Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim
Schmidt.
Good morning!
Man, is it nice out.
It is so nice out.
Couple more days
of this.
You know what I was thinking of walking here today?
I'm not even lying.
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.
Dom, if you're listening, Dom, you don't know every saint.
What?
Name me a saint for... I remember I did a story one time.
I'm trying to dig out my... Todd, you'd be... You'd be able to do this.
Do you have
the type of thing?
Saint Medard?
Really?
Medard?
M-E-D-A-R-D?
Oh, Medard!
Open up a line of hardware stores Say big
money at
my heart.
I have a nice stone chisel for you and sale I Never
heard in pieces of silver what how come I haven't
I haven't either but I'm already 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, and um
Did a big they were like most diehard packer friends when I was doing the old Lindy and Fanta show I spent a game with them watching the Packer game And they saw it and what saints that were prayed to for different things and the watch I pray to see Sebastian
for the first down.
It's the saint of gaming.
Yeah, it's like I didn't know there is 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 a specific.
Yeah.
We would lost things.
Of course, everybody knows that and try and Anthony and
there is no one
Christopher.
There is no one that has come through for me more than St.
Anthony.
Oh, yeah.
I think we're related.
Yeah.
I mean, that's that is a good one.
That is a good one.
Thank you.
Yes.
I
think he's from my Anthony Pizzotti family.
There you go.
But anyway, what I'm saying is I pray for weather like this when we have a regatta.
Are you a kayak race?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, yeah.
What is that?
There's
one coming up
this weekend
because this weekend's not gonna be as great.
It's gonna be like 60 But anyway for ours.
Yes, we'll pray
to say no
wind statement hard statement arts.
No Medard Medard me D.
I gotta
do a little research
on that.
I guess my mom about that one I don't remember praying to him.
No, we got a huge amount of Comments about your little race people really
East Twin Rivers, that's going to be great.
I think there might be some betting going on.
That's
fine.
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,
they are throwing out the, um, uh, restrictions against Pete Rose, Schulitz,
Joe 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
for the Hall of Fame living
None you know what none I mean, it's great for their I mean, I forgot.
I
was gonna say.
Well, Pete right.
That's yeah.
No, 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 and there we'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, right, but they're eligible.
Yeah, 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
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 Well, that's
where Ellen Fried started wasn't it
with some of the radio guys simply great radio thing.
Yeah, but the 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?
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... 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.
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 guy.
He's a great guy.
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
would
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 car, the dealership, the plant place, and then that restaurant.
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
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.
I don't know, but they took his plaque.
That's nice.
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.
Yeah, tragic.
Yeah, it is.
It is never a good time.
But yeah, that's no tougher 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.
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
you just strong your
community, and you 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.
They're starting up too young these days.
They're letting these kids get up in the world way too young.
Oh, 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.
It's just like going to see your doctor, you know, I mean like
the surges that Mark
Houston bring it.
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.
I
mean,
listen, I work with that attitude sometimes.
I was
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
the guy with the kind of beard
Well, there's name.
There's a Luke
Chris.
No, it's Liam something
Leave
oh, uh, no, okay I've had somebody tell me that before
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 no kidding.
Yeah, oh no kidding.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, put it up
not not the most
handsome guy.
No, not at all.
Thanks.
I got this one.
I pray to the saint of hospital comedies, saint elsewhere, Brian or 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 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 juice
out
there.
Yeah.
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 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
weird?
Yeah, even Bill Morgan was at the event the
law
enforcement.
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Partly cloudy today, Per.
Uh, possible showers high in the low seventies.
You know, it's weird.
I was talking to my brother yesterday up in the U.P.
This is the time of year.
You know, I was really wanting 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 and everything were just torrents.
I mean, just so, you know, from the snow melt, right?
It was just unbelievable.
Just like these like whitewater 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 uh 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 that you can't even have a campfire it is so serious I think that is true.
Yeah, 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 North Carolina actually it's California that Somebody slow playing on the little bit.
No, really?
Yeah
Well, 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 Britney's on vacation, right, Todd?
Yeah, she'll be back next week,
but it should be able to hear that whole area where she is and that whole little bit north and to the west of her.
Highest warning I believe they have for fire danger.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's that dry.
Um,
Vicki says happy hump day fellas.
Happy hump day to you Vicki.
Yes.
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 also 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 fry last year.
Well it was GB we went to.
Yeah.
They actually had theirs the other night too.
Yes.
What else going on today?
We got today is dance like a chicken day.
Okay.
Is that the old chicken dance thing?
I'm sure.
I'm guessing something I've never done in my entire life.
Yeah, never will.
I've never been for a wedding where they pulled you out on a dance floor.
I've never danced at a wedding.
No wedding at all now.
With, you know, polka.
How about some slow dances?
Couple maybe, but not at weddings.
Not with your daughters or anything.
That would be it.
Yeah.
Yeah, but not any other kind else.
I've never danced in public.
In my life.
And you know why?
You have that big of a ego that everybody's looking at me on the dance floor.
Just the opposite.
Well then why don't you dance?
Makes guys feel bad.
They can't do it.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
That could lead to fights, it could lead to, hey, I saw you out there bumping and grinding.
I don't want to hear that.
We 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.
I've been married.
How long you been married?
Yeah.
Yeah.
The last people on the floor, like 60 years.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, that's cool.
That's a long time.
Absolutely.
So that's cool.
I bet I'm the only person who's 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 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 my
no
Dancing to this
I can do it.
I can do it.
I got it.
I know I can
even with that artificial hip
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.
Yeah.
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, well, who's this guy?
I go, is it okay if I grab your tripod?
She just kind of looks at me.
I go, artificial lamp.
There you go.
Did she let you?
Oh yeah.
Okay.
I think you're going to ask for help.
Yeah.
Okay.
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?
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.
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 that and then That's harder than you think now.
You've tried it lately John.
We're getting older the twist the twist is a little harder than we're 14 you'll be sore
the
next day.
We won't get up.
You take that tripod out there with you.
Can I continue?
No, so then it goes almost right from that
to disco.
Right?
Yeah.
Do I look like a disco guy?
You do.
I do.
In your polyester suits, he does.
Remember with that hair right at the big afro?
Yeah, you would.
No, that wasn't my thing.
But yeah.
Oh, I had a lot of chicks ask me to dance at the disco.
I'm sure.
Sun devils disco.
I'm sure you do.
Yeah, no,
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.
I've never poked it in my life.
What?
Never.
Okay.
Oktoberfest this year, Jim, we've got to get that
done.
We've got to poke a man.
Just
do you know how to poke a Jim?
Do you want to count to three, Johnny?
One, two, three.
That's all you need.
Thank you.
Mine
on there.
The poke is in two, four, though, isn't it?
A waltz is in three.
Did Jim just get schooled?
That's
not true.
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Welcome back a beautiful beautiful morning out there 54 right now in Green Bay 61 and afton 57 in Oshkosh and I like as I mentioned this kind of day We're gonna have when we have our first annual regatta race between Jim and myself We want a mirror glass like finish hi.
I like
kayak kind of regatta kayak.
I'll cut whatever I want to call it saying that
yeah,
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.
Okay, getting in shape.
We have a ticket giveaway for Festa Italiana, which is coming up the automobile gallery this weekend, which is a phenomenal event.
Brewer's taking on the Guardians getaway day and WSS today.
They are playing terrible.
I mean, yeah, it 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.
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
begged you 16 times since you were like 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 so.
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
what goes into a Mexican coffee shop versus a regular coffee shop?
It's just the different flavoring in it.
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
Would you say that again?
Cafe de olla.
I just want to hear because it sounds really cool how you
say it Yes,
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.
A 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.
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.
And people remember that stuff.
And
that's important.
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 I'm like okay yeah that's fine like advertisement is pretty
big you know they hope you never lose
Who's your assistant?
She's really nice.
Sonia?
Yes, she's amazing.
I
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.
And 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?
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 or you're 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 three leches cakes.
You have what?
Three leches cake.
So it's three different kinds of milks that go into
the cake.
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 strawberry milk.
I thought it was strawberry milk.
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,
that just doesn't sound very good at all.
It actually is really good.
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.
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
new
product.
So that's great.
You're working on that stuff.
I mean, you want something where somebody picks up on the way to work and goes to work.
Just even smell this guy.
What is that?
It's...
That's a tough business, I mean, to make a lot of money, right?
And just 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, our main base is Facebook and Instagram.
And then I am working on making...
the punch cards, so like the loyalty cards.
And honestly, 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.
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
here on this show?
Yes, I'm here.
And the
community has just been really supportive with everything.
I think the guy from the newspaper came in too.
Ariel, I think, is here.
Ariel for them.
Yes, him.
Oh man, he's awesome.
So, I mean, we've had really good support.
He's gonna
try to get you to a Cuban coffee.
A Cuban coffee?
I'm up for the challenge.
Oh, OK.
And
he will put together a Cuban coffee for you.
OK.
Yeah.
I'll definitely try that.
OK.
I'm up for the challenge.
Awesome.
Instead of,
yeah, we're going
to.
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 try it.
We'd like to support new businesses as well.
Absolutely.
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 coffee house.
We're going to change it to that.
Yes, you're Cuban and all this other
stuff.
Right.
Right.
And tell me what you're right.
It's right here on Washington Street, right across from Shriver's headquarters, right next to WGVW.
What hours?
Right next to the market.
Right next
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
work?
Can I be honest with you?
Yes.
It would be awesome if you guys roped it at 6.
at six in the morning.
Yes.
Because there are, 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?
Okay.
Well, that's good then.
But
I
know how hard it is to find help.
Yes.
Get up at
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 think it's always about us?
We got this watered down stuff here.
Wow.
OK, give yourself a plug, then.
We've got two minutes.
Two minutes.
Go ahead.
Advertise yourself right here, right now.
Rise and go
ahead.
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
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 really.
That's
what people do.
Yeah, that's cool come in like
a minute towards closing to get a coffee.
I had someone come in to get an americano at like 8 30 at night, and I'm just like, oh my
goodness.
They might be working all day.
I was going to 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 got the
right attitude.
I'll tell you that.
So
keep smiling.
Yeah,
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
wonderful stuff.
You keep letting us know.
when you have the new things in your
mail.
Right.
I will.
I will bring some more for you guys to try it.
We will
do that.
Justin Flores rise and grind 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.
Quick break.
Back at us.
Hey welcome back to the Mary Here special thanks to Jocelyn Flores for dropping by Ryzen Grind.
How good did that one dessert sound that she makes?
Is it Ryzen Grind or Ryzen Grand?
Grind.
You know, 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 Ryzen Grind, um, and she, what I like about her is if you have a suggestion, I think she's gonna act on it.
I
know, but that
thing with
the strawberries and the cream and the whatever, whatever,
it's like.
That's gonna last 25 years like the Twinkies today.
Yeah, does that sound delicious?
Yeah, wow and even that Mexican coffee she was talking
about.
Yeah Boy, 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
chicory
chicory.
Yep.
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, can't remember his name, 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 God, is that good?
You're having some Louisiana coffee.
Yeah,
there's.
And I'll tell you what, for the rest of it, I could run a marathon.
I could.
Yeah, right.
There's some.
Woo!
Yeah, they got the caffeine 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.
Yeah.
That was pretty cool with that clay.
And she talked about it over the.
real fire.
So I think that's going to be cool to watch that company grow.
And I think if they're going to grow through their unique products, it sure sounds that way.
And you know, I, you know, even as seeing a thing on Facebook, you're 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.
Why are you here?
We don't want you.
It's like, why can't you be welcoming?
And I had that in a store the other day.
I'm never gonna say the story, but I told you that story.
I was so angry when I walked out.
I had to sit in my car and 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 guests.
The
store I went to, it was a technical kind of story.
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 it'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.
What is it?
It's 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
I would love
to run a business
and I'd
have I'd have cameras and his first person I saw do at that boom out the door When you
oh, yeah, yeah, I yeah, I mean it's a training or door Could be a training 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 like our age older
type.
I was that tell you guys.
I think that tells me they shouldn't still be working They thought they could retire and yeah of the world they can't so I had to go back to work.
They're a little mad agree about that sure I would yeah, and I think but that's
but it's not my problem
Can I tell you
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.
When 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.
Yeah, some of them even have all
their fingers.
I'll take four.
Has
anybody ever had a shop teacher that
had all his
fingers?
No,
no.
I did.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
All right.
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 Look at that.
Did you ever try this and I'm like, no, I'll give it a whirl.
But anyway, you know, it's funny You remember things like
that
because I just think the other day at Russo's grocery store Nagani That's where everyone 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, yeah,
those types of people did the cooking.
And she's like, um, the bishop is coming and he likes that lean so sorry.
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
my dad
would be a buster Charlie.
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.
And 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, because he took it on you.
Yeah.
I almost took it back out.
Yeah, I know.
I'm glad you counted to 10.
Yes,
thank
goodness.
He made it to four.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts.
John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mine on the mayor coming to you on a beautiful Wednesday morning out there in Green Bay, Alton and Oshkosh 54 Green Bay 61 and Alton 57 in Oshkosh.
Partly cloudy possible showers today high in the low 70s.
It is dance like a chicken day.
It is buttermilk biscuit day.
Todd, you would know this show.
I don't think Jim ever listened to it, but I used to listen to it.
All
right.
The butternut biscuit show.
Garrison Keeler.
Oh, no butternut.
What was the name?
It was the brought to you by so-and-so brought to you by
yes prairie home companion.
Yeah Remember that Grayson Keeler.
Oh, yeah, things were close for him.
Not great Some things I Used to listen to
that yes, I was a public radio.
Yeah, I did.
I really enjoyed it.
He was here a couple times wasn't he the whitener?
I
don't
There was a bizarre movie made about that about when they were closing down When it was shut because it was right downtown Minneapolis or St.
Paul.
I think in an old church or auditorium or something and But it was just it was kind of cool.
It was you know the small town stories They used to tell them things like that.
I thought that was that was really neat
nice radio like a radio theater
Yeah, I love that stuff.
It was the perfect thing to listen to I remember one time I hit coming back from a like well, there was on I don't know who was list coming back from Chicago
After a packer game type thing and you got that long day and your list It was like one of those cool things to listen to for like about two hours, you know that gets you from like, you know Kenosha to right wherever
back here
I love when you can find those kinds of things Got another thing here a new coffee and juice concept Johnny's Java and juice from Michael.
Thank you Michael.
Good one.
I like
that work
I like that a lot.
I think they have a liquor license
I'm not I'm not into that anymore
I'm not into that all
right.
I just
not into that
anymore.
I'm
coming up with so many great I am coming up with so many good shakes You can't even believe it.
I mean you can't believe how many good shakes I'm coming up with
these guys that sample that you're bringing in yesterday I'm
gonna do
that today you get that did you get in that Todd cuz I didn't know you know why
don't you know you didn't I agree you know why
Why is that?
I'm be honest with you.
I don't mean to my blender so gross I threw it out
Oh my gosh.
Okay, let's just move on.
How you let something like that... I'd like to see the rest of this.
I wouldn't want to see the rest of this house.
But your blender was not washed for weeks and just got so corroded that you couldn't even use it to get it thrown out.
You know, I would... It'd be... All
it takes is, you know, rinse that thing out.
Hot
water.
I tried
that.
No, no, no.
He tried it, but that was after weeks of ignoring it.
So that is too late.
You gotta get the chisel out.
I
tried chiseling it
out.
I did.
You know who we should pray to?
St.
Julie, his wife.
That's who we should be praying
to.
Yeah.
With the lost souls.
Yeah.
Wow.
So it's a funny thing.
So I think Lyra McCarrison how many people think we're all the great things.
Mine or those are people he's gonna eventually go straight to heaven.
How many people think Julie's going straight to Sate Hood?
So did you go buy one?
Not yet.
Okay.
They're not that expensive, but still they're
They're not disposable either.
I mean, you know, it's not because I just land that's gonna get land-filled
You know, okay, so you know what?
You know what the bad part is I buy one of those little ninjas.
Yeah, those are they don't make much, but yeah Yeah,
so if you okay,
so that's just that it's like these This coffee that we drink you those curators just for individuals right that that's exactly
exactly 100% correct.
Yeah, so the problem is think about this
I got
one you got to reuse that like three or four times more than the big ones yep
So that's what it's like.
Do you clean it after every single little cup of?
Yes.
Nobody does that.
So anyway, that's why you're... Do
you wash out glasses after you use them?
I use all plastic.
Oh, good.
You're not much for the environment, are you?
I'm 100% for the environment.
What?
I'm a
big
environment.
Oh,
you use plastic
that you wash.
You don't use plastic disposable.
When you're telling me when you say you use plastic glasses in your house, which is weird.
I'm nobody does that red solo cups Those red cups that was you use
of course doesn't everybody I'll do a quick
picnic the only yeah, I only use it for like a summer kind of thing or whatever You
come over to my place summer lemonade at the band concert I would probably I would look at that.
Yeah, but not ever in the house cheese plastic like
Silver work nights at silver because it's plastic utensils plastic
where
yes
Do you reuse them sometimes?
Because sometimes they don't get that much on them.
Yeah, do you rinse them off?
Yeah.
Yeah, or wipe them off.
Um, I use paper plates and he was paper bowls Really?
Yeah, it's all recyclable
Yeah, it's cheaper to bike.
Why don't you just go to the?
You need a hospice to resale storm by four plates and four cups and four glasses.
I
hate washing anything then they're laying around and they're doing whatever
dishwasher.
Yeah Takes forever though, and it's loud and it's like
Put it on when you go to bed.
No, so
I mean, what's wrong with that?
Not hurting anybody, but
I think you are the I don't say the only one because then you'll do a poll less than 5% of the people use plastic in their house
disagree
Todd
okay, you don't want to do a poll.
That's why you don't want to lose What what were the numbers that you gave Jim?
I think less than 5% of people use plastic wear plastic cups plat paper dishes Regularly in their home.
I think 95% of the people use You know the stuff that every not
people who part of the time live alone Okay, I'm like half and half or whatever.
So tonight in this half.
That's when I do
it.
No, I don't think
If you eat more than once a day in your house, you got to use glass.
I
would do that.
I would use glass and
normal type
things.
I would be happy to use that if somebody else was washing this
stuff.
Oh, so that's where it is.
Yeah.
See, I'm
environmentalist.
I don't want to have to use up so much water.
I, yeah.
I think 95% maybe just a little high and I'll say why.
Cause like
last
night, like I had some, some Mexican like tacos, right?
I just grabbed a paper plate.
It
was just easier for that.
Absolutely.
But I don't do that all the time.
I have plates and dinnerware and all that kind of stuff that I use, you know, most of the time, but occasionally I'll use.
So I would say a good bet would be at least 75 to 80% of people typically use
Actual plates and dinnerware silverware
in general if they're having a regular meal But if somebody's just great, you know, you make yourself you make yourself like when I make
a butter and bologna
chili
chili Just meatloaf sandwiches I had last night.
No glass cloth napkin silverware.
What yeah, that's a that's a little for me.
I would way over why the
people I think
who
does the dishes?
It goes in the dishwasher and
see that's what I mean
that we wash it.
Yeah, we run it at night Just being on I just we have a whole drawer of napkins that paper stuff.
It's your claws
napkins
now every day Yeah,
you you so you wash napkins in the dishwasher.
I mean in the
laundry thing.
Yeah goes down laundry shoot Yeah, just yeah
why not why not just use
paper paper towel I?
Because I think sometimes it sticks to your finger
You know,
well if you're eating ribs or something, right?
Maybe I
can see that and it's not as wow
Paper capital of the world where paper towels are made and Jim's okay if you guys lose your jobs because he's using linens
I have paper towels there to clean stuff up, but Okay, I don't know I I think a lot of people use maybe not people use linens as much, but we just we just always have that they're not that expensive and
I don't know if we have a lot of those.
It's just so
weird.
There's
Jim over here, right?
Cloth napkins and dinnerware.
John's over here eating, you know, out of a dirty blender.
And
then I'm
kind of in the middle.
I'm like the reasonable.
You are, you are, you are.
Yeah.
But
yeah, I'll just.
Yeah, I would not switch.
You see, I would not.
Here's what I would not switch.
I would not like change the paper because of the time or because of the meal.
I would just always use.
No, glass.
All right, well, I guess.
I just, in glass cups, yeah.
But then
you get them laying around, they're on the counter, they're in the sink, they're in the yada, yada, yada.
I love using something and throwing it right in the thing.
Does it get thrown out?
That's the next question.
If I went up there right now, what would that place look like?
Good.
What would it smell like?
Give me a minute.
My little comes back tomorrow.
Anyway, I'm just saying
oh, we just got a text Mike says Todd is definitely the reasonable one.
Thank you Mike right in the middle.
Yeah Happy birthday.
Oh first of all, you know what else it is saying this something we got to talk about is receptionist today.
Yes
receptionist day again same same as where we're sick the customer service welcome
that can change your
entire Mental oh look in a building in a business by how that receptionist greets you.
Oh,
yeah, I'm
Look, I'm no argument here.
That person at the front desk, absolutely critical.
The best receptionist that I can remember her name was the one at AMS.
Did you go out there to see Wally and those guys?
Not really, to be honest with you.
Everybody knew her.
Always super friendly, always acted like she knew you.
You know, maybe she didn't.
She was great, but receptionist, that's really, really important.
You
also had some nice people at the mayor's
office when you stood up
there.
They were always super friendly.
He
better be.
Yeah, it was, but.
It's not that hard.
No to be friendly.
It's a smile or to call him by their first name.
It's that didn't cost anymore, but they got to love their job too.
I think I want to go back to these two people that we ran into this weekend that weren't very nice to us.
I just don't think they were happy there.
I think I do.
I think it's Social Security was running out and their spouse said, look, we got to make an extra 700 bucks a month go work part time over there.
Whereas if they want to take somebody that said, look, I love technology or I love hardware, those would be great employees.
Yeah,
I
agree.
But I don't think that was the interview question.
It was like, can you, can you work these hours?
So
got texture Bonnie at AMS was great.
Uh-huh.
That is
her name.
She was the best.
And she was there for years.
And, um, wow, that's great that she remembered that.
Who said that?
Sarah.
Sarah.
Thanks for that.
Sarah is unbelievable.
Bonnie was, that's her name.
Uh, my favorite receptionist in
Texas people, national receptionist name, Texas.
Somebody that needs deserves a shout out.
Please do sex is a good one receptionist that deserves a shout out.
Yeah, I know a couple that don't deserve a
shot.
We
were talking about that, but yeah Do I know them?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah You know, I tell you another place where I'm not kidding you guys.
I just I'm thinking no, I want to give a shout out I don't know her name, but you won't believe the The agent
haha, I just text it.
Yeah.
Yeah, totally agree.
Okay.
You
wouldn't know her but yeah Yeah, you would never mind.
Okay
You know, who's got a good receptionist?
You're not gonna believe this.
The DMV.
I swear to God, I went
there.
I would go back, you know what?
Every time
I've gone to, I mean, three times in
five years.
We had to
get that
stamp for you.
It was just super nice.
And she's like, look, how can I help you?
And I'm like, this, I want to get that upgrade.
Oh yeah.
That was, I did that during COVID, so it was a long time ago.
Oh, maybe I've got it.
But that's been.
15 years in the making.
It's about time.
We have to put that star on your license.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I went there and they were just super, I was like, this is awesome.
I was expecting, you know, you set your clock to the DMV.
It's like, I'm gonna be here for three hours.
And so I don't know who it was, but I don't know if she's still there, but she was great.
Yeah.
So I wanna, look, I know nobody likes the DMV.
I love them.
I thought they were great.
I think they get a bad rap.
They do get a bad rap.
That's what I've got.
Yeah.
I gotta ask a quick question.
So when I go to a restaurant,
Okay.
I never drink the water.
You know, I don't like regular water.
Right.
I can't drink.
It's bizarre.
I'm the only person that doesn't like water.
Okay.
But I love it flavored.
Yep.
So could I walk into a restaurant?
Because instead of spending that extra few bucks for that Diet Coke or whatever, can I bring in like my little tang flavored things into a restaurant and just drink their water but use my own tang in it?
I would say it depends on the restaurant you went into.
If you went into like
I don't know you can't bring in your own it's like ordering and putting in a shot of whiskey or something I don't know I don't think they'd like that I don't know
but it's not but here's the deal it's not something they sell you know what I mean so it's not like well you sell Tang but I'm gonna bring in my own Tang somebody help us out that runs a restaurant let us know
would you let people do that
yeah
that's a good question I don't know
shout out to receptors give us some names
I'd be too embarrassed to do that but I would
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Right now, 54 in Green Bay, 61 in Apton, 57 in Oshkosh.
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Brewers taking on the Cleveland Guardians.
Brewers needing to get something going, man.
Shut out two games in a row, three hits again yesterday, and just, just can't get anything going.
But you know what?
We're gonna talk, we're gonna switch sports here.
We're gonna talk about the NFL draft, of course.
I know that's long gone, but we wanna talk about somebody, not on the periphery.
Somebody that was literally in the war room for 21 years during the NFL draft of the Green Bay.
Packers, former executive assistant to the general manager of the Green Bay football Packers, Jeannie Brouette.
Jeannie, it is so great to see you.
How are you?
I'm good, John.
And Jim, it's so great to see you both also.
Thanks for hearing.
Thank you.
She got a chance to actually see you guys in action because she was watching from in here.
Oh, and?
And she understands who you both are now.
I mean, she said they're so different.
And I said, yes, but so much
alike.
female in the draft room 21 years you know today's kind of receptionist day but executive assistant day is like a big day to it Ron could have done it without you a lot of us couldn't have Yeah, we are without you.
Do you do you miss that?
I mean that must have been one of the best jobs in Green Bay.
I really miss the people I miss the general managers who I was privileged to work for Ron the very first one and I learned
everything about football operations.
I'm a only girl with four brothers.
I love sports, but I never had a clue as to what was involved in football operations and the business of football.
And when I started working for him, he was my
He was my instructor.
He taught me about the waiver transactions.
We had a player personnel handbook that was basically when you had to sign a player, how you had to, what you did with an injured player, how you put a player on PUP, player, you know, all of those things.
There were certain requirements and ways to do it.
And so I basically, you know, he'd come in one morning and be, oh, we're going to do a trade deep.
we're gonna do a trade.
And for, then we could do trades for past considerations, which, you know, Ron loved that because he was always checking the waiver wire, always ready to trade, ready to improve the team.
And so basically I learned all of that from Ron.
And it, his personality and mine, after maybe even being there all week,
It's something that fit like a glove.
Can you say one thing that
Ron did that got everybody said Ron did something that no one had done before and this was so effective as far as you talk about different management styles.
What Ron would do after a bad game where some position didn't play well.
For the next day, you'd have about four or five guys that played that position for trials.
Wouldn't you, Jeannie?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It was competition.
And it's a tough business.
I also did the player insurance.
So during training camp, I had to hand out the packets and give a little, you know,
format as far as what was involved in insurance.
But I always spoke to the players and I said, I really understand you are in a challenging career and it's based on your performance.
And I said, but as a person here working and I said, I hope that all of you would find success in your life.
And it was great.
I remember a young man who had come and he was
about four or five on the depth chart, but he just worked hard and by about the third year he was up, you know, playing and, and I just told him I was really proud of him for all of his hard work.
But it was, it's great to have the personal interaction with
players.
With that though, it's tough when they get cut too.
You know, I mean,
for that man for you, if you're
like
that, and not that you were a motherly figure, but that you really, you know, there's just a lot of.
aggressive men in that
room and you're one
of the more
compassionate.
Ted Thompson, he hated it.
Roster cut down, we hated it.
And I think maybe even more so than Ron because he was a player too.
So he understood all of it and oh you just, it just tore him up.
because he always wanted every young man who came through that door to succeed.
You
know what, people don't realize though, Jeanie, and okay, you were so gracious with Ted when you gave me the box to bring up all the veterans and everything like that for so many years, but he would only miss one in all those years, in all those years, all those years, there's only been one time.
when he ever missed coming up and shaking the hands and taking pictures with all the veterans.
Okay.
And it was week for their final cut down because he was so thorough, he would be, he would be watching guys face to face for the final decisions.
Isn't that true,
Jeannie?
So you.
With all this insight and knowledge, I bet the press kind of wanted you to be a
source.
He wanted to know who called in.
I had a phone sheet.
And if he was at practice, we had the date, the time they called and who they were.
And so I dealt with the media often.
And many of them became very good friends.
They were really good to deal with, really good people.
And so... Like
national media too, you're
talking about, yeah.
National media too, absolutely.
And so...
He'd take the phone sheet when he come back and he'd answer every one of those calls and It was it was it was fun.
I got to know these guys and you know, they would just I don't know they might just say, you know, oh, you know what?
You know what's going on?
Well, I'd say yes, you know, it's Always something going on around here.
I said but you'll you'll have to talk to Ron about that.
Yeah, yeah Well, especially that office when I started
I told you it was a unique situation.
I came in and started helping him before I was actually... Ron Wolf?
Yes, Ron Wolf before I was actually hired.
And I came in and the files needed to be, you know, changed.
And I just went and I said, I know everything's confidential, but do you want me to go ahead and do this?
Yes, go ahead and do it.
But it would only work if I was a confidential person.
Right.
You
know, you had to have trust, and you had to believe in that person.
Well,
Jeannie,
hang around, because we got a lot more to talk about.
Jeannie Brutt, former executive assistant to the general manager of the Green Bay Packers, Ron Wolf from the start, Ted Thompson, and she's going to spill all the secrets of what happened behind closed doors during her entire time with the Green Bay Packers.
Right, Jeannie?
Name and names, dates, the whole thing.
Back after this.
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Well, this is kind of interesting because we've had Jeannie on the show before, right?
We had her on the phone, all that good stuff.
And a couple of weeks ago, our intern here, Ryan's like, Hey, I just I ran into somebody at work.
And so he was working at his at his at his job and this very nice couple walk in and they started up a conversation it turns out to be Jeannie and through him Gets her booked on the show.
There you go.
Isn't that nice?
Yeah, thanks,
Ryan.
Well, he's a great young man.
Yeah,
we agree and he Isn't that nice you're nice to people with that can lead to?
You're listening on the way in we're to its national receptionist day and we're talking about that
The attitude of that receptionist can change your entire outlook from the time you got it your car or whatever and what and you're you know I'm looking forward and it can change So drastically one way or the other from the way you're greeted isn't that true?
And I know you got I remember Linda back in the days and you know somebody was always there with a big smile That was important for you guys with the Green Bay Packers wasn't it
and that's where I started with the pack
I know
yeah
on the switchboard and I loved it.
I'll never forget one day that the training camp was canceled because of rain.
And the people started flooding in the door.
There are about 40 people just pouring in.
And I'm trying to answer the phone and trying to deal with them.
And Carol Edwin, who was in
the ticket
office, and she had started there too.
So she comes out, she said, Jeannie, I'll help you.
So I just said, people, I want to help all of you.
Carol's here to help.
If you just get in line one at a time and our patient will be sure and help you.
with whatever question you have.
And we just, you know, one at a time or we just an answer the phone.
And I looked over and, and, uh, John, um, with the quarter, he became the quarterback coach for Tampa that Jerry, what was his name?
Um,
Oh, I don't know.
I'm trying to,
he was the, he was the first he started out in, uh,
John Gruden and quality control.
So
he's in
the back.
He
used to ride his bike to work.
I remember that.
And he's standing there and I turned around finding it.
John, can I help you?
No, no, no, just wait.
So after maybe 20, 25 minutes, everybody was, and he comes over and he says, that was incredible.
So that's, I know, they work hard, but it's really important.
Same way on the phone, it's really important to have good.
First
impression.
Oh my gosh, yes.
Well, let's talk draft while you were in the war room for so many years.
Give us a little behind the scenes.
What's that like?
Well, I tell you with Ron, and it was before we had a wonderful email and all the wonderful systems, we were phone connected.
Right.
And it was slow.
and it was just cumbersome.
And for Ron, I would answer the phones and send them into the key guys in the draft room.
There are four guys that would answer the phone to help in order to talk, trade or whatever.
Ron was the final say
on what
they were going to do.
But I also had to...
type up the trade agreement when it's takes place.
So here he comes out, we're ready for a pick and he comes out, he's all excited and he says, we're gonna do a trade, we're gonna do a trade.
I said, okay, okay.
So he, Green Bay Packers trade, such and such.
And the team that we're trading, you will put Cleveland Brown's trade.
So I'm typing away and then I'm looking at that cursor and it's just,
moving so slowly, I don't know whether I've made a mistake or whether what's going on.
And Ron was like a kid in a candy shop on draft day.
He loved it.
And that really helped to take the pressure off.
And he would invite the executive board, whoever wanted to come in, could just sit and watch.
Now when Ted came along, Ted was not quite as comfortable with that.
He was much more serious.
When Ted came on, I kept, it was called the draft pick sheet.
And by now we've got all the good computer things and things can move much quicker and you do it email.
But you had all the numbers of the players, you had the draft around and the position.
And so when there was a trade by anybody, I had to change that in the draft pick sheet, print off about 14 copies and get them into the draft room.
I sat in the office right outside the draft door.
Well, I forgot where we were on the clock at one point in time.
So I walk in the draft room and Ted's at our draft board and I'm ready to pass the sheets out and Ted looks at me with that stair that
look that Ted happened to have, and he says, Gene, now is not a good time, because we were on the clock.
So I quietly walked out and waited and watched on the television when they were done, and I went back in, and John Dorsey was there, and I'm handing around, he says, don't worry about it, Gene, don't worry about it.
I said, I understand, I just came in at the wrong
time.
You see with Ron, it was not not relaxed isn't the right word, but he enjoyed it.
Yeah, that's what
he enjoyed.
That was his Super Bowl.
Is that wasn't it
though, Janie?
But I'm just thinking like someone like Ted was it?
It must be high stress.
Is it kind of like that money ball, that baseball thing where you have one guy in one line, one guy in the other line trading back and forth?
Well, you have, Danny Mock was always in the draft room with the headset.
We had two reps at New York City.
No.
Al Tremble.
Well, after Al, after Al, it was Brian Neering and Chris Kirby.
Brian from equipment
and Chris
from, you know, video.
And so he was always connected.
So he knew exactly what was called.
And so that in the room, they knew that exactly what was called.
And it is high pressure and especially me with trades.
And then I would call a team we traded.
Do you want, I can do the trade agreement papers if you want to.
Cause when it's all done a Monday morning, you've got to FedEx those hard copies to the teams and get those out.
I say it can be a flurry of activity in a matter of maybe one hour, and after that,
you maybe
sit for a while.
Was there any, do you remember any big arguments, discussions, or with Ron and Ted, two guys who they carry the big stick, wasn't there much pushback from agents, or not agents, excuse me, from coaches and scouts and things like that?
When you read the Packerway, Ron's first book, he had a way of...
They went through all of that three weeks before the draft.
Our scouts come back and they have their meetings and set up the board and the picks.
They bring in the coaches for whatever position, sit and talk, watch film.
They give their input on who they feel that would be the right one.
So when you get to draft day, and Ron always said, I don't like it called the war room because we don't have a war.
He said, there's other people that work differently and they do.
No, because they're so prepared and everyone has gone through and discussed it that when it comes to that day and whoever's in that room then with the scouts, they might just say, well, you know, what do you think or whatever?
But Ted and Ron, then they had the final.
final say, because they have their number one player up on the board.
If that gets picked, they go to the next guy.
I mean, that is legit.
I mean, they would just take one off the line.
Absolutely.
And there's the guy that they, and they stay true.
Now, when Aaron Rodgers kept, it kept falling.
And it's interesting because Aaron was our number one guy.
Not the one who was picked, number one.
They felt all along that Aaron Rodgers was
the better quarterback.
Okay, on the entire draft board was Aaron Rodgers or
number one player.
I never knew that.
Why?
Okay, but if that's case.
I never knew that.
Did they, were they confident he was going to be around?
Tell them why they didn't pick him when they, okay.
Well, because they're picking 23rd, I
mean.
We're picking
23rd, so they had to wait.
And he was gonna, he was, he was, it was 50-50 in like Las Vegas.
If he was going to be the number one player taken, or Alex Smith in the entire draft.
So I mean,
sir Sanders, his drop, okay, whatever, whatever.
But Aaron Rodgers was.
Consider the number one pick in the entire draft
that must have been exciting
when
it
was because when I was taking the draft pick sheet in With other teams are trying and they're going and I remember John Dorsey looking at me
He's still there.
He's still
there.
I mean, they were so excited.
And, you know, that's, but that's, that's how
it works.
How did you like making some of those?
Did you do the arrangements then after the, Hey, welcome to Green Bay Packers.
Would you be that person that talked to them?
No,
no, because they, you know, they call and they've got a whole.
team of people because I had enough to do that day.
I'm
glad I didn't have to do any more of that.
But I would get to see them when they'd come in and bring them in for the big visit and the media.
I'm sure people have asked, but 21 years, that's a long time.
It just is to do something.
Best memory highlight.
I mean he dealt with so many great people.
Yeah, and now you speak very very highly of Ron Wolfe.
Yeah,
absolutely.
Maybe it was a day that gave you that ring you get on your hand.
Well, I've got two of
them.
I've got two of them.
It's
such
a privilege.
And we never talk about the third of that Super Bowl that we lost.
We just don't talk about it.
Yeah, neither do
we.
And no, it's just a sad thing.
But Coach Holmgren was a storyteller.
He'd come in and if Ron was on the phone, he'd
lean back against the credenza and he'd start telling me stories about
coach
Holmgren.
Yeah, about 49ers.
Well, he didn't show that side very
often.
Oh, I was fortunate.
I always say I was fortunate.
I worked for the GM.
And these were the early years, but even the latter, he always treated me with such respect.
And Mike Sherman was a very good man and a very good coach.
And, you know, it just
I could never see one man doing two jobs, never.
It just is impossible.
But when he left, it was, oh, I'm thinking about the time that I didn't know who I was gonna be working for when I retired.
This is the thing about football.
They never tell me, I'd find out the last minute.
And you're hearing, they're interviewing people.
And so I come in on a Monday morning,
And here on my desk is an itinerary.
Mark Hatley meets.
with coaching staff and nine o'clock Mark Hatley meets with Jeannie Bruett.
And tell everybody who Mark Hatley was.
Mark
Hatley was with the Chicago Bears.
And Mike Sherman hired him as the vice president of football operations, who would be my boss.
And I go, oh, I guess I'm not fired.
I guess they
still want
me to stay and he's my boss.
I mean, you hate to say it, but professional sports like that, it truly is day to day.
Oh, it really is.
And then when Ted was going to come,
And I thought, well, you know, Autumn worked for Ted when I was working for Ron.
All of us, I get a call from Bob Harlan.
Gene, Ted's going to be coming in tomorrow morning.
And I just want to make sure you get his office ready and everything's straightened up.
And I said, well, good.
So I found out that way.
Oh, I guess I'm still working
here.
Isn't that
something?
Yeah.
Management-wise, Genie.
And Jim is huge into this.
He teaches classes on everything, management style and different things.
What did you take away from all the different?
And I will say this, you talked about the Mike Sherman who did things a little bit differently.
You still take away something from everybody.
In summary, with all these strong personalities that you've dealt with, what did you take away about a great management style?
Yes, I would say number one, because Ron was a scout, I think he had a fifth sense about a person's characteristics.
He could see people.
And I think a great manager a great great manager sees the qualities and people that knows they know that it will work And they don't put up with failure So they're not gonna hire someone that they know would fail Number two Ron always when he know he let me do my job.
He gave me that freedom
to do it within the style I had.
Another thing was he listened.
He listened to my feedback.
He listened to what I felt.
If I saw situations that I thought, you know, Ron, you know, think about this.
Or, you know, he wanted to do things in a different way.
And I said, well, just think about this.
You know, you want to, he was like a bull in a china shop sometimes.
And I think I just, well,
at his
induction,
He talked about me and he said she was my sounding board.
I felt that that was really very Trustworthy
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We got Jeannie Brouette here, former executive assistant to Ron Wolf and Ted Thompson.
We're just telling some stories behind the scenes a little bit, but just about the personalities of the people.
I always find that, because you know, a guy can be in his role when he's on camera and everything.
I'm always so much more interested in the real person because that anybody can fake it sort of.
I love hearing stories where they're good people behind the scenes.
I have a great story about Ted Thompson.
We call it the summer of farve with all of the...
He wanted to play, he wasn't gonna play, he was gonna go play here, go play there, and finally the commissioner sent him back to Green Bay.
But during that training camp, my mailbox was stuffed with letters.
The phone was ringing off the hook.
They even set up a fan mail line for people to call and complain or say, good job, Ted, or whatever.
So I would open the letters.
I had this format.
I had started with Ron Wolf.
I had certain forms and I would type up a letter on the letterhead and get it on Ron or Ted's desk.
They'd read it and if anything wanted to be changed, they'd cross it out or they'd sign it if it was good.
Well, I was walking in every day with a stack of mail and I had one pile that had a postie note.
Ted, please read these because they were for the decision that the organization was making and good letters.
The next pile, they weren't exactly for it, but it was well written.
And so about the third day, I'm walking him with a pile of letters and I set it down and I turn around and Ted says, Gene, just a minute.
He said, are those all the letters?
And I said, no, Ted, they're not.
And those you're not gonna see, they're in the shredder.
You did that, huh?
I mean, just threw them away.
But I remember Mark Murphy coming down too and saying, how's Ted doing?
How's Ted doing?
And I said, Mark, Ted is steady as she goes.
He is just, he's a steady man.
He's just gonna take things one at a time.
Never upset, never just, never getting his people upset.
And that's how Ted was.
Just hardworking, steady as she goes.
Well, he was a
hard worker.
He was.
Well, that
was his life.
That's all he did, right?
Did he golf?
Did he fish?
No, I think that was just, I think that was it.
No, it was football.
It was his life.
That's,
even when he was just,
He was single too, right?
Did
he just put his whole life in the football?
I just thought that was like
crazy.
Which is great.
I gotta believe with that position and you know, community owned that people may say things that, you know.
And did they, that hurt a little bit,
you know?
And you
said they,
Ted, you didn't show those two, did
you?
No.
Now, the phone, if people ask for the GM, it came through my line.
So I got all the irate.
I even kept, I kept a file, irate fans of letters just for myself personally.
And after everything came to be, and Aaron was such a success, we actually got a couple letters from people saying I was wrong.
Even had a guy call and say, and I said, that's great, because you don't get that.
The phone was interesting, and when Ted had started, I got a call one day, and he had his first press conference, and I answered, good morning, Greenby Packers, Jeannie speaking.
What's up with Ted Thompson?
And I just kind of said, excuse me, I said, you have to give me a little bit more than that.
Well, you know, I watched him on the press conference, and those eyes, and he was just staring, and I said, well, ma'am, I said, you know what?
They didn't hire Ted to be the public relations person.
I worked with Ted for nine years when he worked for Ron Wolf.
And he went to Seattle.
He built a big team.
He did very well.
Believe me, you can trust Ted Thompson.
He knows how to build a team.
He's gonna be a great GM.
And you know, this public relations stuff, give him time.
He's gonna do better.
I said, but, you know, but just give him time.
You can trust.
Oh, okay.
Thank you.
You know, or, but I learned you don't put oil to the fire.
People would call in, my worst years were when Ray Rhodes was the coach.
And every Monday morning,
and
Ron said, one and done, we're moving on.
And that was a good thing about Ron.
He would admit his mistakes, he would live up to them and he would make changes.
But that phone mail was filled and every one of them were from Philadelphia fans.
M-F-N and you know I just delete delete but if someone would call I'd say please stop swearing at me just give me a minute just tell me what's going on you don't have to swear but if you keep swearing I'm gonna hang up on you and if they did
But they talk about good management and to make a decision when it needs you keep a bad employee for a long time It just brings the whole place
down.
I'll give him a lot of credit
like Johnny just said for pulling the trigger
But he had to do it.
Yes, and I see this all the time I've talked to someone this week about working with an employee and the management is just
putting up with it, but I just, I can't see that.
And this is where the strengths, there has to be the strengths there of handling situations, because you're not fair to the other employees.
Oh no, you protect a bad
employee.
That is a bad, bad thing.
Everybody has problems.
It
does.
Jeannie, we got two minutes left to go.
A couple last quick questions for you.
Number one, of all the people you worked with, the Green Bay Packers, number one, who would you love to just, I don't know if you drink or not, but you'd like to have a beer with type thing, as we always say, and who would you not want to cross?
Well, I tell you Ron I get to have lunch with it's it's so great.
It's such a pleasure to do that with him and I can't say that there's anyone that I Would have a hard time with my cradle at work was treating people the way I would want to be treated.
Oh I could go back and I could it was a player's wife.
Oh
And I'm very glad that I didn't have to, boy, she was so entitled and it was, I would never mention the name, but she called, I was just starting on the switchboard and she called one day and she said, I wanna, I wanna get into the locker room.
I need to see my husband.
I said, I'm sorry, that's not gonna happen.
I'm sorry that you can't.
Well, who are you to tell me that, you know, I'm gonna, you know, uh, no.
But so I tell
you,
that was from
outside though.
I mean, the people you work with are always great.
You know, I can see why.
You got along with everybody because you do have that right personality.
Well,
you are great.
You're great.
It's a gift.
And my dad raised me so well.
I always, there are times I'd be in the office.
And I would say thank you, daddy.
And my husband is just really helpful.
Jeannie Brouette, you're
awesome.
Wonderful, wonderful having you here.
We're going to get you back again.
Quick break, back with John Kramer, headlines.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Mino and
Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Man with a special treat, having Jeannie Brouette, former executive assistant to Ron Wolfe and Ted Thompson in the house.
I could listen to her all day and she's like really nice.
And now we got John Kramer from The Press Times here, so a little 180 real quick.
Well, I'm just waiting for you to say something stupid.
Wow, would I do
that?
It's only a matter of
time.
I already apologized for making a mess in front of you on my desk.
What's going on over there?
I don't know.
He's a jotties of masks.
We're going to have ants in here.
So, Rick, if you're not aware, I just sit back and wait for him to say stuff and crack jokes.
Yeah, it's pretty much
our whole companionship has always been like that.
Introduce are very special.
Guess I'm so excited about having these two people here.
You introduce them.
You seem to know them better than I do.
Well, you
introduce Rick.
I just met Barb.
Well, everyone knows Rick.
Tell
him who he
is, what he does, John.
I'll tell you what he does.
I'm surprised you never ran for office.
Good morning, everybody.
You know what?
Funny you say that, I've been asked
and
I just don't want anything to do with that.
Everybody loves you though.
I mean you my email address is the mayor of GB.
You and I discussed this years ago.
Yeah, we did.
Well, you're not gonna get the license plate.
He's got that one.
As long as I can get a ticket validated
once in a while.
Good luck with that.
How are you
doing?
Rick, I'm doing great.
I had a new replacement back in at the end of December and that's on the comeback trail.
Otherwise, all good.
My kid's doing great.
She's in college.
She's just finishing up her second year in nursing school in Oshkosh and killing it.
Yeah.
And so people listening, you know, big mouth in the power tools.
I don't know when you started.
I should know
this.
Oh gosh, I think we're going into about our 38th year, maybe 39th.
Really?
Yeah, I had
no idea.
We're like the stones without all that wealth baggage.
Well,
yeah.
And just how many shows do you do?
Know you play all over but you do a lot right here.
We do a lot
here.
We do we're the darlings of Dorr County
Are you
play up there a ton at the Alpine and in sister Bay at L. Johnson's Stubber
Yeah, oh, yeah,
it's it's really
cool.
Is that little bar outside of L. Johnson?
It's awesome And and I would highly suggest the Stockholm cooler, but be careful.
It is
type of beer.
Well, no, it's it's a summer Hummer
with a twist of lingonberry juice on top.
Okay.
With some kind of Swedish vodka.
Yeah, it'll, it'll,
yeah.
You don't need too many of those.
No, two.
I might have to run up there just for
that.
Oh, they're fantastic.
They're fantastic.
And we're with Barb Conniff, a longtime friend of mine.
Yes.
Reporter Extraordinary TV circles here.
Oh, you're making me blush.
And in fact, most people are not even old enough to remember.
Really?
I am.
Oh, man, you were one of the hard
chargers.
You were one of the first hard chargers in the local TV business
as a reporter.
You're very kind.
You're very kind.
For the uninitiated, that was like 1987 to 1992.
I don't care when it was.
I just
remember you, man.
You were the person to
go to.
And you were fun.
You were my sports guru.
We had a good time
back in those
days.
We did.
Those were the days.
Yeah.
But isn't that something how?
You haven't aged and look at Johnny.
He hasn't aged either.
In fact, there was a gentleman who walked out that I thought was John, because I'm like, certainly he must be gray.
And I said, hi, you're looking younger every year.
And he goes, no, I'm not John.
But I'll take that compliment with me all day long.
And we have
to tackle something else with you.
That's right.
Your former husband who was a dear friend of mine and was one of the first and Ricky you could back this up.
I think I think what heroes did is it really started live music in Green Bay in smaller venues or but it's like but it's not just you know a garage band some kids who want to play in front of people like good really popular bands came to that place and your your husband Pat was legendary.
But once you agree, Barb, that that was huge for the music industry around here?
Yes, you know, over the years, and I've been in Green Bay since 1987 when I came to work at what is now Fox 11, I've seen music scenes ebb and flow, you know, and at the time that Pat and I met, which was shortly after I moved here, he had a vision of opening a place where he could have local bands come and showcase their talents and entertain.
people, entertain the people.
And I remember the exact morning the hero's idea was born, there was on the news a story of a fire next to of a bar that was next to 401 South Washington, which was then known as Jocos and was for sale.
So right here basically.
So anyway, he had been looking at that place and then the place next door burned down and he said, now there's parking.
I'm going to start negotiating.
How did it
burn down?
We know nothing.
Truly, it was a coincidence, but that's what got it started.
He went in and with friends over the years, he kept improving it.
You know, he wanted to, at first it didn't have a stage and it had this little false rock wall up front in the bands.
Do you remember that, Rick?
Ricky was not only big mouth.
He's played with some other bins.
What were the other ones in those early
days?
We did a three-piece thing called Los Desperados.
We did the Hooligans.
We did a Sunday after the Packer game thing.
It was kind of a
Well, we took the name from the new Christie minstrels, but we called ourselves the new crusty nostrils.
I love that.
Yeah.
So,
um, but, uh, but yeah.
So I, I played in, in several different factions over the years and, and that was, uh, the place was amazing.
Pat did a great job.
He knew his business.
He knew music.
He, he, he appreciated it as much as anybody I've ever met.
And, and he was able to pull in.
some pretty talented groups.
I mean, he used to bring in Duke Tomato and the Power Trio from Indianapolis.
You know, fantastic.
So it wasn't just, oh, wow, a downtown Green Bay bar is going to have music.
It's going to bring eclectic music.
Right.
And it was one of the first kind of, like, jazz groups.
That would be a place they could, because most of Green Bay would have been country and western and back in the day
or whatever.
Right.
And
he, or boy, yeah.
But he went on to that limb, didn't he, Barb?
Yeah.
He had a vision for doing blues music.
In fact, when we first met each other, that was kind of what bonded us.
I remember the night we met, it was through People at Chance.
11.
Dave and Tony and Dwayne were celebrating their birthday on April 14th and let's go to this place called Connie's, you know, after we got off work on the evening shift.
Can I just throw out one thing?
I think you're probably missing somebody.
Mark Rebesky?
Was that his birthday too?
No, but he always wanted me to come to
Connie's
all the time.
That was
their place.
Where are you going, Mark?
Connie's.
Hey, what are you doing there?
Connie's, that was like the hang up in downtown Green Bay,
wasn't it?
And Pat's brother, Tom Conniff, owned that for those of you tracking current state, it's now the Sardine can over there on South Broadway.
But anyway, they, we all went there and Pat was working with Tom at the time.
And there was all this loud rock and roll.
And I had just moved up from Jackson, Mississippi and had fallen in love with the blues.
So this was back in the day when the music came on little cassettes.
So after
I got a beer.
It was very crowded, very popular.
I said to him, can I come back there and look at some music and make a request?
And he's kind of looking at me like, who are you?
And I'm like, well, I'm short and cute and wanting to hear something else.
And we both like Miller Lite.
So let me come on back there.
Which if
you didn't have, you could be short.
Okay.
But if you didn't have a cute part, no DJ, no.
Short balls.
Thanks for that.
Yep.
Okay.
Thank you.
I pulled out a blues tape of like, oh gosh, Robert Cray, I think I pulled out.
I thought, well, this'll be mainstream enough for these people.
And I pulled this out and he goes, you like that?
And I said, yeah, I love all kinds of blues.
And that's when I started learning about his vision and his love of blues music.
So the weekend bands were by and large blues.
There were some rock and roll bands mixed in, most notably Jim Krieger's Normal Adults, remember that?
And his
formula was always, ever since I can remember it was Friday would be
pretty much the rock and roll night.
Saturday was the blues.
Sunday, you never knew.
It could be a trio like the heebie-jeebies that had Frosty Zink and Paul Wilmet and Brian Grisel.
They were fantastic.
Paul Wilmet, the baseball player?
Paul Wilmet, the baseball player.
He's a heck of a drummer.
I had no idea.
And guitarist.
He still plays around here now and then.
Really?
Yeah, he's been in Nashville.
He's been up here.
Oh, is he?
I'd love to get him on the show.
He actually played Major League Baseball for a minute.
I mean, I remember watching him play in the major leagues.
Yeah,
he
was
all this.
Well, heroes opened around 1989.
And then it was interesting because in the ascension of the Packers was kind of the ascension of the glory days of heroes.
I want to talk
about the parallel between the music scene has changed.
I want you to answer that.
I'm assuming it has.
And obviously the Packers have changed.
And do you.
Are we better now with the music here in our community?
I mean, 30 years or 38 years playing.
I mean, how are we doing?
Well, Barb hit on
something really kind of on the nose.
It does, it ebbs and flows.
It ebbs and flows all the time.
Right now, I think it's okay.
I think we could do, we could do better.
One of the great things about the heroes place was you knew that any night of the weekend you wanted to go there, you were going to see some of the best music.
that the area offered.
And the talent, the talent well is deep between Door County
and Green Bay
and down the Lakeshore,
the valley.
Yes, it's the talent well is deep.
So he was able to draw from that.
And again, it was the formula of rock and roll Friday, blues on Saturday.
You never knew what you were going to
get.
You know how you would always know when you're leaving the gas station, you picked up the entertainer.
Well, there's entertainer.
Yes.
We
could use that again too.
So, um, but I think there's, I think it's, I think it's okay, but I think there's definite
room for improvement.
And the improvement though, I want to hear about this.
The venues, you think we should have more, I think there's more opportunities now, Rick.
And I just, like, I'm just the guy that observed it from the outside, but you know, you've got the city deck now, you've got some of these places on Broadway where people can play.
Right.
Um, I don't, the Meyer, I don't know how long it's been here, but.
Tarleton.
The Tarleton.
Yeah.
The
Tarleton,
which.
If I could get a quick plug
in here,
we've got a show coming up on the 30th that was just booked and and we are
You're gonna
pack
that place that
big we also have the heroes reunion coming up this weekend this Sunday from one
Yeah, let's do that first.
That's
why we're all here
another thing as far as like
what I think is cool is so because every Friday we do a group in here a local band type or even acoustic whatever whatever but we devoted to it with Dennis from the glam band it's here and he hosts it and everything like that and and even Dennis says you know sometimes it's just a matter of like stars coming together you can have this really talented person and not have a great career and this talented person and but boy if somebody could figure out how to put that formula together
But it's just it's almost like magical.
Isn't it what it takes to all of a sudden some band being popular
now that you've touched on that?
I think I think a good thing to have more of in this town would be open mics
because
because when I I left music for a long time about 10 years after high school and then got back in because of the open mics
in town
and you could go there
and
you can meet other people and play with other people and notice and like-minded, you know people that wanted to be in a rock band people that wanted to be in a blues band
though that was integral
And you guys sure get along, you musicians.
I mean, we get people in here and I played with so and so and so and so and I think that's awesome and you support each other.
It's a good industry.
It's a small tight community and everybody knows what everybody else is doing.
And I think for the most part, we all try to help each other.
You know, if the room breaks open, you know, we try to tell our friends, hey, go talk to these folks and see if you can get in there.
That's great.
You know, and you have to be, you know, I mean, well, you don't have to be.
Because there is no strict formula.
You should be that.
It should be that way.
I think that just makes, when you're on stage, it's obvious how much you love your job.
But I think, like you said, you all get along and you have to be, but you want to be.
I mean, you sure are, just get along with everybody.
I've always liked that about you.
It's for the betterment of the musical
community.
It's for the betterment of the local
community.
When we come back, we're going to devote the whole thing to the...
What's a proper term
for heroes club reunion heroes club reunion?
I want to say
the heroes reunion, but then I'd be thinking it's all about John Kramer here We're back with more headlines of the press times with Rick from Big Mouth and Barb Connifack after this
John Kramer headlines of the press times Rick Pymreck from Big Mouth and of course the heroes club event coming up this weekend with Barb Conniff whose husband Pat pretty much was so instrumental in really getting quality and end.
I don't want to say unusual, what's the word I'm looking for?
Different, green, different
unique music to the area.
He brought the blues to Green Bay.
He brought
the blues to Green Bay.
And it's never
left.
And he did it consistently.
And I think that's, you know, the one thing we see things ebb and flow in the music industry.
There are a lot of places to hear music now, particularly outdoors in the summer, like the city deck in so many places.
But Heroes was one of those places where not only was there consistency of music,
there was consistency of relationships that developed.
Pat might've gotten them in the door because being a native Green Bay person going to Green Bay West, he knew a lot of people.
Who was
on like the best basketball team Green Bay West ever had.
That's right, that's right.
So anyway, you know, but it was the people and the camaraderie they formed and the friendliness of the bartenders that keep people coming back.
The Heroes Club reunion started because of them and just to give the plug so we don't.
Don't forget, it is this Sunday, May 18th, at the Blue Collar Bar and Grill, which has been a wonderful host.
This is our fourth one, and they have been absolutely wonderful.
So we just totally enjoy having that opportunity to be there.
Where's the set?
South Broadway, 1313, South Broadway.
1313, all right.
Yeah, so near Broadway at nine.
Got it.
It's
right next to the Cheesesteak Rebellion.
You don't know where that place is.
You're missing it.
Yikes.
Yeah, that place is
awesome.
Camelot.
Yeah, years ago.
Karen and I used to go there for lunch.
They'd have the first time ever had the
brought patty burger and then the onion and cheese and then the hamburger patty.
And it's like, I've never had one of these before.
That was always like, that's a legendary place.
So how it came to be was there was a long time regular, you know, it had its afternoon regulars and its evening music people.
And the afternoon regulars would come in after work, watch a Jeopardy or whatever was on TV.
And this one gentleman, Pat Maltby had passed away.
And of course.
people heard about it and they went to the funeral.
Well, Randy and Pat had stayed in touch with one of the bartenders, Skinny, Scannondore, and Joan, actually, but they both bartended there.
And Randy was sitting around their house or fire pit or something and said, you know, it was so wonderful seeing all those people again.
It would be great to see them at something other than a funeral.
So, Skinny contacted a couple of the other bartenders, Kurt Munchoff and Lynn Hypel, and said, what if we could put together a reunion?
Went and
talked to Big Mouth, they were willing to come in on it, found the blue collar, and, you know, were willing to come in on that.
So, brought everybody together, asked me, would I support this?
And I said, sure, absolutely, I'll help do some public relations for it, get the word out, and, you know, pay for a little advertising to launch it.
And we were amazed, hundreds of people showed up to this first one.
And it was like, we may be a little older, a little grayer, a little fatter, a little thinner, but the light in our eyes, we're still there.
It was an opportunity to come together and enjoy the live blues music and the friendships that have been made over these years.
You know, that's one of those things too.
Music, it kind of like, when you have that relationship with some of your music, that doesn't go away, does it?
No.
No, it doesn't.
Because
that's like a serious passion.
Music just
does something.
It really is.
With people.
And once it hits you, you can't get rid of it.
No.
It's in you then.
And it's funny, even these younger artists we have on here, you can just...
I mean, they're not, they're not cashing it in, but boy, they love it.
And they're just like, you know, they all got a full-time job somewhere else, you know, but they're playing here, playing here.
And I just think that's great that they're that passionate about
it.
What is your daughter doing in New York?
She's a doctor.
Well, would she give her left arm forward to do instead of being a doctor?
He knows her.
Yeah, she, entertainment.
She just, she just loves.
the stage and there's something
about it and John
actually John interviewed her here and her answer was a little too quick for me
would you rather be
a doctor would you rather be on stage right away she was on stage but it's just it's in her blood but you know when she came to talk to me about it i'm like what would you what advice would you give your kid you know i mean the theater's top medical school already been paid for i do i won't be surprised i've told johnny this before that if after
15-20 years.
She you know, she's a great doctor, but boy that theater and that music and she'd be a doctor and recycle
Anyway, yeah, you're right.
What was Pat most proud of when he looked back and that was talking Pat in the last days.
Do you remember that about my book?
Was it his dad I had in my
book?
Yes, his dad was a Marine.
Yes.
He was in my book I had about that and
everything and down the stretch and and we were good friends We always just talked about basketball to be honest
But they're all Green Bay West basketball
days
and everything.
But what do you think his legacy is when you look back on what he did?
I think that it is really all about relationships.
Relationships that created the music community to be alive and thriving, particularly around the blues but other genres as well and giving them a place to play.
Relationships among people that formed.
Some of the people who worked there, they went on to go to nursing school or become teachers or get other employment at other places that continued to give them livelihood and they were very popular wherever they went.
because of what they gave and received from that experience.
And I think that was what he was most proud of.
Love it.
And your industry just supporting each other.
And I just hope the community understands.
What a gift we have with people like you to bring it here and you work hard on stage.
But we're very fortunate.
If there's a lot to do here, you got to look sometimes.
But man, we've got some great entertainment here.
And I'm glad, as nice to hear you say, Rick, that you think the talent pool is pretty deep here.
It always has been, I think, for as long as I can remember.
I mean, way before I started to get into it.
Yeah, hey Rick.
What's another event you got coming up with the Tarleton?
Okay, well special guest got one minute my brother, okay?
We just booked us at the Tarleton.
It's Friday May 30th.
We're bringing a Woody Mankowski everybody's everybody's favorite Woody Mankowski the guy whose place I took in Big Mouth yeah Woody's coming back for this show and We are going to parade out a new member of the band and she is
Wonderful.
Her name
is
Kelsey Denay.
She's got a BFA from Stevens Point.
She moved out to New York right after and she's been on Broadway stages.
She's been in Les Mis, nine to five.
Wow.
Showboat.
Do you need a vibra?
I can't think of the name.
Do you need a vibra?
A vibra slap player?
I've got
one.
When I was
playing at Jimmy C's, I had one of those and it broke and I threw it into the river.
Bart Conn, it's so great seeing you.
Thank you.
May 18th in the afternoon, blue collar bar and grill.
Come see us.
Anyone welcome?
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Hey, thank you very much.
Man, what a great lineup, Todd.
It sure was fun.
Intern boy.
Everybody that put it all together intern boy.
Yeah, we some people call him Ryan who does who doesn't I didn't know that was this name um Great guess so Jocelyn Flores from rise and grind the brand new coffee shop right next to us here at 401 North Washington Street in downtown Green Bay a Jeannie Brouette former executive assistant to the general manager of the Green Bay Packers so sweet She's like the sweetest lady you can see why they kept her.
Yeah, I kept her around just
Just I almost I almost wish it was like tell her whatever, you know TV for some of these idiots that would call and start swearing it's oh, man
This is the
just you know, this is the person
you're
right to
write.
Yep.
Yep, exactly.
She
just have to be like, oh, you can't talk like that But yeah, I John I'm sure you would have handled it very similar
much.
Well, I would have been nicer than Jeannie
I'm sorry for your concern, sir.
Get over it right now.
What's your address?
Yeah, M. Sleep, yeah.
No, I understand.
I'm so sorry.
I'm going to do everything I can, and then I'm going to write down your phone number so I can call you at 3.30 in the morning for the rest of your bleepin' life every day, morning, noon, and night.
Finish the story.
Other than that, she was great.
John Kramer, headlines, press times with Rick from Big Mouth and the Heroes Club event coming up.
Barb Conniff, Sunday at the Old Hero.
Well, no, not at the Old Heroes.
But it's in honor of the old heroes.
There you go, exactly.
On
Broadway,
but
it's, yes.
We just got a text in from Dennis Peters who says, uh, good morning, friends.
What a beautiful day.
Mom's got 12 more blankets.
Oh,
good.
So, Dennis,
thank you.
Big mouth.
Awesome.
We can
use those for our veterans.
We got another special guest coming up.
We do.
Is he there?
Yeah.
Oh, man.
I'm sorry.
Oh,
man, we can't keep a bulldog waiting.
Mitchell.
How's it going?
Good, buddy, Mitchell.
Congrats.
Boren, who just came back from Cleveland from rookie mini camp.
What is going on?
How was your experience in the National Football League?
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Hopefully, just the beginning of a long journey.
But yeah, it was a great experience.
Something new that a lot of people get to do.
So I'm very honored and grateful for the opportunity.
I just want to say one quick thing, because I thought about you when I saw this.
They had the cameras on shooter sanders when he walked in and he picked up his like swag bag and he was I mean, this is a guy, you know, it's good.
Oh, this is kind of cool There's something about that first experience those first moments of breathing national football league air which you were a part of this past weekend Just give me that thing for this kid from Pestigo walk into an NFL locker room and having equipment just for you in that locker
Yeah, I mean it's something that you look forward to like your entire life So definitely take a step back and take all in and just enjoy the moment
That's just for our listeners who maybe didn't listen when you were here last time and you're a Pestigal kid You went to Marquette transferred over to St.
Norbert multiple
all-american at Marquette right
up.
Yes in track and now you were picked up by Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns, that's
Very, very excited.
We're so hopeful when you were here and you're like, I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know where I'm going to be that night and everything.
And now we heard that night that you're going to sleep.
It all worked out.
Yeah.
So congrats to you.
I mean, tell me what you're thinking right now.
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I got invited to a trial for the rookie community camp.
It went pretty good.
So now I'm just waiting to see if they want to sign me or if something else is going to happen.
What did you think of the level of competition?
Because, you know, you obviously, St.
Norbert, you dominated there, but in that league, but when you were out amongst these other guys from, you know, the Ohio States or the, you know, Notre Dame's or the whomever's, what was it like?
How did, how did you judge yourself amongst them?
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's definitely cool playing with a goal.
Those guys here, you know, compete for national championships at division one, but at the end of the day, once you put your helmet and pads on, you know, it's football and I, I believe my athletic abilities and I think,
I stack up pretty good and I can definitely hold my own in that in that scenario.
Did they time you in the
40 when you were there at camp?
No, it was just like just more like practice and stuff, but we weren't like testing that kind of stuff.
Okay.
Now let me ask you this when you term analogy wise, I mean that is I mean I've had like some really great great athletes and they open up that playbook or whatever and it's like wow.
You know, this is the hardest class I've ever had.
What was it like just learning some of the things that, you know, when they diagram the plays?
Yes, definitely.
I think that's probably the most difficult thing.
I mean, obviously in the NFL, they don't want to be your bodies up too bad in practice.
So I think it was probably harder mentally and physically over the weekend.
But, you know, if you just put your head down, you grind it out and you figure out how to make it make it work for you.
It's it's not too bad at the end of the day.
Mitchell, so was it
all?
the athletic side or did they kind of get into your head a little bit with some of these tests and interviews and is this going to fit in our locker room or that kind of thing?
It was more just like a normal three, four days of practice.
So just how they kind of usually run their set.
How did those quarterbacks throw a football?
Yeah, they're pretty good.
So it's going to be exciting to watch what they do throughout the year with all the QBs that have been rostered.
Yeah, they've got a pretty good arm on them.
It's pretty amazing when you get around guys like that.
I mean, the different levels every time you go up, there's a little bit of a, there's two things.
There's kind of like you where it's like, okay, I'm pro size, I'm pro speed.
You know, maybe I hadn't played at level and you kind of compare yourselves and sometimes guys are like, hey, this is okay.
I can, you know, I'm not, I can, you know, I'm not embarrassing myself with whatever.
But sometimes it is that mental part that separates guys, isn't it?
Yeah, definitely a definitely mental thing.
I think you got to have the right head space and you know, some guys, you know, don't always don't always get there.
I mean, some guys are just there to enjoy the moment.
Some think that they go and compete.
So he's got to figure out which lane you're in.
We're with Mitchell VanVoren, former St.
Norbert Marquette University and Pestigal Bulldog, who just came back from a rookie symposium with the Cleveland Browns.
So what
is next, Mitchell?
How does this work from here on out?
Yeah, I think just waiting to see if it's a team called me up for training camp or or the next step for that I mean they they said they really liked me and I exceed their expectations and I'll explain to you I mean they're pretty deep at tight end so we'll see if they end up signing me or if another team reaches out but kind of just waiting to make sure I'm ready for that next next opportunity.
Oh you let us know I think you're gonna make it I just I think you got the right attitude that that's for sure and you know like you said you
You all performed what they thought you were going to do.
So I got the height, the weight and the speed.
All right.
I mean, and I don't know how smart you have to be to go through Marquette and St.
Norbert, but you got that past your education.
Right.
There you go.
Well, this is cool, Mitchell.
Hey, let me ask you another question though.
Media wise, I don't think you guys were bombarded with media at either place in your playing days.
But you know, obviously the Cleveland Browns all of a sudden under a big spot.
Like what was it like media wise there?
Yeah, I mean at practices there were a lot of guys up there like filming everything and breaking it all down But I think the more of the top draft picks where the guy's getting a lot of media questions So it wasn't too bad for for me
Now you're talking about you know the Browns what they like, but it's not even just so much the Browns.
It's getting tape
Getting tape getting tape so other clubs can look at you.
That's such an important aspect as well Isn't it's almost like every every route you run is like an audition tape.
Yeah
Yeah, exactly.
I mean every every scout and every GM talks along the league So, you know, just gotta make sure that every time you do get an opportunity that you're putting your best foot forward and You're showing everyone what you can do
because you never know how many opportunities a personal get in life.
Yeah
How many people are down there for that for this would you call it rookie camp a rookie
camp?
Yeah, yeah, I think there was like 45 of us down there between drafted signed and trial guys
Did you with the coaches was it you know they they treat you okay?
Was it just like you're just another rookie come in with a number and we're just gonna or were they fairly personable
Yeah, they're pretty personal.
I mean they treat us all the same, you know, obviously the drafted and signed guys they had a little bit
Other things to do like they had some some media stuff to do but you know at the end of the day They treated us all like family and is a pretty cool opportunity.
They give you a swag to take home Yeah, we got to keep all of our like shirts and shorts and stuff like that's that's cool.
Oh,
that's cool Did he did they show you around the city rock and
roll Hall of Fame?
Just thrown it out there.
Yeah caps
now we were in the facility from like six and
like 8 p.m.
every night, so we didn't get to go around the city too much.
I guess not.
Wow.
That's a long day.
Haven't done that in a while.
Holy cow.
So what do you do now, work out why staying in shape?
Because again, you got to be whenever that phone rings or something, it might be, hey, get on a plane and come here.
What do you do now, Mitchell?
What's the next few weeks?
What do they look like for you?
Yeah, probably just keep doing the same routine that I was doing, you know, obviously.
I try to remember the playbook as much as I can and just keep working on the things that they taught me and stuff like that so I can be ready when that call comes.
Do they give you the playbook to take home or is that very, hey, turn in your playbooks, nobody's taking anything out of the facility?
Yeah, we had to turn that stuff all in, but you know, I learned it pretty well over the three, three, four days there.
So I think I got a good chunk of it up in my head.
Oh, that's phenomenal.
That is.
Any communication?
Are you calling anybody saying, hey, look, is there anything I can do?
Or is it just silence until you get a call?
Yeah, my agent's reaching out to people, so just let them do his job and then see what happens.
Well, the thing is, too, as far as we're talking about being ready, at least nowadays.
I'll tell you what, I remember young guys back in the late 80s or whatever, and guys would get cut or something, but they would stay here because at least they'd have a home base.
Okay, but they would be over at like southwestern or ash wobbitt on high school trying to use their weight rooms or use their high school tracks I mean right nowadays at least there are such amazing Facilities where somebody like you can stay in you know top peak performance level.
So that's gotta be kind of cool.
How Mitchell?
Yeah, definitely and I have a good good relationship with St.
Norbert's I've been using their facilities last couple last couple months So it's kind of nice that we still have that connection after
After the process
we're
with Mitchell van vorren from st.
Norbert who just came back from rookie camp the Cleveland Browns
and those are some pretty nice facilities at st.
Norbert
Yeah, yeah, they're pretty they're pretty tough one for three.
I saw a thing on Facebook you and shooter Sanders are wearing the exact same diamond necklace.
Is that true?
That might have been a
That had to be kind of cool those are seeing him walk around, huh?
Yeah, I mean definitely it's a cool experience You know you see everyone on TV and then you go and you're playing the same same team as them Yeah, like I said earlier I mean I mean everyone's just a person at the end of the day So it's it once you put the helmet and pads on you just out there playing football
So are you just gonna stay in shape?
You're gonna work you finishing school.
What's going on on your your personal side there?
Yeah, probably just keep Keep trying to work out.
Maybe I'll do a little bit of work in the meantime to get some extra cash But yeah, just make sure I'm in I'm in shape for that call
Well, it's got to be something.
I mean, for a kid growing up in Pestigo, to all of a sudden, you know, having come from an NFL camp and doing whatever, and I know you weren't drafted, which was kind of a dream, but it doesn't matter.
You still got that phone call and somebody said, hey, we think you've got, they don't bring in, you know, whatever, whatever.
They bring in guys that have a chance to play in the National Football League because they got eight million other guys they could bring in just for camp guys.
So I think no matter what happens, Mitchell, I think that is a huge, huge achievement that you have right now to sock away in your bank.
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, that's definitely something that not a lot of people get to say they did So definitely grateful and just just keep being thankful for the opportunities I've been giving the last couple last couple months
and how much credit do you give to Mark Houston from Bell and Sports, Minnesota about 90% See
all right,
we'll tell
him he's on tomorrow
or Friday.
Absolutely.
Hey Mitchell van Varen.
Congratulations, buddy.
Keep us posted Mitchell.
This is exciting stuff.
Absolutely
Please keep us posted.
We're one million percent in your corner.
It's gonna be just fun watching the whole process.
Whatever happens, no matter what, it's still very cool for somebody local like this to have that opportunity.
So all the respect in the world for you, my friend.
Thank you.
I appreciate you guys having me back on.
You got it, buddy.
I'll see you at what's our little hamburger place in Marinette.
Oh, make you lose.
Absolutely.
See you there.
Hey, buddy, take care.
Mitchell VanVoren.
Good for him.
Great having him on.
Back at this.
wrap it up on a beautiful, just a gorgeous Wednesday morning, high in the low seventies today, partly cloudy, possible showers.
Yesterday afternoon was about as nice of a day as we could possibly ask for in the state of Wisconsin, wasn't it?
That was working.
Oh,
man, just walking around downtown got actually really humid for a while,
which actually
kind of felt good.
It's just been so I feel like I'm thawing out
quite a bit of fog this morning.
And I think we'll be seeing that the next couple of days because of that humidity.
but burning off
then
with the
sunshine
coming up.
It doesn't look
like rain, but it's supposed to rain like at noon, right?
Noon one, two, three.
Yeah, possible.
Thursday they're talking about possible nasty stuff coming through, aren't they?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like overnight type kind of that hail and high winds and all that kind
of stuff.
Central Wisconsin especially.
So, Wausau, Wisconsin happens.
They've been hit lately, huh?
Yeah.
I don't care what it is.
I don't care if it's a tornado or a snow storm or what they just seem to get hit.
Yeah, they do.
They do.
We see more protected on this area.
We're in this bubble, man.
We've
been here for a couple of years.
I mean, you see that on the way, you see the color and it's like right, it kind of like comes across and then goes 45 degrees up towards Door County.
Yeah.
And I think people who escaped, I was going to talk to Ben and Deanna about that today.
People who escaped the winters in Wisconsin get another house.
I don't know if that's as necessary now because the winters aren't that bad here.
Not like,
but I will say that.
No, I'm not saying they're that bad.
It's twice
easier snowblower.
That's not understand that, but they're still long.
It's still cold.
It's still your car is cold.
It's cold.
I'm tired of cold kind of, to be honest.
I'm tired of cold for that long of a time.
Right.
But does that warrant buying another house?
No, it does
not.
So you take a trip or go somewhere, go camp.
Yeah, I don't know.
I just.
But I will say this, even if it did, I wouldn't have enough money to buy another house.
Okay, radio people don't buy other houses.
No,
right?
That's correct.
That trailer in Mississippi I was talking about.
Yeah.
Possible.
Okay.
Wow.
It's kind of looking at like a little camper or something.
I'd like to get that.
I could live in a camper.
There's
people that hitch that thing up and, you know, do the Arizona and New Mexico and, you know, go drive around there for the
couple months, couple, three months come back here.
But yeah, I don't, I don't know buying another house.
It just doesn't seem like it's worth it.
You know what I mean?
I do
two
months.
I
do.
But I, I think I could be, I don't know.
I could be one of those travel people for six months in a van type thing.
Oh no.
Oh yes, I could.
Oh my God.
I could
go November through March.
What?
Jim?
No.
Okay.
We've heard stories this morning about his apartment.
True that.
And his blender.
Yes.
But can you imagine if the guy was living on it out of a van for six months?
Okay,
cop would pull you
over up.
Could you please roll up
the window roll up the window?
Roll it
up
guys
can go
although I would get the
gas mask comes back Okay, roll it up.
I would worry about somebody smothering my chimney and smoking me out.
That's worry about that story I had yesterday.
That's one of my big fears now, so but I think I could at least a few months.
You don't think you could nope
Now I would like to go somewhere for I wouldn't mind January and February either right after Christmas boom head down to Mississippi, Alabama one of those places I would do that.
Yeah, but I would get a look at Airbnb for six weeks You know what I mean?
Just
get a penthouse suite at the
area
would be fun.
I want to know the reason I wouldn't do that is I want a kitchen I want to be able to cook
I would have a kitchen in my van You
can have where's the bathroom in that van Johnny?
Up back those trees over there.
There is a guy that I follow on social media because he does live in a van It's a bigger van, but he's got a little kitchen area.
Yeah, he's got a bed.
He's got all that kind of stuff I don't know that he's got a shower in it though So he's got to like stop off at trucks trucks fine with that.
Yeah,
I Would love to show her to truck stop love to eat at a truck stop watch TV at truck stop.
I'm fine with that part What?
No, there's I think there's not good stuff that happens at truck stops.
I don't know.
I would be on my best behavior.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's great.
You write me
postcard.
You have a stamp.
Where do you buy a stamp
these
days?
I don't know.
Great lineup today, man.
From start to finish.
Jocelyn Flores.
Wonderful young lady.
She runs a new coffee shop right next door to us here at 401 North Washington Street in Green Bay.
What I liked about her was, I mean, it started, what, three weeks she said?
Yeah, about that.
Okay, but boy, she's got a lot of plans, which is good.
It's not like she's... And unique plans.
Yeah.
To do these is what she said this is a Mexican coffee.
She's got some co-marketing things.
She's doing she's gonna be fine
She's got some great dessert type thing.
She's coming like really a red.
That's what that's what's cool It's like there's a million coffee shops, but she's take it I mean she wanted to get you know get started, right?
You know that's soft opening almost whatever whatever, but boy She has some nice ideas that will make her place unique.
That's that's what she got a carve out.
Yeah,
how
do you separate yourself?
Yep, um Jeannie Brouette
former assistant to Ron Wolf and Ted Thompson.
Boy, she could talk all day, huh?
Yes.
Great, great story.
But a sweet lady.
She is.
Sweet lady.
As
is her husband's a great
guy, too.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
He's a lovely
pastor.
Yeah, it takes place quite a bit.
Yeah.
John Kramer, headlines of the press times.
John bringing in Rick Pinebrook.
By a big mouth and the heroes club event taking place with Barb Conniff.
We'll talk more about that the closer we get hunt on absolutely the the Heroes reunion alumni type thing where they brought great great music to Green Bay her husband Pat Conniff was so instrumental in downtown Green Bay I mean, I thought he was one of the guys that really made coming downtown cool There's a few people that have done that.
I think we have high hopes for Tarle.
Oh me too.
I've got high hopes that whole ship yard district.
Yeah, I really do
It needs to be funded, right?
But I think the vision is terrific.
I still think that area, there's something about South Broadway I like.
It is cool.
There's cool space.
It is what it is and they're not, they're not what they're not.
And
you're not gonna try to
change it and put up all these lights and no, this is who we are and we're really good at it.
It's
a
little gritty
and I love that.
Right, I agree.
I agree.
So we just need to keep at it and they work at it.
Again, you know, it's a lot of energy and some money and I just hope the city continues to support
but tell me there aren't some little neighborhoods in New York that used to be
absolutely Atlanta anywhere.
Yeah, there's some.
Yeah, no, there's Detroit.
Oh, yeah.
Detroit is like a poster child for that, taking like right areas that were almost like blighted and turning into something
cool.
And it's not.
And it's the cool spot.
Yes.
And that shipyard will be that.
But, you know, just a matter of when
you know, it needs to be happened.
People need to like discover it.
Yeah, do you know what I mean?
No, you're right.
That's true, man.
That is.
I'm going to take you to this place.
You might
not
think we're going to sell
the
book, but that's what it's going to be.
That's really awesome.
That's where I'm opening my bar.
Sure.
The camper bar.
With the van.
That is not a bad name.
That the camper bar is
not a bad name.
Hey, everybody, thank you so much for being here.
Thank you to all our guests back into my morning mind in the mirror.
See ya.
