
I just think what you do for this community is, and I ran into a guy at the homeless shelter.
Some guy, I don't know how your name came up.
And he's like 30 years old, but he had you as a student.
He thought you were his favorite teacher, but I don't ask me what his name is, but you how long did you teach over there?
But 34 years I'm still
I'm sure he
knows what you're talking about.
I know that description was perfect.
Yeah, guy in here is 6'2".
Oh, him!
Yeah.
But I just want to say that your show, and you have a great show coming up, this whole Daddy D Star Spangled Salute, and this is one of those shows where, you know, when you give the standing ovation, you don't know how you stood up.
It's just your soul that just, that show just grabs you from when you get out there and started.
Darren to Kevin that whole show.
It's great.
It's clean.
It's fun.
It's
Oh, it's a great time.
You know saluting America and Darren's got some great musical selections and I'm bringing in another horn player from the talk of the town So, you know, we're doing some of that pre big band music even before World War two
You know, including Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman
and
some of that stuff along with all his patriotic stuff.
And he's got a great group of musicians band backing him up and he's got four great singers.
I got to believe Darren with all the shows you do.
I mean, Christmas showing off.
This has got to be one of the I'd say one of the better ones, but one of the ones that sells out a
little quicker.
I would say the the the the thing that kind of defines this one patriotic and it brings emotion in people.
And you're surprised like you do a show for two hours and I will tell you.
People will probably stand up four or five different times.
I would love to tell you that it's me.
I think you do a couple of times if I recall.
But it's that patriotic music.
I'll just list some of the tunes.
Kevin and the guys will play Sing, Sing, Sing.
We do Jump, Dive, and Whale.
We bring back a classic like the White Cliffs of Dover.
We do all the military anthems.
Shelly will sing Traveling Soldier.
We do America, the beautiful Battle Hymn of the Republic.
Elvis Trilogy on there.
We do God bless America.
We always wrap up with God bless the USA.
So all of those tunes, along with some other tunes of the time that people would know that were popular like Tile Yellow Ribbon around the old old three, that kind of thing.
You know, it's too, it's too bad in some ways, because my World War II vets, okay, that's, they used to listen to that kind of music.
all the time and the number one song one of the guys he would listen to all the time that he and you're talking maybe you guys play this one he said that brings back memories more than him is all be seeing you all be seeing yeah he said that he tears up every time he hears that song because it reminds me when he was leaving the united states to go over and he was a it was a bomber pilot
Okay, and he got shut down.
He was prisoner of war of the Germans and that song was in there in the in the barracks was you know am I gonna survive this and they would literally sing that song you know towards their girlfriends or their wives or whatever and to for his entire life that you know people understand maybe maybe how music can just
Being your soul sort of speak right?
I mean so that music you were just talking about that World War II music was so big and so important to those guys Yeah, well,
you know, it's funny and this is this is a true story Shelly my wife Shelly Johnson wanted to do I'll be seeing you Oh, and we were in the mix of the stuff we had the stuff in the set list and then We just probably I I decided we were gonna do
you were always on my mind.
I said, we're
moving to, you know, the earlier stuff.
So, yeah.
So, you know, we like those songs thinking about other people, but I got to tell you, you are definitely right on track with that.
Cause
that's all
that music
is great.
And Kevin, you just, you know, you, you are an entertainer.
This, the show that goes on, are these dinner shows or are these, tell me how this works.
Cause I've been to a couple.
Well, it opens tonight and it's a dinner show.
It's a dinner show.
You know, the dinner is big.
at six o'clock and then seven o'clock.
It's all at Riverside now.
At Riverside.
And then Darren has two shows tomorrow, Matt and Ney, which is almost sold out, but there's still some availability.
Yeah, we have tickets for the Matt and Ney, the best night.
For tickets if you're open Thursday night for some reason that one's a little bit lighter than the rest of them Okay, but then we also have a show on Friday So the 7th 8th and 9th additional matinee on the 8th for the evenings We open at 5 the meals at 6 shows at 7 and for the matinee we open at 11 the meals at noon and the show is that 1 o'clock
and you talk about you know You say it on you don't need to say this on here, but it's it's it's this clean comedy It's a lot of comedy and it's it is clean comedy.
Let me I could bring my
mom to your show.
Your mom and your kids you won't be embarrassed.
You know in this day and
age to be honest.
I know.
Mary you got to be careful.
Yeah.
Whatever you say.
Well, it's just more comfortable when they're doing going off trail and your mom's sitting right there.
It's a guy.
But, you
know, so here he can bring anybody.
Now, this
is
a
great.
Yeah, I just think it's one of the great things that we do here.
An easy parking, of course, at Riverside.
It's always real nice, too.
So and, you know, you can't go wrong with the family style.
They do.
They do it old school and they do it.
Well, even though it was a change of ownership, they still they didn't change this chicken.
That's for sure.
Well, the nice thing was that Ken has stayed on with them.
Oh as like a general manager and he's gonna stay on for quite a while So he kind of you know nice
them through the beginning of it
and I the nice thing was I've only heard
positive comments.
Um, I don't want to say that some people say, Oh, this is even a little bit better.
Ken might be listening.
Well, he did his feelings.
Yes.
But no, no, but I, but I've
heard
that.
So I always tell people, you know, aren't my job, our job is to put on a good show.
And their job is to take care of the folks with the meal.
And if either one of those things goes awry, then I guess we would
Partways, but man, they're
dead.
That's not gonna happen there.
No, it's not.
Not gonna
happen there.
And I tried to get fancy.
I'm like, ooh, you know what
we'll do.
Specialty plated meal.
Nobody dug it, man.
No, no, no, no.
You know what?
I think Jim, did you sit in that?
No, you didn't sit in it.
Did you sit next to me at the law enforcement thing I did last year?
No.
Okay.
I was there, but I mean, we had one of those tables where the poor waiter
I mean, they put that platter of chicken up.
The waiter didn't even have to leave.
Because there would people be taking two or three cases.
And they'd have to
come run.
Honestly, that is no lie.
I would tell you the one complaint that I did get, which I thought was funny, they said, can you ask them to bring a bigger plate for the bones?
I'm like, what?
Plate for the bones?
That's awesome.
Hey, Darrell, I just got to ask you about the patriotic aspect of it.
You guys could go a lot of different genres or whatever.
Where does this come from?
Well, I served in the army.
I'm an army veteran, a reservist, and my sister,
is currently serving.
She's a major in the Army.
Wow, I didn't know
that.
Yeah, she did it right.
They offered her a buyout at Southwest Airlines.
I remember when they had those years back and they were changing over and she was like 39 years old and she's like, and her husband was active military, still is just retired.
And so he was a staff sergeant.
And she decided she was going to go to OCS.
At 39?
Right before that.
Now, since then or literally the year after they cut it off.
So I think it's probably around 37 or 38 now, something like that.
Anyway, so she went in.
It's Officer's Candidate School.
They got through fantastically.
She loves it.
And he was, she always says, you know, that's a long way to go to win an argument because literally she's got a,
he's been in 20 years.
If she's an
officer.
The day she got up, he had to salute her.
So yeah.
That's
awesome.
Well, and also because I didn't, unfortunately I didn't see a lot of that happening.
Um in the area, you know strangely enough patriotism seems to go in waves You know sometimes you'll have a lot of people that are out there and sometimes it dips and I think it
should totally agree
should be a constant and so I Tell you it's one of those shows that we do where people come up every year and they're like you got to do this.
Yeah
got to do this for that's awesome So and we also you know, we try we well give back to the community to through a lot of nonprofits like for this one
folks that work with our military groups like our Howard Swarmaco Optimist, our Howard Swarmaco Lions.
We also work with St.
Mark Ministries in their food pantry and try and give a lot back, you know, just through like a 50-50 wrap.
Absolutely.
And worth Kevin Van Ness and Darren Johnson, Daddy D productions, the
star-spangled salute.
And Kevin, there must be more to this than a show because you...
are very well sought after.
We tried to get you for the 100 year anniversary of the Northland, and I'm already booked, and I called you six months earlier, I think, on that one, and you were already taken.
Why this show?
I mean, you guys are great, you have a lot of fun up there, but there must be something that draws you to this show, because you could be a lot of different places.
Well, I'm either with my group, or I'm with...
Daddy D to be honest with you.
And this one's kind of fun.
Like I said, cause we bring in a couple of, you know, the horns
with
regards to writing those military marches and going through the anthems and stuff like that.
So it's kind of fun to play the arrangements.
Yeah.
You guys have a lot of fun up there.
Oh, I always, anytime I'm playing Jim, we have fun.
I
just played Webster elementary school.
We had 400 kids going wild with New Orleans jazz, marching around doing a second line, brought the kids up on stage and they were like Kierls.
We got to ask you how did you enjoy the draft?
Oh, I had a great time.
The Packer Band played six performances in three days.
Well, we tried to get you to the Booyah Fest too and you were taken.
So
I mean, good.
So you were busy.
You got some, not that you need exposure, but I mean, it was fun.
I mean, we played city stadium for Fit Fest.
That was for
a lot of kids and
Patrick Mahomes mom was there.
She was actually a clarinet player, so she was actually.
You guys have a band here in Green Bay.
You guys want to come to Kansas City?
She probably has a little pull down in Kansas
City.
And then
we played light park.
Kind of like before the concert started, like we do when we're doing the tailgating before.
Oh, and I
think we
had one video.
They took about 30 seconds that I think the thing had like 23,000 hits in one night.
Good.
That's great.
People just love
that
pack or band.
Yeah.
Well, it's such a great throwback.
It's been around.
Yeah.
And it's still cool.
It's
not like a bunch of,
I don't, I don't mean this the bad way.
Um, but sometimes the older gentlemen don't know quite when to maybe step aside a little bit with certain things.
Okay.
Yeah.
But you guys are still throwbacks for the 19, what forties, but you're still hip and still doing what those guys did.
But in.
real quality professional way.
Do you understand what I'm saying here?
You know, John, we got the right personalities in that band.
Okay.
They know how to sell it and entertain people.
They just don't stand in the corner and play a march.
Right.
They
know how to get the crowd going.
And if we come across your tailgate party, it's like the whole energy went up a whole another night.
You bring the party with
you.
That's right.
And I think that starts at the top.
I mean, you, you are an entertainer.
I mean, man, just on the tables, you'll do whatever to get that crowd going.
I
learned that with some of the big ones where they're talking to Doc Sevenson or Pete Fountain.
He said, Kevin, I'm going to tell you something.
Musicians work unemployed, work unemployed entertainers, always working.
Kevin is a gamer, man.
Let him go.
Well, and, you know, that part of the thing, the reason too, I was like, you know, with Kevin bringing in another horn for us, it adds that authenticity.
If you're doing that music and you don't have that, or some people might do it with keys, it sounds similar.
I'll give it that.
but having the actual guys.
Do you guys ever use a, Todd, what was that instrument that I'd never heard of that you were playing the other day?
The
percussion.
The
Vibra Slap.
You got a Vibra
Slap.
Do you guys have one of those?
We have one.
We haven't found a place to use it, but I think now I'm gonna have
to
dust it
off.
Hey, we have a soloist,
Todd.
He turned soloists
with the LED production.
If we can figure out a way to do a crazy train from Ozzy, I can do that at the beginning.
We'll do the Kevin there's another one
though.
What was the other song you brought out or that was for the clapboard sort of
the whip the crack of the whip from We
actually did that we
use the
the
clacker.
Yeah, yeah
sleigh ride for Christmas.
Oh, that's awesome.
This is good stuff.
We come back big daddy V. I gotta ask you
More of your rundown more of your songs and how you pick them and you know the type of people in your audience that you think it's gonna really hit home for us Is that cool?
Yeah, and then I'll talk about some more shows you have going on because there's nothing like live entertainment and Both you guys bring that so you have some things besides this you have shows throughout the year Yeah, let's talk touch on that as well and Kevin we're gonna try to get you some work
to
Telling you I'd soon be free Then you'll know just what to do
No,
that
was, that was Darren.
Yeah, I'm just saying.
No, he does a good job of that.
Kevin, that is Darren
Johnson.
Day D production starts bangled.
Salute.
I just want to ask you a couple more quick questions.
So as far as like we're talking about, you know,
things kinda ebb and flow a little bit with the interest and different types of music over the years.
What have you guys seen, just the whole music trend that people want to see and hear these days?
Kevin, of course, yours is throwback and you're a party, you're a party on wheels, so to speak, wherever you
go, the party starts.
Yeah, steroids, you get that party started, but just in general, what have you found with the folks over the years?
They like to be entertained, and I think they still like to go back and have the live.
You know, there's a lot of tracks and a lot of sing-along stuff, but I think people still like to go back to life.
And I got to give dear and credit with that, with Deadly Deep Productions.
Everything you hear is life.
There's nothing taped in or adding tracks or anything like that.
So, it's a real deal.
And people do
appreciate that, because like you said, there's just a lot of...
besides
but serious effort is
a real deal from from the day they get out there
and it's not quite so artificial when you look at those old musicians back in the day with those everybody recorded at the same time so someone made a mistake you had to redo it you know there was not I got to take this note up with my computer and put in the perfect note and all that kind of stuff so it's yeah it's a real deal
yeah well you know what I for us to like I found the
The best thing is to keep the theme of the show the star of the show So like you know, it's never gonna be the Darren Johnson show or the shell, you know Shelley John whomever God bless him usually Kevin does steal the show but But the secret is if you're doing a star-spangled salute show or you're doing a Christmas show or 60s show as long as the music is the star of the show people will come back if they hear
every time, well, it's Darren's own version of that song.
If you keep it nostalgic and you keep respectful of the original, people will enjoy it time and time again.
Love it.
Yeah.
Let
me ask both you guys.
That's a great answer.
Thanks, man.
We have talent in this community.
And if someone wants to get into what you're doing, now, Kevin, you've been at this forever.
Darren, you two a little bit, right?
30 years?
Yeah, about 25.
25 years, okay.
But, I mean, you've got a great cast.
You...
Bringing auditions.
Do you have people do how could people join your group or a group?
Let's just say a
group.
Well, we're pretty full up on people right now.
I honestly think we've got
My gosh, the the best group.
I think we've ever put together I'm just so blessed and we've had some amazing people and some people have chose to go and do other other things You have
like a practice squad.
We know we do have some people, you know that are out there that Have other things where they couldn't wouldn't be able to do it full-time that we can call in and yeah Come in and do the shows and we've done that done that before but I would say somebody else if they're trying to put a show together on their own fine like-minded people
who you enjoy and can have fun with.
And I will say this, and you have been an educator your whole life, Kevin.
There's never been a better opportunity for young people who are interested in the entertainment arts, facility-wise, teacher-wise, everything.
Wouldn't you guys agree with that?
Well, there's a lot of work out there,
John.
Just a matter of big thing talking to get back to Jim is, do you have a personality that gets along with other people?
Or do you have this big ego that the group has to deal with because people know who's out there.
So if I need somebody, you know, go get this individual.
They're great to work with.
They got a nice personality and they're talented.
I just want to say that's really, really important that we've
lost a little bit of that even.
Teaching the kids have to do a group project now.
He's come back on mr. Schmidt.
You know, can I just do this on myself?
It's like no no you got to work as a team, right?
I mean that's something you do and even in medical school the smartest kid isn't always the doctor they can you work as a team and Yeah, and I think that's really good advice whether you're in a band or anywhere in life Is that can you work as a team and but you guys you can tell it's not you're not you can tell How well you get along?
Sitting in the audience if you're faking it or not and you guys have a lot a lot of fun together
well, and I
I think a lot of stuff gets pushed toward the individual.
You've got American Idol.
You've got, you know, America's got talent.
And the majority of the time, it's the individual that you see.
But I will tell you, I mean, unfortunately, that's a lot of times the biggest that person will probably be.
And they have this amazing band behind them.
That's great.
And then all of a sudden, eight months down the line, they're at
The local VFW with the karaoke machine and singing the heck out of it, but they haven't learned to be in a group Yeah, and make that happen.
Well,
you know, we've got a
great group.
Do you mind if I tell you who's all
in
here?
Because you've been very successful.
I'll tell you man
drumming Brian Beth, our Italian connection on bass.
Tony Pezzavento, ladies and gentlemen.
Is he the
calmest of the bunch?
He kinda is, is it?
Yeah, he's really calm.
They're all pretty calm.
Ryan Setti plays guitar, Nate Kinzel on the keyboards.
Alicia Michelle plays the violin, she's fantastic.
Kevin Vaness on the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet, and then Dave Aaron played the trumpet.
We got a great sound guy, Dan Collins.
And the singers,
Michael Blair, Angela Tilke-Zeidmulder, Shelly Johnson, and I do a little singing.
Yeah, I just, just a little.
You and your wife, I mean, it's just great.
That's a great, you just, and it's kind of, I want to say this respectfully, it's kind of a Green Bay thing too, you know?
You're
not like Hollywood people or New Yorkers, you just, you're who we want to be, you know?
Well, I love your show.
I think you have to do a show that features Mino in the mirror.
I think so, too.
And Todd in the Viberslam.
He's
doing it.
Now that might work, but
no.
Hey,
hey,
hey.
I
just thought of something.
Do you remember his birthday?
Did you perform on his birthday?
Whose
birthday?
I
performed on
his birthday.
Oh, Jim, so yeah.
Yeah, a couple of nights.
I've
had
a lot of
them.
Todd.
Yeah.
Is that the show we won an award for?
Uh, yes.
That's right.
We got second place, but thank you, Kevin.
That's
right.
You
were a
part
of
that, and that's the
show we
won with.
Yeah, we did.
So thank you for that.
You bet.
Oh, that's cool.
We've got a new name for our group.
It's Daddy D and the Viberslaps.
All right, so you gotta
get taught to perform
with you guys one night for one song.
You do.
Darren, where do we get our tickets?
At DaddyD's.com.
That's D-A-D-D-Y-D-S.com.
D-A-D-D-Y-D-S.com.
Or DaddyDProductions.com.
Bring call 920-371-2250.
Great show.
May 7th, 8th, 9th.
You got matinee shows, evening shows, dinner shows.
This is great.
At Riverside Ballroom, easy to find, easy to park, and just a great evening.
We
talked about the amazingly talented people in our area.
They're right there.
We got two of them sitting right alongside of us.
They do.
So thanks for being here, guys.
Thank you, gentlemen.
Too bad you don't have two of them sitting alongside you.
Oh,
come on.
Kevin, you look all cleaned
up today.
Like, you're
all clean.
He's
ready to recognize him when he walked in the door.
Wow.
I know in the
mirror.
Magical madness.
Thanks
everybody.
Good morning.
See ya.