Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Good morning.
Happy Tuesday to
you.
What
a great weekend.
Oh man, awesome.
The weather was great.
Yes.
Wow.
Did you... Well, you had to speak, right?
I spoke at Nicolay Gardens yesterday.
Nice.
They do such a wonderful job up there.
When I die, I want to be there.
Nicolay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I want to be the mausoleum.
Well, I think that sounds cool.
Yeah.
Sounds like you're a little bit of a bother.
Right.
He's in the mausoleum.
Oh, OK.
That's the upper class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Allaway has a good mausoleum, too.
And of course, the shrine does.
You know who does a good job with Memorial Day?
Little Towns.
Yeah, no question.
Because I was up in, um, Elko and just stayed in Annago.
Nice parade.
Yeah.
And everybody was talking about Memorial Day.
Yeah.
Even went to the store, got some stuff, and you go to the parade.
It's like, yeah.
But anyway, that's nice.
All the flags down Main Street, you know.
Totally agree.
You know, that's what, I don't know how big that is, eight, nine thousand people.
I was watching the band, high school.
I don't know how or why, but I've got WLUC TV out of Marquette on my cable system here.
Okay.
So the same thing I was watching them and it was a little downtown felch, you know, we're tying it up and boy, every person that town was out there
and the kids
and they're still throwing candy.
Some of them graduate.
They still come back and play.
You know, I think graduated, you know, a week or two ago or they're going to be graduating seniors come in and play and it was.
Yeah, that's that's cool stuff.
I mean, it's awesome.
Did you read I don't online or something, but Brett Varv did this post about.
What a great day.
I want to honor the I didn't see that the military and some guy wrote back to him This made a lot of sense.
It's something you would write said look Brett love you like a brother But that's not what today's about no and people do get confused with I know totally 100% always the case with that totally and look we have Veterans Day, of course the 4th of July and Memorial Day, but
It's important that we maybe remind people they don't want to scold them and this guy wrote a really nice response They say oh, I think you're great and but you know I want to explain the difference between absolutely.
I thought that was really
good That's that's the that's total truth, but I will say this and I always talk about this in my speeches on Memorial Day, okay?
Yes, it is more of a solemn date versus Veterans Day, okay?
Um,
excuse me.
I just want to say because the guy said happy Memorial Day, okay?
That's how the whole
right
paragraphs.
I agree with that 100% and then it is a fine line But but I will say this like I said every single Got Todd here.
Just a such a great event Nicollet gardens even the guest speaker was pretty decent Oh, even though I was like cutting out Todd from deep here.
Did it time I meant to speak Todd did it cut out when I was I'm serious about this Todd Let me know was it cutting out when I was speaking or just when I was doing the interview with the the brother of the guy who who of course died
Let me, cause I was trying to work that too.
But anyway, um, but you know what?
You know what I said too?
And one of my guys was there, um, um, I'm trying to think with the 127 when I was in Iraq, um, he was there and one of our guys died like two weeks after I was there, a really young kid, whatever.
But I, I said one thing.
I said, you know what?
If all those people that were killed in the war came back right now, you know what they would do?
They would drink so much beer and eat so many broths and have so much fun.
So part of it is, do what we do.
Do what they would do.
That's why they did it.
Acknowledge, exactly.
That's our way of life.
Acknowledge the hell out of them.
But don't change what you do because they would love to be doing it.
Okay, Todd says, not when you were speaking just during the interview.
Okay, thank you, Todd.
I think I was holding the mic wrong with the receiver.
But I sent an email to someone explaining.
that that it's okay to have barbecues that's what they would want absolutely exactly that's the point I want as long as you want to as long as you spend that first one or two hours have that beer for them right their honor yes but go and pay respects first like I said these no question you drive by cemeteries there's always little things yeah like I said I drove through a ton of small towns but it was great but I think I don't think you should feel guilty no
no no don't
Because they would do it.
And in a lot of ways, that honors them, in my opinion.
I
agree.
Somebody can disagree.
That's fine.
I totally understand.
But in my opinion, that's honoring them, because that's what they would do, and that's what they would want us
to do.
And you know
what?
They fought to preserve our way of life.
And I talked about that.
If we lost World War II, which we could have lost really easy, the Japanese and the Nazis would not want us to have our normal way of life.
So celebrate the fact that we've fought wars to embrace what we do as a nation.
And again, like the guy said, but this is for the people who gave their lives.
That's what this, that's what that day is about.
And I just think that's, that's great that we do that.
We're laughing about it.
That's a tax price.
So we're here we're here people at their cabins.
Oh,
I love these listeners that are the attention you guys take copious notes that that is funny
I just want to tell him that we've served a lot of people.
My daughter, when I told her that story, she couldn't eat.
She
kept spitting up.
She was laughing so hard.
Literally yesterday, I'm sitting on my couch, getting ready to do something.
And Brian messages me and goes, I wonder how many people are here.
Brian, what is wrong
with you
seriously?
What's wrong with you, Brian?
No,
yesterday was.
Hey,
Brian, I got to be honest with you.
Talk to me.
I was watching that game.
I was actually at the Kroc Center with my granddaughters.
But I was watching the Indiana Fever game.
Brian, what did you think of those unbelievably terrible no calls at the end of that game?
The refereeing in the WNBA is embarrassingly bad.
It's horrible this girl goes up for a shot, which would have won the game They got such a vendetta against Caitlyn Clark and her team this girl goes up for a shot.
She gets clobbered She's not to the ground not just like a little ticky-tack fall.
She's Not to the ground as she's shooting no call
Wow, and Caitlyn Clark.
She's injured now.
Yeah, she's out for two weeks good I you know what I wish if I were Caitlyn Clark I'd say you know what I'm gonna take a year off And then the whole league would like
Have so many fewer viewers
and
everything like that and then people just hate her for no reason.
It's unbelievable
Yeah, I just wouldn't tell Brian.
I got the numbers I get the numbers every day on how many we serve and I just went they weren't all at their cabin because we served 160 people for dinner last night so and 136 for lunch
Wow, we had a busy day.
It's a lot of food.
You're pushing out
there.
Not everybody went to their cabin.
Oh Tell that kid Wow, that's
incredible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good day
Uh, Brian says, I saw your post.
I thought, great, I'm going to have to speak for them, but I didn't see the game.
Brian, Brian, please watch the last two minutes of that game and tell me what you think.
The Indiana Fever.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
It was, it was terrible.
Vicki says, happy Tuesday.
It was a beautiful weekend.
I didn't make, you know what?
Why does Celebrity Pier close so early?
On their land they closed at four and it was like two o'clock before I got done with everything It's like
well, they got I hate but they got so much to take now you've been to those things I don't take them I think you get home till 1011,
but I hate being that guy good It goes back to my workshop at the gas station and I mop in the floor where it's cool and somebody pulls up You know what I mean?
I want an oil change.
I hate being that guy.
Yeah, and
You got a haircut
they don't know
I didn't
that guy
either.
They
did.
No,
they did.
No.
Yeah,
actually it's growing out.
No,
you got a haircut.
No, no, sir
No, sir.
All right.
Well,
anyway, happy Tuesday May 27 sunscreen day,
which
did not use
over
the week
I did I did you know what I did yesterday.
No, I did too.
I know a girl.
I did I know yesterday.
I know a
girl
We used to put Crisco on her face.
Okay.
No, that's just a that's that like baby.
Oh, and you look
like you you put Crisco
on you know, I used sunscreen I just yesterday like I told you guys it's a chilled day when we got home went outside and just sat in my lounge chair and listened to meet the press Me too.
All right.
That's wasn't good.
Yeah, wasn't that good?
What was it about Johnny?
Ah mental health Dick Cheney was on that He it was all about mental health and then
Thank you,
Todd.
That's Jim putting his face in the nuclear reactor.
All that, all that,
yeah.
Hey, listen, I'm gonna be totally,
I'm gonna come
clean on something.
Tomorrow morning, after the show, I'm getting surgery for skin cancer.
Yes, I wanted to ask you if you wanted to talk about that.
Absolutely, a
thousand percent, not even a question.
Okay, so you're taking some time off.
I'm taking some time.
I don't know, well, they don't know.
The extent
right it might be the
most minor thing in the world, or they might tear my face apart,
but let's tell our listeners how that came about How did you discover that you potentially have skin cancer was it just a regular?
It was turning red
you know what it was I'm not even joking about this it was Todd telling me stop touching your face I'm like what are you talking about and Todd is this true?
It is true because he was on camera and he kept touching this his face, and I'm like what's going on with
that?
Dry skin type thing and Todd pointed out.
I didn't even know I was doing it.
Oh,
okay.
Well, that's cool So it was because of Todd that I went and got it checked out.
All right.
There you go That's what I'm talking about how I discovered
a lot of people had to tell you go in and have a check
right
you weren't going to
well cuz I think it was nothing It was just
dry skin, but then didn't you shave it and it came
back.
Yes.
Yes, that's when yeah, I cut it off accidentally shaving Yeah, oh my god.
I got under their eye was right here.
Oh, okay
Okay, I gotta tell you the grossest thing I've experienced How to be a grandpa how to try let me say this how to try being a grandpa Where grandpa's are the toughest guys the whatever guy okay, okay, so Saturday night Friday night whatever night it was my daughter and 1035 Sitting down having a cocktail and my daughter says can you meet me at Aurora Mir emergency room?
Oh, no
Okay, what's going on?
She said iris my youngest granddaughter put something up her nose and it won't come out and she's freaking out So I go to a raw medical emergency room, okay try to hold her down as the doctors digging into her nose, okay, which was Couldn't find anything doctor couldn't find it.
Okay, so the next day we're having lunch at the right place
Which is still you know what you can't miss I
love going to the right place that
you know
they mean everything
sometimes you go to different place I think that was you
can't a
booyah and or whatever at the
right place and the service
yeah, we have the but my daughter even told
us
from Madison she told the waitress just you're the greatest
Beatrice, I've
ever
dealt with.
Just incredible.
At the phone when you do a takeout, you don't call.
They're just so friendly.
And the food is consistently great.
Exactly.
My
daughter had booyah.
She never had cheese.
My God, this is the greatest thing I've ever tasted.
And some places, not to mention their names, but when things got expensive, they kind of throttled back on the thickness of the burger or sometimes the buns were a little cheaper.
Those guys just stayed the course.
They stayed the course.
Love it.
It was just a no-miss.
But anyway, so...
We're there as the waitress is bringing us our food.
She's putting the food on the table.
My other granddaughter goes, Iris, is that the thing in your nose?
And it was starting to come out.
So I have to grab her, grab a bunch of napkins and squeeze her nose.
I'm just trying
to grow.
This is right before dinner.
As the
food is being
put in front of us.
Nice.
Perfect.
So took care of that, right?
And I had to fake being a strong grandpa
because I
wanted to throw up Right,
right.
I hear you John that yeah
on my stomach.
I was forcing my stomach to not
Yeah,
what was it a bead some kind of a bead Oh, she put in her nose, and it was five.
It was coming.
Yeah
Wow That's cool that it worked itself out.
You know what I mean?
There's a time perfect timing.
Yeah, right.
Yep
So Kirby
appetite.
Oh god lord.
She like screaming about that or was she like because grandpa was doing it was okay.
She
was okay.
Yeah, she didn't
like the doctor what I did I didn't get
only the grocery, but yeah, but I was afraid she would get sucked back in So I grabbed the top of her nose
and it closed
and put napkins all over it.
I'm sure the people next
The table next door.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
You know what's weird?
Nah, we'll pass on dessert.
I'm gonna tell you the truth.
I actually, when I was driving away then, I threw out the window on the road.
I
threw it
in the East River.
That's where
I go to
the bridge of the East
River.
Did you guys ever put something up your nose though?
I never did.
I didn't do
that stuff.
Hey, a nose my size, I could have put a Tonka truck up mine.
God, I hate my nose.
Alright, we gotta set a quick break.
It is a beautiful Tuesday getting to rockin' here.
Back after this.
Hey, welcome back, my little man here in a beautiful Tuesday morning, 53 right now in Green Bay, 59 in Alton, 57 in Oshkosh.
It's gonna be right around this, around 60 degrees today and sunny.
And as we mentioned, it's sunscreen day.
Also, great popsicle day, great day.
I hate grape.
I hate...
Anything grape
and why
do restaurants
always
have the little things of grape jelly
instead of you
do I do I grew up on Welch's but you got grape jelly and you remember right you
remember my mom made tomato jelly
So for me to get great jelly that was like the
heavens parted
And God's shown
his light, you know?
God bless Josephine.
God bless my beautiful, wonderful
mother, but God.
My mom's name is Geraldine.
So think about this.
Some like it hot, the movie.
Yeah, Josephine.
Yes.
And Geraldine.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
You're right.
That's crazy.
You're right.
But gosh darn it, her jelly wasn't good.
And I love her to death, but yeah.
And it was great.
It was, it was apple and cherry.
And some other choked cherry or something that was.
That's not
bad.
I don't, I'm with you on the grape.
I don't like that.
No.
That's why there's always, they always have that.
They run out of everything else.
Orange marmalade, strawberry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to interrupt, but every time I, I'm going to stop, stop posting Brian's texts.
No, I love this.
Read that
one.
Read
that one.
I was kayaking down the East River near Alloy this weekend with Brittany Merleau.
Got hit in the eye with a B that I think had some bleep on it.
That's not on it.
Brian,
what's wrong?
Seriously, Brian!
Just keep it coming,
Brian.
What's wrong with you?
He's the listener of the year.
Okay, I gotta
say one thing.
Okay, so I'm gonna talk a little bit.
Tomorrow I'm having surgery on my face for skin
cancer.
Okay?
Just put it out there.
No big deal.
And they told you it was skin cancer, or did they say we're going to test it to see if it's all
cancer?
No, it is.
It's cancer.
They tested it already.
They tested the biopsy.
All right.
It's cancer.
All right.
OK.
There you go.
Yeah.
But what I'm saying is it was I if Todd literally hand told me to stop touching my face because I didn't know I was doing it.
And Todd says I'm doing it on camera.
I never would have gotten tested.
And even though I went to purveyor right down the road here that day.
And I thought they're going to say I was almost embarrassed to be there.
I thought they were saying really.
You
don't
have more important things
to do.
And they were
like, um, no, we're not going to touch it.
You need to go to a dermatologist.
It's like, huh, really?
So I go there and I actually felt stupid because I said, I thought the exact same thing.
And they're going to say, really?
You're wasting our time for this little, and then they said, okay, we're going to test it.
And then they came back and they said, you napped.
You have to have surgery.
So what I'm saying is the most minor tiny little thing that you ignore because it's just whatever.
Could be something.
Yeah.
And I'm not, trust me, I'm not saying woe is me.
All I'm trying to get across here is get the test.
Get the test,
man.
And I don't know what kind of insurance most people have, but I shouldn't say that.
I don't know what kind of insurance you have, but most insurances will pay for the preventive part because they don't want to pay whatever it's because it's five grand or that's going to cost you.
They would much rather you go in and get your physical every year.
So yeah, well, Todd figured it out for you.
But you know, if you go in for a physical, they'll find that.
You know what I mean?
Well, the next thing they're gonna do they're gonna do one
of those
full body
scans on
me.
Oh, did you really
those are awesome?
Huge mirrors, I mean magnifying glasses and that guy's eyes are like those cartoons, you know, and yeah, but they look you over I know but
I don't think you have to do that every year though.
You know what you guys, I think that's a three, four, five year thing.
I don't think that's every year you have to get that body scan.
I
don't think.
I'd have to get a sedative to lay
there
and
let people look at me that closely.
And it's
close.
I know.
I don't think I've ever done that sober.
With somebody you liked, right?
I'm here to say I like to happen to be there.
That is a, for those...
Kids are the
drugs.
They were drunk too.
They were drunk.
They had to be drunker than me.
Oh man.
So where the sunscreen?
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say here.
But the most minor little thing could be something.
I mean, when you get it, when you get an email, it says you got cancer.
It's a cancer because of his tiny little thing.
It gets your attention.
Oh boy.
And the people get that fishy.
It's not just all people laying on the sun.
Fishermen get it truck drivers get it, you know,
being on the, on the water is as bad as anything you
could find
in the winter, the snow.
I mean, you have to
think about that
all year
long.
I think part of mine, I don't know.
Cause I mean, God, I mean, growing up in the UP, you had three sunny days a year.
So it's not from that, but I even showed people that one picture of me in Iraq.
I was I had a thing.
I don't know if this could as possible.
I got stranded for three days at a place called Aliyah Salim in in Iraq They screwed up my manifest for flying or whatever and there was nothing there except a Burger King So every day I'd sit on the picnic table all day long waiting for my name to be called and I got I could show you a picture I got so I don't even want to say burnt so unbelievably dark that it seems like it cooked me it cooked my
face.
Yeah, that's and that's
That's, what, 20 hours a day?
I mean, that sun is out there.
Right.
Yeah, that was hot.
So I'm just telling people, I'm, trust me, I'm the last person in the world to give a health advice.
Oh, no, I'm not the last person to give health advice.
I got a new diet.
I'm down to 212 pounds.
I've lost 10 pounds this month.
Here, I got a bell.
That's, I got a, whoa.
Nice bell.
Yeah, and I spilled this coffee.
I spilled coffee.
All right, all right, all right, all right.
Well, I'm so excited about that.
Can I
tell you why?
212.
Why would you
do?
What's pickle sandwiches?
Just pickles?
Pickle sandwiches.
But what's on them?
mayonnaise male and pickles Keto bread well, that's okay that I don't like
to
taste the keto bread and toast it Keto bread it's 15 carbs, but 15 grams of a fiber so that wipes out cancer don't write deal pickles have no calories.
Yeah mayonnaise has zero carbs I'm eating pickle sandwiches Keto bread toasted deal pickles and mayonnaise and I've lost 10 pounds in one month
That's awesome John.
Thank you.
I mean that is
you went out for breakfast.
You must have had something right?
Well that with the girls.
Yeah, I barely
ate.
That's right.
I just tried to force it down.
I will
say this.
You know what's
gotten expensive fast.
I brought them breakfast the other day at McDonald's $36 $36 I know for high-seeing a little burrito thing $36
I don't surprise
Back to Mino and the Mayor.
Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
So I'm not letting you guys go on quite yet, because it is Tuesday.
It's the first day of the week for us.
It is.
We are 35 minutes into the show.
OK.
You have each spilled your coffee.
I know.
Each of you have spilled it.
I was hoping you didn't notice
that.
Oh, I saw it.
You got up.
Yeah.
What is going on with you
guys?
It said, can't give us a day off anymore.
What?
What is going on with you
guys?
I legitimately thought to myself, oh crap, I don't want Todd to see this.
Yeah.
Brittany, it's 635 on the very first day back from a three day weekend and neither one of them can, can you believe it?
We both spilled over.
I
believe
it.
And Brian just texts us.
He goes, I'm not making this up.
Best sandwich ever on toast, peanut butter and pickle sandwich.
Brian, Brittany, Brittany.
No, peanut butter bananas.
Brittany!
Peanut butter pickles?
Never heard of it.
Brittany!
Yes?
I lost 10 pounds this month eating pickle sandwiches.
No way!
I would eat them and then he would vomit, but yeah, it worked
though.
I almost
vomited on my
sandwich the
other day doing that thing with my granddaughter.
Hi, Brittany!
Oh, good morning.
So please describe what this pickle sandwich is.
This is on
it.
Keto, Keto Brett.
Well, yeah.
Cause you need to lose a lot of
weight right
here.
94 pounds.
Get out there and exercise.
Right.
Yeah.
You don't, yeah.
You don't burn enough calories.
Yeah.
No, but here's, okay.
But you know what?
That's funny though.
Um, actually I saw some people kayaking in the East River this weekend, but you know what?
I, that's the last place I would want to do that role thing.
No, yes.
And get into the East River in your lung.
Brittany, have you ever done that?
Oh, the kayak roll.
Yeah.
No.
Okay.
That's hard.
It
is because you got to get up.
Right.
Yeah.
It's not just you getting up.
It's turning that whole kayak up.
So yeah, I know.
Right.
But the thought of the East River getting in here.
That's not
cool.
Hey, Brittany, we got a text here for you.
I'm working the WIA sectional track meet at Westie Pier Friday forecast is sunny and 81 degrees.
Will that hold out Brittany?
This is from Terry.
Aye.
I think so.
Yeah, I do.
It's gonna be nice and sunny.
There's a teeny tiny chance for some thunderstorms popping up in the afternoon.
None of them are expected to be severe, but that's about the only risk we have going on Friday.
But the warmest day of the week, 80s, yes.
Yeah, we've
got a nice
stretch coming up, right?
Yeah, we do.
We really do.
I mean, a little cool today.
We'll
get
about 70 degrees in the mid sixties tomorrow.
Some scatter showers are possible both today and tomorrow.
More clouds, too.
But the sunshine comes back out for Thursday, Friday into the weekend.
We'll be into those mid seventies to low eighties.
Hey, Brittany, how's the fire thing right now?
Is that still bad?
It is low across the state.
It's only really high up and towards like Douglas and Bayfield County.
This morning,
the high
danger
is what I'm
saying
or the highs is only dangerous up there.
She said, okay.
Right?
Yeah, Northwest.
Very
far Northwest Wisconsin only has the high fire danger.
The rest of the state is low.
So the rain has definitely helped.
Nobody's in a drought condition except for very, very far south along the state line.
So the state's looking pretty good right now as well.
Awesome.
Cause this is a, I don't camp.
I've never camped in my life.
Isn't that something?
Really?
What, you know why though?
What?
What?
From Marinette or wherever you're
from?
No, you know
why?
Cause we can base,
yeah, I had my, when I was a little kid, I had my pup tent.
My, you know, Cub Scout pup tent set up in my yard, and I bet I slept out there three or four days a week all summer long.
Me and my friends, and we'd have a fire every single night in our backyard.
Pretty close to camping.
Well, that's what I mean.
So the thought of going to a campground
to do
exactly what I did in my backyard
my
whole life.
You know what I mean, Brittany?
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
You're like, what's the point?
What's the difference?
I mean, I love sleeping in a tent.
I love having fires the whole thing, but I didn't feel the need to go someplace else to
do what you could do in your backyard.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
I mean, I think those of us in the hood are the ones that like camping.
Right.
So we get out.
Yeah.
In the ghetto.
Were you in the ghetto?
I grew up in the ghetto on two rivers.
Yeah.
In the tenement.
No.
Brittany.
Brittany.
I want to kayak this summer.
I want to play and I want to kayak
you want to what
I wanted to do that so bad this weekend was kayak I saw so many people
out of the water.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh
that hey 10 years ago You do we even know what a kayak was you don't mean and now that's become such
a
popular thing
We call them canoes.
That's what I mean, right?
It was canoes, but who knew kayak?
Isn't that an unbelievable popular sport Brittany?
Oh my gosh, is it huge kayaking stand-up paddle boarding?
I mean, they're doing everything out there.
I've even seen those.
Oh gosh, I don't even know what they are.
Technically bikes that you're riding on the water.
Oh yeah, that's fun.
They're like hovering above it.
Those are awesome.
Those are pretty cool, actually.
Yeah.
And then, well, why don't we...
I would kick your butt in that.
Oh, I don't know.
I would.
Yo, Kurt Lake, we'll see
you on Sunday.
Okay, all
right.
Good.
Let's do it.
Brittany, this is
the summer
of the Mayor and the Mino challenges.
Oh, no.
This
summer?
Did
you just say the mayor and the mino challenges?
Interesting.
Why?
Well, the show's called Mino and the Mayor.
No, no, no.
He just started called first place, first
place right off the bat.
No, no, no, no, no.
Name change, name change.
No.
I want it out there as big and bold as possible with the American as butt kick.
Okay.
My
Mino.
Got you.
Okay.
Brittany, we're going to have a kayaking regatta him and I on where we're going.
Kelly Lake.
I thought we were doing on East River.
No, no, no.
I thought we were going to Kelly Lake.
I thought we said East River.
Can we wait cause it's a lot more calm?
I don't know about that, right?
There's nothing going on at the East
River.
I don't like the East River.
I'm afraid I'll fall in and I'll swallow that ugly water.
Yeah.
Brittany, we want you to be with
us.
I would love to.
I'd be upset if I missed it.
I love those kinds
of things.
Water sports, 100%.
And then,
okay, then we're gonna race you in a kayak, but you have to give us a big head start.
A big, big hit start.
Very large hits.
Like where you can't even see us.
We're halfway there.
We see the finish
line and you can't see us.
You're not even in the water yet.
You're coming down the road.
The kayak is still in the back of your truck.
Okay, unload.
I think that's fair.
I'm just sitting there with a timer.
We were talking about summers.
We have some friends with cottages, which is great because cottages
are expensive, which that's not my point.
Point is all the toys you have to have that stand up.
And so we go to a place and you can just, we actually reserved it already, but they got, even they got the swan, the family can go on, you know, like four people.
You know what I mean?
I don't know.
What is a swan?
What do you mean?
It's like a paddle swan.
You know what I'm talking about, Brittany?
It's got like
inflatable.
No, no, no, no, it's the real deal.
It's hard plastic.
Todd's
got a smirk on his face.
He has a comment.
Okay.
So I've seen paddle, like paddle boats, right?
Right.
Are you talking about one that's actually built like a swan?
Yeah.
I want a picture of that.
That'll be my
Facebook page.
That'll be my entire Facebook page.
Yeah, it
will.
Oh
my God, I want a picture.
Todd just snorted.
You know it's
a good day for anyone, Todd snorts.
I already reserved it, so.
You got to reserve a swan?
Yeah, I'm like,
grandchildren are coming
up.
They're such a demand for the swan.
You got to reserve it?
Yeah.
The other stuff, the kayaks, we have that, but those, I wouldn't buy that because you don't use it that often.
No, it's a paddle thing, yeah.
All right.
And the bikes, we'll do that because you bike around the lake and
Yeah, those are, those are, that's a workout though.
Oh, I bet.
That's a workout.
I bet.
Um,
yeah.
Nope.
You know what I did this weekend,
you guys?
What'd you do?
Let me just say this.
No matter what you did this weekend is cooler than anything that we did this weekend.
Yes.
So go ahead.
Oh, no, we don't know that for sure.
But, um, no, I finally went to this Tireton four by four off road trail where I could actually take my Jeep Wrangler that I usually drive on the street.
out on these back road trails and it was awesome and I saw these jeeps just rock crawling doing the craziest things that I've only seen in videos on social media.
I saw it in real life this weekend.
It was
pretty cool in central Wisconsin.
This is happening in our woods.
I love it.
We'll say right or wrong that she does cooler things in us.
Yeah, I mean that was yeah, that was nothing we could have done good.
Oh,
I gotta read this text.
Old station 31 is listening from Copenhagen Denmark today.
P.S.
I have a swan mare, Tavia.
Wow!
All right.
Bring it back.
Oh my goodness.
There's a
picture of it.
I love it.
I can see you on that like you can't believe.
I want to get a staff picture with you.
You both in there.
That's what I want.
Me too.
Wow.
Okay.
We have to name the a swan.
I don't
know.
How cool does Copenhagen Denmark
sound?
Isn't that like...
the best place to live like in the world.
Yeah, Denmark is like the
highest, like people live longest.
Yeah, but I think their taxes are a little high too, because everything's free, but you know, nothing's free.
You know what I mean?
I think they have free healthcare, free education, free trails, free this, free that, free that.
You would love it
because I think there's free weed.
I want to move to Denmark, Brittany.
I'm for it.
It's like 20 miles away.
Wow, Todd jumped
on that.
Yeah, move to Denmark.
I want you to move to Denmark, Todd said.
Brittany.
Give me your plans for this summer.
Oh Gosh, that's that's a loaded question.
I don't know I fly by the you know Activity
minute
where the wind blows me where's the weather what's going on?
But definitely kayaking definitely some boating I want to go up north to Ironwood in that area and do some ATV trail riding There's also some camping you can do up on Lake Superior.
I'm huge in the camping
I'm gonna tell you where to go.
Can I give you a couple of UP tourism things?
Lake of the Clouds.
Have you ever heard of Lake of the Clouds in the Porcupine Mountains?
You will love that area.
There's there are a lot of bear.
I'll be honest with you.
But you can hike throughout the Porcupine Mountains to the Lake of the Clouds.
It's the most beautiful thing.
You think you're in Montana or something.
You got to go up to Antonagon, the town of Antonagon, which is right in Lake Superior.
That whole area around there with the Porcupine Mountains, it's built for you, Brittany.
You would love it like you can't believe.
I'm never coming back then.
No, I might
not come back.
Starlink, find me in the woods.
Yes.
It would be perfect for people like you.
That's exactly what that country is made for.
And Brittany, I know last fall we talked about leafing, right?
Where to go and you talked a lot about the North.
No, no, you talked a lot about Marinette or Marquette.
I spent my weekend in Elko.
You know where that is?
It's kind of...
I don't know that town for summer.
I've never heard of that
one.
Yeah.
You
said
by Annago?
Well, no, it's probably a half hour from Annago.
But that has got to be, we're talking about, the leaves, obviously they're all green, but that has got to be one of the best drives in fall.
That's where I'm going.
I said that to Donna.
We're going to go up there.
It's unbelievable how many trees there are.
And there's greens, and then there's all those, what, maple trees, whatever.
I'm going up there in fall.
Instead of going to year place, John, I'm going to Elko.
That's where I'm spending my
fall.
So, Brittany, how's this?
This weekend was fantastic.
I don't like really hot weather.
I just don't.
I don't like mosquitoes and bugs and whatever, and I grew up with them, and I'm this old guy now that doesn't like being annoyed.
But they weren't around at all.
No, they weren't.
So what I'm
saying is, this is the greatest time of the year to live in northeast Wisconsin, isn't it?
100%.
I was actually telling my family that they came up from, you know, Illinois and stuff, so they're kind of in the woods.
And I was like, listen.
This is the time to have the campfire, to go out
on
water, to do these things, because we're not sweating.
We don't have to get into the water.
And the bugs, the bugs are not here in full force just yet.
I mean, give it a week, they will
be.
Just right now.
Oh, it was so perfect too.
70s, sunshine, the sun felt great.
And then the wind, the breeze felt crisp and perfect.
So I'm going to be a poster child for skin cancer.
Oh gosh, what?
I'm having surgery tomorrow for skin cancer.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But what I'm saying is I never wore sunscreen one time in my life, not once.
And I thought I was being full-blooded Italian.
I thought Italians don't get skin cancer.
So I just want to say for all the people, and we were talking about this before you came on, and Jim even said two people or two types of people that get it more than you'd realize are truck drivers.
because of their arm being out the window all the time, and people on the water.
Oh, that's fishing.
The people who fish a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, do you fish?
Because this is, in front of my center picture, you got this unbelievable walleye.
From where?
Up here in Brussels.
Oh, on the bay?
Yeah.
OK.
Do you fish when your family comes up?
But we do.
Yeah,
I'm not a huge I'm not the crazy one that goes out super early in the morning You know the whole wave and the weather piece season opens, but I'll go out there on occasion.
Yeah Perfect weather
for anything My
granddaughters this
weekend and I'll tell you
what just standing there looking out in that bay I would I would love to have a boat, but not everything that comes with having a boat.
Do you know what I mean?
Yep
I would love to
have a friend where it'd be like Johnny Carson Britney stick around.
We're gonna keep you here.
Is that okay?
All
right.
Yeah, sounds good
April
March April April 1975 I'll look it up.
All right.
So number one song on this day in April 1975.
Hi, Brittany.
Okay.
Good morning.
Is that what you were thinking too, Brittany?
Yeah.
You know why I know that?
I have no idea.
Do you want to know why I know that?
Um, I'm not, I don't guess.
Because back in my day, I'm so old, Brittany, and Todd might know this, but I don't think he had to do it.
In my day, if you were going to get a job in radio, you had to get a, was it a third degree license, Todd?
Some sort of license.
Yeah.
Some sort of FCC license.
I mean, it was, it was like really hard.
I mean, crazy math.
and things about frequencies.
Oh, it was unbelievable.
So I was taking a class to prep to be on the radio and we got to do like one fifth, what Todd?
What Todd?
Okay, did you pass?
So give me the dates again that
you- April 1975.
Oh, nice job.
It was released February 1975.
Okay.
And the reason I know that we got to do one- That
was on the test?
No, no, no, but we got to do for our fight for like our final exam.
That's a tough
test for like our final exam.
We got to do like a 20 minute on air real life radio show for 20 minutes.
All right.
That's cool.
And we got to pick our own songs.
And that was my number one song that I played
out of all the songs you picked that one was a great song.
There's a grow as number one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good song.
Yeah.
So
that's why I know I
mean.
It's no Liberace.
And then, but you know what though?
And then as soon as we got done with that class and everything like that, the FCC de-escalator or whatever you want to call it, you didn't have to get those license anymore.
Yeah, it changed.
Yeah.
I still had to get one, but
yeah,
but it was, it's nothing like that.
You didn't have to take a test.
You basically just said, my name is I
am
and then you got
it.
But that's why so many people used to go to Brown Institute.
Sure, you had to learn all that
stuff.
Right.
Yeah.
Mom.
Yeah.
You used to have to have quite a bit of knowledge of engineering and
stuff.
That's what I mean.
It was all engineering stuff.
Did
you take it and pass it?
Or did they
do away with it?
As soon as I was done with that class, literally that year, they disbanded.
You didn't have to get that big license anymore.
All right.
OK.
But in order to do anything with a transmitter, you had to have that license, right, Todd?
Yeah.
Or you couldn't touch it.
Yeah, I wonder why they got a
bit away with it.
You
know, Brittany, I got a text here.
I suggest that Brittany checks out the Antonagon Park campground.
We were there yesterday.
Beautiful.
Lots of campsites right on the Lakeshore of Lake Superior.
Gary, you got to go up there, Brittany.
You'd love it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, that is exactly what
I'm looking for.
That's awesome.
Is these campsites you read about that?
Isn't it like crazy to get one now?
Like I think like really, really popular, like really popular.
Like you can't you call in there.
Taken or maybe that's just over the fourth.
I don't know.
There was some stuff and you gotta I don't know that they were Yeah, I think people are really into camping or they are it seems like yeah, that's what I'm saying Yeah, I agree with that
especially after COVID and all that everybody's you know really started to explore the outdoors and stuff It's harder to get Lakeshore Lakeside But if you plan in advance
and
you find those little secret gems probably like I just found out
about
That's perfect for you.
I think the other reason camping is making picking up a little bit hotels.
Oh my
god,
right?
We were just in Anaheim go now Yeah, it was all right, but you know, we need to pay 25 bucks more for your dog, but it just yeah, they're
okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Am I really old
totally worth it?
What John in
regards to like yeah, okay, I
thought there was more to the question
but I'll
say yes,
okay So as that big does by my granddaughter's breakfast the other morning at McDonald's, okay?
Breakfast burritos just little whatever whatever and I had a $20 bill and the girl goes $36 Okay, okay, and then
okay,
so get this can you so back to burrito?
So I wanted my daughter's lot or my granddaughter's like staying here where I live above this right above the studio here But I say I didn't have enough for warning in my apartment's a little gross not gross.
It's
just gross
so
I offered my wife $20 to clean it.
She
goes, yeah, she did.
I totally took
her side.
I was there when you were talking to her.
I'm like, $20?
Man, that place?
Uh-uh.
At least $120, just to walk in.
That's what she said $100.
She did.
I know.
I was, I was on her side.
I
mean, Todd?
I had to say this, Mino, but I don't think anybody's on your side on this one.
No.
Brittany.
Here's the other problem John if you would have done this right and had it cleaned every week or maybe a single every other week Then people would be like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks.
I'll do it for but you know that you got to go in there now It's like, you know, I mean it's like going into a campground,
but I even bought some stuff at the other day.
Yeah To
take
out stage
from your carpets.
I even bought some stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, I tried brand that blue stuff for my toilet doesn't work
Yeah, it does.
You've got to use it.
You've got to use it.
You've
got to use it more often
than once a year.
You guys want to run upstairs?
I'll show you during the break.
We've got another text for you, Brittany.
Devil's Lake is also beautiful.
Oh, yes.
I love that one.
I've never camped there, though.
Definitely hot.
Oh, you've got to go.
You'd love it.
I got this one from Todd Depeer.
You had to take a test back of the day.
Now they just let guys like the mayor have his own shows.
Oh, that hurt.
All right.
All right.
All right.
You're right.
Michael says best select mine with your procedure tomorrow setting positive chi and vibes from Madison.
Thank you, Michael.
I appreciate that.
Appreciate that very much.
Very nice.
But I'm going to be a poster child for skin cancer, Brittany.
So will you?
What happens with that?
I'm going to have half my face removed.
Will you blog that?
Is that what they call that?
Are you going to keep us updated or is it just going to be a Facebook?
How are you going to communicate with your listeners that?
The procedure.
Minos gonna get the lead part in Phantom of the
Opera.
There you go.
We'll buy that half mask.
Look away, I'm
hideous.
She gave me waltz.
Yep, that's how it goes.
Hey, Brittany, give us a nice forecast for this week.
Oh, it's gonna be a little crisp, little cooler for the next two days.
Today's high temperatures in those upper 60s will be in the mid 60s tomorrow.
We've got this system that's kind of sliding north, but it's gonna stay off to the east.
So what it's gonna do is swing chances of some light drizzles and scattered showers today, possibly at times through tomorrow, and then the sun returns.
Boy, it's so nice out there right now.
Oh man, it's
gorgeous.
The sky is so blue,
isn't it?
Like blue, blue, blue.
It's great.
Well, thanks for the forecast.
This has been a fun week.
Brittany Merleau, we love
having you
on.
You're awesome.
Yep.
Thank you guys.
You are too.
Take
care.
Bye, Brittany.
See ya.
And
here
are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Welcome back to the mayor here.
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Thank you.
There you go.
Fine.
53 degrees in Green Bay, 59 in Apton, 57 in Oshkosh.
High today near 70.
It's a perfect day.
Today is national sunscreen day, folks.
Do it.
Great popsicle day.
Don't.
Grape day.
Don't.
They suck.
Children's gardening week.
That's cool.
Hey, I just, we talked about my house, the gardening.
I talked to Donnelly yesterday.
We were sitting on the porch.
I said, what if we take that land and make it into an orchard?
She's warming up to that.
Okay.
99% of things you come up with I criticize I'm okay I'm literally at the point where like I would like to do that in your that is you got the most perfect right in a great part of town
right
and it'd be perfect for growing things
and for grandkids yeah she said we have to have something different they come to grandpa's house it's different and I don't want to have you know we could put a pool
in there but I was gonna go
to huh well man build you a pagoda not yet in the center yeah right
as that could be really cool and then
pear
trees.
I don't want that stuff to die though.
Cause now we look like, you know.
Okay.
Quick poll.
If you were a Jim's grandchild and Jim said, I'm going to do something in our backyard for the family.
Would you be more excited about Jim putting in a pool or an orchard?
There's a little bit more
to it than that because I have, you know, I don't want to, we have a place that has a,
Indoor ultra pool, you know that we have a condo and you know currently this
is gonna be like
this is gonna be like the fire pit the Chairs around it Apple tree pear tree.
What else like I say cherry tree.
I was telling her all plumb I
Don't let the kids eat plums until they're fully ripe.
We have this guy I got a guy It's the first time I ever had a guy say a terrible word to me when I was a little kid.
He called me out
Give me a pan.
I'm never guys even okay
Okay, it's great radio.
Hang
on.
He called you that because how does that do with the plum?
I Could see the second word.
What's the first word little what's the first little little?
Because I was stealing plums from the street what I used to walk home from school.
It was through this one thing and his plum treat
like hungover over over the
fence that
you know
legally you could make an argument that's your plum
right yeah yeah so he chased me and called me that terrible yeah and uh i told my brother he wanted oh i bet kill him but anyway okay yeah yeah yeah yeah but man do you get the runs from plums
no you well i mean it's a little bit green oh my god yes you would get sick from that
like beyond belief so be careful if you grow those
yeah
got a text here
I can just see this.
Hey grandpa, can we sit in the orchard and listen to meet the press?
Oh, that would be my favorite grandchild.
I'll tell you that.
Want to go to grandma and grandpa's house?
Yeah, they come up with excuses.
Todd, you read Todd's thing there.
I don't want to.
Super kudos to John on yesterday's meaningful talk at Nicolay Memorial Gardens.
Awesome as usual.
Tear up.
Todd from Green Bay.
Thank you,
Todd.
Very nice of you.
You know, I have a hard time.
There's two things on most of the speeches I do on this kind of thing and and I get choked up both times and it's The number one thing I always say I don't care how great of a writer somebody might be and I'm not considering myself a great writer I'm not saying that but if you like a Steven Ambrose whoever can write nothing is more Genuine obviously Then letters that people write when they're at war man, and there's one and it just it I'll get choked up right now even even telling this story a little bit
But it says the guy and he had these twin little girls and They're from casco and he wrote this incredible letter to his wife and it's in my book It's in one of my books because I met one of the little girls then who you know who's obviously
And just talk about, oh my god, all I want to do is, you know, get out of this war and come home.
And for 30 years, all we're going to do is enjoy life with our little girls.
And however the girls, they miss their daddy, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
And a few days later,
he
was killed.
And I just feel that if anybody has letters that were ever sent to them from somebody away, even if you're not in a war, just they are so brutally.
Honest and heartfelt.
That's the word.
Oh my god.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's yeah Well, that's all right.
Did you read that then in your mark?
Wow.
Yeah, what good
and then the other one I always talk about is when I was in my best friend Dennis D'Angelo We were like inseparable and his cousin this great athlete unbelievable just the most handsome guy, you know, I mean just
had everything going for him and he stayed in Vietnam one month longer than he had to and then he got killed flying home mid-air collision and I was the altar boy for his funeral and I talk about the sound that his mom made as they handed him the flag it was just like yeah you know
That was and I used to go to all the basketball games then with that family after it's like you want to talk about how war and then you know what people dying car accidents that have cancer Okay, but there's something about When you're really healthy and you're at war and you're this great kid with the future ahead of
you and here's your golden ticket.
Here's your exactly Yeah, so those are two that I
personally get choked up on.
You know, those talks are hard to give, but my, I don't know who you speak to or how you get through that.
Um, I don't know what you think about, but I always speak to the youth because it's easier for me to talk to them than it is.
I don't know.
I just find that I can keep my thoughts going and you're more informed.
You're more teaching than you are just lecturing.
You know what I'm saying?
Take it away from the emotional side.
I'm going to read a quick text here from, I don't know if I should say, oh, she's one of our favorite people, Sarah.
Um,
Thank you for sharing about your cancer and the steps to get checked out just last week the worst week I ever had I went for a lump of my breast and a mammoth mammogram mammogram mammogram mammogram And ultrasound thankfully was nothing the staff was wonderful and not making me feel dumb and advised me to always get checked Please let me know if you need anything yada yada yada.
I will not however clean your apartment
Anything
but
Wow.
I think that's the consensus.
Nobody's going up there, mine own.
Wow,
Sarah.
Wow.
No.
I'll do anything for you with your cancer, but clean your apartment.
Right.
Wow.
Sarah.
Thanks, Sarah.
Wow.
I got this from Tina Jim.
With fruit trees come endless bees.
Keep that in mind regarding your grandchildren.
Tina,
that is a good point.
Because that guy that was in here from...
TC horticulture
no, he didn't huh although you know what you could do then talk to big Wayne oh
and get a little
yeah,
or doing that being educational
And then give me the talent
and they can make my cello
and that's how my skin
and like I have those boxes that Pull out the sheets.
Yeah, the kids But that could not end well too.
I don't know
you know what I've been using a lot.
I've been using honey
that honey that Wayne gave us had it sit in my thing and it's like, well, this will never die.
I mean,
you
know what I've been using?
I'll be honest with you.
Put it in my drinks.
What are you putting in your drinks?
Honey.
And
Kessler's?
Yeah, of course.
Kessler's
and honey
is amazing.
Yeah.
And they did a thing the other day because I hate, so I'm trying to eat yogurt and I hate it.
I hate Greek.
Greek yogurt has to be the worst tasting
thing that there is.
It's rough.
Get vanilla.
Well, then you got the carbs and you got the things.
So I'm just eating regular basic Greek yogurt and it's terrible to you
put a honey in it.
Yeah, that changes.
Yeah changes it completely.
I put blueberries and raspberries and honey in my yogurt and it's it's awesome.
I'm making ribs barbecue and I'm gonna put I'm gonna make you know, I don't like buying that sauce.
I like to make my own.
So I'm gonna put some honey in there.
Oh,
really?
Sugar and some what's gonna be good.
How do you make your sauce?
I'm just telling you I'm gonna make
it.
What else though?
I mean, what else you put in because I would love that.
I've never, I love ribs.
Oh, I won't say this.
Ribs are kind of, to me, ribs are kind of like chicken wings in that they're almost more trouble than they were.
Not if they're good though.
No, you got to take
off.
This is what you do.
You just throw them on.
That's what you do.
No, there's tricks to that.
First of all, you take off that, what's that called, membrane or whatever that stuff.
You got to peel all that back.
So then the ribs are a lot better.
Oh, you know what I mean?
No.
Yeah.
No.
Let's see.
What's today Tuesday?
I'll probably make him third.
No, you're gonna be here.
The last time I had ribs, this is how far back this goes.
I used to do a weekly radio show at Damon's.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
That was a great place.
Why did that go under?
Yeah, I don't know if it was a red lobster.
Didn't they have it all you can eat, you know?
And Green
Bay
usually puts those
people under.
Gave way
too much.
I've been a red lobster.
Do you ever go to Damon's Todd back in the day?
Damon's ribs?
Never.
No, it was good.
I mean, it might be a fast food version of ribs, but it was good.
Yeah.
OK.
You know another place is this still open?
What was the place I don't know?
Where you cook your own steaks?
Well, that's still open.
Is
that still a quarter?
Yeah,
it's still there.
OK.
Yeah, that's still there.
I.
Yes.
Boy, I haven't been there in years, but it's like that sounds like fun to go and grill your own steak.
Don't
you
go out?
No, I don't go out to be waited on.
No, I grill my own steak at home.
Anyway, yes, that's still there that that's got to be one of the long older restaurants in Green Bay
Yeah, that's right.
I didn't even know if you're still in existence.
That's been around forever.
Yeah
Again, I'm old and I'm cheap.
Yeah, so yeah, but has fast food like really got up at price Yes, like I said it has $36 at McDonald's the other day and it's like
what yep, it has there's It's not the cheapest place but it's expensive
Yeah, I went to see a friend of mine, a friend of Donna's.
She's 96 in a nursing home, in Angle.
And I said, well, I want to bring you something, you know, nursing meeting.
She, you know, she wanted, and I hadn't been there in a turnover, a cherry turnover from Arby's.
All right.
Never, I never.
I never would have thought of that.
I never, I never have.
I didn't know they had cherry journals.
I haven't been to Arby's in, oh my God.
20
years I can't even know I don't know if I've ever done or be honest with you
But that's like her favorite favorite thing, which is cool.
Oh, thank you.
So anyway, that's I forgot what did I pay for that?
I don't know.
But anyway, there's fast food.
I don't like anything cherry.
Oh, I do.
There's I was you know, I
don't like it different variety and she
really know cherry and you know, but the regular cherries
I love them
Right off the tree.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Cherry tree.
That's what you got to have in your orchard.
Oh, actually, that would be
pretty cool.
I will.
Because if we go picking, we go cherry picking all the time.
But yeah, that definitely will be a cherry tree.
You can just, but I hope this works.
You got to stop talking about it.
But first, I state claim to metal detect the entire area first.
And I get to keep, I'll give you 25% of what I find.
No, I don't want it.
You
don't want anything.
No, so I'm gonna probably find coins from like the 1700s.
Yeah.
Okay.
How long are you?
I'm gonna give you
I might find like I might find John Nicolay's
watch.
Okay.
I'll just here's the deal.
You got like six hours to do it.
Okay.
We go on and on.
But I have to get this is gonna be a
I need a helper though.
I need a helper because you need the one person and then you got to hold the thing there while the other person digs.
So I need to help
I need somebody out there.
Will you help me metal detect Jim's properties back 40?
Oh, Michael says door County Cherry vodka.
Now, see, that doesn't sound too bad.
He also sent me something over the weekend.
He was having something called gin and juice.
And I think that Snoop Dogg actually makes it if I'm right on that, Michael.
And there's different flavors of these
Snoop Dogg.
Yeah.
And sold around here.
He apparently can get it pretty much anywhere.
So I've got to look for that.
He said it was really good.
That sounds good, actually.
Wow.
Okay, once again, who's cooler than us?
Everybody.
Michael.
Everybody.
Everybody.
Dr. Drain.
Except Brian.
Brian.
Brian.
Brian.
He's not cooler than us.
Oh, I love Brian.
He's funny.
We're cooler than Brian.
Keeps you guys in your place.
We need that around here.
Just saying.
Quick break!
Back
over to us.
It's hot.
Tuesday morning 53 degrees in Green Bay 59 out in 57.
Oh gosh Sunshine and high near 70 today for beautiful perfect Jamie Oliver is 50.
Who is Jamie
Oliver?
He is a TV chef.
Ah, okay guy from England.
Okay started doing chef stuff
like when he was in his team.
He's the kid
guy.
No He's known as the naked chef because he strips everything down to
You know what?
Okay, can I be honest?
You ever bring to England?
I don't
take that as like a great food place to you.
I think it's gotten better, but certainly back before the 80s.
Yeah, I mean, no, it's gotten a lot better now.
It is weird because like you think France, Italy, oh, even Germany.
Oh, but England.
Right.
I look like I'm in
here.
Maryweather is 89.
She used to be in Barnaby Jones.
Yes.
Yes.
She was
miss.
I think she was Miss America.
She was Miss America.
And she
was Catwoman on Batman for a few years.
That's
right.
That's right.
And you know what?
She still looks really good for her age.
That's not creepy.
No.
Jesus.
89.
89.
He's talking about a hot chick
at 89.
I'm not saying she's hot.
She still
looks really, really nice.
Okay, let's let go.
Life in La Sonia where he grew up had me.
Laconia, Rosendale, Rosendale.
Adam Corolla is 61.
I thought he was dead.
No, Adam Corolla is the comedian and he does his own podcast and all that kind of stuff.
Was he on The Man Show?
Yes, he was.
Okay, I thought he was dead.
No, who am I?
I'm thinking of Norm MacDonald.
He's thinking of Norm.
He's dead, right?
He's dead.
Okay, okay.
They kind of are the same type of humor.
kind of dryish sort of
yeah a little bit
yeah
norm i think crossed the line a lot he went up to that line and jumped over
yeah i agree i agree um got a nice text here from vicki i think john's tallow is helping his face plus i think his pickle sandwiches sound great vicki thank you vicki oh man
okay
I
do that's all that's all too much
But it's it's like this
is god never get him back.
We're
yeah, God is always found a way to like bleep with me Okay, like he sits there and he's like, you know, I'm gonna do what are you doing today?
God, I'm gonna bleep with
my own message
Okay, cuz look at my face right now is more luminescence than it's ever been and I got to have surgery on my face Okay, my tallow is doing wonders for my skin my complexion look at you can see look it right here.
It's it's
Illuminous you can see the reflection my skin has never been better because of be tell him Big Wayne go to the dock
big way bring me
up bring me a bucket of tallow
Why don't you ask the dermatologist tomorrow cuz what cuz they know what they're talking about and ask him see I'm
serious even Vicki just said my skin is looking so good.
We're on the radio John
But
she's what
we got video.
Oh, that's right.
She's watching you forget that I do I forget that look
how red your face is right now.
Yeah, I know you're making me mad.
It's unbelievable
We're good.
I'm glad I am because put on some sunscreen.
I did I did you did not I did too.
You lied.
I did no you didn't Donna Donna asked her Did he put sunscreen on yes or no
ask her?
It's funny.
She's right there.
You do have red red face today, but on the camera It almost looks like a beat color.
I know that's what I mean.
You look at that
It looks really red on camera.
So
if you
want to see this, go to our Facebook page, Mino and the mayor.
Click on the video.
One's got luminescence and others just burnt to a crisp.
Just thrown it out there.
Brewer's on the air tonight, Boston.
The Red Sox in Milwaukee, 505 on WISS.
Having kind of an up and down year, a lot of injuries and everything like that, but I still think they're going to put it together.
I like their manager.
I like their manager a lot.
Boy, the bucks are a hot mess, huh?
With the whole Yanis thing and their coach and what I mean, two years ago, they won the.
NBA championship
should be a given that they won the next year to
and I seem so far away from that now don't think
yeah
Horrible.
Oh man.
Um, okay, so Brian even I was so Pissed Saturday watching that Indiana fever game with the the officiating so I love Caitlyn Clark I am I am unbelievably devoted to Caitlyn Clark I'm just throwing it out there and she's out for two weeks now as we mentioned with that quad strain or whatever
She is the face of the WNBA and everybody hates her.
And it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
People are making so much more money now because of Caitlyn Clark bringing in the TV ratings.
And everybody wants to like put her down and it's like, I've never seen anything like it.
I've never seen anything like it.
Like you said, she should walk away.
Yeah.
And she's got so, she's so classy.
She never fights back with whatever.
She is totally honest.
I'm gonna be totally honest with that something.
Okay?
I would be the male Caitlyn Clark.
You're the guy that never shook hands with the opposing team?
Only when we lost.
I didn't.
That's... a lot of people don't.
But what
I'm saying is, huh?
Nobody does.
Everybody shakes hands.
Win or lose.
That's sportmanship.
I wasn't a great sport.
I'll be honest with you.
Oh, you're 100% honest with me.
And none of us are going... Really?
Really, you know what, John?
Say it ain't so.
I... I regret that.
I should have been nicer.
I should have been better.
Yeah, I should have been better and I can't believe your coach let you get away with that.
He wasn't the greatest sport in the world either.
I'm going to tell you a quick story about
him.
He played college football at Northern Michigan and he was actually drafted by the at the time the Boston Patriots at AFL.
Okay.
I've got a book like a preview thing with his name in it.
Cool.
As a linebacker, remember Jerry Glanville, head coach?
He
was
Favre's first coach.
Yeah, I know.
And
we hated Favre.
But,
okay.
Well, he was that weird dude.
Very weird.
Yeah.
But anyway, he played football at Northern Michigan too.
Oh.
Okay.
And I mentioned one time, I said, hey Jerry, I had him on my show.
And I ripped through it when I said, hey, by the way, my high school football coach was a teammate of yours at Northern.
He goes, who's that?
And I told him, Dick Koskos, oh man, that guy was a stone cold killer.
So, for Jerry Glanville to say
that.
Right.
Wow.
He was,
you know, he's one of those guys I never, I don't think I ever saw him laugh.
You ever have those old coaches back in
those days?
We're just too serious.
Everything is serious.
No joking around, no nothing.
He was one of those guys.
Your coach really, he didn't scold you, didn't bench you for not shaking hands.
He was okay with it.
Wow.
Anywhere Catholic school?
Oh, great school.
Oh, good one.
Okay.
Oh my God.
Really?
I remember the priest coming into half time one time and
tearing
into us for the way we were playing.
That was a different era up there.
Probably.
Quick break!
Kristen Ambrose joins us next.
Jump in, leave a comment and be a part of the conversation.
Now back to Mino and the Mayor.
Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here in a beautiful Tuesday morning.
Kristen is stopped because of a train.
Are they?
Okay, Jim, I'm not even joking about this.
Okay.
Are they, like this time of year, are there more?
I mean, that's almost, I mean, Todd, how many times recently have you been stuck with these trains?
Oh, for two weeks, it was pretty much every morning.
Yeah, that's a good question.
I would say no that it's because it's cool, right?
I mean, that's what they're bringing
in.
I don't even know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That's a good question.
Man, it seems like they're always going across Walnut here.
It's like crazy.
I agree.
I don't like working on the west side because the trains and I
And I wish it would, but there's just so, so, so difficult to work
with.
Well, didn't you say there was supposed to be a time limit or something?
Yeah, and they don't care.
No.
I mean, I think we said eight minutes because of ambulances.
I know, right?
The
part I love is when they stop and then back
up.
I know.
Why can't, well, I guess you don't want to do it at midnight because he would wake people up, but it's just their timing is awful.
You know, noon, um, when people are,
I mean, how many guests have we had?
Hey, sorry, I'm stuck with the train.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
I, and I don't know, it's so, so expensive to fix it.
You know, I mean, you have to go over or under, right?
Um, it's, I've, I, that was one of my bigger frustrations and they're hard to work with.
I don't mind if something's like, oh, this is kind of difficult.
They're like, well, let's, let's work together.
But.
Those guys, uh-uh, like the profile things, as much as we talk about how difficult they are, they were easy to work with.
They'd spray them, they'd wrap them.
They're like, look, how can we make this thing work?
And they tested them.
But, you know, Canadian nationals like, you know, okay.
Ah, Canadians.
Oh, yeah.
That's where they are.
And
they're like, they said right, they'll
look you right in the
eye and say, you know, don't mess with international progress.
Wow.
Do we still need trains?
Mean here in Green Bay.
What I mean is like we got such shipping and we had the guy I think it was our first show we ever did right and the guy blew me away when he said oh man how much one ship is like 40 Semis no
no no it was like those hundreds of semis
he just
off the road.
Oh, yeah, no it Yeah, I don't know why trains are so important.
I guess I'm sure it's all economics, right?
It's got to be a cheaper way than trucks, but
I mean, that seems something from like the Civil War days that we still have to use trains and transport stuff.
I don't know.
I'm the master planner of this community.
Why would you run it
right through downtown, right in the middle of downtown?
Was that you?
Civil War?
I think it was.
I don't.
Where's Kristen?
Anyway, she's right there.
Kristen, you want to?
All right.
I got an idea.
Kristen, why don't you come into the studio to do the show instead of standing out there and talking to Todd?
You ever want to think about that?
How are you Chris?
Oh boy.
No, she's got an edge to her today.
Do you want to know what's so funny about this is because anyone who's listening who knows me is not even shocked that I'm a couple minutes late.
Not even, but today it was.
Was it the train?
It wasn't the train, but it was every single driver was like Sunday driving.
It's Monday morning, technically people, right?
Thank you.
What's up with
that?
I was behind so many slow cars and I could not get around them.
The good Lord was out there saving my life today by making me slow down.
The other thing we could work on, and I don't know about Appleton Oshkosh, but light synchronization is something that...
Yeah, that would be beautiful.
It's horrible.
It was Sunday
morning.
I used to be better.
Sunday morning.
I'm sitting over there.
There isn't a person in downtown Green Bay, except for me.
And I sat on the corner of Walnut and Washington.
I swear it was 10 minutes.
And there wasn't anyone in sight.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's
a camera up there, but I've run that.
I'm
just like, this is crazy.
I mean, two minutes to sit there.
First of all, Sundays, they should flash till probably seven.
Right?
Right.
Who can we get on the phone to fix this?
Well, no, the guy, I just want to tell you.
Would
I have got a ticket if I went through that light?
No, we don't have cameras.
Oh, I think you said there are cameras.
There's
yeah, but they can't give you a ticket.
Okay, okay places they do Oh,
yeah, Des Moines, I got I can show you proof of that.
Wow Those things you can't argue with those they've got your license in the front and the back and a picture of you driving Those cameras
the Chicago tolls are the same way that I pass has been my best friend right
It's amazing.
There's nothing creepier than opening up a ticket, seeing yourself.
It's right there.
Not knowing you didn't take the time, the speed.
I've never
seen that.
I mean,
I've
never seen one
of these.
You're on
this
highway.
It's like, you know what?
You got me.
And
they
zoom, they zoom right
in.
Oh, yeah.
Really?
Oh,
yeah.
My husband and I traveled.
People don't get out of that, do they?
Yeah.
I don't
know.
Some guy had a mask and, you know, I mean, what are you going to say?
It's like, Judge, that's.
My husband and I drove over from Chula Vista.
into Tijuana and back when we went.
You drove into Tijuana.
Why'd you just lock?
Oh my God.
Oh
my God.
That's like the bravest thing I've ever heard of.
Seriously, we do some crazy things.
It's pretty cool.
But we drove over, driving over again, no big deal, driving back.
There were cameras on all the sides of both sides of our car.
And it was like, because we're getting every possible side of your face and picture to make sure when you get up there.
that when you give them your passport and things, it's real.
Yeah, it's crazy how many cameras they have on
you.
Wisconsin should have cameras that can keep those tickets out.
But you go, Kate, you can just do a little break.
I don't like it.
I should say you guys,
but I mean, there are cameras here,
aren't there in Green Bay?
Oh, sure.
If there was an accident there, there's cameras.
Look up.
Look up.
What do you think those things are up there?
They're all cameras.
OK.
But they won't give you a ticket problem.
They can't.
The state
doesn't allow that.
That would have to go through our Senate and...
I'm personally okay with it.
Jim had those installed and he has a secret room in
his basement where he
sits.
Yeah, it's kind of like a 1960s
sci-fi.
It's like a bunker with all these
things.
I'm the one that doesn't need or want any of those cameras anywhere because I'm always flying in hot.
We
are with Kristen Ambo's point-markage corporation, Always On Point.
It's a phenomenal
podcast.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You
just got it though.
You've got that knack.
You got that gift of it.
It seems real easy
for you.
The gift of gab.
You do.
Yeah.
It seems real easy.
Yes.
I enjoy it so much.
It's so great.
It's because you know what you're talking about.
Yeah.
It's so easy to talk about.
But you know it
well.
It definitely helps.
And one of the things I do truly love about that podcast is because it got to a point where you're following all these algorithms online and it's one of those where it's like.
You're constantly chasing some things so that your stuff is up top.
I'm gonna
say somebody else that's cooler than us.
The guy in the big lining coogle truck right outside of our window.
To back those things that size into this narrow little place
next
to us.
Those guys have so much
skill.
One try.
One
try.
Boom.
Man, I wish I could do that.
It's nuts.
It's nuts.
I'm gonna be a semi driver.
Someday
I would love to be a semi-driver.
I just don't want to have to back up.
No That's a tough job.
I know poor drivers.
I give
those people all the credit.
Yes, I do too.
I do too the country.
I know some of those cabs
are Oh, those cabs are amazing now.
Yeah, they are they are they are they are I would love that and then I would be the guy that brings the dog, you
know, I totally
would do
that.
Yeah
Wow.
That's awesome.
Hi, Kristen.
Hi.
How are you?
Did you have a
nice weekend?
I did.
Good.
What
did you do?
I did.
You know what?
I set my phone down for two days, and I haven't done that in over a year.
Nice.
And it was phenomenal.
Absolutely.
And the whole- And the sun came up.
The sun came up.
But I think the whole industry, buyers and sellers alike, is just tired.
they're burned out of the industry.
Really?
And I think that they just usually, usually holiday weekends doesn't matter.
And this weekend just didn't, it's just, it's burnout.
It does where you down.
I mean, we've all
been in there.
And it's because it doesn't end.
You might get a call at quarter to 11
at
night or six o'clock in
the morning.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
But no, my husband's a veteran and we did a lot of just chatting between all of us.
You know, we went up North, a lot of graduation parties, but then that was just crammed in.
Oh, that's cool.
Love Crandon area.
Crandon's awesome.
Heck, yeah.
I, this is totally off topic, but if you're looking for somewhere to go, I gotta plug Hollywood Hills.
It's a new campground up in Crandon and they are building something phenomenal up there.
Really, really good people.
Although I will say this, one of the most mad I've ever been in my life was the day I took my daughters and my nieces up to Crandon to ride that train and they're closed on Sundays.
That's a long drive to go to some place and it's closed.
It's like from family vacation.
Where they
go to Wally's world or whatever.
It's like, kick it in, kick it in.
Sometimes people Google it.
Yeah.
But
we didn't have Google back then.
1985.
Oh, okay.
It sounded like it was more recent
than that.
Hey, I have to, I have to, I have to ask, has anybody suggested, can I interrupt for the bingo card?
Nancy.
We are doing you know about this Chris.
I don't know anything
about that.
This
is good.
Tell me about it.
We're having a contest.
So we're gonna well, it's not a contest hold
on.
Let me back it
up.
I just thought one
morning these two have so many little sayings that they always
do
whether it's sometimes it's yada yada yada Sometimes it's whatever whatever
right
Jim talks about linens For whatever reason yeah, and so I thought you we could create bingo cards and
have
listeners play along
And
we can
even have some of our frequent guests on, like, Kristen could be one of the bingo
spots, right?
Absolutely.
I'd love to be a bingo spot.
You're in.
Yes.
You're in.
I would love that.
Todd, look him up
with something you
say
off.
Todd's putting
this
all together.
I'm going to play
this game.
So yes, Nancy, we have thought about, can I interrupt?
Because it's said all the time from these two.
Coffee spills.
There were two this morning, so if you had a bingo card,
Well, if I'm being honest with myself, that was part of the reason why I was late too.
You're walking out.
Well, I remember the last time I was here, I spilled coffee all over myself.
Yeah.
I see you're like, what's going on with you
guys?
I
know.
Just a disaster over here.
Yeah, it's it's nerves.
Yeah, but we both did spill.
Last week was horrible or two weeks ago.
I spilled a full cup and I was so I thought we're going to get shorted out.
We're going to have an electrical short.
I
really did.
I mean, that could have happened.
It's amazing
our
jobs over that
and it didn't it didn't stay at this table must be on a little bit of an angle because it
It was like the rest of the show it
whole table.
It just kept coming.
Yes from under equipment
Yeah,
it was crazy.
It was time to clean anyway,
but this is like right now is a real
time for you
guys, huh?
Yeah, it is we're in the thick of the spring market really are and One of the things that I love that we do is as a company is
We give a $500 credit to all of our, like Memorial Day and just veterans that serve, veterans who are currently serving.
I know we're thinking about those that we lost, but it was just a reminder of how much we still really care.
And a lot of times, you know, it's just one, it's just a straight give back.
They're not, it's not in the margins.
It's not increasing here.
It's not, it's just a straight give back to our frontline workers, to our veterans.
And what I love about our program is it's both inactive and retired.
all frontline workers.
So even if you're retired, we still want to thank you for your service in those front lines.
So that was really neat, but no, just really coming together.
One of our friends that we were with this weekend lost a friend in combat.
And so it was just a way, you know what I mean?
To come together and just honor them, remember why we can do what we do every day and why we can sit around and have a beer or a burger and just enjoy life together.
And that was really this weekend for me.
It was all about just hanging out and being present.
And gosh darn does that feel good.
That's awesome.
Live in the moment.
That's great.
Hey, are people, so you do just a ton of different mortgage rates and things.
Are people refinancing or is that a thing of the past?
There are some that are refinancing because rates are down a little bit on the refinance side, but mostly Jim, what we're finding is they're combining their equity.
to get out of really high debt, interest rate debt otherwise.
So they
rolled a credit card into the
hope market.
Credit cards, cars, personal loans, you know, some second loans.
Loan sharks.
Yeah, some second helux were even up to 10%.
Right.
And it's a way to get that, but yes, yeah, home equity lines were up just as high as the rest of them.
So they're wrapping it in and starting it over.
Okay.
Well, that's good.
I mean, because you want to- Because
the appreciation is going up.
And it's kind of nice to have
one payment too.
You know what
I mean?
I think,
but you roll that
stuff in and it's like, oh my God, my mortgage is double.
You don't want that either.
But you got to discipline yourself not to bring your credit card up again.
I was just going to say,
that's the problem.
Bad things happen to good people all the time, right?
They things happen, life happens.
There comes in threes and nothing's a hundred bucks anymore.
It's always a thousand.
You know, we're like 10 years.
$36
at McDonald's by
breakfast, my grandchildren the other day.
Seriously, like it is what it is and life happens.
But I
will say this though.
The greatest bargain in Wisconsin is still Bay Beach.
Yes, 25 cents for a ticket.
25 cents for a ticket.
That is still the
best bargain in the state of Wisconsin.
And it works.
Except for the slide.
Johnny wants to...
My daughter likes that.
We're going to wax the slide.
The slide, people stop before the last thing they have to like
push themselves.
Oh, they got to wax that.
It
needs to be shellacked or something.
Get on there.
Slip your potato bag.
We'll get us in a quick break.
Kristen
Ambrose.
Owens on point.
Back at first.
Boy, got some funky music on today, Todd.
I always use this for her,
because it's
for the love of money.
That's right, for the love of money.
Kristen
Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation.
I was on Point Podcast is sensational.
We were talking during the break here a little bit.
You said something that like shocked me, that there are some rates that are up to 10%?
Yeah,
there were some home equity lines that were up to 10%.
Yep.
So there's a lot of really high interest out there.
And, you know, people are so afraid of losing their
two and a half, three and a half percent, and I don't blame them, I'm one of those people.
However, if you're drowning in debt and you really, truly don't have a way to get out of it, if you can, we can show you, I've got an amazing blended rate calculator, you put in all your debt, you put in what the interest rate is, and if you refinance what the interest rate is, and almost always, it's between six and seven percent.
So when you blend that rate out, you're getting rid of those 30% because all you're doing is paying interest and interest and interest unless you have the ability to pay thousands of dollars over every month to get that down right now without any relief in those credit card interest rates and even some vehicles.
People get in accidents and have to buy cars all the time.
And it's a bummer because maybe they were at 1.9% and all of a sudden they're at 7% on a car or something like that.
If you're not going anywhere and your house is there and it's got the equity, you can't cash out of it over 80% loan to value anyway, which means you'll still have 20% equity, leaving you in a good position.
Now, do I say you should always rep all your debt in your mortgage?
No, depends.
But like Jim was saying, you've got to be very careful and it's got to be a discipline then.
or you fix it and you don't go back into it.
If you're gonna go back into it, you're gonna do anything else and you just can't keep repping your house till you're never gonna be able to move out.
Do
young home buyers understand how horrible interest rates can be down the road?
You know, it's actually quite nice because they're starting to really understand.
Okay.
Like for so long they were holding out and now here's the deal is everyone, even three years ago,
people were like, oh, they're coming down, they're coming down.
I'm always a skeptic, but that's because I lived through the option arm era of 2008 and 10.
And so I'm always going to be a skeptic when it comes to that.
And I heard the best thing is, you know, everyone's like, what are rates going to do?
And the best quote I heard this last week was.
My crystal ball is cloudy every day except today.
Like that's the only day I can talk to you about rates and knowing what they're gonna do because no one knows what they're gonna do tomorrow.
And we've been so surprised time and time again that I won't say this is exactly what they're doing.
Try to follow as best I can.
But it's actually the parents and the grandparents who are starting to sit in with these younger people and say like, listen, six, seven percent isn't bad.
Don't hold up.
Don't wait for it.
Buy when you're ready to buy.
Don't wait for the market.
When
I looked at first buying a house, which was probably 1982, three, whatever, it was 14%.
Yeah.
And people are always going to purchase, regardless of what market we're in.
They're always going to purchase.
If you try to time the market, nine times out of 10, you lose.
When you are ready to buy a house, I don't care if the rate's 10% or 3%, don't buy until you're ready.
Right.
I think today there's, you talk about
parents sitting in on the meetings, a little bit of that, but there's just a lot more information.
You're there.
You weren't there back in the 80s.
So we can go to someone like you and say, look, these are three, four, six different options for you.
Realtors want to sell the property and banks want to give you the money.
So where's the person looking out for you?
Like a Dave Ramsey.
bias program or you can even get that thing online where you just type in your questions and they respond to it.
So there's more help out there.
You got to look, but then you talk to your friends too, say, what did you do?
You know,
they'll tell you.
And it's like, man, I'll tell you what not to do.
Yes.
And there's a massive threat obviously on our industry with AI because it's so easy to, your bigger loan companies right now are utilizing AI to answer their phones.
and talk to you and all that, where we're still a company that puts the person first.
The real person.
We want to talk to you like, I have a kid right now, really good farm, get him working with, and he still works for his family farm, and he's got handwritten paystubs.
And I'm like, all right, AI, I'll take you onto this one.
And those types of things, that's what computers can't do.
They're the best.
I love them.
I love them.
And they're just so hardworking, they want to learn.
They are typically, I know this sounds stereotypical, I don't mean it to, but they are typically cash as king.
And so you're working with a lot of that cash and you're trying to teach them how to get a credit score because the one thing, Dave Ramsey's amazing, the one thing I disagree with them on is buying a house with no credit.
Because when you're like, you don't need any credit to buy a house and you don't, however, a credit company, like my job, I'm selling you the money, right?
completely looking at all the risk that could come in this house because I want my money back.
I don't want you to foreclose.
I want my money back if I'm the investor.
So when you have no credit and you're paying cash, I don't know if you're paying cash on time.
I don't know if you're paying cash late.
I don't know what you're doing.
And so unfortunately the GSEs, which are the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, tell us in the guidelines.
if we don't know how they're paying their bills, we automatically have to assume they're not, which we're gonna then quote them a rate based on a 620 credit score.
So that's why building up some credit is important.
Off the Dave Ramsey thing, but his death snowball, I agree with 100%.
Like if you're in debt and don't know how to get out, get it in front of you and start paying it off.
And I like that.
He faces reality.
And boy, those people when they kind of like hide something, they're asking them a question, he doesn't wait a minute.
And then,
to get a second job, but doesn't last forever to pay off debt, interest rates especially.
You'll take your largest one that's at whatever, 17
or
something and pay that off.
And he goes, I don't care what you want to do, take the job that pays the most.
If you're cleaning sewers, you know, instead of delivering pizzas, he's
just
do whatever.
It only takes two years and then
maybe that'll be done.
But he's just like, look,
I like the sacrifices
he
makes.
You could throw up your arms and do the easy thing and just clean bankruptcy.
Or you could put your elbows in.
really dig in deep, get yourself out of debt, and be proud of that.
And there's an end to it.
That's the way.
There's an end to it.
There's a lot of ways to do it.
I'm always happy to look at somebody's situation.
I always say we don't have a low credit score because...
You might not, even with your credit score now, you might not be able to buy right now, but I can work with you.
We can work with you to get you on that trajectory of when you can buy.
Awesome.
Kristen Ambos.
Yeah.
Point Mortgage Corporation.
Always on Point.
Podcast is phenomenal.
Thank you.
Stick around.
We
got Sean coming on here from Marinette, but you want to stick around?
Sure.
You can.
All right.
I'm happy to.
All right.
This guy's great.
Great.
Thanks.
Back up this.
And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Hour number three here on a beautiful Tuesday morning, 53 in Green Bay, 59 in Alton, 57 in Oshkosh.
Sunshine and high today, near 70 degrees.
Got a text here from our man, Gizmo.
You said, I heard John talk about the big slide at Bay Beach.
The trick.
is that you got to keep your feet tight against your butt.
It creates less friction, and you slide all the way to the bottom.
When you stretch your feet out, you're creating more friction and slowing yourself down.
Yeah,
and
sometimes your shoes are hit the slide too.
That's a good point.
Oh, thank you, Giz.
But I'm still going to wax them.
I think so.
They need to be waxed.
Sean, you and I got to go
down the big
slide, baby.
Hey!
I'll take up 2.30.
You
take up
1.30.
I get 2.30 tough.
We got a shot and a pass back.
Marketing tourism director of Marinette.
We still got our wonderful guest Kristen Ambo's point markets corporation into house How's the how's the market up in the Marinette area for houses and stuff like that Sean?
You know, it's still in my opinion It's still really a good market in my you know, I mean you can buy housing in that area
Fairly inexpensive the interesting thing is is that it's starting to catch up and because of that Pete you people are like sticker-shocked out of stuff You know, they're amazed of what you're gonna pay two hundred twenty five thousand dollars for home.
You're like, yeah, that's that's what a new home cost
a couple of weeks ago I think it was we were talking about this where the like the Chicago type people are whomever whomever they all wanted door County well, there's
It's almost impossible to
find
in
water
there.
And these other earthy occantos of the world, the marinettes of the world, the monomones of the world, I think they're going to be discovered by people from outside here.
Shanno
too.
Shanno.
Shanno is like a little mini dorkoni in there.
They're getting
there.
Actually, we had those realtors on here from Shanno one day and that is, yeah, you're exactly right.
We're
actually, I'm actually.
I'll step ahead of you, brother.
So on Highway 57, I have a billboard going up that's going to say, come visit the quiet side of the bay.
Wow.
Nice.
I love that.
I mean, water, it's a great lake.
It's right there for gosh sakes.
It's
14 miles.
The only difference, we have breweries, we have wineries, we have all the things that you want.
just don't, you know, have the traffic.
So if you
want traffic and a lot of people, go to Dork County.
And it's across the bridge from eight marijuana stores.
There's the reason to
go.
There's
the reason to go.
Just a quick trip across the bridge.
But Chris, isn't it funny though?
It's like that's concerned.
I mean, it used to be
Monomony Marinette seemed like far away in this place.
Now things have gotten smaller almost.
Driving up to Marinette is nothing anymore.
Yeah, it's 45 minutes drive.
Yeah.
And it could be something like, you know.
On one side, it's high.
Our prices are low.
There you go.
We can figure that out.
Just
have to get them both there.
The real estate is low.
The other
stuff is high, so.
Well, that's some great things you guys got
going on.
I've been watching your event.
You advertised, which is great.
I think a lot of people are going to be going up there.
You also got the weather on your side.
I'm sure you look all the 14 day thing.
Yeah, right?
Praise God.
It's been a
rough early spring.
This is up until like this weekend.
Exactly.
This is like the worst May I've ever seen.
And I was so
happy for Depear Fest.
That thing, you know, it struck gold there.
Your deal is going to be that way.
So people can start planning.
Yeah, yeah, we're
looking
forward.
So we're having powerboat races on
the
Menominee River.
And it'll be next week, a week from this.
Friday,
Saturday.
Yeah, 6th, 7th and 8th on the 6th.
It's just going to be testing.
As we had Christy here last time, you learned how specific in particular those boats are.
But she's a tough lady.
She's amazing.
But it's going to be a great day.
It's going to be a great.
three day event that, um, we'll start with the testing and then the races on the seventh.
Start, start right now from start to finish.
Charles, what you got going on there?
Small boats.
Yeah.
They're, they're, they're, they're, they're hydroplaning boats.
Um, that are probably, I'm going to say about 10 feet maybe or a little bit less, but about, you know, five feet wide and they, they go anywhere from 95 to 105 miles an hour.
Can you imagine
that?
Wow.
Okay.
When you said about the testing, that's actually fun.
Yeah, because like I said, down in Detroit, we used to cover the races and we go on the testing day.
It was only a breather and they just testing is fun to watch that.
Well,
they need to know how they need to know how hard they can push and where they can.
you know, where
they need to play
off and go.
Yeah.
So that's going to be on Friday.
And then on Saturday, both days will be races.
There'll be 18 heats.
So there'll be 18 races.
There's according to what I've been told about 100 to 105 boats and about 60 racers because some of the racers race in several divisions.
Wow.
And this is
the cost to see this is free.
And that's unbelievable.
So bring your lawn chairs right at the beach.
How do you want to do that?
Yeah, no, you bring your lawn chairs because we've shut down the section of Riverside Avenue that is right on the river.
So literally guardrail rocks river.
I mean, there's perfect, you know, there's and and so it that's where the race will be.
And it starts at noon.
goes all day.
On which day?
Saturday?
On Saturday.
Both days.
Saturday, the 7th and also Sunday, the 8th.
And it'll be noon to 5 p.m.
So yeah,
be cool.
So you do that, food trucks?
Food trucks.
And beverages?
Yep, beverages.
Out in the sun.
It's a fun day.
Yeah, it's going to be... And something different.
Yeah, that's
different.
Yeah.
Yeah, so it's going to be, I'm, you know...
that was the whole thing the whole idea was let's find something that makes us a little bit more unique and
a
little bit you know everybody kind of does the especially during the summer months the festivals
right we do
them everybody does them I wanted to do something that maybe would give us that type of of response but
be a little bit different.
I gotta say, this is no, I'm not just blowing smoke at you, you're one of our advertisers.
But honestly, you are one of the hardest working guys as far as bringing notoriety to Marinette, Wisconsin.
You, I give you all the credit
in the world.
And I did all that because I think you also try new things.
Yeah.
Lose.
Yeah.
There are things that work.
A festival with,
you know, corn.
Yeah, absolutely.
That works.
Yeah, it
does.
put something else out there like this boat race, the blues vest, the rib.
Those are just cool things that are different that are people like 45 minutes away.
Yeah, I'll go to that.
Thank
you first.
I appreciate that.
And yeah, it takes a lot of work.
The whole idea is to try and find something unique that you can do that isn't so niche that you have such a small.
And my whole philosophy has always been if you do one thing, it doesn't hurt to add
another component to it, you know, so this is the first year for this because I've never done this before, so I've never seen it.
I don't, but there's a lot of other things that I'd like to maybe add to this, whether it's live music, whether,
I don't know.
These things can grow, but you gotta start somewhere.
We had a couple of the racers on here, and was it a mother son?
Yeah, mother son, yeah.
And it's crazy, they're into that.
Can you imagine that going on a 10 foot boat, 110 miles an hour?
No.
They lay on their stomachs.
They
lay on their stomachs
and they control with their feet.
Oh
my gosh, that is crazy.
I've never
seen
that.
And 100 some
miles
an
hour.
I've never seen that.
That's
fast on the water.
This to me is as a consumer, I'm like,
What can we do that doesn't break the bank and have a good fun, like have a lot of fun, especially
with
the family.
And
this is exactly what I'm hearing.
Something cool that kids love, adults love, everybody loves.
And that's the idea.
We're trying to make it so that it's
as free or as close.
Affordable as
possible.
is possible.
That's awesome.
And now that we know the weather is going to be great because the forecast is out, you got hotels still available?
Yep.
Yeah, we do.
We've got several.
Do you guys camp up there?
Yeah.
And we have actually, we have a camp.
Sites in in the city and then we have some around the city is all right.
Yeah, let's get on that Yeah,
that's so a great week.
Oh, I'm a little disappointed my friend Tara Rintamaki.
Yeah, that's right sold her place I used to love good up there for the best Western and be all Navy guys would be in there they like for a year They have like a five-year commitment or something all the Navy guys stay there and they're really fun.
They're fun to party with yeah, I believe that I mean your husband would be in a Navy guy
Believe that
yeah, I believe that yeah, yeah
You know, it's a great, that Riverside, Riverside's filling up fast because it's
the best
Western because it's right there.
It's on the water.
Yeah, it's right
on the water.
But we've got Holiday, we got a brand new Holiday Inn Express.
We've got a Comfort Inn and Suites, which is now an independent stay.
So same people, just different brand.
So it's gonna be great stuff.
And who you bringing out for the food trucks?
Do you have some
people in
mind?
Yeah, no, we do.
We've got, we've got,
One guy, Tasty Traveler, does Smash Burgers.
The
line
will be there.
I haven't eaten breakfast yet, so I'm already drooling.
The
only thing I wanted, a word of caution, is you guys have that beautiful thing of the horses and the wagons right in the park there.
Those horses are plastic.
Don't climb on them.
My granddaughters and I broke one of them kind of.
Kind
of.
My granddaughter's an I. I
think the
granddaughter, I think it was the I. I think it was the I, but anyway.
Actually, they're not there right now because the logs were starting to rot.
So we're getting new logs
and we're going to put the whole thing back in.
So you got the Smashburger guy and the
Thai fusion.
So it's
going to be Asian
flavor stuff.
All the Thai food is
great.
Yeah.
And then we're going to have a barbecue person.
Um, Thai chefs barbecue.
Um, and then we're also going to have, um, a, uh, like a dessert company.
Oh,
cool.
Sweet mamas.
Um,
are you
missing one thing?
What the beer?
He's going to get
it.
Italian?
Pasties?
Pasties?
Pasties?
No
pasties.
No pasties.
I tell you, that's why I'm going to make my money is a pasties.
It's going to be a food truck.
For past
not at 80 degrees.
I just, I don't see it.
I don't see it.
But maybe these
are great in
the winter.
I agree.
I'll take them in the fall too, but not, not nobody's
seeing this, John.
Nobody's seeing this.
I mean, you know, when
people do boo you parties on the 4th of July and it's 100 degrees, my husband's always like, I do not want a cup of hot.
No, you got the right thing going
on.
You know, I'm actually like that with my drinks.
Okay.
So I had to go to Heggemeister here to watch ball games because I don't have the same cable there for whatever.
Okay.
And the girl, the wonderful young waitress, she actually knows she goes Merlot, right?
And I'm like, yep, because it's cold.
I can only drink red wine when it's cold out.
Oh, sure.
But I drink, and I might lose my man card for this, I drink white wine when it's hot.
I'm the
same.
Is that?
Are you the same way?
You know what I mean?
OK, thank you.
Is that weird?
Oh, it's just beer when it's hot.
Yeah,
why not
a beer?
I'm not the biggest beer drinker in the world.
Isn't that something?
I'll
take
wine over beer.
I know there used to
be.
Oh,
I remember.
He's a very good and astute taste.
Shut the hell
up.
Do we
need to
open
up the
vault?
Where did your passion come from?
Because you didn't grow up in Marinette.
No.
Where did your passion come from that you want to make Marinette just a really cool destination place to go to?
Yeah, well, you know, I moved.
It's funny because I was in the service and we had two choices, move back to Marinette, move back to Chicago.
And I visited Marinette.
And it was a late summer night and I was walking outside because it was so doggone hot, I couldn't sleep.
And I saw everybody's front door was open.
And I'm like, OK, well, you know, there's this old guy who says, there's this old Sean that says, you know, this.
But then there's this other guy who says, this is so cool.
This is so absolutely amazing.
And so I chose to live in Marinette because it's a small town.
I didn't have to deal with the crime.
I didn't have to deal with the hustle and the bustle and all the
all the craziness.
And the people are good.
The people are great people.
I would say people in the Midwest, especially Northeast Wisconsin, this includes Green Bay, just have a heart of gold.
They do.
But you take those small communities like Marinette, Two Rivers, and then you bring in these festivals that are unique, right?
They do that kite thing, and they do a lot of cool things at Two Rivers as well.
Marinette's awesome as well.
And that's the best of both worlds where you bring in the big shows yet you can live in a
A small community.
Yeah, you're on the water.
Stick around.
We got my man, Sean Katzback, marketing and tourism director, Marinette.
We got Kristin Ambos, Point Mortgage Corporation.
And we got Bill Jartz coming up in a few minutes.
Back
after this.
Every time I look into your love Hey, welcome back my new mayor and a beautiful Tuesday morning 53 in Green Bay 59 out 10 57 on hush hush hide today near 70 degrees Milwaukee Brewers on the air this afternoon on W ISS at 505 taken on the Boston Red Sox once again Kristen Ambo's Point Markers Corporation the hell's Sean Katz back
Marketing Tourism Director of Marinette in the House, Billy Jartz will be joining us in a few minutes, but we're just talking about the great event you got coming up this weekend.
It is this weekend, right?
Yeah, no,
it's next weekend.
Next weekend.
Next weekend.
Okay.
So it's the sixth, seventh, and eighth.
Okay, can I just ask, Memorial Day seems like it was real early this year.
I always think of Memorial Day as being like the very last thing in
May.
I agree with you.
It did a little
bit.
Yes, it does.
It's a little bit ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah, but go ahead and we'll talk about it one more time here.
Yeah, thanks.
Um, so we're gonna have we're gonna have powerboat races.
American Powerboat Association is a, um, um, out of Florida.
It's it's the body that governs powerboat races.
Everything from the small boats like we're having up to the big like Budweiser boats that, you know, boats.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, those are cool.
Yeah, those those.
Those are the ones actually that'll be in Sheboygan.
So they'll have races there.
This is- Those are
the boats that outrun the cops with
that marijuana they're bringing up
to you.
Those cigarette boats, those are- They're incredible.
They are.
Anyway, I'm
a little bit
about those because those are expensive too.
Your thing is so cool though because you got a race, that's people,
10 foot
boat, laying down, driving with their feet.
That is like a-
Unbelievable.
Just
the whole
concept
is going to be fun to watch.
Yeah.
Oh, it's unbelievable.
Come see it.
Yes.
Come see it.
Right?
Free.
Free.
And three days.
Three days.
Well, thanks, Gary.
Yeah.
It's Saturday the 7th, and Sunday the 8th are the races.
Starts at noon.
It's supposed to end about 5 o'clock.
It's really going to depend on, you know, if there's any...
breakdowns if there's any, you know, crashes or anything like that, where they would have to tow the boats back that it might take a little longer.
Is it
drag racing or
oval?
No, it's an oval.
Okay.
It's an actual oval.
Christie, the woman who was here with me last time, she went out on the water.
She tested everything, took a look at everything so that she knew where to set the buoys and how to set everything up.
So, yeah, it's basically an oval race.
It's four laps and she said it takes about three to four minutes to do one complete race.
This sounds really cool.
It's
unique.
cool things that the food trucks and beer stands, that's going to be fun.
But to watch something different, instead of just talk to each other, you're bringing it.
Yeah.
And that's the whole idea.
I'm looking at those type of things.
You had brought up.
I mean, everybody does fireworks.
So I'm looking at, OK, well, what would it take to do a laser light show?
I mean, that would be a little bit different.
Okay, I will say
one of the coolest things that the draft was the drone show.
That's pretty cool.
I heard so much about the drone show too.
Yeah, that is cool.
Yeah, that's
cool, but we need a sponsor.
Hello,
Marks, go in.
Fireworks are what, $1,000 a minute or something little bit about those drone shows, but I'll tell you what they could do.
I wanna learn more about those, because we haven't had one in Green Bay yet.
Well, I guess we did with the draft, but I'm just, that's
the cool thing.
Yeah, that's the idea
though.
You'll build on this thing.
Try to create things that are slightly unique, but yet people can at least somewhat grasp in their mind.
And also that they can see it and say, oh wow, that would be something kind of cool to go see.
And that's the idea with these powerboat races.
Hey, Mino.
Yeah.
So our anniversary's coming up here on the show, right?
That's right.
That'll be next.
That'll be the next thing that he wants to put into play as a drone shell.
Absolutely.
I like it.
But he'll do it in the middle of the day.
That's not as effective.
Do you know what
his number
one
thing was going to be for our
first anniversary?
He swore he was going to have a helicopter fly over downtown Green Bay and drop ping pong balls.
And you were on the phone when I called the guy at the helicopter and asked for...
permission to do that.
And
last year I did.
It was the anniversary was like June 20th, 25th, 26th.
It's
a
whole story.
It's a 25th.
So last year we had a even smaller staff here and Jim kept saying, I want to do this.
I want to do that.
I want to do this.
I want to do that.
Shut down the roads.
I want to shut down the street.
We're going to have a band.
We're going to have food trucks
and
and ping pong.
Yeah.
And a ping pong drop where you could get five cents off a steel at Dairy Queen.
Yeah, awesome.
But we had no staff.
And so I finally had to say, Jim, we just, I can't do it, right?
I can't do it all.
So we're on the air that morning.
And we're talking about the past.
And as we're sitting here, these windows are wide open to Washington Street.
Up pulls a flatbed truck.
With a helicopter.
A city truck.
A city truck.
A city truck with all the barrels and guards to close off the street.
Because somebody went ahead and got that taken care of, but never cancelled it.
And forgot to tell him
that we're not going to.
The guy who said we
couldn't do it.
Closing off
Washington Street
with a big
barrier.
The guy who said we couldn't do it didn't call and cancel.
No, no, no.
The guy who said we couldn't did didn't know that you already had that
advice.
Oh my gosh.
Maybe I forgot to tell him that.
Throwing your own party.
You should
have seen
him
run
out of here.
You ran out of the studio and ran down the street to tell the guys that don't
go to the street.
Here's mine alive on the air.
No!
I'm really bummed I'm gonna have to go back and
find him.
I'll send it to you.
Please do.
Please do.
celebrations and parties,
gets people
out, and that would have been unique, didn't
happen,
but maybe we've been around for a while, I can try it again.
There you go.
Always a fan of a big party, and you're going to keep building on this, so your people are going to want to keep going back, so they can see more and do more and be part of it.
That's really awesome.
Yeah, that's the whole idea
is to, you know, always try to reinvent.
what the wheel already is.
You know what I mean?
You don't reinvent the wheel, but you try to add to it.
Absolutely.
We're
looking forward to it.
I think it's going to be a great time up there and it's for everybody, families.
Just try to have an exciting sleep over the next few weeks.
Oh,
yeah.
No,
you're going to be going to sleep.
Every little, you know, this issue, that issue.
I know, I know.
You know the city.
And then when it's all done, you'll be all jacked up and ready to go.
Right, yeah, yeah.
Sean
Caspack, marketing tourism director of Marinette.
Great, great event coming up.
Oh, six.
Week.
from this weekend with the Power Bolt Speed Bolt Racing.
It could be awesome.
Thank you for being here, my friend.
Thanks for having me.
It's always great seeing you.
Yeah, it's
great seeing you.
Back at
this.
Welcome back.
Well, a very special guest joining us right now.
Mr. Bill Jartz, how you doing my friend?
Unemployed for the first day
of my life.
He's looking for a job, talking about people.
Born in 1958, still relatively good shape, 40 years
of relatively
experience.
I have one joint that has been operated on.
So I showed you the picture I put on my Facebook.
You and me both in 1977 had beautiful afros.
Oh, wasn't that the best?
I just love that hairstyle.
We're
talking about that.
All you had to do was get out of the shower.
Shake your
head?
Yeah, shake your head.
No way you're going to die.
It's a great photo.
You didn't answer my question.
Oh boy.
I told you it's a horse
piece.
I'd have to flip a coin.
I asked her who she would have dated in college.
You
were
me.
So I had to flip a coin.
Well, she had a crystal ball.
It would definitely be Bill.
I gotta tell you something.
Billy and I, I could not find the article, Bill.
Remember when you, me and Daryl Burnett were on the front page of the press cassette?
Yeah.
Tell that
story.
No, that was, I just saw Daryl, Daryl was at the little going away to deal.
I was so great to see him.
What a nice guy.
Such a wonderful man.
And the note he wrote is like, my God, no, we were just, uh,
He and Joe Schmidt was that thing too on Thursday and Schmidt and Daryl left at the same time.
Daryl went to Indianapolis, Schmidt went to Minneapolis, and we took over to sports
again.
Bill and I started as sports directors in Green Bay at the exact same time.
1985.
That's what you said.
That's so cool.
And I'm going to tell you, and I've never mentioned this to you, Bill.
I've never mentioned this to anybody.
Um, the reason I have so much respect for Bill Jartz has nothing to do with you as a sportscaster.
First of all, I used to drive my... It was the loan.
People don't know I used to drive my daughter to school at times.
But anyway, when my mom died, I received one sympathy card from anybody in the media.
It's from Bill Jartz.
I believe that what you should yeah, but that says something about a person more than anything they do I agree in front of a camera.
I just want you know that always meant a lot to me, but when I
still got that card Oh, thanks.
I appreciate
it.
So
that was I mean, that's what you do and this this you know RIP thing on a social media.
Give me a break.
Yeah
Seriously, if the person means that much or you can pick them up anywhere.
Yes.
Go spend a while.
I don't know what a stamp is.
So what?
Where do you buy?
So in order to buy a stamp, do you just go to like an old person because like they wouldn't know how to buy a stamp these days?
Oh, I know.
Yeah.
You can get them at Costco.
Can you?
Like a sleeve of a hundred of them.
I was going to kill that Kristen.
I go to the Kildersville Post Office because the lady there is so nice and joys and little candy, little candy.
I stay maybe by one.
I'll come back and have
another one.
She
probably goes broke with buying
candy for
the Batman over there.
Bill Jart's tremendous career.
Bill, what?
Okay.
And I don't blame you for doing this, but what made you get out of sports and going to news?
And I will say this, back in the day, in no disrespect to sports casters these days, but in our era, and again, we're going to talk old guy sports casters.
I remember where I was just to say, if it's a dead animal, it leads.
We used to do so many like outdoor stories and things.
You don't see that stuff much anymore, right?
But as a sportscaster, that in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that was almost like how you made your mark, correct?
Oh, we, at one point we were required to do three outdoor stories, at least three outdoor stories a week.
Isn't that something?
And now it's pretty weird.
Now that you say
that, you're so correct.
You don't see that anymore.
And it's weird because, Joe, when you think about it, what will the vast majority of...
Guys do.
Guys and gals.
Right.
They fish, they hunt.
Yeah.
I know they play golf, play tennis, but I mean, a lot of those guys hunt and fish, and it's what we should do.
You cover what we're interested in, but what they're interested in.
Absolutely.
But I'm interested.
It made it easy for me, because I love to hunt and fish.
Plus, you know, they take out like the Manitowoc salmon derby.
Yes.
I mean, we go out there, go fishing.
I won that one here.
I've still got the article from Manitowoc Times.
I won the fishing derby in Manitowoc.
Yeah, but I got the donut eating trophy, so you'll never deny me that.
I still got the little statue.
I don't know if I should.
We're sitting in the middle of these
two right now.
We
might
get into it.
No, why did I switch to do it?
Chuck Ramsey, I said, someday, you know, when I retire, you can replay, but you're going to have to go to Wausau, Claire's small market, get some season as an anchor and then come back.
Well, it was like what happened, you know, Tom Salasky, one of the channel five and Chuck walked down the boss office.
There's your guy.
And, and, and there was a history there with Chuck going from, from sports
to news
and Chuck like me.
And, and so he had done Carmichael's ear and he said,
There's your guy.
And that's exactly what I thought.
Well, now they did an audition.
They had a blah, blah, blah.
They'd make it all official.
Do the, you know, I remember we did the news and then I just switched at the end.
Good night, everybody.
As a sportscaster, we switched over to a different scene.
Good evening.
Thanks for, and we did a tape and sent it off.
And here we are.
You found quite the partner.
You found quite the partner.
And that stuff can work quite honestly, not work.
I
mean, right?
You look at.
I'm talking not just the media, but even businesses in general.
Absolutely.
We're into a partnership.
It's like, ooh, I was told my students, be careful.
That one worked.
And really, no, and she's, we're talking about Kami Rasmussen.
Yeah, right,
right, right.
What a God for me.
She's an absolute God.
She was so kind.
And we just can't hit it off.
Right.
Right
away, did you?
I don't remember.
And we just
switched into news and here we just took off and we were both familiar with each other.
Right.
And I don't think we either have big eagles and I don't know that she got along real well with Tom Salasky and that's fine, whatever.
But for us, it hit it and we worked and for 26 and a half years, we made it work.
And it was real, you can tell.
And the thing
about it, Jim, is we don't do a lot of things socially.
You think, oh, we're going to go out and have dinner.
Nobody
does in the media.
People think your best friend is like a lot of whatever.
No, media people don't hang out with each other.
No, she
came out.
I think she went to our house twice.
Once was many years ago in our house.
We got hit by fire.
We had to rebuild our house.
We had a whole like housewarming party.
And then just the last summer when Jeff, we did a little party out at our house with Jeff and Sarah, Jeff Alexander and Sarah Thompson because they were leaving.
And uh, other than that, that's been it.
I've been, I delivered a Lord of Fire work to her house one time and she made these.
great Belgian waffles.
Oh my God.
Oh,
they're so thick and so much syrup and I just loved it.
But no, she's a sweetheart.
Yeah, I was happy for
you
guys.
She's she's what I don't know what her plans are.
Is she staying?
Is she
leaving?
She's under contrary.
I think till the end of December.
My understanding is he's going to stay.
I don't know.
Did they hire
replacement Fubo?
Well, I don't know why they have to say anything.
Chris Walthers taking over for
me.
That's what I thought.
That's exactly what we thought.
We actually talked her off the
air and we thought
Chris had just been moving to that spot.
I think he might have been
on the air.
Oh, yeah, maybe he was on the
air.
But he had
not.
Perfect.
And I don't know why they have to say that.
I don't know if they're worried about hurting my feelings.
I mean, I remember when Chuck was leaving, they said, I was taking over.
So what's the big deal?
But he's going to be taking over.
I think
He wanted it that way more than anything.
Now you wanted to kind of let this be my week last week and then we'll go from there.
So today it'll be Kami and Chris at six o'clock.
It'll be four, four, 30, five and six.
I guess it'll be for those, it'll be their schedule.
Really talking a little bit about the old days of sports casting.
What are some of the things that, you know, that stand out in your mind?
Well,
you know, you said the great thing about me sending your mother a sympathy or your sympathy card with you that year that our camera got stolen.
Oh, I remember then
I saw I saw Tim Hunt last week.
He came back from my party and he said, you know, you saved my job.
And I said, well, I did what was right.
What had happened was after a Monday night football game and we had he was shooting and he thought he put the rain cover down on the field.
So we're going to back on the field and try to find it.
So we set our camera in our box of tapes and things right in the hallway where we always did a thousand times.
I said, put it down there.
Let's go look.
Well, when we came back up the camera in the in the box were missing And
in those
days the camera was like $30,000 So believe it or not James Lofton helped us look for it.
We're looking around in the building We went outside looking in the dumpsters and every I was just unbelievable and finally we realized, you know, somebody had stolen our camera So we went back to the station.
What we're gonna do is we left the note and so we'll see in the morning So they will went back in in the morning and the general manager was going to
fire him because he was a photographer.
And I said, you can't fire him.
I said, you can't because I told him to put it down there.
You look at it, you're blackmailing me.
You can't do that.
You, I won't say what he said.
But he said, you're blackmailing me.
I said, I'm not blackmailing.
I told you, I told him to put it down and he followed my order.
What is he supposed to do?
If you fire him, I'm walking out the door with him because that's what's right.
And he said that.
He brought that up the other day and he said, it was very nice.
You saved my job.
I said, I did what was right.
And I really believe to this day,
I
do it a thousand times a thousand times a day.
That's a great story.
It was the right thing to
do.
Yeah.
Um, yes.
A lot of people wouldn't do that.
Well,
but
I mean, I think it's great.
That doesn't surprise me at
all.
I was just doing the right thing.
Right.
I love
it.
I
love
it.
I gave the order that the
camera's
got to go down on a ship.
That's all I felt.
Wow.
That's awesome.
That is.
Yeah.
What advice would you give these young kids these days?
trying to get into this business, Billy.
Cause I mean, don't, right?
Was your first job?
Was washed out your
first job.
And the only reason I got that job, John, is, um, I was a channel seven football ulcer in high school.
And in the guy that was doing Mark Zealots, who's a broadcaster, all the famous now deceased died a few years ago.
Great guy.
He, uh, he took care of one of his channel seven also.
I walked in for the interview and, and he had the slide.
And back in those days on the station IDs, you did a slide.
And so here's, remember this?
Here's a picture of Channel 7th Lutz, Bill Schmidt, Clintonville High School in 1975, Channel 7 All Star.
And he was so happy about it, so proud of that.
And I'd gone to Northwestern and we just talked about Big Ten football because he used to Big Ten play-by-play and all this.
And finally, I suppose we should go do an audition.
We'll walk through the old machine, the old wire machine.
It looks like, like, man, folks, if you're at home, you never seen one of these old machines because a lot of kids today don't even know what we're talking about.
But they look like rules
of,
like, they like hand-tell size.
And then we just constantly, constantly.
All of my logs and you come in the morning, first guy in the morning and rip it, rip the wire in the state, local, national sports.
So he just came over, grabbed some sports wires, put me down on a set and says, you're reading next day.
J Wilson from, he was the host of the state boys and girls basketball.
I
mean,
a great
guy in the high school ranks.
He said, Jartzie, I call him all the time.
He was leaving the business.
I just want to say, you know, congratulations.
Good luck to you.
Yeah.
He goes, geez, Jartzie, I knew you had that job before you.
I said, well, what do you mean?
He goes, I walked in there and Mark goes, oh, you're up against a pretty stiff competition.
You're up against a Channel 7 All-Star.
He said, I should have started right around the walk, right out the door, because I knew you were going to get that job.
And I was.
Wow.
And that's exactly what happened.
And I was terrible.
I just got awful, man.
But I worked with Mike Goucher.
Broadcasting all famous.
Absolutely.
John Carter was an acrodot of Madison Lynch Sprangers.
There's now Gooshers.
Everyone of
those names.
They're all, they're all, I mean,
they're big people in a bit and they were all there and they were seasoned, you know, so I got there and they let me because if this is the future, we got to get that
guy out of here, you know.
What did you learn when you left, how long were you out of the business?
About two and I left in June of 90, came back in January 93.
What did you like learn about being in the other world?
That
people, it's interesting and it's really helped me a great deal of business.
because you realize it's not, in the business, we had four television monitors, we'd all sit there and look at the monitor at the competition.
When you're at home, you're making dinner, you're talking to someone, you're petting the dog, you're overlooked, whatever.
And it's okay, so if you say a number, you should put it on the graphic, you should see it and hear it.
And somebody will say, call the number on your screen today when they write the comic.
They say, no, no, put the number in there because sometimes you can't see it, but you can hear it.
And
some people can remember phone numbers.
And some people sometimes you can't hear it, but you can see it.
So apply to all the different censories we have.
I learned that.
I learned that it wasn't to be all end all, but that it was still very, very important that people still want to know what's going on.
And it's changed a great deal.
I was back in 93 when he got back in it.
So now certainly,
I mean, you've got them right in front of you.
They're much more prominent.
But, you know, you learn that it's just, it's not maybe as much as you think it is in the business, you know, that it's just, okay, well life goes on with, I ain't like today.
You know, the guy's walking
his dog right
now because George is not in here, so what?
But it's just the way it is.
I just want, Bill, if you would notice that in front of the guys.
Uh, they have their copy printed for them.
Cause I know that was something that you always wanted up till the end.
You did not want to use the tablets.
And so I, the other night when I heard you talk about that, I'm like, I have to do that for Jim and Joe every day.
No, I, I was one thing that I met about, oh, she's 15 years ago.
They talked about probably to save money on printing and expenses in their paper, blah, blah, blah.
They said, well, we're going to think about just going to a tablet.
And I said, well, I'll just let you know.
I won't go on the air without paper.
And again, not because I'm trying to make a stand or anything.
That's just me.
You blackmailing me.
I co-host once in a while that little show over on Channel 5.
They're more thing.
And it's tablets.
I've never been able to figure it out.
Not one time have
I been able to use it.
So the draft comes up this year and they said, hey, Jartzy, just so you know, we aren't going to be able to print it.
And then you're going to have to use an iPad.
And my hands just started
slipping.
Bill Jart's our very special guest.
Back after this.
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Todd is awesome.
Wow.
Isn't Todd awesome?
Welcome back to our sports.
God, when I came back in 93, they said, I do the left.
And I turn and they
go, oh, Northeast Wisconsin,
I'm dead.
Cammie laughed about that so hard.
Well, thanks a lot, Cammie.
Well, I just want to
say thank you for your jerseys woohoo bro.
That is so cool.
I don't know how they pulled that off, but they did that.
Package that it's their beer.
They just put up my rapper run and we sold out my party for fundraisers We're gonna donate that was over 2,700 bucks already to CP curative connections and make a wish
It's just
perfect.
I mean, I mean, look at that.
The guy in the candle, I don't know if his nose is quite big enough.
He's pretty big, but
I don't
know if it's big enough.
I love
it though that they made sure he had the microphone.
Yeah.
Cause
you're
always doing the orchestra.
We did that from October.
We did a lot.
We used to tap the kegs all the time.
Just like
that.
I still have
them.
I still do too.
Hey, I gotta say that everybody thinks Billy is this, this greatest guy in the world, nicest guy in the world.
He and I, we've never had an issue, but boy have we talked about other people we didn't like in sports
or
whatever and
Billy would go off.
Hey Billy, remember the last time you and I did an event and I, it was my event in Appleton and the speaker was supposed to do 15
minutes and it
was like at 45 minutes and you actually told me, Johnny.
You got to do the auction.
I got to get back to
that night.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
No, I do.
And going back real quick to the camera stolen story, the one thing I want to thank you for that.
John was so gracious when the camera stolen and you let me use your postgame tape.
for the post game son on the game.
Now that's not going to happen very often.
And I thought, well, I was pretty doggone.
Nice of you to do that.
Cause I would
have not, we would have nothing.
We had no post game.
It was a Monday night football game, which was huge back in the day.
And I would have nothing without John.
So thank you again for that.
Well, you're
welcome.
But I'll tell you one of the, one of your cohorts really helped me out one time.
Joe Schmidt.
The first Packer road game I ever covered in my lifetime 1984 October of 1984 Packers at Denver and they got the day before the day I got there was 74 degrees the next day they got I think was 23 inches of snow The Packers fumbled on their first two plays of the game and they were returned for touchdowns on the first two plays of the game, okay?
Me and Joe are cameras are soaked.
We're soaked.
So we go in the locker room before the game ends to dry everything on
and try to, whatever, whatever.
Save it.
The door bursts open.
Here comes Forest Greg and the team.
Joe Schmidt and I hide behind the towel bins.
We're crouched out in the back of the lock, because if Forest Greg had seen us in the locker room, and we were there as Forest Greg just... Post game?
Yeah.
Tore into his team.
Do you remember that?
Did you ever tell you that story?
I remember even saying that we were locked in the lockers.
Yes, stuck in the locker room.
Yes.
Oh my
gosh.
And then it was snow was
so bad.
We couldn't even get a camp to go back to our hotel.
Joe called a cousin or somebody.
It was the craziest night ever.
But Joe Schmidt took care of me.
We used to trade all the time.
All the time.
We had the same bad, same cameras.
If you run out of power, we'd give you power.
You need a cable that was working.
We'll give you a cable.
Because we were very, very competitive.
I think
probably
more so than today.
But the thing we did is
Let's just help each other out because
we're
especially when you're on the road because it's the four stations against the world.
Absolutely.
And you're
away from home.
You just, let's make it happen.
Yeah.
And then let me write it better.
Let me edit it better, whatever.
But let's just at least give everybody.
So I knew you were, I'll never forget that.
And remember walking into practice the next day and a forest guy goes, I heard your camera got stolen.
I said, yeah.
He goes, Christ almighty, was that saved by our security?
Yeah.
I got no little altercation after that game.
Really?
Yeah.
With a sports writer or something from Denver.
Okay, built.
Okay, another thing.
We got the decks that weigh about 40 pounds.
Right.
We got the camera that weighs about 30 pounds.
Yeah.
And somehow you're still trying to extend your arm with the microphone.
Remember that one man
baggy?
Oh, gosh.
And I was all wet.
Okay.
So there's some guy, I'm like in back.
Right.
And my arm was like touched and he kind of like pushed me away.
And I, okay.
So anyway.
That
wasn't
good for you.
And Forrest Greg stops the press conference and goes, what the hell's going on?
Okay, he goes, I wish my team showed that kind of emotion tonight.
Oh, that's funny.
True story.
Oh,
unbelievable.
Oh, we can
go on.
You and I could
stay here for two hours until
old TV sports stories could wait.
Oh, God.
No, there's some great times.
And the thing was, John, I wish you let it...
In the beginning, it was terrible, but they weren't very good.
I mean,
we're
always going to hope, okay, if the stars
line
just right, they get eight and eight, maybe the other teams bustle, crash, and then we'll go to the playoffs.
And it wasn't really until Mike Holmgren and Ron Wolf came in there and then things changed.
They changed their route.
The
whole organizing.
Although I will say one thing, Bill.
Not a hundred percent for the better in the regards to the way because we just be able to walk in the locker room.
Oh, any time remember.
Oh, what kind of
see
Lee rebel?
Well, I'll only say hello to Shirley right now to see Lee
and once they started the thing Okay, we're gonna escort you into
the
thing and then escort that kind of
Yeah.
Change it for me.
Yeah.
Well,
it hurt.
I mean, cause we were, so we were used to the other, but for these folks, that's,
that's just what's just the way to shape it.
That really did, has changed though, that excess for so many things.
And that's going to be one of the biggest changes you've seen.
You said it's less competitive.
I'm surprised to hear you say that, that the industry is more competitive, less competitive when you look at the other people.
I think it's probably a little, at least in sports anyway, it seems to be anyway.
I don't know.
The thing that bothers me is, is nobody
And this is just ingrained in me.
I always try to watch the competition now in the morning.
I wake up.
Yeah, we
have my wife and I flip around the morning.
She'll see what's going on.
And back in the day, I said, we sell the monitors and we would all sit there and we would log.
There was a guy at his job between five or between six, five, 30 and six, five, five and five, 30 and six and six to log what the
other people had.
And you probably had this maybe, maybe you did, maybe you didn't, but I guarantee you.
My news director the next day was like, hey, Jarts had a great story on salmon fishing.
Hey,
Jarts had a
great story on trap shooting.
Critique each other Royce.
Yeah, but like I remember the little story where they released some wild turkeys and and when they flew off the I think it was you guys and it was like That's how we see that that sounds really good.
Well, that was really good.
Yeah, we don't see that in your competition And that's in business whatever you gotta know what your competition
Bill George ladies and gentlemen, you're an icon my friend
your
legend.
Congratulations.
I know
Hey, what you've done over those last 30 years.
God bless
you, my friend.
And thanks for being a great friend.
No, you as well.
Thank you for the opportunity.
You got my friend.
Take care, buddy.
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great weekend.
I spoke at Nicollet Gardens yesterday.
Nice.
They do such a wonderful job up there when I die.
I want to be there
Yeah Yeah, I want to be the mausoleum Well, I think that sounds cool.
a little
Oh, OK.
That's the upper class.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Allaway has a good mausoleum, too.
And of course, the shrine does.
You know who does a good job with Memorial Day?
Little towns.
Yeah, no question.
Because I was up in Elko and stayed in Annago.
Nice parade.
Yeah.
And everybody was talking about.
Memorial day.
Yeah, I went to the store got some stuff.
You go to the parade.
Yeah, but anyway, that's nice all the flags down Main Street.
Yeah, just totally great.
You know, that's what I don't know how big that is eight nine thousand people.
I was watching I
don't know how or why but I've got WLUC TV out of Marquette on my cable system here.
Okay.
So the same thing I was watching them and it was a little downtown felch
You know, we're tying you look and boy every person that town was out there
and they're still throwing candy
They still come back and play.
You know, they graduated, you know a week or two ago They're gonna be graduating seniors come in and play and yeah, it was yeah, that's that's cool stuff.
I mean, it's it's awesome Did you read?
I Don't online or something but Brett Varv did this post about What a great day.
I want to honor
I didn't see that.
The military.
And some guy wrote back to him.
This made a lot of sense.
This is something you would write.
He said, look, Brett, love you like a brother, but that's not what today's about.
No.
And people do get confused with that.
I know.
Totally.
100%.
That was
with that.
on
good That's that's the that's total truth, but I will say this and I always talk about this in my speeches on Memorial Day, okay?
Yes, it is more of a solemn date versus Veterans Day, okay?
Um,
right paragraph.
I agree with that 100% and then it is a fine line But but I will say this like I said every single Got Todd here just such a great event Nicollet gardens even the guest speaker was pretty decent Oh, even though it was my cat cutting out Todd from deep here.
Did it time I meant to speak Todd did it cut out when I was I'm serious about this Todd Let me know was it cutting out when I was speaking or just when I was doing the interview with the the brother of the guy who who of course died
Let me, cause I was trying to work that too.
But anyway, um, but you know what?
You know what I said too?
And one of my guys was there.
Um, um, I'm trying to think with the 127 when I was in Iraq, um, he was there and one of our guys died like two weeks after I was there, a really young kid, whatever.
But I, I said one thing.
I said, you know what?
If all those people that were killed in the war came back right now, you know what they would do?
They would drink so much beer and eat so many broths and have so much fun.
So part of it is do what we do.
Do what they would do.
Acknowledge.
Exactly.
That's our way of life.
Acknowledge the hell out of them.
But don't change what you do because they would love to be doing it.
Okay.
Todd says not when you were speaking just during the interview.
Okay.
Thank you, Todd.
But I think I was holding the mic wrong with the
Oh, but I sent an email to someone to explaining.
that that it's okay to have barbecues that's what they would want absolutely exactly that's the point i want to as long as you want to as long as you spend that first one or two hours have that beer for them right their honor yes but go and pay respects first like i said these
no
but i think i don't think you should
no no don't
Because they would do it.
And in a lot of ways that honors them, in my opinion.
agree.
Somebody can disagree.
That's fine.
I totally understand.
But in my opinion, that's honoring them because that's what they would do and that's what they would want us
to do.
And you know
what?
They fought to preserve our way of life.
And I talked about that if we lost World War II, which we could have lost really easy, the Japanese and the Nazis would not want us to have our normal way of life.
So celebrate the fact that we've fought wars to embrace what we do as a nation.
So we're here we're here people at their cabins.
Oh,
a lot of people.
My daughter, when I told her that story, she couldn't eat.
She
up.
She was laughing so hard.
Brian, what is wrong
seriously?
What's wrong with you, Brian?
No,
was.
Brian, I got to be honest with you.
Talk to me.
I was watching that game.
I was actually at the Kroc Center with my granddaughters.
But I was watching the Indiana Fever game.
Brian, what did you think of those unbelievably terrible no calls at the end of that game?
The refereeing in the WNBA is embarrassingly bad.
It's horrible this girl goes up for a shot, which would have won the game They got such a vendetta against Caitlyn Clark and her team this girl goes up for a shot.
She gets clobbered She's not to the ground not just like a little ticky-tack fall.
She's Not to the ground as she's shooting no call
Yeah, she's out for two weeks good I you know what I wish if I were Caitlyn Clark I'd say you know what I'm gonna take a year off And then the whole league would like
Have so many fewer viewers
everything like that and then people just hate her for no reason.
It's unbelievable
Wow, we had a busy day.
It's a lot of food.
You're pushing out
Wow,
incredible.
Uh, Brian says, I saw your post.
I thought, great, I'm going to have to speak for them, but I didn't see the game.
Brian, Brian, please watch the last two minutes of that game and tell me what you think.
The Indiana Fever.
It was, it was terrible.
Vicki says, happy Tuesday.
It was a beautiful weekend.
I didn't make, you know what?
Why does Celebrity Pier close so early?
On their land they closed at four and it was like two o'clock before I got done with everything It's like
But I hate being that guy good it goes back to I worked at the gas station and I mop in the floor where it's cool and somebody pulls up You know what I mean?
I want an oil change.
I hate being that guy.
You got a haircut
I didn't that
they did no yeah,
you got a haircut No, sir No, sir.
All right.
anyway, happy Tuesday May 27 sunscreen day,
did not
did
know a girl.
girl
We used to put Crisco on her face.
like you put Crisco
Me
all
yeah.
Hey, listen, I'm gonna be totally,
clean on something.
Tomorrow morning, after the show, I'm getting surgery for skin cancer.
thousand percent, not even a question.
I'm taking some time.
I don't know, well, they don't know.
The extent
be the most minor thing in the world or they might tear my face apart,
You know what it was?
I'm not even joking about this.
It was Todd telling me stop touching your face I'm like, what are you talking about and Todd is this true?
that?
Dry skin type thing and Todd pointed out.
I didn't even know I was doing it.
okay.
Well, that's cool So it was because of Todd that I went and got it checked out.
lot of
well cuz I it was nothing it was just
back.
Yes.
Yes.
That's when yeah, I cut it off accidentally shaving Yeah, oh my god.
I got under their eye was right here.
Oh, okay
Okay, I gotta tell you the grossest thing I've experienced How to be a grandpa how to try let me say this how to try being a grandpa Where grandpa's are the toughest guys the whatever guy okay, okay, so Saturday night Friday night whatever night it was my daughter and 1035 Sitting down having a cocktail and my daughter says can you meet me at Aurora Mir emergency room?
Oh, no
Okay, what's going on?
She said iris my youngest granddaughter put something up her nose and it won't come out and she's freaking out So I go to a raw medical emergency room, okay try to hold her down as the doctors digging into her nose, okay, which was Couldn't find anything doctor couldn't find it.
Okay, so the next day we're having lunch at the right place
Which is still you know what you can't miss I
you
sometimes you go to different place I think that was you
booyah and or whatever at the
we have the but my daughter even told
from Madison she told the waitress just you're the greatest
Waitress, I've
dealt with, just incredible.
Exactly!
daughter had booyah, she'd never had cheese.
My God, this is the greatest thing I've ever tasted.
course.
They stayed the course.
Love it.
It was, it's just a no-miss.
But anyway, so...
We're there as the waitress is bringing us our food.
She's putting the food on the table.
My other granddaughter goes, Iris, is that the thing in your nose?
And it was starting to come out.
So I have to grab her, grab a bunch of napkins and squeeze her nose.
I'm just trying
food is being
So took care of that, right?
And I had to fake being a strong grandpa
wanted to throw up Right,
on my stomach.
I was forcing my stomach to not
what was it a bead some kind of a bead Oh, she put in her nose and it was five.
It was coming.
Yeah
Yep
appetite.
Oh God Lord.
She was okay.
Yeah, she didn't like
only the grocery, but yeah, but I was afraid she would get sucked back in So I grabbed the top of her nose
reason what napkins all over it.
Absolutely.
I'm gonna tell you the truth.
I actually, when I was driving away then, I threw out the window on the road.
I
in the East River.
That's where
the bridge of the East
stuff.
Hey, a nose my size, I could have put a Tonka truck up mine.
God, I hate my nose.
Alright, we gotta set a quick break.
It is a beautiful Tuesday getting to rockin' here.
Back after this.
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53 right now in Green Bay, 59 in Alton, 57 in Oshkosh.
It's gonna be right around this, around 60 degrees today and sunny.
And as we mentioned, it's sunscreen day.
Also, grape popsicle day, grape day.
I hate grape.
I hate anything grape.
do restaurants...
I
have the little things of grape jelly.
do?
I do.
I grew up on Welch's
you know?
God bless Josephine.
beautiful, wonderful
right.
Gosh darn it.
Her jelly wasn't good.
And I love her to death.
But yeah.
And it was great.
It was it was Apple and Cherry.
and some other choked cherry or something that was.
That's not bad.
I don't, I'm with you on the grape.
I don't like that.
No.
I don't mean to interrupt, but every time I, I'm going to stop, stop posting Brian's texts.
No, I love this.
Read that one.
Read that one.
I was kayaking down the East River near Alloy this week.
I'm at Brittany Merleau.
Got hit now with a B that I think had some bleep on it.
That's not
it.
Brian, what's wrong with?
Seriously, Brian!
Just keep it coming,
say one thing.
Okay, so I'm gonna talk a little bit.
Tomorrow I'm having surgery on my face for skin cancer.
Just put it out there.
No big deal.
is.
It's cancer.
tested it
biopsy.
go.
Yeah.
But what I'm saying is it was I if Todd literally hand told me to stop touching my face because I didn't know I was doing it.
And Todd says I'm doing it on camera.
I never would have gotten tested.
And even though I went to purveyor right down the road here that day.
And I thought they're going to say I was almost embarrassed to be there.
I thought they were saying really.
You don't have more important things to
like, um, no, we're not going to touch it.
You need to go to a dermatologist.
It's like, huh, really?
So I go there and I actually felt stupid because I said, I thought the exact same thing.
And they're going to say, really?
You're wasting our time for this little, and then they said, okay, we're going to test it.
And then they came back and they said, you nap.
You have to have surgery.
So what I'm saying is the most minor tiny little thing that you ignore because it's just whatever.
Could be something.
And I'm not, trust me, I'm not saying woe is me.
All I'm trying to get across here is get the test.
Get the test,
And I don't know what kind of insurance most people have, but I shouldn't say that.
I don't know what kind of insurance you have, but most insurances will pay for the preventive part because they don't want to pay whatever it's going to cost us.
Five grand or whatever that's going to cost you.
They would much rather you go in and get your physical every year.
So yeah, well, you've, Todd figured it out for you, but you know, if you go in for a physical, they'll find that.
You know what I mean?
Well, the next thing they're gonna do they're gonna
of those
me.
Oh, did you really
Huge mirrors, I mean not really magnifying glasses and that guy's eyes are like those cartoons, you know, yeah, but they look you over I know but
I don't think you have to do that every year though.
You know what you guys, I think that's a three, four, five year thing.
I don't think that's every year you have to get that body scan.
don't think I've ever done that sober.
With
I'm here to say I like to happen to be
They were drunk, too.
They were drunk.
They had to be drunker
me.
Oh,
to say here.
But the most minor little thing could be something.
I mean, when you get it, when you get an email, it says you got cancer.
It's it's cancer.
because of his tiny little thing, it gets your attention.
window.
Being on the water is as bad as anything
could find.
I think part of mine, I don't know, because I mean, God, I mean, growing up in the UP, you had three sunny days a year.
So it's not from that.
But I even showed people that one picture of me in Iraq.
I was I had a thing.
I don't know if this could as possible.
I got stranded for three days at a place called Aliyah Salim in in Iraq They screwed up my manifest for flying or whatever and there was nothing there except a Burger King So every day I'd sit on the picnic table all day long waiting for my name to be called and I got I could show you a picture I got so I don't even want to say burnt so unbelievably dark that it seems like it cooked me it cooked my
So I'm just telling people, I'm, trust me, I'm the last person in the world to give a health advice.
Oh, no, I'm not the last person to give health advice.
I got a new diet.
I'm down to 212 pounds.
I've lost 10 pounds this month.
No, how?
That's, I got, whoa.
Nice build.
that.
tell you why?
212.
Why would you do?
What's pickle sandwiches?
Just pickles?
Pickle sandwiches.
But what's on them?
mayonnaise male and pickles Keto bread.
Well, that's okay that I don't like to taste the keto bread and toast it Keto bread.
It's 15 carbs, but 15 grams of a fiber so that wipes out
right dill pickles have no calories.
Yeah mayonnaise has zero carbs I'm eating pickle sandwiches Keto bread toasted dill pickles and mayonnaise and I've lost 10 pounds in one month
that is
I just tried to force it down.
I Will say this you know, it's gotten expensive fast.
I brought them breakfast the other day at McDonald's $36 $36 I know for high-seeing a little burrito thing $36
Back
I was hoping you didn't notice
Yeah.
What is going
with
I legitimately thought to myself, oh, I don't want Todd to see this.
And Brian just texts us.
He goes, I'm not making this up.
Best sandwich ever on toast, peanut butter and pickle sandwich.
Brian, that Brittany, Brittany.
It's not.
No, peanut butter bananas.
Brittany.
Peanut butter and pickles.
Never heard of it.
Brittany.
Yes.
I lost 10 pounds this month eating pickle sandwiches.
No way.
I would eat him and
worked though.
pounds.
I almost vomited on my
the other day with doing that thing with my granddaughter.
Hi, Brittany.
Oh, good morning.
So please describe what this pickle sandwich is.
What else is on
it?
Keto bread.
Well, yeah, because you need to lose a lot
or 94
out there and exercise.
Yeah, you don't burn enough calories.
Yeah.
No.
But here's OK.
But you know what?
That's funny, though.
Actually, I saw some people kayaking in the East River this weekend.
But you know what?
That's the last place I would want to do that role thing.
No, yes.
And get into the East River in your lung.
Brittany, have you ever done that?
Oh, the kayak role?
Yeah.
No.
OK.
That's hard.
you gotta get up right
past but i the thought of the east river yeah getting in here
blah blah blah hey britney we got a text here for you i'm working the wia sectional track me at westy pier friday forecast is sunny and 81 degrees will that hold out britney this is from terry
i
I think so.
Yeah, I do.
It's going to be nice and sunny.
There's a teeny tiny chance for some thunderstorms popping up in the afternoon.
None of them are expected to be severe, but that's about the only risk we have going on Friday.
But the warmest day of the week, 80s, yes.
Yeah, we've got a nice
Yeah, we do.
We really do.
I mean, a little cool today.
We'll get about 70 degrees in the mid sixties tomorrow.
Some scattered showers are possible both today and tomorrow.
More clouds, too.
But the sunshine comes back out for Thursday, Friday into the weekend.
We'll be into those mid seventies to low eighties.
Hey, Brittany, how's the fire thing right now?
Is that still bad?
It is low across the state.
It's only really high up and towards like Douglas and Bayfield County.
This morning, the high danger is what I'm saying.
Yeah, Northwest.
Very far Northwest, Wisconsin only has the high fire danger.
The rest of the state is low.
So rain has definitely helped.
Nobody's in a drought condition except for very, very far South along the state line.
So the state's looking pretty good right now as well.
Awesome.
Cause this is a, I don't camp.
I've never camped in my life.
Is that something?
Really?
from?
No, you know
Yeah.
I had my, when I was a little kid, I had my pup tent.
My, you know, Cub Scout pup tent set up in my yard, and I bet I slept out there three or four days a week all summer long.
Me and my friends, and we'd have a fire every single night in our backyard.
Well, that's what I mean.
So the thought of going to a campground
exactly what I did in my backyard in my whole life.
You know what I mean, Brittany?
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
You're like, what's the point?
What's the difference?
I love
sleeping in a tent.
I love having fires the whole thing, but I didn't feel the need to go someplace else to
Yeah.
In the ghetto?
Were you in the ghetto?
You grew up in the ghetto on two rivers?
In the tenement?
No.
Brittany!
Brittany, I want to kayak this summer.
I want to play and I want to kayak
I wanted to do that so bad this weekend was kayak I saw so many people out of the water.
Yeah.
Oh my
gosh
that
hey 10 years ago You do we even know what a kayak was you don't mean and now that's become such
popular thing
That's what I mean, right?
It was canoes, but who knew kayak?
Isn't that an unbelievable popular sport Brittany?
Oh my gosh, is it huge kayaking stand up paddle boarding?
I mean, they're doing everything out there.
I've even seen those.
Oh gosh, I don't even know what they are.
Technically bikes that you're riding on the water.
Oh yeah, that's one way above
I would kick your butt in that.
know.
I would.
Y'all cut like we'll see what
right, good.
Let's do it.
Brittany, this is a
of the mayor and the minor challenges.
summer.
No, I won I wanted out there as big and bold as possible with America's butt kick,
Got you Britney, we're gonna have a kayaking regatta him and I on where we're going Kelly
Can we wait cause a lot more calm?
know about
River.
I don't like the East River.
I'm afraid I'll fall in and I'll swallow that ugly water.
Brittany, we want you to be with us.
I would love to.
I'd be upset if I missed it.
I love those kinds of things.
Water sports, 100%.
And then,
okay, then we're going to race you in a kayak, but you have to give us a big head start.
The kayak is in the
your truck.
unload.
It's a great
fair.
I'm just sitting there with a timer.
We have some friends with cottages, which is great because cottages...
are expensive, which that's not my point.
Point is all the toys you have to have that stand up.
And so we go to a place and you can just, we actually reserved it already, but they got, even if you got the swan, the family can go on, you know, like four people.
You know what I mean?
I don't know.
What is a
like inflatable.
It's hard plastic.
got
Yeah.
I want a picture of that.
That'll be my
will.
Oh
it's a good day for anyone, Todd snorts.
You got to reserve a swan.
Yeah, my granddaughter
There's such a demand for a swan.
You got to reserve it?
You
Yeah.
No, what I did.
Would you do let me just say this, no matter what you did this weekend is cooler than anything that we did this weekend.
So go ahead.
Oh, no, we don't know that for sure.
But no, I finally went to this Tireton four by four off road trail where I could actually take my Jeep Wrangler that I usually drive on the street.
out on these back road trails and it was awesome and I saw these jeeps just rock crawling doing the craziest things that I've only seen in videos on social media.
I saw it in real life this weekend.
It was pretty cool in central Wisconsin.
This is happening in our woods.
I love it.
Let's say right or wrong that she does cooler things in us every
I gotta read this text.
Old station 31 is listening from Copenhagen Denmark today.
P.S.
I have a swan mare, Tavia.
Wow.
All right.
Bring it back.
Oh my goodness.
picture of it.
I can see you on that like you can't believe.
Wow.
Okay.
a
know.
How cool does Copenhagen Denmark
highest, like people live longest?
because I think there's free weed.
I want to move to Denmark, Brittany.
Wow, Todd jumped
Denmark.
I want you to move to Denmark, Todd said.
Brittany.
Give me your plans for this summer.
Oh Gosh, that's that's a loaded question.
I don't know I fly by the you know minute by minute where the wind blows me Where's the weather what's going on?
But definitely kayaking definitely some boating I want to go up north to Ironwood in that area and do some ATV trail riding There's also some camping you can do up on Lake Superior.
I'm huge in the camping I'm gonna tell you
where to go.
Can I give you a couple of UP tourism things?
Lake of the clouds.
Have you ever heard of Lake of the clouds in the porcupine
mountains?
You will love that area.
There's there are a lot of bear.
I'll be honest with you.
But you can hike throughout the porcupine mountains to the Lake of the clouds.
It's the most beautiful thing.
You think you're in Montana or something.
You got to go up to Antonagon, the town of Antonagon, which is right in Lake Superior.
That whole area around there at the porcupine mountains, it's built for you, Brittany.
You would love it like you can't believe.
And I'm never coming back then.
No, you might not come back.
Darling, find me in the woods.
Yes.
It would be perfect for people like you.
That's exactly what that country is made for.
I don't know that town for summer.
I've never heard of that
Yeah.
He said by Annago.
But that has got to be, we're talking about the leaves, obviously they're all green, but that has got to be one of the best drives in fall.
That's where I'm going.
I said that to Donna.
We're going to go up there.
It's unbelievable how many trees there are.
And there's greens, and then there's all those, what, maple trees, whatever.
I'm going up there in fall.
Instead of going to year place, John, I'm going to Elko.
That's where I'm spending my
fall.
So, Brittany, how's this?
This weekend was fantastic.
I don't like really hot weather.
I just don't.
I don't like mosquitoes and bugs and whatever, and I grew up with them, and I'm this old guy now that doesn't like being annoyed.
is, this is the greatest time of the year to live in northeast Wisconsin, isn't it?
100%.
I was actually telling my family that they came up from, you know, Illinois and stuff, so they're kind of in the woods.
And I was like, listen.
This is the time to have the campfire, to go out of water, to do these things, because we're not sweating.
We don't have to get into the water.
And the bugs, the bugs are not here in full force just yet.
I mean, give it a week, they will be.
Just right now.
Oh, it was so perfect too.
70s, sunshine, the sun felt great.
And then the wind, the breeze felt crisp and perfect.
So I'm going
to be a poster child for skin cancer.
Oh gosh, what?
I'm having surgery tomorrow for skin cancer.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
Whatever.
But what I'm saying is I never wore sunscreen one time in my life, not once.
And I thought I was being full-blooded Italian.
I thought Italians don't get skin cancer.
So I just want to say for all the people, and we were talking about this before you came on, and Jim even said two people or two types of people that get it more than you'd realize are truck drivers.
because of their arm being out the window all the time, and people on the water.
Oh, that's fishing.
who fish a lot.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, do you fish?
yeah, I'm not a huge I'm not the crazy one that goes out super early in the morning You know the whole wave and with these these and opens, but I'll go out there on occasion.
Yeah Perfect
weather for anything with my
granddaughters
this weekend, and I'll tell
you what just standing there looking out in that Bay I would I would love to have a boat, but not everything that comes with having a boat.
Do you know what I mean?
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April
March April 1975 I'll look it up.
All right.
So number one song on this day in April 1975.
Hi, Brittany.
Good morning.
Yeah.
to know why I know that?
Because back in my day, I'm so old, Brittany.
And Todd might know this, but I don't think he had to do it.
In my day, if you were going to get a job in radio, you had to get a, was it a third degree license, Todd?
sort of FCC license.
I mean, it was like really hard.
I mean, crazy math.
and things about frequencies.
Oh, it was unbelievable.
So I was taking a class to prep to be on the radio, and we got to do like one fifth, what Todd?
What Todd?
1975.
And the reason I know that we got to do
No, no, no, but we got to do it right
like our final exam.
for like our final exam.
We got to do like a 20 minute on air real live radio show for 20 minutes.
And we got to pick our own songs.
And that was my number one song that I played
gross number one hit.
though?
And then as soon as we got done with that class
everything like that, the FCC de-escalator or whatever you want to call it, you didn't have to get those license anymore.
that's why so many people used to go to Brown Institute.
Sure, you had to learn all
was all engineering
with it?
As soon as I was done with that class, literally that year, they disbanded.
You didn't have to get that big license anymore.
right.
OK.
in order to do anything with a transmitter, you had to have that license, right, Todd?
Yeah.
Or you couldn't touch it.
Yeah, I wonder why they got a
know, Brittany, I got a text here.
I suggest that Brittany checks out the Antonagon Park campground.
We were there yesterday.
Beautiful.
Lots of campsites right on the Lakeshore of Lake Superior.
Gary, you got to go up there, Brittany.
You'd love it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yeah, that is exactly what I'm looking for.
awesome.
Is this
You read about that.
Isn't it like crazy to get one now?
Like, aren't they like really, really popular, like really popular?
Like you can't you call in there.
Taken or maybe that's just over the fourth.
I don't know.
There was some stuff and you gotta I don't know that they were Yeah, I think people are really into camping.
Oh, they are it seems like yeah, that's what I'm saying Yeah, I agree
with
especially after COVID and all of that everybody, you know really started to explore the outdoors and stuff It's harder to get Lakeshore Lakeside But if you plan in advance and you find those little secret gems probably like I just found out
about
That's perfect for you.
god,
Okay.
Okay.
Am I really old
okay So as that big does by my granddaughter's breakfast the other morning at McDonald's, okay?
Breakfast burritos just little whatever whatever and I had a $20 bill and the girl goes $36 Okay, okay,
okay, so get this
the burrito?
So I wanted my daughter's lot or my granddaughter's like staying here where I live above this right above the studio here But I say I didn't have enough for warning in my apartment's a little gross not gross.
It's
so
I offered my wife $20 to clean it.
Here's the other problem John if you would have done this right and had it cleaned every week or maybe a single every other week Then people would be like, yeah, maybe 50 bucks.
I'll do it for but you know that you got to go in there now It's like, you know, I mean it's like going into a campground,
but I even bought some stuff at flip-flop in the other day
stage from your carpets.
I even bought some stuff.
Yeah, I tried brand that blue stuff for my toilet.
It doesn't work
Yeah, it does.
You
gotta use it more
year.
You guys want to wrap
during the break.
We got another text for you, Brittany.
Devil's Lake is also beautiful.
Oh, yes.
I love that one.
I've never camped there, though.
Definitely hot.
Oh,
gotta go.
it.
I got this one from Todd and Pierre.
You had to take a test back of the day.
Now they just let guys like the mayor have his own shows.
Oh, that hurt.
All
right, all right, all right, you're right.
Michael
says, best of luck, mine with your procedure tomorrow, setting positive chai and vibes from Madison.
Thank
you,
Michael.
I appreciate that.
Appreciate that very much.
Very nice.
But I'm going to be a poster child for skin cancer, Brittany.
So will
you?
So what happens with that?
I'm going to have half my face removed.
that?
Is that what they
hideous.
gave me Walter.
Yep, that's how it
goes.
Hey,
Brittany, give us a nice forecast for this week.
Oh, it's going to be a little crisp, a little cooler for the next two days.
Today's high temperatures in those upper sixties will be in the mid sixties tomorrow.
We've got the system that's kind of sliding north, but it's going to stay off to the east.
So what it's going to do is swing chances of some light drizzles and scattered showers today, possibly at times through tomorrow and then sun returns.
Boy, it's so
nice out there right now, man.
It's
And the sky is
we love having you on.
You're awesome.
Yep.
Thank you, guys.
You are too.
Take care.
See
ya.
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There you go.
Fine 53 degrees in Green Bay 59 and a half in 57 and I shot my today near 70.
It's up
Perfect day today is national sunscreen day folks do it great popsicle day don't mm-hmm great day don't they suck Children's gardening week.
That's cool.
Okay 99% of things you come up with I criticize
I'm okay.
I'm literally at the point where like I would like to do that in here That is you got the most perfect right
a great part of town, right?
And it'd be perfect for growing things
Yeah She said we have to have something different They come to grandpa's house.
It's different and I don't want to have you know, we could put a pool in there, but I was gonna go to Huh, I mean it builds you a pagoda not yet in the center.
Yeah, right
That could be really cool than pear trees.
Indoor ultra pool, you know that we have a condo and you know currently this is gonna be like this is gonna be like the fire pit the Chairs around it Apple tree pear tree.
What else like I say cherry tree.
I was telling her all plumb I
Don't let the kids eat plums until they're fully ripe.
We have this guy.
I got a guy It's the first time I ever had a guy say a terrible word to me when I was a little kid.
He called me out
Give me a pan.
I'm never guys even okay,
little?
Because I was stealing plums from the street what I used to walk home from school.
It was through this one thing and his plum treat
like hungover over over
right
so he chased me and called me that terrible yeah and uh i told my brother he wanted oh i bet kill him but anyway okay yeah yeah yeah yeah but man do you get the runs from plums no
like beyond belief so be careful if you grow those yeah got a text here
I can just see this.
Hey grandpa, can we sit in the orchard and listen to meet the press?
Todd, you read Todd's thing there.
Todd.
Very nice of you.
You know, I have a hard time.
There's two things on most of the speeches I do on this kind of thing and and I get choked up both times and it's The number one thing I always say I don't care how great of a writer somebody might be and I'm not considering myself a great writer I'm not saying that but if you like a Steven Ambrose whoever can write nothing is more Genuine obviously Then letters that people write when they're at war man, and there's one and it just it I'll get choked up right now even even telling this story a little bit
but it says the guy and he had these twin little girls and they're from Casco and he wrote this incredible letter to his wife and it's in my book it's in one of my books because I met one of the little girls then who you know who's obviously
And just talk about, oh my god, all I want to do is, you know, get out of this war and come home.
And for 30 years, all we're going to do is enjoy life with our little girls.
And however the girls, they miss their daddy, yada, yada, yada, yada, yada.
And a few days later, he was killed.
And I just feel that if anybody has letters that were ever sent to them from somebody away, even if you're not in a war, just they are so brutally.
Honest
it's yeah.
Well, that's alright.
Did you read that then in your mark?
Wow.
and then the other one I always talk about is when I was in my best friend Dennis D'Angelo We were like inseparable and his cousin this great athlete unbelievable just the most handsome guy, you know, I mean just
had everything going for him and he stayed in Vietnam one month longer than he had to and then he got killed flying home mid-air collision and I was the altar boy for his funeral and I talk about the sound that his mom made as they handed him the flag it was just like yeah you know
That was and I used to go to all the basketball games then with that family after it's like you want to talk about how war and then you know what people dying car accidents that have cancer Okay, but there's something about When you're really healthy and you're at war and you're this great kid with the future ahead of
exactly Yeah, so those are two that I
personally get choked up on.
You know, those talks are hard to give, but my, I don't know who you speak to or how you get through that.
Um, I don't know what you think about, but I always speak to the youth because it's easier for me to talk to them than it is.
I don't know.
I just find that I can keep my thoughts going and you're more informed.
You're more teaching than you are just lecturing.
You know what I'm saying?
Take it away from the emotional side.
I'm going to read a quick text here from, I don't know if I should say, oh, she's one of our favorite people, Sarah.
Um,
Thank you for sharing about your cancer and the steps to get checked out just last week the worst week I ever had I went for a lump of my breast and a mammoth mammogram mammogram mammogram mammogram And ultrasound thankfully was nothing the staff was wonderful and not making me feel dumb and advised me to always get checked Please let me know if you need anything yada yada yada.
I will not however clean your apartment
but
Wow.
Wow.
I'll do anything for you with your cancer, but clean your apartment.
Right.
Wow.
Sarah.
Wow.
I got this from Tina Jim.
With fruit trees come endless bees.
Keep that in mind
grandchildren.
didn't huh although, you know what you could do then talk to big Wayne Oh
then give me the talent
and
been using honey
that honey that Wayne gave us had it sit in my thing and it's like, well, this will never die.
I mean,
know what I've been using?
I'll be honest with you.
Put it in my drinks.
Kessler's?
Yeah, of course.
Kessler's
is amazing.
And they did a thing the other day because I hate, so I'm trying to eat yogurt and I hate it.
I hate Greek.
Greek yogurt has to be the worst tasting
Get vanilla.
Well, then you got the carbs and you got the things.
So I'm just eating regular basic Greek yogurt and it's terrible to you put
changes it completely.
I put blueberries and raspberries and honey in my yogurt and it's it's awesome.
How do you make your sauce?
else though?
I mean, what else you put in because I would love that.
I've never, I love ribs.
Oh, I won't say this.
Ribs are kind of, to me, ribs are kind of like chicken wings in that they're almost more trouble than they
Oh, not if they're good though.
No, you got to take off.
This is what you do.
You just throw them on.
That's what you do.
No, there's tricks to that.
First of all, you take off that, what's that called, membrane or whatever that stuff.
You got to peel all that back.
So then the ribs are a lot better.
Oh, you know what I mean?
No.
Yeah.
No.
Let's see.
What's today Tuesday?
I'll probably make him third.
You're gonna be here.
The last time I had ribs,
this is how far back this goes.
I used to do a weekly radio show at Damon's.
absolutely.
That was a great place.
Why did that go under?
Do you ever go to Damon's, Todd, back in the day?
Damon's ribs?
I mean, it might be a fast food version of ribs, but it was good.
OK.
You know another place is this still open?
What was the place I don't know?
Where you cook your own steaks?
OK.
Yes.
that sounds like fun to go and grill your own steak.
that's right.
I didn't even know if you're still
and I'm cheap.
Yeah, so yeah, but has fast food like really got up at price
it has $36 at McDonald's the other day and it's like
Yeah.
I went to see a friend of mine, a friend of Donna's.
She's 96 in a nursing home in Angle.
And I said, well, I want to bring you something, you know, nursing meeting.
She, you know, she wanted, and I hadn't been there.
A turnover, a cherry turnover from Arby's.
All right.
Never, I never.
I never would have thought of that.
either.
can't even know
I don't know if I've ever done or be honest with you But that's like her favorite favorite thing, which is cool.
Oh, thank you.
So anyway, that's I forgot what did I pay for that?
I don't know.
But anyway, there's fast food.
I don't like anything cherry Oh, I do.
There's I was you know, I just don't like it different variety and she really Maraschino cherry,
but the regular cherries
talking about it.
But first, I state claim to metal detect the entire area first and I get to keep, I'll give you 25% of what I find.
don't want anything.
No, so I'm gonna probably find
like the 1700s.
Yeah.
I might find John
though.
I need a helper because you need the one person and then you got to hold the thing there while the other person digs.
So I need to help
I need somebody out there.
Will you help me metal detect Jim's properties back 40?
Oh, Michael says door County Cherry vodka.
Now, see, that doesn't sound too bad.
Snoop Dogg.
And
sounds good, actually.
Wow.
Okay.
Once again, who's cooler than us?
Everybody.
Michael.
Everybody.
Everybody.
Dr. Drain.
Except Brian.
Brian.
Brian.
Brian.
break.
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Tuesday morning 53 degrees in Green Bay 59 out in 57.
Oh gosh Sunshine and high near 70 today beautiful perfect Jamie Oliver is 50.
Who is Jamie Oliver?
like when he was in his ten years guy.
you know, okay, can I be honest with you ever bring England?
I Don't take that as like a great food place to you.
cuz like you think France.
Oh Italy.
Oh even Germany.
Oh, but England, right?
I lean
Maryweather is 89.
She used to be in Barnaby Jones.
Yes.
That's right.
That's
creepy.
No.
Jesus.
89.
He's talking about a hot chick
not saying
hot.
looks really, really nice.
Okay, let's let go.
Life in La Sonia, right?
Adam Corolla is 61.
I thought he was dead.
he on The Man
he was.
Okay, I thought he was dead.
No, who am I?
I'm thinking of Norm MacDonald.
Okay, okay.
They kind of are the same type of humor.
kind of dryish sort of
yeah
agree i agree um got a nice text here from vicki i think john's tallow is helping his face plus i think his pickle sandwiches sound great vicki thank you vicki oh man
But
it's like
Yeah, yeah, God is always found a way to like bleep with me.
Okay, like he sits there and he's like, you know, I'm gonna do what are you doing today?
God, I'm gonna bleep with
message.
Okay, cuz look at my face right now is more luminescence than it's ever been and I got to have surgery on my face, okay?
My tallow is doing wonders for my skin my complexion look at you can see look right here.
It's it's
Illuminous you can see the reflection my skin has never been better because of be tell him Big way go to the dock
up bring me a bucket of tallow
I'm serious even Vicki just said my skin is looking so good.
But
what we got video.
right.
She's watching
how red your face is right now.
unbelievable
We're good.
I'm glad I am because put on some sunscreen.
I did I did you did not I did too.
You're lying.
I did no you didn't Donna Donna Did he put sunscreen on yes or no?
know that's what I mean.
You look at that
One's got luminescence and others just burnt to a crisp.
Just thrown it out there.
Brewer's on the air tonight, Boston.
The Red Sox in Milwaukee, 505 on WISS.
Having kind of an up and down year, a lot of injuries and everything like that, but I still think they're going to put it together.
I like their manager.
I like their manager a lot.
Boy, the bucks are a hot mess, huh?
With the whole Yanis thing and their coach and what I mean, two years ago, they won the.
NBA championship
seem so far away from that now don't they
Horrible.
Oh man.
Um, okay, so Brian even I was so Pissed Saturday watching that Indiana fever game with the the officiating so I love Caitlyn Clark I am I am unbelievably devoted to Caitlyn Clark I'm just throwing it out there and she's out for two weeks now as we mentioned with that quad strain or whatever
She is the face of the WNBA and everybody hates her.
And it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
People are making so much more money now because of Caitlyn Clark bringing in the TV ratings.
everybody wants to like put her down and it's like, I've never seen anything like it.
I've never seen anything like
Yeah.
And she's got so, she's so classy.
She never fights back with whatever.
She is totally honest.
I'm gonna be totally honest with that something.
Okay.
I would be the male Caitlyn Clark.
Only when we lost.
I didn't.
That's a lot of people don't.
But what
I wasn't a great sport.
I'll be honest with you.
I'll be 100% honest with you.
And none of us would go on.
Really?
You don't watch on Satan's Soul.
I regret that.
I should have been nicer.
I should have been better.
Yeah, I should have been better and I
believe your coach let you get away with that.
He wasn't the greatest sport in the world either.
him.
He played college football at Northern Michigan and he was actually drafted by the at the time the Boston Patriots AFL.
Okay.
I've got a book like a preview thing with his name in it.
Cool.
As a linebacker.
Remember Jerry Glanville, head coach?
He
Favre's first coach.
Yeah,
we hated Favre.
But,
Well, he was that
But anyway, he played football at Northern Michigan too.
Oh.
Okay.
And I mentioned one time, I said, hey Jerry, I had him on my show.
And I rip through and went on.
I said, hey, by the way, my high school football coach was a teammate of yours at Northern.
He goes, who's that?
And I told him, Dick Koskos, oh man, that guy was a stone cold killer.
So, for Jerry Glanville to say
you know, he's one of those guys I never, I don't think I ever saw him laugh.
You ever have those old coaches back in
Everything is serious.
No joking around, no nothing.
He was one of those guys.
Well, great school.
okay.
Oh my god.
Really?
I remember the priest coming into half time one time and tearing into us for the way we were playing.
That was a different error up there.
Quick break.
Kristen Ambrose joins us
next.
Hey, welcome back might on the mayor here in a beautiful Tuesday morning Kristen is stopped because of a train.
Are they okay?
I'm not even joking about this.
I
okay.
are they like this time of year?
Are there more?
I mean, that's almost I mean Todd how many times recently have you been stuck with these trains?
It seems like they're always Going across walnut here.
It's like crazy.
time limit or something?
No, I mean I think we said eight minutes because of ambulances.
I know right The part I love when they stop and then back up.
I know Wait, why can't well, I guess you don't want to do it
at midnight because he would wake people up, but it's just their timing is awful, you know, noon when people are, I mean,
how many guests have we had?
Hey, sorry, I'm stuck with the train.
Yeah.
No, I agree.
I, and I don't know, it's so, so expensive to fix it.
You know, I mean, you have to go over or under, right?
It's, I, that was one of my bigger frustrations and they're hard to work with.
I don't mind if something's like, oh, this is kind of difficult.
They're like, well, let's, let's work together.
Those guys, uh-uh, like the profile things, as much as we talk about how difficult they are, they were easy to work with.
They'd spray them, they'd wrap them.
They're like, look, how can we make this thing work?
And they tested them.
But, you know, Canadian nationals like, you know, okay.
Ah, the Canadians.
Oh, yeah.
That's where they are.
And they're like, they said right, they'll look you right in the eye and say, you know, don't mess with international progress.
Wow.
Do we still need trains?
Mean here in Green Bay.
What I mean is like we got such shipping and we had the guy I think it was our first show we ever did
and the guy blew me away when he said oh man how much one ship is like 40 Semis
I mean, that seems something from like the Civil War days
still have to use trains
transport stuff.
right through downtown, right in the middle of downtown?
Was that you?
Civil War?
I think it was.
Kristen?
Kristen, you want
right.
I got an idea.
Kristen, why don't you come into the studio to do the show
standing out there and talking to Todd?
You ever want to think about that?
How are you Chris?
boy.
No, she's got an edge to her today.
Do you want to know what's so funny about this is because anyone who's listening who knows me is not even shocked that I'm a couple minutes late.
Not even, but today it was.
Was it the train?
It wasn't the train, but it was every single driver was like Sunday driving.
It's Monday morning, technically people, right?
Thank you.
What's up with that?
morning.
I used to be better.
Sunday morning.
I'm sitting over there.
There isn't a person in downtown Green Bay, except for me.
And I sat on the corner of Walnut and Washington.
swear it was 10 minutes.
wasn't anyone in sight.
I have got a ticket if I went through that light?
No, we don't have cameras.
Oh, I think you said there are cameras.
There's
places they do Oh,
seen
never
Oh
That's like the bravest thing I've ever heard.
Seriously, we do some crazy things.
It's pretty cool.
But we drove over, driving over again, no big deal, driving back.
There were cameras on all the sides of both sides of our car.
And it was like, because we're getting every possible side of your face and picture to make sure when you get up there.
that when you give them your passport and things, it's real.
Yeah, it's crazy how many cameras they have on
But you go, Kate,
like
are with Kristen Ambo's point, mortgage, corporation hours on point
podcast.
just got it though.
You've got that knack.
You got.
that gift of, it seems real easy
gonna say somebody else that's cooler than us.
The guy in the big lion and coogle truck right outside of our window.
To back those things that size into this narrow little place next to us.
Those guys have so much skill.
try.
Boom.
Yeah, that's
I would love to be a semi-driver.
I just don't want to have to back up.
those people all the credit.
truck
food is... Oh, those cabs are amazing now.
They are
Did you have a nice
I
Nice.
Absolutely.
And the the whole and the sun came up.
The sun came up, you know, but I think the whole industry
buyers and sellers alike, is just tired.
They're burned out of the industry.
Really?
And I think that they just, usually, usually holiday weekends doesn't matter.
This weekend just didn't.
It's just, it's burnout.
It does wear you down.
I mean, we've all
been in there and it's because it doesn't end.
You might get a call at quarter to 11 at night or six o'clock
Although I will say this, one of the most mad I've ever been in my life was the day I took my daughters and my nieces up to Crandon to ride that train, and they're closed on Sundays.
That's a long drive to go to some place and it's closed.
It's like from family vacation.
they go to Wally's world or whatever
it in, kick
Google back then.
that.
85.
have to, I have to ask, has anybody suggested, can I interrupt for the bingo card?
Nancy.
We are doing you know about this Chris.
I
anything
This
both did spill.
Last week was horrible or two weeks ago.
I spilled a full cup and I was so, I thought we're gonna get shorted out.
We're having electrical shorts.
Oh, jeez.
I really did, Todd.
I mean, that could have happened.
It's
of the show it
It just kept coming.
Yes from under equipment
was crazy.
but this is like right now is a real
guys, huh?
Yeah, it is we're in the thick of the spring market really are and One of the things that I love that we do is as a company is
We give a $500 credit to all of our, like Memorial Day and just veterans that serve, veterans who are currently serving.
I know we're thinking about those that we lost, but it was just a reminder of how much we still really care.
And a lot of times, you know, it's just one, it's just a straight give back.
They're not, it's not in the margins.
It's not increasing here.
It's not, it's just a straight give back to our frontline workers, to our veterans.
And what I love about our program is it's both inactive and retired.
all frontline workers.
So even if you're retired, we still want to thank you for your service in those front lines.
So that was really neat, but no, just really coming together.
One of our friends that we were with this weekend lost a friend in combat.
And so it was just a way, you know what I mean?
To
come
at McDonald's by
will say this though.
The greatest bargain in Wisconsin is still Bay Beach.
best bargain
to... My
slide.
People stop before the last thing they have to like
be
or
on
Slipper potato bait.
We'll get us in a quick break.
Kristen Ambrose.
Owens on point.
Back up.
Boys got some funky music going today time.
I always use this for her.
Ambow's Point Mortgage Corporation.
I was on Point Podcast is sensational.
We were talking during the break here a little bit.
You said something that like shocked me that there are some rates that are up to 10%.
Yeah,
Yep.
So there's a lot of really high interest out there.
And you know, people are so afraid of losing their
two and a half, three and a half percent, and I don't blame them.
I'm one of those people.
However, if you're drowning in debt and you really, truly don't have a way to get out of it, if you can, we can show you, I've got an amazing blended rate calculator, you put in all your debt, you put in what the interest rate is, and if you refinance what the interest rate is, and almost always, it's between six and seven percent.
So when you blend that rate out, you're getting rid of those 30% because all you're doing is paying interest and interest and interest unless you have the ability to pay thousands of dollars over every month to get that down right now without any relief in those credit card interest rates and even some vehicles.
People get in accidents and have to buy cars all the time.
And it's a bummer because maybe they were at 1.9% and all of a sudden they're at 7% on a car or something like that.
If you're not going anywhere and your house is there and it's got the equity, you can't cash out of it over 80% loan to value anyway, which means you'll still have 20% equity, leaving you in a good position.
Now, do I say you should always rep all your debt in your mortgage?
No, depends.
But like Jim was saying, you've got to be very careful and it's got to be a discipline then.
where you fix it and you don't go back into it.
If you're gonna go back into it, you're gonna do anything else and you just can't keep repping your house till you're never gonna be able to move out.
Do
young home buyers understand how horrible interest rates can be down the road?
Okay.
Like for so long they were holding out and now here's the deal is everyone, even three years ago,
People were like, oh, they're coming down.
They're coming down.
I'm always a skeptic, but that's because I lived through the option arm era of 2008 and 10.
And so I'm always going to be a skeptic when it comes to that.
And I heard the best thing is, you know, everyone's like, what are rates going to do?
And the best quote I heard this last week was,
My crystal ball is cloudy every day except today.
Like that's the only day I can talk to you about rates and knowing what they're gonna do because no one knows what they're gonna do tomorrow.
And we've been so surprised time and time again that I won't say this is exactly what they're doing.
Try to follow as best I can.
But it's actually the parents and the grandparents who are starting to sit in with these younger people and say like, listen, six, seven percent isn't bad, don't hold up.
Don't wait for it.
Buy when you're ready to buy.
Don't wait for the market.
When
I looked at first buying a house, which was probably 1982, three, whatever, it was 14%.
Yeah.
I think today there's, we talk about
parents sitting in on the meetings, a little bit of that, but there's just a lot more information.
You're there.
You weren't there back in the 80s.
So we can go to someone like you and say, look, these are three, four, six different options for you.
Realtors want to sell the property
and
So where's the person looking out for you?
Like a Dave Ramsey.
bias program or you can even get that thing online where you just type in your questions and they respond to it.
So there's more help out there.
You gotta look, but, and then you talk to your friends too, say, what did you do?
You know,
to
And he still works for his family farm and he's got handwritten paystubs.
And I'm like, all right, AI, I'll take you onto this one.
And those types of things, that's what computers can't do.
They're the best.
I love them.
I love them.
And they're just so hardworking and they want to learn, but they are typically.
I know this sounds stereotypical, I don't mean it to, but they are typically cash as king.
And so you're working with a lot of that cash and you're trying to teach them how to get a credit score because the one thing, Dave Ramsey's amazing, the one thing I disagree with him on is buying a house with no credit.
Because when you're like, you don't need any credit to buy a house and you don't, however, a credit company, like my job, I'm selling you the money, right?
So I'm...
completely looking at all the risk that could come in this house because I want my money back.
I don't want you to foreclose.
I want my money back if I'm the investor.
So when you have no credit and you're paying cash, I don't know if you're paying cash on time.
I don't know if you're paying cash late.
I don't know what you're doing.
And so unfortunately the GSEs, which are the government sponsored entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, tell us in the guidelines.
if we don't know how they're paying their bills, we automatically have to assume they're not.
Which we're gonna then quote them a rate based on a 620 credit score.
So that's why building up some credit is important.
Off the Dave Ramsey thing, but his death snowball, I agree with 100%.
If you're in debt and don't know how to get out, get it in front of you and start paying it off.
Like that he faces reality.
Yes,
boy those people when they kind of like hide something they're asking one question He doesn't wait a minute.
Oh, yeah,
or something
I'm always happy to look at somebody's situation.
I always say we don't have a low credit score because...
You might not, even with your credit score now, you might not be able to buy right now, but I can work with you.
We can work with you to get you on that trajectory of when you can buy.
Awesome.
Kristen Ambos.
Yeah.
Point Mortgage Corporation.
Always on Point.
Podcast is phenomenal.
got Sean coming on here from Marinette.
But you want to stick around?
Sure.
You can.
Great.
Thanks.
Back up this.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Hour number three here on a beautiful Tuesday morning, 53 in Green Bay, 59 in Alton, 57 in Oshkosh.
Sunshine and high today, near 70 degrees.
Got a text here from our man, Gizmo.
You said, I heard John talk about the big slide at Bay Beach.
The trick.
is that you got to keep your feet tight against your butt.
It creates less friction, and you slide all the way to the bottom.
When you stretch your feet out, you're creating more friction and slowing yourself down.
Yeah,
the slide too.
That's a good point.
Oh, thank you, Giz.
But I'm still going to wax them.
I think so.
They need to be waxed.
Sean, you and I got to go down the big slide, baby.
Hey!
I'll take up 2.30.
You take up 1.30.
I get 2.30 tough.
We got a shot and a pass back.
Marketing tourism director of Marinette.
We still got our wonderful guest Kristen Ambo's point markets corporation into house How's the how's the market up in the Marinette area for houses and stuff like that Sean?
You
know, it's still in my opinion It's still really a good market in my you know, I mean you can buy housing in that area
Fairly inexpensive the interesting thing is is that it's starting to catch up and because of that Pete you people are like sticker-shocked out of stuff You know, they're amazed of what you're gonna pay two hundred twenty five thousand dollars for home.
You're like, yeah, that's that's what a new home cost
a couple of weeks ago I think it was we were talking about this where the like the Chicago type people are whomever whomever they all wanted door County well, there's
It's almost impossible to
find
in
water
there.
And these other earthy occantos of the world, the marinettes of the world, the monomones of the world, I think they're going to be discovered by people from outside
Shanno too.
Shanno.
there.
Actually, we had those realtors on here from Shanno one day and that is, yeah, you're exactly right.
We're
actually, I'm actually.
I'll step ahead of you, brother.
So on Highway 57, I have a billboard going up that's going to say, come visit the quiet side of the bay.
Wow.
I love that.
I mean, water, it's a great lake.
It's right
there for
gosh sakes.
It's
14 miles.
The only difference, we have breweries, we have wineries, we have all the things that you want.
just don't, you know, have the traffic.
So if you
want traffic and a lot of people, go to Dork County.
And it's across the bridge from eight marijuana stores.
go.
But Chris, isn't it funny though?
It's like that's concerned.
I mean, it used to be
Monomony Marinette seemed like far away in this place.
Now things have gotten smaller almost.
Yeah, it's 45 minutes drive.
Yeah,
thing you guys got going
all the 14 day
It's been a
This is up until like this weekend.
Exactly.
This is like the worst main I've ever seen.
And I was so
that
So
Yeah, yeah, we're looking forward.
So we're having powerboat races on
Menominee River.
And it'll be next week, a week from this.
Friday, Saturday.
Yeah, 6th, 7th, and 8th on the 6th.
It's just going to be testing.
As we had Christy here last time, you learned how specific in particular those boats are.
Well, she's a tough lady.
Oh my
goodness.
She's amazing.
But it's gonna be, it's gonna be a great day.
It's gonna be a great three-day event that we'll start with the testing and then the races on the 758.
Start right now from start to finish.
Chalice, what you got going on there?
Yeah, the small bolts.
Yeah, they're hydroplaning bolts.
that are probably, I'm gonna say about 10 feet maybe or a little bit less, about five feet wide, and they go anywhere from 95 to 105 miles an hour.
Can you imagine that?
Wow.
Okay, when you said about the testing, that's actually fun.
Yeah.
Because like I said, down in Detroit, we used to cover the races, and we go on the testing day, I was wondering, and they just opened it up.
Testing is fun.
Yeah, fun to watch
that.
Well, they need to know how hard they can push and where they can
you know,
where they need to play
off and and go.
Yeah.
So it's so that's going to be on Friday.
And then on Saturday, both days will be races.
There'll be 18 heats.
So there'll be 18 races.
There's according to what I've been told about 100 to 105 boats and about 60 racers because some of the racers race in several divisions.
Yeah, no, you bring your lawn chairs because we've shut down the section of Riverside Avenue that is right on the river.
So literally guardrail rocks river.
I mean, there's perfect, you know, there's and and so it that's where the race will be.
And it starts at noon.
goes all day
on
saturday on saturday both days saturday the seventh and also sunday the eighth and it'll be noon to five p.m.
so yeah
different.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's going to be, you know, that was the whole thing.
The whole idea was, let's find something that makes us a little bit more unique and a little bit.
You know, everybody kind of does the, especially during the summer months, the festivals, right?
We do
them.
Everybody does them.
I wanted to do something that maybe would.
give us that type of response, but be a little bit different.
Right.
I gotta say, this is no, I'm not just blowing smoke at you, you're one of our advertisers.
But honestly, you are one of the hardest working guys as far as bringing notoriety to Marinette, Wisconsin.
You, I give you all the credit in
Yeah.
Lose.
you know, corn.
Absolutely.
works.
Yeah, it
that.
Thank you first.
I appreciate that.
And yeah, it takes a lot of work.
The whole idea is to try and find something unique that you can do that isn't so niche that you have such a small.
And my whole philosophy has always been if you do one thing, it doesn't hurt to add
another component to it, you know, so this is the first year for this because I've never done this before, so I've never seen it.
I don't, but there's a lot of other things that I'd like to maybe add to this, whether it's live music, whether, I
stomachs.
They
stomachs and they control with their feet.
Oh
different.
as free or as close.
as possible.
up there?
Yeah.
And we have actually, we have a camp.
Um sites in in the city and then we have some around the city is all right.
so a great week.
Although I'm a little disappointed my friend Tara Rintamaki.
Yeah, that's right sold her place I used to love good up there for the best Western and be all Navy guys would be in there They hit like for a year.
They have like a five-year commitment
something all the Navy guys stay there and they're really fun They're fun to party with yeah, I believe that I mean your husband would be in a Navy guy
yeah, I believe that yeah, yeah
You know, it's a great, that Riverside, Riverside's filling up fast because it's
best Western because it's right there.
It's on the water.
Yeah, it's right on the water.
But we've got Holiday, we got a brand new Holiday Inn Express.
We've got a Comfort Inn and Suites, which is now an independent stay.
So same people, just different brand.
So it's gonna be great stuff.
And who you bringing out for the food trucks?
Do you have some
mind?
No, we do.
We've got, we've got,
One guy, Tasty Traveler, does Smash Burgers.
The
will be
Smash Burger,
only thing I wanted, a word of caution, is you guys have that beautiful thing of the horses and the wagons right in the park there.
Those horses are plastic.
Don't climb on them.
My granddaughters and I broke one of them, kind
My granddaughters and I.
I think the
anyway.
Actually, they're not there right now because the logs were starting to rot.
So we're getting new logs
Thai fusion.
going to be Asian
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then we're going to have a barbecue person, Thai chefs barbecue.
And then we're also going to have a dessert company.
Oh, cool.
Sweet mamas.
Um,
missing one thing
Italian pasties pasties It's
gonna be a food truck for past
I think
are
on.
You know, I'm actually like that with my drinks.
Okay.
So I had to go to Heggemeister here to watch ball games because I don't have the same cable there for whatever.
Okay.
And the girl, the wonderful young waitress, she actually knows she goes Merlot, right?
And I'm like, yep, because it's cold.
I can only drink red wine when it's cold out.
Oh, sure.
But I drink, and I might lose my man card for this, I drink white wine when it's hot.
I'm the
Is that?
Are you the same way?
You know what I mean?
OK, thank you.
Is that weird?
It's just beer when it's hot.
Yeah.
Yeah, why not a beer?
Right.
I'm not the biggest beer drinker in the world.
Isn't that something?
I'll take wine over beer.
Yeah.
I know there used to be.
Oh, I remember.
He's a very good and astute taste.
Shut the hell
up.
Do we
open
Where did your passion come from?
Because you didn't grow up in Marinette.
No.
Where did your passion come from that you want to make Marinette just a really cool destination place to go to?
Yeah, well, you know, I moved.
It's funny because I was in the service and we had two choices, move back to Marinette, move back to Chicago.
And I visited Marinette.
And it was a late summer night and I was walking outside because it was so doggone hot, I couldn't sleep.
And I saw everybody's front door was open.
And I'm like, OK, well, you know, there's this old guy who says, there's this old Sean that says, you know, this.
But then there's this other guy who says, this is so cool.
This is so absolutely amazing.
And so I chose to live in Marinette because it's a small town.
I didn't have to deal with the crime.
I didn't have to deal with the hustle and the bustle and all the
all the craziness and the people are good.
The people are great people.
I would say people in the Midwest, especially Northeast Wisconsin, this includes Green Bay, just have a heart of gold.
But you take those small communities like Marinette, Two Rivers, and then you bring in these festivals that are unique, right?
Yeah.
They do that kite thing, and they do a lot of cool things at Two Rivers as well.
Yes, they do.
Marinette's awesome as well.
And that's the best of both worlds where you bring in the big shows yet you can live in a
A
small community.
And you're on the water.
Exactly, and we're on the
Stick around.
We got my man, Sean Katzbeck, marketing and tourism director of Marinette.
We got Kristin Ambos, Point Mortgage Corporation.
And we got Bill Jartz coming up in a few minutes.
Back after
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Beautiful Tuesday morning, 53 in Green Bay, 59 out, 10, 57 in Oshkosh.
High today, near 70 degrees.
Milwaukee Brewers on the air this afternoon on WISS at 505, taking on the Boston Red Sox once again.
Kristen Ambos, Point Markers Corporation in the Hells, Sean Katzbeck.
Marketing Tourism Director of Marinette in the House, Billy Jart.
Somebody joining us in a few minutes.
But we're just talking about the great event you got coming up this weekend.
It is this weekend, right?
No, it's next weekend.
Next weekend.
Next weekend.
OK.
So it's the 6th, 7th, and 8th.
OK.
Can I just ask?
Memorial Day seems like it was real early this year.
I always think of Memorial Day as being like the very last thing in May.
I agree
with you.
It did a
bit.
Yes.
It's
a
little bit ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah, but go ahead and we'll talk about it one more time here.
Yeah, thanks.
So we're going to have we're going to have powerboat races.
American Powerboat Association is a out of Florida.
It's it's the body that governs powerboat races.
Everything from the small boats like we're having up to the big like Budweiser boats
boats.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, cool.
Yeah, those those.
Those are the those are the ones actually that'll be in Sheboygan.
So they'll they'll have races there.
This is I believe
they're incredible.
You can.
Anyway, yeah, a little bit about those because those are and those are expensive, too.
Your thing is so cool, though, because you got a race that's people, 10 foot boat laying down, driving with their feet.
That is like a.
Unbelievable.
Just the whole concept is going to be fun to watch.
Trying to picture it in my head.
Oh, it's unbelievable.
Come see it.
Yes.
Come see it.
Right?
Free.
Free.
I like it.
Three
thanks, Gary.
Yeah.
Saturday the 7th and Sunday the 8th are the races.
Starts at noon.
It's supposed to end about 5 o'clock.
It's really going to depend on if there's any.
breakdowns, if there's any, you know, crashes or anything like that, where they would have to tow the boats back that
it might drag racing or no, it's
an oval.
Okay, it's an actual oval.
Um, Christy, the woman who was here with me last time, she, um, she went out on the water.
She tested everything, took a look at everything so that she knew where to set the buoys and how to set everything up.
So yeah, it's, it's basically an oval race.
It's four laps.
And she said it takes about three to four minutes to do one complete race.
This sounds
to be fun.
And it's unique.
Yeah, we're talking about it
Yeah.
And that's the whole idea.
I'm looking at those type of things.
You had brought up.
I mean, everybody does fireworks.
So I'm looking at, OK, well, what would it take to do a laser light show?
Right?
I mean, that would be a little bit different than yet.
Okay, I will say one thing.
Well, one of the coolest things at the draft was the drone show.
That's pretty cool.
something a little bit
Yeah, that's the
thing.
Try to create things that are slightly unique, but yet people can at least somewhat grasp in their mind.
And also that they can see it and say, oh wow, that would be something kind of cool to go see.
And that's the idea with these powerboat races.
put into play as
Absolutely.
I like
effective.
Do you know what his number one thing was going to be for first anniversary?
He swore he was going to have a helicopter fly over downtown Green Bay and drop ping pong
story.
Tell the
that.
Shut down the
I want
and
And a ping pong qualifier.
Yeah.
And a ping pong drop where you could get five cents off a deal at Dairy Queen.
Yeah, awesome.
But we had no staff.
And so I finally had to say, Jim, we just, I can't do it, right?
I can't do it all.
So we're on the air that morning and we're, we're talking about the past.
And as we're sitting here, these windows are wide open to Washington street, up holes, a flatbed truck.
with a helicopter.
A
never cancelled it.
And forgot to tell him that we're not going to.
And the guy who said we couldn't do it, closing off Washington Street with a big
of the studio and ran down the street to tell the guys that don't go to sleep
idea is to, you know, always try to reinvent.
what the wheel already is.
You know what I mean?
You don't reinvent the wheel, but you try to add to it.
Absolutely.
We're looking forward to it.
think it's going to be a great
over the next few
sleep.
Kaspeck, marketing tourism director of Marinette.
Great, great event coming up.
Oh, six.
Week.
from this weekend.
Yes.
With the powerboat speedboat racing.
Yep.
Could be awesome.
Thank you for being here, my friend.
Thanks for having me, you guys.
It's always great seeing you.
Yeah,
Thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Well, very special guest joining us right now.
Mr. Bill Jarts.
How you doing my friend
unemployed for the first day of my life.
He's
looking for a job.
Yeah, people born in 1958 still relatively good shape relatively experience I have one joint that has been operated on
so I showed you the picture I put on my Facebook you and me both in 1977 had beautiful aphorosis.
Oh, wasn't that the best?
I just love that hairstyle.
We're talking about that.
All you have to do is get out of the shower shake your head.
Yeah, shake your head.
No way you're going.
hairs
You didn't answer my question.
who she would have dated in college.
You were me.
definitely be Bill.
I gotta tell you something.
Billy and I, I could not find the article Bill.
Remember when you, me and Daryl Burnett were on the front page of the press cassette?
Yep.
Tell that story.
No, that was, I just saw Daryl, Daryl was at the little going away to deal.
I was so great to see him.
What a nice guy.
Such a wonderful man.
And the note he wrote is like, my God, no, we were just, uh,
He and Joe Schmidt was that thing too on Thursday and Schmidt and Daryl left at the same time.
Daryl went to Indianapolis, Schmidt went to Minneapolis, and we took over to sports
again.
Bill and I started as sports directors in Green Bay at the exact same time.
I'm going to tell you, and I've never mentioned this to you, Bill, I've never mentioned this to anybody.
Um, the reason I have so much respect for Bill Jartz has nothing to do with you as a sportscaster.
First of all,
I used to drive my...
It was the loan.
People don't know I used to drive my daughter to school at times.
But anyway, when my mom died...
I received one sympathy card from anybody in the media, and it's from Bill Jartz.
I believe that.
I believe you should.
Yeah.
But that says something about a person more than anything they
do.
I
agree.
In front of a camera.
I agree.
So I just want you to know that always meant a lot to me, Bill.
And I still got that card.
Oh, thanks.
I appreciate it.
I mean, that's what you're doing.
This RIP thing on social media, give me a break.
Yeah.
Seriously, if the person means that much, go to the store.
You can pick them up anywhere.
Yes.
Go spend a while.
I don't know what a stamp is.
So what?
You go buy a stamp and you send it.
Name a guy and say, where do you buy?
So in order
to buy a stamp, do you just go to like an old person because like they wouldn't know how to buy a stamp these days?
Oh, I know.
kill that Kristen.
I go to the Kellersville Post Office because the lady there is so nice and she always has a little candy, a little candy.
So I stay maybe by one.
I'll come back and have another one
She probably goes
broke with buying candy for the Batman over here.
That's a good trade off.
Bill Jart's tremendous career.
Bill, what?
OK, and I don't blame you for doing this, but what made you get out of sports and going to news?
And I will say this, back in the day, in no disrespect to sportscasters these days.
But in our era, and again, we're going to talk old guy sportscasters.
I remember we always used to say, if it's a dead animal, it leads.
We used to do so many like outdoor stories and things.
You don't see that stuff much anymore,
right?
But
as a sportscaster, that in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that was almost like how you made your mark, correct?
Oh, we, at one point we were required to do three outdoor stories, at least three outdoor stories a week.
Isn't that something?
anymore.
And it's weird because, Joe, when you think about it, what are the vast majority of
Guys do.
Guys and gals.
Right.
They fish, they hunt.
Yeah.
I know they play golf, play tennis, but I mean, a lot of those guys hunt and fish, and it's what we should do.
You cover what we're interested in, but what they're interested in.
Absolutely.
But I'm interested.
It made it easy for me, because I love to hunt and fish.
Plus, you know, they take out like the Manitowoc salmon derby.
Yes.
I mean, we go out there, go fishing.
I
won that one here.
I've still got the article from Manitowoc Times.
I won the fishing derby in Manitowoc.
Yeah, but I got the donut eating trophy, so you'll never deny me that.
I still got the little statue.
into it.
No, why did I switch to do it?
Chuck Ramsey, I said, someday, you know, when I retire, you can replay, but you're going to have to go to Wausau, Klairs, small market, get some seasoning as an anchor and then come back.
Well, it was like what happened, you know, Tom Salasky went over to channel five and Chuck walked down the boss office.
There's your guy.
And, and, and there was a history there with Chuck going from, from sports to news.
And Chuck liked me.
And, and so he had Don Carmichael's ear and he said, there's your guy.
And that's exactly what I thought.
Well, now they did an audition.
They had a blah, blah, blah.
They'd make it all official.
Do the, you know, I remember we did the news and then I just switched at the end.
Good night, everybody.
As a sportscaster, we switched over to a different scene.
Good evening.
Thanks for, and we did a tape and sent it off.
And here we are.
You found quite the partner.
You found
And
quite
I mean,
Absolutely.
We're
And really, no, and she's, we're talking about Kami Rasmussen.
Yeah, right, right, right.
What a God for me.
She's an absolute God.
She was so kind.
And we just kind of hit it off.
Right.
Right away, did you?
I
And we just switched into news and here we just took off and we were both familiar with each other.
Right.
And I don't think we either have big egos and I don't know that she got along real well with Tom Salasky and that's fine, whatever.
But for us, it hit it and we worked and for 26 and a half years, we made it work.
And it was real, you can tell.
And the thing about it, Jim, is we don't do a lot of things socially.
You think, oh, we're going to go out and have dinner.
She better nobody
does in the
media people think your best friends like no media
people don't hang out with each other
No, she came under.
I think she met her house twice once was so many years ago in our house We got hit by fire way to rebuild our house.
We had a whole like housewarming party and then just the last summer when Jeff We did a little party out at our house for Jeff and Sarah Jeff Alexander and Sarah Thompson because they were leaving and Other than that that's been it.
I've been I've delivered a lord of fire with her house one time and she made these
Great Belgian waffles.
Oh my
for
Oh, they're so thick and so much syrup in it.
Oh, I just loved it.
But no, she's a sweetheart, really.
leaving?
She's under contrary, I think, until the end of December.
My understanding is he's going to stay.
I don't know.
Did they hire replacement Fubo?
Well, I don't know why they have to say anything.
Chris Walthers taking over for me.
That's what I thought.
That's exactly what we thought.
We actually talked her off the air and we thought Chris had just been moving.
I
might have been on the air.
yeah, maybe it was on the air.
But no, I don't know why they have to say that.
I don't know their where to hurting my feelings.
I mean, I remember when Chuck was leaving, they said, I was taking over.
So what's the big deal?
But no, he's going to be taking over.
I think
He wanted it that way more than anything.
Now he wanted to kind of let this be my week last week and then we'll go from there.
So today it'll be Kami and Chris at six o'clock.
It'll be four, four, 30, five and six, I guess it'll be for those, it'll be their schedule.
Really
talking a little bit about the old days of sports casting.
What are some of the things that, you know, that stand out in your mind?
Well,
you know, you said the great thing about me sending your mother a sympathy, your sympathy card with you that year that our camera got stolen.
Oh, I remember
that.
And I saw, I saw Tim Hunt last week.
He came back from my party and he said, you know, you saved my job.
And I said, well, I did what was right.
What had happened was after a Monday night football game and we had, he was shooting and he thought he'd put the rain cover down on the field.
So we're going to go back on the field and try to find it.
So we set our camera in our box of tapes and things right along the hallway where we always did a thousand times.
I said, put it down there.
Let's go look.
Well, when we came back up, the camera in the box were missing.
And in those days, the camera was like $30,000.
A really big deal.
So believe it or not, James Lofton helped us look for it.
We're looking around in the building.
We went outside looking in the dumpsters and everything.
It was just unbelievable.
And finally we realized, you know, somebody had stolen our camera.
So we went back to the station, what were we going to do?
So we left the note and so we'll see you in the morning.
So we went back into the morning and the general manager was going to
Fire him because he was a photographer and I said you can't fire him.
I said you can't because I told him to put it down there You're looking at your blackmail me.
You can't do that.
You I won't say what he said, right?
But he said you're blackmailing me.
I'm not blackmail I told you I told him to put it down and he followed my order What is he supposed to do right if you fire him?
I'm walking out the door with him because that's what's right Wow, and he said they said you a brought that up the other day He said it was very nice.
You saved my job.
I said I did what was right
And I really believe to this day, I do it a thousand times a thousand times a day.
That's a great story.
It was the right thing to do.
but I mean, I think it's great.
That doesn't surprise me at all.
I was just doing the right thing.
Right.
I love it.
I love it.
I gave the order that the camera's gotta go down on a ship.
That's
all I felt.
Wow.
That's
What advice would you give these young kids these days?
trying to get into this business, Billy.
Cause I mean, don't.
Was your first
job?
Was washed out your first job.
And the only reason I got that job, John, is, um, I was a channel seven football ulcer in high school.
And in the guy that was doing Mark Zealots, who's a broadcaster, all the famous now deceased died a few years ago.
Great guy.
He, uh, he took care of one of his channel seven also.
I walked in for the interview and, and he had the slide.
And back in those days, on the station IDs, you did a slide.
And so here's, remember this?
Here's a picture of Channel 7's Lutz, Bill Schmidt, Clintonville High School in 1975, Channel 7 All-Star.
And he was so happy about it, so proud of that.
And I'd gone to Northwestern and we just talked about Big Ten football because he used to Big Ten play-by-play and all this.
And finally, I suppose we should go do an audition.
We'll walk through the old machine, the old wire machine.
It'll look like, like, man, folks, if you're at home and you've never seen one of these old machines, cause a lot of kids today don't even know what we're talking about.
But they look like rules of, like, they like hand-tell size.
And then we just constantly, constantly.
All night long.
So you come in the morning, first guy in the morning, rip it, rip the wire in the state, local, national sports.
So he just came over, grabbed some sports wires, put me down on a set and said, you're reading next day, J Wilson from, he was the host of the state boys and girls basketball.
I mean,
I
imagine in the
high
school ranks.
He said, Jartzi, I got called him on time.
He was leaving the business.
I just want to say, you know, congratulations.
Good luck to you.
He goes, geez, Jartzi.
I knew you had that job before you next time.
What do you mean?
I walked in there and Mark goes, huh?
You're up against a pretty stiff competition.
You're up against a Channel 7 All-Star.
He said I should have started right around the walk, right out the door, because I knew you were going to get that job, and I wasn't.
And that's
exactly what happened.
And I was terrible, so I just got awful bad.
But I worked with Mike Goucher, broadcasting on Famer.
Absolutely.
John Carter was an anchor down at Madison Lynch Sprangers, and now Goucher's an anchor.
They're all, I mean, they're big people in the bit, and they were all there, and they were seasoned, you know?
So I got there, and they let me, because
if this is the future,
we got to get that
guy out of here,
you know?
What did
you learn?
when you left, how long were you out of the business?
About two and I left in June of 90, came back in January 93.
What
did you like learn about
being in the other world?
That people, it's interesting and it's really helped me a great deal in the business because you realize it's not, you know, in the business, you know, we say we had four television monitor, we'd all sit and look at the monitor of the competition.
When you're at home,
you know, you're making dinner, you're talking to someone, you're petting the dog, you're overlooking, you know, whatever.
And it's, okay, so if you say a number, you should put it on the graphic.
You should see it and hear it.
And something they'll say, call the number on your screen today when they write the comic, say, no, no, put the number in there, because sometimes you can't see it, but you can hear it.
And
some people can remember phone numbers.
And some people sometimes you can't hear it, but you can see it.
So apply it all the different censories we have.
I learned that.
I learned that it wasn't the be all end all, but that it was still very, very important that people still want to know what's going on.
And it's changed a great deal.
I was back in 93 when he got back in it.
So now certainly the cell phone, you got it right in front of you.
They're much more prominent.
But, you know, you learn that it's just, it's not maybe as much as you think it is in the business.
You know, that it's just, okay, well life goes on with, I didn't like today.
The guy's walking his
dog right
now because George's not in here, so what?
Yeah.
But it's just the way it is.
notice
Yeah.
John every
No, I was one thing that I made about, oh, she's 15 years ago.
They talked about.
probably to save money on printing and expenses in their paper, blah, blah, blah.
They said, well, we're gonna think about just going to a tablet.
And I said, well, I'll just let you know, I won't go on the air without paper.
And again, not because I'm trying to make a stand or anything.
That's just me.
You blackmailing me.
I
co-host
once in a while that little show over on Channel 5.
They're more thing.
And it's tabless.
I've never been able to figure it out.
Not one
time if I'd be able to use it.
So the draft comes up this year, and they said, hey, Jartzy, just so you know, we aren't going to be able to print it.
And then you're going to have to use an iPad.
And my hands just started slipping.
Yeah, just talking about it.
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Todd
is awesome.
Wow.
Isn't Todd awesome?
Welcome back to our sports
channel.
When I came back in 93, they said, I do the left.
And I turn and they go.
Oh, Northeast Wisconsin, I
bet!
Cammie laughed about that so hard.
Well, thanks a lot, Cammie.
Well, I just want to
say thank you for your jerseys woohoo bro.
Yeah, I'm about done.
That is so cool.
I don't know how they pulled that off, but they did that.
At Copper State Brewery, the package, it's their beer, they just put up my little app around it.
And we sold it at my party for fundraisers, so we're going to donate, it was over $2,700 already to CP, Curative Connections, and Make-A-Wish.
Awesome.
That is so awesome.
It's just perfect.
I mean, I
that.
The guy in the candle, I don't know if his nose is quite big enough.
He's pretty big, but I don't know if it's
orchestra.
We did that from October.
We did a lot.
We used to tap the kegs all the time.
Just
like that.
I still have
them.
I still do too.
Hey, I gotta say that everybody thinks Billy is this, this greatest guy in the world, nicest guy in the world.
He and I, we've never had an issue, but boy, have we talked about other people we didn't like in sports
or whatever and Billy
would go off.
Hey, Billy, remember the last time you and I did an event and I, it was my event in Appleton and the speaker was supposed to do 15 minutes and it was like at 45 minutes and you actually told me, Johnny, you got to do the auction.
I got to get back into
that night.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely.
No, I do.
And going back real quick to the camera stolen story, the one thing I want to thank you for that.
John was so gracious when the camera was stolen and, uh, you, you let me use your post game tape for the post game son on the game.
Now that's not going to happen very often.
And I thought, well, I was pretty doggone.
Nice of you to do that.
Cause
I would
have not, we would have nothing.
We had no post game.
It was a Monday night football game, which was huge back in the day.
And I would have nothing without John.
So thank you again for that.
Well, you're
welcome.
But I'll tell you one of the, one of your cohorts really helped me out one time, Joe Schmidt.
The first Packer road game I ever covered in my lifetime 1984 October of 1984 Packers at Denver and they got the day before the day I got there was 74 degrees the next day they got I think was 23 inches of snow The Packers fumbled on their first two plays of the game and they were returned for touchdowns on the first two plays of the game, okay Me and Joe Schmidt our cameras are soaked.
We're soaked.
So we go in the locker room before the game ends to dry everything off
and try to, whatever, whatever.
Save it.
The door bursts open.
Here comes Forest Greg and the team.
Joe Schmidt and I hide behind the towel bins.
We're crouched out in the back of the lock, because if Forest Greg had seen us in the locker room, and we were there as Forest Greg just... Post game?
Yeah.
Tore
into his
team.
Do you remember that?
Did you ever tell you that story?
I remember even saying that we were locked in the lockers.
Yes, stuck in the locker room.
Yes.
Oh
so bad.
We couldn't even get a camp to go back to our hotel.
Joe called a cousin or somebody.
It was the craziest night ever, but Joe Schmidt took care of me.
We used to trade all the time.
All the time.
We had the same bad, same cameras.
If you run out of power, we'd give you power.
You need a cable that was working.
We'll give you a cable.
Because we were very, very competitive.
Probably more so than today.
But the thing we did is...
Let's just help each other out because
we're
especially when you're on the road
because
it's the four stations against the world.
Absolutely.
And you're
away from home.
You just, let's make it happen.
Yeah.
And then let me write it better.
Let me edit it better, whatever.
But let's just at least give everybody.
So I knew you were, I'll never forget that.
And remember walking into practice the next day and a forest guy goes, I heard your camera got stolen.
I said, yeah.
He goes, Christ almighty.
Was that saved by our security?
I got no little altercation after that game.
Really?
Yeah.
With a sports writer or something from Denver.
Okay, built.
Okay, another thing.
We got the decks that weigh about 40 pounds.
Right.
We got the camera that weighs about 30 pounds.
Yeah.
And somehow you're still trying to extend your arm with the microphone.
Remember that one man band?
Yeah.
Oh, gosh.
And I was all wet.
Okay.
So there's some guy, I'm like in back.
Right.
And my arm was like touched and he kind of like pushed me away.
I, okay.
So anyway.
That
you.
And Forrest Greg stops the press count and goes, what the hell's going on?
Okay, he goes, he goes, I wish my team showed that kind of emotion tonight.
Oh, that's funny.
True story.
Oh, I believe.
Oh, we
can go on.
You and I could
stay here for two hours until
old TV sports stories, couldn't
we?
Oh, God.
No, there's some great times.
And the thing was, John, we
I wish you let it, uh, in the beginning, it was terrible.
They weren't very good.
Oh, I mean,
we always
kind of hope, okay, if the stars
line
just right, they could eight day, maybe the other teams bustle, crash, and then we'll go to the playoffs.
And it wasn't really until, uh, you know, Mike Holmgren and Ron Wolf came in there and then things changed.
The
whole organizing, although I will say one thing, Bill.
Not a hundred percent for the better in the regards to the way because we just be able to walk in the locker room.
Oh, any time remember.
Oh, what kind of see Lee rebel?
Yes, I say hello to Shirley right now to see Lee
and once they started the thing Okay, we're gonna escort you into
the
thing and then escort that kind of
It
changed it for me.
It hurt.
I mean, cause we were used to the other, but for these folks, that's just what's just the way to operate and procedure
excess for so many things.
I think it's probably a little, at least in sports anyway, it seems to be anyway.
I don't know.
The thing that bothers me is nobody
And this is just ingrained in me.
I always try to watch the competition now in the morning and wake up Yeah, we have my wife and I've got we flip around the morning shows see what's going on and back in the day I said we sell the monitors and we would all sit there and we would log There was a guy at his job.
Yeah between between six five thirty and six five five and five thirty and six and six to log what the other people had
and you probably had this maybe maybe you did maybe didn't but I guarantee you
My news director the next day was hey, hey, Jarts had a great story on salmon fishing.
Hey,
Jarts had a
great story on trap
shooting.
Critique each other, right?
Yeah, but like I remember the little story where they released some wild turkeys and and when they flew off the I think it was you guys and it was like That's how we see that that sounds really good.
Well, that was really good.
We don't see that in
And that's in business whatever you've got to know what your competition
Bill George ladies and gentlemen, you're an icon my friend
your
legend.
Congratulations.
I
know
Hey, what you've done over those last 30 years.
God bless
you my friend and thanks for being a great friend.
No, you as well.
Thank you for the opportunity.
You got my friend.
Take
care, buddy.
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