Burger Day & Ballgames (Hour 1)

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 Wednesday to you.

Happy ha- ha- ha- ha- happy hamburger day.

Yeah, that's true.

Do you see all the specials?

Like Burger King, you know, in

all the country.

Not just here.

Okay.

Can I, can I have my morning biatch?

You sure can.

Anything

I said?

It's been a year and a half, two years.

Go

ahead.

We go funny time.

Sorry.

I bought a sub sandwich.

I'm not going to say where at all.

Okay.

I bought a sub sandwich and a diet Coke yesterday.

It was a large and it was big.

I was okay.

How much?

Yeah.

Sub sandwiches.

15 bucks.

Okay.

I, I, John, I went to Anago and when we stopped there, got half subs.

Yeah.

I should have gotten, I mean, okay.

That was like $7 for a half.

$19.

Yeah.

Wow.

$19.

Yeah.

I know.

Yeah, I was surprised.

I mean, am I that really old cranky guy now?

But it's just like, it's

kind of shocking.

It is.

If you're not making it up the other day, when it was $36 or some breakfast burritos.

Wow.

Yeah.

So just think if you didn't have any money, the people, I mean, it's tough to shop and we work

without

the community, but we take people, you know, when they're gonna be moving out, you know, you gotta get a budget.

I mean, that's number, not number one, but that's one of the main things I gotta do.

But it's okay to go to like Paul's pantry and Nana, pick up some of the, and then we want them, they can buy bulk, like rice and cereal, but they can't buy, you can't buy bulk, like, you know, vegetables, cause it's gonna spoil you.

There's a way to cut your, and usually your food budget is about 15% of your income, about.

But it's going up, and you're right that, but they say number one thing, John, to cut expenses is to stop going out to eat.

I know, I know, I know.

He talks about going out to eat a lot, doesn't he?

No, I don't.

But it's nice to do, but anyway, I'm with you on that, that food stuff.

But you gotta, there's some sales out there.

Um, yeah.

Good morning, everybody.

Setting positive thoughts and energy.

John today says Vicky.

Thank you, Vicky.

Morning fellas says the Vin man.

Thank you Vinny.

Good morning.

Says Sarah.

How you doing Sarah?

So there you go.

I

have to bring this up, uh, because yesterday after the show, just so our listeners understand, we typically, what we do is we, we cut a promo, right?

And, and we get that on the air to say, Hey, what's coming up on the show the next day?

And then I usually, once you guys walk out, I go in and I clean up the studio.

Okay.

Okay, you're supposed to compliment-

Wait a minute, we cleaned off

the

counter.

We both

cleaned off the counter.

We both poured coffee

on here to clean up

the stage.

So both of you spilled yesterday and I know it got cleaned up because I watched.

But I came in after the show and my know in your spot.

there was spilled coffee on the desk and on the floor.

So when did that happen?

After I left, I guess.

I guess not.

Do

you

remember

seeing that?

He didn't clean up the floor when he spilled his coffee.

I know that.

So that could have been a leftover.

I don't know the stuff that you saw later.

He did wipe off the table, but John, you didn't clean up the floor.

That's true.

I don't want to rat you out, but.

But he will.

I walked in and I was like, I literally said, what the bleep?

And then other employees came running in because they thought I was injured.

And it was coffee on the desk and on the floor.

Who

were our guests yesterday if I've done

that?

Bill Jarts.

That was

Jarts.

Yeah, it was totally

Jarts.

Wasn't a great scene him yesterday.

Hey, speaking of spills, let me tell you something that if you spill on your countertop is so hard to get up.

It's incredible.

Honey.

Of course.

Yeah.

I had to get like a paint

scraper thing.

I spill honey though.

That takes so long to get out.

You could pick it up in time.

You know what I mean?

Like if you had a jar.

Okay.

I've been using it for different things.

Right.

I know you were talking yesterday.

I put it on yogurt.

Right.

Yep.

But

no, I

do that because I think Greek yogurt is terrible taste.

Oh,

that's right.

That's what it was.

So I put fruit and honey in it.

So I spilled.

You cannot get that.

I literally had to get like a paint scraper.

Do you get that up?

How long was it there?

Cause that's a

couple of days.

I just can't.

That's if you wipe it up right away with a warm washcloth and come right up.

So, you know, oh yeah, but you

drop that jar of pickles in his living room or something and then you pick it up for like a day or two.

You had to walk around it

overnight at least overnight through it.

Wow.

I've

had

my window open for a week now because it still smells from that burnt soup, the charred soup.

I don't know if I heard that story.

You charred some

soup.

You forgot to stir it?

Yeah,

that'll do it.

And that stuff, that does go into the carbidine or whatever you have on carbidine.

It is baked in there.

So actually, you know what I got?

It was Nikki's big pot that she loaned me.

So I had to go buy a metal sanding sponge to clean it with.

Was it just a regular pot or was it non-stick?

Nice big one.

Well, it's stuck.

Oh

Teflon's

off.

It's

a different color

now.

Okay.

So then I

drove.

Okay.

Another thing I read somewhere where vinegars.

So I dumped a whole thing of vinegar in there.

Now it smells like vinegar too.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I would take vinegar over that

smell.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I agree.

As soon as I walk, just

drop another jar of pickles.

I know.

Yeah, that would overcome

it.

That would

work.

Uh, today is hamburger day, as we mentioned.

You know,

that's, that's a great day.

Isn't it?

Yes and no.

I mean, yes.

No question.

No, I know.

Cheeseburger.

Cheeseburgers.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, there's a big difference between a hamburger and a cheeseburger.

Isn't there?

If I go through, like, sometimes at buffets, they might have those.

Like, you can go to hot dogs, burgers.

If there's no cheese, I pass on

it.

Yeah.

I'm not kidding.

Me too.

I'll pass on

it.

You know what I almost bought the other day at, uh, I think it was a festival?

Must have been.

I mean, um, I was going to, I was going to bring them in a box of white castle.

I didn't know they carried weight cast neither.

Yeah, those used to be good when we were traveling through different.

Well, we used to be drunk.

Yeah, I was yeah, they don't think they're that good or maybe something else William said hi John.

Good luck with your mose surgery today That was invented years ago by a Madison physician.

It works.

Well, William.

All right Was it dr. Mose must be huh,

and that's

what it's called Yeah, MOHS, and you know, I'm gonna be honest with you and I put a thing in my Facebook about it

And Todd, I never would have gone if you hadn't like kept saying, but the thing is, like I said, when I walked into purveyor, I 100% thought, I 99% thought, oh boy, they're going to think, why is this person bothering us for a tiny

little nothing?

And you know what I mean?

So what I'm saying is if you got something that pops up like that out of the blue, doesn't hurt to just check it out, man.

The smallest little thing, whatever.

Pop-up.

Good beaching to see what they tell you.

Yeah, it's also brisket day.

I'll tell, I'm telling you, man.

Yeah, you like that.

I've never had it before.

I mean, well, it takes, what do you say, 18 hours or something to cook?

Yeah, 12.

But I love that burnt part.

It's so good.

Flip-flop day.

I could live in flip-flops.

Not even a question.

I don't like them.

I don't think they're that good unless you've got really pretty feet and you're a female.

Don't think you should wear flip-flops.

I don't have

free

feet.

Have you done that's what I would have

thought have I done?

Yeah, I get a pedicure twice a week

get those little fish the guppies Yeah, that's right

That's good Is

there you can get them here in town?

Well, yeah, there's a lot of places that do it, but the guy on the east side is

awesome You have

something at the draft and he's like I haven't seen you in a while.

You'd have to sedate me.

Oh my god

My feet

and I'm not even joking about the same way

There's

just something

about it.

I don't even like getting a haircut, which by the way, you got a nice one.

Get your money's

worth.

Yep.

I got my haircut as short as possible.

Yeah.

Um, hunger awareness day.

That's always important.

Senior health and fitness day.

All right.

That's for you guys.

That's right.

We're there.

That's for us.

You know what though?

June 1st.

I was 224.

No, I mean May 1st.

Yeah.

224.

224.

Today, 214.

Wouldn't you, wouldn't you 212 yesterday though?

Yeah.

Okay, so you went up a little bit.

Yeah, that happened.

But you know what I bought a bunch of?

Thanks for pointing that

out.

Yeah, just the timing on that story was like, boy, yeah.

It's okay.

I gained four pounds over the weekend, too.

I fluctuate like that.

When we first started, three of us, we

just got that written down anywhere.

I had it.

Didn't I?

You did.

Okay.

I got to find that because it's going to be two years.

on June 25th.

And I think it was right after that we weighed in.

Shortly after that, right?

Like first

or second day.

We had that scale in here.

Yeah.

I'm gonna dig that up and see where we're at.

So, okay, I don't have it in front of me, but I will find it.

But you know what I bought?

Cause they say not to chew a lot when you got the stitch, you know, to kind of, yeah, scarring down.

I bought this, I haven't bought this and I don't think I've ever bought this.

A big bucket of orange sherbet.

Ooh, that sounds good.

That sounds good, man.

Orange Sherbert, and then I mixed in some, um, some raspberries.

Just

leave it alone.

Orange

Sherbert is like a winner.

Yeah, well, I mean, it's like, you forget how good

that is.

That is good stuff.

Yeah.

Oh, I mean, I had that in the first.

I know it was delicious.

Remember the old push-ups?

Oh, absolutely.

That was the

best.

But that's why when I make my, when I make my, my shakes with tang, it tastes just like an orange sherbert

push-up.

There was a comedian somewhere where he was like,

People of our age, I mean, we were, we basically ate sherbet, right?

Or in sherbet out of toilet paper rolls.

I mean, that's basically what you were doing.

That's what it was.

But it's still, you forget how good something was.

There was never enough in those things.

No.

Michael, Michael, we had to do a deep clean at our property where we did a remote with you guys.

Mino spewed his chicken salad croissant all over the floor.

He

did.

Michael

is on the microphone.

Those are hard to eat.

Oh, yeah.

Most people get it all over the floor.

You're right.

Yeah.

Um, Sarah says, add cancer screening to Todd's resume.

There you go.

Am I in the same detected?

Yeah.

It can.

Am I in the same category as say, John Kramer, who saved your life?

Uh, am I in that same realm now?

We'll see.

We'll see how the test comes

out.

That's a really good question.

I mean, you give it.

Maybe I, maybe I should be elevated a little

bit.

If anybody here, I told you guys it, but the whole story of what Kramer did for me, Afghanistan is amazing.

If he didn't answer his phone, I wouldn't be here.

I'm not

even

joking, not being metal dramatic.

I wouldn't be here.

I'm not sure I know that whole story.

Yeah.

He's in later, maybe for sure.

Right.

You, though, Todd, we don't know if you've seen, we don't know how important his diagnosis was until you get the test done.

Well, yeah.

The test

is done.

The test

is done.

Well, he's got cancer, but you

know, but we don't know.

I hope the doctor says, man, we caught this early.

If you've been waited another six months, this

could be in your

bloodstream.

I never would have gone.

If Todd didn't work, I never would have gone.

Yeah.

Because you know what?

The thing is, even though I put it on my Facebook, but hey, get things checked out.

Let's be honest.

I don't mean to gross people out, but when guys get older, they get weird crap growing up.

You know what I mean?

It's like, where'd that go?

I wonder if that lump's been there all the time and I never noticed it.

Yeah.

So, I mean, it's to get a guy, R.H., to go to a doctor, get a tiny little thing checked out.

It takes somebody else to encourage him to do it.

So, I went to see my doctor and I sat down and he comes and he goes, so what brings you here?

I said, um, my wife made the appointment because that's precisely why married men live longer than single men.

They

make you

go.

They

make you go.

And if you don't go, then they call cause they got, I should have never signed off that privacy thing to her.

But anyway, they call and get everything they want.

So, um, and then they check you out and physical, whatever.

So you're

right.

Cause there's a lot of people.

I've talked to people 10 years.

I'm not gonna go.

I

agree.

I'm with you.

Terry says, hamburger day, count me in for the drift in hammer.

Oh yeah.

Those are a can't miss.

Those are a can't miss.

But like I said, we're at the right place.

I have a granddaughter, it's a daughter of duty.

The best.

Can't miss.

That is, you know.

Wonderful waitress.

My daughter said, you're the greatest waitress I've ever seen.

Man, they got it going on there.

Yeah.

And, and I'm glad they're successful.

They do weddings, they do funerals, they do just, and then they have the taco Tuesday, which you can get a place to sit down there.

It's just, it's great what they do.

They, they know what they're doing.

Do you have the enchilada soup?

I think we'll make that, we make it like once a month or something like that.

I said, let me know.

I'm going to buy a bucket.

Email me.

I'm going to buy a bucket

of enchilada

soup.

Let's go back November, 1973.

Well, midnight train to Georgia.

Get it going here on a Wednesday morning.

Oh, dammit.

I was so close.

You were close.

Glad it's night.

81 years old

today.

Wow.

She's still great, man.

Absolutely.

Still great.

We got great show for you, folks.

Please stay with us.

Mind on

the man.

Back after this.

Great

song.

1973 was good year for music.

Hot time?

It was just a big

blend,

right?

Yeah.

Little R&B, little country.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So happy birthday.

Glad I said he's 81 years old.

Same age as Rudy Giuliani.

He's been quiet, huh?

Wouldn't you kind of expect him to try to make a little bit of a comeback?

Oh,

I don't think he'd.

They got him pretty good.

They got him pretty good.

You know, they started, what do they sell as baseball cards and everything?

I mean, he... Oh, that's right.

Yeah, he, uh, no.

Yeah.

Uh, Elizabeth Hasselback, 48, married to a guy whose brother used to play for the Packers, of course.

Um, what does she do now, Touch?

Does she... She was on TV,

I don't know if she's still working for Fox.

She was on The View, wasn't she?

She was, and then she went to Fox, I think.

Okay.

Who, who's

she

married to?

Tim Hasselback.

It's

brother.

Yeah.

Hassleback.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Uh, Marco Rubio is 54.

Kylie Munoz is 57.

She had that one hits locomotion.

Well, she had that.

She's had some hits.

Yeah.

She's big in the UK.

Didn't she have cancer?

Yeah.

She's tough too.

And she battled.

I believe breast cancer.

Yep.

Yep.

John Fogarty, 80.

I'll tell you what.

Come on, right?

Love John

Fogarty.

Yep.

Love John Fogarty when we are listening.

Yeah.

But he sure.

blew up that band when they shouldn't have CCR was so good, so good, so good.

Let me think about it, the Beatles,

same thing

happened.

I

know,

I know.

That's why Taylor Swift's going to break all the records because she's not in a band.

Yeah, you're right.

You

know, if you want to hear a good story about John Fogarty and Bob Uker, there is an episode of David Letterman where Norm MacDonald comes on because, you know, he and Bob Uker were really good friends.

Oh, I

didn't know that.

Yeah.

And he does a great Bob Uker impression.

And there was a night that Bob was, he, he went to see Bob at the, at the ball game and Bob's like, yeah, who's going to sing the national anthem?

John Fogarty.

You know, right?

And he goes, I'll have John come up here at the seven inning stretch and sing for you.

You've got to watch that.

Did he really do it?

I don't know.

Because Norm's like, no, no, no, please.

I don't want him to have to come

up and

sing for us.

Oh my God.

You don't even know who he is.

Do you?

Oh, I got to see this.

And

you got to find, I'm going to try to find.

I

got

it.

You got it.

Yeah.

Last night, what a Brewers game.

Did you get the sound?

I got it.

You want me to play this?

Yeah, here it comes.

Double last standing off of a roll.

This Chapman was rolled over the third base bag.

Pitched to him.

Fly ball deep right.

It's going to win the game.

Abreu's going back and watching it.

Sal, it's a grand slam.

Oh my goodness, Christian Jelic.

He walks it off in grand fashion.

The Brewers win at five to one in the tenth.

How do you do and the comeback ended with a Yelly bomb?

That's

cool

grand slam walk off nice.

That was

something that was really some that was here No, oh, but they are where

that was that was it?

Yes, that was in Milwaukee.

That's

right.

Today's

the

last

I

was thinking that was the first game of today's the last game

that that's great

Yeah, that was great.

I really like it seems like just a really good guy

Oh,

yeah.

Yelich.

Yep.

Remember when, you know what's funny?

Who had a chance to be the next Robin Yelp was Ryan Braun.

I know.

If he did, I think what he did to that guy was, I would have sued him for character assassination or something.

Remember?

No, and I remember, yeah, I, no, not the details,

but I just remember he

got.

He had a positive drug test.

Right.

Or PEDs, Performance Enhancing Drugs.

Okay.

And he had done the test on like a Friday.

Okay, so what the guy who's in charge to work for the brewers does he would take the test and then that Monday or whatever and maybe I've got some of these details But it basically is this is what happened and then Monday he'd be bringing it to the lab or whatever Okay, sure completely seals it all up with the you know dates at the whole thing like that He got an attorney Ryan Braun got an attorney who somehow convinced the judge that it was tainted and tampered with

Because what's it called with police?

There's that thing when you get evidence.

It's the such and such of to make sure it's not out of control with anybody else touching it.

I can't think of the term.

And he convinced the judge that somehow this was tainted by that guy.

The guy literally put it in his refrigerator at his house to take it on Monday.

And so Ryan Braun just character assassinated this guy.

About he he tampered with it.

He did whatever it's dishonest what he did was and the judge agreed with them and then years later, Ryan Bronk came back said, Oh, sorry.

Didn't really happen.

Didn't really happen.

Well, what did I lose?

Everybody lost respect

for him after that.

Turn that on.

That's yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's amazing the power we give to a judge.

Oh, yeah.

too much to one person.

That's why I

like to be a judge.

Yeah.

No, I wouldn't see.

That's why that's exactly my point.

We have to it's going to cost more, but we have to have a judge.

We have to have three person panels.

It's these

guys that put

people away and then the other guy doesn't put them away.

It's like, come on.

I mean, way too much power in a judge.

Way, way, way, way too much.

That's more powerful than any politician.

It's unbelievable.

The power that they have.

And that's not the way it was designed.

You know, I had, I had

Two things that happened, it was like in May, right before I graduated from high school, right before, I got in an accident, there was no fault of my own, okay?

Never.

It wasn't, because I told you a story, this was actually in the winter, the snow banks up there are 10 feet high.

Oh yeah.

And when you pull out, and there's a one way street going this way, and I'm trying to pull out, okay, and I couldn't see, but I had to pull out far enough,

okay?

Wait a minute.

Yeah.

We talked about this week.

Yeah, I got

a speeding ticket.

Yeah,

okay,

so I to go back to the same judge.

He's like son.

Have you considered joining the military?

Your life isn't heading the right way really But isn't that an old school oh

my god, that judge said he was right

80 years old how many times you think he said that yeah, that was their solution for everything wasn't

it yeah it that

But I don't know, I just think, I don't know.

I just, of course, I went to, before the judge had three tickets.

I went with my dad, which was great, because I walked up there, my dad's name was Jim too.

Walked up to the bench and said, hello Jim.

I thought,

this won't be so bad.

So then I had these three citations for something and the guy goes, the judge was very, very cool.

Now that's where I like the power of the judge.

I was just

gonna

say, I was just gonna say, right, it went Jim's way.

So the judge is okay.

So in this case, it's fine.

He said, pick

one.

We don't

need no stinking panel.

Right, right.

He said, pick one.

Nice of him.

Yeah, so I took the cheapest one.

I remember one time I went to fight a speeding ticket, okay?

As an in all ways I'm way to pick up Dom here's

like in

kindergarten It was that right going right over the East River.

Oh, yeah,

I was sitting at Ziggy's Yeah, yeah, and it was gonna be like six points or something

So

I fought it to get down one point and the judge goes he's looking at it.

I'm doing a test if I goes.

How's your record?

Otherwise,

it's good He

takes his glasses puts him down like this and goes

He's like don't scare

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Hey,

thank you very much.

Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor.

You're in a good looking, Todd.

I didn't catch that fully.

What was that forecast again?

Mid-80s, did she

say?

Yeah, it's coming up.

Coming up.

We're gonna hit the 80s.

Wow.

Yeah.

Okay.

Green Bay 59 right now, Alpton 59, Oshkosh 58 high in the mid 80s.

Wow, partly cloudy with showers high in the mid 80s.

No, no, that's 60s.

Today's the coolest day, but then you really start warming up.

A week from today, it's going to be 82.

Wow.

Yeah.

All right.

Hey, what I mentioned on the, on our app, right?

You can text us and listen and all

that kind

of stuff, but you can also send those voice messages.

So now you can voice message the studio and we can play them back on the air.

So if you've got something

you want to say to Jim and John at any time,

voice message it in.

I'll double check them first, of course,

before we

hear them, but I would love somebody to test that out this morning at some point.

Yeah, please do.

How do they do it,

Ty?

Put a handkerchief over the receiver.

Download the Civic Media app, choose your station, ISS or GBW.

And then in the lower portion there, you see there's actually a voice message.

So you press that, it records you and you send it through.

Nice.

Yeah, somebody do it.

Come on.

Sarah or anybody out there listening, Vinny, whomever's listening out there, Patrick, let us know.

It's also ALS Awareness Month.

We're going to be talking about that today.

That's always a very important thing.

That's something we're very... We

lean into that.

Absolutely.

And we're gonna learn, we got a doctor coming in today.

Well, we're learning

about Alzheimer's today.

So ALS is ALS.

Oh, I'm sorry.

You're right, you're right, you're right.

Oh, I thought it was, do we have someone come in from

Alzheimer's Association?

Yeah, we do.

Right, right.

But it's also ALS Awareness Month.

All right, all right.

I've got, and that's another one.

I hope to go visit a very good friend very soon who's got it.

And it's like, and my aunt had it, and it's like.

Well, how about it?

Wasn't that Tom Hintz?

I believe so, huh?

It's kind of quiet.

I don't, I don't really know.

I didn't.

Oh man, he's in good shape.

Oh my

God.

You can still

run marathons.

Do whatever.

And just get a little bit of the.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He came on quick.

I know some of the stuff, it seems like it lasts longer, but that was very unfortunate.

That is, um, there's no cure, right?

No.

I mean, there, I don't know how many guys that played in the NFL have it.

I mean, Steve, Michael, um, uh, Gleason, the guy, there's a big statue of him out in front of, after nine, oh, no, not after nine, after a hurricane Katrina.

When the Superdome was reopened, okay, and it's like oh my god is real celebration and I remember it's a Monday night game or Sunday night game and he first two minutes a game He blocked a punt and ran in for a touchdown.

It's almost like you know We're back type of thing and they actually have a statue of it out in front of the Superdome now And then it wasn't long after diagnosed with ALS Yeah, so many football players that happen to it's it's incredible.

I you hate to say it, but it's it's true

Yeah, um brewers and actually again today taking the Red Sox again 1135 on W ISS coming your way from Epton.

Is that the best thing to do 1130 because go down to have you been in a new game

lately?

No, but those are called getaway games so they can fly when they got a flight to the west coast

or someplace.

Oh, I get away from work.

I just think those are awesome.

Those are awesome games.

We went I haven't been here this year, but yeah, that's I want to go to a noon game much

More enjoyable you get back, you know, yeah or five and totally agree totally

great because I'll be honest We gotta do that.

There's nothing worse than coming back safe to go to Brewer's games And if it's a night game, right boy, that's a long and you gotta get up in the morning.

That's a long drive back, right?

Yeah, so yeah, all

right Joy says hey John are they name?

Hey John, they are naming the ballpark in Navarino after Covey.

That's awesome My good good friend.

I'm right told you although

I'm going to try to find that tree I bought in his honor, too.

And the one that's over in Midland, Michigan.

Remember I told you that.

But Covey from Navarino, he was like the mayor of Navarino or whatever title.

You know, there's different, but what do you rent?

Whatever.

You ran the baseball team there.

Did all kinds of fundraisers.

Just a wonderful, wonderful guy and a really good friend of mine.

He passed away from cancer a few months back.

Yep.

Um, got a text there from Brian Jim, would you say Tom Hintz was one of the most universally liked politicians in Brown County?

Yes, yeah, I would he well guy runs for sheriff on a writing.

Yeah, and he wins.

Yeah County exec Yeah, just people liked him, but he was likable.

Yeah, he missed a united way He was so much into charity.

He's the one who worked at the drug court for veterans He started was very

instrumental in starting that.

Yeah, how can

you

not like someone

that his heart was when?

He he was sincere.

I mean he was his he used to come up to every Packer game up in the box at Ted Thompson

gave

me and he would talk to every one of every single game every player or every player every veteran he would say hey listen just I'm starting up a new thing or we're starting up a new thing called the the veterans court and he said we're not only looking to help veterans who are getting trouble but also we're looking for mentors to help them and a lot of the people who used to come to those games are like

You know, honestly, I'd be interested in that and in helping out or the opposite way of, um, I could use some help.

Right.

And that was Tom grassroots

level.

Yeah.

I would, I think everyone liked him.

I don't think he lost an election.

I

don't, not that I know.

Yeah.

He was just well liked, worked hard.

Yeah.

People liked him.

And you know

what?

There's a lot to be said, just being an okay guy.

You

know what I

mean?

He's a good guy.

Just being a good guy.

Yeah.

Just not having an agenda or having us, whatever.

Right.

Personality and I bet he treated, I bet the people.

he really disliked, wouldn't know it, because he would treat them the same way he treated somebody he really does like.

And that's hard to do.

That's hard to

do.

You should think about that.

I'm not good.

Yeah, we're not there yet.

We

gotta... I'm just gonna say, we're not very good at that.

I'm not.

But with this ALS awareness, if that's what he died at, that came on very quick, because they meet at the New Community Shelter, the Veterans Court, every month.

They met yesterday, as a matter of fact, they were there.

And so I'd see him all the time, and...

you know a month goes fast but to see him and he's fine and then you die within the next four weeks maybe I wasn't looking I've never looked at him like he'd have any health problems the guy was always in great shape and I always you know turkey trot and everything else so um

I'll see if I can find somebody who can come on and actually talk a little bit more about

okay the diagnosis that'd be great yeah that'd be great because that is one that man

yeah that's there's no turning back on

that I don't know if you have to throw money at it or

I mean get the most brilliant minds in the world and just go after some of these diseases like that But

that takes funding.

I know that's why we're talking about that right now and

I

know some budgets are getting cut and it's like look That's that but money's not going that money's going to research.

Yeah,

so yeah, and then that just the institution wins Everybody wins, you know with research if it works, you're right, but look at you Chicago.

You know my kid was there.

That's

They do a lot of research there, which I think is really cool, because it's stuff that we don't even know what's going on.

And they're working on things that is going to benefit us.

The University of Chicago.

Yeah.

Why do they play football?

I never went to a good

school.

They played

state.

They're not football players.

No, it's just funny.

It's like these

kids are all brilliant.

They're all going to make, you know, they're all three doctors or whatever.

That great football player.

No, I didn't even know that.

I didn't know they had a team.

I give them credit.

They used to be a great school.

Uh, Amos Alonzo stag was the head coach there.

I think they were in the big 10 at one time.

Yeah, you sure

we're talking about the same school?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

Down

by the museum.

It's in a not great part of town, right?

Yeah.

I mean, do you jog six blocks?

You don't want to be there.

Yeah.

It's that Obama lives down there, right?

That's a high park.

Was it?

Yeah.

Then Lewis Farrakhan had a place, um,

Yeah, there's just some very nice homes there by the university.

Wow, I didn't know they had a football team.

She never mentioned that.

I'd be honest with you.

I never knew that till now.

Okay, anyway.

They're good academic school, though.

That's one of the best.

Absolutely.

You know, another thing that was talking with the ALS type things.

When you were a kid, had you ever heard of that?

I did only because of the Jerry Lewis telethon.

Oh, okay.

Right.

They would talk about that all the

time.

Okay.

I didn't watch that.

I did.

I just did not like Jerry Lewis.

Well, I

didn't take care of him, but you know what?

You know, it's so horrible.

You can find clips now of him.

He'll bring out some handicapped little kid and he'd be like, boy, you have to say, what did God have against this kid?

Huh?

Look at how horrible a shape he is.

How would you like to have a day like this guy?

Man, what did God have against you?

And here's this poor handicapped kid sitting there and Jerry Lewis is doing something like that.

Yeah, it was he was weird.

And had a good buddy who worked at it and they used to have to go to like convention every year.

And

yeah, I heard stories about that.

So yeah, he

was here.

Is that the Carlton?

Oh, was he?

For those of you that yeah, for those

of

you that

didn't know that Jim

just