Weather Woes and Tang Tangents (Hour 1)

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Weather Woes and Tang Tangents (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Mon May 19, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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

And here are your hosts.

John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Good morning.

Good morning everybody.

This cold weather is still like affecting me now although I will say this.

It's the yin and yang this time of year.

Yeah.

John Maino

If it's nice things are blooming.

But then if it's cold it feels colder.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

I just feel

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cold.

Hey it's 40.

Yeah, it's not

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feels 20.

I

was talking to my daughter.

It was in Nashville.

It's like 90.

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Oh, is it really?

Yeah,

it's so hot.

Did

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they get hit with that stuff going

through?

Not really, but boy, you look at, you know, they're obviously... Kentucky.

Port of Kentucky.

Isn't that awful?

They've had some bad

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luck.

That one area they got hit with the flood.

Yeah.

Now they got hit with their tornadoes.

Yeah.

John Maino

It's unbelievable.

That same exact area.

I don't know what makes

John Maino

you a build, but... Yeah, I agree with that.

...or

a retailer.

John Maino

You know, I was thinking about that driving past, where was I?

Somewhere in Mantua County, I should, some of those big farms, because I remember when a couple of tornadoes had hit in, in Mantua County years ago.

You see an easing got whacked one time, remember that?

Yeah.

John Maino

Yeah.

That was, that's close to you.

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But you look at the size of those barns and all that, and the way then you see the aftermath, the, the, the unbelievable, unharnessed power that those tornadoes

come through with.

It's just kindling.

It's toothpicks.

It's, it, they,

They don't just knock it over.

They just tear it up.

It's

incredible.

Did you see the pictures of the cow last week that was impaled by some wood?

No, you didn't see that.

Yeah.

The down in that area, Jefferson or something

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like

that.

Yeah, it survived.

They were able to save it.

But yeah, it actually impaled the the cow standing there in the field and it's got a big two by four in it.

Wow.

And some of those stories, they're pretty incredible.

Like I went over to check on his parents and tornado came through the guy jumped in.

the bathtub with his mom.

That's the only thing that survived.

Dad got thrown 30 feet out of the house.

Wow.

It's amazing.

He's like standing there talking to her mom.

It's a tornado coming.

And I was like, wow, thank God he was there.

John Maino

Everything I read about that is, oh, Brittany's coming.

Okay.

Everything I was reading about that, because it is kind of fascinating because here we are, you know, again, we can put people on Mars now, basically.

live on the moon if we wanted to.

Do you know what I mean?

But there is something right there in Mother Nature that's just like, you know what?

There's nothing we can do.

Yeah.

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Nothing we can do.

Yeah.

And the other thing about tornadoes, I don't know if it's cool or not, but just how narrow their path is.

Like the guy across the street.

Yeah,

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one gets it, one does it.

Right.

But I read where one in Kentucky or one of those places was like a mile.

Why and 120 miles an hour wins everything in that path.

Oh, that's a big path.

John Maino

Wow.

Yeah.

That's what made that one so bad.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

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Todd, did you

ever see

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one?

I remember being in one down when we lived down in Jackson and West Bend and stuff like that.

I remember.

Yeah.

Okay.

I remember.

I remember literally.

We were at a ball game.

My sister was having a softball tournament or something and we were there and I got in line to get something to drink, you know, at the, at the concession stand.

Beautiful day.

Everybody's having fun.

Got my soda turned around.

Sky is black and people are running for their cars.

Wow.

Yeah.

It's just that's what it is.

It comes out of nowhere, and it is you talk about scary, you know, I'm in this looking clouds

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I've seen ever was and we're joking about this, but when I was in the parade for the miss Wisconsin teen pageant I was like the one of the judges emcee or whatever nosh gosh.

No, is that the pioneers really?

They did a really nice parade.

That was a big deal.

Yeah, they still have that.

Do they not sure I don't think so Yeah, okay, um nice girls.

I mean the nicest, you know, it was all super okay, but

Halfway through the parade the sky's turned to color like nobody'd ever seen before it was like a weird orangey greenish yes thing yeah, and they sirens up they had to end up parade Early because it was so eerie and I'll never forget that I'm driving back to Green Bay from Oshkosh and as right by the the weather station thing and like to kind of ish channel five I called Murph

I said, Murph, you're, I don't know where you're going, but I'm gonna try to get some pictures for the show tomorrow.

This is mind boggling.

He said, don't worry.

He says they're all over a Facebook right now.

He says, we don't need, there's like a thousand of them.

Cause it was so freaky.

Everybody was taking a picture of that.

Yeah.

Speaking of taking pictures, Brooklyn.

Oh my God.

You know, I know both our daughters live in Brooklyn.

So I called Laura right away cause she goes down there all the time.

I've been down there

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like a total of no time.

First time we went there, what's first thing we do?

Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Right,

right, but onto the,

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and that's just a massive area.

Which is great, that's a cool

thing.

It's an awesome area.

And they said, what, 30-some thousand people go down there every day and just to walk.

But that ship, we've had the tall ships here.

Oh yeah,

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they're cool as

hell.

And the mast are high.

John Maino

I wouldn't climb it.

I would not climb that thing.

I was staying, I told you before this morning, I stood on the floor or the deck of that.

Tall ship and I looked up to a guy who was doing something up there And I thought you got to be part spider monkey to do that.

I couldn't do it.

I wouldn't do it

I climbed up with another guy to put the Green Bay flag up, but it was

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well,

but no, no, it wasn't it wasn't one of those 130 foot

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man.

It was probably 70 80 that's

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still high.

It was I was too high for me, but it was high, but what I'm saying is that All those tourists are down there anyway, so the

the video from that's unbelievable

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because they were just

welcoming the ship in.

It's like, oh, we got, you know, the ship's going around the world, there's Mexican soldiers and people are filming that and man, that's just unbelievable.

John Maino

That's too bad.

And those people were up there too.

John Maino

Yeah.

And you see them falling off the mast and another bunch, they're hanging onto the, the sails, trying to fall and hanging onto ropes.

Oh, it's, it's sickening.

Yeah.

If you were in that situation, I don't know.

You'd go for the water.

Yeah,

I know you and also hitting concrete at that height.

Yeah,

but I would

hit in the deck

But

well, that's what I I don't know.

I might somebody may argue it's the same

thing Would you would you try to hang on or would you just basically say to yourself?

I'm not gonna be able to get through this.

I'm I've got to let go

John Maino

Do you ever see the thing?

I've always had this I've this is a dilemma.

I've had my mind for years.

All right, there's video

I don't think it was a Hindenburg.

Maybe it was, but it's one of the big balloon things back in the day.

The, um, we call them the Zeppelins Zeppelins.

Yeah.

And a guy's holding one of the ropes and it's taken off and he's hanging onto the rope, hoping it comes down.

And at what point do you realize I'm past the point of no

return?

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Yeah, there wouldn't be one for me.

I'd let

go.

Me too, I think so.

It's

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funny, we talk about this.

I'm finishing up a story with these two great guys from Vietnam, okay?

And he was talking, they had to get on the run on this mission and they all ran out to the helicopter and the helicopter was full.

But he knew he couldn't stay back because then the guys would, you know, so he had to hang on outside the helicopter.

to basically, you know, where the foot thing is and the, he had to hang on.

Is that thing's flying around at a hundred miles an hour?

He said, I can't believe I held on that long.

So the same thing happened with this guy.

I can't believe I held on and didn't let go.

But he was able to use his arms, right?

If you were just

hanging

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by a rope, I think.

And after a while, let's, yeah, I know.

You know what else is, when you think about that, hanging on his left Afghanistan and the kid that was hanging on the plane.

Yeah, on the

plane with a few

of them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But as soon as it starts moving you gotta let go because you're I mean it everything else is working against you even 10 feet But then at that point, you

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know with the with the Zeppelin Hildeburger, whatever But at that thing it's he's like, okay now he's a hundred feet.

Yeah, that now he's okay.

I'm going along for a ride no matter what Yeah, I might

My stomach is doing flip-flops right now thinking about it.

And I'm not joking.

My stomach is doing flip-flops thinking about how I never want to be in that situation no matter

what.

Yeah, I don't think most of us would, but... Yeah, I don't... I don't know if you're that smart to think through it or you're just panicking, you're just hanging on.

John Maino

What height do you think you could still let go and survive?

About 20, 25.

I don't know.

John Maino

I have no idea.

You jumped two stories?

Because

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I was... Okay, when I...

Even people have jumped two stories and lived.

Three.

Don't know the

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other day when I was walking past I said the fire department was doing some training

Oh,

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yeah, and I thought that thing was up like 70 feet and he said it was only 30 30

feet high

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30 feet is high.

Yeah, I mean cross the street that building with six stories You jump

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out the third floor.

I don't think you may not second

floor I think maybe maybe depends if something's gonna break your fall to though, right?

I mean gonna hit the bushes or you're gonna hit, you know concrete

But

yeah, I'm never gonna look at that without thinking about

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that now

I

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agree.

I agree.

I agree.

Yes.

I agree.

I'll tell you what I would I would if I'd had a gun with me I would have put two in my temple if I was one of those poor people In Crandon was it where they were trapped upside down on that ferris wheel last summer?

Yeah, okay?

I would end it quickly before because ferris will scare me as it is

And I'd be, I would be, I don't know what I would be upside down in that thing.

You wouldn't take your life over that.

That's just, yeah.

Really?

That scares you that much?

An upside down Ferris wheel?

Yes.

Oh, I got stuck in the bullet one time.

You know, that's just the two things on either side.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I got stuck and we were up there for a minute.

Daughters a little freaked out

really

that was and I'm like hey everything's gonna be fine, but it was longer than

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I was in a thing at Great America one time I'm not big of the rides and it was some kind of thing that goes you know Whatever whatever whatever and then about an hour later.

We're walking past it.

It was closed down for repairs Honest to God

that yeah, no they

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yeah,

cuz the guy running.

It's the same guy who put it together Yeah, yeah, it's but yeah, you're right.

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Although I do stuff.

They

got to sit around

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I want to spend one summer working as a Carney.

I thought that would be the coolest thing, have a little trailer, take that around or a camper.

I think that would be the greatest life.

That would be an interesting life.

Not forever, but for

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a year.

But just for one summer.

Yeah, Vagabond.

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Yeah.

Yeah, okay.

What do you got here?

Good morning says Vicky.

Hi Vicky Memorial Day weekend will be dry but cool low 60s Keep the swimming suits tucked away says Terry.

We're just talking about more.

We got to

do a little work on that I think we have some big coming up this week to talk about Memorial Day weekend Don't we didn't see that in the calendar.

John Maino

Anyway, I'm gonna You got to give talks and I'm speaking Friday and Monday.

Yeah,

we're talking about

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Friday and freedom Monday at Nicola Gardens.

We're talking this morning about

It's kind of nice not having to do that.

I mean, you still want to go on honor Somewhere, but I don't know what we're gonna do.

Yeah, I don't know the weather.

I looked at that I think

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I don't say if I wasn't doing something like that I'd be a do so one of my friends would be speaking someplace I'd go watch them.

Yeah And that's what did last our great friend Chuck up in Ocanto great speech.

So I would do something I always do something on that data.

Yeah, oh, yeah, you know to honor

Well, then you enjoy the day more too.

John Maino

Yeah, absolutely in Texas.

I was one standing in a parking lot of a

Kroger and I could see three tornadoes in a triangle.

It was bizarre.

Lisa Hale.

Wow.

John Maino

Has lived as Lisa lived in every redneck state that there is.

Yeah,

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she carries a banjo home.

She carries a banjo with her.

Mississippi.

Um, these are some cheerful topics this Monday.

No, in the UP.

Is there?

I didn't even know.

Did it snow up in the UP?

I don't know.

But it's

going to it could today.

It's cold out there.

John Maino

Yeah.

Happy Monday to you, though.

Everybody, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.396.5 FM, WISS, of course, the Civic Medium.

By the way, we didn't talk about something you did that you really enjoyed this weekend.

A couple things, but yeah.

What?

The concert or the show?

John Maino

Both.

Both.

Yeah.

So the automobile gallery.

And then Todd's got something cool, too.

I was hoping that it was boring.

The automobile gallery.

Dale Burnett was in here talking about it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

John Maino

That's his last name.

I

think

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he

said Dale.

No, Darrell.

They had the German car show.

Italian.

I mean, Italian.

And the Ferraris, unbelievable.

I took some pictures.

And they also had Perone's husband's car.

That was very cool to see that.

Italian food.

I didn't do

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it!

I didn't do it!

I didn't do it!

I was waiting for him to break in the song, Jim.

That's why I said the husband.

That's why I said the husband.

I didn't call her name out.

But yeah, that was cool.

That was a great car show.

There was a lot, a lot of people there.

So everybody who came to that, thanks for coming.

That was fun.

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And we got to talk about both of you guys.

Todd, you're sitting with the Caribbean food and everything.

Yeah.

Want to hear about that?

Yeah.

We got a lot of bleep going on today, folks.

We got a phenomenal lineup.

One of my girlfriend's birthdays today.

Didn't remember that.

Sorry, Laney.

I'll make it up to you.

What do

you mean it's her birthday

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today?

Say happy

Kathryn Lake

birthday, and then it's over.

I'll text her.

Laney Wilson, 33.

Hey, quick break back of this.

about this

yeah I just you know it's Monday morning this is great so I

chose

sometimes

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sometimes it's like Monday Monday you know

here you're just like boom well he

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was talking about the okay I got to ask you something first though that just reminds me I was here I stopped didn't hear last night okay all

right I saw

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that you were here I could tell it you were here how could

you

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tell

because it was missing well no the printers out there's a bunch of stuff sitting out there so I knew you're working out of the office this weekend all right fine

John Maino

um what radio station do you guys have on in the back room that's on like constantly

Do you know?

This station.

It's gotta be us.

No, it's not.

It's a music station.

No, it's not.

It's not?

No.

Somebody might have switched it.

No.

No,

they have music on.

I

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can't talk about that.

Remember that on

Sunday?

Yeah, Sunday nights we have music.

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Oh, that's right.

I was wondering.

That was us.

That was us.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Cause it was the, it just, it brought me, it's like I had to do a stuff.

It was like, oh my God, am I in my living room on a Saturday morning?

My sister's about to vacuum cause we had winter or something.

The four freshmen.

Yeah.

They have old school, older music.

The four freshmen.

That's

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good.

I like that.

It's graduation

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day.

It's like, oh my God, this goes back to me being eight years old.

So Saturday nights, we have Max Inc, which is all Wisconsin based music.

And then on Sunday mornings, of course, we have Lou Regani and the music of the stars.

So he takes a trip back in time.

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It was kind of cool.

It was really

cool.

It is.

Those are good shows.

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When are you ever going to hear that song ever again?

That was so cool.

I chose Led Zeppelin because he was talking about the Hindenburg and it was the only thing I could really tie into.

John Maino

Okay.

All right.

Give me a little.

Okay.

Thank you for explaining

that because I would have never guessed

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that.

By the way, today we're opening up the phones.

Two, six, four, zero, six.

Just joking.

I was gonna say, since when do we have a phone line?

John Maino

We do, but.

Okay.

So is there anything new on that?

I mean, that's the biggest thing happening.

What's that?

John Maino

So come.

Yeah, we can talk part of it.

Yeah.

Yes.

John Maino

No, I'm just saying has there been any new news overnight to anything?

But I haven't seen anything.

I think it's

teaching us all a little bit of a lesson how much we rely on that.

Not even a question.

And then you hear about, like if you want to, and we talked about, you know, bullets, but you want to take down a community or something, you can do it through banking, through, you know, self-service, but

Yeah, this has been a little bit of a hassle.

Now, I think texting still works, which I do a lot of that.

But

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you know, I was saying, because I was going to go up to the U.P.

about like

emergencies.

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And there's, there's an area, you know, between Iron Mountain and, excuse me, between Escanaba and Menominee.

Terrible.

Like if you're trying to listen to music, terrible service, terrible service, terrible service.

So you'd have to know where your spots are almost.

Okay.

Yeah.

If you break like I kind of broke down that last time we're in up there and I pulled over to side of the road in the middle of no place and called, you know, Marquette called the Kia dealer or whatever.

I don't know what I would do now.

Can you text AAA?

I don't know.

I don't know how that worked.

John Maino

But is that funny?

It's been like a lot of years since we haven't had to worry about that.

Well, I think I was reading some like I've been in a customer.

Of course I work there, but.

since like 89 90 when it first

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came out.

So it's been 30 over 30 years.

I don't remember this happening.

So I don't know what what what the cause is incredible.

But it's been a little long.

Friday this Monday.

Yeah.

I'm sure they're going to get it figured out.

But wow.

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Yeah.

Crazy.

Crazy.

And I mean, if like you had to call the cops, what would you do?

I think that does that not go through.

No, I'm not our kids are still on it.

Yeah, but I don't know I don't I think it's no so I don't know maybe we'll have to find that out Yeah, I just if I were their competitor I'd be all over the

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yeah, but

they're not which I think is cool to understand these things happen, but can you call 9-1-1?

I don't know

I

You want to give it a shot?

No,

not really.

I don't.

I don't.

You'd probably get through, and then all the cops would show

up.

I didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't, didn't.

Mayor Schmidt.

It's not me.

This isn't me.

You thought this

was me, and that's

not me.

I got the police number on here.

I'll call them.

It's not going to go through.

So yeah, it, I don't know.

That, that would be my biggest concern, but no, I just miss, you know, talk to some certain people on Saturdays and couldn't do that.

How

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can texting go through and not cause then?

I'm not sure.

John Maino

There's weird

technology that I don't understand.

John Maino

But what would you prefer, though?

I text 99% of the

time.

Me too.

Yeah, 99%.

John Maino

Please do not call me.

It's like if my phone rings, it's like, who's that?

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

But I don't text my mom on Sunday.

John Maino

No, you call

her.

But I did text her yesterday.

Let me tell you why I text her.

Let me show you a picture, Johnny.

I went to this event yesterday at St.

James Park and our friend was performing.

Fritz?

Putting on the Fritz.

She'd been on her show a couple of times.

John Maino

She's great.

I really enjoyed.

John Maino

Is she the one that got the parking ticket as she was loading up her gear coming out of heights?

I think so.

So this guy was there.

Okay.

What does he look like?

John Maino

Captain

Kangaroo.

Doesn't he?

Completely.

Okay, I gotta

come see

that.

I said to this guy, I said, look, do I really call you Bob Keeshan?

He looks

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exactly like Captain Kangaroo.

And he was just... So I sent that to my mom.

I said, hey, I ran into a guy because, you know, we were a big Captain King, like you

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were.

I'm

sure when we were kids.

So,

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well, I said, well, just so people understand, he looks like a

hippie version.

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Yeah.

Trimmed a little bit.

I agree.

After the captain gave up the TV show, but I if I were to a ranch,

I would in California and Mr. Moose and Mr. Green.

If I were him,

I would get the right

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stuff and I do something.

Right.

Make a little side hustle.

Yeah.

No

question.

But yeah, he.

Anyway, I took his picture.

John Maino

Oh, okay.

Today is dementia week.

Dementia action.

And I just saw a story like last night.

I'm on to bring that up where they started their very first blood test this past week for early stages of Alzheimer's.

This week, the very first blood test.

Isn't that huge?

It is.

What if they find out that you...

Do they have something you can take or they

John Maino

just like I don't know but

it was like it was a really big step just for that there are some drugs obviously that was slowed down so I'm thinking

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that

earlier the earlier you can

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get on

those the better

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off you don't want to cure it but better quality of life for as long as we can I just thought that was a huge that's huge

that is that's great when something like that happens we talk about research and yes starting to pay dividends awesome

John Maino

yep today's also devil's food cake day

no

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Malcolm X-Day.

Do you remember the last words a man yelled before he was executed?

Is this a joke?

No,

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not at

all.

OK, good.

I want to hear it then.

John Maino

True story.

The guy said, get your hand out of my pocket.

And everybody looked over there.

And that's when the assassins went

up.

True story.

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Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here on a chilly, chilly Monday morning in Green Bay, Abton and Oshkosh.

What is

John Maino

that?

I do not know, but I would blame it on Britney Merleau.

I remember last week, we're like, hey, let's have a great weekend, everybody.

Enjoy it.

This is it.

Oh, she's on vacation.

She can't help

Brittney Merlot

you.

John Maino

You can't do something we didn't

Brittney Merlot

know.

Sorry about that, guys.

John Maino

Wake

Brittney Merlot

up.

Wake up.

It's freezing out there.

Oh, man.

Low 30s.

Isn't it wild?

Unbelievable.

So

Brittney Merlot

why is this 80s the extreme heat tornadoes across the state and then this cold just seeps in right behind it.

It's a whole different worlds come

John Maino

from.

You know what I mean?

It's like you're talking like your daughter's in national 90 and other places 90 and Southwestern and all of a sudden we're like below

freezing.

We're at 50.

Yeah.

John Maino

What

would that come from?

It

Brittney Merlot

came from the north up north.

Go figure good old Canada.

you know, just drop down behind that same system.

So it was a big low pressure system that moved through.

And what happened is we saw that warm front move through on Thursday.

That was the severe weather.

Then we had the cold front move through behind that on Friday.

And then we had the clouds just kind of lingering and hanging around with the gusty winds still.

So we weren't allowed to drop as cold until the clouds left us.

Now that the clouds are pretty much gone.

We crashed below, you know, where we really wanted to be.

I pretty much think of clouds as a blanket.

They keep us warmer overnight

John Maino

and

Brittney Merlot

they're not there.

John Maino

Did the UP get snow, Brittany?

Brittney Merlot

Oh my goodness.

I haven't even looked at the UP.

John Maino

You

Brittney Merlot

probably did.

Honestly.

I mean, it's cold enough for it to happen.

And with the winds that strong, the temperature between the lake and the winds, there, there's that chance.

John Maino

Yeah, I thought I would doubt it up there on Friday.

And then I saw the forecast for either Saturday or Sunday was 34 degrees 30 for a high.

And 30 mile an hour wins.

Brittney Merlot

Yuck.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's disgusting up there.

Brittany, we were

Brittney Merlot

talking.

Different worlds.

Brittany, we were talking before the came on the air.

We can almost put people on Mars.

We can actually, we could live on the moon if we chose to.

There's all these things we can do.

Is there a day coming where we're going to be able to control the weather a little bit?

John Maino

I mean, these tornadoes are so out of control.

It's mind-boggling.

I mean, it's just you just you put up here you go in a hole or so there's nothing to combat that life

that's taken.

Brittney Merlot

I wish there was.

That's why I like those twisters movies, because they're always trying to figure out the data, figure out how to kill the tornado.

What do they do?

Are there ways?

And honestly, there's, I mean, just our forecasting for tornadoes isn't as even advanced as we'd like it.

John Maino

Plus still need to

Brittney Merlot

work on that before we learn how to actually.

Correct

John Maino

you know wasn't there a theory one time where they were gonna like bomb?

Hurricanes they're gonna get over the center of the thing and drop bombs in it and that was gonna dissipate it or something Do you remember that anybody remember that?

No, but that's what I'm talking about.

John Maino

Yeah, but did that movie?

But where did that ever go?

I thought they were gonna try to bomb the eye of hurricanes and that would like dissipate

it because I've seen where they've flown into the eye and that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Oh, that's unbelievable, but we

Brittney Merlot

need to do

that

But if you could do something and yeah dissipate that I don't know I was just wondering if there's anything like way out there that you Meteorologists are privy to that you could share with people

John Maino

like hey, if you were hanging on to a rope and a zeppelin was going How high up what would be your break even point before you let go before you're hoping okay?

It's gonna come back down or I'm gonna let go.

What would it be?

When would you like one foot?

One foot?

Brittney Merlot

I'm not messing with that.

All right.

So

you have no faith that's coming back.

Yeah, that's.

Well, you have little faith.

I mean, remember what happened to the Wizard of Oz, right?

He got caught up in

John Maino

his balloon.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

Same thing in that Lassie special.

Yeah.

Exactly.

Remember the wide world of Disney?

Yeah.

When Timmy got caught in that balloon, I've always had that fear.

Yeah.

That's

all based on.

Yeah.

John Maino

So, Brittany, these tornadoes down south.

And I mean, they're going just north of where Jim's daughters live.

Kentucky.

Just out of control.

I mean Jim was talking about how it's not so bad if it's narrow And you know one farm here doesn't get touched this one's completely destroyed in trailer part But did I read this wrong?

This was a mile wide tornado.

I did

Brittney Merlot

that

John Maino

wide really?

Brittney Merlot

Yeah, yeah, yeah, they can and those are usually we call them the wedge tornadoes those usually have multiple vortices within that

big, mild tornadoes.

This is why sometimes one house will get hit and the other house won't get hit in their neighbors or something like that.

You've seen this before.

Right.

I thought that

was

Brittney Merlot

a

thin path, but you're saying it like there's like two or three tornadoes and they're they get in between them.

Brittney Merlot

Yes.

So if you have a big enough tornado that's a mile wide, there's usual multiple vortices within that one tornado.

So different stronger spin ups within it in the sense, I guess is how I'm going to try to describe

Kathryn Lake

it.

Brittney Merlot

But.

Yeah, those can get massive they can explode in size Very rapidly too and they can also shrink as well But most of them if they're big like that they stay on the ground for a while Britney

John Maino

why would you not?

Why would you not have a fallout shelter at you like your farm or maybe a backyard just even get like Something some big old round piece of metal dig a hole like a culvert to used culvert dig that down ten feet in the hole

have the one escape thing or whatever, and just have that just in case.

Wouldn't you?

Brittney Merlot

Seriously.

Yeah, I agree with you.

And you know, this last outbreak just here, Thursday, here I am a meteorologist.

I'm renting a town home, right?

I'm upper level.

I don't have a bottom level, so a main floor.

I don't have a basement.

I called the town of Wausau.

I called the police.

I called different people out here.

I said, where's our community shelter?

We don't have one.

Wow,

Brittney Merlot

there's literally nowhere to go and not to mention gas stations Just so you know if you're ever out on the road trying to seek shelter in a tornado warning goes off most of them lock their doors You gotta hope you have a nice good gas attendant or someone working there that wants to actually open it up and let you in but a lot of people get locked out in these situations so

John Maino

I didn't know that

Brittney Merlot

There's some stuff.

I'm like, okay, I'm ready to dig my own hole back here for the people who live in these apartments because where are we supposed to go?

Right.

Brittney Merlot

It's serious.

I just also, I wanted to say this morning, um, the weather password is vortices.

Yeah, that's a good word.

Vortices

John Maino

is an awesome word.

That's a

good

word.

How about a, how

about a weather

password

every Monday morning, Brittany?

Teach us something.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

Would you do that?

Brittney Merlot

Yes, I like

that.

No, then we have to just guess because for this reason, you can guess what that is.

Right.

Well, that's like three tornadoes together.

Four taxes.

So I think probably

three or four.

So.

But yeah, this would be fun because we.

John Maino

We want

to learn.

We want to learn.

John Maino

And you're smarter.

Criticism.

So yes.

We

John Maino

like people are smarter than us.

We do not.

You know what?

Actually, we're kind of like like a former president who's who's a documentary, not in him, but during with George Bush.

He, and I, you know, I met George for whatever.

But all I'm saying is he can place whole thing was making sure he had people smarter than him all around him.

That didn't take much.

Yeah.

John Maino

No.

But that's the way we are with people like you.

We like being around people smarter than us because that we learned

our whole lives have been

John Maino

like we revolve around people smarter than us all around us.

Brittney Merlot

That's how I am too.

Even just a simple visit to the dentist.

I'm like, explain this.

I'm a scientist.

I want to learn.

They're like, oh my goodness.

John Maino

Okay, let me ask you something.

I'm gonna throw this out there.

I need some dental people to help me on

something.

Oh, Lord.

Wow.

What's in that bottle next to

John Maino

you, John?

Because looking at it on the camera, it looks like it kind of looks like urine.

Well, a little bit.

It's Tang.

Oh, okay.

It's Tang.

It's my Tang.

Do you drink Tang?

It's

Brittney Merlot

like emergency.

That's what it looks like.

No, it's Tang.

So anyway, what's that?

What's that?

brings his own.

Brittney Merlot

I need to know.

You've never heard of Tang and you're a scientist.

Went to the moon.

I don't forget about her.

I'm one of the smartest people on our show.

Brittney Merlot

Fine.

You just moved

Brittney Merlot

on.

I live under a rock and was off.

Tang, that's like that drink that the astronauts took to the moon.

Very

Brittney Merlot

popular.

It comes in

powder, but Johnny buys it in liquid because he's.

Brittney Merlot

Look at him.

There you go.

See

that.

Brittney Merlot

Does it have energy in there?

Is this just a. Yeah.

A lot of it.

That's

Brittney Merlot

why he's bouncing out the

walls.

John Maino

Yeah,

exactly.

John Maino

No, I'm drinking this Britney.

Do you want to know why?

So I could put a little cap on.

What does it say?

I'm just going to say how they put the ingredients.

The first one, it's the most, right?

John Maino

Yeah.

Yeah.

What is

it?

Sodium.

Yeah.

John, that's not good for you.

John Maino

Yeah, it is.

My doctor told me I need more sodium.

Said my sodium was low.

I don't believe that at all.

John Maino

I

don't believe that.

Well, it's true.

John Maino

Um, yeah.

Oh,

you didn't

John Maino

see it,

Brittany.

You didn't see it.

John Maino

Todd.

No, Todd, why am I drinking this bottle of water today?

Because on Friday morning, John forgot that he put a full cup of coffee in front of him, went to put down a piece of paper and knocked it.

down all over the desk.

Everything.

Everything.

John Maino

With musicians in here trying to set up.

We were live on the air.

And I give Jim credit.

Jim and John Kramer and Coast Guard Kevin, they were doing their whole thing as Todd and I were here, paper towels all over the place, trying to pick up equipment so it doesn't get shorted out.

I was amazed how much coffee is in a cup.

John Maino

Me too.

That mean a whole table.

For the rest of the morning, it was like seeping out from behind computers.

Would you tip over

John Maino

the pot?

I

know.

John Maino

I know.

Michael Friedman texted and he said, Mino, that looks like gin and juice in that

John Maino

bottle.

Yeah, I know.

They do teach you in management school.

Hey, it's a Monday, Michael.

What are you going to do?

They teach you in management school, you know, and people keep bringing in their own liquids.

Check it once in a while.

John Maino

Oh, we had a lady a producer.

We're pretty sure her water bottle is mostly vodka.

Yeah, not even a question.

I'll tell you a break.

Yeah.

Yeah, that can happen.

John Maino

Yeah.

So Brittany, that's where I'm at as far as I still want to go around in the south part and just dig some holes and make people some followed shelters.

Yeah.

John Maino

But you don't even see those signs anymore, like my

old

John Maino

junior high,

we had that in

John Maino

our, I bet they're actually collectibles now.

Those from the early 60s, late 50s, mid

50s.

I think the Catholics do pretty good with putting those followers.

John Maino

Catholics are all over that.

They were all over that school building.

Of course we were the chosen ones.

Absolutely.

But it's like you still see those signs there.

When's the last time you've seen one of those signs anywhere?

Those

are cool, though.

John Maino

I can visualize it.

But that just brings up the whole old Russian thing, doesn't

it?

Yeah, that's how we're going to go.

John Maino

Yeah, absolutely.

So you guys don't have that, Brittany.

That's not that's not good.

Brittney Merlot

No, it's not.

And I, you know, coming from, you know, suburb of Chicago, I'm used to them having community shelters, place to go, things like that.

So it's just kind of weird to not have anything here at Central Wisconsin.

John Maino

Do we agree, Bay?

I mean,

like an official place.

Yeah, I think the schools open up all the schools.

I

John Maino

don't

know.

But I mean, you got to have that like their basements east west.

John Maino

Hey, Brittany, what's the difference between the tornadoes in Kentucky and the one we had in Mayville?

I mean, I know it was or Jefferson County, that whole thing.

But like what percent like to put it in perspective, what we had versus what they had.

Brittney Merlot

Wow.

Um, yeah, you know, what we've got.

We had a little outbreak, but they were all weaker tornadoes.

You know, none of them got over 125 mile per hour wind gusts.

And EF2 was the strongest it was rated.

I mean, not to discount that, that does a lot of damage and stuff.

But when you get to the stronger type, a whole mile wide, the strength that those are packing and how much ground that they are covering, it can take the house completely off its foundation.

There's nothing.

We didn't

Brittney Merlot

lose that.

We

had some property damage, but nobody died in Wisconsin, right?

Brittney Merlot

No,

but yeah, they'd Missouri

John Maino

And you know you hate to say tucky Let's talk to that person that worked for the Red Cross one time said a lot of those injuries You think would be really gruesome and they're not there might have been like one two by four that went flying through the The sky, you know and hit a person and then there's no other mark on them Wow, but they're just the force of everything that's flying around is beyond belief.

It's just beyond belief

Brittney Merlot

And I have heard, too, of people being in their basements, thinking they're completely safe and fine, and huge farm silos crashing into the basement once their house is removed.

So you got to think about, I go into the basement, under the stairs, put stuff over you.

You got to just think about, if everything were to be gone and the debris still flying, people get so lucky.

John Maino

Wow.

How's it look this week, Brittany?

Brittney Merlot

Pretty chilly, little wet and rainy as we go through mid-week, but we'll dry things out in a beautiful weekend.

John Maino

All right, Danny, Brittany, you're the best.

Thank you.

It's great to have you back.

Thank you.

Take care.

See you.

You too.

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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

John Maino

Hey, thank you very much welcome back come on over the mayor here Baltimore Orioles have Milwaukee Brewers coming up at 605 tonight.

Is that the game?

We gave some tickets way too.

I don't

John Maino

remember that's coming up.

What's 21?

That was that was Wednesday's game.

Oh, okay.

We gave away all right cool boy Brewers had another one where they just couldn't score and just She's got rough season for

them.

Yeah,

John Maino

rough season had the PJ championship yesterday.

That was pretty good Scottie Schaeffler winning over John Rom.

He won pretty big though, didn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

He pretty much ran away with it.

Everybody like faltered, faltered, faltered.

He's just, he's so steady that not, not the slightest bit of emotion.

Yeah.

No, that's why I don't play.

John Maino

I mean, not the slightest, just you, you would have no idea if he was 10 shots in a lead or 10 shots off the pace.

And it just, I've never seen a more calm, phenomenal athlete at his level.

Never seen anything like it.

Um,

As you mentioned today is Laney Wilson's birthday 33 her boyfriend her fiance is duck Hodges who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers all right, and he has the nickname duck why

No idea

John Maino

when he was 13 years old you won the national duck calling competition.

Oh, that's cool Yeah, no,

John Maino

so of course you gotta have the nickname duck.

I grace Jones is 77 She was big in

80s.

Yeah.

Early, uh, kind of a model slash pop singer slash

John Maino

something a little weird, a little weird.

Remember seeing her on Letterman one of the first times I saw her at all.

And it was like, wow.

John Maino

Yeah.

Just different, um, text here.

Mine was just talking about Dale race.

I just saw the paper.

He died a couple of weeks ago.

He was Ken Anderson's assistant coach at old Claire.

Great guy.

Terry.

Yeah.

We did Terry and Dale, I feel bad.

I don't think there's going to be a public service for him.

Um,

Dale was a longtime assistant coach here at UW-Green Bay.

Phenomenal coach at Minnesota Duluth, coached at Milton College, coached at Eau Claire for a lot of years.

From Marinette, I think he was the first guy, one of the very first people put in the Marinette Sports Hall of Fame.

He was instrumental with getting the Hall of Fame going in Marinette.

Marinette guy and who never, even though he's been all around the state after that, never lost his roots for Marinette, which was always cool.

Don't like when they don't have a service me too because I because I would

John Maino

like to go and pay my respect

to his

John Maino

family But

also kind of helps you a little bit.

I mean Get something to say something.

Yeah,

John Maino

you

know, it's in private and prayer.

I don't like and sometimes some people that are actually I wonder why people don't do it because do they think nobody's gonna come

John Maino

I mean a ton of people

show up or do they think it costs money because it really isn't that expensive if you do it in like in the church or something, right?

I don't know

John Maino

if you have it any place, right?

Yeah

I don't, anyway, I didn't know the guy, but it's his call.

John Maino

Well, it's totally, totally what happened.

His family's called, not putting them down.

But I've just said in general, I would like close your lot of times when it's a friend of mine.

Right.

Give my, cause then otherwise you just never know what you should

do.

Right.

And then, and then there's always you go through that and it's like, well, there's a private service or there's not a service.

And then, then you scroll down, it's like plant a tree.

You know, I don't know.

I guess you can do that, but send flowers.

I guess you can't do that because there's no service.

But there's other things you can do or donate to this cause.

But just to have even two hours, hour and a half, the tree thing.

Yeah, is dumb.

Well, OK, I have done that.

Why?

John Maino

Because I did it this summer.

I did it.

You planted a tree for someone who passed away.

Yep.

Yep.

John Maino

Well,

yeah.

Well, you

John Maino

somewhere over in Laura, Michigan.

Where would your friend I

John Maino

Green Bay?

Really?

Yes.

I always do it personally like I I actually plant it myself kind of thing.

John Maino

I should have done that Yeah, cuz I spent this money to but to plant a tree and it's over like Midland of Michigan

so his family doesn't go in

John Maino

What the hell?

Wow is that?

Somebody help me out.

Is that a scam?

What the hell is that plant a tree and it's in a different state

Wow, I didn't know that

John Maino

yeah,

hmm Anyway

The service.

John Maino

I'm going to find it.

I'm going to go over there.

I'm digging it up.

I'm bringing it back.

There you go.

I'm

going to

John Maino

go find his wife's house.

Damn

right.

I would do that.

I'm not even joking.

We could put it over the top of your car, kind of like Christmas vacation.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

On the highway with the roots in.

John Maino

No question.

No question.

There was a, of course, during

John Maino

COVID.

I thought it was going to be a nice thing.

Yeah, that is a nice one.

I agree.

You know, this is in honor of him.

Yeah.

No, it's a thousand miles away.

Yeah.

During COVID when.

Everybody's sitting at home.

There was a lot of things you could do online.

Anyway, it was some organization to save the planet and you could buy trees and they gave you exactly where it is.

That would be great.

But if

John Maino

it's

close, it was, it was on my point is that it was like in Colorado.

Yeah, but they do have the whatever the GPS thing.

Look, I want to do that someday to see if they really planted them.

But I did I bought.

Yeah.

And I'll just one of those things.

But

John Maino

you know what, you know, people.

I'm starting up a tree planting thing for a loved one.

In fact, you know what?

The trees are already planted.

I could show you where they'll put a nice ribbon and a little plaque.

200 bucks.

OK, wait now on their property on yours.

John Maino

I have it on my property up north.

I like people up there.

John Maino

Yeah.

Then

John Maino

they

can pick up their mushrooms.

Yeah.

I like them like that.

Little weed.

That might be all right,

John Maino

John.

Stop them.

I might

be on to something.

Yeah.

John Maino

Yeah.

But isn't that crazy?

Yeah, I didn't know that

John Maino

I thought it was gonna be in their hometown.

So did I I even I felt really stupid because when I was in the reception line Yeah, I even asked her one of the daughters.

I said hey, could you tell me where the when you know where the tree is gonna be?

Could you let me know?

I'd like to go.

She's like what?

And we're the tree that I planted.

I don't know Wow.

Yeah When you bought it, what did they tell you though?

They just told you it

John Maino

was gonna be

like you they probably own

A plot of land 50 acres and they just just trees right next to each other.

Yeah in lower, Michigan scam

John Maino

Just don't

yeah, it's a thought John.

It's a thought.

John Maino

Yeah, I got some thoughts You don't know want to know my thoughts You got this one.

I donate to the human fund when somebody passed away Brian

There is no such thing as a human say what George Costanza came up with all right because he needed to have a non-profit get it come up with All right

Jim's

online

We can break this off break this off 50 bucks 50 bucks quick break back

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