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.
Get money done!
I gotta tell ya, if you...
are driving on the highway right now.
I just drove up for Manitowoc.
It was so foggy from there until like a mile outside of Green Bay.
Yeah.
And then cleared.
Todd Oshkosh.
Not bad in Oshkosh, but once I hit Appleton and north, it was a little rough.
Be careful.
There are some
areas around the Mishukot Maribel, like that lower stretch right there.
I mean, when I was coming, I don't know, 100 feet, maybe like at the most you could see.
That's that's funny how fog works though, right?
I told you I took down to the airport this morning and it was foggy on like the east side of Green Bay wasn't foggy on the west side.
Yeah Oh my god, my flight could be delayed and it's like Yeah fog's a weird thing, but that probably will all lift
I'm sure well once the Sun
comes up,
but I'm just saying if you're out there on the highways,
right?
At least that part.
I mean it was like so thick.
It's like
But
don't mean it's like you had
to like watch real close for your exits.
Yeah, you think you know around so well, right?
But when you don't know you guys though.
Yeah, you guys get lost going anywhere.
That's supposed to mean come on.
I mean the 607
fires his
first shot
across the bow.
It's amazing.
He made it to
the studio
John.
I'm glad you're here.
Yes.
Yep, but just everybody knows this but never use your high beams.
Yeah, you know
That's just messes up the driver and everybody else.
I always wanted one of those little trucks that has like the yellow lights
on those are
cool Those are cool.
Yeah, I like that cool guys have those trucks So I'm walking yesterday and I the fire department was doing some kind of a training thing right behind here.
Okay, just cross the thing here and I'm still eight years old I just had a stand to watch
my
mouth open
watching and stuff that
and they had the ladder up and I didn't know if they were you know what what it was And I asked the guy say hey
Do people climb that thing?
Or is that like a remote hose nozzle they got on top type thing?
Yeah.
And he goes, oh, it's for training.
I go, wow, somebody, somebody actually climbed that.
He goes, yeah.
I said, how high is it?
He goes 30 feet.
I go, okay.
That's pretty high.
He goes, well, we're actually going to extend it to a hundred.
Yeah.
I said a hundred feet.
I said, who does that?
He goes, well, the trainee, right?
And he put a young kid and I'm like, oh my God.
Yeah.
That's 10 stories.
That's, that's high.
That is really, really high.
30 feet was high.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I give those fire I told them I said I always wanted to be a firefighter, but only for like ranch houses and grass fires.
There you
go.
Get somebody else
going up there.
Not going up there.
Let her go.
Let her burn.
No,
that's feet.
I'll tell you what, any firefighter out there, I don't care what you do on your day to day.
If you climb that thing a hundred feet with nothing around you.
Salute.
Yeah,
I do think though, they don't have to really, they would climb down, but I think going up, you just go out to the end, jump in the bucket and you go up.
Oh, but you gotta climb
100 stairs.
I don't.
Look, that's not my understanding.
OK.
There's usually a bucket on the end of those things, right?
Yeah, it seemed like it.
Right.
And then they strap you in a little bit.
I
don't know.
The kid wasn't or the young guy wasn't doing it.
They were like setting up and everything.
Yeah, it's still high.
100
feet, 100
feet.
30 feet was like.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When it's
out in
the open, like,
you
know,
if
you
have a ladder against the house,
it's
like, OK, you know, you kind of feel a little more.
But when this thing is just kind of like straight up.
Right.
What do we got here at?
Good morning guys from our man Vinnie.
Good morning Vinnie.
What's up?
Happy Trucker Thursday Vicki.
Good morning Vicki.
How are you?
Truckers out there, man?
Like I said, if you're heading out today on the highways, it's really, really foggy in some stretches.
What do you think of the Packer schedule?
I was gonna ask
you that.
Philadelphia and Washington, both going to the Milwaukee season ticket holders.
Oh.
Yeah.
People aren't real happy about it.
I mean people are I mean it's what the one thing I don't like you know what I wish the NFL would do I wish the entire season I mean I I wish the entire league would just shut down right in the middle of the season week off everybody everybody
said it was
Yeah,
floating pies.
Yeah, the Packers by is the fifth week
in the season.
You don't
need
it.
Yeah, you're just hitting still
that's like right there That's like right when you hit stride.
I know I was that's what I thought to you
That's when you're going to play your best football is about a month into the season.
Yeah.
So I think all of us look at the schedule, you know, win, loss, win, win, win, win.
Go through that.
Did you?
I'm always 11 and five, 12 and four is great, you know, 11.
But I'm I do say one thing.
There's two games are the show.
Holy crap.
Oh, tough to get me.
It's it's a tough looking schedule.
It's not even a question about that.
I have one.
the only thing I've ever agreed with Minnesota Viking fans on ever.
And I agree with them on something and the NFL is looking into it.
You know, they went, what was it 14 and two last year or 15 and two, whatever it was.
Okay.
Phenomenal record.
All right.
But the Lions got the top spot versus a team.
I forget who, you know, who else was like, you know, 10 and seven type thing.
Right.
They can get in.
They, I think they do need to go.
More on your overall record versus your conference.
Yeah, you deserve, you know, you beat those teams those other conferences, right?
You deserve to have like that home game for the playoffs over them.
I'm
a believer in
that.
A couple good games though.
I think it's great that, you know, we're playing on Thanksgiving because you're gonna watch football anyway.
Why can't we watch our own team?
Love
it.
I think that's cool.
Love it.
That's gonna make that
day.
Love it.
Love
it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
And then
the fact that we're playing Pittsburgh and Rogers might be playing for Pittsburgh.
I might go to that.
Now that's there.
That's in Pittsburgh.
Yeah, it's I called my friend already this morning.
You're gonna go to Pittsburgh.
You send him a text Really?
Yeah, what you doing?
Well, I don't have any friends in Pittsburgh, but what Pittsburgh's a great city and to go and would you go to that game?
Yes, okay.
Let me work on a heartbeat.
I think that's gonna be fun Those are the two games.
I'm interested in I'm not I don't know I like we talked about last year We just we've been fortunate.
We've gone to a million games.
So why go tailgate for sure, but then I'm probably
I
watch it.
You know, it's one of those things too good and again, you just It's just thrown into the wind.
Oh, we'll win this game.
We'll lose a
you know
injuries happen yada yada yada right but overall like if I was a betting guy Which I am a little bit, but um, it is a tough schedule.
That's right.
I mean, it's it's a formidable schedule put it that way.
Yeah, so
I got this people complain about the placement of the buy all the time until it gets here Then everybody says we have the buy at the perfect time no matter what week it is taught from deep here Yeah, but Todd, wouldn't you agree five weeks is too early?
It's it's early.
It's the guys aren't that beat up yet It gets the point where they're just beat up and you're just like surviving
We don't have any international games.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, I think that's all right.
I mean there's all these rumors, so It'd be fun
And Brian said, this one's coming out here.
Is it time to get rid of the Milwaukee ticket package?
I think it happened.
No, it's not.
But I will say this.
I mean, I saw a couple of articles recently about people that lost their tickets.
I saw
that.
That's like legit.
I don't.
I don't know.
Don't you think they're going to plead their case and Packers are going to?
You think they're going to cave in on that?
I don't
know.
It's said that some people have the Packers have done it where they've.
And then they've.
Have they?
Yes.
I haven't heard that.
So they are.
There was like an extenuating circumstance where I was like, okay, you know, they found out more about it.
Like the one I was reading about the people, four years, every game they've sold.
And it's like, well, we had illness or whatever.
That's what I'm thinking.
Four years.
You don't have a cousin you could give them to.
Okay.
Yeah.
So they, I know they were taking those and some people didn't like that, but it makes a little bit of sense that, look, at least people have been on our waiting list and they're true fans and why should we scale up on them?
And so,
I don't
know.
I know they both ways.
I didn't know they were.
They were acquiescent to that.
I didn't know that.
So they're going to do it.
If they did it for one, they're going to do it for everybody because the guys can say why was sick too?
You know what I mean?
Like I.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Let's be honest on something.
You and I have talked about this.
It ain't the warm and fuzzy packers of old.
True.
Just a little.
Wow.
Yeah.
No, I know it's a business.
It's a big, big business.
So.
Yes, but they want the thing is that they want.
Yeah, I think they are focused on their fans, but they're focused on their fans for economic reasons.
Right.
I mean, so, um, yeah.
And I, I tell you what they don't like is, well, this, this doesn't happen.
Back in the
day, you know, it was unusual the night of the draft, walking around seeing all the Packer jerseys.
There were so many more Packer jerseys at the draft versus a normal regular season game.
It would be half Vikings, whomever, whomever,
whomever.
It was, that was a.
That was Wisconsin Packer Crowd at that draft.
But yeah, I would agree.
But what I was going to say is remember when people that hurts when people don't use their tickets because they want you buying those concessions parking and you know, that's revenue.
I mean, the $100, whatever tickets are now.
But people, how about you people spending another $100 when they go in there per person?
Yeah.
So what's a beer?
What's a hot dog?
I don't even know.
But yeah, I don't know.
15 bucks.
It's
God, you know,
no
idea.
I mean, the thing is, what's not even that anymore.
It's, um, if you go to the, you know, club seats.
That food up there is unbelievable.
I mean, that's not hot dogs.
I mean, that's, you know, that's expensive.
But you don't believe, I don't know, it's weird when you're there.
It's like Vegas a little bit.
You just don't think
about it.
No, because it's an event.
It's all
plastic.
It's all, you know, it is what you do.
Have you ever been up there when they bring the dessert carts?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I like that.
So much just for a
piece of carrot cake.
Oh, yeah.
No, that dessert cart is unbelievable.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, you got it.
If you go to Packard game these
days,
you got it.
It's like going on vacation or something.
Man, just it's just
monopoly money.
But don't.
Yeah,
don't think about
it.
Don't think about it because,
you
know, yes, it's just part of the.
And you know what?
I'm not the option, whatever.
It's amazing to have an NFL football entity a mile away from us where we sit.
Yeah, it's it's awesome.
But again, it's it's such a business now.
The NFL is such a.
you know like it's it's it's IBM or it's whomever the
NFL is now yeah so you just have to accept that and they invest they've um besides football i mean look what they've done out there you know they're in other businesses to
yeah
i don't know if they're gonna be strike they said that huh no what they talked about they have to have revenue coming in even if there's not football revenue and i think they've done a really really good job out there of doing that
You know, I was good friends with guys when they did the strike in 1987.
That's right.
And
then in 1982, I was covering the Lions.
I still remember covering that type of thing.
And you know what?
About 90 percent of the guys, if you talk to them away from everybody else, I don't want to lose a paycheck.
Right.
I don't want to lose a paycheck.
Right.
Because here's the deal.
When those teams go on, when those players go on strike, it doesn't benefit them.
It benefits the players that come after them.
Right.
That's who they're.
That's who.
That's who they're negotiating for.
Exactly.
Yeah.
That's the big thing.
The only one that really benefited guys while they're still in their playing days was was free agency.
And I'll never forget this.
And God bless Bob Harlan.
I respect Bob Harlan as much as anybody I've ever dealt with in the in the media.
OK.
In sports.
But I remember Bob telling me, John, we're really worried about this free agency thing.
Because and that was when the Packers were losing and nobody wanted to come to Green Bay.
It's like.
How do we get somebody to come to Green Bay?
You know, we're trying, you know, we're losing.
And Bob and I had that conversation
one day.
And he's like, this is, you know, this is, so they didn't want free agency.
Right.
Okay.
And then all of a sudden, you know what happened?
Ron Wolf signs Reggie White.
Yeah.
Everything changed.
Yeah.
One signing changed this franchise.
But
yeah, I remember that.
But it was like, oh, you know, he wanted Green Bay.
He got a lot of money.
It
was for the money.
Come
on.
I get such a kick out of that.
It was.
Really?
Was it the biscuits at Red Lobster?
And the environment, the community, and the support, and all that.
That is great.
Don't get me wrong.
Right.
He was a pretty good ambassador when he was here.
Green Bay's White House won't play.
Yeah, I know.
And you're $19 million.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot about that.
Come on!
Yeah, I know.
Yeah,
but it worked.
It worked.
It changed the franchise.
I'm dead serious that it did because then all of a sudden you got these other guys.
Well, if Reggie White is there, I know how bad can it be right?
And so we can win too.
I mean, yeah, we talked about time here, but how people it really becomes the championship over the money.
I think that's really, really cool that people, you know what I mean?
Because it's like, oh, they're money, money, money, but there comes a time in your life where it's like, no, it's not
nowadays
they
all get paid.
Do you know what I
mean?
It's not like.
You know, all we need to win a chip, like the Packers, talk to the old Packers.
They're big motive going into that Super Bowl.
$15,000 when they were making $15,000.
Right.
So that was what the winner got.
That was like mind boggling to those guys.
It was like a new house.
I got a thing here, Todd.
Have to work until 12.
Our middle school trackmates could be canceled today because of the storms.
Wow.
Is that bad, huh,
Todd?
Well, we've got some storms probably early this afternoon.
So, yep.
Man, we got an unbelievable lineup of guest folks.
Stay with
us.
everywhere.
Hey welcome back man on the mayor here in a good look at Thursday morning happy trucker Thursday Maybe it's lifting a little bit as the Sun comes up a little bit more But I'll tell you what for the Sun came up on the highways 43 was terrible as far as the fog Todd said 41.
It's a little foggy out
there right now.
Yeah
Yeah, it is that's what I was thinking maybe we're in the thing but I mean literally I had to swerve to hit the 172 exit because it was so
You
know what I
mean?
You
don't see until you come up
to
it.
So careful out there.
Give us that forecast again there, Todd, just to let people know what's going
on.
Yeah, sunny and breezy storms possible later, mid to upper 70s.
How bad are the storms potentially from what we heard there from?
It looks like it's going to be a little rough out there this afternoon by probably midday or early afternoon.
That's when the storms are going to roll in.
Okay, I
thought it was later.
All right, so this afternoon.
Yeah, okay, cool.
All right, but could be kind of freaky, huh?
Could be by three o'clock.
We should see some storms rolling in and Then rain for the night.
All
right, could use the rain.
Oh, yeah, absolutely Take that no question.
I mean fire dangers all over the place as far as with that But you know what I've noticed though get your little ladder truck now.
I know right um get above it all is it just me
or our places getting a little more, how do I put it, not freaked out, but you know what, the horrible fires in California and the different places, whatever, whatever, okay?
It seems like the Midwest is getting a little more concerned about that.
Like, where these fire things, I mean, like I was talking to my brother in the UP, it's like the DNR and everybody, it's like, they will literally come to your house if you have a backyard fire.
I mean, yes.
Well, I think who's paying for that?
And we'll talk to Ben and Dana Melkvar coming in later, the rulers.
But I was looking at costs in Greater Green Bay, costs in Wisconsin.
And interest rates still a little bit high.
Houses have gone up like 15% over last year.
But insurance is going up.
Oh, is it?
Yeah, rough insurance.
And so I think it's those kind of things that they're like, wait, we don't want to get.
Some of these guys got pretty whacked on these insurance companies.
So they've got to have so much investment.
I'm interested if that's something that you have to really look at now, because you're like, well, you get the insurance and that's that.
But maybe you have to really look at that.
And that could be significant part of the payment.
Because I'd never remember it being
that way.
No, no, no, just get it.
It's like,
can't have a backyard fire.
Yeah.
Really?
Is that even legal to tell you you can't have a backyard fire?
There's so many feet.
Yeah, you can have off.
But those fire pits now code.
Yeah.
But they're in those little cages.
Yeah.
That's not.
And you just put the cover on them.
Yeah.
But.
It still has to be so many feet from your garage.
I know that I think it's
15.
Isn't it in Green Bay?
That would
make sense to me.
I think that's what it is.
But but yeah, but it never used to be that way.
No, no, no.
I mean, wait, if I when I was a kid, I bet we had a fire three nights of the week all summer long
outside.
Yeah.
Would have burned because we'd burn so we'd burn garbage.
Oh,
yeah.
That was my job.
I loved that.
I was, I loved that.
Like I said, I got myself kind of fired twice, but I loved it.
That was my favorite thing.
I think there's a lot to that.
Yeah, I can see why you would like that.
You're like, getting back, destroying.
Yeah, that would be fire.
Fire.
Fire.
Fire.
I still say, I'm amazed.
I'm amazed.
And I could, I could call some of my old neighborhood chums right now and say, what, how are we alive?
Cause our big thing when they, when they tore down, they closed off about half of our town and fenced it off.
because the mining was called caving grounds, okay?
Because the mines had been underneath and they're afraid they're gonna sink.
Which they never did.
It was like, and now there's no, now they took all the fences down.
So it's like it was, and they moved houses and everything.
It was terrible.
But they cut down all the phone lines.
So we went on, we collected before the city got there.
We got all the old phone lines for the copper.
Oh
yeah, right.
Those
are valuable.
And then we do have fires and we'd burn the insulation off and cook hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire.
Oh.
Yeah, that's a little gross.
Yeah, that's could be some toxic.
Yeah, it's gross.
Yeah, totally gross.
Yeah.
Anyway, well, you're here to tell about it.
So I couldn't have some other things.
I got this with Jim.
Don't make fun of John burning things.
At least you didn't burn a pet.
Oh, that's kind of funny.
Who's that's very funny?
Who's Brian Brian?
Okay, snarky Brian hit.
Yes.
I thought that is true.
That's true.
We'll just move on from that because I got a lot of feedback.
That's a great point.
That's a great point.
That might be your lowest moment.
It wasn't a good one.
But anyway, it was not intentional.
That's my well, you know, that's my I know.
So 61 degrees in Green Bay right now 61 in Appleton and 60 in Oshkosh.
We're always got a nice win yesterday.
They needed that.
Today is National Chocolate Chip Day.
Can't beat a chocolate chip can't be hey by the way if our man Rick from oh my god yesterday Yeah from
big mouth those cookies he made that guy made the cookies he made those yesterday morning He must have got up at you know early, but those I gave some away the sap yesterday afternoon as well because we're gonna tape a show here and They're like these are unbelievable.
They're delicious.
Those are and I tax I've
been texted up.
I said those cookie goes well Thank grandma Lulu.
That was a recipe.
Yeah
I mean, when there's something homemade sometimes, it's incredible.
And when they can bend them a little bit.
And they're moist.
They're just whatever.
But crunchy too.
Yeah.
You know, he had the right recipe for that.
That was if the music thing doesn't work out.
Right.
And by the way, Todd.
Yes.
Did you notice he pulled me aside a little bit yesterday when he's leaving?
You know, I didn't.
I was in the middle of work.
Right.
We were working.
What happened?
He said, Johnny.
We got a
song for you.
We want you to perform.
He said, I'm not even kidding.
Nobody
heard it, but John, just for the record.
He goes, I'm not even kidding.
He said, we got the lyrics.
We got the thing, especially for you.
We want you to make it special.
Jim, tell Jim, he told me this right here.
You know what?
You know, this is like setting up the kid in school.
No, it's not cool.
Everybody wants to see you do that.
And then he's just scarred.
So did he tell you what song it is?
No, but
he actually says,
listen, we got one.
But here's what I'm thinking.
So I just saw her this morning about their performing
right outside of Jim's house.
They are at the park.
Yeah, that'd be fine.
I'm going to invite him over after like when Kevin Vaness was there, he came over after for drinks and beer.
So that's the night you're going to play.
Thanks, John.
Cool.
I will give you, I'll give you 50 bucks if you do it that night.
And we put all the speakers towards Jim's.
You know, I'm going to
agree.
I'll be there.
But I would just, I'm looking out for you as a friend now.
I would.
I'd go slow at this because you could John you don't you got a decent reputation up there.
I'm sorry.
Are you the most popular band in the state
of Wisconsin?
I love big I didn't think so.
Wow.
Okay.
I like when they bring that packer player up You know the big mouth, you know what I'm talking about.
Yeah, you do.
Okay.
No, he's Gary Ellis Gary Ellis
I
can sing like Gary
Alice.
See, I knew you were going to say that.
We got time, Todd.
We got time.
We
got an
awesome line of
folks.
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Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, welcome back mind on the mayor here on a Thursday morning that is very very foggy out there Just saying that one more time if you're heading out sick Well, I mean we're sitting right here and we can barely see the Northman hotel the hotel Northman just down the block So it's it's crazy in certain parts like we were saying though Or Todd you were saying it's like foggy foggy fight and then all of a sudden it's great.
I mean so it's real patchy
in that way.
We've got a special guest on, Todd.
We do.
All right.
Introduce him, Todd.
Brett Janssen's on.
Pickleball for a purpose.
This event is coming up in the next couple of days, and he's got all the details on it.
Good morning, sir.
Yeah, good morning.
What a full
day you're
putting on.
Yeah, what a full day you're putting on.
Yeah, we're very
excited
with the
home stretch
here.
That's great, man.
This sounds like a great thing.
And again, Pickleball is such a
popular thing right now.
Talk a little bit about what you're doing for the Dylan Family Foundation and our man AJ and the whole thing.
So take it from there if you want mine, Brett.
Yeah, of course.
So AJ's coming back in town this weekend.
We got him on Friday evening.
He's doing another charity event for Feeding America and all he was doing for the backpacks of foods for kids in the morning.
But
Afternoon, it's all pickleball, but we'll be hanging out at Pickleball Kingdom in Appleton all day Before I forget to mention Mino and Jim Emily Schmidt wanted me to say hello and formally invite you both all right She's been work.
She's been working with me to get this all set up with the Dylan family foundation.
So we just had a planning meeting last night and
Oh
Wow, I
like she's great.
Awesome.
Hmm.
I don't know
John you ready for a game or you just want to go in if I didn't have that bone spur
I'm serious.
I'd be all over this like you can't even believe Brett.
This is great,
Brett Brett Yeah, you ever tried playing pickleball with a bone spur on
your Achilles tendon?
I've got someone for you Dr. J Christiansen North Shore foot and ankle.
I'm a physical therapist So I run into a lot of injuries in the pickleball world and
I get accused of handing out my business card on the pickleball court, but people just keep all healthy and playing longer.
I hate when I talk about my physical infirmities, and then that person's like a
doctor type thing.
No, no, no, that's not true.
That's not true, that's not true.
Instead of
sympathy, it's like, that's not so bad.
We got 100 people.
We got a special category for Bonesburg.
Everybody has
that.
Yeah.
All right, so this is cool.
And I love the fact that it's going to charity and Gabriel.
Gabriel?
Gabriel.
That's going to be fun.
So tell us about the day.
How does this all work?
Yeah, of course.
So in the spirit of this tournament and getting the community out to support this great cause, Pickleball Kingdom is allowing anyone to come in and learn to play or just play pickleball.
Friday is going to be, we got obviously the storm coming in, high winds, but for $5 Friday morning, 6am to 10am, anyone's invited.
This will be followed by an intermediate tournament from 12 to 3.
Pickleball 101 class for kids or anyone looking to learn led by the best pickleball coach in the region, Rocky.
That's going on three thirty to six.
We know kids are getting out of school.
People are going to show up late or you just get kids in the door playing the game, learning the game.
Hopefully a little mini tournament during social hour cocktail hour.
They got craft beer on tap.
They got drinks, food trucks.
We're going to throw a party.
Yeah, the main event is A.J.
Dillon and Beck's interview.
They're gonna jump up there on stage again.
That's where I first met Beck who was at the Sip and Saber event last fall and saw him interview A.J.
I'm like, there's something special about this kid.
You know, he's 10 years old, hands me his business card.
I'll ask him to play pickleball and the rest is history.
Now he's playing.
We got A.J.
playing a little bit.
Tucker Kraft is dabbling into the pickleball world.
We're hoping to get him out.
All right.
This is gonna be a fun event.
Hey to 11 is open play.
So celebrity Corther and get AJ Dylan playing back Emmy award-winning news anchor and ticklebox journey or Emerson Lehman.
Oh, Emerson.
Emerson's probably pretty good.
Emerson.
You know what?
He's like
the night.
Emerson is that guy that's so nice and so whatever.
On the court.
But you put him on there.
Yeah.
He's going to be a killer.
I think he will too.
Yeah.
Once he's got his glasses on his hat backwards.
That's right.
Hey, you know, I ran into him in the last pickleball tournament and me and my pickle partner, we were undefeated through pool play, went undefeated, won the first playoff game, played Emerson and his partner and they, uh, they pickled us.
Really?
I bet he's good.
Yeah.
Well,
that's who you got to get.
You guys know what that means in the pickleball world.
That's gunk.
That's 11, nothing.
That's getting your butt whipped.
Oh my gosh.
He promised me to go easy on the general public, so he won't do that to the good people of the community.
I don't think he has the ability to hold himself
back.
No,
that's what I mean.
When he hits that court, he's pretty, so for him to say, well, it'll be nice.
Okay, Emerson, bring it on.
Wow.
Hey, you know another thing, Brett, that you guys got that I think is pretty cool.
um a beginner bracket you know because so many people would be like well i i'm just getting into and that'd be fun to play other people but you know a little bit of intimidation factor it's like if i don't but that's really cool what you're doing with this talk about that if you wouldn't mind Brett
yeah of course so obviously physical therapist by trade how's it traveling physical therapist first so my first travel job was actually in Arizona so
I've been on this pickleball train since 2018 because out there pickleball has been huge.
That's actually where the franchise pickleball kingdom started is in Arizona.
But now they have 250 locations nationwide.
The sports is going crazy.
It's the varsity sport on the east coast.
They're coming up in every university.
It's just the sports is growing like crazy.
I'm just like, man, this is fun, the community.
Because you're right.
It's like it can be played at a high level.
You know, there's tournaments across the country every weekend, somewhere professional leagues.
But
You also can just pick up a paddle and for the first time go out there and have a good time, you know, socializing, talking to people, hit the ball.
You know, we'll have coaches there, volunteers, trying to get more people playing, you know, all day long, but really that beginner time is the morning, 6 a.m.
to 10, and then we're doing something more for the kids in the afternoon, but
the
idea that this is just a, you know, a family event, more just for fun, get people learning, having a good time, good food.
We'll have Osario's food truck there, a taco truck and...
The music will be a fun event.
This is awesome.
You know, it's got to be kind of fun.
I mean, everybody's done golf tournaments.
Everybody's done whatever, whatever.
But this is the precipice of a sport that I mean, you're talking about how quickly it's growing and everything.
And I got a feeling, Brett, it's still almost in an infant stage.
What you agree as far as like, because I'm going to still, you know, got to find a court where it's pick a ball and whatever, whatever.
But this is the type of thing.
I don't think this is some kind of a fad.
type of thing.
I think this is really something special that any person, any level of athleticism or whatever you want to call it, can walk out there and at their level, can participate.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
I mean, I've been on this train.
I'm just like trying to wait for everyone to catch up, but absolutely.
I mean, just with all the investors coming into it, there's a pickleball TV channel that people are starting to pay for, pay per view.
Unbelievable.
That's awesome.
Zach Gonerig, he's a local guy from Green Bay.
He'll play at the Pickler.
You know, Bex and I played with Towsher before.
You know, Pickler's the other big franchise in Green Bay.
They hope to expand to Appleton and Madison, Milwaukee.
Eventually every city will have multiple indoor pick-up-all facilities.
And Fox City's especially is blessed.
We got few places to play outdoor everywhere, so very accessible.
Let me just throw this in there where you just mentioned, Brett, before you go.
Give me two weeks of lessons.
I will kick Towsher's butt.
Yeah, I'm I mean I got the best instructor for you rocky canik.
I pick a ball kingdom Good friend of mine.
He treats pickleball like a chess match.
He will teach you where to hit the ball how to hit the ball.
Yeah, there's definitely strategies for free lessons anytime.
Just let us know.
Well, we'll get you trained.
I want to do
that.
I want to take on tells you
I John what?
What?
I don't know how you say that stuff.
Well, I wouldn't do it.
I think it's going to kick your no
job.
Sure.
Yes.
No, he's big, but he's fast.
I'm small, but I'm
fast.
Right, Brett.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Right.
Somebody give me a break.
Hey, Brett, you gotta give us your address now.
Pick a ball kingdom.
Were you at?
Yeah.
That's a good question.
So I don't actually work there, but I'll find out.
It's right off County Road KK.
Kensington Drive and Appleton on the east side.
I can give you an address.
Do that.
And then anyone's welcome.
We can just show up.
You can just show up.
We'll be at the door letting people in.
If they had mentioned they listened to the minor on the mayor's show, we'll give them 50% off entry.
So for the main event access, we'll put them up for your listeners.
But
that's awesome.
Yeah.
If
I told
my people that free beer, they'll
get
more
free beer on you, right?
Yeah.
There you go.
This is great.
So
families can show up.
This is a fundraiser.
Let's not forget that.
You know, the money is going to the Dylan Family Foundation that there's so much good in all of Northeast Wisconsin.
I mean, they've done some some events here in Green Bay.
So this
Anyone can come and then you've got the itinerary.
Can we go online and look this itinerary up too?
There's a lot on here.
There's a lot on here.
When I read this, I'm like, there's
a full day.
Oh yeah.
My, my, uh, good friends that rally on there, the official pickleball paddle sponsor of the tournament, they're donating panels.
We're going to have AJ sign them and wrap them off.
Nice.
Uh, they built the website for me.
You know, like I said, I'm in healthcare.
I don't know how to do all this techie stuff, but.
They built me a website so you can find all the tournament details on Wisconsin, abbreviated wi-pickleballforourpurpose.com.
That way you can see the whole itinerary, get a link to sponsor, get a link to sign up to participate.
You know, the hope is to do this every year, but we're just getting off the ground and it's crazy.
You're right.
How fast the sport is growing and the community sport we have.
I hope it's a precipice of something really cool.
And again, I just want to run through your like 8 30 a.m.
Check in for the beginner bracket and kind of a mixer just to you know You can play with anybody you want there just you know beginner bracket got people giving you advice and everything that starts at 8 30 tomorrow morning then at 9 o'clock the beginner bracket play starts and and for the and I don't know anything about this stuff Brett and maybe you don't either this more good, but DUP are what is a DUP are it says your DUP are score
should be between two and 2.9 so there are it's almost like handicaps I guess in in golf or bowling or or anything else huh
yeah that's exactly what it is and pickle pickleball people know what that is but it's an acronym for the dynamic universal pickleball rating
okay
It's an algorithm and basically like a handicap in golf, like you just know what your skill level is because the goal pickable is to play people of similar level.
Like if you're a beginner, you want to play other beginners.
If you're advanced, you want to play advanced.
It just makes the game more fun because it's competitive.
So that just basically is beginner level.
Actually, if you look online at the itinerary, that's the only thing we changed.
We changed that last night just because that's the one part of the day we didn't have a lot of people sign up for.
It's not a Friday.
People are working.
A lot of people don't want to play competitively.
They want to play just for fun.
That's why we're like, let's just open it up.
Building opens at 6 AM, 6 AM to 10.
Anyone come in the door will teach you how to play.
Oh, that's more for the adults.
But we're doing the kids in the afternoon.
The rest of the day, we'll follow that itinerary online.
But we're just going to open up the morning to getting people in the door playing, having a good time.
And that'll roll right into the rest of the events.
Wow.
Sounds awesome.
I love it here.
Learn to play at 3 o'clock.
Pickleball 101.
Kids designed for kids open.
I mean this you got everything you got it all covered
and with a jaded little money for you know sighting the paddles
There's a
lot of stuff there.
I'm sure there's gonna be baskets and everything else people can donate to so yeah, this is great I mean, thank you for doing this.
It's great.
Well, it's great
that people can have an opportunity to play pickleball, but it's also a great fundraiser.
He does so much for this community, so him and his wife.
And the goal is to raise $100,000 to support the Dillon Family Foundation, whose mission is to empower families and combat hunger in our communities, dedicate to providing resources, support and opportunities that strengthen family bonds and enhance well-being.
Through their initiatives, they strive to ensure that no person goes hungry, every family has the means to thrive.
A.J.
Dillon and his wife, Gabrielle,
phenomenon.
This is great, man.
Good stuff, Brad.
I got a feeling this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as these types of things and how popular the sport is becoming.
And it's great what you guys are doing for all levels.
You know, it's not like, again, like, nobody's gonna show up at a golf tournament and say, oh, you know, I want to play this.
You're making it so comfortable, family friendly.
Right.
Yeah.
So it's W I pickleball for a purpose.com.
W I dash pickleball for purpose.com
takes place tomorrow morning.
Pickleball Kingdom in Appleton.
Goals raised $100,000 for the Dillon Family Foundation.
Brett, you got to talk to us next Monday.
Let us know how this all went, OK?
It looks awesome.
Yeah, I'd love to bring Bex with me.
We'd love to be on again and talk about how it all goes.
Sounds fantastic.
Appreciate it very much, buddy.
Have a great day tomorrow.
See
you.
Take
care, guys.
Quick break.
Back after this.
what they say can't be done.
We've got a long way to go and it's short time to get there.
Hey,
welcome back.
Mine with the Mayor here.
Man, that sounds like a great event they've got going on in Appleton tomorrow, doesn't it?
It does.
With the
pickleball thing?
That handicap, what did you think of when you looked at the, you know, the DUPR, the score, 2.0 to 2.9 and then 3.0?
Call bring anything back to you.
Did you look at that and say oh my god, that reminds me of no PSA scores.
Oh, I was gonna say yeah, that's what
You know, because once it gets up there, it's like four, five.
Prostate score?
Yeah, your PSA score.
I did not think of that.
That's how they range them.
OK, well, maybe I'm the only one.
I just, when I saw that, I thought, oh, that's weird.
OK, well, anyway.
From pickleball to prostate.
There you go.
That's your new thing.
No, you get pickleball.
You won't get prostate.
Mino and the Mayor,
from prostates to pickleball
to prostate.
We do it all.
I'm with you.
I'm with you.
I'm with you on that.
You covered all.
I'm with you on
that.
I got a thing here.
Fun fact, a lot of pro wrestlers have started to play pickleball.
from TJ.
Really?
Sincerely?
I mean, is that a good?
That's what he's saying.
I believe
him.
I believe it.
I mean, I think that's a great sport.
I mean, I haven't played it yet, but
I'm not.
I don't want to question the.
I'm not sure the birthplace was was Arizona.
I thought it was.
I thought that was more south, like Mexico stuff that that started
that
really started.
I
think I don't know if it started in America, but I do think the Southwest is kind of weird
because of
older people
living there.
Yeah.
Year round.
Yes.
Yeah, that's interesting.
I got, but he goes to Arizona in the summer.
It goes winter.
And every time I'd call him, he'd be outside at the, they'd converted their, um, tennis
courts
to pickleball.
And it was one of those big, it's almost like, what's the big place in, in Florida?
The, uh, the village or whatever.
Yeah.
The
village is a
village.
And he's one of those kind of place in Arizona.
And they converted them all to, because nobody's playing tennis anymore.
And he said, they're just, I mean, when, when's the last time you were at a place and you said somebody playing tennis, right?
It's now they're converting all of them to pickleball.
And he said,
unbelievably popular
well how many times do you drive by test courts and there's nobody
nobody you know another thing you never seen anymore when i was a kid when i was a kid you could in my little towns you know whatever you couldn't drive by park where there wasn't pick a basketball go
right i was just gonna say that
and people sitting waiting to get into a game
yeah yeah
yeah
yeah i mean that's that and that's always gonna be
Don't you think that's not gonna go there
gonna convert those courts into anything?
No, but they might as well convert them into something because you just never see pickup basketball in parks anymore
Well, I live across the street from
one.
Well,
the okay that one the only other one is by Green Bay West High School.
That's another
good.
That's another one.
Yeah, they Yeah, and I'll be honest with I one time when I was living on the west side of grizzly oven off of military
first move to Green Bay.
And I would, you know, I was still young and, you know, enjoyed playing.
And I remember going to the West courts one time, it's like, oh, they're good,
right?
This is good.
This
is, this is, uh, and the, um,
this
is serious.
And you didn't want to give
up the court.
You know, there
are other people on it.
So there was real competitive
games for you to have to sit.
And then, um, it, sometimes they kind of control the court a little too much.
We have a few issues out there, but, um, bunch of good kids, they just love playing basketball.
And then we did that thing with the.
They were good.
They played the cops.
Yeah.
Smith went out there.
Absolutely.
He got smoked.
Yeah.
Well, he used to play a lot.
Oh, he
was good.
He was good.
Yeah.
He was a uber
guy who
loved pickup basketball.
Yeah.
No question about it.
Brian says 43-172.
Still very soupy, foggy.
See?
Yeah.
Pat here says Pickleball actually started in Bain, Washington.
I
think
Bainbridge.
Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Didn't know
that
me there
yeah,
this William says how about a pickleball match with Jim and John for charity?
I'd pay to watch that.
Yeah, would just well we got
you know what here think about this Todd put this together.
Yep Yeah, the same day of the regatta
I was just gonna say, what if we made it almost like a triathlon, but
three
different sports?
I like it.
We do the kayaking, then you guys have to play a little pickleball.
You gotta
find one more thing that you guys can,
maybe a bike, maybe
a bike race.
Cribbage.
Cribbage.
15-2, 15-4.
Parasix,
yeah.
Nobs of seven.
I don't
know.
play chess.
I was talking to my host mother in Germany a while back.
She had to Google what pickleball was.
It's coming.
Yeah.
It's commentary.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is unbelievably popular.
We were out at that wedding we were at last weekend.
The table we were at and they're all similar to us in age, maybe two years either way.
They're all in these like leagues.
Well, that's what I mean.
It's not like a game.
It's like the league every Thursday show up and you play for like like three hours
Have you seen the Charlie Barron's skit of the?
Pick a ball tournament in Manitowoc.
No It is really really good.
It's so cuz it's like these other people's yuppie couple who are so serious
to
it Okay, and they're drinking bloody Charlie that drinking bloodies before thing.
Oh, you know, he's like, why is it so cold here in Manitowoc?
And the lady records God what a nice day we gotta go to the church picnic after this then it was like so apropos of the
different levels of this Yeah, he is funny.
Yeah, uh
Push-ups for the third competition, says Mike.
We
talked about that one
time.
I got that.
You guys haven't followed through on
any of these, you know?
I told you about that thing, and Mark Houston has not done a thing to alleviate it.
Remember?
What
thing?
That pulled muscle I got.
I can't remember the name of the muscle.
It's the trapezoids.
Trapezoid?
Trapezoidoid.
Something like that.
Something like that.
So my push-up days have been put on hold.
What else going on today?
Bring flowers to someone day.
Wasn't that a nice day?
Yeah.
Can I
just say one thing though?
Jim, go and go to a restaurant, grab them off the table, take them to your wife.
Right, but she's out of town.
Just
don't do a bachelor.
Don't do a bachelor.
Don't do that.
My
mom did it by artificial
ones.
No matter how realistic they
look.
Bring flowers to someone day.
That's, yeah, that's like, you know, have you seen how expensive flowers are?
I know, right?
Yeah, they are.
But.
They're
expensive.
I'm
telling you.
Have you seen how much flowers are?
I used to be able to get a bouquet for my honey for five cents.
It's kind of what you look like.
Todd, that's funny.
Sometimes I don't like you, Todd.
That is funny.
That is funny.
Have you seen the kids these
days?
We gotta connect with them.
Hey,
we've got a phenomenal guest coming up in five minutes.
The gentleman's name is Jeff Olson.
Oh, yeah.
And wait, I'm just gonna tell you this story.
It's mental health week.
Month.
Month.
And young people, mental health is important.
Wait till you hear this gentleman's story when we come back.
Jeff Olson.
Do it for Daniel is the name of his project wait until you hear this story back right after
this
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back on a foggy Thursday morning here in downtown Green Bay, Apton, Oshkosh.
And I'll point managed walk every place really foggy out there.
Please be very careful.
You
actually had something happen to you this morning that just let people know.
The issues with cellcom service.
Yeah.
The phones are down.
That's why you could not call me this morning.
And I just got notification on that from another source.
So
cellcom is down.
So it's not my phone.
It's not your phone.
So it's
not
from not paying the bill.
No.
No.
And
it's not you, John.
That's
all right.
That's what we want to do.
I thought I got hacked or
something.
All
right.
What
does that mean to get hacked?
I have no idea.
When somebody breaks in and they take all your information.
I'm trying to.
Hey, I'm from the Ghani.
I don't know.
No, that's going to be a tough day on cellcom.
Holy cow.
Oh, I guess.
Well, we've got a very special guest.
Jeff, are you there, buddy?
I'm here.
Jeff Olson, live from Ishpenning.
Yep.
OK, buddy.
All right.
Hey, Jeff Olson, I'm going to give a little background.
Jeff is a legendary high school football and basketball coach.
Three state championships.
I think three runners up.
um just unbelievable what he did with the ish brimming hematites and had a son who was just an amazing athlete in fact my brother-in-law was his coach at st.
Norbert and jeff i'm just gonna let you take it from there in in in regards to what got you here today what you're doing right now and what you've pretty much devoted the rest of your your life to so coach jeff olson from ish brimming michigan jeff go ahead and take it away in regards to do it for daniel program buddy
Sure.
You know, I've been coaching for, well, I'm retired now, but coached for 37 years, 27 at Ishpermin.
Had some good teams.
My son grew up, my son Daniel grew up in our program, bringing them to practice as a kindergartner.
You know, really a great athlete.
I always say this, pretty much an all-American kid.
Tons of friends, girlfriends.
um good at pretty much everything he did he was an all-state you know an all-state quarterback at he was only five eight hundred and sixty five pounds but he he still was an all-state quarterback in basketball he was a conference defensive player of the year hey hey hey hey jeff
hey jeff i could just interject every athlete in the u p is five eight hundred and sixty pounds let's be
honest you're not kidding there you're not kidding there so yeah and uh
You know, he led us to the state championship game in 2010.
I believe that was his senior year You know and his big dream was it was never about him, you know, he just wanted to win he wanted me to win a state championship but he Struggled with anxiety and depression and he actually wrote a paper When he was senior in high school that he thought he started to feel different in sixth grade and actually my wife and I
noticed some things were off in sixth grade, but he did what so many people do.
He fought it on his own in silence for five years until the spring of his junior year in high school.
And that's the first time he came to us, asked for help.
He was suicidal at the time.
Come to find out later on that two years before that as a freshman, he was
extremely close to taking his life.
Had it all planned out, had everything set up.
The only reason he didn't do it was grandma was in the other room.
But anyways, he came to us, asked for help as a junior in high school, fought it for three more years, had a couple suicide attempts in between there.
We got him help, but he...
You know, there's such a huge stigma involved with anxiety and depression that people are going to think you're crazy or you're weak.
You can't handle everyday life or just suck it up.
Or maybe you're faking something and it's farther from the truth.
So with all that stigma involved, and you're talking probably when he was getting help, 2008, 2009, 2010.
You know, the help didn't make sense to him.
It wasn't a quick fix.
So he didn't do everything he was supposed to do, you know, as far as taking his medications, as far as therapy.
Therapy didn't make sense to him.
Like I said, it wasn't a quick fix.
So anyways, fast forward to his senior year, got us to the state championship game.
We lost that game.
He ended up going to St.
Norbert.
to play college football, thinking he might, you know, a change of venue, change of scenery might help him.
It didn't.
He was having multiple panic attacks a day.
He ended up having to drop out of school after middle of his, middle of his second year there and came home.
Ultimate, not a job, but ultimately the anxiety and depression was too much for him.
And he ended up taking his life at one month before his 20th birthday.
And obviously tough on us, tough on our family.
But I felt the need, and my wife and I felt the need to speak up and not hide this.
And we decided two days after he passed away at the funeral home, you're trying to write as a bituary that we were going to put this out in the open, talk about it.
And in hopes of educating people so they didn't have to go through it, my son Daniel went through.
So loved ones, parents, family members don't have to go through it.
Our family went through.
So what happened was, when Daniel played in the state championship game,
There was it was down in Detroit Somebody on the video That was filming the game for for Fox Fox Sports Remembered that game was captivated by the story in 2012 because we went down in 2012 that actually Daniel took his life He was going to when he when he gave up st.
Norbert football.
He was going to be an assistant coach with us
He actually worked with the kids and then two weeks or a week and a half before the season started.
That's what he took his life.
So it was kind of a dedication.
The team dedicated the season to Daniel to us, our family.
We had a good team, not a great team, but we ended up kind of overachieving, went down, won the state championship that year.
Kind of like I said earlier, that was kind of Daniel's dream for me to win one.
One guy that was filming on the video camera was captivated by the story.
His daughter was suffering at the time, so him and his wife had never done it before, but they wanted to make a documentary about Daniel's life.
They came up, talked to us about it.
My wife wasn't on board at the time, but they came up, kind of convinced us, kind of convinced her.
So, you know, the number one reason she didn't want her son
out there for people to judge.
And when we kind of put all our trust in them, they made a documentary, Daniel's Life.
And so when we had that documentary, he also made a Facebook page, do it for Daniel Facebook page.
People started calling schools, mainly communities, to see if I would go speak and talk about suicide prevention, mental health.
anxiety and depression.
So seven years ago I decided to do that and I've been doing that ever since, been to many schools around the Midwest and sharing Daniel's story but also speaking along with it to try to educate people about what this is, what it feels like to have it.
what the symptoms are because you know when i've been traveling and you talk to people who are struggling and even now you know it's hard for them to put in the words because it's you know it's mental you know it's mental pain and it's hard for them to put in the words so we want to give give people words to say to come forward confidence to come forward um to show that this is is a very common illness um it's treatable
And there's no shame in coming forward.
So that's where we are.
Man, I'm really feel bad for you.
I don't have to say 19 year old.
It sounds to me, though, a couple of things you said, it sounds like you did a lot.
I mean, you did a lot.
I think sometimes people are like, I wish I would have done something.
Get
over at whatever.
You just didn't.
You guys had that empathy.
I want you to just talk about that a little bit.
And then I want you mentioned that in sixth grade, you saw signs.
Like, what were those signs?
Well,
Irritable, couldn't handle things that were going wrong with him.
Just not being him.
One of the symptoms is you're just not yourself and that's hard for people to understand.
So there were some things that he couldn't handle and he would just get really upset or really withdrawn.
Also, um, so those are types of things.
Well, what's going on?
He wouldn't talk, you know, he's not, he's not his normal outgoing self at times.
So, you know, we were wondering, um, you know, well, what's going on?
And, um, you know, then all of a sudden it seemed like he'd be back to himself and then it would just kind of be the ups and downs and, um, really came to a head is his freshman year in high school.
Um, and then he came forward in.
is junior year so that's the big thing you know when when you talk about mental illness or you know it's we I don't like the term because that's where the the stigma is really attached to it it's a medical illness of the brain and there's actual physical things that are happening in your brain connections are off thoughts aren't getting in the part of your brain where they need to there's deficiencies in your brain so we really need to call it
what it is.
It's a medical illness of the brain.
And, you know, that's the hard part about that.
And everybody's is different, you know, and the brain is so volatile.
There's so many things involved that, you know, when I go around and speak, you know, every once in a while, you'll get somebody, well, you know, because the message is this is treatable and it is treatable.
And they're saying, well, you did everything.
How come it wasn't treatable for Daniel?
And, you know, there's a couple things involved.
Well, Daniel didn't do everything he was supposed to because it didn't make sense to him.
The stigma was there.
So he didn't do therapy very well.
He was supposed to do some homework and he didn't do it.
Some of the medications, you know, sometimes the medications don't work because there's so many medications out there.
Everybody's is different.
So, you know, our message is, you know, if after two, if you get put on a medication after two or three weeks, you're not feeling better or the same.
You got to go back and say, I don't think this is working.
This is the way I'm feeling because you would with any other illness.
And I, and I always use the analogy of my knee.
I hurt my knee jogging.
I went and they manipulated said, oh, you have a slightly torporous meniscus.
give it two or three weeks.
I gave it a month, went back to the doctor, could describe the pain.
He gave me a cortisone shot a month later.
I went back because I still had pain.
He did minor surgery, cleaned it up, was supposed to be taken care of.
I kept, I went back again.
I knew I wasn't going to get judged.
I could describe where the pain was, you know, what I could do, what I couldn't do.
Went back another cortisone shot, month and a half later went back again.
was able to describe it.
Knew I wasn't going to get judged.
They did a partial knee replacement and I'm pain free.
My point is I kept going back because I knew I could describe where the pain was.
I knew I wasn't going to get judged.
I knew this was real.
When you have a medical illness of the brain, that's hard to do.
Where
would Jeff Olson
unbelievably successful high school football coach who locked away from that to spread a message that is so important.
And it is mental health month that we've been talking about that a bunch, but we really need to also concentrate on the young people.
You know, because our era, let's be honest, Jeff, the UP, our dads are remembering, get over it.
What the
hell's wrong with you?
Get over it.
What do you got
to complain about?
Jeff Sticker, I'll get center one minute break back with more Jeff Olson.
Do it for Daniel program.
folks, please look this up.
Look it up.
We'll be back with more with Coach Olson right after this.
Hey, welcome back, Mino the Mayor here on a Thursday morning, Green Bay Alpton and Oshkosh were with Jeff Olson, legendary coach from Ishpeming, Michigan, who is devoting his life right now to talk to young people about mental health.
His son, Daniel, is an unbelievable athlete, unbelievable student, everything you would ask for and the mental illness.
As you mentioned, it's an illness, it's not a condition, it's an actual
Illness absolutely took his life Jeff is devoting his life to try to help others where this doesn't happen anxiety all the different things and again You know you talk about kids that are you know?
Oh, that's poor kid in school.
He didn't have many friends or he's bullied or whatever.
This was the all-American boy.
This was the all-American boy.
And if that can affect somebody like that, so Jeff, it's awesome what you do and people need to see the video, do it for Daniel.
Jim's got about 20, we only got like seven minutes left and Jim's got 162 questions for you.
So we'll just start with
the basics.
Go ahead.
You talked about the documentary and, you know, are you pleased with it?
Does it get the message out you wanted to and how can people look at that?
Tell me your first-hand
experience.
Well, I love the documentary and people have to understand this wasn't made.
This was Daniel's story.
It wasn't made as an educational tool.
So that's why I speak when I show it and kind of explain some things and try to get people to understand what this is, what it feels like to have it, what you can do.
Then you show the documentary and it gets people captivated.
But it's a long presentation, so what we've done too is there's two ways I can do it.
I can speak, show the documentary, speak again after that, and that's an hour and 40 minutes long, or I've made 14 minutes of clips of the documentary so I can speak and show the 14 minutes of clips, and that's a 50 minute long documentary.
But the great thing about this documentary for us, for me, is
You know, we get to see Daniel's face.
We get to be, people are talking about him.
You know, and it's, it's, you know, he's not here, but at least we can see him.
People are, people are talking about him and that's healing.
And this is kind of, you know, me doing this is kind of therapeutic for me.
It doesn't have to, doesn't have anything to do with how strong you are.
This is kind of my therapy.
Being able to help people, get people to understand.
through Daniel because one of the things Daniel said in confidence to his girlfriend is, no matter what he did, no matter what he would say, nobody's ever going to be able to understand what he's going through.
So I feel like I'm Daniel's voice to get people to understand what he couldn't.
And that's that this is a very common medical illness that's very treatable.
Yeah.
And I want to just talk about that for a second too.
You said the stigma of it, you know, and you think that's getting better, you getting out there and talking.
And I think this has talked about a little bit more, maybe not enough, but our kids getting more comfortable.
Going and talking to people because we talk about China I talk about this all the time Physical health you're in the doctor right away mental health.
You just stay at home.
It's like, well, we'll see a doctor They're out there and your insurance will probably cover it too.
So it's But so I want you to ask about I want you to comment on how you get a kid to go see somebody You know and then the other thing is that you said he didn't really do his homework.
Tell me how it can help people do their homework, I guess
Well, the key word for me is understanding.
People have to understand, not just the person struggling, but the people around them, what this is, what it feels like to have it, so they can come forward and say...
You know what?
I don't feel like myself anymore.
Well, what does that mean?
Well, I can't laugh anymore.
You guys are cracking jokes.
I know it's supposed to be funny.
I can't feel that.
Or I'm sad all the time.
Well, how can you be sad all the time?
You have this going on, that going on.
You're a four point student, best athlete in the county.
You can build a engine with your bare hands.
How can you be sad?
I don't know.
I have these negative thoughts.
I can't get out of my head, or I have this constant doom and gloom attitude that bad things are going to happen to me and my family.
Common response.
Snap out of it.
Well, you can't snap out of a medical illness, and if the connections are off in your brain, you can't snap out of that.
So, you know, I'm worthless, you know, and you could be very successful, but you still feel worthless.
Those are all symptoms.
So we want to give people the words to say, but we also want to give them the confidence to come forward.
Um, and know that they're not going to be judged.
Know that when they say that, people are going to take them serious and that it's real.
And in response to your initial question, it is getting better.
But I say this, it's moving as at a snail's pace, you know, coming forward and
go ahead.
If we don't get a chance to see you, do you have a website that you're comfortable with or do you have?
I just think parents.
parents nobody knows their kid better than their parents if they're seeing these signs and you want to help us we don't know how where do you go where do they go get some information support group
well we have two we have do it for daniel dot com page that tells uh that set talks about our mission um shows um a trailer of our documentary but if you go to the do it for daniel dot com page read the testimonials and kind of see what other people are saying about the presentation it's always
how it's helped them.
We also have a Do It For Daniel Facebook page.
And a lot of people, that's how I get to go where I'm going to present because people message that page.
And then they get the information to me, I call them and go.
So there's a lot of information posted on the Do It For Daniel Facebook page.
And then to see our mission is to do it for Daniel.com page.
Do you come to Green Bay Area at all or Appleton at all?
Yeah, I've been I've been there.
I've been into peers at the theater there.
I did a presentation, community presentation.
So, you know, I go all over.
Outstanding.
Hey, Jeff, this is this is awesome.
It's it's heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time.
And it
really truly is.
And it would have been so much easier for you to just say
Horrible tragedy.
I'm just gonna move on yada yada yada Instead you were devoted your life right now to try to prevent people from being in the situation that you and your family You don't find yourself in or found yourself in your saving lives by doing this and I'm not even I'm not trying to be melodramatic But you're saving lives Jeff.
There's not a question about that
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Well, thank you so much, Jeff.
He felt the good work.
Yeah, I get it too.
You're going to have people around here contacting you.
And if you ever come down this area, please give me a call.
Give us a call.
We'd love to have you in the studio or have a cold beverage with you sometime.
That'd be
perfect.
All right, my friend, Jeff Olsen in Spring, Michigan.
Do it for Daniel.
Please check it out, people.
Very, very important thing.
Jeff, thanks so much for taking the time, my friend.
Yeah, thanks for having me guys.
Thank you, buddy.
Take care.
See you.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Wow, special thanks to Jeff Olson.
Do it for Daniel, folks.
If you're a school administrator, a coach, or teacher, or any level of parent, look it up.
Look up.
Do it for Daniel.
Because this is such an important thing with young people, with mental health.
And like he said, I thought, you know, Jeff cut right to the chase.
You know, you could have a physical problem like he had with his knee.
And you realize, well, what they're doing isn't working.
We need something else.
and you gotta look at mental illness as an illness, as an actual illness.
Not just get over a type thing, you can't, he said it's the same as when he tore a thing in his knee saying get over it, it'll heal by itself.
You can't.
And at this young age, 16, 17 year olds.
And he was saying
that if the kid gets some...
you know, medication.
Well, this will make you feel better.
Well, he's not feeling better.
He's got to say something.
This isn't working.
You know, if your knee wasn't feeling better, you go back to the doctor and say, hey, it still hurts.
Well, you'd be able
to see it
too.
Right.
Exactly.
Mental health illnesses.
Invisible.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And I mean, all Americans get 4.0 student.
Yeah.
You know, because I think I don't forget what he was going after at St.
Norbert.
You know, good looking kid, amazing athlete.
You know, you say, well, that kid, he'll never have a problem.
Yeah.
Right.
You have no idea
what's going on in
there.
Yeah, my
mom was, she's always been a mental health nurse.
She's retired
now, but
yeah.
So, you know, we've, we've, we've heard, you know, kind of, it's always been on the forefront of conversations
in our house.
Yeah.
And it should be just make that conversation if nothing else.
Yeah.
Knowing that, you know, you're, everything's, everything doesn't have to be okay all the time.
And
it's okay to tell people when it's not.
Absolutely.
That's what I'm talking about.
like you're fat.
We're pretty open about that.
Yeah.
So on our table and you know, people can see the counselors and, but I just, my daughter was very stressed out in New York.
She was, I said, how are you doing?
Oh my god, dad, this is terrible.
I just see my therapist twice.
I don't need to hear that.
But the fact that she's a
dad.
They might be bringing out some old family
drama.
I'm sure my name's been mentioned on the
couch.
But
I know
it is to my therapist.
Trust me.
As long as we're sharing.
Thank you.
I just think it's good that people talk about it.
The old doctor.
You're right.
You can talk about it.
It's like,
what
did
she say?
And we have some fun conversations around that.
But anyway, yes.
I think I lost a son over this.
We're
talking about another one, a local athlete that we both knew.
Can games get here in town?
I mean, it's, you don't have to be 40 years old to have that issue.
And I wonder if it's getting worse these days with social media and all the different things with questionable.
Well,
absolutely.
Because you see people's lives and how you think that they
are.
I mean, I think it goes
across the board no matter what age you are.
But when you're young and you haven't experienced life and you haven't felt those up and downs, knowing that you can make it through.
you're not going with that knowledge base that you know you can get through this and you're seeing everybody in these perfect lives that they have and in reality.
They're usually not.
They're just showing you.
And you're judging yourself against that.
I know,
which is totally unfair.
Completely 100%.
Yeah.
I know.
Stop, stop.
Yeah.
But what's going on in the biz?
I mean, things are hopping.
Just I still follow it.
You know, I still like the business.
I mean, and it's like, oh, wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's getting crazy.
You know, buyers and sellers, they're, they're coming out.
So we've got, we've actually got a home listing today.
Hopefully around noon, everybody will see it, but it's right over right behind.
Bayport,
yeah, Moose Creek Estates, I think.
Just off of Moose Creek.
Yeah, so
it's kind of a neighborhood where things don't turn over very much.
Extremely popular area.
Yeah,
beautiful home, beautiful home.
Two-story, three-bedroom, just gorgeous house.
That's going to be listing today.
Wow, that's exciting.
Yeah, we got a home that hit just off of Humboldt, 10 acres, a private pond.
Wow!
Yeah, right in the city.
I was going to say
that's...
Yeah, that's a lot of elbow room for the city.
Yeah, it's pretty great.
It is, but you don't find that very often.
No, no.
That one's a little deceiving for people who drive by it on Humboldt because it's behind.
So you'll see Ben sign and then you have to go down that driveway.
It's a private driveway.
So it's a private driveway
and it's right between two homes and you can't see the home.
Wow.
That's per sale off this
one.
It's kind of nice.
Yeah, so
you kind of have to, you know...
That
sounds fantastic.
Pan fish in the pond.
Nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I know.
Within the city limits.
Within the city limits.
Can
you believe
it?
Yeah.
Thank God
he's not
Barrymore.
He had to like do something.
It's like.
Development.
Are you
kidding me?
Fill in the
pot.
Fill
in the pot.
Actually 40 more houses on that.
Quarter acre lots.
Let's do it.
Yeah.
His brother lives in that same area.
So I'm not sure that would go over very well
with family.
That's awesome.
Tell me again about the Bayport one.
That one is hitting today.
I think it's just over 600.
I can't think
of what we
landed.
So it'll be listed today.
It's not listed
yet.
It's going to be listed.
It's all put in.
We're getting ready for approval this morning, so usually it's
around here.
So every realtor in.
a hundred mile radius is going to see that pop up in the MLS.
We hope so.
We
hope
so.
And we'll have an open house there this weekend as well.
Then we got one coming up on St.
Mary's Boulevard in Allaway on Monday.
That's like my
favorite
street.
That's St.
Francis St.
Mary's.
I lived in Allaway.
Why didn't I live across Webster?
But those don't come up for sale very often.
And there's something about those boulevards.
Yes.
Gorgeous.
Love
them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Impeccable
home.
And they've always been.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was just to say that I,
quick story.
Throw the pack or coaches used to live.
Yes.
That, that's a beautiful neighborhood.
I sort of tell you a quick story.
When we got married 35 years ago, we were looking for houses and this, he's dead now, the realtor, but he took us over there.
And I
was going to start a business and you can't have a really nice house and start a business.
There's just not that kind of money.
And he's taken me through that place on St.
Mary's.
Oh no, Jim, you deserve this.
I grabbed him by the shoulders.
I said, you show me something half this price.
And he did I bought a house half the price
and I
started a business, but he's all those are beautiful home.
They're so well-maintained Well, that's what I mean.
They keep And then the Boulevard's well maintained.
I mean the alleyway does a good job.
It's just in that neighborhood looking good Yeah, and
it's one of those neighborhoods where every house looks different.
Yeah,
you know, you've got
some nice style.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, that's cool.
That'd be good.
That'd be a fun one.
Yeah, I love that.
I think
that one will go fast
too.
Yes, that hits Monday and that
is right around 499.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know what you mean that there was like
really cool craftsmanship and the design
and everything.
When we were
going from, we were going to the Packard Draft, we took the bus and we were going through some neighborhoods.
I even told my son Dom, I said, boy, can you tell when these were all built in about 1966 or 67?
Every
one,
same builder.
And it's
like you must use the same design to save
money or
whatever.
I mean, nice, but versus those kind of neighborhoods.
Everybody was a little bit different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And
it's just, yeah, it's just everybody together and everybody maintains, you just, the streets are so beautiful.
I mean, Moose Creek Estates is like that
too.
You know, every
house.
Not a lot of rentals all to her.
No.
But those are water occupied homes with families.
Yeah.
It's just, you could just feel it when you're there.
I've always liked that neighborhood.
I mean, I,
Happy where I am, but that's yeah, me too.
Yeah, just the stones throw
from the Fox River trail.
Oh, yeah
So when you look at Green Bay, it seems like there's a still a lot of building going on
a
lot
There is
and I just hope we don't overbuild but
nobody feel that yeah, I feel
the same way it
But every time you drive out, it appears building stuff.
Obviously, Green Bay has a couple projects going on.
And I'm just hopeful that that frees up.
these smaller starter homes for you guys, or for, I should say you guys for the first time buyers, because we lack that.
Yeah.
Well, I think what you're seeing so much of, which is good, is we've got a lot of kind of upper end rentals, apartments going up, which is nice.
And I think that we've got some low income housing that's kind of opened up as well.
And we've got condos that are coming.
And I think that with the generation that is retiring and the baby boomers,
trying to get to their winter place through the winter and then they still want a summer home here, those rentals and those condos are amazing for them.
And so I
think
they're filling a void for sure that I think our area was a little slow on.
That's funny to say that because we talk about that.
I mean, our next move will be to a condo, right?
I'm through bedroom.
And Donna just said, somebody called and they want to buy our house.
I'm like, okay, she goes,
When they call back, you need to talk to them.
I'm like, what?
I don't want to move.
But anyway.
Somebody's
more ready than you
are.
Yes.
And are those legit calls?
That they'll
buy your house or when you have a postcard in the mail Jonathan this is a
friend
Those are legit, okay, but you're not gonna get what you could get if you put your home on the market,
right?
They're
easy they're gonna be a cash no inspection They just they want your home to flip it
because I had a guy one time at a beautiful house at him last often Okay, I did get the listing everything and he told me goes I gotta be honest.
I'm not gonna pay a full commission like
Well, okay.
I mean, you know, I go to just ask why which
is
fine to get his business.
You know, whatever he goes because I got like three or four other people.
I got letters from them.
They want if I ever put the house on the market, they want it.
And I looked at him.
It's like, you could tell everyone was a scam.
Oh,
yeah.
And I'm like, I got to explain this to you.
These they don't really just.
Yeah.
And it's like, if they want to buy it, then let's list it.
And you know what?
Yeah.
Come on.
Yeah.
But
sometimes people see those kind of letters and postcards or phone.
Yeah, and I mean yours is legit, but I've always know how much of that was you
know,
yeah
Yeah, well, I'm sure that there's some scams out there and you know, for the right price, anyone will buy
it.
But you're not
gonna get what you should be getting
for your home.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We're talking,
and ironically, none of those people came to the showings.
Yeah.
So you just listed them and then went to
full commission on everybody else.
Yeah, that's what
I've done too.
You know, we get that a lot too when you're talking to people, you know, sellers especially, who they're talking to a bunch of agents, which they really should
in a few,
you know, a handful, but there's always a...
that come with buyers in their pockets, supposedly.
Yeah, hair quotes.
Yeah, yeah, and we're like, that's fantastic.
When it
hits,
have them bring their buyers.
And ironically, then you never see them.
Yeah, I know.
Save the guy, you're right, with those letters.
Have your children get heavier.
Have you been to them lately?
Yeah, I know, I know.
Well, we all
gotta get business some
way, right?
Some of us
just do it more on the up and up.
Right, yep, exactly.
So the biz right now, heading into the hottest part of the season in a lot of ways, you know, schools are gonna.
be ending and yada, yada,
yada.
Tell me what it's like right now in the world of real estate in this area.
Hot, hot, hot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, honestly, a lot of buyers are coming out, which, you know, they're the ones who fuel the market.
Yeah.
Well, we had talked.
I think, you know, weather plays such a big part
of
not only just people wanting to be out and about, but how they feel.
They can finally take off that coat, that blanket, get away from their fireplace,
and head
out and see some
hobos.
Get away from their fireplace.
Because it's been
so
cold.
Yeah,
it's been so cold.
Well, you know another thing, though, too, with people as far as with the...
Houses just look better now.
Do you know what I'm saying?
Remember I told you I was looking for a little fixed rubber and
I
drove past one over off of Ashley.
And it's
like...
the driveway wasn't shoveled and the thing was full up.
And it's like, I don't want to see it.
It just looked.
I know.
There's something about that green grass and flowers coming up that just, you can't do that in the winter
for sure.
So you just have to imagine it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When you first came on, I was talking about the cost of a home and you got the home, you got the interest, right?
But there's just those other factors that seem to be escalated, not escalated, but they're going up faster than.
normal inflation and that's this insurance this roof insurance and I just hope people are really aware because the last thing you want to do is get in there and
You know not be able to afford it.
Then you're
right
to your house.
You can't go do anything.
It's
yeah, so become house poor,
right?
Yeah,
and that's a real thing because people look at a mortgage I can handle that exactly no idea how many other things come into play
Yeah, I know it's tough to and I think that happens especially with first-time homebuyers
They
don't understand all the additional costs that are gonna
come you know with that home
so we talk about it all the time You know don't go at your top.
That's good.
You're giving them that advice because you don't I mean
And you don't want them to be house-wretched,
cash-cooled.
And I get it.
I know that a lot of you realtors that wouldn't.
Yeah.
And you're like, oh, you can afford this, Mark.
We got them free up right here.
Good to go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Get in there.
Oh, yeah.
We deserve this.
Yeah.
We want them
to come back.
Ben and Jenna Malker, Moving with the Malkers.
We'll be back with them in one
minute.
time she needs to rest the kids are playing up damn stairs sister's saying
Hey, welcome back mind on the mayor here Thursday morning.
The fog is lifting There were some issues with selcom as we're talking about they were down or so like I came in I couldn't get a hold of Todd I was trying to call him this morning and so it is that back up
now I don't I don't believe it is but let me ask you something.
Why were you trying to call me this morning?
I think Todd was ignoring you.
Why why were you trying to call me this morning?
Because my okay truthfully.
Oh
God
And
I was
going to tell you, hey, it's like unbelievably foggy and, oh wait, yada, yada,
yada,
yada.
But then I was also going to tell you my phone's not, this guy's sound crazy.
I was calling Todd to tell him my phone wasn't working.
So in case you didn't get
a hold
of
him.
That's, OK, guys, that's like working at a radio station.
And let's say the station's off the air, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And then people call and say, are you off the air?
Yes, we are.
Well, you should tell us on the air that you're off the air.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's funny.
Yeah.
Just like the TV does with the screen.
That's
right.
I did that one time.
Okay, back in the day, people don't even believe this, but there was a time when the NBA Finals weren't televised.
They were taped to Laid.
Oh
my
goodness.
Yes.
And remember the classic game Lakers against the Philadelphia when Magic, Karim was out, Magic Johnson had to play center and they won the championship.
We didn't televised it live.
I was working at Tucson, Arizona.
Okay.
So what I'd have to do was I was doing sports.
I'd say, okay, folks, and we'd say look away and then we'll put up the score.
But here's what I did stupidly.
This is
true story.
I
got so
much grief for that.
I said, okay, folks, I'm gonna turn down your TVs.
I'm gonna say the score.
Everybody ready?
I'm gonna say the score, turn down your TVs.
And I said the score and they go, okay, you can turn them back up.
Yeah.
That's funny.
Honestly.
That's funny.
But that just goes to prove.
So yeah, I tried counting time
to tell him my phone wasn't working.
Your mentality in life is just, you're there.
But you're not quite there.
That's right.
You're
not
all
there.
You're your own little bubble.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So tell us more about this time of year, what you guys got going, how the business is, interest rates.
I know you hate talking about that.
Everybody does, but it's always out there.
So
you're here.
I just want to say one more thing on the listing of your home, just this decluttering.
And I just want to say I work.
you know at a homeless shelter and we get a lot of stuff and I think that's okay.
I think a lot of people do spring cleaning but I just think it's critically important if you're showing your house because nothing turns me off more than
Yeah.
Oh, definitely.
Well, and from start to finish, I mean, not only does it look better in photos, but buyers, when they're walking through and they have that just clean, fresh feel, and it feels like they can be in that space because it's not consuming them with your stuff.
They just, from start to finish, you know, getting some of that stuff cleaned up off of your floors is a big thing.
So if you've got a lot of stuff sitting on your floors, look at your floors.
If there's boxes, if there's things that don't need to be there,
Put him somewhere else.
I'm shocked sometime when realtors will post pictures with clutter.
Clutter?
Clutter?
I mean, bats, I mean, or dirty dishes on the... What?
In defense, a lot of times that's rentals.
You have to step into some of these rentals with... And
sometimes they don't want to see it sold.
Yeah, they don't want it sold.
They've got it good where it is.
I had one where
one of the kids wouldn't leave his bedroom.
He was in bed.
Oh, sure.
And people needed to see the bedroom.
He would
not get out of his
bed.
Yeah,
doors
better locked.
It's like, oh, what's in there?
Yeah.
That's
crazy.
Yeah, but it is.
It's one of those things decluttering and making sure this time...
we're just talking about how beautiful the landscape is, is making sure that things are cut, your weeds are pulled.
It makes a huge difference.
And if you want the window washer,
we
had a guy on, he's a young entrepreneur.
And he, that's what he does.
He just washes one man band.
But what a difference that makes.
Huge.
Make sure there's not any little trees growing in your gutters.
He does that too.
He does gutters.
He does all that.
That in itself, they haven't even gotten into your home.
And if you haven't, they already know what your home is going to look like on the inside.
They might not go see it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of buyers do the drive by, especially when they get really tired.
They've been out there for a while and they haven't, you know, been able to, to complete a sale, whether they buy or fatigue.
Yeah.
They get kind of that buyer fatigue.
They're going to drive by.
And if you, if you haven't kept up the outside of your home, they assume the inside is going to be the same and they may not even come.
Yeah.
I got
into it
with a guy one time.
I was doing a open house.
I was hoping open house and It was a bit like a Saturday and a lot of people were coming through and a guy comes through and he didn't have shoes on and I kicked him out Would you allow a guy with
their bare feet or bare feet bare feet bare feet?
And he wouldn't put on booties.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I would say can I see the bottom of your feet?
If they were to clean I'd be like I told him to leave and we got
into
it a little bit.
Sure.
Sure.
What would you do?
No,
I
just check his feet
That'd
be
like, ah, your feet fine.
Just let him walk through.
Oh, OK.
Yeah.
And it were me.
And
it were me.
Yeah.
But everybody's got to, you know, people got things about feet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know.
But you know, a lot of times when you have to take your shoes off, especially in the summer, people have flip flops on.
Yeah, people
have.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
That's
what it was.
Definitely.
Yeah.
OK.
I know.
Sure.
I rarely get into it with anyone at an open house, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I've been out there several times.
Maybe
that's why you're not
here.
back on the
radio.
That's why the career didn't exactly
go awesome.
We do though, I mean one thing that we do do, and I think both Ben and I, you know, when you, when you have- Okay, can
I just say something?
Another one of the ones?
Little kid wanted to bring a popsicle into this.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a no-go.
And the parents are like, oh, really?
Yeah.
They're careful.
I was just gonna say, I do round up people's kids sometimes, you know, because they jump on the furniture.
Absolutely.
And, you know, sometimes the parents are busy, so I just, you know, you kind of just nicely get them, you know, involved in something else.
Okay,
one other one is that, that house I'm telling you about last time, they had a beautiful pool.
Oh, yeah.
So parents are like, run.
The kids down there running, two kids are running alongside.
I had to go outside and watch the kids.
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah, I know.
We are kind of babysitters sometimes.
The other thing that we really watch too is people who come in with, you know, it's kind of the old store thing with big bags.
You know, if people live in that home, you've got to do your due diligence in making sure that everyone who comes through an open house is there because they actually want to see the house and not see what the stuff is.
So there are times that we stay very close to some of the people that come in, you know, and that's why we like to do like two people in open house.
So you've got one there.
and greeting people and giving them the rundown, and the other one just kind of with them.
I had a
young couple one time, I'm 100% certain they came in to go into the bathrooms to look for meds.
Oh, absolutely.
No questions.
That happens more than you know.
Is that so?
I mean,
open up, you gotta be kind of,
oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, 100%
give
yourselves a plug.
How do we find?
Oh, give give us a call 920-495-7653.
And tell me where
you're located.
Yeah, we're a little beautiful building.
I'll give you the address to 1238 Main Street, sweet 21.
It's
a beautiful old original.
Oh,
it is.
We love it.
Ben and Deanna milk.
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.
Whoa, all right, welcome back everybody.
Hi, John.
I'm glad to join you here, man.
All right.
I know.
What did you do now?
Nothing.
Sorry to make you talk.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I cleaned it up.
I brought it over there.
I actually told Jim to take because I cleaned up before.
I'm trying to clean up.
OK.
I don't believe
he cleaned it
up.
OK.
Talk about snarkiness.
Yes.
OK.
So you know, Todd just told me I was out there.
What?
He goes, hey, John, a quick thing for you?
Oh, yeah.
He goes, you know what?
I'm going like this.
That means wrap it up.
For both of you and also don't start talking till I give you one of these then, you know, your mic is on because that just happened
How many
years have we been doing
this
now?
Well, we're learning we're learning working progress one step at a time And he has to do in front of company you can't do it when you know, we're by ourselves has to in front of company.
Yeah to scold us.
Yeah.
Yeah, isn't that
my dad again?
We are
good here.
Hello
Skateboard skate parks you're doing this bigger than anyone in our community
and I just want to say Jim and I were talking about this He and I dedicated the first we talked about that in Green Bay.
Oh sweet.
That's awesome behind the old community or is that still a community police thing?
Right at Joanne's
I was telling you Washington, yeah, and that was a big deal.
It
was for sure Yeah, that was very cool.
And what I think is cool about skateboarding is you got to be talented, but there's
teamwork and that there's talent.
Your kids get along.
I just think it's a great, you know, there's some kids use these little bikes, you know, that's that's a thing too.
And I mean, people got to find their niche.
And the fact that you offer such a variety of skateboarding in our community, I think it's great.
Not only that, I think skateboarding, correct me if I'm wrong here.
Okay.
I think skateboarding was the was the
What do I say the precipice of all the the e-sports now with the the different things that you know in the Olympic type That's that's so huge now.
It's mind-boggling, but they were all skateboarders at one time weren't they Eric?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, absolutely The history of it is really fascinating because it came from surfers.
Okay, so when the waves weren't quite at peak they put roller skates on the bottom of boards and then
found banks to ride on, and then they transitioned into finding empty pools, and then started that way.
I never knew that.
Yeah, absolutely.
Oh, that's fascinating.
Yeah, so there's a lot of similarities within surfing, like the language is very similar and everything like that.
That's so cool.
So you have a, is it new?
I mean, you've moved, but is it, you're in a new place now in Holmgren, or tell me how long you've been there.
Tell me about your place.
Yeah, so it'll be two years, June 15th, that will be on Holmgren.
But yeah, it was a huge transition.
So our original building, we had 13,000 square feet and it was a dingy warehouse.
It was the old Honda Power Sports
building.
And like when you walked in, it's what you expected escape park to be.
And like I didn't grow up skating.
My son got me into it with another friend.
But when I walked in those doors, it was like I was coming home.
There was just something about it that was appealing to me and my son and his friends skated that day and then the next day I went there and that's when I got to meet Brian our founder and He talked me into at a climbing wall at the time.
So I spent the
day climbing while my son and his friend were skating.
And then my son wanted to go back the next day.
And then
that's when I
got on a board for the first time as an adult.
I had one as a kid that my grandma won in a raffle.
And it was funny because when she first got it for me, she had it on the kitchen floor, stepped on it, fell like the classic scene.
Wow.
Yeah.
But I never really did much with escape.
Did you go wrong here?
Ah, Abrams.
Oh, yeah,
it's
okay.
So, I mean, this wasn't a mecca of skateboarding.
No.
I mean,
you had people that were really interested, but they didn't have a lot of what you've done.
They
didn't have that.
Right.
And that's what's really great right now is there's so many parks that are popping up in different communities throughout Wisconsin and the world.
And the best thing about action sports is that it's very inclusive.
So anybody that shows up and is putting work into it is instantly accepted.
Well, you got the perfect motto more than a skate park.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Explain that.
Yeah.
So it's a model that we picked, and now what we're doing is working on living up to it.
So one event that we had this week was a ramp building program.
Oh, cool.
So my dad was a builder.
He built houses for 10 years.
At the time when I was younger it was more like I was holding the flashlight or being a runner for him and then I put together my first skate ramp with Brian kind of learned a little bit about the construction and then when we built our new park learned a lot by trial and error But I wanted to be able to get kids involved because there's so many different avenues that can be taken with careers
within action sports.
It's not just becoming a sponsored or a pro skater or BMX or scooter rider.
Being able to see what all those different revenues or avenues are going to be is important.
So we ended up working with Ashwabnan High School, their advanced engineering program.
Which is
awesome.
Yeah.
And they designed three different ramps and obstacles that people could purchase within this program.
And then
Tuesday night, we went over to Ashwabana on high school and then worked with Tom Barnhart.
He's one of the TechEd teachers there.
And we had four stations set up.
So we had four families participate, two built bank ramps and two built quarter pipes.
But it was great to be able to see the father and son duos.
Absolutely.
Getting a little bit of basic construction skills and they got really good quality ramps at about half of the price that you would purchase them online.
I think that's phenomenal.
Yeah.
So your place, your new place, I don't know if it's been two years, but it's 2350.
And that's how many square feet is that?
You see the one from 13 to what?
Yeah, so we got about 17,000 skatable square feet, about 20,000 altogether.
And the students who go there, most of the kids, right?
A lot of adults, I should know that.
Well,
it's really great because a lot of adults will get back into it because of their kids or their life because we have a lot of kids that get to be about 16 or 17 and then they find other interests.
Yeah.
So later in life.
Yeah, right.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I mean, a bore is always going to treat you better.
And that goes both ways.
Oh, we could
go out we could go whole segment of
that would be any fourth and that would be
easy if you let us do that We could entertain our listeners for yeah that Are you kidding me funny the lovely new salesperson?
Yes, we're talking about something there.
She's oh, I'm sure you couldn't say that because the standards and radio rate like So all
right you're talking about the skaters there the age group
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that's one of the best things about the skate community because kids that are five years old and then adults that are 45 year old can learn together.
So they're,
it takes away
the age barrier, which is amazing because kids start to learn how to have conversations with adults.
And especially this day and age, like kids are learning or forgetting how to communicate with each other.
They have
their own.
I just read this the other day, okay.
or yesterday, but it's just funny you'd say that.
It's about LeBron James and his son, Ronnie James.
You know, they're teammates with the Lakers doing whatever.
Okay.
And, and they asked LeBron, I said, well, what's it like at the dinner table when you guys sit and talk with, he goes, like, you kidding me?
So we don't, he said, he's playing video games or doing whatever, whatever.
And I'm doing my, he said, it's not like when people used to grow up where you sit around the dinner table, you know what I mean?
So for him, so for him.
Basketball, like what you're saying is what skateboarding is bringing us together.
That's what basketball was for him.
To bring his
kid together.
It was the
sport, not the dinner table.
Exactly.
So what you're saying is exactly the same as that.
I'd sort of say that these things cost money.
I mean, besides the...
the equipment, I mean, you got the heat, the light, the insurance and everything.
You have a fundraiser coming up that we wanna support.
Can you tell us
about
that?
Yeah, so it's called Glittering Gold.
It's actually happening tomorrow night over at the Stonewood venue.
The fun begins at six o'clock.
We're gonna have silent auction items.
Hinterland is providing the beer for us that night.
Oh, they're great.
Yeah, and then we'll have the new dueling pianos there.
Oh, how'd you get them?
That's awesome.
Yeah, they did an event for us when we were involved with Get Big Green Bay.
Wow.
Yeah, they're helping out again.
Yeah, those guys are great.
They're awesome for sure.
All
right, and the money that you raise.
at this event.
Hopefully it's been very successful, I think it will be, but goes to what?
Yeah, mainly it's going to go towards our operational costs, but also our programming as well.
All right.
One thing that we've been doing is just offering more programming, like the ramp building program, but we also work with the YMCA's 21C program.
So we have five schools that we work with throughout the school year that we bring in for a six week program.
One thing that we did originally and we ran out of funding was we were able to give
of each kid a skateboard and helmet that are involved in the program.
And I think the thing that most people don't realize about skateboarding is how much it helps with self-esteem and confidence.
And
I'm just gonna throw in another one of your models here that you have with your thing, talk about that function through fear.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, and that was Brian saying, and it's something that we live up to.
And Brian, of course, passed away.
Yep, a little over four years ago.
Yep,
but go ahead, your function through fear.
Yeah.
It's amazing because what I love about fear within kids is it puts everybody on the same playing field.
So you'll have kids that show up really tough.
They're like talking the language, but then you put them at the top of a ramp and they just freeze.
And then you get the opportunity to connect with them on a human level.
So all the stuff that they're trying to mimic from people that they look up to just completely disappears.
And it's just them, their board, the ramp.
and the instructor.
And I consider myself more of a confidence coach than a skate coach or any other title that I have within the organization.
That's so important.
I don't know if you've heard the
gentleman we had on earlier, Jeff Olson and his son, unbelievable athlete, 4.0 student, all American kid committed suicide.
Oh, no.
And he says, you know, it's an illness.
It's not just a thing.
It's like tearing up your knee.
It's an illness.
But all I'm saying is,
connecting like he says you connect connect connect with these young kids.
You're doing that.
It's not football, but you're doing that with this.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a beautiful thing too.
Because yeah, that's one thing that we're really focusing on.
And the reason I'm here today is because of Mental Health America
and how they plugged us last week.
Right.
And yeah, it's a serious topic and
when you're able to see a kid's confidence grow and see those accomplishments that make and the pride that they have within them and like I've studied Taiji for over 20 years and I always throw in
Eastern philosophy into my teaching and helping them to understand that if we can rely more on how we feel about ourselves rather than what the outside influences are telling us that we're gonna have a much easier life.
So being able to make that connection with your board, having to do something over and over again and failure way forward is just a huge life lesson that most of the kids that come into our facility aren't necessarily getting or they're craving for.
Another thing that we get to our kids
kids that don't necessarily fit into traditional sports.
So like you had mentioned before, there's a lot of camaraderie within skating and all action sports, and we're supporting each other.
So when you do watch skateboarding or snowboarding the Olympics, you'll notice that the contestants act different towards each other.
They're supporting each other.
So if somebody gets beat, like the person that now is taking second is super hyped because the person before probably landed something that had never been done.
on that big of a stage before.
That's cool,
man.
And I think that one of the things that we worry about with the youth is they drop out.
Yeah.
And sometimes they drop out because they don't fit in.
And you give them a venue that maybe they could fit in, right?
Maybe they don't like basketball or band or something and get over to your place and they could fit in.
I think that's really, really an important thing to have in our community here, a place like yours to invite everyone.
Tell me.
It's a good sport and that they won't get kicked off the team for smoking a little ganja.
Or was it crossed?
He brings that up like that was 40 years ago.
Jeez.
Anyway, back to, yes, he runs a clean place over there.
All right.
I lost my train of thought.
All right.
So bad.
Oh, the cost for the kids.
How do they go?
How are the kids?
I know this fundraiser is for fundraising and that's a separate event than the skating park.
But tell me a little bit more about the skating park when it opens and the cost and that kind of thing.
Yeah, so for the summer, we're going to be switching up our hours.
And then we're also going to be having all of our day passes be $10.
So we do have monthly memberships for the youth that are $45.
And then we also have a program called Access for All that allows discounted rate for families in need.
Um, but for the most part, we just want to get those kids in there and to be able to benefit from what we have to offer.
Eric Pierce, you stick around?
Yeah, absolutely.
We got a quick
break.
We want to talk more about this.
This is a great thing.
The skate park that you guys are going to want to watch it a little bit more about, you know, where you began and where you are right now.
And I love the fact that you're not just an administrator, you're a participant.
Yes.
That's the part I love about this.
I want to
talk about
that too,
that, hey, there's no stigma about being a middle-aged guy or whatever you know what I mean?
Right.
Doing some skateboarding.
Back after this.
you
Hey, welcome back to the mayor here on a trucker Thursday starting to clear up outside 61 in Green Bay 61 and out in 60 and forecast sunny and breezy storms possible later today.
Hi in the mid 70s.
You know what?
I just I don't care.
Just give me some of that 70 degree.
I mean, we were talking about Ben and Deanna Melkert.
People all of a sudden want to look at houses.
They just, you know, and it's all because of the, or partly because of the, you just want to get outside right now.
Wouldn't you
agree?
Oh yeah.
It's Gracie and your neighbors again and people walking
on
the street.
And
Eric's Peters joining us from the Green Bay Skate Park.
And the, tell me, I should know this.
What is your, your acronym stand for?
It's Green Bay.
Oh
yeah.
Green Bay Action Sports Organization.
Okay.
Action Sports Organization.
All right.
And you're talking about kids can come for $10 for the full day.
They can buy a monthly pass for $45.
Do you offer classes as well?
Yeah, yeah, we actually have a bunch of summer camps coming up.
We're partnering with the YMCA.
So for the first time, since Brian tried it the first time and realized how chaotic it is, we're going to have all day camps.
So four times a summer, one in June, two in July, and one in August.
We just posted that on our website.
So you can check it out there at Jabaso.org.
But we're going to have skateboarding in the morning and then the YMCA is going to provide supplemental activities
in the
afternoon.
So we'll have different themes.
We'll have a science theme and art and design week and games week and then a combination of all those for the fourth one.
We're at 2351 Holmgrenway.
Yep.
Now we're talking about something else that like Tony Hawk is in his 60s and all these different guys, but it's a lot more of a physical
sport.
I mean, as far as the different muscles that are used that you might not think when you watch somebody do it, go ahead and explain about guys your age or whomever how this can still benefit you.
But don't think you're just going around along this fun little ride.
Yeah, I mean, it is a fun little ride.
Like my favorite feature to skate in our park is the bowl.
So it's like your own personal roller coaster.
And there is a ton of health benefits to it, but there's something very therapeutic about slamming on the ground as well.
Like you don't want to fall, but when you do fall.
Like you have that moment where that's all that you're concerned about in life.
So I've been a Taiji instructor for over 20 years and Taiji is described as meditation and motion, but action sports is the same way because you're moving at a speed.
You have to pay so much attention to what you're doing within your body that you really don't have time to think about other things.
So it's a really good release for a lot of.
these kids that have a lot of stress in their lives and parents as well.
And like we had mentioned before, just a great opportunity for fathers and sons to connect or mothers and daughters or mothers and sons to connect as well
to
be able to have that.
Because within the screen age, there's so many distractions that we have and so might
many priorities that we think we should have that really take us away from that human connection.
So being able to have an activity that brings us back to that, but also puts us in our body where we can really focus in on the here and now, rather than all the distractions that we allow ourselves to endure is something really great about what we offer.
That's phenomenal.
But I'm looking at my core.
I need my core work done here.
That's all great.
My
core.
Let's work on my core.
Do I need to whip out my six pack right
now?
Oh my gosh.
Six
months of skateboarding to do three?
Six months, six years
to go.
The only six pack you and I have
are the one pack in the fridge.
That is true.
But it has gotten you in better shape.
Yeah, for sure.
I would say more mentally than physically.
I've always been in good shape.
always had really good balance but just like the mental aspect and when things are getting a little bit too chaotic I'll just step on my board and another thing great too is when you do form that connection with somebody that you're helping with coaching a lot of those other distractions go away and you can just focus in on helping out and the rewards from it is amazing and one of the best things about the park is the organic mentorship that happens between the kids and adults there so you can show up to any park anywhere
in the world, and I actually was able to take a trip to China with my current instructor for Tai Chi, and I actually taught a girl in China how to skateboard, which
was
amazing.
Wow!
One second, just switching gears.
Tell me about Tai Chi.
Yeah, oh yeah.
So Tai Chi is described as meditation and motion.
Right.
I got into it because...
Like I was big into karate kid when I was a kid.
And then as I got older, I felt like I was getting too old to join a martial arts class.
So when I was in college, I was looking for some way to clear my head of thoughts before I fell asleep at night.
And I heard Tai Chi described as meditation emotion, did a class and just fell in love with it.
So I've been teaching Tai Chi in the area for over 20 years.
But it's a martial art,
right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's referred to as a soft art, but what's crazy is
The weight distribution and the way that you move is so similar to being on a skateboard.
So
I think that's one of the reasons that I picked it up.
And some of my friends have given me the nickname Zen Master, which I laugh about.
But one of the things with skateboard is you want to make it look effortless.
So when you see an athlete in any sport, it's like, oh, that looks so easy.
But when you are able to make it look effortless, but have the feeling of that full confidence.
Confidence and having it feel effortless.
It's just the best Do
you give lessons Tai Chi?
Yep.
Yeah, I actually teach at Jebasso
Oh
and then over at the title town district on Wednesday mornings at 8 a.m.
I'll
be
teaching a class all throughout the summer
damn in the
September I
am Eric absolutely We're gonna get you in here.
We'll do that.
That'll be part of the whole kayak thing, right?
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah, definitely so
I'll get your balance up good and then we'll get you on the board.
Why do you think I don't have good balance now?
I'm really low center of gravity.
I get great balance.
Yeah.
Speaking
of low center of gravity, it's really great because one of the questions we get asked is when is a good time to get your kids into this activity?
And like four year olds is a really good time because their center of gravity is so low.
And when they spread their feet out,
they just have such good balance on their board.
And one of the first skills that we learned how to do is called pumping.
So on a half pipe, you can go back and forth the same physics on a swing to be able to bend and unbend your knees at the right time.
And then you just work your way
up that half thing up there.
Yep.
So with kids that are
with that lower center gravity, you're able to push them and then they go back and forth.
That'd be me.
I'd be perfect at that.
Absolutely.
Wow.
Yeah.
We're gonna six-pack.
Stop on
by.
All right, whatever.
Eric Peters, tackle your real quick, your fundraiser again tomorrow.
Yeah, tomorrow night, 6 p.m.
is where the fund starts, Stonewood venue.
You can find tickets on our website, javasso.org.
Yeah, we'd love
to- And Gullwing Pianos!
Yes, Gullwing Pianos.
It's gonna be so much fun.
Puttin' on, this is great.
I hope everybody comes out tomorrow night and see what you guys do there.
This is awesome.
Yeah.
Thanks
for having me
here.
Thanks
for having me.
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Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mine on the mayor here and a good looking Thursday now for the time being.
Once again, sunny and breezy storms possible later today, possibly severe high in the mid seventies, 60 right now in Green Bay, 63 in Aptin, 62 in Oshkosh and 107 degrees in Sydney, Australia.
What's that in
Celsius
there?
Oh yeah, that's right.
I don't know.
How many liters in a gallon?
No, I don't.
I want to say, I want
to say.
3.8.
I think she's probably close enough.
I
think nobody likes a braggart.
Right.
There you go.
Eliza Cousin, our new member of the family with the broadcast Civic Media in sales and originally from Australia, correct?
That's right.
That's awesome.
Yeah, I grew up in the bush outside of Sydney.
Okay, you don't care?
Okay, I get a fascination with poisonous snakes, with venomous snakes.
Hit me.
The brown snake,
deadly.
Oh, I gotta tell you a story about a brown snake.
Okay.
So I was probably middle school age, probably about like 14.
And I got home from school, dropped my bag on the floor and I look outside my living room window and I see my little kitten, Missy, this little tortoise shell and a seven foot brown snake.
Wow.
In
your yard.
And the brown snake, it's I think the second deadliest snake.
Cobra black mambas.
and the brown snakes.
Yeah.
So brown snake is a type of tie pan.
And if it bites you,
you've got probably
about 20 minutes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
People don't die because Australia is very good at treating snake bites, but a cat would, yeah.
So does your cat.
Yeah.
So I...
Okay, it
wasn't me it wasn't me he
It
was him.
No, John's got the story.
Let her finish her story.
Yeah,
we're
gonna
put a
pin in the guinea pig.
You're a guest.
She's like, what a jerk.
Who
am I working with?
What
have I got myself into?
So I look out and I see the seven foot type hand moving for my kitten.
And what does any 14 year old do?
Scream.
They call for their mom.
And I yelled, mom, Missy, brown snake.
And Karen Cousin grabs the broom.
No, she didn't go after one of the most deadliest snakes in the world.
And
she runs out with a broom, gets between the brown snake and my cat, chases the brown snake away, and we never saw it again, and Missy
lives.
I'm not sure I would ever go out in that yard again in knowing there's a seven-foot brown snake, the deadliest thing on earth in your yard.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, that's
Karen
helping for you.
Is that what got you to the United States?
No, how'd you end up here?
I'm serious.
Oh, I met a boy.
You know,
yeah.
Take it he's not in the picture anymore.
No, we split, we co-parent, but yeah.
I'm
glad you're here.
Why Green Bay, Australia, the United States?
Well, you went to Madison first,
right?
Oh, you went to
Madison.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So,
yeah, we've popped around a little bit.
But yeah, my ex is from Green Bay.
This is his hometown.
Oh, all right.
Yeah, when he finished grad school and we just kind of settled here.
Great.
And
yeah,
now we're raising a kid here.
And now you're going to be with Civic Media and you're going to be the outside sales force.
Yeah.
So... Is that Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh?
Really?
My job is Green Bay.
Yeah.
She
can go
wherever she wants.
If she wants to go... She's the boss.
She can go wherever she wants, but she'll be hyper-local with us.
Okay.
Yeah.
So I haven't worked in radio since...
my college radio station back in a year that is so far away.
I won't mention it.
But yeah, I have a degree in radio and I love it.
And growing up in the bush, it was, you know, what connected me to the world and I've kept this passion going.
And I really think of, you know,
sales and sponsorships and building up what you guys do as a form of community organizing.
I chose civic media because of what we do, building civic life and democracy.
And coming from an organizing and fundraising background, my job is to bring in the funds and bring in the community that backs you guys up.
We ever worry about great white sharks?
Oh yeah, they're around.
And they're all over the place there,
right?
Oh yeah, I actually just took my daughter back, my daughter is five, and we spent February in Australia.
And her daycare teacher, when she told her daycare teacher she was going to Australia, she put on a shark documentary in the pre-school, in the pre-school room,
which was maybe not
the best bet.
Okay, let me ask you this, you worried about
dingos?
Maybe
they didn't go eat your baby.
I knew that was coming.
I knew that was coming.
I'm glad we got that out of the way.
Can I tell you something else or two?
Can I tell you something else?
You can eat, you probably know this.
You can eat kangaroo.
Well, yeah, I have eaten kangaroo.
I've cooked kangaroo, yeah.
What's it like?
What's it like?
My Thai
kangaroo salad is amazing by the way.
Thai kangaroo salad?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
So it's actually, it's a lot like venison.
Really?
We kind of, yeah.
It's a lean red meat.
There's a phenomenal market in Oshkosh.
Tom, what's the name of the market
that we do?
Wezner Market.
Wezner
Market.
Wezner Market.
They have kangaroo jerky.
So this is what I have to bring to the potluck?
Yeah.
I really don't eat much meat, but I'll have to ship in
a room for you guys.
All right, do it.
All right.
So what do you want?
How can we help you?
Yeah.
Well, you know, I've known Green Bay to be incredibly welcoming.
to new folks.
And I wanna put a call out to the listeners, the small businesses, the people doing good in this community that we can collaborate.
It is for me, it's about this mission of boosting civic engagement in this town, bringing people in to invest in our democracy.
to restore civic engagement, to have actual conversations.
We need that.
I don't know if it was COVID, if it was the local newspapers being purchased by large newspapers, if it was even the TV stations being controlled a little bit more by corporate.
We've just lost some of that, like you were talking
about,
just the local, what's going on here, local democracy, local civic activity.
Yet it's here.
It's not like it went away, just.
the coverage of it went away.
So to bring people in here and talk to them, and they're like, I didn't know that.
And he's like, well, you should have, but how are they going to know about it?
Unless we help inform them.
That's it.
And just having venues.
And without opinions too.
We just like, this is what's going on.
Like your show, obviously, but also, you know, Jane and Maggie, you
know,
having this discourse, talking directly to people and airing out our issues.
I really believe that
That's how we're going to fix things.
Yeah.
So in regards to this area versus other areas you live in, obviously, you know Green Bay pretty well.
I think they'd be very welcoming to somebody because, you know, Civic is brand new here.
Yeah.
And, you know, some very, very long terms established station.
I think it's a little bit of a fresh when you go in and be a little bit of a breath of fresh air for a lot of these places I've been hit on by everybody.
You know what I mean?
Bringing a little bit different slant to it and you being different.
So I think that's cool.
I think I would be if I were you, I'd be really excited about this opportunity.
I really
would.
Yeah, I think
we're really anxious to like point you in the right direction with some potential sponsors and advertisers.
Bring it on.
I work for commission.
So
do
we.
Hey, tell them she was a barista too.
Were you?
I believe that.
We weren't
telling them that.
Well, I decided to because we'll put you out.
Because now John's going to want you to make his coffee.
Yeah, yeah.
Or next
door.
Karen Cousin taught me better than that.
But no, I put myself through college,
through
university.
Nice.
Working coffee shops, Ling and Espresso.
Oh, that's
fantastic.
That's kind of nice with that accent.
Oh, that's what I
mean.
Absolutely.
It's fantastic.
What do you think of Greg Norman?
The great white shark, the golfer, Greg Norman.
Start up, L-I-V.
Oh, that, yep.
What do you think?
Short?
Not a fan, huh?
I don't blame you.
I don't blame
you.
That's a name I have not heard.
Do you know what?
Do you know what?
Know something?
The top two punters in the NFL draft this year.
We're both from Australia.
They're doing actually Packer, like coaches, American coaches are going over there because these kids were brought up with rugby and soccer and everything.
And they're so strong.
These kids
are.
Rugby is hard caught.
No helmets, no padding.
So American coaches are going over there and doing clinics that take their physical skills and adapt them to American skills.
And like I said, the two top punters for the draft this year, we're both from Australia.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If they're punters, I bet they grew up playing Aussie rules,
which is like
kicking, which is really a kicking sport.
Yeah.
Rugby, that's your sport.
Not mine personally,
but it's around.
I
played cricket.
Yeah,
cricket and netball.
No!
Why did you say that?
I'll teach you
Pacific Media Picnic.
We're
going to have a beach
cricket game.
Let's play at the cricket park here in Green Bay.
There we go.
Yeah.
I
was a pace bowler on my high school cricket team.
Did you know there was a cricket park in Green Bay?
I
didn't.
Nobody does, because there isn't one.
OK, well, they're
going to
sponsor us.
We're going
to live broadcast me teaching you cricket.
There we go.
Todd, is that part of our...
I like that too.
That's pentanthalum.
Kayaking, right?
Jim and I are having
this big challenge of physical.
What's the other one?
So it's kayaking.
Skateboarding.
Skateboarding.
I was gonna ask him that, but I was gonna ask how many people break their wrists and stuff.
Yeah, I
was longboarding.
This is when I was...
22 years old.
I had
no business on a longboard.
But yeah, I got a little too confident and I kicked off and the board went forwards.
I went backwards and I landed like right on my wrist.
Yeah.
That's
what I mean.
Yeah.
All right.
So cricket, but there's another one we talked about this morning.
Oh, pickleball.
Pickleball.
Pickleball.
There we go.
All
the
kids are playing.
We're having
a decathlon.
But the skateboard, I don't
know all that.
She's going to sign off on that.
We'll put the cricket in instead.
What do you think, Jim?
The
cricket.
I'm in for cricket.
How's
your over arm?
All
right.
How's your over arm, Jim?
You'll be the teacher.
What?
She has a question for you.
What?
What's that?
Go ahead.
How's your over arm?
It's good.
Yeah?
OK.
Do you know
what that is?
No.
I want
to keep
this
moving
along here.
Is that
where they go?
Actually, there was a movie I watched.
It was kind of a crappy movie.
But I love the actor John Hamm.
from Mad Men.
And did you know the movie I'm talking about when he was a professional Major League Baseball skill?
And he was in, I wanna say like India.
And he's watching Cricket match.
Holy crap, this kid's got an arm that's unbelievable.
Try to develop him into a Major League.
So go ahead and describe that real quick if you don't mind.
Cricket.
We're on camera.
I'm a little rusty.
But yeah, so Cricket is overarm and the idea is that you have the most control possible in your pitch.
I was a pace bowler, so I...
specialized in speed.
But there are people who do what's called spin, you know, where they just make the ball go in the
exact right
direction.
Exactly, but so precise.
Um, so it really is extremely scientific and you watch people, you know, like the Australian national team at the top of their, of top of their game.
Well,
you're talking a couple of
scientific
guys here, but that's extremely.
Yeah.
So, so I was very boring.
I just hit it straight as fast as I could.
And that's where you, you know, you have the cricket ball, which is made of concrete.
Yeah.
They're super hard, right?
Super hard.
Um, yeah.
And, um, yeah.
So you go over.
Um, and you do it out of run.
Yeah,
I would actually like to see this Is there a cricket park
in use I would call I just talked to our Direct our parks and wreck guy the direct guy Dan I talked to him yesterday because we have to talk to him about something But anyway, I'll follow up on that there was I did
anyway
Go to civicmedia.us slash advertise and you'll get to me.
All
right.
And
yeah, I'm looking forward to working with this town.
Are there any other crooked players in tournament?
There's a lot.
There's a lot.
This is not my
specialty anymore.
It's wonderful, mate.
We're going to have a great time with you.
It's great.
Thanks for having me on, guys.
And I'm sharing that stuff with my cousin Roberto.
Excellent.
Tell him I said hi.
I will.
What if you conspire a minute?
Well, I'd like to tell you mine.
Let me know truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks.
No double clutch and gear jam and coffee and crank and nuts.
They'll drive their way through and they'll have all the luck.
Let me know truck drivers if it wasn't for us trucks.
Great songs, Todd.
Happy Trucker Thursday out there, everybody.
Give me a little honk.
Anybody driving around right now that's listening to a truck, please do your honk.
And we want people in Texas to let us know if they heard it.
All right.
Give us a
little something, something, folks.
there we go thank you very much hey welcome back a beautiful thursday right now as we mentioned storms moving in this afternoon could be pretty severe um any updates on that
Nothing more than we know looks like later this afternoon between two and three o'clock.
They might be kicking in.
Are there tornado warnings or
not warnings or anything like that?
But of course, if there is severe weather, you'll hear about it right here on WGBW and WSS.
All right.
Outstanding.
Great guests once again today.
Brett Jansen here.
Pick a ball for a purpose.
Yeah.
Really great thing they've got going on this weekend.
What's cool
about.
Pretty much everything we talked about.
They're all kind of fundraisers, too.
Yeah, you know, I mean,
I think that's really important.
That
just shows you how this community,
but you know, you notice
something else.
You need to support those.
What?
It's adults and kids.
Yes.
That's the
fun part.
They're adults and kids.
The kids involved early.
Exactly.
As well as the skating.
Yes, you're right.
Yeah.
It's nice.
We can do it all.
Love it.
And Jeff, also, again, folks, I think this is such an important thing.
And I'm so impressed with what this gentleman has done.
had an amazing son who was an amazing young man, amazing athlete, 4.0 student, and he committed suicide.
And Jeff, I'm sure, has gone back over the years and has he brought it up to us, you know, even at a younger age, you know, is having issues.
But, you know, it's, I mean, we're parents.
What young teenagers don't have issues.
When he was
talking about, you know, an anxious
sixth grader
right today
goes to his room and drops out it oh really
yeah i mean
that does happen
i know it's
just
when is it serious and when is it just 13 which you know as we always used to say from our era oh it's a phase yeah right so how do you know how do you have the expertise to know oh this is diagnosed it
is more than that
Exactly.
Yeah, so if nothing else man,
please
but I think the bigger thing that he said though Johnny's I do think we've got to get away from Mental health being this like you
can wish away or something
not that even that but just like everybody tells everybody went to the doctor, but nobody
Talks.
I don't think maybe you don't want to brag about it.
I want to see a mental health person, but it's okay to do that.
It doesn't mean you're crazy.
It just means you're going to talk to somebody who knows more than you do.
And I think
we have to encourage that.
But with the point he was really trying to make is that you can't just tell somebody, forget about
it.
That's all in your
head.
Forget about it.
It's all in your head.
He says it's like an injury, a physical injury
to
your body.
And it
has to be cured and you need things to cure it.
Didn't you take that out of that, Todd?
Absolutely.
And Jim and I will never know what it's like to have a bone spur on our Achilles, right?
Nobody does.
But we hear about it every day.
And that's what I'm saying with mental health, that we just mention
it and say,
look,
I'm going to see somebody.
Yeah, I'm a little worried about myself something's not right.
I'm feeling right.
I'm gonna go see it'd be like that's awesome Yes, and that's the other thing Jim you just said it like if somebody does tell you that it's not that they're looking for attention or anything like that Support them right.
Hey, is there right?
You need exactly you know need a ride.
Yeah
No, I'm one with your 100% and I deal with it I have dealt with a lot with veterans obviously
over
years, but it's the same thing they they're damaged
They're damaged.
There's a something happened that they're damaged and they need, you know, serious medical or whatever you want to call it.
And like
you said,
and there's a lot of prescriptions out there, but, you know, we're all a little bit different.
And, you know, we have to come up with the thing where they can just draw your DNA.
And this is what John Minow needs.
And this is what Jim Schmidt needs.
This is what Todd Michaels needs.
It should be different for everybody, but we try to figure it out because we got this general, well, this usually works and try, well, it ain't working on me.
Same with, we just talked about that at length a couple of weeks ago with chemo.
You know, that's a recipe and it's like, we're just working on this guy or not.
And we haven't got that figured out yet.
I mean, we're doing much better than we used to, but when it comes to the medications that mental health people are on, that is a science.
I
mean, they gotta figure it out.
Absolutely.
But
even just the more it's brought to the surface, the more it's brought to the surface, no stigma, no stigma.
It's something that happens.
And this is mental health month, basically.
And with an emphasis on younger people.
And I'd like to think, I don't know this, but I think insurance covers all that.
Like they would your bone spur, right?
Honestly, I don't know.
I have no idea.
I
hope so.
Just for kids.
You
know that?
I
don't know.
I think it depends on which insurance you have and all that kind of
stuff.
What we really need to do is get beyond all that and at some point let people get healthy without having to jump through hoops.
How's that
sound?
I agree, totally.
We're a ways away from that.
Insurance companies run the healthcare system.
Oh,
I know
that.
No question there.
So anyway, also we got a ticket giveaway for Fiesta Italiana.
Now you might not go.
What?
Why might be in the UP?
Todd and I are going.
Yeah, I got the wristband.
It's a great wristband.
I was at.
I don't want to go to
waste.
I was at the automobile gallery two days ago and the cars are coming in.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Daryl's showing me around and, you know, you know, I was at the throne.
Is that one that's worth a million dollars?
Right.
It's in.
It came in.
I came in two days ago.
Wow.
You saw
it.
No, yeah.
That was cool.
That's a cool event.
Did
he let you slide in?
No, he didn't.
No,
he got us behind the rope.
No, he didn't see you as
a
parole.
He said, oh, that's a good.
There's some great cars there, of course, a lot
of Italian cars.
Standing up on your fourth floor.
Yeah, up the windows.
Eat the cake.
Sing it.
Sing it.
Sing it.
Sing
it.
OK, let's go on.
Don't
cry for me, Argentina.
Something like
that.
Exactly.
It's a good movie.
That's a good movie
by
Don Amid.
So also a couple things.
I do have tickets for that, so we'll give those away tomorrow.
Okay, let's remember guys.
Those
are great and that's worth.
We knew all about it all day and you...
That's not you.
No, it's on there.
No, you didn't.
No, you didn't do anything.
Whatever.
But tomorrow's also a free ticket Friday for Brewer's ticket, so we will have a keyword for you tomorrow morning in the 7 a.m.
hour for your chance to go see the Brewer's as well.
Free ticket Friday tomorrow morning.
Also, Lisa Hale will join us with a preview of new WISCO Weekend tomorrow.
We've got Mark Houston coming in, John Kramer and Kevin Osgood coming in from the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Reggie Desimour from...
Area 509 is going to be talking about their anniversary party coming up on Saturday.
And we've got music from Dan Rafferty tomorrow morning.
Oh, wow.
Dan is awesome.
Yeah.
Um, okay.
Is your Caribbean buddy gonna bring a little something
for the upper?
He's gonna be on the phone because you're getting ready for their big party.
Yeah, I can't wait to try all this stuff.
We'll go on Saturday big party going on It's your anniversary.
Well that yes the thing is on Saturday a couple things going on Saturday.
There's
a lot of stuff going on this weekend
Yeah,
but it's a perfect time here.
You know people haven't left for vacations or anything and the weather's nice Yeah, this is great.
It's a fun show today, man.
This was great.
Good time.
Thanks for putting all together got it
Check out Eliza cousin folks civic media our brand new salesperson in Green Bay Yeah, we're gonna help her out big time.
You should that poor thing.
I know right?
I still got stories for her like she can't I bet you can't wait.
All right.
Have a good day everybody.
See ya
