Grilling for a Cause (Hour 2)

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Grilling for a Cause (Hour 2)

Maino and the Mayor · Tue May 20, 2025

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

And here are your

hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Good morning.

Happy Tuesday out there.

Jim and I met at the door this morning and

we

said, this is a cold May.

Isn't it tough?

Just this week.

You just feel

like you're

walking and it's gonna be nicer than it is.

You just assume it's gonna be nicer than it is.

It's not horrible out there.

48 in Green Bay, 48 in Appton, 47 in Appton.

It is breezy, showers, forecast for today, high around 50.

It was

refreshing though.

Hey, you going with that?

I don't know.

Yeah, it was alright.

You're okay, whatever.

You looked real like you're

really saving the morning as you're really enjoying that lock.

Yeah, you

look like you were you're

embracing the day

Carpe diem everybody Carpe bleep and diem Yeah, maybe your hands are so deep in your pot.

I know it was

right.

Yeah, that's cool.

All right.

All

right, happy Tuesday,

too Yeah, we've got a great lineup for you here.

We got a lot of good

guests a lot of stuff happening now over the next

It's a big time, like the next month or so, seems like a lot of stuff happens.

You mean graduations?

Yeah, all that, and then high school tournaments, and, you know, memorial day after it's huge, and all the different things, and, you know.

You get some invites to graduation parties, so

yeah.

You're right, this is a cool time of year though.

The weather's getting better,

yeah.

Today we got a great line.

By the way, Vicki wants to get the first one.

Good morning.

Good morning, Vicki.

Where's Vicki calling or where's Vicki texting?

Because one of my guys that we put on the other day tied to Facebook wise, he's in Las Vegas.

Yeah.

So that's cool.

I think Vicki's down in North Fond du Lac.

North Fond du Lac, right?

Do we still have people from like Allentown, Pennsylvania and everything?

Yeah, I think so.

I'll

tell you what, let's have a little fun this morning.

Why don't

you just text in where you're listening from?

You get the mobile app, of course, the Civic Media app.

Choose WGBW or WISS.

Then text us and just say, hey, I'm listening in

wherever.

So

let's do a roll

call.

Something like we have, you know,

pens pens from who

came again

for

wedding reception the DJ who came the furthest we're from Chicago you can I can walk to Chicago

who's next okay okay forget it I just thought I'd just throw it out there yeah you're right I mean I've been to those you've all

been to those how you know what I could understand Todd because I've always said I'd like to be a wedding DJ oh god yeah

Well, that was resounding.

We get the parents who are paying for it.

You got the bride who wants this.

You got other guests.

We just talked to a wedding DJ.

Yeah.

He was talking about how the group, you know, the wedding DJ's job is to get people on the floor.

Right?

And

that's really

it.

It's not like do this

to

that.

It's get the people on the floor.

The people are coming up and requesting all these songs.

And was it the bride's mother or the bride?

We're only doing this.

That was my, that was you.

Oh, that they only wanted country

music.

That's what it was.

And it was no DJ we had in here.

It was.

Okay.

And it

literally all, all the bridesmaids and the bride all had cowboy boots on.

Oh,

and yeah.

And it was brown eyed girl, which you would think could kind of cross over to country a little bit.

I mean, it's not that far out,

right?

Right.

Now it would be.

Like back

then, when that came out, it wasn't big.

Well, no, but this was

like, you know, in the early 2000s for me doing the

wedding.

Oh, that.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And, you know, I played that and the crowd just went crazy.

Everybody's dancing in the hole.

And here she walked in her little cowboy boots

right up to the thing.

I said, only country.

By 10 o'clock, the dance was over.

Everybody left.

Really?

Yeah.

Really?

So that killed it kind of,

huh?

We got a text here.

I'm listening from Lake Wales, Florida.

Got to find out who that

is.

That

is Debbie.

Nice.

It's who?

Debbie?

Debbie.

Yep.

She listens every day.

All right, Debbie.

John sang Happy Birthday

to

her last week because she'd sent that text to me.

Yes, Lake Wales, she bought a condo down there.

Did not like the weather in Wisconsin.

She sent me a text that made her day.

Yeah, she did.

She did.

So

anyway,

yes, that's... So Vicki, where's

Vicki?

Final act?

Final act, okay.

Then DJs, I'll tell you who can get people on the floor, which is no surprise, is Big Mouth.

I believe it.

Well, yes and no.

Well, with that guy, he said to me, because that was a fun wedding.

And even those guys...

They're worth it, but it costs money for a live band, and that's what my daughter wanted, and that's what they did.

I'm telling you, John, the whole night.

I love Big Mouth.

I would listen to Big Mouth on my last day on this earth, okay?

I'd like to watch him perform.

We're at our buddy, John Kramer's.

Oh, and everybody sat there and they just wanted to listen to Big Moth.

They were so good to the

show.

It's

free.

And it's like they went to a Big Moth show and

we all

everybody sat around and listened to Big Moth and just really got into Big Moth's music.

Clap in the songs.

Absolutely.

And they're coming off

the sax and doing the different things.

So it was great in that way.

But it's like you got a free concert.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

The crowd wasn't really into

dancing.

Maybe that's

what they enjoy.

It

was more into just sitting back

and enjoying

it and everything.

In those case, they do it every month and they led everybody.

And it was on the third floor of the title town upstairs.

You know, we can oversee the city.

And they played, just marched all the way outside and then we had fireworks.

They were the easiest band to work with.

Yet DJs are better, like Greta, right?

When she got married, she married that Colombian.

just two different genres of music and there's not a band that can play both those.

You know what I mean?

Like play Colombian music, play American music.

So there we got a DJ and he goes, yeah, I can do that.

So it was great.

But anyway, but you got to let the DJ call the shots.

You know what

I'm saying?

Too.

Totally.

He knows what he's doing.

He knows what he's doing.

He knows what he's doing.

He knows what he's doing.

Terry says the average height today is supposed to be 70.

That's correct.

For today?

Yeah.

I believe it.

The average height is 70.

The average.

Okay.

Should be such a nice day.

That's such a nice time of year.

Where are we listening from?

My bathroom on the east side of

Green Bay.

Thank

you.

Thanks

Brian.

Appreciate that.

Let's just move on from that one, Ryan.

Listening from Allentown, PA, technically, Mugungi?

But no one has ever heard of that, Allison.

Is that Mugungi?

I don't

know.

I'll say the Allentown,

yeah.

Because one of the rivers there is Mahunganina, the three rivers for like three river stadiums, the Ohio, the something, and the Manangahil all come together.

Because Manangahilia, Pennsylvania, is the hometown of Joe Montana.

Everybody knows and I know

right and let's just be honest if he was mispronouncing him you

and I would never know right well That's interesting.

That's me.

That's it's nice to have that knowledge.

I love this song

by the way

Have you ever had like a song that just sticks in your mind and you know exactly where you were when you had the song in your mind Yeah couple of mine was Christmas right for Christmas Frank and Moose, Michigan this old town outside of Flint that they dedicate their whole

town to like Christmas one of those places have the great Christmas you know it's a year-round they're famous for two things their chicken and their Christmases and I remember and my wife at the time was per amber was born a week later so it's one of those things and I remember this song was in my head the whole time well we're living here in Allentown and it's hard to keep a good man down

Our

fathers fought the

second world

war.

How's your mayor doing out there?

In Allentown?

What do you mean?

Why?

I don't know.

What

happened?

I don't know.

I don't know either.

I think in a little hot water.

We have to conference this together.

We'll see.

Maybe they got the wrong city.

That seems like a tough town, doesn't it?

Yeah, it just seems

like a

tough

town.

You

know what I think is from there?

Mike Ditka.

Yeah, that would...

Be the tough town.

Yep.

I think

Mike Ditka

is from there.

Maybe because they compete.

They have some competition out there in terms of towns.

Oh, yeah.

That you got to, you know, you know, Erie, Pennsylvania.

Erie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

El Quipita.

That's where he's from.

Mike Ditka.

El Quipita.

Look it up.

Look it up.

Who's that?

Mike Ditka.

Well, that's his real name.

Oh, my goodness.

What's El Quipita?

Mike Ditka is from El Quipita.

A native of Carnegie, Pennsylvania, Mike attended Alquipeta High School.

Yes.

I got a weird thing.

I got a weird thing.

Yeah, you do.

Wow.

I'm

sorry,

Todd.

I should have that checked.

Yes.

Alikipa.

Aliquipeta.

Tony Dorsett is from there too, I believe.

Aliquipeta.

Aliquipeta.

Aliquipa.

Eloquipa there we go Eloquipa

that was Joe Namas big rival in high school and who's at Beaver Falls?

Of course it was.

Yes.

Okay, just throwing it out there people want to know No,

okay.

Well, I don't want to get into it.

Hey, hey happy world B day.

Okay.

We got it.

Okay, Todd.

Can you make a quick call?

To none other than what right Wayne?

Yeah, I saw his his they got a lot of damage from that storm Oh, he's out in the sticks.

It took out a

bunch of stuff, but I saw something that angel angel on our Facebook friends

She said she doesn't want to talk about the bees because they were trapped inside their house for two days and Couldn't leave their house

Yeah, I could make for a good movie

Wayne I know right

remember the bees

the bees kept them in the house That's what

it sounded like on her Facebook.

He takes care of the bees.

Yeah.

Wow

Wayne if you are listening and you have a chance call us at 26406 where

you held

hostage right in your house

that queen bees like okay guys we've talked about a revolution this is people are

peeing me up hey guys listen we go tonight listen phones phones are down we got enough bees in the transformer we short-circuited

it the spray is in the garage we won't let him get to it he

can't get to it hmm you know there's wow I was right one of my chapters in my book yesterday last night and

these guys run this mission in Vietnam.

And they saw the Vietcong and it's like, they're there.

Let's go.

So you started running through the jungle and they went to us little thing and they got into a thing of ground wasps.

So bad that guys had to be, they had to send in helicopters to take guys out.

They were stung so bad by ground wasps.

I mean, like it was medicality.

Evacuated from getting stung

let those things come up out of that you step on yeah, that's I've seen like some video online and stuff like

that and the guys have the big full suits on

and

they're going in there You can just see these things attacking

I get attacked one time and so do it's funny because you know we had our guy on yesterday Don Carper from Veterans Village Yep, and we were talking about clearing out that whole area and we had this one guy And this was yeah, and this they tell you about that time.

I don't know

When Don and I cleaned out this whole area at Veterans Village in Appleton a couple of years ago, okay?

It's just all of our growth, just ugly and addiction.

Next to a college dorm.

That's right.

That's important.

Yeah.

Well,

now

all

sorts of things are going

through my head.

It

wasn't

a dead body.

We find this thing, this big like a planter box thing and everything with like electricity from somewhere and like irrigation all hidden.

What do you think that was?

Oh, yeah, it's all under that.

Yeah,

you never know.

We were like three days into digging into

the guy was running his business, growing his stuff.

Yeah,

little farming

going on.

Yeah.

But he's

actually using the

irrigation.

There's a little bit of a science experiment.

Absolutely.

You know, give him a little credit.

Well, I'll tell you what, Jim, you

probably know us too.

When we were doing that downtown campaign, live here, love here, live it.

Okay.

And a lot of these places where we're rentals that we're going to, but we're asking, could we just, could we look and Garrett was with us.

Times two and everything so we could we look at the house make an appointment and get an idea of maybe what it could be worth and look for yada yada yada's You know because we're trying to have because we have a lot of investors that want to buy those.

Yeah, but anyway Well, you know, I'm not telling you anything, but anyway, there are at least two possibly three

where when you walk in, you knew right away, because the basement windows are painted over black.

Right.

And sometimes the outlets are low.

Yeah.

They drop them down to, like, a foot off the floor.

It's like, OK, I wonder where you did

that.

Yeah.

And you see hoses coming through the rafters, like, the joys.

The right lights, the right, yeah.

But as soon as you saw the painted windows, you knew

right

off the bat.

And I mentioned this before, but with the homeless shelter, we're doing this expansion.

So we bought these seven houses in a pretty

pretty bad area.

And then the chief called, he goes, hey, look, could we, you know, plant some drugs in there and run the dogs through and, you know, looking for that?

I'm like, you don't need to plant any drugs in there, chief.

Just let them go.

They might be hyperventilating,

right?

I told you the cops wanted me to be that guy one time, right?

Hiding in a

drug house?

No way.

No way.

Yeah, they train it, but they also enjoy it kind of.

They enjoy it a little more than they should.

Both the dog and the cop.

Quick break, back at

this.

Great song.

Billy

Joel back in his era.

Boy, he had an era, didn't he?

70s, 80s, my gosh.

Just early 90s.

Incredible.

And he was married to Christy Brinkley.

Yeah.

How do you screw that up?

Yeah.

Apparently he did, right?

How do you screw that up?

Yeah.

Christy Brinkley.

You know, maybe she... I saw her one time.

In person?

Yeah.

A little bit from a distance.

She was going out when I was working in Flint.

They had the Detroit Grand Prix.

There's a first year of Detroit Grand Prix.

And her boyfriend at the time was this French driver who got killed.

Oh.

And that was like the big story of the Detroit.

I think it was the first year of the Detroit Grand Prix and Grand Prix are big.

I mean, that's, boy, those are big European multi-billionaire types when they come to town.

They put a lot of money

in this place.

Yeah, put it this way.

You want to, you want to have all the restaurants and all the, anything you want in downtown Green Bay?

Have a Grand Prix.

Yeah.

Right?

I'm not kidding.

That is so huge.

Well, that's really how L. Cart Lake got on the map.

Wasn't a Grand Prix, but they used to race through the city.

And then they did oh, yeah, and then now they have obviously the track that's which is

phenomenal, which is they

but they when you go Restaurants or the Ostoff or something they have pictures and that's where the race started and they I never knew that I never knew that they Before some of the races they'll come and they'll just do like a little parade and it's six seven deep just to watch the cars go by but then these guys some of these guys You know they pull off on the side and they like to show off their toy.

Absolutely.

So it's cool thing to

Actually, I still think that thing in Manitowoc is cool.

Is it Manitowoc and two rivers where they take one night and they shut off pretty much all the streets downtown except the route and everybody's got like a classic car, a cool car.

I'll just get in this big parade.

It goes on for hours.

It's super cool.

I mean, people will put out lawn chairs.

I don't know if it starts at six.

People have lawn chairs out at like three, two in the afternoon to have the right place.

There's something about cars.

Back then they would.

Different no, there's yeah looking a little bit vanilla.

Yeah, there's nothing.

Hey, by the way, I know what I was gonna ask you so I walked past Auto gallery.

Yeah Okay on what street is that the main street that it's on Adams Adams, okay, and then crooks Adams in the window

Remember I told her at Darrell.

I said, Hey, you can just window shop walking around that

place.

You can see.

Okay.

Is that a Vega they have in the front window?

That little orange car was the orange one with kind of a hatchback.

Is that a Vega?

Well, I don't know.

It's

like, why would you need to ask Darrell?

Yeah.

It's right around Bart Starr's Corvettes and these other cars.

And it looks like a Vega.

What's wrong with that?

I mean what it's a junk or what?

Yeah, they

Vega was one of those cars.

We were talking about yesterday

Where

they threw you know, they just went when the gas embargo and everything they're

trying to

make these little American cars to compete I don't even know if it's an American car Vega.

Is that is that an AMC car?

I don't know I don't know I'll ask them.

Yeah, I drive by there twice a day.

So I will I'll look into that

What's the big red one else?

Is that an etsel?

Yes, that looks like it.

Yeah, I think it's an etsel that one that displays outside.

Yeah, isn't that where they leave that on the winter?

I know I thought the same thing.

Yeah, but they brush it off and clean it.

But yeah.

And then when you walk in on Adams Street, that window display, and then you take a left to go in there is where that Rolls Royce is.

How's that?

Oh, that's an awesome car.

OK, so I went to our great friends downtown garage.

Yep.

They hooked me up again like you can't believe.

They're some of the greatest people, old school service, old school garage.

Remember you, treat you great, the whole thing.

Even brown donuts, they did such

a great job.

Show my appreciation.

But they had an Aston Martin in their park.

You never know what's going to be.

There's like an MG Spitfire and an Aston Martin right there in that.

How much would those

be

worth?

Right.

But if you're going to take your car to get the service, do you want to go to those?

And they've been around forever now granted that the employees the employees have been there forever They just bought the company, but that company's been there for well.

I've got

pictures inside.

Yeah, I mean,

I think the 20s.

Yeah, so yeah in the

exact

same spot right same love it love the smell

Yeah, it brings

back so many memories of basically growing up in a gas

station.

I'm out in there.

Yeah, they're like hands are greasy and

love it.

Yep.

Love it

Love it, love it, love it.

Great people, downtown garage in Green Bay.

What's going on today?

World B Day.

Oh, has we heard from Big Wayne?

All right, Wayne, wake up.

It's Rescue Dog Day.

Love it.

We got a guy coming on today to talk about dogs.

Well, yeah, plus we had, that was so cool the other day when Dennis Peters from the glam band brought his dog in.

Yeah, that's

a good dog.

And he's telling me the history of that dog.

I mean, it's amazing.

You know, we always talk about, you know, the...

Tornadoes and the hurricanes and you know a lot of times I think people might forget about those things and those people that do their best.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah Todd was yours a rescue dog.

Yeah, Todd's was a rescue dog.

What do you mean not anymore?

I You see people you were you saying that he said this dog was left chained up remember the people left or died or

yeah, boy, I think the

When there's a flood, you know, I was talking about the American Red Cross and this showed, but there's people who are down for the animals too.

I mean, it's a big deal now.

I don't think it was 25 years ago.

Oh, God, no, not even a little bit.

Yeah.

I

think with these dogs, I mean, it's kind of like just having that dog in the studio the other day is a beautiful dog.

I

mean, just a good dog too.

It seems.

But think about what that thing went through, that he survived, you know?

And then to still be cool like even when we did that thing at the hotel north one that day.

We'll survive.

Yeah.

Have you got your lunch there yet?

No You

gotta try to go with you, but you gotta try the

venison chili Yeah, you said

that

well, I was thinking it was a two-person thing.

I was getting lunch.

See they gave Johnny and I did a show at the Northland for rescue dog adopt the rescue dog, right?

And she was very

accidentally ate the dog

cookie.

We'll get you yes We'll get you guys lunch.

By the way, I told that story over the weekend to somebody who had never heard it

So now everybody in my family knows

I'm okay with it cuz it looked exactly like a cookie my mom would make

Tasted like a dog Anyway, yes, I gotta get lunch there.

I poked a bear.

So that's what gave us Lorraine.

It's a

kind of quiche type of quiche

Alright, it's Band Director's Day.

Nice.

Women in Aerospace Day.

John Party, the singer, 40 years old.

Busta Rhymes, 53.

Tony Stewart, 54.

Mindy Kohn, 59.

Bronson Pinchot, 66.

Jane Weedlin, 67, who I don't know.

She was in the Go-Go's.

Oh!

Little guitar action there.

Nice.

And Cher is 79.

Is she?

I don't

know.

No, I'm just kidding.

Her face is only

five years

old.

I was

going

to say not all of her.

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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, welcome back!

I had Tuesday morning.

It's a little bit chilly out there.

48 in Green Bay, 48 in Appleton, 47 in Oshkosh and showers and around 50 degrees today.

Brewer's back in action tonight.

Got a nice win last night over

the Orioles.

Nice

to see.

Got off to a good start

for

three runs quick.

And that was nice to see.

Once again, 6.05 tonight in Milwaukee.

We're joined right now.

We're talking about all the great things that are done for animals in this area.

We're just talking about it during the break time.

This area, if you're a dog, if you're a pet, this is a great area to live.

There are some pets that get a little bit more attention, money, treatment than some people.

Well,

I mean, right?

I

mean,

look at his dog,

right?

My dog?

Yeah, your dog.

Yeah, I

just told Johnny I was at the vet with him yesterday and just, you know,

Getting all these preventive shots and blood tests and just to make sure everything's fine and That didn't happen.

No, like I said, the only time we ever took our dog to the vet was when they got porcupine quills in their mouth And that's suck man.

That is the worst thing porcupine quills in a dog's mouth every time if you're in the woods shoot a porcupine There's nothing good about them, but we're joined with Tim

Miley, but it's pet allergy awareness month.

Yes it

is

You know, we talk about human allergies and this guy, I think, I love what he's doing here.

Tim.

Big golf outing.

Yeah,

big golf outing.

Tim, how are you?

Good morning.

Thanks for having me on this

morning.

We love what you're doing.

We're big animal people

here.

I just got, Tim and I, how far back do we go, Tim, in regards to just like Facebook back and forth?

Man, it's probably

2011.

Wow.

And it's been a while you you were the first person I ever met that was really big into and we'll get out to all the dog scramble everything but into the paranormal and then I come and then I meet Todd and I thought to myself well that friend Tim of mine is the second most invested person in the paranormal that I know in Wisconsin.

You still doing that stuff Tim?

I still am.

It's not as frequent these days but you know this weekend we got the golf thing but

Usually we're doing paranormal events to raise money for, uh, for animals.

So still really involved in the paranormal community.

It's kind of interesting.

I'm going to be going out to Gettysburg next month.

I

think the next week after I'm out of there, I think you're going, right, Tim?

Yeah, you're going to beat me by a couple of weeks.

I'm there at the end of July.

Gotcha.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

So we'll have to, we'll have to get together and talk about what we found.

Is

this an outdoor thing or in buildings or both for me, but this is cool.

Very cool tip.

And it's great that you used one of your passions to help

dogs.

What's the passion with dogs?

Why did you kind of dive into helping out animals?

Well, I've been trying to find a family friendly way to explain this, but, um, potted grass for poochers was created in 2013.

Uh, it goes back to the end of 2006 when I rescued my, my, uh, my dog Murray from a shelter.

Uh, he was beaten badly as a puppy.

didn't mind anything to do with anybody, especially men.

And I was lucky enough to become his forever home.

I was going through a lot of stuff personally at the time.

And I think you can read between lines there on that.

I don't need to get too involved in that, but things was not going well for me personally.

And there was a point in early 2007 where I tried not to be here anymore.

And the only reason I'm here

is because Murray walked into that room.

Well, we had Dennis, we had Dennis

Peters here last week and Dennis has gone through somewhere and he's going through and he said his dog saved him.

Yeah.

He said, I didn't say, I said, oh, would you save him?

Rescue.

He says, no, no, he says, no, I didn't rescue him.

He rescued me.

And I think for a lot of people, there's nothing better than going home to an animal.

It doesn't matter kind of date you've had, because they're just happy to see you.

And it just makes such a big difference.

Exactly.

And he

And Murray honestly became this spokesperson for photographs later.

I started to get more opportunities in the paranormal field, doing conventions and things like that.

And they give you a table that lets you sell anything you want.

And I thought, hey, let's raise some money for animals and let's also create a legacy for animals.

So that's why you see hashtag Murray's legacy on almost everything that we do and everything that we sell.

All proceeds that we raise go to a local shelter wherever we may be And in 12 plus years we've raised almost 137 thousand dollars.

Nice.

That's great.

It's been very very rewarding for me I get a chance to tell his story and it'll always be his story.

It's not mine I get a chance to tell his story and you know let everybody know how special he was, you know

So I was gonna live forever.

He passed away in 2018 and We've been doing what we can my wife and I Lauren Been doing what we can here to keep the legacy going and that's where the golf tournament comes in.

Oh, that's great.

Hey, did you get another dog?

I've got I've got a couple now.

Oh,

you do.

Okay.

I just would our dog

He's not going to sell his.

No, I would never.

Are you kidding me?

You couldn't give me enough money.

No, when one of our dogs, it was so close to him and he died, we just, we didn't get another dog because we didn't want to go through that again.

You know, that's hard.

Are we that really

close

to

like our family was?

We had three daughters and it was just like, it was almost like grandma died, you know?

I mean, it was unbelievable.

But after a couple of years, we were missing it.

So we picked up a dog, which wasn't a rescue.

So

tell us about it.

Yeah, it's actually kind of funny.

Sorry, sorry for buttoning like that.

But after Murray passed away, the shelter that we're working with this weekend contacted me and said, Hey, we're bringing up some animals from Alabama.

Take a look at the pictures you can have whichever one you want.

And ended up finding one that had the exact markings of Murray.

And she's a female, but I still named her Ray R. A. E. And that's in honor of him too.

So

What was your question?

I was

going to ask, why are they always from the south?

Because I'll tell you a true story.

My dogs are all from the south, too.

Yeah, everybody knows

this

from the south.

They don't think of their animals like we think of our animals up here.

Down there, it's a dog.

Up here, it's a part of the family.

And so there's less care down there.

There's more kill shelters in the south.

There's more rescues up in the north.

Wow, I never

knew that.

Think back to the days of

slavery.

I'm going north.

Wow.

I gotta get out of here.

Absolutely.

My God.

So tell us about it.

I would agree with what Todd said.

I

don't know how they treat them down there, but you know, we know a little bit about dogs, lessons, cost, insurance, and they do treat them pretty well up here.

I do.

I think people in this part of the world, and that's great that you're bringing the, do you bring the dogs up here or do you just work with the shelter that does that?

I just work with the shelters.

I always tell everybody that the shelters do the real work.

I just try to raise the money for them.

I got the easy part.

Tim,

I got to ask this quick question here.

We had a dog at the thing we did, and we talked about this.

He was a rescue dog from the hurricane in, I think, New Orleans,

or one of the

hurricane things.

And you could just see in his eyes, even in that room, he was a little

Hey Jim remember that he's kind of like look at his eyes.

We're checking out the room Do these ducks come with some for lack of a better term some post-traumatic stress baggage.

Yeah baggage

Well Murray in particular.

Yes, you know being beaten as a puppy knowing his story He was afraid of plastic bags.

He was afraid of doorways.

I don't know what happened to him previously.

I just know that it wasn't good Have a have an animal now a dog now

Her name is Daisy terrified of thunderstorms.

So I don't know if she was out in the thunderstorm while she was lost before before she was found Yeah, a lot of those dogs that they come with quirks, you know, I don't want to say baggage because I don't want to discourage people from right and find them there But you have to accept that when you get one,

right,

right?

Yeah, yeah, you're you're not gonna get a dog that doesn't have an issue.

Okay, but

People, they managed those issues because we were joining, I did an event for an adoption for a rescue and the people brought their dogs, I think they had adopted them maybe a year ago.

And boy, the relationship they had with those pets, they do adjust or I don't know if the owners adjust or if the pet adjust, but boy.

They were just great dogs.

It wasn't like they were running away or growling or biting.

They were just super nice dogs.

Oh, they knew we were taking care of them.

Oh, yeah.

But I wonder, is that a factor though too, when somebody's been through such trauma and then all of a sudden, you know, in a short time period, you got somebody that's given you all sorts of affection and care and all this.

I would think they would respond to that pretty good too, huh, Tim?

Well, speaking of Murray specifically, we were both going through things.

And that one night in particular that I spoke about earlier,

really changed relationship.

It was never owner and dog.

It was more like father son.

It's weird as that might seem to some people.

Well, Jim has

conversations with his dog as if he was sitting and talking to an adult.

True or

false?

It's true.

Do you see what the mayor did today?

It's cheaper than a therapist.

Should I run

again?

It's cheaper than a therapist.

Should I run again?

Yeah.

Well, Tim, tell us about the golf outing.

But more importantly, if folks can't partake in that, how they can support autographs and what you do.

And I love the name of pot of graphs.

Yeah.

You can go to pot of graphs for pooches.com.

That's pot of graphs for pooches.com.

Um, and there's a donate button on the, on the homepage there.

If you want to, uh, everything will go to second chance North animal shelter.

Uh, we're doing a golf scramble this week.

Uh, Murray gets a golf tournament called the Murray scramble and, uh, four person scramble, $65 a person, whole events, lunch afterwards.

Some of the proceeds are going to us, which we will give directly to the shelter.

And like I said, that's the shelter that put me in touch with, with my dog Ray.

Been working with them for years, good people over there.

Gotta give a quick shout out to Farview Golf Course.

And John owns the golf course.

There's a bunch of events, charity events throughout the year.

And we're just lucky enough to be one of them opening up this golf course to us.

$65 a person

is really cheap.

That's a bargain there, man.

That's fantastic.

That's a really good deal.

You can't do that just on a normal Tuesday afternoon at a golf course.

And you're going to have perfect weather for that Saturday.

It's going to be nice.

And

you got to get out.

That's a good place to start.

Absolutely.

Start with a scramble.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, you know, along those lines, if, you know, you get four people from the station, I would like to have you there.

We'll cover everything for you.

No, I appreciate that.

I haven't swung

a golf club

in a lot of years.

We'd be scrambling.

That's for sure.

We have a, we have a saying on our team.

You only have to be good 25% of the time.

That's right.

That's

right.

That is true.

So we just go out there, have a lot of fun and just remember that we're there to raise money for the animals.

A lot of laughter, a lot of jokes.

And it's Wisconsin.

There's a few drinks that.

And the name of the place once again is second chance shelter in Oshkosh, correct him?

Just outside of Oshkosh, second chance, second chance North Animal Shelter.

Good people that run that place want to do what we can for them.

And it's far view, F-A-R-V-U, Golf Course 4985 County Road R in Oshkosh.

Yes.

And they could contact them 920.

or contact you actually, 920-470-2395.

So 920-470-2395.

Or if people want to remember it better that way, the 23 would be Travis Williams and Bryce Pop.

Of course.

I mean, that's

what I

thought.

I was just going

to say that, but yeah.

So

there you go.

You got more of a texture.

So if you text me, I'll get right back to you.

All

right.

Outstanding.

One more time.

920-470.

two three nine five.

It's only sixty five dollars per person for the whole tournament and lunch included nine o'clock shotgun start on Saturday.

It's great.

Yes.

Good weather would kick off the season.

Absolutely.

Do this meet some friends and

a

great cause.

That's for sure.

Are they going to have any dogs out there Tim.

The shelter I believe is bringing a couple of dogs going to be at one of the holes so you get a chance to.

You know, go pet a dog after you shank your, your drive into

the woods.

Our next guest just brought in his dog with him.

Cody brought in his dog, Smoke.

And I'll tell you what.

I wouldn't mess with

smoke.

If we golf, you got to bring a dog that knows how to fetch.

That would be a good idea if a dog could find golf balls.

If you could train a dog to find golf balls, oh my god, could that dog make money?

And learn to bring him back and drop him on the green.

Right next to the hole.

Tim Miley, it's great talking to you, buddy.

We'll keep pumping this all week

long.

Thanks for doing this, Tim.

Thank you.

You got it, my friend.

Please let us know how it goes after next week, okay?

We'll do it.

Thank you again.

Thank you, brother.

Murray Scramble coming up Saturday.

Just $65.

Give Tim a call.

470 Travis Williams Braceplot, $23.95.

Back.

Jim and I just agreed on something.

What?

How

did that happen?

Neither one of us.

It's huge porta-plotties.

Well, I didn't say that I said my kids won't oh because we're talking his events coming up at light part Cody's in the house Cody and smoke and the city of Green Bay Actually, it's more than that Green Bay Metro is showcasing two new fire engines.

They bought that's million dollars over that and Kids love them the public likes them

old guys kind of like

And the fire department was doing some training for the guys.

They had the big laugh.

And I was like some eight-year-old kid.

She's sitting there watching.

I literally sat there, you know, my hands against the fence watching.

Yep.

There's something.

I don't care how old you are.

There's something about big, cool, shiny, red trucks.

Yeah.

Is that the truth, Cody?

It

is.

And they'll bring people down to that.

And we're reasoning.

Yeah.

Talk about this, Cody.

What you got coming up, buddy.

They

reached out to the

best barbecue

in the community.

Yeah,

man.

Yep.

So they reached out.

They want me there for food trucking.

And this was

Cody Crepline.

Do I pronounce your last name, right?

Yeah.

Are you sure?

Crepleen.

Okay.

She's like one of those nice guys.

Yeah.

Close enough.

Guys,

somehow, aren't you related to my wife's family or something along the lines?

Somehow or another.

It

seems like every Manitowoc County

is

related.

Yeah.

Somewhere along the line, they're all related from back in...

Back, way back when.

In the

Czech Republic or wherever in Bohemia.

But anyway, Cody Crepleen, Sloppy Hog, Barbecue, which is phenomenal, but go ahead, Cody.

Um, so June 9th, the Green Bay Metro is pushing two new fire engines in the service.

Um, which is a big deal, huh?

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

Are they both ladders?

Do you know?

I'm not for sure.

Um, but they're going to be doing a press release here shortly about time link or the time schedule.

They're going to let people go

up

in those.

You wouldn't because you

hate heights, but that yeah,

that's.

Hey, like he just said, everybody loves looking at me.

Yeah.

I think it's six o'clock at light park on the ninth.

Okay.

Okay.

And one of the attractions are you?

Yep.

One of the attractions are me.

So and smoke.

Yeah.

You might be there.

Oh, we got to bring

them with no smoke.

Wasn't a rescue, right?

No, no, no.

He came from he's Dutch, the Netherlands.

He's got his own passport.

No kidding.

Wow.

Was he used in the military at all?

Nope.

What do they do with those dogs, Cody?

Because I've seen a couple of them over there in Afghanistan, and they're bad, ash-looking dogs.

Can they be reverted to normal society?

More than likely, the handler will keep them.

Just because of that bond that the handler and the dog have.

Okay.

That's the way they are.

Here too locally

in the handlers.

Yeah, the dog

the dog the canine and then they keep the dog.

Yeah nine times out of ten the handler No in that situation will keep the

dog.

I just sitting off the military being the way the military is sometimes I think

that's how it is, you know, I was never in that

right,

but you've

seen them right

over there.

Yeah, aren't they

scary?

Yeah, and I know this is smoke reminds me of them.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah

Yeah,

you can show

those canines and it's, yeah, it's trouble.

Hey, tell us about your product offering.

I mean, you haven't done any advertising in your quite a successful entrepreneur.

Yeah.

So I was thinking about it on the drive-in.

You hiding here?

I think it's

warm in here.

Okay.

It's warm in here.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, okay.

I didn't know smoke candy nervous.

But that's good for you.

Maybe it'll help get you in that six pack.

What are you trying to say?

What are you trying to say?

I didn't see any barbecue.

Is that part of your diet for us too?

Yeah.

No, I just, I decided to sleep last night.

Tell us a little bit about the background here once again, Cody.

How long have you been doing this now?

This sloppy

hot?

Two years.

Two years, okay.

Started with a dream.

Started with a dream.

It started out.

doing whole hog for non-profits to help them raise money as fundraisers, there's something off the wall.

When you say whole hog, you mean where you take the sparnacle, sparnacle?

No, sparnfunkle.

Sparnfunkle, yeah.

Did the apple

in the mouth?

Yeah.

That grosses me out a little bit with the head.

Okay.

Yeah.

Did you eat the head then?

No.

Well, so what is the best part on a pig?

What is the best?

Pork chops?

The tenderloin?

No.

It's cheeks, actually.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I've heard that.

So is that really

tender, right?

Yeah.

Would

that be pork butt?

No.

Oh, it cheeks your face.

I thought you meant butt cheeks.

I didn't even pick that.

I

don't know the parts of animals.

I

guess not.

But do people, how do you know?

I've never heard that.

People order a cheek.

I mean, how do you... So

it's a royalty or specialty if you're doing whole hog.

Um, normally they're not available because the heads don't get cooked.

So when you're doing whole hog, normally the host of the party or if it's a graduation party, the kid, I'll give the kid the cheeks on their sandwich.

Really?

Really?

Because that's like, that's like a prime rib.

That's interesting.

Do they sell

those in stores?

No.

Oh, no.

Well, let's think about that.

That's probably

a

couple pounds out about

200 pound pig.

It's maybe the packet on

this.

Wow, so one sandwich basically.

Yeah, you get one sandwich and that's it.

I'll be darned.

They really do eat every part of a pig, don't they?

Like every

part.

He's like, I like the head on there.

When they open up the thing

and

you see the apple and the pig spinning around, it's all like getting crusty.

That's so appetizing.

That's so

appetizing.

Yeah, anyway.

That makes for a great party.

You know what that pig is thinking right before he goes?

Man, I hope my friends don't see me.

But then they really, you can do those things right.

Different sauces, hot, medium and some potato stuff.

Those are fun parties and like you said, graduation.

That's not uncommon.

It's expensive, but it's

fun to have graduation weddings.

We got some cooking questions to ask you because we had a little bit of debate here the other day about different types of sauces to put on barbecue.

and whether Jim thinks you don't need them just dry rub or something.

Was that you that said that?

So

if it's... Hold that thought.

We're saying this to a quick break.

Yo, I feel sorry for people that come in here.

They think they're going to talk about one thing.

I'm here to promote by you.

No, you're not.

It's our show.

Cody Crepelein, sloppy hog barbecue.

Folks, if you haven't tried it, you need to.

We're going to talk about his rip cook-off competition a whole bunch more right after this.

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

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Your Milwaukee Brewers will be on WISS in Alpton and Oshkosh tonight starting at 605 Brewers coming off a nice win over the Orioles last night You know, I am good follow.

I don't watch baseball on a regular basis.

Okay Watch the game last night and starting off and I hadn't seen this before

I even I even texted her old friend Nikki ago Why did they pull the pitcher out after one inning?

He struck out two guys and I guess that's a thing now Well, they'll have a starter and he'll just get it started and then leave the game.

Hmm one inning I hadn't seen that before

but

nice win for the Brewers

and there's basketball tonight, too And you know how I I picked my teams How much I like the city?

It's Oklahoma City, which you know, I know the mayor down there He's he took that team from Seattle and then Minneapolis.

That's those are two good cities

Okay.

I just love both cities.

I don't know what to

root for.

You love Minneapolis.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

That's a good that really that's a high speed rail.

Finally.

Yeah, man.

It's

clean.

It's that's a good city.

Mary Tyler Moreland

for crying out loud.

Come on.

That's not all that you had in the air.

Yeah.

No, I had night.

I think they know what they're doing.

It was right outside of where she did that.

Yeah.

That I did my thing on that story that won the sports feature story of the year.

Uh, at the W, what do you call it?

WBAs in Wisconsin.

Yeah.

Okay.

For the feature story I

did down

there, down to manyapolis wrote said thing.

We're, I were all packer gears.

A day of a packer Vikings game.

Yeah.

And I were all packer gear and stood in the, uh, in the window front window, this big department store there.

Yeah.

Okay.

Posing.

And

then when somebody went by,

I would knock on the window and they would turn it.

It won the award for the top thing.

There you go.

Yeah.

So anyway,

I think

that

Cody crap.

How are you doing, buddy?

Good.

How are you?

Sloppy hog you.

Tell us a little bit about this big event you got coming up buddy.

So last year was the first year we did it.

This year we're hoping to improve a little bit.

It is for any backyard barbecue or that thinks they have a rib game.

Nice.

Because everybody that barbecue is ribs thinks they have a rib game.

Correct.

Yep.

So this way you can throw your ribs in a competition meats provided.

And then... What?

Yeah, I got all the meat, all 140 racks of ribs sponsored.

Wow!

That is not

cheap.

No.

And I just thought somebody's trick might be the...

The

meat?

The meat, I mean the raw material, but...

So

they all start off pretty equal.

Pretty equal.

The dispensary sponsored 100 racks of ribs for me.

But now it's $125 entry fee, correct?

And you just have to show up with your, what, utensils or sauces or

stuff?

You gotta show up with your pit.

If you run a something electric, you gotta bring a generator.

Okay.

Um, cause we're out in the field by Rower's Grand Slam and Brussels.

Um, your pit, a tent, and your rubs and sauces.

But don't, okay, don't they want it like the day before?

So you can come Friday night and set up and get your ribs Friday night because I will be there.

Well, probably three o'clock already.

I'll probably I'm doing a 200 pound pig.

Wow.

Are you gonna leave the head on?

Yeah.

Okay.

I'm

going out there for that, John.

Let's go.

I'll taste.

I'll taste one of those cheeks.

He's already sold

that.

Yeah.

Those are for me that day.

What, okay, okay, so it's a six o'clock setup for that.

This is June 21st, we're talking.

I'm just gonna, I'll just run through the schedule real quick and then go ahead with the other things.

Six o'clock setup or you can come in the night before, like you said.

Cook's meeting is at eight o'clock.

Judge's meeting is at 11.

One to one 30.

Eight dry rib turn in?

What does that mean?

So that means you can't sauce the first set of ribs.

So it's purely on your dry rub.

Okay.

On how the flavor is.

What is a dry rub?

It's the

rub that you put on.

I mean, I can see it, but what do you do?

Well, that's the key to it.

That's the key to it.

Oh, you gotta tell you

secrets.

Oh, I got you.

Okay.

You know, like on a steak, you have that extra hit of flavor.

Yeah.

That's a dry rub on the steak.

Right.

And everybody's got

their own?

Everyone's got their own, but some also rely on the sauce where now you're just relying on the dry rub.

Okay.

So can you give us a hint while you put in your dry rub?

No, no.

Then at 130 ribs are available to the pub to the public.

Yeah.

130 and then at two to 230 be wet rib turn in.

So that is where you can dip your ribs in a sauce or a base and then turn them in.

Okay, and that too can be a secret sauce,

right?

Yeah, whatever

they want to put in there.

Yep

Interesting this sounds great Then it's three dollars for people to buy it.

So you buy the I thought that was an eight.

It's only three dollars three dollars a bone so you can go buy five tickets at the ticket booth and then go around to five different teams and taste You give them a ticket and they give you a rib bone.

Do you have a popular boat or is it just the judges?

Yep

So, if you buy five, if you buy six tickets, one ticket is the people's choice of word.

I think we do that thing.

That's cool.

You want the blue ticket?

Come on, push yours in, push yours in.

Okay, cool.

Who did win that competition?

Brussels.

Oh, did they?

Last year

we did

58

racks we're gone in 15 minutes.

Oh my gosh

Yeah,

and this is the bottom line though.

This is a fundraiser for service dogs.

Yeah, so all the money last

All the money goes to the Wisconsin Guardian Foundation.

Okay.

Um, last year, the rib cookoff was able to fully fund a service dog.

Nice.

So.

And are you still looking for two judges?

I'm looking for a couple

more.

I

just checked.

We're, we're good.

Graduation party that night, but this afternoon, right?

This sounds delicious.

Yep.

No, this is great.

And what a great cause too.

Yeah.

And it's out in the field.

He said, where's it set?

Um, Rower's grand slam and Brussels.

So the only bar in DK.

Okay.

All right.

You know, yeah, I know where it is.

I've been there.

It's

not Joe Rawers when you talk about

Joe Rawers.

No, it's right in Brussels.

So if you're coming in and see it, it'll be on your left.

Okay.

So instead of turning right, this is coming up

with the 21st of

June.

Yep.

And

they have food

there as well.

I mean everybody's

gonna want their rib.

No.

The kitchen, I believe, will be closed.

Their pizzas will be available.

Okay.

Rib cookoff competition and pig roast.

So I'm doing a 200 pound hog as well.

That way, if you're not a rib fan, because not everybody wants ribs.

So we'll have, I think I'm gonna do pulled pork and beans.

Right.

Where else

you do things now, Cody?

I mean you do graduation parties and things like that or would you rather be I know Brussels is one of your big areas to set up right

now I'm up in Sturgeon Bay.

Oh, I did not know that.

Yeah, I moved up to Sturgeon Bay normal days up in Sturgeon Bay the Jardin cleaners right by the Old Old Bridge the one that's covered and everything downtown

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday are iffy and Sundays.

Okay.

Phenomenal.

11 to 7.

That's gotta be popular.

This Thursday I'll be at the Howard Commons 430 to 730.

That's been really popular.

They're pushing that.

Yeah.

I mean, they need.

We had the guy on here and he's like, well, we need a few more things.

So they got the Glam Band coming, they got you coming.

They're really reaching out to get people.

That's a beautiful place.

Oh, that's a beautiful place.

It's a great facility.

It

is, it is.

And they tried, I think they tried a farmer's market, but that just needs better programming.

I mean, the infrastructure is great there.

You do hear a lot more about it now.

Yeah, it is, because I remember last year, he's like, yeah, we're

not

hitting our numbers.

But yeah, I think they're really reaching out to some of the things.

Live music or there's a band or something every Thursday night and Saturday.

Mm-hmm.

That's

awesome, man.

Good for

you and whole tournament.

You gotta be

happy with where you're at.

Yeah, I'm booked two years ago.

I'm booked solid till the end of October.

Wow.

That's fantastic.

I'm turning business away.

Yeah, that's a good place to be.

You

have plans to get another

truck to get another employee.

I'm looking at employees and I'm debating on going brick and mortar.

Oh, wow.

Okay.

Jim You're looking at

the sales, right?

It's like oh great.

I don't have to take my trucker Okay, there's a lot a lot of things that come with brick and mortar number one is taxes.

Yeah property taxes Yeah, and you got furnace goes out and you know Think about that

one.

You can't move it.

I know well.

I would still have the trailer I'd run both.

Oh

Okay.

Well, that would

work.

That's a little bit better.

Some people turn in the trailer for the brick and mortar.

No, I would keep the pit because it's licensed and certified.

So you're going to put the brick and mortar where your most sales happen.

I'm assuming that would be Sturgeon Bay or Brussels.

Maybe or Green Bay.

Really?

Wow.

It's exciting.

Just for the 365.

You

want me

to work there?

We'll see.

Okay.

That

was a result.

That was a result.

Maybe the food will be all gone before

we

open it.

Are you going to get

a liquor license with that?

You thinking?

I don't know.

I haven't thought that deep into it, but I know I got to do something.

Wow.

Because you don't do this during the winter, do you, Cody?

Yeah.

Oh, you do?

Yeah.

Around here?

Yeah, I built my trailer where I can run 365.

Oh,

okay.

Well, I will talk about that offline.

I'd that's a big big

big and he's hey, he's like your buddy in aptin.

Yeah, Reggie Reggie.

Yeah.

Yeah built his own

That's pretty cool.

Wow, that's great.

That's awesome.

Good

people right you say who doesn't love ribs I guess there are some people who don't but barbecue is its own It's its own class and

if you have the

best barbecue people they'll stand in line for

that.

It's competitive, isn't

it?

Yeah

I know I sent my rubs off to a nation contest and pork took eighth and my brisket took 14th in the nation Wow, he's we're in the top 20.

You're good

Hold on.

Okay.

So when we went to that thing at Bell and Sports Medicine, they didn't have a nice lunch type thing or whatever and they had brisket And I don't even know what brisket is but it's so it was so good.

Is that pork or is that?

That's

like on the front of the neck, but it's

But the way it's cooked is why it's called brisket, isn't it?

It's not really so much the cut.

No, it's the cut.

Well then, don't they

cook it?

Like smoke, like burnt?

You can do a couple different things with it.

You can slice it, you can shred it, you can make burnt ends off a part of it.

This kind of hand that I actually asked the guy for the burnt, it was delicious.

That's what I,

okay.

Okay.

That's, okay, so we're learning about cheeks and necks.

The brisket is the neck of the cow?

I believe so, yeah.

I did not know that.

No, me either.

How come ribs are so expensive?

I mean, really, even if you go to the store, it's like there's not a lot of meat on there and

they got a lot of them.

Because they're so limited.

Really?

Yeah.

They're not like, there's not collusion going on.

These

cows are

all, pigs are all going together.

And then beef or pork?

For

what?

What do you prefer?

It depends on my mood.

Well, for ribs, I prefer pork.

You don't

hear much about beef ribs, do you?

Not up here, I think Texas.

All right.

It's a Texas thing.

Hey, you know what?

If I work with you, okay, we're gonna get the brick and mortar up.

You know one thing I put another menu?

Hmm.

Barbecued chicken thighs.

I do shredded chicken breast.

All right.

Because I can do a quick turn on them if I need to.

And then you need some profit and there's like, put the mac and cheese

on there

too.

Well,

I mean, I thought there's a lot of money in that.

What about if we had some venison?

that are brought down from the U.P.

It's

expensive.

You gotta wrap it in bacon.

Yeah.

Okay.

It's too lean.

All right.

Now I'm excited, man.

It's going to

be great beat partners with you.

We're going to set a

quick break.

Another reason to go slow on the

brick and mortar.

Cody Cretwin in the sloppy hog barbecue.

Back with more Raptors.

7.9 FM, WGVW, 96.5, and Civic Media app worldwide with Cody Crepleen, sloppy hog barbecue.

Big event coming up on June 21st the big rib cookoff competition and pig roast smoking for pause a service dog fundraiser and You of course, you know, we had the gentleman on Tim there talking about a great thing He's got going the Murray scramble golf tournament second chance North animal shelter in ripping and Green Lake area and and Tim says his dog helped save his life and we had Dennis in here and he said his dog It's not a rescue dog

The dog rescued him and I just want to talk about that one of the reasons we are and Jim and I both talked before they showed it If you're a dog lover, this is a great place to be because people respect that hell out of their their dogs and their pets And could you just talk a little bit what your dog smoke is done for you Cody?

Just give a little background.

So smoke is a Mental health dog.

I would say um So he helps me before I would isolate I would be and

you're a veteran

Yep.

Iraq, Afghanistan.

Yep.

So I struggled with the purpose, the isolation, sense of meaning, you know, even though I have a wife and a two year old and three other kids, it was, I didn't have a sense of purpose.

I didn't want to go out and do anything.

I was crowd shy.

I would freak out in crowds where now I can

He helps ease that burden.

You know, he gets me up moving.

He's a Belgian male in Wausau.

He needs to burn his energy and it makes me get up

and get the

day

going.

That's awesome.

How did

you two connect?

So I got asked by a fellow veteran that has a service dog through Wisconsin Guardian Foundation to do a pig roast for their annual...

get together, recertification.

So I went down and did it, met with Jesse Smith, the master trainer.

Where's that?

Iron Ridge, Wisconsin.

So it's all local,

it's

all within Wisconsin.

And he's like, dude, you need a dog.

And there was conversations had and filled the application out.

And at first I'm like, a dog ain't gonna do much for me.

And now,

Honestly, I don't know if I would be here without them.

That's a great story.

I love hearing that and that it's from the heart.

I mean, you can tell here.

Yeah, um, cause actually, well, 18, so three more years, seven years ago was a big attempt for suicide for me.

Um, so really it's been about five years where I have been on the mend and about

two and a half of that is because of smoke.

Yeah, you can tell just by the way to interact.

He's he's watching out for you.

You know,

we had Kathy Colbeck on yesterday.

Yeah.

Big event we're going to be doing in October.

Maybe I'm seeing it that night and everything.

And it's a stating view and it's it's a wonderful fundraiser for their all the things they do for veterans.

And I mentioned that you were there last year and our buddy from DC farms is there and everything.

And I think those are really important things because

Let's be honest, Cody, let's bring it to the surface.

I've had six people that I know that were veterans that committed suicide.

I don't even know how many you would have, but it.

If you can get that word out what you guys are talking about and like Jim with his dog and Dennis with his and Tim with his.

This is a seriously wonderfully important thing.

And it's great that you go places like that and you advocate because there might be some veteran who is exactly where you were seven or eight years ago where that could be a difference

maker.

And you talk about a sense of purpose like you had a huge sense of purpose when you were in the military.

Yeah.

And then you come here and say, why am I here?

Yeah.

And some people want to go back because they have.

what you're missing.

And it's amazing.

And the responsibility that you have for, for your dog gives you a sense of purpose.

And he's doing a lot for you, but I'm just, that's, yeah, he, I mean, he wouldn't survive without you.

So, yeah,

and it's a little bit of each rescuing each, isn't it?

In a certain way.

Yeah.

Um, but yeah, he's, and he's helping me, my back's flaring up right now.

So he's, I've been having him help me pick stuff up and that's pretty cool.

Can't

say enough about it, can you?

No, that's awesome.

You do a lot of your food truck goes out and we've talked about Sturgeon Bay, Green Bay, you've done some stuff with the dispensary.

Does he come with you for all those events?

It depends how busy I'm going to be.

Because he can't be up in the kitchen with me.

So I don't want to lock him in the truck.

I'd rather leave him at home with the wife.

So if I'm busy or not,

It's going to depend if he's going to be there.

My guess is he likes to come along.

Yeah.

Cody, one last thing.

We'll talk about this right up until the day of your competition.

Just one word of heading towards Memorial Day weekend and everything and just your thoughts about it.

It honors those is that we've not been able to bring home.

Right?

It says it all, doesn't it?

Yep.

You do anything special?

I'll

be working.

Okay.

Veterans get 50% off on Monday.

Oh, no kidding.

Yeah, where are you gonna be?

Sturgeon Bay at the Jardin Cleaners 24

So which side of the river is that or of the channel?

It's on this side.

Okay

It's by the old bridge.

Yeah, okay.

You'll follow me on Facebook.

I post the address Okay,

I'll say and that's Monday

Monday

and then 50% off for veterans.

We'll see in Brussels on the 21st.

That's gonna be fun.

Okay Yeah, what a great opportunity to taste the fans and support, you know, these dogs.

Yeah,

would you be okay if like

We we put out the word of there's veterans that are a little bit struggling and everything come and talk to you and see smoke and yeah Just kind of get the ball because let's be honest Cody the hardest thing sometimes is to get guys to talk.

Yeah, and I didn't want to know I know you didn't So but it worked.

Yeah, like you know

buddy great to have you here again next time

Don't be so lazy.

Get up early.

Throw some out on the grill.

No disrespect.

We love having you.

It's

not going to be much of it.

It is.

That's too much to ask, Cody.

Come on.

We'll

see.

Cody Crappley.

Slap behind Barbecue.

He's awesome.

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Welcome back to Mino and the Mayor here.

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Hikes day around 70, but breezy with some showers.

We have a very special guest.

Actually, first of all, thanks very much, Cody Creppling coming in.

Sloppy hog barbecue.

What an amazing story he has right there.

And Tim Miley.

Murray scramble golf tournament second chance north animal shelter and ripping Green Lake a sloppy hog also the big cookout they've got coming up a service dog fundraiser so we're doing a lot for these service dogs and rescue dogs and we're proud to do it well Jim introduce our next special guest

so City Green Bay great city best place to live in America a couple times and when people think about that they think about activities they think about the Packers and but our infrastructure makes us work too and we have Steve Grineer with us who's been with the city

Oh over 17 years.

I remember when you came into interview you were with the private sector and it's like you got to come

here

and Absolutely, so glad you did and you're retiring we'll get to that later, but Public works.

I don't think people understand how important that is great because you look at the city budget 100 million whatever 120

uh, police fire and then

DPW.

Correct.

We're about 16% of the levy supported budget.

Uh, we take care of everything from making sure your garbage gets collected in the morning to the streets, getting plowed, uh, grass being cut on, on public, uh, public properties.

We also run the parking division, which is probably not one of the more well-received divisions.

I'll let you off on that one today, because it's your last day.

They also build the

streets

too.

Absolutely.

Our engineering group is tasked with doing the design for the streets and the sewers that are underneath there, and then we oversee all the construction and tone as well.

That's great.

I will talk about that, but

tell me, let's talk about the draft.

I think the draft, everybody's like, well...

There was only one arrest.

I'm not being rude by sitting back.

We'll talk Nagani Norway football all day long.

But he's been winning so long to get you in here.

I'm just gonna sit back and let him handle this whole segment.

So go ahead.

And

the fact that this is your last city council meeting tonight in your retiree now.

You've done so much for the city.

But I want to talk about the draft.

Because I've had other people on here in ABC.

How would you grade the draft?

Oh, definitely is an A.

it went off without a hitch.

As a matter of fact, there was a couple of us who were in contact with each other during the event, and I was talking to the Public Works Director in Ashwabana during the event.

I told him that I think maybe we might have over-planned this thing.

But we had agreed that better that way than the opposite.

We started planning it for about a year out or so, but the planning that we were most interested in and most involved with was the transportation management, making sure that people could get to town and get around town while they were here.

And that really started in earnest right after the first of the year.

That's one of the things I'm probably the most proud of is it was truly a multi-jurisdictional effort because on the north side of Lombardi Avenue, you've got the city of Green Bay on the south side, you've got the village of Ashwabenan.

Lombardi Avenue itself is a county facility.

And we were only a couple of blocks off of I-41.

So that brought the Department of Transportation and the state patrol in.

So all four of those jurisdictions started meeting on a weekly basis in January.

And we came up with a really solid plan to make sure that folks had a way to get in and get out and get around while they were here.

And we had absolutely zero problems.

There was one minor fender bender.

the first day, uh, Thursday of the draft, uh, down near Cormier and Morris and Eshwabadan, but other than that, we didn't even have traffic accidents.

There were no backups on the interstate system.

It just, it really went off well.

I was going to ask, I will say this, there, there's two fender benders maybe then.

Cause the first night when we were on the school bus, going there to the balance sports medicine thing and some lady clipped somebody, whatever.

And I, I actually literally felt bad cause here's, you got a line of buses and cars that way.

And, um,

So the cop was trying to get people to go down there, take it, whatever.

And the bus driver thinks just, hey, Bellin Hospital gave us sportsmen and gave us, we have to take this route.

And the guy goes, lady, just do what the hell you wanted.

He's like, it's almost like, oh no, you know what I mean?

I almost had that kind of a feeling.

So lady, just do what the hell you wanted.

She went on it.

But I will say this though, too.

I was surprised at how things just bing, bing, bing, bing, bing versus sometimes trying to get to a Packer game or whatever.

So that part, I'll tell you what, that went off.

I think the Packer games were more congestive.

I agree, that's what I'm saying.

A lot of that.

Versus three times the amount of people.

It's like, let's leave early and it's like, why?

One

of the other things that...

And you mentioned somebody else, this was all on Ashwabada and we've had him on a couple of times, the city manager.

good people.

I mean, they really,

you know what I mean?

They're cordial.

They were whatever.

I thought that was really good with Ashwabana.

Well, like I said, it was it was an opportunity for multiple jurisdictions to come together and and drop the guard and truly work towards an end game.

And it worked out very well.

I asked you before we came on, you're retiring, you're young, you're

The city's got a hundred what I mean a thousand eleven hundred employees You're probably one of the top paid guys as you should be but you're gonna what are you gonna do?

You go to Pittsburgh and help them because I gotta tell you I don't know why but people

Every time I had someone on here, Johnny and I had people on here talking about the traffic.

Any concerns?

Well, a little bit the weather, but really more the traffic.

And that was one of the smoother things

done.

Like I said, the traffic worked out fantastic.

I think it's

because of the weekly meetings.

You can get a lot done

in those meetings.

We did.

We did.

And one of the things that was a little concerning, about three months out from the event, we had reached out to the NFL and their team with C3 and SP Plus.

and asked them about sanitation and cleanup within the event footprint.

We were told at that time, anything inside the fence is our responsibility.

We've got that taken care of.

So we thought, okay, that's great.

And it was literally 11 a.m.

on Wednesday, the day before the draft.

I get a frantic call saying, Steve, can you get your guys inside the perimeter with street sweepers to clean?

And I said, can we?

Sure.

Let's try to figure this out.

So I reached out to my team at the West Side Garage, told them what I was looking for.

Gave them some pretty explicit directions.

The biggest one was, make sure you look down.

I don't want any of the cables or anything that's underground wrapped up in a sweeper.

And the guys went out Wednesday night and were able to clean the event grounds.

And I got a report back from a battalion chief saying that NFL officials were standing in the stadium looking down at the parking lot and they were amazed.

They said they had never seen the team.

that well organized and that efficient at doing it.

So we actually want it going back inside the stadium grounds every night of the draft to clean up.

And that's one of the comments that I heard back from the public was when they left that night at the end of the event, it looked like it had been trashed.

It looked like a typical festival grounds.

And by the time they showed back up in the morning, it was absolutely spic and span.

So hats off to my team.

They really did a great job.

I'm glad

I got back to you because we went Saturday morning.

It was like it was an opening day.

Perfectly clean and I know that you guys were out there Friday night.

Yeah for a long time, but you did a great job

Well, and you must because I will say one thing the first night I was there when it was just overwhelming trying to walk in that crowd I mean there are so many

Thursday or Thursday

Yeah, and the one thing that I know it's they only had the garbage cans on one side or it was hard to find garbage cans like for a while in that crowd right and now I know NFL did that by design But so there must have been quite the mess when they closed the gates.

Yeah, it was but like I said

That's a testament to the team, the group of folks that we've got working in Department of Public Works.

And we've got a little bit of an advantage over a lot of cities because it was being held inside the stadium grounds and we cleaned that before and after every Packer game.

So our guys had a little bit of a home field advantage there.

Got it.

It's because you own it.

Exactly.

You know, that's great.

Any big surprises with the draft?

I think the biggest surprise was how well it went.

We were expecting Armageddon and everything just sort of fell into place.

It was a very well organized, very well run event and I spent 40 hours during that event out at the Emergency Operations Center waiting for something to happen and nothing happened.

I will say this when I noticed this earlier on that first night there, the people that came there, it wasn't their first rodeo.

These were people that are such diehard fans of their teams.

Absolutely.

That they've been to these before.

They're not going to be meatheads.

They're not going to whatever.

We're here for a reason.

We want to see who we're drafted third round.

We're hoping to make a trade.

I mean, there's the people that come to the drafts are really into the

draft.

They are fanatics.

They are very, very dedicated to their teams.

Yeah.

So the city is obviously operating pretty well.

Packer games coming.

What if you were going to stay like, what's the next big thing we need to do besides fix Crook Street?

No, go

ahead.

Well, obviously, you know,

you know from your time with the city mayor that funding is always a problem and there's never enough funding to get the work done that we can or that we would hope to but we have started a program last year that we're going to be expanding on this year taking a look at streets that are kind of in that middle category so they haven't gotten so bad that they'll rattle your teeth yet but they're not brand new and we're looking at at doing what we refer to as partial depth.

resurfacing.

So we're only taking the top layer of the asphalt off and rejuvenating that top layer.

So we've been able to expand that program where we're getting a lot more streets, a lot more linear footage done for the same amount of money.

So we've really bumped up that effort.

Obviously continued redevelopment and infill development is huge for us looking to see what's going to happen with the with the former Wisconsin Public Service site and the former

George Pacific site on Day Street.

Those are probably two of the larger economic redevelopment areas that we're going to be looking at.

And you play a big part of that.

Well, they got to get to it and they got to get away.

You know what I mean?

We've got our role to play.

Tell me about the parking, which, you know, I don't want to talk about how the fines have gone up and how tenacious you are.

We'll let that for someone another day.

However, I do want to talk the the availability.

I

apologize.

He's heard this.

I've

heard it

before.

Just a little.

Broadway, there seems like there's a lot of energy again towards Broadway.

Yes, there

is.

You know, shipyard, public market, a couple other things, some housing, ribbon cutting.

They talk about a parking facility.

Do we have enough parking over there to handle all these dreams?

I think we do.

I think the availability is there.

It may not be right at the front door of where you want to be.

And with a redevelopment that's going into that public market, it's gonna shake things up with the only publicly owned parking facility we have there, which is what we refer to as parking lot F, which is behind the old Fort Square.

So something is going to need to be done, whether a structure gets built, a smaller structure gets built over there or some other development, but something's gonna have to happen over there.

How much time do you have left with the city?

I will be retiring my last official day is June 2nd.

Okay.

Here's what you got to do between on that.

This is a health matter.

It's a health issue.

Okay.

So on the Fox River Trail, there's a pillar that says 1.3 miles.

Okay.

Okay.

There is no starting point before that 1.3 miles.

I've walked out.

Jimmy even told me, he says, well, you got to go there.

I walked the entire, I walked everywhere there is to walk.

Haven't I

Jeff?

You have.

He has.

And it, cause what I want to do is I want to know how long it takes me to walk a mile.

Cause I want to do the rock

power, but we want to just make sure we,

I want to do that rock march in the fall and know if how long it would take us, you know, to do the 16 miles.

Sure.

But you, I can't judge a mile on that trail cause I can't find the starting point sometime between now and then cause it says 1.3.

So they're

very specific

priority.

But I gotta find the starting point

I'll try to remember to talk to the parks director.

That's on a that's on a trail So that goes to park record forestry.

Thank you, but he's mad at me anyway.

Yeah, because remember the altercation altercation

He didn't have his license and he just

girl

fired.

She's

just trying to do her job Hey, hey, she went to NMU

Come on, you know, said enough said.

Come on, Steve.

Wow.

So we get a set of quick break.

We're back with more Steve Grenier, director of public works for Green Bay.

I want to talk about your career path for kids that

are interested in that.

Oh, sure.

Come back.

I want to

talk about how you got where you are and how successful you've been.

All right.

Couldn't get into a good school though,

either, huh?

Tech had a good self-protection.

Back out there.

97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM W ISS and of course the Civic Media app.

We're at Steve Grenier, outgoing director of public works for Green Bay.

17 years, he served the city that on a boulevard, that's why you played that because of Steve and DPW.

I

know.

Okay.

He always ties it to our guest.

Nothing's

random.

But sometimes we miss it.

I'll admit that,

but

usually

we miss

it.

We usually we miss it, but I want a couple of things I want to talk about.

TPW, especially the directors, are pretty sought after.

I mean, there's not a lot of you guys out there.

No, there's not.

I think we've seen that not only locally, but across the state when positions open up, it's pretty competitive, and there's not a lot of applicants.

And there's some small municipalities that pay quite well.

Yes, there are.

You know, I look at two rivers and some of these things that are 10% the size of Green Bay, and it's like, wow, that's a lot of money.

decided to stay in Green Bay.

And I know other people offered you jobs, but your daughter's been successful.

Just give me your 17

year look back on Green Bay.

Sure.

Well, I was in consulting before I came to the city.

So I was with a firm here in Green Bay by the name of Robert E. Lean Associates.

I was one of the partners and owners of that firm.

And a position opened up here with the city as an assistant city engineer.

And I'd had a pretty solid, pretty successful career on the private side, but as corny as it sounds, there was something inside that I wanted to give back to my community, make sure that my community was better when I left than when I found it.

So I took that opportunity and I left the private sector and came over to the public sector as a as an assistant city engineer and I'll tell you it was a big stress relief I was one of four guys they ran a company 52 employees and I downsized to Having 13 employees and I was actually able to go home at the end of the night.

There were no long nights.

No night meetings The stress level was a lot easier.

So moved over here to the city in two years after I came to the city

Our director Carl Weber retired.

Ed Wiesner, who was the assistant director, took the appointment, which opened the door to the assistant director's position.

So I applied for and was appointed as the assistant director, spent three years in that role.

And then Ed decided to call it a career.

So I'd only been with the city for about five years and put in an application.

You may or were the one who hired me on as the director of public works.

You did go to a great school in Michigan.

What degree would somebody go to college for if they wanted to do this?

My degree is in civil engineering.

So that's something that's come up recently.

I've been having some discussion with a lot of folks at a state level on that.

We do feel that it's absolutely critical that you have that engineering degree and that engineering background to be able to run a public works department of this size.

And you're very proud

of

where you went to school.

Absolutely.

Tech is a great school.

I've served as an ambassador for them for about 15 years on a college training recruit students to go up there.

I'm still amazed that is one of the most God for it's a beautiful area, but one of the most God forsaken places between November and the end of April.

It's a nice place to be from.

Exactly.

Yeah.

But man, they get these kids from Detroit and these suburbs in Detroit and they go up there and they major in these mechanical engineering degrees and walk out of there with like about six job offers.

They're not

a

good

product.

That is amazing what that school turns out, isn't it?

Yeah, for decades, they've been in excess of 90% placement at or prior to graduation.

And good jobs.

Yeah.

They're not bad jobs.

Right.

I think that's great.

Your daughter's been happy here.

I think we always try to retain this talent, and we lose some of the talent like my kids.

Tell me about her.

Sure.

Yeah.

I've never

seen her.

She was

a long time ago.

Mayor and my daughter have quite a history together.

And matter of fact, when she was in middle school, she had to have spine surgery.

And while she was in the hospital, I came to work one day, got out of work, went back to the hospital.

And when I walked into the room, there was a goodie bag that had a city local on it.

And I asked, all right.

Where did that come from?

She said all the mayor was here for a couple hours today to see me.

Let me

guess, a sweater vest, a pen, a fake, a fake key to the city.

What else?

A black and white headshot with

the

signature.

Yes.

Oh, one of his books.

The book

wasn't

written by that.

But she stayed here, which I think is a product of the Green Bay school system.

She was Macaulay Elementary, Edison Middle and Preble High School during that time that she was in school.

She developed an interest in the FFA group and decided to go into agricultural education.

So she attended UW River Falls, got her bachelor's in ag ed.

And she had a couple of different opportunities.

And the one that she picked was actually Washington Middle School here in Green Bay because Washington had not had an ag ed program or a tech program for about seven years.

So she was able to resurrect that program and make it hers.

She actually went back just this past weekend.

We were in La Crosse.

She was getting her master's and her master's topic was focused on cultural differences in education.

So tailoring STEM based education around cultural lines to help those kids succeed.

So she's very, very invested in making sure that those traditionally underrepresented communities are being represented properly.

Good for her.

that's fantastic yeah you've done a good job and yeah

and just again congrats on hitting it out of the park when you said you want to leave the city better than you found it I mean it's better because of you

well and that's thanks I really appreciate that that's been one of the overriding the driving factors in my career is is trying to make this the community I call home so you know you don't want to you don't want to live in a messy house right so

My focus has always been on the city and trying to do what's right by the city.

And I'll be honest with you, there's been a lot of times over the past 12 plus years as director where decisions I've made have been in the best interest of the city, but not necessarily in the best interest of Steve.

And I've taken a lot of heat in the community over some of those decisions.

But in the end, I think they've proven to be right.

Yeah, no doubt about it.

Steve Garnier, director of Public Works, Green Bay, last day, June 2nd.

Yes, sir.

Congratulations.

You've done

a great career and all the folks from the UP, they're very proud that somebody from the UP has had a

Distinguished job like you had it done such a great job.

Thanks.

I appreciate

it between now and then keep one thing in your mind 1.3

1.3 1.3 okay and congrats on the draft again.

Thanks much.

I will buy you the greatest

past in the world if you find out We could call it the mino mile marker.

Yeah, all right.

It only takes a half hour

All right, yeah, thanks for being here Steve.

Thank you Steve quick break back up

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

And

here are your hosts.

John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Hour number three, Minow the Mayor here.

WGBW, WISS coming away in Appleton.

And Oshkosh, where you'll find them Milwaukee Brewers in action tonight, taking the Baltimore Orioles.

Brewers coming off a nice win last night.

Got three in the second inning, I think it was, and just kind of cruised from there.

They've been shut out three out of four games recently.

So yeah, we've got some great guests today, Tim Miley.

The Murray Scramble Golf Tournament.

Second Chance North Animal Shelter in the Rip and Green Bay.

A Green Lake.

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I'm going to choose Pat in a little while, but that's how he remembers phone numbers is the two digits.

He'll relate it to a Packer player.

Whatever works.

Yeah.

Whatever works.

It starts with a four.

I know who that guy is, but after the

crappling sloppy dog, sloppy hog barbecue, rib cookoff competition, Steve Grineer, director of public works of Green Bay and.

View owner of pet once Green Bay allergies for pets.

We have had a pet theme today

We

have and it's actually really fun and it's pretty cool

how you're talking about when we were younger It just wasn't what it is today.

I mean people

Go take better care of their pets and sometimes their kids.

Well, yes and no they take better care of pets But I guess when we were younger a lot of you know our table scraps are good table scraps

I mean pork was made was done, right?

You got it from a local butcher.

You got it You got the scraps or whatever and that's what we fed our dogs exactly that

makes it with little gravy train.

Yeah, and back then all those big Manifractures of the food were privately owned.

There was a guy by the name of Raulston Raulston Parina exactly.

So he took pride in what he did.

I'm sure he did I don't know this for a fact, but I'm sure he did Right so

When they get sold a couple times certain things all sudden hey, we gotta raise the profits We gotta do this everybody's been in business.

So you gotta raise the profit.

So I think that's unfortunately what happened in the pet industry

They put in lower quality ingredients.

Yeah

Yeah, what about that stuff they talk about now?

There's that commercial where somebody sees it the refrigerator.

It's like, oh, that's dog food.

It's well, it's not dog food How much better is that than what we used to give our dogs?

You know, obviously it's situational like I said

My mom cooked well, I mean she was a ex-farm girl whatever and so Maybe not everybody did that, but I think back then they did How much better it's still I didn't check this out I don't know if there's much color to it.

Okay, that's the other thing It's coming out right now that everybody's getting into you know But you know what's this this red dye number six and the green colors and everything that they're they're there Not for the dog dogs can't even tell color they can see shades, but they can't tell color

Wade O'Kennedy gets ahold of that.

No

kidding.

No kidding.

But, you know, to his credit, he's bringing this to the people.

Now, if people start transferring it to their animal, the word allergy will go away.

Which they will.

Hopefully.

Oh, I think... Conveniency is, unfortunately,

is... I mean, there's a couple of questions I have for you.

One is, your role in this, you are, and I like the way you explain it, you're like the milkman of dog food.

People can call you, you've got a plethora of...

products to offer, and

you deliver.

Everything I do is online.

I got basically an e-store.

So I go out, I'll be at Saturday's Farmers Market, and that's where I get belly to belly to people, what they say, or eye to eye, and tell them what we do.

We're very holistic operation.

We don't believe in all this stuff that's added to the dog foods, because I think, personally, I think,

pretty much back this up, that most of the stuff that are happening to our animals is because of the food.

And you talk about this is allergy awareness month for dogs, right?

I

mean,

a

few years, it wasn't that long ago, people were talking about this for kids, right?

That it's like the food that causes us

allergies.

Don't doubt about

it.

Well, that's what's doing right now.

I mean, you know, I mean, you brought up Kennedy.

So he's bringing that to everybody's awareness.

What's all these illnesses from?

I've had

What did he say?

We got 10 kids in our family or whatever, and they all have some allergy or something going on.

Well, again, when we grew up, I grew up, like I told you in the West side, deep here, if somebody had an allergy, we call that a rich kid disease.

We call it, you know, that was a cold or whatever, an allergy, whatever that is.

And, you know, we grew up in fields.

We build hay, we did all this kind of stuff.

Where's the allergy coming from?

So that's quite a niche that you're in.

How'd you get into that?

I think this is really interesting because I'm a dog lover and just spent some time at the vet yesterday getting shots and talked about allergies and why he's got this little stuff in his eye in the morning and that kind of thing.

So

yeah.

I've been involved with dogs.

I had a dog since I've been four years old.

And when I got into early teens, I started hunting.

So I got really involved into hunting dogs.

And that's what really got me into it.

Beagles.

My first dog was a beagle mix, a lab beagle mix.

But then I got into the, you guys are old enough to remember the American sportsman.

I got into watching the pointers.

I thought it was such a gentleman way to hunt.

To walk up behind a dog that's basically on point.

He released the dog, he flushes the dog, he shoots the bird, he trees the bird.

I thought, that's cool, that's fun.

And it's fun to watch the dog work.

So I got into that and then I Used to go out to like Missouri whatever to get my dogs and they're very their their breed is Better than me as far as their bloodlines and one of my dogs got cancer.

I'm like what the heck is this?

Never in my all the dogs.

I've had all the people dogs.

I never heard the word cancer associated with dogs So I did more study on and this is before internet was done.

I was was invented.

So it's been a while

So I did my studies on it when the internet came aboard.

And now cancer's up to one in less than two dogs.

Well, you know what's really funny?

I will just say this.

I've had four dogs as an adult, all rescued dogs.

Three of them have all died from cancer.

Wow!

Of one sort or another.

When you talk about allergies, my dog right now had really bad allergies.

I switched his food to a better situation.

totally went away, no more medication, none of that kind of stuff.

So what Pat's saying here, I mean, I lived that.

Wow.

And it's true with us, you know, what goes in, it benefits your body.

And anyway, my dog got cancer, bugged the heck out of me.

He wasn't my best bird dog ever, but he was a dang good dog and bugged me.

And then I started doing my research.

And one of the foods I was using was

supposed to be the official dog food of the Iditarod people, I thought, okay, cool, they're athletes, they gotta have the nutrition, all kind of stuff, what I needed.

And one element it had in there that I did not appreciate when I did my research was corn.

Dogs are carnivores.

First thing they must have is meat to live and whatever.

And corn now, unfortunately in the United States, is one of the top genetically modified grains.

Well, do your research on that.

You'll be surprised what you're going to learn.

The reason why it's genetically modified is so they can get a higher yield on crop.

But you ever go into a cornfield, which I used to be in a kid.

I used to live in a cornfield chasing pheasants and all that kind of stuff.

And there's no bugs anymore.

There's no pheasants either.

Because the pheasants need the bugs to eat for protein.

Well, that stuff's going up.

It's

a glycophate.

Okay, let me just, you had pheasant and Westie Peer?

Oh, huge.

Wow.

Oh, yeah.

We had, I had friends, you know, I mean, we didn't have weightlifting back then.

Weightlifting back then was, was bails.

That was a big,

you know,

rocks.

Well, it was, is the farm kids were the weightlifters.

But yeah, we used to, I used to limit out, well, she's only three birds or

whatever.

I'd be

able to limit out and we would go for, I grew up on the other side of the, you used to be called progressive farmers.

And on the west side of here, just before the fight, before the 41, it would sound interstate 41, we used to be able to leave my house and just walk for hours and just come across birds.

Cause there's no, there was no housing or anything back then.

But yeah, we've, we've hunted a lot, hunted a lot.

Why

did they disappear?

It's just pesticides.

I mean, it's, it's why anybody in this room is going to get sick.

Right now they're gonna find this out and like you said RFK is bringing that out to everybody's knowledge But all that that's coming out for the human beings All the human beings that are getting that stuff are putting it in our food.

It's also in the dogs food We're a very holistic.

I think I mentioned this before we're a very holistic company We make the freshest pet food you can get in cable form.

We don't use any corn, wheat or soy So there's no genetically modified greens.

We use one grain in our product not all of our products

what one grain is called brown rice.

It's not messed with.

It's not bleached to make white.

It's brown rice, and brown rice is a natural vitamin B12.

But the number one ingredient in our food is protein.

And it's, we don't use, you'll see some of these products and your guy out behind the window would know this.

If you see him, he has a name.

We can't remember it right now, but he has a name.

And is the guy behind the window?

I know, I apologize for not remembering it.

That's how we refer to him,

too.

Hey, you behind the window!

New guy, new guy.

But it's, it's, you can put, you can say you got chicken in your food and it doesn't have to be the best cart, best cut of that chicken.

We use the prime cut of all of our proteins.

We don't use the head, the beaks, the feathers, and whatever else.

Because you and I, our hair has protein.

Well, so does feathers.

So you can use that in dog food, but it's not fulfillment.

Your dog, and if you see that, because you read, I'm sure, Todd.

Todd.

I

just want to reintroduce you.

Pat View, owner of Pet Once, Green Bay.

great insight into how we keep our pets from experiencing discomfort, and in some cases even serious health complications.

And it's through the

food, you're a

manufacturer.

Are you a manufacturer?

Can I call you that?

No, I'm the wholesaler.

I'm a, actually, prep wants is the franchise.

Okay.

It was started...

1980s, but you mix some of the stuff, right?

I don't know how to do anything.

Oh, you know,

I'm just I'm the whole

yeah, I'm the wholesaler they stay I order it I we order it once a month It's made once a month in small batches kind of comparable to a micro brew if you will we make it once a month small batches Once it's done it goes through three three different Laboratories be tested and then it was done doors open up and they ship it right to me

Do

you have to like, we just had a dog here, Cody's dog.

How much did he say it weighed?

110.

110 pounds versus some other dogs that might be coming through here.

Like the dog at the rescue thing we did, the one from Normans was what, 30 pounds?

Yeah.

Maybe.

Do you have to, do they differentiate between the type and size of the dogs?

Or is it one

fits all?

No, it's not one fits all.

I, matter of fact, we carry seven different type, seven different types of selections.

And I, I

endorse moving the proteins around because that's what a dog or animal did in its wild.

It didn't feed on chicken all the time.

It didn't feed on lamb all the time or whatever.

It moved its round.

It moves its proteins around.

And again, going back to holistic look, we look at feeding your dog or any animal like that through the eyes of a wolf.

Whatever crosses its path is dinden.

It's not the same thing every day.

And one thing I did stress, we brought up corn.

You might see a wolf in the cornfield.

He's not grazing.

He's hunting.

They won't eat anything dead, right?

They won't eat a carcass.

No.

No, exactly right, which is a good point, because I tell people, if your dog smells the dog food and starts kind of goes like this, he or she is smelling something that's not right.

And to your point, you'll never see a fox, a coyote.

a wolf next to Roadkill.

And there is obviously in the state of Wisconsin, there's a plenty of road, free dinner.

They're not

scavengers.

No, not in that form.

No.

They might scavenge from a...

Bear kill or something, but

yeah, but not a car.

No, no, they

won't touch it.

It's weird.

Well,

it's spoiled.

I don't think I knew that.

Yeah, spoiled it spoiled meat and they smell it Obviously, they're their factory system is the best in the probably best in the world.

All

right We got a son or a quick break this interest by the way nice to hear a former phantom alumni.

Good luck with your business TW class of 1976 That's from Terry.

All right.

All right.

We got a quick break back

You ain't nothing but a dog We're expecting this by the way I was a little worried he's gonna do the puppy love thing so that's right They called it puppy love.

Yeah, so I did

play so don't sing it.

All right.

Wow.

Okay, Todd.

I'm back and I'm sure Pat view of pet wants Green Bay

I'm actually on your website right now, Pat, and I'm looking at some of the varieties that you have to choose from.

Chicken meal, brown rice, chicken meal, turkey meal, grain-free lamb meal, brown rice.

I mean, under three bucks a pound, like about 250 or so.

I mean, I think I'm gonna try this.

Yeah, me too.

I'm gonna try it and have a dog.

That's cheaper than that.

Other stuff he's buying in prime

rib.

Yeah, it's... Oh, yeah.

The thing you'll save on you say is cheaper cheaper.

I Don't want to Yep mess up any vets around here, but I haven't taken my dog to a vet ten years because I Think I just dressed before one of the things that you mentioned and I didn't make me mention is because of our products so pure we Feed your dog from the inside out it might sound weird, but that's how we make the allergies go away

We build up your dog's defense system, immune system, everything, the teary eyes, all of the things.

I work with a ton.

I bet you 80% of my client base is rescues.

God bless them.

But you're picking up a mess.

Yeah.

Both mentally and physically, you're picking up a mess.

Yep.

And you don't know where that mess came from.

It could be the color of your beard that takes that dog off.

Yeah.

Your voice being low could be that.

trigger.

That's

true with

my

dog.

That was true with my dog.

When I first got my dog, I had to speak in upper register just so that I could get friendly with me.

And, and

yeah, because whoever you can deduce that, because whatever whoever mistreated that dog had your voice tone.

It was Tim, Tim Miley earlier for the Murray

Scramble

Gultraman.

Let's talk his dog with plastic bags, door for door

frames, door frames.

His dog out.

He's a rescue.

Right.

But anyway, so those dogs come in messed up.

And what we do is

We start them off and if they come to us, you start off on our food and it starts.

We got natural antibacterial and I'm sorry, natural pre and probiotics in our products.

So right away we're going to fix your gut.

And again, another key word in everybody's diet or anybody's talk about the diet, you got to have your gut fixed.

Your gut has to be round.

If your gut's not right, your stool is going to be awful, all this kind of stuff.

So we fixed the gut.

And then with that, you know, you build up the proteins, you put the proteins in there.

We got the, so you mentioned brown rice, that's a natural vitamin B12.

B12 is a natural energize.

It gives you energy.

So your dog said energy, good protein.

And we also put blueberries and cranberries in our food for natural antioxidants.

So we've actually had people in our franchises.

that actually helped dogs get cured from cancer.

And I'm a holistic guy myself.

I'm getting there up there in age.

If God don't make it, I don't take it.

And that's kind of the reason, one of the reasons I got into this food.

When I did all the analysis on the product, how it is, and how it comes to me.

Now, any chance I attend, I don't lose many taste comparisons.

I tell people when they come to my booth, take this home.

put a bowl of your product you got out there, and a bowl of ours.

You know, if it's a big dog, I say put it a little farther apart like this.

Because there's breezes in the house and mixing up the smell, and I'm winning a lot of those.

So let me just ask a question.

Sorry, this is something

that really interests

me.

If I go to your website and order something, how does that food come to me?

I'm the milk man.

I'm the milk.

You're like Dorddash kind

of guy.

Yeah, I'm the only guy.

I'm a one-man band.

Once in a while my daughter comes home from college or whatever.

She's available.

She'll give you help.

She'll shoot in, but 99% chance if there's a, it'll put this way.

If it's done right, it's me.

If it's done wrong, it's me.

So it's... I'm the other guy.

Yeah, it is.

It is.

Hey, Pat.

Whatever, you know, whatever somebody from your company did this.

No, it wasn't somebody.

What

about so dog spent a lot of time on the food.

What about liquids?

Do you just tap water?

Okay, do you do put anything in the

water if

you

Tap water scares me You can everybody's gonna find out that's pretty soon float rides crap.

All right, it's not a good thing to talk found it out, huh?

Yeah, well you taught the accident flow ride

And it helps, it dismantles, I think it's the frontal lobe, it dumbs down our children.

And that's, Kennedy again, I know he's coming up, but of course he's part of that.

But I know people can't afford you to go out there and fight people.

I get that.

Okay, so there's something you can put in the water here, because we have fluoride in our water here.

Do you recommend a drop or two of something, or do you just?

You probably,

No, I don't recommend it, please.

I try to stay away from that because I'm not a vet.

I can't be doing that.

I'm sticking that out there also.

Oh, this guy from the pet food company said I could do this.

Well, where did he get his license from?

Yeah, you know good comeback.

So I don't I I think Not gonna what I think our food fixes a lot of that

Okay, I think it builds up them again builds up their immune system and get some so they can resist and I live in the country So I got well water doesn't mean I don't have stuff in it because I have farmers around me that might be spraying I don't know I had to test it lately, but anyway All

right, that's interesting.

I'm just curious.

Yeah, no a lot of water to well huge Hopefully they do they I mean if they don't there.

Yeah issues going on.

All

right.

This is so interesting, you know, I

Devon heard a lot about your company when I saw that last night you were coming on.

Tell me about your website and how we can get more information.

So it's PetWonScreenBay.com.

It's pretty informative if you look it up.

Todd just kind of saw it, went through it and picked up a bunch of knowledge about it already.

There's a contact.

There's my emails on there.

My phone number's on there.

I answer the phone almost all the time.

I mean, sometimes I may take a Sunday afternoon off or whatever, but I answer my phone pretty frequently.

And you like the belly-to-belly sales as you put it.

So what events do you go to?

You said the Saturdays Farmers

Market?

I go to Saturdays Farmers Market and I'll start.

I didn't quite get into the Wednesdays, but I've been a substitute all the time.

Okay.

So I've been to Wednesdays, I may have missed.

And I do some of the area of various charitable stuff.

Great.

But we'll look for you.

Thanks for doing this.

I mean, this is good stuff.

Like people to know.

Yeah.

All right, Pat Vue, owner of Pet Lawn Scream Bay, allergies for pets.

We come back.

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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Special thanks to our great guests here.

Pat Fugh just came from here.

This is Pet Once Green Bay.

I got a texture I've known Pat for decades.

Our parents hung out together.

Our dads in the VFW.

Our moms in the women's auxiliary.

that card parties and his dad Hollis whipped up a wicked kettle of Booyah.

That was always getting my brother, Jeff, in trouble, a great Westy Peer family cowboy Dave.

Does anybody have card parties anymore?

Yeah, right?

I saw, yeah.

Remember that used

to be a big deal.

My mom and

dad

had the best.

Go and play

cards.

The best card parties.

Wasn't that exciting when like company would come over and they'd play cards?

There's ought to be some good food.

Right.

And then there's like sometimes just a little cheap.

You know, four square tables

with the chairs and the

car table.

Yeah.

That's where they were probably called car tables.

Oh, that was those were exciting times.

Our next guest, Amy is too young to know about that.

Shady in.

Right, Amy?

Yes.

Do you remember card parties?

I remember my aunts and uncles having that.

Okay.

There you

go.

Oh, thank you for not saying great answers.

Yeah.

Because I would have hurt our feelings.

My great grandma had

one time.

You're an employee of PMI and you're an event specialist.

Is that what they

call you?

I'm technically a senior event designer.

So my division produces the events that PMI owns.

So we own a handful of expos and shows that we produce at the Rush Expo.

And

one of them is Meat

Fest.

That's right.

We like this.

Asia's

been

in

here.

And I'll

tell you, we like it not because we like to eat, but this is...

This is educational for kids, and this could be a whole career.

Tell us about this.

Yeah, so Meat Fest is presented by Pelkins Smoky Meat Market, which is a great company.

We love them.

And it was really... I

brought some of their product up to Deer Camp

this past

year.

Oh, so good.

I remember that.

Where did this come

from?

They loved it so much.

Two locations.

Yeah, I know they're fantastic.

And we just really wanted to come up with a new event that was very family-based, community-based.

Kind of celebrate the foodies in the area, celebrate Wisconsin food.

meat and cheese and, you know, craft beverages.

And we just started concepting and thinking of ideas and Meat Fest was born.

And it's incredibly popular, isn't it?

Yes, yes, we're going on our third year this year and we've had a really good attendance the first two years, people love it.

It smells good, it tastes good, it's just fun.

All right, so let's talk about the event, the event Meat Fest, which people...

obviously a lot of samples, but who's making this stuff?

And tell us more about that part of it.

It's a variety.

So most of the vendors that come are food vendors.

So it's everything from people making jerky, their smoked meat, cheeses, desserts, all kinds of things.

And they basically are just sampling it.

It's a great way for them to showcase their products and their businesses.

So there's a lot of samples, but we also have food trucks there as well.

So if someone wants a full meal, then the food trucks are there and they can certainly get that as well.

Those were so popular, I don't know if they still are, but, you know, taste of Chicago, taste of this, taste of that.

I mean, people love food.

People love food.

Well, they love to try different foods.

I think that's, people like, oh, that's a meat and potatoes community.

No, it's not.

I mean, we love,

a friend

of ours owns a Caribbean food truck and

he's

very popular and it's just nice to see that variety.

So we go booth to booth for samples.

Okay.

And then you also have some contests there

too.

Yes.

So we have actually, um, the kids cooking competition this year.

So we put a, put a thing out there online and chef ace champion was great at helping.

He's emceeing and he's going to be right there with the kids throughout the process.

Is it bringing his drums at all?

No, not to this one.

He'll have his chef's coat on and maybe a fun hat.

I don't know.

But, um, no, he's going, he's going to kind of make sure the kids are comfortable.

We're going to do two age divisions.

So we have some younger kiddos coming out and then some older kiddos.

And

these are kids that cook?

Yes, these are kids that cook.

They had to qualify to get in here.

So they had to submit their information, a recipe of something that they're really proud of, and then a one minute video of why they should be chosen.

The videos were so cute.

I'm so excited to see these kids in person.

They just have such personality, and it's just going to be fun to watch them.

That sounds awesome.

A cool chef with a personality.

He's so

great.

He's so great, and I'm so thankful to him for connecting me with just...

this whole thing with the kids cooking competition.

And we've done adult competitions, meat smoking competitions the last couple of years, and those were good.

But I wanted to change it up, you know, you got to kind of bring new things to the event each year.

Is a

little bit Hell's Kitchen like they have, this is the product?

Or do you tell them what they're

going to make?

I mean, I don't think I'm Chef Ramsay or anything.

No, no, I'm not.

Probably a little nicer than that.

But we do have a pantry list, so they will be able to select items from the pantry.

OK.

And then they have to create.

I don't I don't want to totally spill the beans.

No, no, no, because I want to keep it a little bit of a surprise at the event, but the kids don't know yet what they're making.

So it's it's going to they're going to know, but they don't know quite yet.

So are

all these kids in or plan on making this a career for the most part?

You know, I think some of them do.

They do have an interest in culinary.

Very much have an interest in culinary.

Some are just, you know, at this point, home chefs, they're kids.

So it's going to we'll see.

But this could be a great stepping stone to them just to see, do they like that pressure of being in front of people and having a time constraint?

and not their own choosing of the ingredients.

They kind of have to work with what we have.

So I think it'll be kind of neat for them to see.

I'm excited.

I like the fact that you made a make a video, because it's fun when the chef has a personality,

right?

Yeah, absolutely.

Even if we go to a restaurant,

it's

fun to see that.

And these kids are going to learn that.

This is this can be a very good career.

Absolutely.

And I think having Chef Ace there is going to be really helpful.

We have handful of fabulous judges on yourself, actually.

Mayor Jim Schmidt is going to be there.

It's going to be great.

Bill Jarts will be there.

Shotgun from Y-100 and actually Alice in Dairyland is one of our judges.

We're excited to bring her to the event.

I'm sure she'll walk around in between two and it'll be really fun.

So that's the kids competition.

And

do you have an adult competition?

Not this year, but we do have a handful of demonstrations going on.

We have two different demonstrations, actually three different demonstrations.

So we have the TDS fiber cooking stage.

We have a handful of chefs that are gonna be up there just making cool stuff.

And the cool thing about when they do theirs is they will then sample out what they've made.

So like Chef Fabian of Cedar and Sage out at the Oneida Hotel, he is making like some maple sriracha chicken wings and then he'll make it and then you'll be able to sample what he's made.

And then we also have the Salmons Interactive area and that is another space where people can come and just learn, you know, do some cool stuff, see what they're making.

I know we're gonna have like, like brighten up your beef with Chef Quiggy.

He's gonna make chimichurri.

Some cool stuff.

Do they talk more, the recipe, but they talk about where they source their product because...

They must be a little farm to table a lot of these people.

Yeah, a lot of them are and I think it's this up-teach individual what they want to share sometimes They're so busy, especially with the sampling that's quick like here try this try this try this and then they're also making sales on their prepackaged items So it can go kind of quick But that's sort of why we wanted to do the VIP hour to to give some of those that are a little more interested in more Conversations to have a little more time where it isn't so crowded.

Well people give because we had Cody here Creppling

and you

just sloppy heist phenomenal.

Yes,

delicious.

Yeah, and boy he will guard

his like, rub, recipe, and

things to eat.

Yeah, you

can get it out of them.

Are your people like that at this event, or will they

spill some of the

secrets?

Cody's gonna

be there?

I think it's, is it Cody or Ben?

Is there a burn pit?

Sloppy

hog.

Sloppy hog, okay.

Sloppy hog isn't there this year, but we do have a handful in the, yeah, they're very protective.

Yeah, yeah, that's a great word to use.

Yeah, which it is, that's their.

I don't

blame them.

That's their bread and butter, so to speak, yeah.

And tell us, let's talk about the event, because I think people would be interested in this.

It's a family thing,

or you get

to date night, whatever you want to do.

This is a cool thing to go

to.

It is.

It's very family friendly.

So the sample's obviously for everybody, except for we have a beer garden, a bourbon bar, and a wine bar.

So in those areas, the samples are 21 plus only.

So we have some great stuff.

My ears just pumped up.

My ears pumped up.

The word

is bourbon bar.

Yeah, bourbon bar.

Two of the most beautiful words known to man.

Isn't it amazing

how many people now locally are making their own vodka?

bourbon and spirits

yeah, no it is really cool and we have a handful of select bourbons that folks can Can can purchase but as far as samples old smokies gonna be there sampling out a whole bunch of their great products And then good boy is sampling out their brand new lemonade's 21 plus you gotta be 21 plus But that'll be fun for them and then the beer garden is great just some picnic tables and a big old tent But it's inside and it's very relaxing right next to some live music.

So there's live music all

day read that

okay fabulous musicians

playing all day, live acoustic music.

You can just hang out, sit in the beer garden and relax and enjoy that.

And then, yeah, of course, in the kids' area, we also have Mischief and Magic is there doing all the shenanigans they usually do.

And then Fox City Flix II is gonna have a little gaming system so kids can kind of hang out and play some video games and...

It's just there's just something for everybody really and it's a it's a good time.

See why she's the creative.

Absolutely.

You even miss a thing on this.

Holy.

This one is my event.

I don't have to know what's going on.

OK,

I just want to go through your schedule

here.

Yeah,

just ask him.

OK, first of all, TDS fiber cooking stage.

Yes, maple sriracha chicken wings with chief chef is a chief or

chef

chef Fabian.

Yes.

As

you mentioned, OK.

Apple teasers

appetizers.

Yeah.

Mr. Burns.

Mr. Burns.

You guys know Mr. Burns?

He dresses like a pepper at the farmers market.

He's fantastic.

He's one of our vendors.

So he'll be selling all of his sauces and sauces and stuff, but then he's going to do some cooking demos for us.

And he's great.

Crispy maple mustard glazed pork belly with chief Fabian.

Yeah.

And he does all his stuff.

He brings his sourced right from the Oneida Nation.

Oh good.

So like last year he made like a bison chili and it was delicious.

So he's, he's fantastic.

He's one of the chefs over there at Cedar and Sage.

I'd love to try that bison chili.

Well, come on out.

I'll get you a ticket.

That sound good.

I

know.

The cooking demo at 10 o'clock with Salmon's Interactive Area.

Yep, Salmon's.

Salmon's, I'm

sorry.

That's a

good company by

the way.

Yeah,

they're

great.

Okay, this one has me interested because it sounds like something I've never had for colored greens, dried cranberry and walnut salad with hot

bacon dressing, chef Selena Darrow, executive director, rooted in Incorporated.

Yes, she is an amazing chef.

You may have actually- She's been on- She's been here before, because she does a whole bunch of amazing things within the community, and she's a great chef.

So yeah, she's gonna do a couple of demonstrations, and then I'm sure she'll sample that out too.

Brighten your beef.

Come make chimichurri.

Yes, Chef Quiggy.

Did I pronounce that right?

Yeah, I think so.

Chimichurri.

Tell me what that is.

It is it's a green sauce that usually you'll put on like steak.

Okay, so it's made with herbs

and garlic, I think.

I'm not a professional chef, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

And then actually the Super Smoke Bros, I'm excited about them.

They're a podcast in the area, and there are some teachers out of the Sheboygan area that just love to smoke meat, so they put together a podcast, and they reached out, and they're like, hey, can we maybe come to Meat Fest?

I was like, heck yeah, you can.

So they're gonna actually do some Q&A in that Salmon's Interactive area.

They gotta be a future guest.

This is gonna be a fun day, and

this is gonna be awesome.

I'm actually gonna be talking with them tomorrow night, so I'll name drop you guys when I search that.

They're so cool.

I'd love to have them on.

I'm

looking at your layout here.

And it's,

I mean, look at that layout.

It's awesome.

All the samples are highlighted.

Yep.

Space possible.

You betcha.

And we actually have outdoor samples as well.

So Woodfire Grill and Earth Sense Energy are going to be doing outdoor cooking demos.

Wait, wait,

wait.

Wood fire grill.

No,

you just said something.

Which part of the UP you from?

Oh, I'm from Marinette, but my mom's from Menominee.

My mom's a Hooper.

You had me

at Umecha.

Umecha.

Umecha.

It comes out sometimes.

Yes.

Caught you.

But yeah, we'll have some outdoor cooking demos, which are great too.

So outside is the food trucks.

We have seating area outside.

We actually, the Rush Expo is pretty great.

We open up if the weather's pending.

It's been beautiful the last two years, but we always open up the hydraulic doors that go from the west end of the Expo that are glass.

facing Lambo, and they go right out onto that patio.

That's where the food trucks are, the outdoor cooking demos.

So it's just, and the outdoor cooking demos, everything they're cooking on those grills all day long, you can sample too.

So it's just, it's really, really, really fun event.

As soon as you get close, it smells so good.

You learn a lot.

You know, you talk to other foodies, and it's just great.

There's

so many different, I mean, just look at this map, you get 500 different things listed with people that donated everything.

And people are interested in food, and something different.

And this is where you can learn it.

Yeah, this is going to be fun.

Even if I wasn't the judge, I'd be going.

I just

think this

is a very cool event.

Great, thank you.

I agree.

You're talking about

a kids event too, as far as kids could come over.

Watch kids cook or just not be different events for them.

You guys are covering every base here,

aren't you?

I hope so.

I think so.

I mean, the people the last few years have been really excited.

The vendors couldn't believe how many people showed up for it.

And it's great.

It's a great way to start your Saturday and come hang out with us for a few hours, get your full of all your samples, and then...

Move on.

Old station 31 checking in.

31 Spirit says, good morning.

Nothing better than a good bourbon bar.

That's right.

You got to get them there from

a ton

of dale.

They are fantastic.

Tell

them to reach out.

We had a contest with 10 manufacturers, vendors of spirits, beer, wine, and they won.

Oh, wow.

That was one.

It's

great.

I just want to say ticket prices are all in, meaning the listed price includes all ticket fees, general admission, 1650 for adults, $8 for ages 13 to 17, $11 for military and first responders, and there's a VIP early entry, $22 for adults, 1325 for ages 13 to 17, 1615 for military and first responders, children 12 and under are free.

That's

right.

And they can pick up tickets.

You can go to the Rush Center box office, or you can go to Rush Expo online, or Tickets are online rather for tickets.

Wow, Meat Fest, presented by Pelkin Smoky Meat Market.

That sounds fantastic.

Thanks for bringing

this to us.

I mean, this is good.

This is great.

It checks a lot of boxes.

Thank

you for being here.

What?

What are you

doing?

What?

Two years, and I'm giving you guys a thumbs up, and you're going.

We were talking.

We were talking about, hey.

Hey, Joe,

can you do me a favor?

Tell the guy behind the window to be quiet.

Let the guy

behind the

window?

Yeah,

that would be our producer.

This happens once in a while, and it was not planned, OK?

So we talked a lot about pets today.

Yeah.

And we talked a lot about meat.

Yes.

I mean, totally.

Which is

fine.

I'll talk that.

I'll either one of them.

By the way, though, a lot of great food we brought up here today.

I'm gonna be honest with you on something.

I'm gonna make a declaration here.

I saw this thing, I looked it up on this food thing, a health type thing, so I'm always in how to make myself better.

I'm

only eating 10 foods for the rest of my life.

All right, let me, I'm gonna write these

down.

Write them down.

Write between marathons.

10 foods, 10

foods,

okay?

All right.

Okay.

Blueberries.

Yep,

that's a

good one.

Salmon.

Good

one, yep.

Quinoa.

You

don't know how to say it.

Quinoa.

Quinoa.

Quinoa.

What is that?

Is that a fruit?

No, no.

It's kind of like a rice substitute.

It's a grain.

Oh, I know what that is.

It's an ancient grain.

It is.

I know what it is.

And it's better for you than rice.

Right.

How do you eat it?

You cook it like rice?

Just like rice.

Yeah.

And it comes, yes.

Almonds.

Almonds.

Sweet potatoes.

Yes.

This one I'm going to struggle with.

Green tea.

I like green tea.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

So bitter.

Put a little, put a little honey in it.

Oh, I think it's good for you.

It's not on the list.

You can't have it.

He's going through the

list.

Burberry on the

list.

It only, I think it's 11.

So far, nothing.

I'm just on the 10.

So far, nothing you mentioned is available at the dollar store.

So think about that too.

Um,

salmon in a, in

a

bag.

Yeah.

Um, Greek yogurt.

Yep.

That's good for you.

Um, eggs.

Yep.

Easy.

And avocados.

All right.

Okay.

That's not the worst list.

Sometimes you look at those lists, it's like, oh my God, dude.

Right, exactly.

Okay.

You won't be on that for a week, but still that's a good list.

I'm gonna be on this for the rest of my life.

Okay.

It'll

be

between that and the... And then the tallow that you're putting on.

Which

is

working.

Yep.

You will,

you'll look like...

I've had so many people tell me, my skin is so much more effervescent than yours three, it's mind boggling.

Get one of them on the radio.

Fizzy skin, that's what we all want.

Fizzy skin.

Hey, at least it's better than what Springsteen was told about his.

What, did

I see

that?

No.

Trump, after saying, well, have you seen Springsteen?

It looks like a dried up prune.

And

I, terrible skin.

He's getting a little bashed by the guy from the hood too.

Yeah, everything went after him right

now.

Oh my goodness gracious.

But yeah, those are my new things.

It's not bad, but there's no bread on there.

You know, I know what about meat?

There's no meat on there, Sam.

A little bit of meat, right?

I know, but who wants to live on salmon?

What about chicken or ribs?

I mean, you're going to tell me if Cody pulled up with this truck, you're not going to have some brisket just for to help Cody.

Right.

And at meat

fest, you're just going to go there to support the kids, support

the kids

for the children.

It's all about the kids.

But anyway, that's my new list.

I'm putting this on my refrigerator and those are the only things I'm going to eat.

You watch you watch scoff.

Please scoff.

No, I hope you stick to it.

I think a lot of people are supportive of me.

I know I am.

Quick, Paul, people, you're supportive of me?

You think I

can stick to this?

Unanimous.

Just let me know.

Unanimous.

Great guest today, Todd.

That was fun today.

That was a lot of fun.

Yeah.

It's fun when we know a little bit about these people, but you learn a lot about them when you come in here and sit down.

And I'll tell you

what, that lady we just had in here.

Amy Shadyen.

Amy Shadyen, senior event designer for PMI.

people that want to get into that line of work, watch and listen to what she does, that is perfect, completely prepared, knows everything there is to know about her event.

I was telling John, John said, God, she was unbelievable.

Well,

She knows everything.

She's in charge.

It's her.

She owns the event.

She's not helping out.

She's not the marketing person.

She's not the event coordinator.

It's her event and she knows everything.

When the bands are, I was just really impressed

with her.

Me too.

But she also has a really excitement for it right now.

She loves it.

True that.

But she told me they've got a craft event coming up in October.

So I told her, if she wanted you guys to maybe do some crafting to show off at the event, we could get that done.

I would do that.

Well, and

she said the

ticket sales they the reason they went with the VIP versus just generals because the line was so long last

year and

they want to get people through so Yeah, it's nice 31st.

Yes, I'm like that

coming up in

May 31st.

I'm going to that for sure.

Well, you're a judge, right?

I'm the kids

section

or the other kids That'd be fun though, Dave

get their product.

You know, but I know that they all had to qualify.

I think that's cool.

She made them send in a video, one

minute.

I agree.

Why they think they should be in this contest.

And, yeah, who knows what this is going to lead to.

You know what kind of questions I'd like to ask a chef?

Like, okay, so I'm looking to become, I don't know if there's a word for it.

I think in like New Orleans that they call them a Sausage.

Sausage?

That's French word.

Sausage.

Whatever.

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What is

coagulate on the bottom of the thing and I can't get it out.

It's burnt.

How do you how?

Why does that happen?

And how do you get that out?

Just

turn the heat down and stir more often.

Ah, really?

Oh,

yeah.

I

didn't know that.

Especially if you have a cheap pot, you know, it's got a thin bottom.

It's gonna burn.

Nicky, it's not a loan from Nicky.

Well, she probably,

she's got a

good pot.

I would think so.

I think she, I thought maybe you got it at one of your.

No.

Okay.

Well, all right.

So keep, so you can do that.

So you make soup.

Did you just like clean out the refrigerator soup, or do you actually have a recipe?

No, no, no.

Clean up the refrigerator soup.

Yeah, that's what I thought.

What's wrong with that?

Nothing, I guess.

It's just, it's not...

The only thing I'm a little bit worried about, it has a little... I may have had a little issue though.

So, with my chicken, I try to...

Don't tell me it was old.

No, it

was a

little pink.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

But I thought the soup would kind of take care of it.

You should really cook that before you throw it in.

Tell you what, it helps you...

Whatever.

All right.

She cleans you up pretty good.

How did you say?

I'm going to hold my apple for the meat best.

No, I'm

waiting for the meat best, man.

I'll

make you

some soup.

No, I'm good.

You'll be good.

I'm good.

Hey, thanks for being here.

Back in the morning.

See ya.

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