Cops & Coffee (Hour 1)

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Cops & Coffee (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Wed May 14, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

Here are your hosts John Minow and Jim

John Maino

Smith Man is it nice out It is so nice out

a couple more days of

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this.

You know what today?

You know what I was thinking of walking here today?

I'm not even lying What you know what kind of day we have to hope for is there a saint to pray to for weather?

I Can think about that.

Um

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Dom if you're listening Dom, you'll know every saint.

What name is saint for I remember I did a story one time

I'm trying to dig out my, um, Todd, you'd be some, you'd be able to do this.

Do you have the type

of thing?

Med Medard, Medard, M-E-D-A-R-D.

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Oh, Medard.

Yeah, you

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know.

Open up a line of hardware stores.

Say big

money

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at Medards.

I have a nice stone chisel for you on sale.

I never heard of.

Ten pieces of silver.

You know

what?

How come I haven't?

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I haven't either.

But I remember I did a story one time with the

Do you remember the old lady of charity, Jim?

Cross from Southwest High School, the nuns ran it.

Oh yeah, yeah, sure.

And for girls who, you know.

Yeah, yeah.

And I did a big, they were like most diehard Packer fans.

So when I was doing the old Lindy and Fanta show, I spent a game with them watching the Packer game.

And they saw it in what saints that were prayed to for different things.

And they watched it.

I mean, I prayed to Saint Sebastian.

It's the saint of gaming.

Yeah.

It's like, I didn't know there was a saint of gaming.

But it's like, it got them all.

So anyway,

but prayed to the way we always when we were little kids had prayed for good weather.

But I remember my mom saying

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to this

saint.

Yeah.

We would lost things.

Of course, everybody knows that and

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try and

Anthony and

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there is no one

Christopher.

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There is no one that has come through for me more than St.

Anthony.

Oh, yeah.

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I think we're related.

Yeah.

I mean, that's that

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is a good one.

That is a good one.

Thank

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you.

Yes.

It

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thinks you're on my Anthony Pizzotti family.

There you

go.

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But anyway, what I'm saying is I pray for weather like this when we have a regatta.

Are you a kayak race?

Oh, yeah.

What

is that?

Well, ours, you're

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not okay.

I think there was

one coming up this weekend because this weekend's not going to be as great.

It's going to be like 60.

But anyway, for ours, yes, we'll pray

to

say,

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what is

it?

St.

Menard?

St.

Menards.

No, Medard.

Medard.

I got to

do a little research on that.

I can ask my mom about that one.

I don't remember praying to him.

We got a huge amount of comments about your little race.

People really want you to do that.

Oh, good.

Oh, yeah, excellent.

East Twin Rivers, that's going to be great.

I think there might be some betting going on.

That's fine.

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I was wondering about that.

Fine.

Um, I was wondering if that was possible because did you see the big announcement by major league baseball?

No,

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they are throwing out the, um, uh, restrictions against Pete Rose, Schulitz,

Joe

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Jackson, white socks.

So they're throwing all those out.

I mean that's I mean to make law allow them to be eligible

right

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for the Hall of Fame

living None you know what none I mean, it's great for their

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family.

I mean, I forgot I was gonna say well Pete right.

That's yeah.

No, that was a big deal Yeah, right none.

No plastimists.

Yeah, it's kind of like too late, right?

Yes.

Yeah,

yeah, because look

Like the

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and they're not saying but here's like they're not even saying well.

No, you're going into the hole.

No, I know they might right right

right, but they're eligible Yeah,

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I

don't know I don't it's fine.

It's great for the families great for the kids But nothing like being there, you know like Kenton, you know, it's nice that they're there that there's I don't know how many people are put in there After their death are there a lot in Kenton?

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Yeah, too many.

No, and I don't mean that that they're putting in too many people.

No, no.

Too many don't get in while they're alive and can't enjoy it.

And like a lot of people say, what, did he get better five years after he was dead?

Yeah.

Where six years ago he wasn't good enough.

Right.

Now five years later he's dead and all of a sudden now he becomes good enough.

It's all of those Hall of Fame.

It's even the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, right?

Yes.

I mean, Warren Zevon was never in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Unbelievable.

And they pushed for years and now he's gone

and... Yeah.

I was reading up on that.

Actually, this morning, isn't that funny?

You bring that up?

Yeah.

Why they pick Cleveland and.

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Well, that's where Ellen Freed started, wasn't it?

With rock.

Some of the radio guys, simply great radio

thing.

Yeah.

But the what was that 86?

What was that 86?

Anyway, that you've been on there.

Yeah.

That's awesome, right?

Yeah.

That that initial building was 65 million.

I don't think that's unbelievable.

So, we would do something here for 15.

We could probably get a pretty nice hall of fame, but you think?

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Well, when they built that, it was like, whoa!

But it was like, it's all glass!

It's kind of a crappy part of town.

I mean, it's down by the lake, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But...

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Anyway, yes,

that's... Hey, we gotta talk about, you know, I mean, love doing this show, but yesterday we were both kind of out in the community doing good things.

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Well, yeah.

Boy, what a tragic story.

I went to the Green Bay Police Department.

Hey, have you met the Chief?

Oh, yeah.

What a good

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guy.

He's

a great guy.

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Davis?

Yeah.

I said something to him.

It just got real quiet, real cool.

He looked at me like, you got a problem?

OK, I go, hey, Chief, I just heard something about you.

He goes, what's that?

I go, you couldn't get into a good school either.

He kind of looks at me like, what?

Sun devils.

He wouldn't dance.

Heck yeah.

So it's some good Sun Devil stories, but what a tragic story talking about they honored this one because yesterday was to honor with a whole week I think isn't honor fallen law enforcement and the Green Bay Police Department put together a nice little program right outside the door and They had one of the plaques out of one of the officers that you know lost his life in the line of duty and it's from like 1950 and it was like I think two days

Actually, I took some pictures of it, Todd.

You might be able to tell the date.

I want to say like two or three days before Christmas, okay?

Is that the corner of Maine and Webster?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

And in those days, at certain times, guys used to activate the stop lights by hand.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

And he called his wife.

He's at a drugstore.

I think it might still be standard corner of Maine and Webster.

I don't know.

But anyway, I was actually thinking, well, CVS would be Maine and Webster.

Yeah,

it is.

in the

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car, the

dealership, the plant place, and then that restaurant.

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But anyway, okay, so anyway, the guy calls this way, if he goes into the drugstore, calls his wife, said, hey, I'm coming home, you're leaving in 10 minutes, I'm gonna walk home, okay?

Guy comes through, I see, might have been an ARF, whatever, whatever.

Hits him and kills him, okay?

So his blood alcohol, back then it was like 2.0 or 0.2 or over that.

works yeah and he was like a hundredth of a thing underneath it so they couldn't charge him with anything

1951 1951

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yeah yeah gets hit by that guy right after calling his wife right before christmas thing he's walking home now and he gets hit by this but what it was the guy stepped in the brakes and the roads were bad and slippery and just you know slid through the

thing

Okay, so they honored him yesterday?

I didn't read about that.

Why?

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Well, I don't know, but they took his plaque.

That's nice.

That's great.

They had his plaque displayed for the thing.

But what a track.

I mean, when you read about a couple of days before Christmas, cause his wife, she's getting dinner ready and then he gets killed.

Isn't that tragic?

Yeah, it is.

It is.

Never a good time.

But yeah, that's really tough on holidays.

Yeah.

Especially for those kids.

Yeah.

And you were out yesterday.

Yes.

Would

you speak

or something?

I did.

I did.

I was there.

Speaker for the leadership Green Bay.

Did you go through that like yesteryear?

Yes, okay, and that they you apply to that.

I think it's 40 or 42

business people, well I should say they're business people, they could be in a non-profit and they go through nine months of learning about the community.

So they spend a day on history and Mary Jane Herbert takes you all over the city and tells you all about the history, the day on the environment, day on social services, you know, they go to come to the community shelter.

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And by the way, that poster they have hanging at the library or that banner, that's pretty cool.

That's the one she told me about that the guy did years and years ago because he hated

that the people that come into Green Bay, first thing they sell us is just dilapidated.

And they had that big banner of it.

So she's very proud that that's hanging at the Brown County Library.

And then they had their graduation yesterday.

So it's pretty cool.

I just talked about, I went through that, I don't know when, but talked about how, now that they're through all that stuff, this isn't the end, it's the beginning.

You gotta get involved in stuff.

I mean, the mayor makes over a hundred appointments, right?

Non-elected appointments.

There's 2,000 nonprofits in Brown County, 2,000.

I mean, get involved in one of those things.

I mean, we need people who are well-rounded.

So anyway, that was great.

And then they got up and talked one minute each about what they got out of it.

It was great.

They made friends and a much better understanding of the community.

And there's leadership Oshkosh, there's leadership Appleton.

But the guy who runs it, I was just talking to John Glenn Tillott, who's in charge of that, has been in charge of it for, I don't know, 25 years.

He's gonna be coming on and just talk about how every community should have a leadership program, even leadership to rivers.

I'm not kidding you, even though

it's 12,000 people.

Because you drive by these buildings or you hear something on TV about Alzheimer's.

Okay, you don't really know it, but if you go through Leadership Green Bay, you really learn it.

They come in, they speak to you, and

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you're just strong in your

community.

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They

do projects.

Anyway, that was fun.

I really enjoyed that yesterday.

A great group of kids.

Although, John, I did feel a little older.

They're young.

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They're starting up too young these days.

They're letting these kids get up in the world way too young.

It's like, wow.

I just felt like, wow, I didn't have a lot of friends in that.

I knew their companies, because they're all sponsored by companies, $2,000 to go through the course.

You know, there's people from Nicolay, from Associated, but wow, they were just younger.

I made

that.

That's great though, man.

It was great.

I mean, we need that.

And I went

through that 25 years ago.

I was younger.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's just like going to see your doctor, you know,

I

mean

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like the surges that

Mark Houston bring it.

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Yeah.

Holy cow.

I want some of the gray beard.

I don't know if I do.

I think these kids are younger people.

They're so up to the new technology.

They're unbelievable.

And that is unbelievable.

Really true because even these older guys, they don't

want to kind of learn some of this stuff.

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I mean,

listen, I work with that attitude sometimes.

I was

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watching a movie the other night and it's like, that's who Todd looks like.

I don't know his name.

Of course.

The movie was defiant.

It's about these Jewish people in Poland, World War Two and the Nazis came in, they moved out into the forest.

And they they built caves and underground things and they fought the Nazis and the Nazis would come up to find them They were like screw you.

We're not getting on the trucks or the trains We're gonna go down fighting.

It's a base and a totally true story these two Polish brothers The Boblinski brothers or something.

They were just like, you know what you want us come on get us

Good name for the

movie.

Yeah, you find you see it.

I'm looking it up.

I've never seen it before

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the guy with the kind of beard

Well, there's name.

There's a Luke

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Chris.

No, it's Liam something

Leave

oh, uh, no, okay I've had somebody tell me that before

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okay.

No cuz even his beard in that movie is like exactly the way yours is right now by the way

Yes, yeah, I've you see it all my whole life.

I've had.

Oh, no kidding.

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Yeah.

Oh, no kidding.

Yeah.

Oh, okay, put it up

not not the most

handsome guy.

No, not at all.

Thanks.

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I got this one.

I pray to the saint of hospital comedies, saint elsewhere, Brian

or

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Brian snarky.

You know what's amazing?

When you go back into that cast, you know Denzel Washington played the part of like an intern.

That's right.

Yeah, I remember

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that was a great show like I said that I still want I think one of the greatest line-ups of all times It was cheers seen elsewhere and Hill Street Blues.

Yeah on the same night Thursday nights in the fall.

That was spectacular Wow We should bring that back.

Okay.

What are you guys going on today?

Oh, by the way, I was gonna say yeah Right across street from the police station and I think do we have our young lady coming in?

We do yeah, or is great, but anyway across the street from the police station it was

little warm answer.

So whatever, just to get us a little cold thing.

And it's a little like pop up, uh, juice and stuff kind of shop right there.

Well, it's an

extension of the ADRC, right?

It's their coffee.

They can

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juice out there.

Yeah.

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That's

right.

It's awesome.

That is really cool.

Use that space out there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is, that's nice.

Use a lot more in the summer, but it's

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great to just hang out there.

I didn't know you could walk by and order and stuff.

It's like that.

It was a separate thing.

That was really cool.

You'd be so proud of me.

I'd pomegranate something, something.

Wow, is it

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weird?

Yeah, even Bill Morgan was at the event, the

one

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person.

I said, don't say anything.

It's healthy because it looked very, you know, look like aqua velvet.

Quick break, great lineup for you back at this.

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John Maino

Looking Wednesday morning 97.9 FM WGVW 98.3 96.5 FM WIS that's of course a civic media app 54 in Green Bay 61 in Appleton 57 in Oshkosh partly cloudy today per possible showers high in the low 70s You know, it's weird.

I was talking to my brother yesterday up in the UP.

This is the time here You know, I was really want to get out and start fishing before everything gets too crazy and everything But he said it's such a bizarre thing up there because they like three days ago the streams everything were just torrents

Mean just so you know from the snow melt, right?

It was just unbelievable just like these like white water things All right, so you had that for a few days now.

It's so dry.

They've had such you can't even have a backyard Fire yeah, you were saying that it's gone from such an extreme to such an extremely great all this water, but yet it's so dry.

It's bizarre

Yeah, okay, I don't know is that really is that serious they came have a

Campfire

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it is so serious.

I think that is true.

Yes.

I'll tell you one thing I've noticed though.

Oh after all those fires out west and everything They've gotten a lot stricter about things a lot more strict.

I mean whatever happens out there in Colorad or whatever could happen in the UP or northern, Wisconsin I mean

some of that's arson, but yeah, okay Well, all right if it's that dry and it takes off like that and you know all these acres that yeah, there's still just an article yesterday about

They're still hurting, getting some money from

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North Carolina.

Actually,

it's California that somebody's slow playing on the little bit.

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Oh, really?

Yeah.

Well,

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I'll tell you what, man, it's gonna be a while.

That has got everybody's eye, those fires now.

As far as no matter, well, even Northern Wisconsin, I think Brittany's on vacation, right, Todd?

Yeah, she'll be back next week,

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but it should be able to hear that whole area where she is

and that

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whole little bit north and to the west of her highest warning, I believe they have for fire danger.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's that try.

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Um, Vicky says happy hump day,

fellas.

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Happy hump day to you, Vicky.

Uh, text here from Terry.

Tonight is the 19th annual state number men's basketball steak fry in honor of Woody Wilson at Epic Center.

Uh, be there, Terry.

They always do a great job, man.

They always have just phenomenal raffle items and auction items and things like that.

They've done a great job with that.

And we went to the steak fight last year.

Oh, GB we went to.

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Yeah.

They actually had theirs the other night too.

Yes, so that um, what else going on today?

We got uh today is dance like a chicken day Okay, is that the old chicken dance thing?

I'm sure

I'm guessing something

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I've never done in my entire life.

Yeah, never will I've never been for a wedding where

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they pulled you out on a dance floor.

I've never danced at a wedding

No wedding

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at all now

with you know polka.

Mm-hmm.

How about some of your slow dances

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couple maybe right not at weddings?

Not with your daughters or anything.

That would be it.

Yeah.

Yeah, but not any other kind

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else.

Uh-uh.

Well, you're a... I've never danced in public in my life.

And that, you know why?

Why, did you have that big of a ego that you... No, not at all.

Everybody's looking at me on the dance floor.

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Just the opposite.

Well, then why don't you dance?

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Makes guys feel bad.

They can't do

it.

Okay,

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all right.

That could lead to fights.

It could be the hey, I saw you out there bumping and grinding.

I don't want any of that.

I don't need that stuff here.

I like that wedding dance where you all go out there married couples And then they kind of chip it away at I've been married.

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How long you been married?

Yeah.

Yeah The last people on the floor like 60 years.

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Yeah, you

know, I

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mean, yeah, that's cool.

That's long time.

Absolutely.

So yeah, I bet I'm the only person who said I've never danced in public

Don't feel the only person but that's I don't know that really well I don't know why you're like proud of that because I think there's a good thing John I think dancing is fun, right?

You dance with your daughters.

I don't believe that You never dance with your daughters at a wedding when they're married

Like a father daughter day.

Yeah, no, I'm not talking about just nope Any twist any that stuff zero

Okay, you're a lot of fun John

bust a move mino Dancing to this

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funny thing is I can do it.

I can

do it.

I got it.

I know I can even with that artificial hip

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see me made it better So at the police department yesterday kind of covering that thing yeah the vent for civic media and everything and I get down low you could see that one shot where the

the police of the honor guard comes marching in.

So I got down on my knees, kind of get that low shot coming up.

Okay.

So I don't even know what station she worked for, but the three network cameras are all set up there.

And she had her tripod and I'm down there and I tap her on the leg.

Okay.

She looks down like, who's this guy?

I go, is it okay if I grab your tripod?

She just kind of looks at me.

So I go, artificial lamp.

There you go.

Did she let you?

Oh

yeah.

Okay.

I think you're going

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to

ask for

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help.

Yeah.

Okay.

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But you ever get one of those weird positions or two and get to it.

Okay.

How do I kind of gracefully get up from this thing?

Do you ever reach for something and pull a muscle?

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Never.

It's like, uh-huh.

I never have.

Oh my God.

Ever.

Michael says, John Travolta Mino.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But you know what the problem is in my era and you're in the same era, Jim.

They keep changing stuff.

But that's half the fun, right?

When they do the line dance.

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No, but when you're a kid, it's like, okay, you go to wedding reception, everybody's doing the twist.

Okay, everybody can do that.

Anybody can do

that.

I can even do

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that.

And

then.

That's harder than you think now.

We tried it lately, John.

We're getting

older.

The

twist?

The twist

is a little harder now.

It's a little harder than it was

when we were 14.

You'll be

sore the

next day.

You won't get up.

You can take that tripod out there with you.

Can I continue?

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Yeah, if there's the end of it.

No.

So then it goes almost right from that.

to, um, disco.

Right?

Yeah.

Do I look like a disco guy?

You

do.

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I

do.

In

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your polyester suits, he does.

Right?

That's true.

Right?

You had the big girl.

Afros?

Yeah, you

would.

No, that wasn't my thing, but yeah.

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Oh, I had a lot of chicks ask me to dance

at the Discos.

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I'm sure.

Sun Devil Disco.

I'm sure you do.

Yeah, no.

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They didn't do it for me.

See, I kind of got it.

You do.

I kind of got it.

Yeah.

At least for chair dancing, which is a whole different category.

But I've

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never poked it in my life.

What?

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Never.

OK, October Fest this year, Jim.

We've got to get that done.

We've got to poke him, man.

Just do

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you know

how to poke him?

I don't know

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how to poke a gym.

Do you want to count to three,

Johnny?

Uno, dos, tres.

That's all you need.

Thank you.

Mine on the right.

Wait a minute.

A poke is in two, four, though, isn't it?

A waltz is in three.

John Maino

Whoa,

did Jim just get schooled?

That's not true.

I love it.

He's wrong.

It's more than just talk.

It's about connecting with the community.

This is Mino and the Mayor.

Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Beautiful, beautiful morning out there.

54 right now in Green Bay.

61 and an afton.

57 in Oshkosh.

And as I mentioned, this is the kind of day we're going to have when we have our first annual regatta race between Jim and myself.

We want a mirror glass-like finish.

Kayak, not a regatta.

Kayak, I'll

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call it whatever I want to

call it

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saying that

yeah,

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I'm gonna start watching all those movies about about the Roars.

Yeah, there's some good ones out there.

I'm gonna watch them all kid getting in shape We have a ticket giveaway for a festa italy.

I'm not which is coming up the automobile gallery this weekend Which is a phenomenal event Brewer's taking on the Guardians get away day and WSS today.

They are playing terrible.

I mean, yeah

Has been good shut out back-to-back games again.

That's the second time that's happened back-to-back games shut out three hits Not well, we're with somebody that is knocking out of the park Jocelyn Flores

Rise and grind, which is right on the other side of the wall from us right here on North Washington Street.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Thank you for having me, guys.

Glad you're here.

I

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beg just 16 times since you're still painting the walls in there.

I'm busy.

I'm busy.

I'm busy.

I'm a busy person.

Yes, you are.

She was walking by yesterday, Jim, and Mino literally went running out the door to grab her and say, you're coming on tomorrow morning.

I'm glad you're here because you need to get the word out.

I mean, we were talking

Before we came on here, there's a lot of coffee shops out there, but you're unique in just the taste and some of the other things you offer.

Why don't you talk about Angelato?

Yeah.

So yeah, I feel like, yes, like you said, there's a lot of coffee shops, but I feel like every coffee shop has its own unique flavor and its own unique, like with food, its own unique seasoning.

So not every coffee is the same.

With me, like I was saying, like my main goal was to open like a Mexican coffee shop.

But then this opportunity came along and

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what goes into a Mexican coffee shop versus a regular coffee shop?

It's just the different flavoring in it.

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I didn't know there was different Mexican type of coffee.

I mean there is like we have um cafe de olla which is in Mexico they make it in like a

John Maino

Would you say that again?

Cafe de olla.

John Maino

I just want to hear because it sounds really cool how you

say it Yes,

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um

In Mexico, there's a lot of different things that happen and lots of different things that they offer.

But they have like, it's made out of clay.

It's like a pot made out of clay.

And they put it over fire.

Like you're making a bonfire, they put the pot over it.

And they just let the...

the coffee boil in there.

And it definitely has a different taste.

Right,

interesting.

Completely different taste.

I feel like it tastes a lot better to be honest with

you.

We gotta get into that.

Absolutely.

How long have you been open?

And we've been open.

This will be our third week.

Really, three weeks?

Yes.

And that's a compliment you for, I love the entrepreneur.

I mean, that was a little bit of a risk, right?

You jumped in?

Yeah, definitely.

It was...

Quite a bit of a risk because, and completely different, like I worked for 10 years for the Doctor Tires, which is a tire shop that we have down in Bellevue.

So coming from automotive to coffee is a completely different industry, but I love it.

I like it.

I like it.

John Maino

We're at Jocelyn Flores Rise and Grind Coffee right next door to us here at 401 North Washington Street.

But with that said,

tires to coffee, there's some similarities too.

I mean, a good product, customer service,

people remember

that stuff.

You've been 10 years, so you obviously have a successful business in Bellevue.

Yes, thankfully, yes.

It's been a long ride, but we've been there for 10 years.

Thank God, and thanks to the community that's been supporting us.

And like you said, customer service is our number one.

It's always been our number one priority.

at the tire shop and everything that we learn over there, we're trying to put it into works over here at the coffee shop as well.

So definitely customer service and the quality of our product and everything is number one.

Do some joint marketing, right?

Oh yes, we have a lot of tires,

you get a free cup of coffee or

vice versa.

Yes, we definitely have a lot of things in the works right now.

Trying to combine the coffee shop and the tire shop together.

So we'll see how all that works.

So

downtown You're right next to us.

So you're kind of an in lot.

You don't have a drive-through So foot traffic or do people pull up and jump in do they order online and you deliver I'm not delivered, but you run the coffee out to them.

Tell me about The customer base, how are they getting to your place?

Well right now

I don't have online orders.

I'm working on that.

We're working on building a website so that people can just go in there and order online.

But right now, people...

Actually pulling up like they are like oh, I saw you guys on Facebook.

Oh, I saw you here So they do come in and they tell me like oh, I saw you on Facebook Can I order this drink or they'll pull up their Facebook page our Facebook page and they'll be like oh, can I get this drink or can I get that drink and like okay?

Yeah, that's fine like advertisement is

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You know what I hope you never lose

Who's your assistant?

She's really nice.

Sonia?

Yes, she's amazing.

I

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hope you guys, I know it's new and you're excited.

I hope you never lose, because I've seen it.

I've been in there, I've sat off to the side and just kind of watched.

Somebody walks through the door and you guys always have a big smile.

That might sound like, well, that's easy.

You'd be shocked at how many times people walk into places.

And it's like the person is acting like you're bothering them.

You're there to give them money, but it's almost like...

I have to wait on you.

Please don't ever lose that beautiful spark that you guys have when

people walk through the door.

And it's funny you say that because the first thing I told Sonia and the first thing I told myself, it's like, okay, no matter how bad of a day we're having.

People walk in there in the mornings.

They're already upset because we have to get up early.

Who likes to get up early?

Nobody.

So the least thing that they want to see is a grumpy face serving their coffee.

You know what I mean?

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Beautiful.

That's wonderful.

Please keep that going.

Start with that.

Yes, we will.

We will.

Your product line right now, you have a plethora.

We have a lot of different coffees, which is great.

You're home baking those pastries?

Are you making them there?

Tell me about the pastries.

So the pastries are homemade, so we make them at home.

Every week, I want to say every Wednesday, we bring in different kind of pastries.

Oh, nice.

So right now, I have tres leches cakes.

John Maino

You have what?

Tres leches cakes.

So it's three different kinds of milks that go into the cake.

John Maino

Three different kinds of milk?

Yes.

Okay.

I need another three different kinds of milk, but go

ahead.

So there's the evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk, and then whatever milk that you prefer.

So it's just to keep the cake really moist.

Got

it.

See,

I thought it was chocolate milk.

I thought it was all strawberry milk.

No.

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I got a thing here.

I've been looking for a Mexican coffee that hints of chocolate.

Do you know how to make that?

A Mexican coffee with hints of chocolate.

I'm actually working on a drink called, it's...

inspired by Mexican pastry, Gancito.

So like one of my friends described it, it's literally a Mexican Twinkie, but it's covered in chocolate and then it's filled with cream and it's filled with strawberries.

So- Yeah,

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that just doesn't sound very good at all.

It actually is really good.

It sounds phenomenal.

So when I make it, I have to bring you one over.

Absolutely.

But then there is another one that I'm working on.

It's Chocolata Bolita.

So it's literally like hot chocolate, but it's the Mexican hot chocolate.

John Maino

Well, that's exactly what they were asking there.

So those two would be kind of like the chocolate based, but we're still not, they're still not out.

So I'm still working on perfecting the flavors and everything to make them actually taste.

That way.

That's nice that you're excited about new products because

you

need that in any business.

I mean, should be 10, 15% of your sales

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new

product.

So that's great.

You're working on that stuff.

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I mean, you want something where somebody picks up on the way to work and goes to Orchid.

Just even smell this guy.

What is that?

It's

like a

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heater.

So that's a tough business, I mean, to make a lot of money, right?

And saying that

for advertising, which you can't go on TV.

I mean, that's as crazy what they charge you on TV.

How are you advertising?

Well, right now where our main base is Facebook and Instagram.

And then I am working on making

the punch cards so like the

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loyalty cards

yeah and honestly like I feel like with all the people that we made relationships over at the tire shop and stuff they've always been really supportive of everything that we do so a lot of my customers come based from the tire shop as well that's great and they put the word out for us and everything and like I said we have other things in play that we want to work for

towards the coffee shop to make it gain more customers.

It's still not out there yet, and I don't know if I want to say it just yet until it's ready to go, but...

Our main base right now is Facebook, and then just people take pictures of their drinks and post them on Snapchat, so that helps a lot too.

And you're

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here on the show.

Yes, I'm

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here.

And

the community has just been really supportive with everything.

I think the guy from the newspaper came into Ariel, I think, his name.

Oh, Ariel for them.

Yes, him.

Oh, man, he's awesome.

So, I mean, we've had really...

Good support.

Everybody's gonna love.

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He's gonna try to get you to a Cuban coffee.

A Cuban coffee?

I'm up for the challenge.

Oh, okay.

And

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he will put together a Cuban coffee for you.

Okay.

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Yeah.

I'll definitely try that.

I'm up for the challenge.

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Instead of,

yeah, we're gonna...

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Got a thing here from Mike.

I'd love to hear about new places like this.

I will be there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We'd like to support new businesses as well.

Absolutely.

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And I think

people in Green Bay are pretty good about that.

I really

do.

Yes, they

are.

They understand there's something new and they want to give it a try.

So it's Rise and Grind.

Yes.

Not the International Coffeehouse.

We're going to change it to that.

Yes.

You're Cuban and all this other

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stuff.

Rise and Grind.

And tell me what, you know, it's right here on Washington Street, right across from Shriver's headquarters, right next to WGBW.

What hours?

Right next to the market.

Right next

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to the

market.

So right now our hours are 7 a.m.

to 9 p.m.

Monday through Saturday.

Sundays we are open 7 to 1 p.m.

but those Sundays are gonna be more of our temporary hours just until I can find someone that can stay there.

How hard is that

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work?

Can I be honest with you?

Yes.

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It would be awesome if you guys were open at 6.

At six in the morning?

Yes.

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Because there is some traffic that goes through here at six.

Honestly, honestly, I had thought about it, and I felt like maybe seven was a little too late.

But to be honest with you, the most traffic we get in there is in the afternoon.

Oh, really?

OK.

John Maino

Well, that's good then.

But

I know

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how hard it is to find help.

Yes.

Get up at

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435 in the morning and go into work.

Definitely.

Also, we would just like it so that we could sneak over and they get a decent cup of coffee.

It's just us.

Why do you

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think it's always about us?

We got this watered down stuff here.

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Wow.

OK, give yourself a plug, then.

We've got two minutes.

Two minutes.

Go ahead.

Advertise yourself right here, right now.

Rise and

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grind.

Go ahead.

I mean.

Come on down to rise and grind will make your coffee very unique customize it Well, however you guys want it and quality is always our number one priority as well as customer service

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a little snack

great

and come down for a little snack a little cake It doesn't just cake

that afternoon interest me.

So they'll pick me up.

They come in for you know,

like

like You know three o'clock, you know tea at high noon.

That's

yeah, honestly.

Yeah, that's

what people do.

Yeah, that's cool come in like

a minute towards closing to get a coffee really I had someone come in to get an americano at like 8 30 at night and I'm just like oh my god

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they might be working I was gonna say

they got the night shift

I did ask and they said no

wow

Well, you have such a nice selection.

It's easy to order.

You got the pictures up there.

I just, yeah, I really wish you a lot of success.

I

think you

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got the right

attitude.

I'll tell you that.

And

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keep smiling.

Thank you.

That goes a long way.

Jocelyn Flores, Rise in Green, beautiful, wonderful coffee shop.

And they got all the gelatos, as I mentioned.

Yes, they do.

And

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wonderful stuff.

You keep letting us know when you have the new things in your

mail.

Right.

I will.

I will.

I'll bring some more for you guys to try it, too.

We will

John Maino

accept that.

Jocelyn Flores, Rise in Green, right next to us here on North Washington Street in Green Bay.

Best of luck to you, welcome to the neighborhood.

Thank you, thank you guys.

John Maino

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Is it rise and grind or rise and grind?

Grind.

Yeah, it's in

grinding beans.

Yeah,

sorry, that was misprinted on there.

Oh, I just didn't know, because I

saw that and she's mentioned.

So rise and grind.

And what I like about her is if you have a suggestion, I think she's going to act

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on it.

I know.

But that thing with the strawberries and the cream and the whatever, whatever, it's

like, ugh.

I think that's going to last 25 years like the Twinkies today.

John Maino

God, does that sound delicious?

Yeah.

Wow.

And even that Mexican coffee she was talking about.

Right.

Yeah, I'll tell you one thing though.

I had Cuban coffee one time.

She's talking about getting Ariel Perez in there and I You ever have Cuban coffee?

No, I had it one time two types of coffee that knocked me on my butt Cuban coffee one time.

All right

And the other one was, and Lisa, I talked to Lisa about this, Todd.

It's a Louisiana type coffee where

they use

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chicory chicory.

Yep.

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And this one guy, assistant coach for the Packers.

I used to have to get there super early to knock out these interviews with the coach for network, yada, yada.

So I was there at like six in the morning.

And this one guy, I can't remember his name.

It was like special teams coach.

And so, hey, Johnny, you want some coffee?

I got, I had grabbed some from the gas station.

Well, don't in.

I thought, what?

He goes, get over here.

He's this big old redneck kind of, you know what I mean?

He goes, smell this.

I go, oh

my

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God, is that good?

You're having some Louisiana coffee.

And I'll

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tell you, for the rest of it, I could run a marathon.

I could run a marathon.

Yeah, right.

There's some,

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whoo!

Yeah, they got the caffeine

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in there.

Did that get me going for the rest of the day?

She talked about that making of the coffee, not just the grounds.

The making of it can change it as well.

It was pretty cool with that clay.

And she talked about it over the.

real fire.

So

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I think that's cool to

watch that company grow.

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And I think

if they're going to grow through their unique products, it sure sounds that way.

John Maino

And you know, I, you know, even as I'm seeing a thing on Facebook or not, but okay, but it's anyways, it's a golfer.

He goes, why is it guys get so excited to go golfing and we get it lined up and we get out of work or a weekend morning and we clear it and we're all excited and we walk into that pro shop and that guy behind the desk acts like.

Yeah.

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Why are you here?

We don't want you.

It's like, why can't you be welcoming?

And I had that at a store the other day.

I'm never going to say the store tonight, but I told you that story.

I was so angry when I walked out.

I had to sit in my car and like, like decompress to not go back in and go off.

Sarah actually messaged this morning too.

She said, I walked out of a coffee shop on Monday because I was ignored.

You're losing, you're losing guests.

The

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store I went to, I was no, it was a technical kind of story, you know, yada, yada, yada.

So obviously I'm going in unarmed and it was so condescending towards me.

It was like, whoa.

I told you, I had that experience too.

And Ryan was with me.

We returned those tables and he's just like, give me a hard time.

I'm just like, come on, man.

I did you made a fortune off this.

You know, it's anyway.

John Maino

What is an ego thing?

Or what is it with people when you have a job and you're working with people, but you're a jerk to the people that are coming in to give you their money?

I don't know if it's the I would love to run a business and I'd have I'd have cameras and his first person I saw do it that boom out the door When you

oh, yeah, yeah, I yeah, I

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mean it's a training

door Could be a training

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out the door could do that with interns

out the door.

I don't these younger people I think are a little little bit better I don't know what was at the coffee shop, but both of our bad experiences were a little bit older

Much older

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like our age older

type.

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I was that tell you guys.

I

think that tells me

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they shouldn't still be working

They thought they could retire and yeah of the world they can't

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so I

had

to go back to work

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I would

agree about that

sure.

Yeah,

I

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would yeah, and I think but that's but it's not my problem

Can I tell you

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something I I sensed?

Yeah, my what I sensed was this guy once had a position of authority Okay

And now he's like a greeter type of thing, but he still wants to persona that he's above you and he's in charge.

Yeah.

What do you agree?

Tell me you haven't seen

that.

Not the same thing.

I mean, talk to Ryan about that.

You know who though is people who have worked and then they take another job that are really happy people.

I mentioned this one time on the show, butchers, you go into a store and those guys maybe worked at AFG.

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Yeah, some of them even have all their fingers.

I'll

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take four.

Has

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anybody ever had a shop teacher that had all his fingers?

No, no.

I did.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

Great guy,

but yeah.

Yep.

But that's, and they're so happy to be working.

They just, they didn't want to retire.

They kind of, maybe they had to retire and they wanted to find something.

They don't want to be a greeter in a tech shop.

They want to work with meat.

And so they find these jobs that, you know,

Sentry or the clinical center anymore, but or pick and save and I'm telling you I love those guys are happy

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Look

at that.

Did you ever try this and I'm like, no, I'll give it a whirl.

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But anyway, you know, it's funny you remember things like that I just think the other day at Russo's grocery store Nagani.

That's where everybody was Russo's, okay?

And it was Charlie Russo behind or Buster, whatever.

It's all brothers.

It's like five brothers.

Okay, old school, whatever

But I'll never forget that even this one lady that took care of the priests, you know, they'd have that one lady of the rectory.

She's like, oh, yeah, yeah, those types of people did the cooking.

And she's like, um, the bishop is coming and oh, he likes that lean so sorry.

All right.

Yes.

Can you get.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's like, he knew exactly what the bishop wanted when he came there.

Okay.

That's

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my dad

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would be a buster Charlie be like, Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy, I got you.

I know you still want that.

So I got this good stew meat for Josephine.

Those kind of things, we never appreciate that in that era.

How wonderful those kind of people were to deal

with.

And you talk about Connop's meat market, they knew my dad, because he would, certain salts or head cheeses, you guys call it.

Merchants too, up index, that's a good place too.

And that stuff, you would drive the extra mile,

pay the extra dollar,

$2 a pound

or whatever it is, but yeah.

I love the grocery business.

And I think if you find a good produce person, meat person, that kind of stuff, that love,

to teach people.

That's when it's the best.

When a meek guy goes, here's why you want to do it this way.

Don't do that because blah, blah, blah.

And those guys are, they're chilled.

They're just, they're not anxious.

They're not like in a hurry to walk you around the store.

And I'm like, wow, I just, it's too bad not everybody's like that.

But when I think of a, but the other thing is, I was talking about was a,

Training, it's a good job match.

They worked in the industry, and now they get to work in the industry with people.

And I think maybe that guy you talked to, just his social security wasn't enough, and his wife said, you know, we need an extra couple grand.

And so, you know what I mean?

He wasn't happy.

And that's too bad,

John Maino

because he took it out on you.

Yeah.

I almost took it back out.

Yeah,

John Maino

I know.

I'm

glad you counted to 10.

Yes, thank goodness.

They made it to four.

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