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.
Oh, there's that.
Good morning!
Happy Trucker Thursday to you.
Vicki texted that in before she even started.
Vicki's awesome.
She's great.
Vicky,
I love Trucker Thursday.
It helps to get me through the week.
Vicky, we're here for you.
That
would
be
three of
us.
Four of
us,
I guess.
Yeah, this is
good.
Who's the fourth?
Todd!
The man behind the window.
The man behind the window, I should have said.
I should have said that.
No, no, no.
Todd's not, no.
No?
He
gets, he's the one who picks all the
music.
He likes to hear it.
I know, but he just does it to like, you know, appease us.
Oh yeah, I think he's the boss we are.
You know what I mean?
It's just like, you know.
Hey, guys, gonna play music in the prison yard today while you work out.
Oh, there you go.
I get it.
I get that
guy just
to keep us, you know, yeah.
What?
What?
Where's this from?
Where's this coming from this
morning?
I don't
know, Todd.
I don't know,
Todd.
Why is the floor wet
looking?
Well, well, because my nose spilled his cream.
Oh, God, I can't
believe I did that.
Yeah.
Yesterday,
I was over an idea.
It's like, I can't believe I just spilled something.
Oh, I'll read this table.
Remember that?
Yeah.
Well, hey, I was, uh... Todd made a great point, though.
What's that?
I'd be the worst criminal in history.
Yeah, you would.
There would be a body, and then, you know, like, they would just have to follow the trail to wherever.
Right, right.
Then we'd have to slingshot rappers.
Leno used to do that thing in the dumbest criminals
or whatever.
Oh,
it's hilarious We're gonna feed you a John John Mino
tonight.
It's somebody first thing they say in the morning.
You'd be a terrible criminal
The headline in the Enquirer world's dumbest criminal
criminal and be me my visor be sitting
extra gun
All right, fine.
Hey, it's not you know, it's funny
Yesterday was like 50 and it felt like 20.
Did you go to the farmers market?
Did they have it?
Yeah, it was
raining.
Oh, you're kidding me.
I was actually it was even worse at like three o'clock yesterday,
right?
Yeah, I thought
for sure was gonna be canceled.
I
know I don't know how many people but I know I went by there and I thought should I go see Nick?
But I just yeah, you have walked
in the rain at two blocks.
I did not think there was a chance in the world they were gonna host it.
Well, you know what that says about them that pretty much the farmers market is rain or shine.
Some
people are like, I don't know if I'm gonna go just plain shine or that cold wind That was the thing that wind yesterday coming off the bay.
Yeah.
I Yes, anyway, they had it and I don't know how it was.
We'll talk to Nick Maybe here's one of the vendors, but I didn't even get a chance to walk down there, but they had it.
So it was great.
Hey,
but the weather is
Turning
yeah, but me it feels nice out there today.
It's only 46, but it actually feels nice Yeah, 46 at Green Bay 45 aptin 45 ash gosh forecast mix of clouds and What's that word mix of clouds and Look mix of clouds and son.
Oh son.
I've never seen that word in a while high in the upper 50s real today Hey, it's almost the end of manly.
It's gonna be in the upper 50s.
Oh,
yeah You already did though eight
this biking.
Did you go get your new bike seat?
No, I did not.
I never know when you're open Jim, to be honest with
you.
Didn't I tell, didn't I say that?
No.
Brian gave me the hours.
I did.
You go play the tape.
It's either Monday
and Wednesday or it's either Monday and
Wednesday or Monday and Tuesday.
Play the
tape.
Well, anyway, you got to get those seats.
Anyway, I went to, so I have a lot of bikes at my house because when people come over and we want to go downtown, I'd rather take a bike than take the car.
So the biggest thing is,
Air and the tires.
I
know everything
else works fine.
But
you gotta be so careful because that used to air by
blowing out my tires.
No, I got
this is what I did I went to Pete's garage on Broadway yesterday.
Yeah.
Yeah, I Got the pump that I'm done.
I got it.
It costs a little bit more
like plug it in or is it a hand pump?
No, I hand pump that because then you can just
have like an inner.
No.
Oh, but it's got the the digital reader on there Yeah, and you just kind of set it look if you look at your tire on the side
it doesn't shut off automatically then
Because
that's why the biggest fear all the time is blowing up the tire.
Well, when it gets to 60 or whatever it is, I'll just stop.
60?
Or is that too much?
Seems like a lot.
OK, I don't know.
I haven't used it yet, but I just said, look, I need something that's reliable.
You know, that's easy to use.
And it's got two different tires, like those little valves that come out of the tire.
Yeah.
where you put the thing over there.
Stem valve.
Stem valve.
Yeah.
That's what I was going to say.
He's working
up to
that.
I'm
trying to think of that word.
Yeah.
But
it's got two different ones.
So you get, because I guess they make two different sizes.
I didn't even know that.
I had no idea about that.
Yep.
Anyway, so you, you want to use it, but you still, yeah, you stand there.
Okay.
Yeah.
Bring it in.
Yeah.
I
know you
get for your bike, but there's no excuse.
for me not to bike anymore because it was always I need air and tires so done anyway when you guys come over when we
come down well that world problem was solved hey two old guys solving a problem I guess it by hand how do you know that oh she was I guess that by hand
she was very patient with me I'm like okay how does this work and all right how do I know anyway so I went to Pete's garage it was great great what do they have the inventory there
I'm gonna spend a lot of money
for listeners playing bingo with mino in the mayor this morning.
I wonder if anybody had stem valve
I was walking here and said I'm on my phone and I'm like big deal.
Why
doesn't matter right did not have a good day
With my phone yesterday.
I didn't eat.
I gotta tell you something.
Okay, I'm gonna tell you something.
I need your advice.
I need anybody's advice So I've got a little surgery coming up on Wednesday,
right?
I don't know where or when or what time?
Yeah You guys just I got a landline.
I mean,
is that kind of crazy?
Yeah, get somebody.
Well, I used our new sales lady.
Can't think Emily Eliza Eliza
I had to use her phone yesterday because I have to do that event tomorrow night in freedom.
Yeah, so I her phone is some other company obviously and I call my guys.
Oh my god, John I'm trying to get a hold of your week.
We thought you didn't want to do it or something Who that's
one.
I Jesse has a different
area many.
Well, let me tell you a good example that um
We're going to be talking about on lean local, not this week at the mayor, this Green Bay next week, the Southern Bridge.
That's interesting, right?
It's going to happen.
They started construction.
You familiar with the Southern Bridge?
No, I'd
not.
Yeah.
Right now?
Yeah.
It's a big, big deal.
Oh, I know that's been 20 years.
So I haven't gotten too excited about it.
All of that.
Exactly.
That's like, OK.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
We're going
to move the coal piles.
Right.
No, that might have to.
One
quick
second.
Jim, you house poop on your the mayor and you let air in the bike shop stop you?
and let air in the bike tire stop you.
Come on, man.
Brian.
Brian, I was far as the first
shot.
Yeah,
I know.
So Brian, that guy at the military academy, so we're dated to start to the cannon fires.
We don't start till Brian says something.
That's right.
But he is on top of it.
So.
The southern bridge so I got an engineer coming on to talk about the exes and all because some people are interested in that the cost how wide it is bike lanes a lot But I wanted someone to talk about the economic impact like how many rooftops are they gonna build out there?
What kind of industry they're gonna have what's that gonna do for the committee?
So I called tried to called I'm back.
This is the back of the phone thing So I called the mayor of Dupir.
It's that's kind of a Dupir thing, you know
in
terms of municipalities and
called and go through, then he texted me and said, I tried to call you, your phone didn't work, and I want to get this wrapped up.
So we just ended up doing the email because that's, that will work.
You're not the biggest email guy.
No, I, I mean, I hardly ever checked my emails,
to be honest with
you.
That's electronic mail, John.
I'm going to get on that now.
Yeah.
But that's what we didn't have a guy
escort away last night.
And we both have cellcom.
Yeah.
And I think, I bet you Green Bay has a thousand lines.
I'm a thousand.
Well, they have like 1,100 employees that we had it all for.
You know, we get that rate and you might have to buy your own phone, but we provide the police fire.
You're talking about employees of
Green Bay.
Oh,
I got you.
I got you.
I got you.
Got you.
Got you.
Oh,
yeah.
But in terms of this municipality, it's it's it's over half.
So come
I think, you know, I'll be honest with you and and I've been reading lots of things people are saying it's like and I hate to.
I'm not trying to be doomsday and some of my best friends in the world.
Work for Selcom in very prominent positions where they, I bet, are like not sleeping for a week.
Oh, I'm sure.
So I'm not criticizing.
I mean, here's
the problem with them is that's the only product.
It's not
like
if something goes bad with yogurt, shrivers, you survive on cheese or, but that's it.
That's what they do.
And I
worry about small businesses.
No question.
Right.
I mean, I'm really worried about that.
Well, that's what it's
about.
I was thinking about that.
If I was in real estate,
you
lived.
by your phone.
That was your office, was your phone.
John, there's a lot of people that live
by that phone.
That's it.
And you got Wendell Washer guy, just all these little one and two man band entrepreneurs, these
builders.
They don't
have receptionists.
But you have to wonder too, Jim, early on in the first few days before you realize how huge this was, if they're like, you know what, screw them, I'm going to somebody else.
Sure.
Who then might have had a, and they, you know what I mean?
It's like, because that guy yesterday, I mean, Jesse.
and Eliza were both right there.
They said, oh my God, John, we didn't know if, so who knows how many of those kind of calls are
missing.
So yeah, I talked to a friend of mine who's an attorney, big time attorney.
He said the FBI's involved in
this.
Oh, they
are.
Okay, I didn't know.
Has there been a... But why didn't they, I said, why didn't they...
Tell me that cowboy Dave.
Um, it's called a valve of stem, not a stem valve.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
That was
kind of like a heart thing or something or something or something.
Oh, no, that's a stint.
Yeah, something.
Yeah.
But cowboy Dave, you know what I meant?
We really do have to do a bingo game on this show.
And put the
whatever,
whatever, whatever.
We should.
The
vocabulary.
We literally should not.
We wouldn't do too well.
With our people, we need to do that.
I'm going to work
on that.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Help us out.
Texters, help us out some words you want us on our bingo card.
Let us know.
I don't laugh.
You know what show I like?
I like watching old show.
Like I said, I got into arrested development.
Yeah,
you told me that.
I like that show.
Yeah, it's quirky.
Oh man.
Um, but if that guy reminds me of you, I mean, I'm not even like whatever that when he's in prison for complete embezzling his whole real estate company, yada, yada, yada.
All these hardcore cons are like, yes, sir.
Now tell me what I should do.
You
know,
he's
like holding cart and
I do that.
Exactly.
I can see you being that guy
when
you go to prison.
Yeah.
Okay, I just want to finish that that's so come thing.
It's it's a bigger deal.
It's not like That it wasn't a maintenance issue,
right?
I'll see if it wasn't there some time a squirrel literally got into something shoot the Yeah,
it's none of that.
Yeah, so I was surprised.
I guess I didn't read that.
Um, what do you think country-wise?
Pardon me.
I think China You know what?
I think that's China's
We have the draft here.
It's a big whatever.
We do got visibility.
We got visibility, man.
People know us all over around the
world.
Hey,
can you imagine if that happened then?
Oh, yeah.
Well, that's Verizon, though.
But still, I mean, yeah.
Wow.
I'm going to be honest.
I think it's scary that somebody can control something that we depend on day to day.
I think we should learn that we depend on it too much.
Absolutely.
But what are you going to
do?
I don't write a letter.
I've
got a
stamp.
Where do you buy a stamp?
Did Dave Barghetti talk about that one?
Do I just like look for an old person and say, can you give me a stamp?
There was some special on him.
The interview and how he got started.
And he's always been the same.
He doesn't like politics, right?
He and
I are the same, man.
He keeps it clean.
Yep.
Say, well, under that.
Looked if it's there, yeah.
But yeah, I just.
You know, it's funny.
He really caught fire, I mean, and he'll admit it too.
Like he was working a lot.
Well, he, you know, again, okay, we, you know, like your daughter would love to be an entertainer.
My granddaughter's
going to
be okay.
But you look at him and say, I could do that.
Wow.
He's so like, read his story.
He moved.
He had no money, moved to New York, lived in a piece of garbage little apartment with people.
Yeah.
I mean, if you want to do that book, there's a price, man.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
He's,
and that's a good story too.
He's doing it right now.
Oh boy.
Our text line is open.
We got a whole bunch of bingo card entries already.
We'll get to them in one minute.
There's
nothing better than trucker
music It's going out for
Terry this morning special requests red simpson truck driving fool red simpson No red simpson.
Oh, it's jackknife is the song.
Oh jackknife.
Yeah,
man.
I still I'm old
I'm telling you that guys that you didn't need to do that time.
Um, I'm old But I still I still want to be a while.
I told you I'm excited.
I'm thinking about applying for that job at AutoZone as a delivery guy
You're not a great driver.
Oh
my
god,
you
just slow.
Oh
my god The part
will be there tomorrow.
It's like what do you mean?
I only live 10 miles away I'm a great driver
I am a great, I tell my kids at all time, I am a great driver.
Tell
the police department of the town of Princeton, of the town of, what was the other town?
Montella, was it Montella?
Right
here on
Mason Street.
Okay, that, I think you judge by accidents.
Your cars is dented up, mine's not.
I don't have, I have no accidents.
A lot of, I have probably six, seven speeding tickets, but no accidents.
Six or seven, okay.
No accidents.
Well, that's not true.
It depends how far back you go, but I've had no accidents in the last, in the last 25 years.
Okay.
I haven't had any since 1975.
Oh, that's a long time.
Yeah.
How's that?
And it wasn't even my fault.
Well, of
course it's not.
No, okay.
Let me, okay.
Let me explain the entire scenario and you tell me, okay?
I was I was actually on my way to fill out the paperwork for my summer job of the mine Okay, so it's not like I'm out cruising doing you know, whatever.
Yeah, and my dad's car 1970 Chevy Impala
It's four door.
Um So up there the snow banks were are so huge.
It's I mean, they're like 10 feet tall the snow banks.
Yeah, okay Come up to a yield.
Yeah, all right.
The snow bank is so big.
You can't you have no idea.
It's on the right hand side.
Yeah
Okay.
So I pull out and it's a one way street, which I think one way streets.
I was going to get on you about this the other day.
Why do you have one way streets here in downtown Green Bay?
They make no sense.
Traffic
flow.
Yeah.
There's no traffic.
So they make no sense.
It was the dumbest thing ever put in Green Bay.
But anyway, here's, here's the only thing I'm saying.
Okay.
All
right.
Safer.
So yeah.
Nope.
They're not.
Okay.
Safer.
Okay.
So one way street.
I'm going to draw your
diagram.
John, that's no bank.
That's not an excuse.
What did the judge say?
That's not excuse.
The other person saw that you don't make people into that intersection with that snow bank and then get in a car accident.
You know how you get through a snow with a snow bank.
You edge.
There
were 14 accidents on that exact same spot in two days.
So here's my seat.
I don't believe that.
Here's a. Okay.
Here I am.
Here's a huge snow bank.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a one way.
Right.
Okay.
You're right there.
Yeah.
So I pull out edge out just to see if anybody's coming.
Here's a car right there.
Right there on me.
Okay.
There was somebody right behind me.
I couldn't back up.
Okay?
And he's flying.
He's speeding.
All right?
So I try to beat him through the thing, and he clips my back
panel.
Well, that is not stupid.
He could have gone around.
How far you were out there?
Foot?
Two?
Yes.
Okay, he could have gone around.
Absolutely.
Well, you're the one who pulled out in front of him.
I could, because the snow bank was there.
I couldn't see.
What am I supposed to do?
Get out and climb on top of the snow bank?
You
edge your way out.
I did edge my way out.
But he was going so fast, I had to try to beat him.
You want to know a great moment in your life when you're 16 years old?
Go to pick up your dad as he just comes up from underground in the mine explain to me just got his brand new car smash
All
this minor clothes on or dust I still remember him taking off his little hat, you know, they wear these little hats underneath the helmet.
So, you know And you know, it's so funny.
He didn't know I was there.
Okay, so I went to pick him up,
right?
That doesn't look like my car.
Yeah, I Had never like seen him at work before
Okay, like real work and his language.
I've never heard him say the effort.
He's like hey You tell that f and so and so if we don't get that gd f and so and so taking care of tomorrow And it's like
that's my dad using that language Well, he turned it off and he got home though,
so I didn't even saw me and then it was you know
Yeah, but
that was a good moment my life.
Would you please move this?
Yeah?
Yeah,
so that was not my fault.
That's my one accident
knock
on
wood
Okay, did you get citation?
Mm-hmm.
Did you fight it?
You know
what
the judge told me?
Yeah, yeah So here's what happened.
Let me just say this.
Let me tell you it.
Okay.
I don't make up stories.
I mean, I really don't Maybe somebody say
they somebody who was it that said they'd be us for a living?
I said that last night.
We
say that every day at some
I know but it's just
yeah,
I read you know what you know what
I don't go out much.
I mean, I really and truly don't.
You know why?
Cause it's too expensive.
Well, that is, I'll give you
that.
I mean, it's expensive when you go out.
Okay.
But anyway, um, so I had a great timeless, me and our girl, Nikki, we used to work at sidekicks into period, a great time, little fish plate, whatever, whatever, and run into some people and, you know, from years and years back, it was just fun.
You know, it's like, I know you, you're still doing this, you know, and then BS and for 11.
So yeah, that's what I do.
Yeah.
Anyway,
how's
she doing?
She's great.
Great.
Great.
Miss her.
You got
to
go through the bingo car.
There we go.
We're not even joking about this, people.
We're gonna do a bingo car thing.
Let me just say this.
Don't forget now on our app, you can text the studio, but you can also send an audio message.
So if you want to actually say something, you can actually do that on the app.
Same way, download it in the lower bar there where you can text and stuff.
You can actually voice text.
So tell me, how does this bingo thing work?
Well, we'll put it together.
We'll put 25 words on there.
Whatever sayings or whatever.
And then we'll have maybe different cards.
People can go to our website to download them.
And if you say it, you pop it.
And we're not going to intentionally say anything.
We're just
going to do your
thing.
Okay, cool.
So we got one minute.
But that's actually, that's, that used to be a real, I remember WJPD and the swimming mission.
Bingo time.
And it was that kind of thing.
I think it was like for what, for commercials they would play.
You know, there's like,
Joe's tire shop and it's like, oh, I'm putting that one.
All right.
Well, that was good for the advertiser.
Yeah, exactly.
Okay.
Trust me, Jim.
Let me tell you radio 101.
You've only been in two years.
Radio doesn't do anything.
It is a sponsor driven.
Todd, that's true.
That's how we make our money.
We got one, two, three, four, five, six.
We got seven entries so far.
It's Rosendale.
Did you get a ticket in Rosendale?
Yeah, I got pulled over in Rosendale.
Coming back from speeding.
Michael says, China doesn't even know Green Bay exists.
I know.
Um, big good card.
Two entries for me.
Linens and sauna.
Yeah.
Please keep them coming, folks.
If we use yours, you get a prize.
That would probably win.
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Now back to Minow and the Mayor.
Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
We talked about that, Jim.
We did.
Yes, we did.
And Dan's here, and I hate to get in a fight in front of company.
Hey, Dan.
Don't argue in front of children.
Our man, Dan Brick, and I always talk about something.
We're just talking about something that I've done at least 30 times.
And I enjoyed every one
of them.
Me too.
I think the nicest people on the planet.
Yeah.
Except they lie.
Except the most honest people on the planet.
This is Dan.
Dan Brick.
Dan and his people lie.
We're obviously talking.
They're liars.
We're obviously talking breakfast on the farm.
And that is yes, I know
did you serve ostrich eggs one year?
Nobody to that.
Yeah, that's because they're telling the truth
I'm dreaming about
this or
what but I swear I was at one of the breakfasts of the farms and they had ostrich eggs and they had like this big drill to drill through it because they even gave me the
the shout to bring home to my daughters.
Then he
woke up.
I think he was watching the Flintstones.
Right.
Dan Brick in the house.
We were talking Brown County breakfast on the farm, which is such a cool
event.
That is it, John.
We were talking how many we've done and I think I was at 19 and just.
I enjoyed every one of
them.
I agree.
And Dan was talking about you talking just a second.
Breakfast you'll ever have.
But he brings, he sponsors a bus.
He's the president of the Promotions Committee to bring the kids from the hood out there.
Oh, that's cool.
Because they, yeah.
So you're a neighbor?
Are
you, do kids go to that?
Yeah, my kids,
yeah.
When they, hey.
Only 450,000 dollar house in the hood.
Only
house
in
the hood
that
has
an upstairs concert room.
But the fact, the point is it's in the hood.
But they did a survey one time and some of these kids really didn't know.
I think it's great you're doing that, Dan.
Tell us about the whole...
Yeah, so we have the breakfast on the farm to raise money.
That money gets used to... We use busing to get the kids to the farm.
That's cool, isn't it?
That's awesome.
It's one
of
those
things.
Why?
You know, Todd, how long have we been in radio?
A long time.
What's the main rule if you're going to be a guest on a radio show?
You bring
them something.
But
Dan, you're disappointing
us.
But Dan, it's like you have $6,000 in people come over for breakfast though, don't you?
Isn't that about with the Counties?
$5,000, $6,000?
Yeah, yeah.
So Brown County is real big just because of that.
And at one farm,
you have $6,000?
Yes.
Wow.
Yeah, so um, yeah, so it's a big undertaking when we do that and I would see the you know The true has a very good system in place for feeding wise.
I've known some of the families that have hosted Yep, and when you talk so it's like stress wise leading up.
This is a really really big deal.
It's just it's like a family.
It's not like this
the Elks Club or
the
organization.
It's like a family that's gonna host 6,000 people come into their house.
They're not just coming
for breakfast.
They take the tour.
There's a lot of educational things that go on.
I mean, that's a half-day thing.
I love it.
Yeah, so I... I'll be honest, right?
I really enjoy it.
I help with the tour, so that's always the big thing, because we have 15 tour wagons.
Which are fun.
Two people are on and it's trying to find, you know, make sure that we have enough...
to her host to be able to explain what's going on at the farm and answer questions and everything else.
So yeah, I know it's a huge undertaking.
And like I said, we use this money to bust people out to the farm.
We have Ambassador Coordinator, Stephanie Geiger.
Peterson takes care of going into the classroom and educating kids about dairy and agriculture.
We do a lot of work at the Brown County Fair.
Yeah, can I just, I don't mean to like switch
gears
here,
but.
How
is that
world of, cause I, did you see the movie Green Gold?
I didn't see
it yet.
Okay, but it's just like, you know, some
of
the things they brought
up, it's a movie, it's drama, but I bet some of those things they talk, those issues are.
real day-to-day issues.
Oh, they are, yes.
Keeping these
farms that have been in families for how
many generations.
Keeping them alive.
He'll talk about his three boys and one of them is really interesting, which is awesome.
That's one thing.
I mean, you need the money too, but I'd be saying it's nice to have that.
Oh, absolutely.
There are some
people that... You gotta have
that.
There are some people that...
They just want nothing to do with
it.
And
I don't know why.
Yeah, so I'm fifth generation on the farm.
So there's not many that are left to continue to grow.
And yeah, and you look over the years, several times over the years that we could have lost the farm.
So over 150, 170 years that we've been in there.
God bless the farmer.
I mean,
Paul Harvey's greatest thing ever was God.
Created the farmer bless.
It's true.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it's you know, I think about all the years of economic hardship interest rates
The whole market you guys rely so much on it's not like it's not like you got a Lemonade stand people
come
up and buy a gas station people need right you're tied to a much larger.
I don't think
People understand that, much less, but some of these people don't understand that the food comes from
the ground.
Yeah, right.
You know, we were dealing with a pair of some products, so we can't, I always, I would bring up, say, if we're building snowblowers, we can't sell snowboard.
We just stop building snowblower.
We just keep producing milk.
We can't just turn it off and turn it back.
How do
you people handle that?
Five generations, just.
almost like mentally with the stress factor.
How are your Christmases?
How are the family reunions?
It's a lot easier than when I was a kid, I think, because, you know, we, you know, four o'clock in the morning, four o'clock at night, you know, Christmas was a little bit different because we opened up one day.
We went to Christmas Eve, we opened up, and also we come home from church and Santa Claus came.
Right.
But we'll understand, you have a dairy farm, right?
Yeah.
Those cows, they don't know it's Christmas.
I
mean, you have to work there.
That's
why vacations and weddings, your weddings, sometimes those farmer weddings are at a little bit different time because
they gotta get back.
You know, it's a little bit different now with the size that we're at.
You know, we grew up with 50 cows, but yeah, we always- 50?
Yeah.
How old do you have now?
We had just over 1,000.
Okay.
But yeah, I always remember- Would you love to bring your great, great, great grandparents back for a day?
Yeah, right, yeah, right.
You know, a lot of great memories now when we look back at it.
You know, my, you know.
My dad would have to go to a wedding and I could run to the last minute and then take off running.
Hurry up, father.
My mom yells at him.
Did you guys ever
like you guys never went to Disneyland or something?
No, we never did.
No, we, we, uh, we have a, my sister put together, you know, a memory book and stuff like that.
Summer vacations or that, that was all empty.
Cause we never.
In the back 40, we're picking stuff.
Yeah.
I'd mentioned this before on the show, but I'd started, when you start a business, very risky, 50% of them, 80% of them fail.
My first employee was a farmer and she was awesome.
And then we built it from there, but I, somebody I could rely on, she was never sick.
Jim, how many times have we mentioned that when people come in about young people trying to get them in these different programs?
And it's like, if you have a farm kid, he's hired.
Right.
Sure.
Or she, yeah.
Or she, yeah, I shouldn't say
that.
Yeah.
They're
hired because they're work ethic.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Yeah.
God
bless me.
Well anyway, let's talk
about Brow County breakfast
on the farm.
June
1st.
Yes, yes, so that's just over a week away.
We can have, but yeah, so.
It's hard
to believe it has cold and crappiest.
It's been that June's a week away.
So we say Darius hosted us here, the Nasky family, and Jesse Dredgick, one of the partners there, be hosting it.
So we're very grateful that we got a family that would willing to host it.
I believe it's their third time in the last 20.
20 years, okay, they've been hosting it.
So they got a great setup, you know, the challenges every year talk about stress on the Family, it's you know, I hosted it twice in both times it rained and So we can we can control the environment inside the tent.
Well, I
will say this on you guys have
it right
on the thing Rain or shine.
Yeah, that's right.
You know what?
We don't
shut down the farm because it rains,
right?
That's right.
Yep.
So there's you know, we're doing it no matter what there's no there's no plan B. No, that's awesome
But go ahead, tell a little bit more about
this.
Yeah, you know, so we, the guys do an excellent job serving the breakfast.
The challenge always is, is the parking.
One nice thing about Wayside is we hosted it three times.
So we're really good at the parking being able to get that in there.
So the risk that we always have, like I said, is the rain and it gets to be muddy.
And it's always the kind of the hold up, but I think we got a very good plan going into place.
And I want to encourage everyone to come out and have a great time.
We do our best to get everybody in and out.
And that's
for an adult, $10.
That's you get a lot more.
With the
biggest breakfast you'll ever eat, right?
Ever.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So yeah.
So that's going to be
Sunday.
What time?
Often you start with a mass.
Do you have something like that?
Yep, we do.
I believe that's at seven o'clock.
And then we start serving breakfast at eight.
So we have a nice way to start your Sunday service.
Yeah.
And.
Some of these attractions
I've never done and I saw this on a sign.
Where was I coming back from flying to Lackford, but a um a polka mass was gonna be I've never been to a polk.
Do you guys do polka?
Yes.
Yeah, we we haven't
done those
at times with us, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
What's that
like?
I mean, how
do you do like Ave Maria?
They just it is it's a polka mass.
They can put any song to
Yeah, I would love to see that.
It's pretty good.
Yeah, and I haven't
It's been a while since I've been to one, but yeah, it's my mom and dad were big polka.
Yeah, really?
Yeah,
that's cool.
Yeah, but I'm just gonna reach through some of the things here real quick.
Attractions, delicious breakfast, which I swear folks, that's the honest truth right along farm tour.
And is that in the wagon?
It's in the wagon, which is so much fun.
I believe we have 15 tour wagons.
We sit counseling every five minutes.
And horse drawn, which is cool for kids.
So
we we had horses um help with parking but we just uh, all right, it's hard to
which was a cool way to
start the day You parked
the
car and here's this horse
They pull you back there.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah, all right tractor pull all right
And then uh, yeah, so then we have all kinds of other kids events.
I'm gonna see tractor display Kitty tractor pull.
Yep kitty tractor pull I'm trying to think what else well that
machine we display I mean we see you guys on the highway once in a while.
Yeah, but that equipment that's
That's very expensive equipment, but it's cool to see it up close.
You don't realize how big it is probably.
Especially
when we would put on a thing for the city, kids love climbing fire trucks.
And this is what that is, those tractors.
People don't realize this is a good family thing, like in your family area, kids activity is huge.
petting zoo, sand pile, which you can have about 14 other things
and
kids will go to that sand pile.
I've been there.
They'll go to that and they've got, they'll go to the climbing hay bale hill.
They love that.
Then they can hang out with the calves, the free custard from Culver's.
Oh, that's, yeah,
that's, I'm
being honest with you.
Bring your kids to this event.
They will love it.
Yeah.
This is a great way to start the summer and you want to support, I mean,
I don't know what it cost you.
I think it probably cost you $9 to make it.
So even
the profits, though, they do go to help educate the community on
farming.
We do, yeah.
Just kind of show the economic impact here, too, in Brown County and in the state of Wisconsin, what dairy farming does for everybody and how many people are employed through farming.
And you do talk a little bit about that, but there's jobs out there.
You're looking for people and that's a great career and
it is
across the street from us is Shriver
and
they couldn't be in business without you,
right?
Yeah, there's so many jobs out there and you know, that's one of the things that we're trying to promote a little bit here with With some scholarships some of that but it's there's you know millions of jobs.
You're just talking about truck drivers You know, so it's it's probably a little bit different to be a truck driver for agriculture than it is for You know, just an over-the-road trucker type deal.
My
favorite part-time job ever
northern minnesota and uh i was a helper for a milk delivery guy okay and we go to the different farms and everything like that and you'd go these little tiny schools you know wherever and oh johnny do you have time working we're putting together peanut butter sandwiches have some peanut butter sandwiches and some cookies that were making every place you went every farmer and you know it was cool you'd go to these big farms whatever and you go into the kitchen you know what these people you know smell phenomena always and they're
clean
and
All of their records were like these little notebooks, just handwritten.
You know what I
mean?
Going back, like you said, five generations, they probably had five generations of little notebooks on the shelf and everything meticulously, no computers, no nothing.
And it was just, I love that.
I really like that, that whole world of dairy farmers and that whole thing, that's its own little cult.
And I mean that in a good way.
Sure, yep.
But you guys have gotten a lot more.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Hey, well, I want a couple more things on.
No, no, no.
We have to ask him one question.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is the most important question.
Do you think I could outrun a cow?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you probably could.
Okay.
I was thinking about.
Down on Washington Street here, maybe we could.
Yes.
In the cow.
Yes.
Jim can get the street closed off for us.
We'll be good.
I thought I
could do.
I still got my connections.
All right.
We're going to talk a little bit more about this.
We're
not through
with you, Dave.
We got a lot
more questions for you.
Stay with us.
We're going
to talk
Brown County breakfast on the
farm.
in Cincinnati waiting.
I've been down to Mississippi Down through New Orleans Yes I have I've played in California There ain't too
much I haven't seen
And he's a ramblin' man.
Dan's a ramblin'
man.
I don't want to stereotype the confirmers like to bring us anything today from the farm.
Do farmers have a certain genre, or is it just you like all music?
What kind of music?
Yeah, you
know,
it's all over.
What's in the barn?
What's in the barn?
Yeah, it's playing in the barn.
It's
country.
I grew up listening to sports talk radio.
Me?
Did you
grow
up listening to me?
Yes
or no?
Yeah.
Was that?
Did you grow
up listening to
me?
Oh
yeah, all the
time, yeah.
OK, yeah.
Liar.
Go
ahead.
I guess he does lie.
I didn't think he did.
I was defending you, Dan, all the way.
I
kind of laughed because I used to.
Our mailman.
Always hadn't had John.
I was listening to it.
So like hey, you know, he's got the radio blaring.
I heard you're my know
Guys an idiot numerous times.
Yeah, but dad I all the respect to the world and these Brown County breakfasts on the farm I don't know.
Is it unique to Northeast, Wisconsin?
Um, not no really
I mean start
here.
I mean, oh, yeah, I believe it has we you know
We had it a long time ago.
It went away for maybe a short time, but otherwise, we brought it back and it's been very successful.
And some of the challenges, we're just getting less and less farms to be able to host in here for the county.
Let's talk about some of the challenges though in farming.
I mean, there's a lot of advantages to it, but
there's... I think the biggest thing is, it's always the pressure of the family farm, right?
It's like, okay, do you have to...
I've got a six generation coming in and I'll show their pressure.
Like, oh, I have to
take over the farm.
Hey, I just
want to ask, so when you say five generations, like what year did it start then?
I'm 1848.
Oh
my
God.
That's a year when it came to
state.
Wow.
Wow.
That's
pretty cool.
When did your family
come from?
What country?
Ireland.
No
kidding.
So we live in a Skeet in Wisconsin.
There's a Skeet in Ireland, so we still have the brick.
Really?
They
call it
brick metals over there.
Yeah, so my parents went over and visited it.
How cool is that?
Yeah, it's pretty neat.
But
that's 1848.
I
believe they came into Ohio and then some of them came up
around
this way.
So why was this area such a dairy farm area?
You know, I don't know if it had to do with the Homestead Act.
You know, that brought people up.
But, you know, it's a great place to grow to milk cows because we have cooler temperatures.
OK.
You know, in the summertime, winter time is.
is colder but you know
we're not that doesn't bother them the right the cows does it not as much no
we're not you know we got seasons we can grow alfalfa here cows mount really well on alfalfa okay so we got great great conditions here for that so awesome
go ahead yeah just we'd we talk Todd came in here mentioned you and just yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
and mental health uh stuff like that you know it's it's a challenge you know in agriculture so there's a lot of a lot of pressure we're dealing with uh you know we're dealing with banks we're dealing with
commodity prices all the time.
So it's, it's, uh,
I don't think people would correlate those two.
I'm going to be honest with you.
They wouldn't see that mental health stress that we, that they need help just like other industries, but the pressure is there.
Yeah.
And I, you know, I think we, we have things in place to help us on a business wise compared to where we used to be, but you know, the pressure is still there.
Right.
And we're, you know, you know, now we're, we're larger.
We're dealing with 18 employees and.
families that are dependent on us.
There's probably never a day where you can say, oh, we did it.
We're good to go.
No, no, no, right.
You never, never think, oh, we accomplished that.
No, it's over.
Right.
And the other thing about your business is you do rely a little bit on nature, you know, the sun.
It's like a promoter.
My cousin was an outdoor promoter of concerts.
I would never do that, because as much as I believe, I just don't want the rain to come on my day.
Anybody has ever put together a golf tournament?
Go golf, yes, another one, right?
But if you do it for a living, that's different, and he does this for a living.
Yeah, so especially last year was very stressful because of all the rain that we had.
At the end of the day, we still have to feed the cows.
So there's always that, like, OK, what are we going to do to...
to get things planted, to get it in, to get milk, to be able to produce milk.
So it's challenging and sometimes your hands are tighter to sit there and watch it rain outside and we can't get the
seeds to grow.
Great Brown County breakfast on the farm, Sunday, June 1st, 8 until noon, church services at seven o'clock at the farm.
Right, Dan?
Yep, that's correct.
From Wayside Dairy, 7937 Stone Road, Greenleaf, Wayside Dairy, Rain or Shine, Volunteers Needed.
Yes, yes.
We have a volunteer sign up online, so we're always looking for volunteers and it takes, I believe we have 200, 250 volunteers what we're looking for.
How many do you have now?
I'm not sure.
Okay.
You know, it's so cool.
I saw Facebook that, you know, Bill Jartz was coming on our show next week, Tiger's crew.
And somebody said, you know what's cool about Bill Jartz?
I went to like one of these farm.
He was the guy driving the tractor for the way.
Oh, yeah.
Sure.
You know what I
mean?
Yeah, sure.
And my Boston was
always.
Yeah.
So yeah, volunteers, you know, we always, everybody usually steps up.
Especially the agriculture community steps up and how
do they do it?
You got a website or phone number?
How do you go to
the website and we look at our Facebook page?
Broncrony Dairy breakfast so you can go on there and sign up if you're looking for volunteer We do not sell tickets, but that line goes really fast biggest is you know get in early.
I know last year we had some issues
with people coming a little bit later and then, you know, kind of miss it up.
But 12 o'clock when you do, you have to shut it
down because
it's
going to go melt
the cows.
Yes.
It's a long day.
It's a working farm.
I mean, it is.
It's not just for show.
No.
Wow.
This is great.
Well, thank you for doing this.
$10.
Yeah.
I don't
care.
This is great.
We should have a tip jar there, too, because I
mean, I
think people really appreciate all you do for this community.
So we're going to eight to.
To noon.
All right.
And that's that's a week from Sunday week from Sunday.
Yeah.
Cool.
All right.
Well, we'll see you there at
seven.
They have the mass.
Yes, which I think is very cool.
Is it
like in one of the barns?
Yeah,
outside.
Okay.
And so and I'm sure Miss Dairyland is going to be there.
You bring some celebrities in.
We
do.
Yeah.
So that's always cool to see too.
And great.
Definitely bring the kids.
I want to suggest you guys do some volunteer work.
Jim, you would be great at cooking and John, you can drive the
tractor.
They don't literally let the volunteers come.
I can hook
you up
there.
Sorry Dan, I didn't mean to put you in that predicament.
He can do the tractor,
but I'll serve.
You know, I'll do that.
I want the eggs.
I want to be the first guy.
I like that.
I'm there.
You need me, I'm there.
Yeah, we'll come.
I help out with tours, so I'll
do it myself.
Careful.
Hey kid,
coming up in 20 minutes, Mino Racing a cow!
Alright,
Brown County Dairy Promotions dot com.
That's
correct, yep.
Brown County Breakfast on the Farm, Sunday June 1st, Wayside Dairy, 7937 Stone Road, Greenland.
Dan, you guys are awesome buddy.
Alright, thank you.
Whatever you do.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your
hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino the Mayor here.
So great talk with Dan Brick about the Brown County breakfast on the farm.
Excuse me if you've never been to one of these you got to go if you've got kids or grandkids especially.
Yeah, absolutely I mean that's hands-on and the heat like Dan said this has become a family tradition for a lot of people but You make a good point.
This is great for grandkids.
Oh, I'd love to take my granddaughters there.
Oh, yeah
That's
fun.
You know, you know what the number one thing I remember with all the kids they can't believe how big cows are when you're up to them
That's I said even that equipment you drive by it.
Yeah, okay But then you get there and they let you get really close.
Nothing's roped off there.
No
Yeah, so it's very cool.
We're gonna keep talking this Sunday, June 1st Brown County breakfast on the farm 8 until noon.
It doesn't go long because it's still a working farm,
right?
And we're going to I'll be serving and you'll be driving
driving
the tractor.
Oh
my god.
That's
unbelievable.
I'm
so glad
I brought that
up.
I know.
Thank you.
By the way, okay, so we got to
talk to the passengers after.
Yeah.
Well, they didn't know you could do donuts with them.
I can do a wheelie.
Okay.
A couple of kids throw up.
Okay.
Wow.
Really?
Big deal.
I get carsick.
Get over it.
Um, we got our bingo card, uh, entries going here.
Some right now, if you're going to be a part of this, you get a major price package.
Okay.
Just to the way it works.
We're going to put words on the bingo card and then when we use them, they're going
to
or phrases, right?
So
these are some of the entries.
Go ahead.
Bingo card.
My oh, go ahead.
What is a dry rub?
Okay, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, John saying Like you wouldn't believe all right Bingo card phrase quick pull.
That's something John would say you read that one quick pull
men's health and Dollar Tree.
Yeah, that that that's definitely this next one's you too.
You can go card.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep, too This one might be me
Linens and sauna.
I think that's what you're gonna write bingo card.
I was gonna read that.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Uh, good
I don't make up stories.
That's you.
Phenomenal.
Milted.
Veterans.
Actually, those are three really, really good words.
All right.
Mall.
No, no, no.
Oh, phenomenal.
No.
Oh,
here it is.
OK.
I thought that.
OK.
All right.
I don't know who would say this.
Downtown Mall.
Bike seat.
Mine.
Mine.
All
right.
And the last one.
The hood.
Those are our first entries.
Every one of them will be used for our bingo cards that we're legitimately giving out to people.
You can win a major prize.
Those are really good words.
Thank you for listening.
Those are obviously listeners.
Yeah.
So, good listeners.
Loyal listeners.
All right.
Tom Swords, you can go.
Tom.
I can never pronounce your last name, Tom.
And I've tried practicing.
You've advanced the quarterfinals for Taste of the Homes' favorite chef.
Your background is exquisite.
And I swear, I still want to come to that.
You've talked about, yeah, the brunch.
I gotta come to that.
So, Tom, you got the floor.
Okay, so the brunch is... Explain who you are.
Okay, so I'm a retired military.
I'm a...
former chef at the Pentagon.
For big
time people.
For William Perry and William Cohen, the two secretaries at Defense like I worked for.
During the Bill Clinton time, so I was in my 20s.
Before the internet, every time I'd get on CNN, whatever.
call my mom hey I'm on the
see
me on the news
you didn't stream it to her
yeah after 9 11 I deployed four times retired 2012 where were you when you deployed so I was in Saudi Arabia right after 9 11 I was 60 miles from the Iraq border in Kuwait I was in Qatar
And the UAE, so I got to do that indoor skiing in the desert.
You did that, didn't you?
No, I didn't do the skiing.
I've been to those
places.
I did golf at the Abu Dhabi golf course.
No kidding.
Wow.
That's cool.
So that was one of my big things.
I wanted to go jet skiing in Persian Gulf and gulfing.
So
after the third time, I actually got to do that.
We landed in the Persian Gulf on the USS Eisenhower.
That was unbelievable.
That's unbelievable.
It's when you take off, it's like slingshot.
It's
like,
man.
And you get off over the water.
It's the hottest place I've ever been.
And there's by I don't know where I was Aliah Salim or one of the play over there.
Oh, yeah, Salim.
Yeah, yeah, Salim.
Yeah, the huge people where is the humid it when you have humidity over there?
It's I'm like I was in New Orleans, you know, I'm very spending and I was like, how could you possibly like even golf or much less put on pads and play football in this kind of heat?
How did you guys handle that heat?
Oh, when you like air conditioning everywhere, right?
I'm fortunate.
I was when I was in Kuwait
I'm a store manager, so I sat in the freezer and counted MREs.
Wow.
That's
a good gig.
Because people don't even, like all my Vietnam vets that I'm interviewing, they said, it's like, well, Vietnam, scary place.
But they said, the biggest thing they had overcome was when they were first there and they experienced that heat.
It's like, how do you live?
When you walk out
the door, it hits you like a...
like
an
oven.
And if you never see sand again,
you'd be okay.
If you look out over the past the concertine wires and stuff, it's nothing but
sand.
So you parlayed your chef experience into what you're doing now.
You also cooked for at least a cheeseburger for Colin Powell.
Yep.
So General Colin Powell was retired.
So he had a consulting gig.
for the secretaries that I worked for.
Every day, he'd be walking through with a suit and out of the corner of your eye, I'm like, you're just seeing famous people all day long.
Well, they got to eat, right?
And it came to you.
All right, so tell us about where you're at right now.
Tell them where you're from here.
Right, so I'm from O'Connell Falls.
And in my contest, I just got into O'Connell Falls chat, so anybody out in O'Connell Falls, there's a link right there.
Click on it and vote.
Nice.
So I'm trying to get, today's the last day of quarterfinals, so I'm trying to catch up.
Okay.
I've gotten down.
The first round there, I was first place all the way through.
This round I'm I shrink down to 6th and I'm climbing back up to today.
I'm gonna be honest with you Tom I've tried a couple of times and and had trouble Oh clicking on it.
Clicking into a
thing
Yeah, so, um, click on the picture and it comes up to the vote.
Okay.
Um, sort of voting mechanism there.
I'm only advocating just the free votes.
I want to win on the free votes, but
this is, this is your pay for extra.
So
yesterday I paid quite a bit of money to
say what's behind it.
What you went first.
This is for the James Beard, which he
of scholarships to culinary students.
So he's trying to promote like Martha Stewart.
He's the old fashioned Martha Stewart.
So the prize money is $25,000.
I'm
not
taking a penny of that.
I work for the Wabino School District and this is for scholarship monies.
So every penny that I would win on this is gonna go to
scholarship.
But the student would have an interest in culinary field.
So is it for college or is it for programs right while they're in high
school?
No, this would be just for college.
So graduating senior for the next five years, we get $5,000.
Wow.
You know, it's kind of cool to have that.
Jim and I were talking about this for the show because we're big advocates of tech schools.
OK, and trade.
And there's a graph.
I wanted to print it, but I didn't know how.
But anyway.
Same reason
can't
vote
it was high schools now when they you know when they have these And then there's always been problems millage yada yada yada a lot of that money now with a lot of those things are going into Upgrading their tech schools at the high schools and these kids are literally walking to hundred thousand dollar jobs But the other one Jim this is what I wanted to bring up the other part when they do these things is the cult cool in their colony the
They're upgrading that because so many kids are looking at that now as a career.
And that's one of the new things they're really upgrading with high school.
We had one student go to the Culinary Institute of America.
She's probably finishing it now.
It's a two-year program out of Wabino.
I mean, it used to be home acting.
But now they're taking this real serious.
And there's an event coming up at the Rush Center.
I don't know if you're familiar with that.
I forgot the name of it, but I'm judging for the... And these kids that are...
And I'm the judge for the youngest kids, but it's like 8 to 12.
That's pretty cool to be into it at that young age.
And then they have all these seniors and adults.
But Bill Jarts is one of the judges.
And the interest that they have, they couldn't believe how many people.
This is only the second year.
They
couldn't
believe the interest they have in a culinary program.
And that's something else.
It's fun, but you can be creative.
But
you
also make a little money, too.
It's a career.
It's
a good career.
Absolutely.
Especially
if you get to the resort that you can ski for free.
You know what I
mean?
Like if
you get in Colorado or down at
Hildon.
I'm so old.
I'm so old.
I remember a home ec teacher and started this one.
Girls, this is the most important class you'll ever have in your entire life, because this is going to make your husband's half.
Oh, wow.
Can you imagine
that?
Not at all.
Wow.
My senior year, it took
the whole Mac class
because I needed an elective.
A year and a half after taking the elective, I was cooking for the president.
Shut
up.
That's pretty cool.
Your career is pretty amazing.
I mean, you're obviously very talented.
You were at the right place at the right time.
Right place at the right time.
So I was supposed to go to Turkey.
They canceled those orders when I was 18 years old.
I got to Langley Air Force Base, which is Air Combat Command headquarters.
Um, airmen of the year, I got to fly an F-15.
Um, and then, uh, so that's them incentive flights and stuff they give you.
Okay.
Hey, Dan, Rick, if you're listening, um, the thing about letting me drive a tractor, yeah, you just got, you just got beat out by a guy that flies an F-15 and might find a way for me to fly an F-15.
Think about
that.
F-35s don't in the one 15 in
Madison.
Yeah, and that too, Dan.
Sitting in the back seat, they offered me a second incentive flight, uh, when I was in Madison.
And I found out I was too heavy.
Really?
Yeah.
So the ejector seats only push up 212 pounds.
And that's what the command chief told me.
He's like, if you want to lose that 12 pounds, Tom, I'm like.
I've been on one.
I'm not going to lose the weight.
John, could you fly
in there?
That's good incentive.
Get on the treadmill.
I could have flew out of Madison.
I was the NCO of the year down there.
I got to be honest with you.
That seems like one of the scariest things in the world is to be ejected when you go to like 200, 300 miles.
I don't know how fast those things go.
Actually, I thought that was a joke.
I'm like, I never heard of an F-15 crash, but I think Madison had two.
So there's the reason
one of the most surreal things I've ever experienced in my life was a couple of years ago.
Let me go on one of those things.
Well, they did.
It's like a media thing.
You've probably done it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like you go on these tanker and we went up to like Duluth.
Yeah, that's cool.
And the whatever came up next to us to get refueled.
Yep.
And they're going, what, 500 miles an hour?
I don't even know.
And it's like, like Todd, right there.
You can see them.
Yeah.
They're sitting right there and there's a pilot.
Yeah.
Right on the other side of that glass going.
Or five hundred miles an hour refuel like that and then he'll salute That's cool
if you're flying one of them and you got two F-15s coming up beside you.
Yeah.
Wow.
Hey, you
know,
I gotta tell you something I watch the other night on 9 11, okay on bush where he was with he was in Sarasota, Florida with that
little school, and they're reading, okay, and when they whispered to them and everything, and their whole thing was, sir, we must get you in the air, we must get you in the air, we must get you in the air.
So they took to the air, and they're coming out with things that were disclosed for a while, and they said, there's F-15s, I think there were four of them flanking them, and they flew over the Gulf of Mexico to get out, okay, and the missionals, F-15s, was if any surface-to-air missiles came up, whatever, they wouldn't shoot it down,
They would get in and they would take the brunt of it.
It was a suicide mission for those guys when they went up.
They were going to block it.
Yeah,
they were going to block it.
They were going
to take the missile.
Wow.
I know they went up really high.
And I just did.
They're out there.
I know they
changed the special break.
What are you doing?
I would take a bullet for them.
I
don't know.
I would have
flown higher, but I don't know that I was.
Oh, my God.
He missed me.
That'd be me.
Stick around, Tom.
Talking about quarterfinals, taste of home's favorite chef.
And it's all to help young people who want to get into this fantastic profession.
Back right after
this.
You just
let that
play
I remember
watching a basketball game Marquette against the University of West Virginia Okay, and Marquette won and the coach was buzz was in buzz buzz buzz.
No
Buzz, whatever.
He was the head coach at Marquette.
Did a great.
Buzz Williams.
And, um, so the game was over and he's walking over to do the post game show to the radio guys.
Like, okay.
And he's walked across and at the end of every West Virginia game, they play this song.
That's like, they're okay.
And he's walking across the thing and he's like right by the logo and he starts dancing.
Oh my gosh.
They had to break away from the post game show because the people were.
Swearing
it.
They wanted to kill him for dancing on the logo of that song.
They take that song real serious.
I can see that.
We got some more entries for our Minor the Mayor bingo card.
This is from Tori.
That might be
me.
That's good Tori.
Another one.
Tina says quads and
thighs.
That's going to be the first one called.
Another one from Alex.
Negani.
Absolutely.
This is Dan Brick.
I will give Mino a tractor if I could.
have a ride in the F-15.
This is to you, Don.
That's a good deal.
Dennis, they'll give you a tractor to ride if you can get a ride in F-15.
This is so fun, man.
That's a good deal.
Love it.
Great.
So we're at Tom's Square, Jim.
Advanced to the quarter finals of Taste of Home's favorite chef.
And again, he's not doing this for himself or Gloria or anything like that.
He's trying to earn some scholarship money for kids from the O'Connell Falls area,
right?
Wabino.
Wabino school district.
And you work there?
Yeah, I'm a nutritionist at the Wabino school
district.
with your background, you've won this before, you need to win it again.
And all the money goes to help these kids when they get out of high school to go into a culinary field.
It's just a college scholarship to the seniors.
Oh, all right.
You would probably lean.
Oh, absolutely.
All the military stories I tell, I'm like, that's probably the best career you could go
into.
Well, that's
great.
That is a great career.
Although, I will say, there's pressure on that too,
isn't there?
Oh, yeah.
I
mean, the brass.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it's sometimes it's not what you cook.
It's who you cook for.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they may not give you the advance notice that you would like.
Right.
Those
guys parachute in from anywhere,
you know?
Yeah, that's true.
So.
Did Bill Clinton really like peanut butter sandwiches and things like
that?
Didn't he like everything?
Well, they had, they, they, when he came into, because they had a special meal with Secretary Cohen, when he came in, there was so many people that were watching what you were doing.
Yeah, you don't deviate from anything.
People were watching you prepare it.
People watched you bring it up there.
People watched you plate it.
They don't want you slipping anything in there.
So it's secret service and two.
So if they are in the Pentagon when they have contractors come in like electricians and stuff, I had a secret service guy outside our kitchen sitting in the ceiling watching an electrician do his job.
Wow three days straight ten-hour days and and we knew this guy.
He was around us all the time That's his whole job.
He's just sitting in the ceiling with this electrician.
Okay, you gotta do you gotta tell the story about Dick Cheney.
Oh, yeah, so when I was in when I my first deploy or my second deployment to The UAE so we were outside of Dubai Dick Cheney was there with the Air Force to I guess is what you call it his aircraft was parked out on
tarmac, and I was a flight line dining facility manager.
And so we were we were taking care of the flight line people.
And so the chief Siromsky was the chief of the flight line was taking us for a tour and we got to go underneath Air Force One and
We got to do a lot of stuff except for we didn't get access to it.
Sure.
Because they didn't secure the equipment in there.
So like everybody else was asking for like postcards or something off of Air Force One.
I wanted the presidential M&M's.
Right.
And he came back, Sergeant.
Sorry, Sergeant, we can't do that.
Dick Cheney has a heart condition.
And there's no M&M's on the play.
Guys, the VP doesn't have the discipline.
Take it away.
Take it away.
So
yeah, that's cool.
All right.
So what is this contest?
When can we vote?
How can we vote?
So I have, I think the best way to vote is to probably get onto your website.
Okay.
And hopefully
we can- Todd, can you jump in here, buddies?
Yep.
I'll put it on our blog page.
So go to www.gbw.fm or wyss.fm.
Click on mine on the mayor.
Look at this hour's notes.
We'll put it right in there for you.
So there'll be a link on there.
I'm promoting, I want to win with just free votes.
And I've gotten this far with just free votes.
You can vote once every 24 hours, but they do have a link that you can donate money.
This is a fundraiser for the James Beard.
So you can vote, but when you vote and you pay for and you donate money, every dollar that you donate to the James Beard is a vote for me.
credit cards they take.
It's just very easy to do.
Very easy to do.
You'll be done in like three minutes and a votes will register for me.
Voting for the quarter finals ends tonight at nine o'clock.
Okay.
We're on it.
Please help us out.
And again, nobody's making any money.
Nobody's making a dime on this.
It's all going to help kids for scholarships in the Wabino School District.
Wabino School District and also for the James Beard Foundation.
So it's a win-win for both foundations.
Tell me, I think I asked you last.
Who's James Beard?
James Beard was, he would be like the first month of Stuart.
So like in the early early early guy or whatever.
So he would be before the food network was there.
That was James Beard.
Is he still around?
No, no.
That's cool.
I guess so.
All the money that he had, he created a foundation to help culinary arts and to promote it.
And again, like the Homex teacher told the girls in 1972, this is such an important class because it'll make your husbands happy.
Oh man, get her back.
I'm sure I'll get a couple emails.
This is cool
stuff, Todd.
And do you tell kids some of your military stories?
Yeah.
Well, the nice thing about, so my family's heard this for years and years and years.
Nice thing about I do summer school.
So I teach a class in summer school as well, as well as feeding them.
Every year I get new students.
So it's the first time they've ever heard of these students.
We got 30
seconds.
One more thing.
Pump your
brunch.
Oh, pine hills.
I also work at a golf course.
Yeah.
Pine Hills in Gresham or Bowler.
Every Sunday, there's a brunch from 10 until 2.
What do you have?
Everything.
Prime Rib, I'm the guy out front making omelets, sharing my military stories.
Love it!
Tom, how do we vote?
Go to the website and click on the link.
Super Media.
Beautiful.
Mine on the Mirror
and... Always fun having you here, Tom.
Thanks, Tom.
Best of luck.
Thank you.
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against
you
win.
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Hey, welcome back.
Back in mind of the mayor, great guest we've had so far today, Dan Brick from Brickstead Farms.
We've got the breakfast on the farm coming up on Sunday, June 1st, eight until noon.
But there's a church service, which is really cool at seven in the barn.
And it's
rain or
shine, or in the tent, yeah.
Wayside dairy, 7937 Stone Road, Greenleaf.
Please get out there, support this, support our dairy farmers.
They are the salt of the earth.
And ironically, we've got two guys here that grew up on dairy farms.
These
guys
don't know what a dairy farm
is.
No, I'm sure you do.
I'm sure you do.
Hey, I go to the farm.
It's cool.
I'm serving.
John's going to drive a tractor.
I'm going to be serving breakfast.
Jesse Lynn in the area of Perez with the Green Bay Presquizette and these poor guys.
Todd.
What's up?
It's so wonderful to get up early, come in, whatever.
And first of all, Jim puts on his political cap and starts
getting out of it.
It was offline.
It was offline.
I think it was more like social.
Right.
It was conversation-related.
You know what story
you guys need to do?
Okay,
well, Jeremy, that one I'm talking about, I think would be a great story.
There were prisoner of war camps in Northeast Wisconsin, and they brought over German prisoners.
Okay, German troops, Nazi troops during World War II.
Okay, and they brought him over here to work on the farms in this area But one of the problems they had is and like Dan said was it 1848?
Yeah, his family goes through from Ireland.
Okay, so you have these farms that were Germans okay heritage and They treated these guys like they were bringing them food and pies and wanting to socialize the ladies and yada
yada
yada
that they had to, I talked to one guy, they had a, they used to have like a dance for the, and they had to shut those things down.
Cause so many, they just, and they were, you know, and the thing is these weren't SS Nazis.
These were conscripts.
These were 19 year old kids who were drafted and didn't want to, you know, whatever, whatever.
And
they loved it over here.
They fought to stay in Northeast Wisconsin.
They didn't want to go back to Germany.
But what the government did then is they got, they like obliterated,
where the things were.
And I think that'd be a great story.
That's just a pending question.
Everywhere I go they ask about
that.
Hey, could you guys look away while I punch him?
So, could you look into that, Jeremy?
Well, that looks, that sounds really
interesting.
How did you find out about this, though?
I'm a historian.
Yeah, I was gonna say, you read a book and it was... I'm a
historian, okay?
Ariel?
Wow, okay.
Wow.
So, what are you working on?
I love reading your stuff.
I mean I get the paper every day a lot of people do
it's interesting stuff you
guys
get your figure out two young guys to come into this area and Get so acclimated and what's going on over around here is really cool
to me I think it's like the old days.
I see who wrote it.
Yeah, you're like the sports guy.
We have on yeah
Sports good.
We have on all time.
Yeah, it's caught.
No, it's got Ben see Ben see.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's a great writer as well.
So anyway, what are you working on?
You go first.
You're
putting
me
on this
spot.
Well, there's stuff about homelessness in the area.
That's also always a big problem that I hear about people talking about or that are concerned.
Speeding.
Oh,
thank you.
I live right upstairs here.
You can't at night.
You have to close your windows.
It's it's it reminds me of Wisconsin International Raceway at the drag strips.
They'll go up and down on Walnut here.
They'll drag race like you can't and so loud and they're going like 105.
I don't know how it's unbelievable.
You should know what you should do under a good story.
I'm tell you some go to Metro.
The apartment complex okay, and go up to one of the upstairs there and sit there with a camera or something And or if you can get a speed gun like a baseball speed gun and see the noise and the in the speed factor you'll be shocked from 7 till 9 Wow
police would do how about noise pollution?
I think this city has gotten so loud I mean if you're in the mayor this afternoon as a matter of fact for the show on Sunday, and that's on my list is
We used to, back in the day, go up with the, what is it, 80 decibels?
I forgot where our law is.
And they would test it.
And it's not a lot of people, but it's a lot of the same people that's very annoying.
And it's loud.
I mean, I'm not just talking
about motorcycle racing.
It's
unbelievable.
And then on Monroe, down here, and it's just in your face.
It's like someone driving by your front yard, just throwing trash on there.
It's just so disrespectful.
We don't do anything in this city.
This is a loud loud city.
It is.
Yes,
it is.
I just every time I come by it's so quiet
Yeah, maybe it's the time of day.
I was gonna say
you know a couple guys from actual cities
I
was
gonna say that but
I you know,
we're
okay
Just so
you
guys know who you're talking to you're talking those two guys from the Muppet show up in the balcony That's who
we
are just so you know that going into it, okay?
You guys seem like you love do you love it?
So
you guys you guys can sit here and say oh, yeah, you and you guys your walk of it.
Oh my god, are those two?
I mean I'm not talking about now.
I'm just
it sounds to me that Isn't there the cops aren't right there on Walnut?
They
don't they don't hear that I mean
They know they hear it you gotta be deaf to not hear you hear it.
It's just you don't act on it Okay, it's kind of I'll give you another example at the next break, but anyway
We are guys know that I've
heard a lot of things about speeding so that is something that
it is that's that's like a scary thing at times but if they're quiet
Yeah So I gotta ask you guys what's been your most fun story that you've done here the one you feel the best about
oh Most fun well the most fun stories are my reader columns.
I love writing those because you get you get more of my voice I think and you know, I there's more I Left to have fun with the writing
The most impactful story I would say was the story about the dad who waited two years for a four-way stop at the intersection of Eliza for his deaf and blind son.
I had a lot of conversations with him and got to know him a lot.
And I felt that that was one of the stories that I came here to do, to show people
side of you know it kind of shows the human side of
are you shocked at all because you're not jaded yet
I'm not jaded no okay no
are you surprised at all where you've got something where it's like well everybody would agree to this because it's common sense this is good for whatever
And people for whatever reason, they just want to go against it.
Almost like no matter what it is, they have to be a foil.
Are you surprised sometimes at that?
I'm not surprised.
No, no.
Maybe it's because I grew up seeing a lot of different things as a kid.
But I mean, it's understandable.
Are you talking about like... Well, that story.
Neighbors like wanting a stop sign.
And not wanting it.
You don't need a stop sign.
I don't care if the kids whatever it's like.
Well, a lot of the neighbors
in that case, they didn't want to stop signing.
I know they did,
but
other people, the ones that like, how could you not want this?
The ones that don't live there.
Yes, exactly.
But they just want to get their, you know, their voice heard somehow.
Where are you from originally, Jeremy?
Um, from, I mean, that's hard to say.
Virginia.
Okay.
Um, in the mountains of Virginia, um, is where I grew up for most of my childhood.
So, cool.
So, and then I kind of moved around to.
Kind of like the suburbs and then
Virginia
Maryland Maryland right across the border.
Where'd you go to college?
I went to Georgetown
I'll tell you what I spent one when we went to Walter Reed Hospital on time with the the wires We were out in the town of Georgetown the city of Georgetown That'd be such a cool place to go to school.
Yeah
Yeah, it's like I love history personally.
So it was like really cool with being like, oh, wow, these buildings are so old.
What a cool area that is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And people are like, well, you have to like keep, you can't change anything about the neighborhood.
It
has to look that
way
because of like, you know, ordinances and rules.
Why can't they win?
Um.
There always has to be winners and looters.
I know but with George Thompson what they had it was or John Tom It was like amazing and you think that's gonna be one of those basketball programs That's just a heritage program.
They're all like a duke and it's like man.
I mean they changed their coach I think right when I was graduating.
Okay,
doesn't seem like
yeah
things have changed though I don't know maybe we're maybe we're cursed
but Hoya paranoia.
Yeah, that used to be great man.
Yeah, awesome Ariel.
Yeah
Let's talk a little bit.
I promise you, I'm not going to throw a bunch of Cuban baseball players and athletes at you like I've done in the past.
I swear.
Okay.
Although Theofaldo Stevenson is still the best heavyweight boxer in my lifetime I've ever seen.
And that's terrible that Castro wouldn't let him fight outside
of Cuba.
I'm like my grandpa.
I'm a fan of Rocky Marciano.
Really?
Because
that was okay.
Okay.
I'll tell you a quick story.
Let me tell you a quick story.
My family, my grandfather, who was right from Italy, came over here from Italy.
from the same village was Primo-Carnera.
Nice.
Primo-Carnera.
Heavyweight boxer.
I've never heard of him, but okay.
I'm with Jim.
I've never heard of him.
This happens every day.
You gotta see Cinderella Man.
You gotta see Cinderella Man.
Yes!
You haven't seen that movie?
No, Russell Crow.
Thank you, which is a great movie.
It's a great movie.
It's a wonderful movie.
Wonderful movie.
So the
bad
guy in the movie.
Got me crying and everything.
Yes, the bad guy.
OK, so Primo Carnera fought Max Bear.
Yeah.
OK.
So Max Bear, and he was like the villain in this movie.
His
family, his son, filed a lawsuit.
Yeah.
I
guess producers were the way they made their
dad look.
He was everybody.
But you know, Jethro from Beverly Hills was his dad.
Max Bear
Sr.
was
a
heavyweight boxer, fought Primo Carnera.
Almost killed him.
Well, I always bring the sport guy out.
Yeah.
You bring it out of him.
Yeah.
Oh, that's really difficult.
What a challenge.
Jesse Leighton,
Ariel Perez, Green Bay Prescott said, OK, I got my
spiel out.
You guys can have a real talk show now.
Go ahead.
How about you?
What are you working
on here?
Well, I've been working on several things, mainly the cell come out this week.
But where are we at with that?
Here we go.
You want to interview us at the break?
Yeah.
Talk to us, brother.
What's going on?
Well, I.
got a message from my editor just a couple minutes ago and he said that he could make calls so there might be an update coming later today
but he can't you know that that was said a day ago you can make calls
no no but now I think some people
can and some people can't it's my point
yeah I think he meant that he could make calls to other
providers.
Yeah.
Oh, that's a big step then.
That's a step.
So, so I don't know.
There might be an update coming.
So as soon as get out of here, I got an interview with the, isn't
it crazy?
I mean, with the media, you know, and I go back so far, like in journalism school, one of the things was you must always carry dimes with you to get to a pay phone.
Okay.
It's true.
Okay.
But now, like, even like, I'm trying to get ahold of my doctor this week for a thing I get.
and I can't get through it anybody.
You forget without landlines.
Oh my God, we are
so dependent.
I talked to a person that he was in Montana and he said, well, I'm from Searing, Wisconsin and I was on the way to Montana to see my father-in-law who's 98 and all of a sudden we can't call him.
We have no phone, no communication and he's an old guy.
He gets worried.
We always tell him where we are.
were we coming so it was like it was a horrible trip of course he didn't blame the company or anything he said I've been 15 year old customer but it was horrible you know the feeling of not being able to communicate yeah
we got
Laughed at because we still have a landline
who's
laughing now Anyway, yeah, this is you can learn from this to how much we rely on a piece of equipment like that And then it's gonna be interesting to see when this comes out What really happened because could it happen to another industry that we rely on to
you know what I mean?
Yep, we got two phenomenal guests here We've had a great lineup today Jesse then aerial press Green Bay press gives that back with oh we have another bingo card entry
This would be from Todd.
Minos spilled his coffee again.
Sparky.
Jesse Lane, area press.
Green Bay Press gives that stay with
us.
Here it is, Trucker Thursday.
We got some phenomenal guests.
We have Dan Brick from Brickstead Farms.
We'll talk more about that.
Breakfast on the farm.
Tom Swerge in Advanced Quarterfinals for Taste of Homes.
Favorite chef to help all kids with scholarships.
And now two of the best young writers you'll ever find.
Jesse Lin, Ariel Perez from the Green Bay, Perez Gazette.
And like I said, gentlemen, we always like to set the table by just talking about us first.
Now we're going to turn it over to you guys.
So yeah, let's ask it.
The table is
yours.
Between breaks.
The NFL draft you Biggest story in Green Bay for how
do you grade it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the good thing is that Jesse was inside and I was outside every
day,
so
we got both so we got both perspectives Yeah, exactly how things were It was such a party.
I'm not a football fan.
I'm not a football guy you in general my my friends are But once I got in there it was so fun
Yeah, I was I finally was convinced like oh, yeah, this is I could get behind this and you know, you know really excited about their teams and everything and you feel the energy right you could feel like
Moving into the crowd.
It was like running against a river because
that's what I was telling people that first night It was almost a little bit overwhelming because I'm
not a real
tall guy.
Yeah,
and my son is real tall I'm like Dom where's the so I couldn't see it's like you're
in the water, you know what I called it I was moving because I was covering the outsides Right and I was moving from the south side of Lambo to the north side to go to kind of like onida Street there and and when I got out
from the entry the the one first entry and I was with my phone taking photos and then I see the the sea of people coming and I'm like wait this is this and then and I I stood there and I recorded a short video but that more people could come like a
tidal wave type
of so I I communicated to the to the shadow or group shot and said hey there's a lot of people going in now yeah and then like 10 minutes later it was like no
The
entry is closed.
Yeah, they closed
out.
That's cool.
I wonder where they came from though.
Well, that's okay.
That's the thing that we talked about,
okay?
They
were coming down the Lombardi
Avenue,
yeah.
Yeah, but that's the thing is first where they originally, okay, that was in retrospect.
When you look back, we thought this could be a big tourist thing.
The people that come to an NFL draft want to do one thing.
They want to see who their team drafts.
They
don't care about the restaurants.
They don't care about the tourist sites.
They are hard.
core football draft nicks.
Wouldn't
you guys agree with that?
I think so from what I saw.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I also think that they stayed in the fun
areas.
You know what?
In retrospect, they didn't need to go anywhere.
Everything you wanted was
pretty
much there.
They didn't leave that.
And it was a big footprint.
I'll give
them
that.
There was a lot to do, but not only
food and drink and the event, but the extracurricular things, you know, the Heisman Trophy, and I'm not sure I read that I was all going to be there.
So that was a cool way to kill time versus coming down here and going to Hagemeister, which I wish people, more people would have done that.
But anyway, I think if you talk to the people outside the perimeter, it wasn't what they expected.
But
if you go to a Super Bowl...
99% of everything is outlying areas and it's a social event and people go to party.
This was a hardcore where draft people, they had their notebooks, they had their magazines, other analysis type things.
These were hardcore people.
I also think like we were, we did read about how it went in Detroit the previous year and it was a similar experience for businesses there.
Our team in Milwaukee said the same thing about the
the Republican convention.
Oh, yeah.
Many people, many businesses in downtown didn't really see.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because everybody stayed.
Because
the Super Bowl is a social event.
That's entertainment the whole up until the game.
There's nothing about the game itself, the teams.
It's all fun and parties and things like that.
I'm not sure that was the draft isn't that way.
No, no.
But anyway, I'm not sure that was conveyed that outside the fence isn't isn't a good place to be I'm
not sure we didn't know it though.
He said we did
He sees
that we like our colleague Jeff Bolier wrote about why he's great Yeah, and he mentioned that in Detroit, you know the the outside the downtown areas outside from where the draft was Didn't see a big influx of people
Going to businesses or although I will say this
I still live outside of Detroit if you don't know Detroit you're so you hear all these such horror stories That I'm not sure anybody would like I mean, okay, we're gonna go from ash wobbling on the downtown Green Bay.
I don't think anybody's thinking are we safe Detroit there's so many horror
stories that if you're not from there, you don't
realize
that's that's a
really
yeah, but there was a lot of oh so there was a lot of activity outside of the stadium like you know the bars yeah the big
Bars and sport bars.
Yeah, the stadium district.
Yeah, and they had concerts and bands Wander far away to enjoy
it.
Mm-hmm.
They were packed every day.
Yeah.
Yeah, they were our good friend Dennis from the glam band comes in and he did a couple of shows there It
was
and Nick cheese curd Nick who does the cheese curds and it's just the cheese.
Did you go down last
night?
No, it was raining,
but they still held it right farmers market.
Yeah, she's good.
Do you know I was gonna go I would be a web.
No, I don't know.
Oh my god Okay, okay
cheese curd nick okay he runs the first fried cheese curd stand i think in the state of wisconsin's ever it's so popular you can't believe it all
right there's a line going
yes okay yes you got to get to know cheese curd nick
a couple things about him um when we first met uh 20 years ago was confrontational because he was selling hot dogs downtown
he didn't have the
permits
We increased the permits, but he stayed.
We
didn't slip enough under the table to
get
his
permit.
And then he came to the council meeting to defend his thing.
And he goes, look, I make a living off selling to drunks.
That's not what the mayor wants to hear about
us downtown.
But then
I have so much respect for him.
He has a business plan.
I mean, this guy's a one man entrepreneur.
He hires people for big events.
Everything's
on his
scratch.
Everything's on his phone.
costs, like things that some businesses don't do.
And when he predicted, draft wise was right exactly.
He's spot on.
I'm going to have him speak in one of my classes.
He's just a very good entrepreneur that, but it's pretty internal.
Yeah.
He's
got the business mind.
He does.
That guy could be sitting in some corporate office, but he fishes all the time.
He's got a lot.
Every spare day, he's fishes.
Yeah, he's fishing.
Got a thing here.
Great guest today.
Very informative and entertaining.
Thank you, Ted.
We're just in an aerial press, Green Bay Press Gazette.
We guys set up to a heartbreak here.
We got Andrew Parks coming in.
Brown County Civic Music Association.
But can you guys stick around?
I can't stay here for a little longer, yeah?
I have to take care of my dog.
There you go.
Are you serious?
I have to take care of my greyhound.
You can't stick around
a little bit.
I'm so sorry.
We're just getting started.
You got a greyhound?
Yeah.
Was
it a rescue?
Yes.
Yes, X-Racing Greyhound.
He's three years old.
His name is Kyle.
Coming
to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
You know, we got that text from Ted.
Man, you got great guests going today.
And that's the truth.
Nice job, Todd.
Just great job.
Dan Brick, Brickstead Farms talking about Brown County breakfast on the farm coming up on Sunday, June 1st.
We'll talk about that right up until that day.
Tom Swerge and advancing to the quarterfinals for the Taste of Homes, favorite chef, please get on the website.
Todd, they can do it through us,
right?
They can go to our websites, okay?
And then click on mine on the mayor.
When that blog comes up for that segment today, we'll have the link right in there.
And that'll also be on our Facebook pages.
And nobody's making a dime off this.
It all goes to college scholarships for the kids at Wabino High School.
Jesse Lin and Ariel Perez, Green Bay Prescosette, two of them.
greatest young writers you'll find.
And now Andrew Parks, Brown County Civic Music Association, a money wins concert coming up.
And I know nothing about a money wins.
All right, I can tell you a little bit about
them.
Ariel, do you know about?
No, no, I'm having breakfast right now.
Emani wins.
OK, so they are a wind quintet.
OK.
And here's a question, trivia question for you.
How many people in a wind quintet?
Well, I know.
Seven.
OK, very good.
Is it?
No.
Oh,
five.
Five.
I'm so excited for a
minute.
Oh, I tried.
I tried.
Yeah.
So the wind quintet is flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn.
Right.
And so you've got a lot of very different.
different kinds of sounds coming out of there, so it's a really interesting group to listen to.
Imani wins us from New York City.
They have a very interesting program coming up.
I don't have the exact set list from them, but they always put on a really interesting show.
But Imani does, besides play, they educate a little bit.
I mean, that's an interactive...
Concert right that right.
I wish more people would do that because you think you know things and you listen to It's it's it's it's great to learn a little bit something
so the other that's gonna be good right and one of the things about them is that they are one of their missions is to support under
Rated and under what's the word?
Privileged
or privileged?
Well, yeah, yeah that too Composers and music the stuff that you don't hear all the time
right
the representative was the word
okay?
Yeah,
so African-American Indian that kind of thing
women composers.
How long is the concert?
Probably be about an hour and a half to two hours.
Yeah, it's classical music
classical.
Yeah, but
They do a lot of their own arrangements and compositions, so it'll be not your typical... Put you to sleep stuff.
Yeah, right.
They're pretty good.
Oh, they're excellent.
Yeah, they've won Grammys and they're just, they're great.
You know what's pretty exciting?
We have Ace Champion.
come in on a fairly regular basis.
Okay.
And he'll bring in an instrument and goes, well, this is from 10,000 years ago.
And it's like the history of these kinds of things is amazing.
Isn't it?
You know the backstory?
Yeah, absolutely.
Yep.
Yep.
So where are they performing?
Ashwabadan, P-A-C.
So if
you've never been there, it's a really beautiful auditorium.
It is, 900 seats.
Yeah.
Numerous guests over the last six months, and that's where they're, and they all rave about that
point.
Was they
rave about
it?
Yeah, important question.
Is it gratis?
Next
question.
Sorry about that.
He's like Drew Rosenhaus.
I saw him the other night.
He talked about one of the Sanders kids that are playing and somebody asked him next question.
Next question.
That's what you just pulled off right there, Andrew.
No, you could go on the Brown County Civic Music website, which is bc for Brown County civic music dot org.
You can get tickets there.
You can get them at the door.
I think the prices I well, I'll tell you right now, they're $50 for adults, 43 for seniors.
for students K through 12.
And where are they from?
Where do they come from?
New York City.
Yeah, yeah.
So what are you guys working on?
bring concerts to our community, unique things.
And one thing I just want to point out is that we often get confused with the Civic Symphony at Green Bay, of which I am also a very proud number.
And so, I mean, you can understand why.
Civic Music, Brown County Civic Music, Civic Symphony.
And we're actually working on that.
We're trying to, we have a big announcement today later at 430 at the Widener.
Announcement and reception and
I can't really say anything more about it than
that.
Let's put it on.
The Civic Music, Brown County Civic Music.
Okay,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
When you came in, you talked about this huge announcement that was going to be heard only on mind when the mayor and now are your back.
Thank you, Todd.
Back her up, back her up, back her up.
Come on, back her up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you're not, are you going with, let's see, CMA?
Let's just say that we're working on the whole name thing.
The identity.
The
identity, there may be a bit of rebranding going on.
We're also going to announce our next season, so.
I just want to say that I think that's why you're looking at that first bank, you know, and I don't know.
And I like one of them and it's like, you guys, let's clean this up now.
We're going to be around for the next.
We've been
around 100 years, so we're planning in the next 100 years.
We're already planning our 100th anniversary season, which I believe is not next season, but the
following.
So you want to tell us anything that's coming up in terms of the symphonies or besides the name besides the press
conference?
No, no, I yeah, that's that's the press conference.
So like I say, we'll be announcing our next year's season and
I
can't I'm not supposed to say they gave me a shot caller.
So if I started to talk too much
Todd threatened to do that to me.
Yeah, I'm shocked to you.
It doesn't work.
It doesn't help.
Yeah, just like my dog.
So
let's talk about the symphony then.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, you guys are very
active.
We have another we have a concert coming up.
It's really going to be an interesting one.
And I
was going to look up the date and I forgot to do that before
I
came here.
But if, yeah, so it's, it's all, um, uh, video game music.
So yeah, I know, I know, I know.
Okay.
Yeah.
It sounds kind of crazy, but, um, believe it or not, it's among a certain population.
It's very, uh, very important, very, um, interesting.
I don't know.
That would be fun for those.
people sitting there and they will visualize the game.
I will not see anything there because I'm not a video guy, but that's that's good idea.
You're doing that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, we're trying to we're trying to reach out to different, right?
Different,
different.
You're fairly new to the area.
I mean, fairly.
What do you think of the like the music scene and the entertainment scene and things like that around here?
Um, well,
I used to be big on clubbing a few years back.
Yeah, we all were.
And I think, um,
That's something that is lacking in Green Bay, I would say, for the young population or the younger population.
You know, there's bars for sure, but there's no clubs where you can music.
I mean, I've heard of some from the Latino people.
You know, there's one called the Cave or La Cueva in Spanish.
OK.
But there's a lot of Hispanics that go there.
I've never been there.
I
don't even know where it is, but I've heard of it.
Okay, but I don't you know, I do I feel like now in this stage of my life I go I would enjoy more this kind of concerts I went to the candlelight one where they did that's that's awesome in The peer the peer.
Yeah, that was that was amazing took my wife there to hear Four seasons from Vivaldi.
You know, that's it was the front rows were sold out.
Yeah, I don't know how familiar you are with that but that uh, yeah, that's that's a great
Yeah,
it was beautiful to hear the violins.
They're, you know, live because, you know, I listen to classical music every now and then and it was great experience.
So, you know, I would love to see, you know, or go to the this type of concerts because I think
it's
a great experience to it's so different to hear the.
the instrument live.
It's such an amazing experience.
I've heard the
Ashwabana thing is great for acoustics, right?
Wonderful.
Absolutely wonderful.
And it's nice, like the poopy I've come in, but when you explain some things to us as well, you know, we're out in the audience and I like that.
And you conductors are
doing that more, you got a little
bit more of a sense of humor than I think.
It could be is right, but yeah, that could be a fun experience date night or you can bring the family to that too.
That's pretty stuff.
Yeah, well, especially the video game thing, you know,
that's
gonna be a
younger set is gonna enjoy that.
Yeah, I wonder what what what songs are they gonna play
from
Mario a lot of Mario Yeah,
and all the other ones.
I'm not a gamer.
So I
really don't know
but all these titles and there's
Zankadar.
Would you like to hear area?
Well, I don't know, you know
I used to play a lot, like the world of Warcraft like ten years ago.
It's
only two notes, so you're gonna play Pong.
It's kind of boring you guys, I thought I'd see a little bit more in that.
No, there's
some great music in those videos.
Well, I have a friend in Finland that leaves, you know, he makes music for a video company.
That's his life.
Where is he from?
Well, he's from the Dominican Republic, but he lives in Helsinki, Finland.
Todd?
We have a
listener.
Yes.
Tell
Ariel about our listeners in Finland.
Oh, you got?
Oh, we do.
It's called, I can't even remember what it's called, but basically AM signals can travel all over the place.
And if the atmosphere is right and it's the right time of day and all that kind of stuff, they picked up these two yahoo's one morning and wrote in to let us know.
Isn't
that great?
He might be listening to you right now.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Think about it.
But that's cool what you do with that, but there was another.
I think it was your concert where you just played like commercials, you know, and everybody knows that Rhapsody in Blue is United, but you know the stuff, the beef commercial, and you listen to the symphony, it's like, oh, wow.
They need strings to put on that commercial.
That's cool.
That's
very cool.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah,
anyway,
but you know another thing on to how is it is right?
So we got some great music programs in the high schools around here Okay, and and they're always look for more money and more whatever whatever But how is the homegrown town?
Obviously this group is from New York City So one or house a homegrown talent around here for things like this.
Excellent.
Excellent I mean you wouldn't believe how many orchestras there are around this area just community orchestras but really really good community orchestras that people local people play in and so it's
really a wonderful area.
An area, I would just say that we hear that often that there's just not enough venues.
Sometimes you got to look a little harder.
I think Tarle's trying.
You know, he's got a
couple, he's got three
places now.
And I think he's really trying to connect and it's hard.
I mean, that's a tough industry because you don't make a lot of money and he wants to get it where there's cover charges and people in Green Bay aren't crazy about cover charges.
So they got to find a way your ticket prices are appropriate, but.
It can be a little tough in this game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
You
gotta realize something or two.
I mean, like when I came here in the mid 80s, Green Bay was a bunch of stodgy old white men.
And I'm just going to say that and they were set in their ways.
They did the same way.
The stodgy old white men did it before them.
And that's why God, that's how Green Bay is going to be.
And now there's a whole different.
So I think we're still, we're not there yet.
But we got the tarot, you know, this young kid who's trying to put together this great venue.
And, you know, we got people like that now that are invested to make this a little different than what it was.
And to get the Latino music, a venue, they may have to step up and start a place.
But I think,
you know,
you're going to find the support from Greenbase pretty good about giving some economics, seed money.
And so.
But like Johnny says, we're evolving, but we're getting better.
I
do.
I think we're getting
better and better.
So anyway, yeah.
But
the talent is here.
They're
almost
looking
for an opportunity, right?
Absolutely.
And even though some of that stuff comes and goes, the symphony's always there.
They're like, 100 years, we're going to do what we do well.
Right.
Well,
good.
What do you think high school wise schools around here need?
Is there anything specific that, because everybody's doing fundraisers for different things, but what do you see?
How do you grow more talent in this area?
Well, I think.
Money doesn't hurt.
I hate to say, I mean, not a lot of the high schools have string programs for one thing.
Because
of money?
Because of money, yeah.
And the private ones
can be
pricey?
Yeah,
oh, very much, yeah.
And even some of the private ones don't have string programs.
But I think even a step before that is these kids need to be exposed to that.
Well, that's true.
And on everything.
Yeah, these parents don't really know we have a medical school here and these kids might want to do that and we had the engineering people in here your kids taking stuff apart Don't get mad at them.
This kid's got some engineering aptitude So I just think exposure to the strings to the symphony to the cello.
Those are cool instruments
Andrew Parks Brown County Civic Music Association and money wins concert coming up
Tuesday, May 27th at 7.30,
Ashwa Bonan, P-A-C.
Oh, Stan, how do they get tickets?
You can go to the website, browncounty-civic-music.org, or you can go to the Adar.
Oh, Stan.
Great.
Thanks for bringing us here.
Thanks so much for this.
All right, thank you guys.
It's awesome.
We'll be back with more of Memphis.
Hey, welcome back.
Mine of the Bear here on Trucker Thursday, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 FM.
WISS is where you'll catch the Milwaukee Brewers today.
Oh, no.
Are the Brewers on to the point today, Chad?
Oh, okay.
I got Baltimore Orioles versus Pittsburgh Pirates.
Oh, sorry.
I'll check
on that.
All right.
I was just checking in.
All right.
Um, birthday wise today, uh, Apollo Oh, no is 43.
Remember him?
The ice skater?
No.
Oh yeah.
He was cool.
Um, Allison Eastwood.
I don't know who that is.
Todd, I don't know.
I'm trying to get your other information.
Pay attention.
Okay.
Uh, Bernie Toppin is 75.
You know who that was?
That was the doctor from love book.
No, it wasn't.
No, you're thinking Bernie Coppell.
Oh, Bernie Toppin is the lyricist with Elton John.
He wrote all of the big songs Elton John did.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Was that the guy in the movie?
Fun fact, I don't know.
That was the guy that he, okay.
I didn't see the movie.
Yeah, I wouldn't have seen it, but during COVID, that's all we did was watch
movies.
So that's,
I saw that.
It was that one about the tigers and all that.
Oh, I hated that.
So did I.
Movie about the Tigers.
Yeah, that weird guy that had the Tiger Zoo.
Tiger
King, right?
Oh, yeah.
What does that have to do with Elton John?
Because what I said about, I watched the movie, the Elton John movie, and I was saying I watched that because it was COVID and I couldn't do anything else.
I'm going to be the movie guy.
He connected Lion King with the Tiger guy.
Right, right, right.
And then I said I watched that too.
So
I tried to connect.
Anyway, that
was what I saw.
Anyway, go ahead.
All right, you know, it's funny though.
Talk about COVID and we're all trying to lose it.
I got up to 247 pounds during COVID.
Yeah,
that's it.
Well, and I had my COVID-19, I couldn't go.
Okay.
Everybody gained 19 pounds.
It's, it's incredible how easy it is to put on weight.
It's so hard to lose.
It's so easy to put on weight.
It's like, what's wrong with somebody?
No, I'm not going to Ariel.
Don't
come in with these crazy ideas on how to lose weight.
Okay.
No, not into that.
Not crazy.
Look at what my dad did.
He had good breakfast, good lunch, and then a very, very light dinner.
Oh, really?
And he's six foot tall, and he lost.
He was on over 250s.
And now he's like 180 or something.
So
Dan was
the
one he... Well,
the thing is, I think it's that fasting, right?
Because he's not eating a lot, so he's not eating
a lot for a number of hours.
Well, that's true.
So by the time breakfast comes around the next day, he's done his
fast.
So I don't eat after 6 p.m.
and I don't eat again till after 10 a.m.
So I have all that time that I don't eat and I've lost a
ton of weight, too.
Yeah, you've lost that weight, yeah.
Yeah.
That's kind of ironic because I don't start eating heavy till after six o'clock.
And then you eat heavy all day.
Six till midnight.
So my fast is like three hours.
And if I
stopped eating at six, that'd be an early time to go to bed.
I know.
Absolutely.
It's like my
discipline.
It's kind of like I told you yesterday, think about, you know, I want to get into green tea.
Somebody had sent me that he's so healthy for you.
It's like I switch from my coffee to green tea every morning and 20 seconds into my first cup of green tea.
I've lost my will to live Hey, by the way, I've had Cuban coffee.
Yeah strong talk about
your metabolism going
huh?
Wow, is that all grown in Cuba?
Well, I I
Which brand?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I had it at some place.
You have
to try Cuban coffee.
We buy a Dominican coffee.
And it's actually from a friend of mine from high school.
And she and her husband started this coffee company into Dominican.
Around here?
No.
We order it.
Okay, it gets here.
We ordered five five.
I would love to try that sometime.
I'll bring you some okay.
Yeah, it's it's They have three kinds one is soft Okay, and other is kind of medium and then one that's strong which one you want I
know cuz I had that guy from Louisiana that time as coach for the Packers, okay, and and he gave me some Louisiana What was it Todd remember where Todd with Lisa about that chicory chicory?
Okay, what's the the main thing in it?
And it's like I'll bring you I bring you guys a bag and leave it phenomenal
If we like bring us the contact to
right because
we like it I'll order
that I love coffee.
I love
good coffee and coffee
Even domestic coffee is very expensive right now.
Well, this is important.
It's a little bit pricey.
But if you buy like we do like five bags, it's a little
cheaper.
That wasn't my point.
My point was
like, I don't mind spending money on coffee.
That's not my
point.
No, I just want to say that.
It's good.
Enough about you, Ariel.
I don't mind spending money.
I just want it to be good coffee.
Yeah, got it, got it.
Like it used to be, right?
You pay for the things as good.
And you pay maybe once.
Right, for the stuff I did.
Well, Ariel, it
was great having Jesse Lin on with you.
Green Bay Prescasette, two young reporters for the Prescasette are doing an amazing job around here.
You've been here long enough now to really get your Green Bay
rise.
Five years,
yeah.
Just give us your overall opinion on everything.
Well...
Not even as a journalist, just as a citizen.
As a citizen, you know, my views haven't changed a lot.
I fell in love with the city when I moved in here.
The people, I think everybody, for the most part, are very friendly and, you know, you can make conversation anywhere you go.
The traffic is great.
The lack of.
The lack of, yeah, right?
People drive.
Yeah, in a good way, you know, I don't I don't have any complaints.
I guess I think It's good that there's a lot of development happening I see it in the business side of my reporting Especially this year.
There's been all an explosion of new businesses and restaurants and stuff and that's oh that that always
Means that things are going but you know
another thing though, too There's still the potential like we're talking about taro and then the whole shipyard district I love that gritty kind of an area.
Yeah, where they
can turn that index,
you know what I mean?
So there's still room to grow, right?
Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of and and it's not just in the Green Bay area that I've seen Especially now, I you know, I'm working on some stories about in Howard and swami co
It's everywhere.
Bellevue,
the pier.
But there's some opportunities in Green Bay to bring
back a
historic district.
I mean, it's on the east side, you drive through there, you're like, OK, wow, this looks really bad.
But then you go to Baltimore, you go to some of the Detroit, you go to these other cities, Atlanta, where they renovated.
I think this could be one of the coolest areas in the county.
I think that's cool that there's opportunities for people.
We want it for music.
We want them for jobs.
But to have them for the entrepreneur that wants to redevelop something, those could be very cool districts.
Can you stick around or do you have to go?
I gotta go.
But I'll be back.
Whenever you want me to come.
Hey, rum and cigars one night.
Yeah, of course.
Whenever you want.
I just bought a don't pancho rum.
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Hey, thank you very much, man.
I'll tell you what, whoever texted us earlier today about the great guests we had today, it's all because of Todd.
Todd puts it all together and just tremendous guests.
Jesse Lin and Ariel Perez, Green Bay Perez-Cazette could have talked to them for three hours.
great young reporters in the area, Andrew Parks, great things.
Amani wins concert coming up in Ashwabadan at the PhD there.
That's like top of the line talent.
Oh,
that's good stuff.
That's going to be great.
And it's all, you know, wood strings.
Yeah.
It's interesting about the games, the video game.
That's a symphony.
That's not this.
I know, but
what they're doing these days,
right, to
connect to be like, I'd
never go to that.
But
they're finding ways to bring that stuff in.
Yeah.
Tom Swergen, that's the quarterfinals taste of homes.
Please come to our website and vote for him.
It's all for scholarships for young kids and Dan Brick Brickstead Farms.
We're talking more about that, uh, Brown County breakfast of the farm.
And I apologize to Pat Tracy.
We've run out of time.
We'll try to get
him back.
Let's do that to Jimmy Kimmel, Matt Damon thing.
Our apologies to Matt Damon.
We just ran out of time.
Couldn't get him on tonight.
Our apologies to Pat Tracy.
We couldn't get him on.
Pat, you're
usually good morning.
Good morning.
You're usually.
We're in a few more corporate colors.
Is
the logo on that hat?
I don't see it.
Well, fellas, you know, through the magic of radio, we lose the actual beret effect.
Is that what you've got
on?
Is that beret?
Yes.
Let me just stand up.
You know what I
look like a little bit?
I'm going to be honest with you.
Do you remember back?
Are you old enough?
Yeah, you're old enough, Pat.
Ever.
I think everybody's old enough.
Do you remember when they came out with that stuff?
It was that foam spray to, like, if you were, like, receding in certain places.
Oh, yeah, that guy made up.
He made a million dollars.
I kind of thought that's what you had working.
You spray foam.
His name wasn't Dick Peele.
What was his name?
Ron Popeye.
Yeah.
Boy, he made a lot of money.
So you can see the beret and my French paper.
I can see the shirt.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, that's all right.
That's
cool.
Show the apron.
Okay.
He's got an apron.
There's a reason.
There's a reason why he's dressed like that.
It's gotta be something to do.
All
right.
Tell us about what's going on.
I have just returned from a deep dive into the Thunderbird Bakery and Cafe.
Oh, we've had them on the show before.
Yes.
All right.
We covered them.
So my latest adventures with Discover Oshkosh is Artisan Pat.
Pat discovers artisans in Oshka.
Nice.
Do we have to refer to you as that from no one?
Artisan Pat.
Artisan Pat.
OK.
And so we started at Thunderbird.
Then we went to the cidery, the sunken paddle cidery.
And we finished with Wagner Wagner market.
Awesome.
And I was in making brats.
Oh, fun.
Hold that.
So today I was all excited.
I put on my bakery Pat outfit.
I stopped at Thunderbird, which is literally a mile from the studio, right down sixth here in Ashkosh, and I picked up a box of amazing warm croissants, rhubarb galettes, and there's a cinnamon roll or something in there.
What time do they open that?
They open at like seven.
Okay, because we do our show
at Ashkosh.
I'd stop by and pick up some stuff to
I thought this was Ashkosh Day, so I was going to surprise you guys with some amazing hot bakery right out of the oven.
Unfortunately, now, it's going to be here for Todd when he gets here later.
It's always about Todd.
That's even better.
Todd and
Lisa.
Bring it back tomorrow.
We'll microwave it.
So I got to go there and make the sourdough bread with Trent.
Now, he's there at four in the morning.
Wow.
Okay.
I showed up at seven.
You know, he had half the hours.
Right.
I showed up at seven, but I got to see the sourdough bread making and I learned about sourdough and the yeast and the whole thing.
And people I got to tell you, we've got an amazing sourdough bakery here in Oshkosh.
Cool.
And that's gonna be on your video that we can watch.
Yeah, that'll be out in June.
And so I'm so let me know when you guys are back in Oshkosh because I will stop again.
and bring you
deal.
Love it.
That'd be fun.
Do we do we get to wear a beret?
I could make that.
You know, that's not
necessary.
No, no, Pat.
Listen, I it is necessary.
You know who I think you know, I've always wanted to emulate and you know, I think I would look a lot like if I wore a beret.
Tell me.
Sergeant Barry Sadler.
Anybody.
Are you kidding me?
The first album I ever bought in my life, I told you the first album I bought, Ballad of the Green Berets,
Sergeant Barry
Sandler.
There's a picture of him on the cover.
It's a great album, Tom.
It is, John.
He'd look like that little guy on Hogan's Heroes.
I know your face is chiseled.
Your face is chiseled.
It
looks like somebody took a chisel to my face.
I don't have
a good
face, Pat.
I gotta be honest with you, but
thank you for that.
Do you know after Ironic, though,
that guy?
from Hogan Sears, where the brain was actually in a prisoner of war camp of
the
Germans.
Yeah, true story.
Is he still living?
I don't think any of them are.
But yeah, that's a true story.
Wow.
Yeah.
He was, he was in a concentration camp.
Oh, Jesus.
Isn't that crazy?
No, I didn't know that about him.
See, I got all the back stories, Pat.
You guys are the fluff.
You guys like the whatever.
I thank God I'm here to
do deep.
You're the, you are the stake to our sizzle.
Thank you.
Now, so when you're at Thunderbird.
you do not want to miss.
Hey, remember the Ted Lasso show and every day Ted brought into the boss those shortbread cookies?
Trent?
Yeah,
my favorite Ted Lasso line was when she gives a cup of Kevin.
Hmm.
I was wondering what he tasted like.
I thought it was just kind of would taste like hot brown water.
And I was right.
Ted, that Ted Lasso show, I was in a class for, you know, nonprofit.
executive directors, yada, yada, yada.
And this one instructor, his whole thing was on the Ted Lasso show.
And some of the things that that guy would bring out that it was for entertainment purpose, but was had a deep rooted say, you know what I'm talking about, Pat?
It's like, that is what this guy is saying applies to businesses in such a great way.
That was a tremendous show.
Wasn't it, Pat?
Yeah, absolutely.
Um, be a goldfish.
That's right.
Well, get the mistake you just made move on.
Yeah.
Goldfish don't have memories.
I asked Don, I make so many mistakes in a day and Don's like, how can you keep living like this?
Honey, I'm a goldfish.
Exactly.
That was one of his themes.
It's
you gotta watch that show.
I think you would
like it because business
wise,
so many of things he
brings in,
they use in that class I had about great business ideas.
Yeah.
Yes.
So Jim, watch it.
And then when you start craving those shortbread cookies, um, I'm there.
I had had to Oshkosh to Thunderbird Bakery and Cafe because Trent has taken the plain shortbread up and like 10 x'd it into millionaire shortbread.
I was there.
Well, he made it.
He's got caramel, chocolate, all of this stuff, stern it up.
Okay.
And then he puts it over the shortbread.
And I mean, holy smokes, guys.
Hey, Todd, was there over the weekend?
Had a great time in Oshkosh, right, Todd?
For the bike thing?
Oh, yeah.
The bike.
By gosh, yeah.
That
was
awesome this weekend.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
My slow roll got rained out on Tuesday.
Oh, no.
Hey, so let's talk about events.
Yes, we talked about a few events.
Oh, sure.
So so the slow roll, which was Tuesday and, you know, for for new listeners, the slow roll is something we do in Oshkosh.
We get about 100, maybe 150 bikes.
We meet at a fun food and beverage establishment at 530.
And then we take a slow roll through the neighborhoods of Oshkosh.
And because we're such a force, all of the drivers respect us and we get to own the roads.
Yeah.
Boy,
bike is big.
There isn't a pat.
Oh, yeah, we got a bike, you know, bike lanes all over and a part of I think a big part of it is the trail that literally starts now where the studio is here at the mouth of the Fox River.
You can get on your bike and ride on a trail.
Shoot for days.
Yeah, you probably get to Minnesota from here.
Is there a route to Green Bay like Green Bay to Oshkosh or somebody wanted to do that because I was thinking about doing that this afternoon.
Yeah.
Hey, listen, I'll head up and I'll meet you in Wrightstown.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was going to take a different route, but you go ahead to write something.
Well, can we stop at the bakery on the way?
Absolutely.
No question.
What's coming up in Oshkosh?
You guys always have a bevy of things this time of year.
Well, so I'm super excited that the sun did come out from Memorial Day.
And so for me, the big news is the Menominee Park Zoo opens bright and early Saturday at 9 a.m.
because it's, you know, it's been on winter hours.
And if you haven't been to the Menominee Park Zoo,
Please go.
It's totally free, which is kind of amazing.
I mean, it's, you know, it's little, but it's got Mr. Reeves, the black bear.
And so Don and I have been able to go over and see Mr. Reeves and he's super cool and he's out there and the kids can see him and all that.
They've got the wolves.
They've got the elk.
What else did we see?
There's some badger beavers, beavers, something.
And to get there early is it's good because there's not as many people but also the animals are a lot more active in the morning.
So you want to take your kids
there?
Yes, I would say that yeah, they're they're out although we were there in the afternoon there.
They're all
too.
Okay.
It's a nice little walk, you know, a little nature walk and So so that's that's Saturday now Memorial Day the procession right we have an amazing procession To the cemetery to the big Riverside Cemetery and I am a parade guy
So I have never missed the parade and it runs down to Algoma Boulevard, which is beautiful and it ends at the Riverside Cemetery.
Why do you call it a procession and not a parade?
Is it the same thing?
Are there bands in there?
Oh, Mr. Mayor, I'm surprised that you were asking me this.
I am.
I understood that Memorial Day, it's really not a parade of fun and festivities.
It's more of a procession.
Tomorrow night.
To the paper today, to pure parade.
Tomorrow night, I will be in freedom.
Tastes Thursday, right?
Yep.
Okay.
So this sounds crazy, but like I didn't even have my phone This is the first time ever I came in did a show without my phone.
It's just like why even carry it right type of thing But normally I'm checking on that but but anyway what I'm saying is in in freedom It's funny funny would say that Pat because you're exactly right about that at freedom high school at 6 30 tomorrow night Okay, right in the parking lot of the high school the band will be there and they'll have these horse drawn
wagons basically that people ride in and the whole time the whole stretch because people are like, you know play some patriotic music Come on, but no that and you're exactly right bad.
They play and I'm trying to think what's that?
cadence They just do cadence with the drums.
Yeah, that's a procession.
Well, yeah, that's what I mean But I'll tell you what you want to talk about get goose bumps just from that That's really something I do it from the high school to the cemetery playing that cadence with that band.
It is goose bump central
That's a cool thing when they do that.
Awesome.
So you guys
got that going on?
Oh, yeah.
So we do that.
And then we go to the cemetery, you know, the floor.
I just, you know, I, I'm very patriotic.
I love to see it.
And I, I have deep thanks for those who have sacrificed for us.
Oh, yeah.
I'll tell you a little stupid, not a stupid thing.
I'm sorry.
But a little thing I do sometimes.
Okay, when I go up to my hometown and I didn't it's so it's amazing the people that lived around me these old Italian guys I spell God he's the Rico's the Terzaghi's okay, and I see their gravestones and they were all World War one veterans Yeah, and you never knew it and now the more you learn about World War one with those guys went through So there's times when I have to go to events and I said hey Do you have extra flags and I'll go out and I'll walk around where my by my dad and mom's grave?
You know and when I see those guys that you know for my I'll put a flag in their thing
Because they don't have any relative or a lot of them don't have relatives.
You know,
yeah, they'd be old.
Right.
Yeah.
But I mean, these guys
I grew up with and what
they were one,
my God, I can't even imagine.
Yeah.
That's great.
That's nice that we honor that.
That's
a great
day.
It's a great day.
And then for me, I want to get out on the lake and, you know, enjoy the sun and the fun.
And so my favorite spot now is they call it sometimes on Pioneer Island.
And they call it sometimes because it's open sometimes.
I haven't like figured out what time is sometime.
Boy, we got a great
person for Oshkosh.
I don't know
when
it's open.
It fits.
Sometimes.
Hey, what have you failed on with us?
Pat has failed.
Taking
a ride on that one thing you told us about on the river down there.
Oh, my
gosh.
Yeah.
The cruisin' teeth.
I got to be honest.
I went without you.
It hurts.
Shocked
there, Pat?
Wow.
I love how
he tells us
about these great things in Oshkosh.
Hey, we'd like
to stick around.
We're not letting you go yet.
Okay, bye.
All right.
Pat's ready to discover Oshkosh.
Bye.
Hey, welcome back mind on the mayor here and a good-looking Thursday that son actually feels warm coming through our window And that's finally here.
Yes.
It actually feels we
thought it burned out Wow
rumors gets Pittsburgh pirates tonight on WSS where Pat Tracey is sitting right now in downtown us gosh That is kind of be a beautiful morning there because we were there that last night was great And it was a sunny morning and we watched those boats coming down the river and the people at seven in the morning fishing on the banks.
What up?
picturesque setting of Americana.
This little corner here at Main and Sixth is just amazing.
You can literally see the water glistening in the mouth of the Fox River into Lake Winnebago.
Yeah, it's beautiful.
Hey, we got a bingo thing going.
Do we have another entry, Todd?
We've got a bunch of entries, please.
We're doing a bingo card, Pat.
And when we say certain things, people can mark it off.
It tried to win a huge price package from us right here.
So it's different things that we say during the course of the thing that we don't even notice at times.
And our
listeners are giving us things to put on the bingo card because I don't know how many squares, 20, 25.
Anyway, we're going to fill that card in and then they're going to be able to play the game.
But it was funny this morning because I guess when you read those things, I guess they do say that.
We got one entry here with three different or one person with three different entries.
I'd be asked for a living.
A guinea pig.
Where does that come from, Todd?
A guinea pig.
He killed his guinea pig.
He burnt it alive.
That's right.
That's right.
He burnt his guinea pig alive.
That's not true, Pat.
Dollar
store.
That's
right, Pat.
Did you know that?
You know what?
We're going to put Pat Tracy on the square.
Pat Tracy
will be one of the squares on the bingo card.
That's a good one.
Pat, could you name another favor?
Yes,
sir.
Um, it is very sunny and whatever.
And I get, okay.
Could you put your beret back?
I've got such reflection
off
the job.
Nice.
I know I moisturized.
Yes.
Sorry.
The play was a little hot in the studio.
Hey,
you know what you need for that?
You need to use what I'm using.
I'm using bees, wax, talent.
And I put it on my face.
I look so much younger.
Tallow.
Tallow.
I look so much people have said you look so much more luminescent.
It's unbelievable.
Put that word on there.
Yeah,
a
luminescent.
Don't
ask it for the meaning.
Okay.
Yeah.
Let's do our business.
Yeah.
Todd, when can we get out on the cruise and Tiki's?
That's Todd, I need you to coordinate these.
Okay, I'll work it out.
Okay, well, okay, I gotta say something else
about Todd.
I just noticed what's that you need to trim your beard.
It's getting long, right?
Holy.
Pat, have you ever known anybody that could grow a beard faster and thicker than Todd?
Cheap Cheap.
Wow.
It's
incredible.
The guy in ZZ Top, maybe.
Yeah, I'll give up the only one.
What else go down in Oshkosh, Pat?
Okay, so the Wagner Market.
So then, after I learned how to bake, then I do an embed into Wagner Market with Ruben Hernandez, Brot Sorcerer.
And I actually remember when we went there and they had the little white, like the sanitary white operating room where they were brats.
You did that this morning?
Uh, no, uh, last, last Thursday.
Okay.
Uh, last Thursday morning.
Then why are you still
wearing a chef's apron?
Bro, I
was
getting to that last week.
Okay.
Oh.
I'm learning apron today.
Oh, they did that last week.
I put
it on for you guys.
I was like that lady who stood with her
coat on and she's yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Some of the show.
Yes.
Yeah.
Sure.
So we can post it on
Facebook.
Remember, remember your, uh, your Senator Marjorie Green or whatever.
And she showed up at the thing with this unbelievably huge.
It was like in the middle of some of the big fur coat.
Remember that we mean my
senator senator to
know I know but I mean you know more about these people than I do you follow Marjorie Green
was never a state senator
Yes, but it was a weird thing everybody's like in middle and shit, but she had
that laid from Atlanta.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, she's that okay That's yeah, she would yes.
I remember that
you're right.
She's doing that.
He's doing that just
she wanted to show up in court and Pat's doing that.
We're gonna get that
it does.
There's a tie back.
Yeah, we're pretty hard on it.
Yeah, I'm talking
your
peacocking right
good right that's a
good one yeah
don't think so when i put the beret on in the the apron that i'm like gonna bake something at home
right
i just want to
say i would clear the records during during the break i did google hogan's heroes and my buddy the french guy he's dead he died in 2022 oh
louis
yeah
so we met your wife yes lovely lady beautiful lady
Do you wear the beret and apron home?
That's what I was going to ask to be honest with
you.
And
that's all he
wears.
Yes.
On Bakery Day, I do.
I bet you do.
Well, and hey, here's something exciting in the Tracy household because, you know, we have to maintain our figures.
The last Saturday of the month is doughnut day.
That's the only day of the month that that Pat can eat a doughnut.
So.
Look out this Saturday.
It's doughnut.
Now.
Wait a minute, Pat.
Next Saturday is the last Saturday of the
month.
You might have to wait another week.
That's right.
Thank you, Todd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Keep you on.
He corrects us all the time, too.
Is it all horrible what your mind does already?
I'm thinking about doughnut.
Give us a quick weekend update here, Pat.
Boom.
I will see you on, I'll see you on Saturday at Monomony Park and Zoo.
To meet mr. Reeves the brown bear right will then adjourn to sometimes at Pioneer Island for a sunny afternoon and We'll pick up our brats at Wagner market
and of course the Memorial Day Celebration or
yes, I'm a procession at 9 a.m.
Sharp on El Goma Boulevard I will see you there in your red white and blue.
There you go
standing
Pat Tracy.
We love having
you on you're the best.
There
you
are.
Thanks.
Thank you my friend
Take care.
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