Weekend Walks and Bar Room Talks (Hour 1)

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Weekend Walks and Bar Room Talks (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Mon May 12, 2025

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Good morning.

Beautiful morning out there.

Nice Monday.

The whole week.

It was great, man.

No, this whole week.

But the weekend, you talk about the weekend, that was awesome, too.

I loved it, yeah.

Check, check, check.

I walked almost 11 miles in two days.

Wow, that's a lot,

John.

Do you think you did?

Yeah, yeah, proof right

here.

Wow.

11 miles in

two

days.

Wow, that's a lot.

And I had

no

plans of doing that whatsoever.

But when I got out there and the sun was shining and everything, it's like you just didn't want to stop.

Wow.

Do you know what I mean though?

It's just one

of

those things.

It wasn't fast.

That's probably the slowest walker in Green Bay.

But I didn't care.

Look at the last two of

that.

Wow.

That's awesome.

Because

it just felt so good.

It's like you released from prison

or something, wasn't it?

That hot.

It wasn't hot.

I said we're

hoody.

and

the wind

was still kind of chilly and everything, but the sun just felt nice.

A lot of walkers.

Not as many as you would think

to be honest with you.

Oh my God,

you know where there were so many walkers a week ago, I think it was.

Is it the Shrine Walk?

Oh, that walk to Mary.

I've never, starting

when

you first come off the highway, off of Webster.

But there was it was like steady stream going into a pack or game or something from like the Webster where Webster crosses over, you know, down down that way.

It starts at the Shrine of St.

Joseph's in the Abbey and then it walks all the way out to champion 21 miles.

Yeah.

Isn't that something

I've never seen anything like

it.

Yeah.

I mean, I've

seen a hundred different walks and five K's and all that behind there.

I have never seen any people were carrying different flags and different whatever's

and crosses and.

Holy.

How did they get into that?

Yeah.

That's the.

Yeah.

Walk to Mary.

So I was,

I was walking at day and I was actually, I'm like going the other way.

Get out of my way.

Would you?

No, they, that's me doing that.

Yes.

Yes.

I could, but I, I had a great weekend.

I just got plugged for Green Bay, which of course I love Green Bay, but went to a wedding and it was, it was, you know, there's great.

venues everywhere, right?

But it was pretty cool how they had people from all over that came into this wedding, big wedding, expensive wedding, but they had people, they had family in from Australia, Turkey, and of course a lot of people from the United States, but started off at Friday night, the rehearsal dinner, kind of a meet and greet at the Northland Hotel in that bowling alley area.

It was awesome.

It's just a nice place to meet.

And then the reception was over at Gather.

Which is great.

That was a great place.

Perfect

place for that.

That was fun.

By the way, I

gotta say, I watched Jill one morning.

She does a really nice job on that show.

Yes, she does.

Really nice job.

It's obvious why she got the gig.

She's so natural for that.

It's incredible.

Yeah.

I would agree because we were kind of like, oh, that's interesting.

But boy, I mean,

it's always been

a good show.

But boy, did she just pick it up and just.

take it and run with it.

Makes me think about, you know, you guys were kind of up for the gig or going for the gig.

I just kind of wonder, you know.

Meals with mine

on the mirror.

Yeah, no, I think they made the right choice, John, as much as I lost, but that was once again, once again,

second place.

Yeah, I know.

Second place we came in once again.

Yeah, I think it was a little bit

less

than second

place.

Yeah, you know I don't I don't I don't remember I don't remember the interview John didn't think that the interview would be So I had a party I told you that I had a great breakfast at my house and I used that quiche remember Mike Lisa yeah, Lisa who works for Mike she brought in quiche and we're

not my

god.

This is the best I called

Michael he gave me her number and then she texted me the recipe that worked out quiche is good It's healthy that the people that really liked it.

It's spinach eggs You know great.

I had one with cheese one without cheese because some people I can't believe don't like cheese But they don't so I made two of them.

Yeah, it was great I mean the whole weekend was and the weather was so perfect.

It was fun It was great

week.

I like I told you before

two

old guys talk about we cook for the weekend.

Yeah,

I Did I was on the grill I made

grilled barbecue chicken last night.

That sounds pretty good.

It was really good.

I made a really good soup.

Too warm for soup.

No, I made a really good soup.

So you know what I'm putting in all my food now that adds so much flavor.

It's mind boggling.

What's that?

Well, two things.

Two things.

Okay.

Two things.

Pimento cheese spread because going over to Delilah's for breakfast, you put the spread on there.

Well, they make their omelettes at Delilah's with pimento cheese.

And I even asked the lady, I said, how, why is this so good as well?

Maybe it's the cheese.

We use a special pimento cheese.

So I just started using that in my eggs.

It's so good.

It's incredible.

It's cool.

It's so good.

Pimento cheese, avocados, mushrooms.

That's getting healthy.

Okay.

And then protein powder.

But here's where I fall off the rails a little bit because it is protein powder, but it's flavored.

Yeah.

So vanilla.

Isn't that just like a sugar in there?

No, it's good.

So you got the savory part, which I'm totally into everything just up until that point.

But the vanilla, which I like vanilla a lot, but not in that regard.

Yeah, I would agree.

It's a little sweet, isn't it?

Yin and

yang in your mouth.

Yeah, I'm telling you, it's unbelievable.

Get that put on a t-shirt.

Okay, there you

go.

Yep.

I might try

that

celebration every every bite.

Well, it's got to be healthy because I've been

on

healthier seeing you and put in your mouth Yeah, no your body will you put you to put your body won't only thank you later.

It will thank you now Your body thanks you anticipating.

What's going to come?

Okay?

All right Do you put I guess your eggs?

Did you put half and half?

No, I don't I don't I know I probably a lot of people do I don't

know dry or crumbly

um

I would think the cheese might give it.

Oh,

yeah, you know creaminess.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what's doing and the protein

powder

Well that I don't know about that It's good for you.

I think it is but good for that in with a drink I don't I don't think I'd put that in my eggs.

I'll try it.

I'll make you

guys some.

No, that's alright.

I'll make it sure

I'm trying to cut way back.

Yeah, it's gonna cut back Vicky says good morning guys Vicky is always our first person and Adam Vicky, what do you do?

Do you work or do you just get

up early

early?

Do you sleep?

Let us

know.

Um, let us know where you people listen.

We won't that's why my old shows everybody had a nickname

I mean, there was Nob and Meet Mama and just Ma and Big Daddy.

Everybody had nicknames because they're all at work.

So let us know where you are.

Terry says Nick Gonnery tonight at Copper State.

That's cool.

Copper's great.

Yeah, that's a great place, especially when the weather's nice.

Yeah, sitting outside there.

Michael says, glad the quiche worked out.

Thanks, Michael.

Yeah, it did.

It was great.

And then I kind of cheated a little bit because I went to my mom yesterday and I...

I brought her some keys.

How's mother's day with your mom?

It

was great.

It was great.

My brothers were there.

Yeah, she's 92 and she just rattles off the questions.

And she's very interested in your kids and just everything.

So we planned we're going over the 4th of July.

We're going to spend a couple of days together.

Nice.

Just got that all planned.

Because everybody wants to spend time with.

And we don't get together as a family.

That's like too too many people.

Yeah, you just have her with your family, you know little one-on-one So anyway, it was great.

We had a fun day yesterday.

So yeah, I brought her some leftover quiche bread and tell her that I just

got another one here.

Good morning gentlemen Chris a.k.a.

Vinnie Vin Manchen so zoop Got a good thing here that almost sounds really good except the protein powder Well, no three to one that really adds to it.

I'm gonna do this.

I'm gonna do that I'm gonna do a taste test for you guys.

I'm gonna make some

Exactly I make it without protein powder and I'm gonna make one with protein powder I'm not gonna tell you which one is which but I'm gonna ask you guys which one do you think tastes better?

Boom!

Think it's gonna be the protein powder.

Just be honest Mike says I'm always listening in my Uber car forcing my riders to become new listeners.

Thank you

Mike.

Thank you Mike

Brian, again, always starting off with a nice little word of encouragement, Brian says, anything you guys can dream, you can be your all winners.

Oh, thank you.

We're all runners

up.

Thank you,

dad.

Brian, we're runners up.

Got this.

I work from home and start by the 4 a.m.

Flexible schedule, Vicky.

Like that, Vicky.

4 a.m.

Nice.

That's nice, nice, nice.

You know what thing is we're talking last week about you know people working from home and some places don't like it and whatever whatever whatever whatever.

Oh, yeah Um, I know a lot of people Who really hated that but here's okay, but I'm gonna be honest when the people would tell me that certain people I'm not gonna mention names um in the back of my mind with some I'm like

I bet your coworkers don't feel that way.

Cause they were like the people that seemed to miss the most.

They were the ones like when you were trying, and I'm probably one of those people that was annoying, but when you're trying to get some work done and they're always,

yeah.

That wasn't loud enough.

That's what it was.

So they

were sitting, they like working at home because of the annoying employee that comes in.

Oh

my God.

So they were they like working from home because the annoying employee doesn't know their office was the

opposite They hated working from home because they missed the interaction But what I'm saying is some of

the people I told

me that they were the ones that

it's like they were the interaction

they were the interaction to the point of Yeah, I'm trying to get this done.

Yeah, and I don't know if I'm

Well, I will say this,

I enjoy working from home because I can't be, I can control being bothered.

That's the number one thing, I get more done when I'm not around other people.

My biggest problem working at home, you go to turn off the TV and you accidentally hit, you know, what's next, it's like, really good fellas is

on.

That was never a problem.

10

minutes, I'm watching, I'm watching 10 minutes of this and that's it.

I believe that

time.

Just annoying you.

I would think you would be very successful working from home.

He says this morning

show since Murphy in the morning.

You make my day.

Thank you, Patty.

It's really nice of you.

Awesome.

Very nice of you.

Could you work from home?

I like the environment in a workplace.

I do.

I do.

I like meetings.

I think I know I just think you're more creative in a group of people, but maybe not.

I just know that work from home wasn't for me.

No.

Nope, I like being that firm.

I don't think I'm the annoying employee.

I hope I'm not I just think there's things like I think you know I'm one of those guys think one plus one equals three when it comes to employees working together I like I like group team meetings.

I do I grew up in that though.

That's why But a lot of people just

They go, they work from home.

I don't know if I can do this.

And then they're like, oh my God, this is so great.

You know, I could just get online and.

A lot of people, and I don't know, as long as the business is successful, whatever works.

I think a

lot depends on the type of job.

Like in

real

estate, there's almost no reason to go into a broken mortar in real estate these days.

They're so good about sharing things.

So I'm saying,

you're right.

In the real estate business,

you had to watch your back.

They could listen

to phone

calls.

You had to watch your

back.

Absolutely.

But Mino, didn't you also see that in radio sales?

100%.

Yeah.

I think, I think anywhere in sales, like even I would think a car dealership, you know, somebody walking your turf out there.

Yeah.

Hey,

that's, you know, that's a good point.

That's why I'm sure they liked working at home because you don't have to worry about it.

They can speak as loud as as much as you want.

Yeah.

Don't come over to my house and mull my grass.

Right.

Right.

I've never heard that one before.

Oh, you haven't?

No.

It means you

stand your own turf.

Don't come,

oh, yeah.

Don't act like you're doing me a favor by coming over and mowing my grass.

There's an ulterior motive.

In real estate, John?

Oh.

For those of you scoring at home, that was a sarcastic question.

Oh, man.

I, yes,

I

think you're right about that, but.

Welcome to Monday morning.

It's the wine of the mare.

Is there a better time of year than the middle of May?

Oh, this is great.

Is

there a better time of year than, couldn't you, wouldn't you like to just have like,

Four months of like the middle of May.

Yeah, there's no bugs.

There's nothing.

Although I was listening to Lisa this morning.

She said there's what there's ticks

Well,

it's this time of year, yeah.

In the city?

Oh, I know,

in the city.

Boy, the UP, I gotta be honest with you, the northern Wisconsin, really dry again already.

I mean, really dry.

Like fire warnings, no campfires.

I'll be honest, we could probably use a little rain.

Yeah, we could.

Says Gardner Todd.

Exactly.

Hey, it is nutty fudge day.

I'm not a fudge guy.

Limerick Dave, there wasn't all man from that bucket.

Women's Checkup Day, very, very important.

Craft a beer week?

Yes, sir.

Oh,

we

got to

talk about this.

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50s just in time for Memorial Day.

I thought it was supposed to be like 80s this week though, right?

Yeah.

I think this is a good week he's talking about.

I heard by Saturday, maybe 60s and that might fall off after that.

Well, we've got, you know what?

She's not on this morning because she's on vacation.

Oh, I did not know that.

Okay.

Wow.

We'll have to look it up and take

a best guess.

Hmm.

Looks like upper 50s next week.

Hey,

I got a

great.

I'm sorry, that's the time of year you need something.

No, Nick,

you're not gonna get out.

No, that's...

Well, I don't know.

We're

Wisconsin.

We might like it.

Hey, I got a different subject.

What do you think about the president's new gift?

The plane?

$400 million.

Do you see that thing?

I'd live in it.

The palace.

I couldn't believe that.

I didn't hear any rumblings of that.

I just really read that yesterday.

I'm like, oh my god, that's that is significant.

What a toy.

What's a toy?

It's something.

It's, it's something.

Yeah.

And then they, they, I should say they investigated it because I mean, that's the largest gift in the history of our country that a president's receiving.

Okay.

And they looked into it.

The Justice Department.

But who would look into that?

Obviously the Justice Department, but there's another agency that looked into it.

And they're like, I think this is legit, because there's no strings attached.

Now, you might say there's implied things, but there's no, you got this and you gotta come and pick us up once or give us a tour or do this.

I just, I was like, wow, that is, that's, man.

I'm gonna send them a letter and I'll just take a jet

So what he's doing with the old one,

huh?

Oh my

gosh.

Hey, hang on.

All right, he's bringing his stuff What it's two guys he's Johnny's making his what is this on Johnny juice?

What is that John that you're drinking this morning?

Let's take okay.

All right.

Well, that's good.

You're getting on this Here's what I don't understand.

It's a bottle.

Okay.

It's not a cup

So how do you spill from a bottle with that small opening into your mouth?

Okay.

Okay.

I'm gonna tell you

how.

Please do it.

I wasn't watching.

I just went over and it's all over the table.

Welcome to Mr. Science.

He's gonna show us something.

And it actually even says this on the packets to do this and I don't do it.

It says take a drink before you put the stuff

in.

Right.

Cause then it gets even more.

Yeah.

And I always forget to take that drink and that it overflows on me and stuff.

So,

we're good.

So that's effervescent?

A little bit effervescent.

Boy, I've been using the beeswax tallow, too.

It's working.

Is

it?

Yeah.

What is that again?

Beeswax tallow.

Yeah.

Oh, what is it for your

face?

Make my skin luminescent.

Luminous luminescent.

Yep.

And it's working.

I can tell.

Can people at home tell?

Let me get a close-up of that.

It's interesting.

I think

so.

I'll take interesting.

But

someone

takes clothes look your face and say

Yeah, interesting.

Are you when you walk do you put on like a you like visors to wear visor all the time?

Yeah, that's good.

You know what I got to get though.

I got to get a boonie

What's that,

you know, it's the kind of

like the safari guys

wear

right?

No,

no, not the big one.

It's like what good guys wear like in Iraq Afghanistan if they weren't on combat missions They want to say the sun a little bit.

Yeah, it's the kind that comes down

You know more.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

To be

honest with you, if it was camouflage, it'd be like with Gilligan war, right?

And Gilligan's

eye, right?

All right.

Yep.

To keep this really helpful to the sun.

Okay.

So

I could see you walking around in one of those.

Me too.

That's funny that that was a ref.

Oh, yeah.

Well, he says Gilligan's Island.

You know, everybody knows it.

You go from this military.

Exactly like Gilligan war.

But that's generational too.

I mean, there's some people that.

would say who's right.

Oh, my God.

You're still alive.

Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of people.

I didn't

know that.

I thought they were all.

Are you thinking Tina Marie?

Yes.

Tina

Marie.

No, she's gone.

Ginger is still

around.

Ginger is

still alive.

Yeah.

I didn't know that.

Wow.

Now that's cool.

Where's she been?

Some casino where she because they didn't make a lot.

She won't know.

She's a teacher.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying.

I don't think she's

she's a teacher and will never talk about Gilgames Island.

What?

Swear to God.

Yes.

She could,

like, there's people who are interested.

Oh, cash in if you're

kidding me, no

question.

Write the book, tell some stories,

cause they're all dead.

You're right, 50, I'm sorry, 91.

91.

She's 91.

Yeah.

And I think she's still teaching or something, Todd.

Wow.

Isn't that incredible?

That would be, if she wrote something, I'd buy it, I'd

read it.

Oh, and a

heartbeat.

I

was

fascinated by that show.

Oh my God.

I'm gonna tell Roman Gabriel started quarterback of the Rams played the part of one of the native headhunters.

Remember that.

Uh-huh.

Yep.

I was not hearing the professor at all.

Oh,

that's something going on.

Of course they did.

You're on an island by

yourself.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So if they teamed up.

Yeah.

Okay.

You had Lovie.

You had the Howl, right?

Yeah.

And if it was, if it was Ginger and the professor.

Yeah.

How did the others team

up?

Well, I think the skipper was a loner.

Yeah, I

think

I had a

situation with him one time What was it

was

it Ellen Ladd?

No,

not

Alan Ladd.

Oh Alan is his first

name

Anyway, why'd you run okay old Tucson?

He was down there doing something we used to do go down there and shoot stuff all the time So we're an old Tucson and he's there hosting some kind of little thing and it's one of those things where I had my camera, you know little camp little

110s.

Okay,

sure.

And I'm tired.

Oh, he was exactly the guy is in the in the show.

That's

awesome.

How you doing there, buddy?

He's this big guy.

Hey, buddy.

Yeah.

Allen Hale.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I said, oh, my God.

Can I get a picture?

Absolutely.

Hey, it gives a camera to me.

He puts arm around me.

It was out of pictures.

It was

like.

Oh, no.

That would have been a cool picture.

I mean that's... That's nice he was jovial and not bitter that he didn't make a lot of

money.

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I know do you have this card Boba linsky that is a 1965 tops card of Boba linsky do you know the story and Boba linsky Boba linsky and I know the reason Terry sent this in Boba linsky used to date Used to date her

from Gilligan's Island.

Oh.

Mm-hmm.

Bobolinski was this young pitcher.

So is he 91 too?

He's dead.

Oh.

He's been dead a long time.

Mm-hmm.

Bobolinski was this young pitcher for the California Angels.

Actually, they were the Los Angeles Angels before they became Anaheim Angels, California, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Early 60s, mid 60s, okay?

Mm-hmm.

Young kid like 21 years old and threw like a no hit or a perfect game at like one of the youngest guys of all time.

That's cool.

Got out to a phenomenal start in his major league career.

then hit the bottle.

And then he had armed troubles, then yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.

You know what?

So many of those guys wanted to be like the Joe Nameness of the World.

They all wanted to be like Paul Horning.

But you know the difference between Paul Horning and so many of those young guys?

When Paul Horning would show up for practice, okay, they said nobody would work harder than Paul Horning.

Nobody would get yelled at more than Paul Horning.

Nobody would put his body on the line, no matter what, more than Paul Horning.

Would he go out and do it?

They said after practice and go to his house, they do a whole picture of like martinis and they drink martinis and go to a movie or go for it.

That was like every night, okay?

But the next day of practice.

Really?

No, that's kind

of

cool.

And these other guys wanted to be the Playboy flamboyant part.

But they didn't have the recovery.

Exactly.

Yeah.

That's the difference.

All these guys thought they could be that way, but they didn't realize when the

That's the switch boom.

Yeah, that's too bad.

They didn't have a coach or somebody that said look Yeah That's not the way to do it and you've got a problem.

Absolutely.

Yeah, cuz these guys lost careers

Not even a question so many of them want it to be that way even then the Broadway Joes or whatever, but I get it Yeah, but he ain't even one of a guy I talked to one time was teammates with Joe Nemeth He was actually from the UP is from a nominee Michigan build ratamaker.

I said tell me one

about Joe Namath that, you know, I don't know all about his, you know, the night before the Super Bowl, 90% of what Joe Namath did off the field is exaggerated.

Oh yeah.

He said you should flip it.

90% of what made Joe Namath was Joe Namath watch more film than anybody.

Joe Namath was really smart.

Really?

Joe Namath could dissect.

a defense because he studied them.

He said nobody talks about that part.

So everybody wanted to be like Joe Namib.

I'm going to go party all night long before a game.

And he liked that though.

I mean, he didn't deny that.

No.

So he was studying film.

Oh, that's cool.

Yeah.

So you've met Paul Horning.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Hey,

guys, you know what?

I'm almost I'm losing you.

I'm almost a green

bag.

Hang up.

Yeah.

He I told you another one.

Statue dedicated to him and I don't know if somebody dedicated a statue to me.

I think I'd be really really

appreciative I tell you sorry buddy of mine.

He was that Paul Horning was doing Paul Horning wrote like 12 books.

Let's be honest No disrespect you might like once right Packer books these days.

That's that's great But about the glory years, I don't think there's another story has to be told a hundred boy hundred times hundred hundred times hundred times

And, um, it's like rewriting the Bible or something.

It is.

It's the same.

Just let's move this paragraph over here.

And, uh, but anyway, he was at a book signing at festival and like nobody was there, you know, late and he's sitting there by, you know, and that's, trust me, I've been there.

It's, and, uh, so buddy of mine, uh, went there and he goes, Hey, Paul, my, my, my dad, I was told me the story that I don't know if it's true or not.

He said to ask you, is it true that the president got you a pass so you could play in the championship game for the Packers when you're in the army?

He goes, yeah.

I think Kennedy was nervous because he and I were hooking up with some of the same broads.

I believe he said that.

Exactly.

He

told me.

Oh my God.

He had festival foods.

Wow.

That's funny.

I could get him on the air

right now.

That is funny.

I really hate the story.

Yeah.

Hey, we got this one.

Hey, guys.

I'm back in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Back to the grind.

Paul Handler, bodybuilding guy.

Paul, how did that go?

I couldn't make it over the last Saturday.

I had to go to out of town.

How did it go?

Let us know, Paul.

Please give us a report on the bodybuilding competition.

Did any of the people we had in here that day win?

We'd like to know.

That was also good.

Morning, guys.

Kerry.

Hey, Kerry.

How you doing?

Cool.

Yeah.

Paul, give us a call.

Yeah.

Also got here.

Paul was a regular, filled candlestick downtown when he had come

to Green

Bay.

That is true.

That was a good bar.

That was that.

And that was.

Well, that again, that was a great

bait right next to it.

Well, it moved.

It used to be right next to Angelina's.

Okay.

Yep.

Right next to Delilah's

Delilah's, right?

Well, no, a little bit further north.

Yeah,

Angelina's would be in between or whatever.

But on that row, that's

yeah, I remember that.

But before that

candlestick lounge, that's great name too, right?

Oh, yeah.

Was it where shophouses?

Republic Shophouse?

Steakhouse?

I didn't know it at one time.

I didn't.

I only knew it on Washington on Adams.

Okay, I didn't know it over there.

I thought it moved.

I thought it won But that was the place where all the old newspaper people all the old TV people after work You know the newspaper guys are done with their thing TV guys know their thing

right down the street

all meat Yeah, it was that kind of a place

but times have changed.

We don't have happy hours much as we back 30 years.

We should bring it back.

I

agree

She started at like nine in the morning.

Listen, I'm telling you, we're done

with work at nine.

Exactly.

Let's go.

Here we go.

We'll start it.

That's like those old bars.

Do they still do that?

They do.

Well, Seastreet's a cool place.

I don't like

Seastreet.

That's like what you're

talking

about.

No, no, no, no.

The ones on Broadway where guys would get done with what we used to call midnight shift.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, they're

still around.

Oh,

yeah.

You can still go in there because you got to, they have every right to have drinks after work.

It's just they're after work.

Absolutely.

You know, when you work midnight till seven.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But bars

are allowed to be opened that early, right?

Or no?

I think yes.

I can't see guys doing that anymore though, can you?

I- because of their-

The world's different.

The world is

different.

I just

don't.

I don't think you can get away with that today.

Do they let us, anybody out there let us know?

Can bars be open early anymore for, you know, where I'm from, my mom told me the wives one time had like, not a revolt, but a bunch of wives

went

to the office at Cleveland Cliff's Iron Company and demanded that the checks be sent home.

through the mail, because they were handing guys the checks and getting them cashed at the bars.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that direct deposit kind of messed things up too.

However, I

worked... Kept families together, but it messed things up for the guys.

I worked at a company and we got bonuses, and some of them were significant, two, three, four thousand, and they were nice enough.

It was all guys, which, okay, again, I'm dating myself, but they cut the bonus checks.

to the guys.

Yeah, which was very cool because I know they didn't tell their wives.

I mean, I was single then, but I mean, they didn't dot and that was something the company, you know, it's like, it was up to you to do your taxes, right?

But that was like a perk that people appreciated.

I know a guy worked for Nabisco.

Let's be company.

Yep.

Great job for Nabisco.

And he'd be like Saturday and he'd be home in bed, literally.

And he'd get a call at like one in the morning from one of the salespeople.

Hey, what's my bonus?

I gotta know

the bookies on me

honest to God he would get calls at night wanting to know what their bonuses were going to be because they were out and didn't want their wives to know and spend that money that they were given exactly

yeah

wow so that must have been I thought that was like this rare thing

I thought oh my god I put you on again we're talking 30 years ago though I mean that was

him you're probably talking

Mid to late 60s, early 70s.

So it's

that far ago.

But can you see why they would do that?

Absolutely.

I mean, no, I mean, no.

Why would they?

Because they're all together.

We're in all this together.

But I thought that was really funny.

And some of these, like I said, some of those checks were pretty significant.

I don't know what they did with the money.

But yeah, that was that was a perk that

They didn't brag about, you know, like keep your own airline miles that we got to do that too.

But, um, that bonus thing was rated very high.

Yo, that

was a big thing one year in the NBA when I was covering the NBA, the NBA players said, Hey, listen, we do a lot of traveling.

Shouldn't we get frequent flyer model?

And the thing is the team was pretty much keeping all of them.

Oh, the best before charters.

Yeah.

So I wonder whatever.

Because that's a lot of miles

back in when they first started up.

It didn't take a lot to get a free ticket.

I mean, now it's not, it's like, now you gotta, you know, fly, you know, China back 10 times, but the, I think it was like, like 15 or 12, it was not much and then to get upgrades.

And that was always a big thing.

Who keeps it?

Oh, well, the guy who paid for it should be able to keep it.

That was a big thing in the NBA.

The union fought against that.

Yeah, but our company where I work, they're like, you guys can keep that.

Wow.

Which was great.

Cause then you can parlay that into a vacation, upgrades, all that kind of stuff.

So anyway,

one thing I wouldn't do right now though.

What?

Newark?

Newark!

Yeah.

See them?

They're gonna cut it down to 36 flights a day.

Yeah, that, um, yes.

Wow.

Got a bunch of

checks here.

You don't want to fly blind.

We always went to Stan's labor temple.

Anybody remember that place?

It opened at five or six in the morning.

Um, Sarah.

Out on Elizabeth?

Stan's labor temple.

Was that on Elizabeth?

I don't know

that one at all.

Or maybe that's, I remember called Stan's.

What was that?

The labor, well it's still there.

If I'm thinking of the labor temple.

You know on Elizabeth?

Honestly, God, I don't know of that one at all.

A labor temple?

I mean, is it temple temple?

No, no, no, no, no.

You know, the labor gathering place.

Okay.

Um, used to have triple happy hour at 11pm at Chi Chi's in Ashwabadan back in the day.

Triple by one.

Wow.

Wow, sir.

Wow, sir.

At 11.

Why would you have that 11 11 p.m.

I don't know get really

tanked

Yeah, I think he meant 11

I

think Todd wrote it down wrong.

I don't know I copied it over from his text directly I don't believe that time Sam

Lee Roy's in Oshkosh Todd six six a.m.

So does bottoms up.

All right, it's Rick.

I've been there What you guys let's put that on our

Let's do a show from one of these bars.

I would have at six.

See who's there.

Why Mike says

there are a number of bars that open at seven on State

Street.

That's right.

That's close to here.

Right.

Right.

Right.

But it'd be fun to interview the guy and say, you know, look, I'm entitled to come in here like you guys come after work.

That

would

be I

didn't know state laws.

What the state laws were one of bars.

You have to close a tour.

You got to close it.

Right.

Right.

Then I think you can open up.

Fairly soon after that probably seven get it cleaned up.

Yeah

Our bars open on Sundays.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, okay

because that used to be in Michigan I think used to be

a lot of Michigan was you could not could not open on there's still still places like that in the state

so it was bizarre to I told you that story right and we're talking about We're talking about the negative things of alcohol with somebody here the other day.

I figured but anyway

Um, I don't pay much attention to that.

But anyway, that kind of went over our heads, but what's negative.

Come on.

But anyway, we're talking about the negative

crops.

He's okay.

That's the one I was thinking of.

That's what I was thinking

too.

Okay.

Open at

six

a.m.

So, and that would be right on that stretch.

Oh, that's right.

That's a very, very popular place.

Yeah.

Um, so really the cut set don't close for four hours.

Yeah, that's true.

You get, but these days, do you get enough help?

That's the owner, you know, work.

That would be fun to bartend at six in the morning.

Well,

then, you know, it'd be fun if you lived upstairs and just come down.

Wouldn't that be awesome?

That's always been my dream.

When I open my bar, I'm living upstairs.

I mean, you're not far off from it now.

Not at all.

Drinking up the profits.

Yeah, I

don't know.

OK.

No, oh, but the other thing, it's said about how, you know, people use alcohol sometimes in a social setting to kind of, you know, whatever.

Give it a little bit more courage.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, in Minnesota, I told you that first college party I ever went to in my, and I wanted to talk to this girl, and it's too shy.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm gonna be, I'm the shyest person in the world when it comes to, okay.

I believe that.

And I think I'll, I'm gonna have a few to, and it wasn't hit me, hit me.

It's like, now that I'm 18, beer doesn't affect me like it used to.

Well, they have 3.2 beer.

Yeah.

You're right.

Yeah.

Why?

Exactly.

Yeah.

No.

Never hooked up.

No.

She

regrets

it to this day.

Yeah, right.

Mind of the bear, Beckett!

great songs.

Upstairs for ride.

What?

That's fine, John.

Just enjoy it.

You enjoy yourself.

I'm gonna finish reading.

I'm gonna head back.

I'm gonna head

back.

Let me know when you're done.

Yeah.

Favorite song of all time, though, is by the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil.

Oh, good song.

Great, great, great.

You know one thing about the Rolling Stones that I like?

They were really good writers.

and you understand their lyrics.

I hate it, even with like Dylan and Springsteen sometimes, it's like, you gotta look up the lyrics to find out what they say.

If I'm gonna write a song, when I become a songwriter, you're gonna understand every lyric, you're gonna understand, every word's gonna have meaning.

Yeah, I think there's a lot more that you gotta look up the words, cause it's, yeah.

Would you agree though?

It's like you wanna know what they're saying.

In this one guy, one of my guys, my good buddy Mike, who my Vietnam vet, he was talking about the song that would always come in his mind.

He was thinking about what was going on in his first mission before they went out.

And it was, do I dig that girl?

Okay.

Those aren't the words.

So he looked it up.

And it's still the wine.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Isn't that something in his entire life since he's been singing that song in his head, completely the wrong lyrics.

But that's the way, you know,

I think that's great.

You can look them up.

Oh, no, I agree.

Yeah, you said kind of I like that.

Hey, did you guys okay when you were a kid?

I bet you did did you guys get the Sunday visitor?

Or is that a Michigan the Catholic newspaper?

No, I think it was called the Sunday visitor.

The

Sunday visitor.

Yeah, that sounds like a crazy name.

That is sounds like you only go to church on Sundays.

My mom could have been the daily visitor.

Every Catholic in the UP used to get the Sunday visitor.

Wow.

Okay, but anyway, it had one of those cool priests.

in the sixties type, you know what I mean?

He's different.

You know, he's more hip, you know, more of the, whatever, whatever.

Yeah.

And, uh, huh?

Go

ahead.

And, um, so what he would do every week would take a song and put the lyrics and analyze it.

And that was really cool.

Yeah.

Like a popular song.

Yeah.

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah.

Popular songs.

So not like a church song.

No, he was like, he was like the cool priest in like, what was the one where Mary Tyler

more Elvis Elvis?

Yeah.

He was a change of habit.

Yeah.

Good call.

Give yourself a belt.

Thank you.

That was very good, Todd.

I'm proud of you.

Very good.

Very, very good.

Yeah.

Um, is it Sims?

Who's the guy that I listen to?

Billy Sims.

And I had to look up.

I just like his music a lot, right?

I read Billy Joel.

No, no, no, no, no.

This is more popular, more current than Billy Joel.

Billy Sims.

No, no, no.

Billy Sims was a great running back for the Lions.

It's from Hooks, Texas.

Okay.

That's played in Oklahoma.

High front trophy winner, 1979.

Oh, I'm going to think of it.

What genre?

I would say it's Billy Squires.

No, forget the Billy.

All right.

Can you sing a little song?

No, I don't want to right

now This is turning into this turning into Mr.. Mom when when when what's his names down there and they're gonna be closing the auto factories or you know guys?

Let me tell you gotta hang in there I was watching what is Rocky movie tonight, and he was taking these pounds in the face of which Rocky one or two I remember when was that against Apollo creator was at the big Russian

dude.

Yeah, okay?

Forget Rocky forget Rocky bad analogy forget

Rocky

I, when I started that, I thought, I should have said

that.

Hey, happy birthday to Arami Malik, 44.

Weird guy.

Yep.

Weird, weird looking guy.

Yep.

And one of those things where you say, how did this guy become an actor?

But he was great in the mini series, The Pacific.

Yeah.

He was great in that.

Also, Night at the Opera, or Night at the Museum, rather.

He was also, he played the lead singer from Queen.

That's

right.

Oh.

I watched like eight minutes of that movie.

Yeah.

Hated it.

Um, I just didn't just think into it you

I

wasn't into their music.

So if you're not into somebody's music, do

you?

I thought it was yeah, I thought it was good.

Um, that's that movie on an airplane.

That's where I watched it.

Oh, because I wouldn't fall asleep at home.

Tony Hawk is 57 Emilio as Davis is 63 Stephen Baldwin is 59 The Baldwin's all turned out a little different didn't they?

Just it was all it was all in the timing.

So I feel like Steven was maybe the weirdest one early on.

Yeah, but then the others kind of fell

over for him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

Uh, does Amelia was never do anything anymore?

Boy, he was a brat packer.

Absolutely.

Uh, let me ask you this question.

We asked

Billy strings.

We're asking.

He's asking me about that.

Okay.

It's not Billy strings.

Cause Sarah is asking if it's Billy.

Sir,

I don't think so.

Sir, I'm gonna have an answer for you after this top of the hour break.

I will.

I'm

gonna find it because I got it.

I got it on my phone.

So I'm just gonna go to the bathroom.

I have no

idea.

And he's gonna pull

out

his phone.

We are hanging on major prize package if anybody guesses who Jim's thinking of.

First name possibly Billy.

But it's not sure.

It may not be.

It's the worst version of name that tune

ever.

I know.

Ever.

Never.

Okay.

I figured out that you guys are gonna like, you'll like this guy.

We got some good texts here too.

We gotta get to as soon

as we come back.

We got time.

Okay, I got this one Molly this from Paul Molly who we had in here won the best abs and finally won her pro card in the bikini class.

I can believe that.

Yeah We had over 500 in the audience isn't that nice at the Meyer gave out 10 pro cards most ever Giving kids a ride to school in a bit appreciate you guys Paul have Paul.

Thank you very much.

I'm so sorry couldn't make it over there, but yeah

Five, how many does that hold?

9, 11, 1,000 people.

Oh, it does?

Am I

your holds that many?

Oh, that's a good crowd.

That's a phenomenal crowd.

Oh, that's a whole bottom floor.

A whole bottom thing.

They make some mezzanine nuggets and another 500.

Oh, that's right.

I forgot about

that.

Yeah.

Is this a quick lyric?

John was going to take Repsters for a ride with 3.2 beer and

captain.

Sparky.

Come

on, Sparky.

Really?

Come on, 650.

Come on, Sparky.

Jim's mom is listening.

She's 659.

Think about that, Sparky.

Okay.

Sparky, she was 92.

Come on.

Got another one here.

No names mentioned, boys.

But there was a mayor one time that killed the candlestick lounge by building a parking ramp just west of it.

Closed it off from Washington Street.

Totted deep here.

Why?

Had Jaden.

Yeah.

Sam.

Son of a... Eric.

I know the

mayor.

All of them.

All of them.

I'm

back after

this.

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