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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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
mouth something and his security got carried a
gun.
Really?
Because so many people didn't like him.
Was he here for the telethon or no, no, no, he didn't show at the Carlton.
That's here for like, I think six days.
It's like a comedian.
I mean, he sings too.
Oh, I mean.
Yeah, he's, he's Jerry Lewis.
His name is what sells out at home.
That telethon, I can't believe you didn't watch that.
That was like, you know, the Memorial Day
weekend.
Yeah.
Well, he wasn't my favorite, but yeah.
Well, you'd see, you'd see Tony Orlando and Don.
You'd see, you know, Don.
Okay, Shane.
He'd
come on.
Yeah.
Um,
yeah.
I'm trying to think of some of the other ones.
Yeah.
They had to bring a little hoochie-coochie-cooch.
Boy, is that conjuring up an era?
Yeah.
You're right.
Yeah, nothing conjures up the mid 70s like Tony Orlando and Don absolutely.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, whatever happened to him.
He's still alive.
Is he?
Yeah.
All right.
I always liked Thelma.
Was it Thelma?
Yep.
Thelma Hopkins.
Thelma was still doing well
too.
Is
she?
Yeah.
No, she's fine.
What?
I don't know who she is.
I was just looking at our intern here.
He has completely blank.
Like not even like we're talking a different language.
Yeah.
But quite honestly,
he's done that all morning because I actually called about it earlier.
He's like zoning out.
Dude.
Yeah.
Hey, I got a couple of texts here about hamburgers.
Where is your favorite hamburger place?
But I'm not even saying today's national hamburger day.
I would I'm exactly like you.
I only want a hamburger if it's got cheese on.
Oh, yeah, so me too If I'm going to like a see what those buffets or picnics and these things and they have you know Brats and hot dogs and hamburgers if they don't have cheese I'll walk right by the hamburgers if they have cheese boom I'll take yeah, I'm same way.
I'm the exact
same
way no cheese
Yeah, no burger, but you know what I'm gonna It's hard.
You know have you ever found pimento cheese like real pimento cheese?
In a store.
It's
hard to
find.
It's
really hard to find.
But I had that.
I told you, I had something with pimento cheese.
That's the greatest tasting cheese I think there is.
And I think that would make the greatest cheese for a cheeseburger you could possibly
have, wouldn't you?
Well, yeah, two things, right?
Yeah, interesting.
Well, you're coming over the 17th, I'm having a party, so I'll get pimento cheese.
You know where I first heard about pimento cheese?
You ever watched the show Better Call Saul?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
we're not coming over.
No, wait a minute.
I didn't even know about a party on the 17th.
I told you guys, I told you guys Big Moth.
Did you know that there's a party on the 17th?
We had two guys from Big Moth in here, the band director at Ashwabana High School, and then Bill, and then the guy that was just here, Rick.
Right, right, Rick from Big Moth.
And they're playing at St.
James
Park
on the 17th.
Yeah,
it's a neighborhood thing.
Well,
I'm out of town.
I can't come anyway, but thank you on a Tuesday.
I'm taking vacation.
Oh, I'm getting away from you people for a while
as of right now.
He's going back to
his party on the 17th.
Perfect
day for me to tell you though, Todd, I gotta tell you.
I'm on this one website type thing where it's snake world.
Okay.
Snake world.
Yeah.
Where, where you take a picture of a snake and people tell you what kind of a snake it is and everything like that.
And it's amazing down in like the Alabama's and the places, like these really nice houses, really nice, whatever, not out in the swamps or the bayous, the snakes that come into their places down in Alabama and Mississippi and Georgia Tut in Arkansas.
It's crazy, huh?
Yeah.
Wow, not fun.
No way.
I'll take snow.
I'll take ice.
I'll take
anything
like that.
Two years of my
life down south.
Worst two years ever for so many reasons.
There's pictures, people rented a place, you know, rental place in Alabama and the guy goes to pick up a piece of wood from a stack and there's a water box and laying on the thing.
I
called
it.
Let's go to the airport.
Let's go.
All right, guys, that quick break.
Can we come back or attack with the Dino Pitchkin Memorial softball tournament with Annie Zalewski back
after this?
Is this cheeseburger message brought to you by Shriver?
Okay?
Yeah, they, it's 2,000 employees, 5 billion in sales.
Yeah, I'll promote them.
Annie, your favorite burger place?
Oh, it just changed.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, there's a new spot out in Michikad.
It's called Thirsty Joe's.
I
asked him to plug.
They've got
one of the best burgers around.
Okay, I get out there once in a while.
Thirsty Joe, I'll do that.
Is that right in that main drag?
On on
147 your way to two rivers.
Yeah, but I also have to give a plug to yandas in Ellisville because they have excellent burgers
as well.
Yandas in Ellisville?
Yeah, I'm going to yandas.
Gators.
Paul says
Bourbon Street Bar
821 South Broadway best burgers.
That's good.
And do they still have like they're discounted like on Tuesday or Wednesday nights that
They have great burgers there.
I'll give them that.
When we did the high school football game in Luxembourg last year, the Booster Club brought us up cheeseburgers.
They were so delicious.
He said they were from a bowling alley.
Oh, sure.
In Luxembourg?
Yeah.
Oh, are they thick and juicy and good?
Yeah, it's been a while.
My husband used to work in Luxembourg a century ago, and he...
every once in a while would bring burgers, but first
supper.
The other place we went to, I don't know if I went with you, but, um, it's a drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer, drawer,
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drawer
Frog station and you'd go in and you'd get a tap beer for like 50 cents and you'd have some nice soul later there
Cookin right in front of you onion rings and the whole thing and the floor slanted.
Yes, it did that
building is still standing
I Want to convert it back into what it once was the pool table if you took a shot at the pool table It was so slanted
that it
won't stop.
You just keep rolling the
whole time.
Remember.
Yep.
Oh, I love frog station.
Yep.
And just the onions fried.
Yes, that's a great business.
I love
it Best burger we ever had after working a football game in Manawa at the bowling alley
Brian pulling alleys used to be known for good food.
Weren't they Todd?
I was just gonna say yes, absolutely Manila
Manila on the way to it's not a weight too much I Just okay,
kind of
a
little west of here.
Yeah, it's not a channel.
Okay.
We'll pack a county.
All right, so that's enough.
I could do that.
There's another place
Like in Stangleville, that neck of the woods, they have great burgers.
I'm gonna think of that, because we used to go there all the time when I lived out there.
In Stangleville?
Nah, it's a little bit further down on like AB.
Remember he had that farm out there?
Yeah.
Oh,
that's right.
Yeah, I
forgot about
that.
Chickens.
Yeah.
But I didn't know there were any restaurants in Stangleville.
I mean, they got the great meat market.
There is now.
Copper Top opened up
a couple years ago.
Oh, really?
In
Stangleville?
Yeah.
Because that's my favorite bratwurst, or my favorite, it's my favorite beef jerky in the world.
It's at that big market.
Yeah.
Conups.
Yep.
Yep.
They converted the old Mary's, Mary's prahabar.
I used to
go there.
Oh, you know your, uh, your stuff.
So what is Mary's?
I used to go there quite often.
I got married in that church right there.
Okay.
Yeah.
St.
Lawrence.
Yeah.
It's that bizarre.
It's like this huge big church in this tiny little
town.
I believe it's on the historical
register.
It is.
It's not going anywhere.
It's gorgeous.
It throws off the scale of all the houses.
That's a
beautiful church.
It
is.
Who are those Germans, Bohemians?
No, Belgium,
right?
Mostly.
Bohemians,
I think.
But boy, they spent a little money.
Boy, I mean, that's what I mean.
Wherever you that was built, where did they get the money to build some of that mass there?
And that altar.
I mean, if you've ever been in there, the altar is one of the most gorgeous I've ever seen.
Wow.
I've been in cathedrals around the world a
little bit.
That's gorgeous.
It is.
Yesterday was my 35th wedding anniversary.
We still go out there once.
Thank you.
But what a.
And that church, it's not, it looks bigger from the outside.
It's not that big on the inside, but so you invite 150 people, it's all the way, it's packed.
But I was, yeah, I loved living out there, but you know, kids were little and I don't know, just whatever we moved to Green Bay.
Anyway, great
air.
Sally B's in Wayside.
Great burger, great wings, great Friday night burger, fish fry, Scotty B's.
Sally B's.
I don't know
that one.
Well, I know where
they're gonna have some pretty good burgers.
at the Dino Pitschka Memorial softball tournament.
Absolutely.
And
that's
why Annie is here to talk about this.
Annie, before we go to a break, give a little background on yourself and this wonderful veteran.
Um, well, Dino Pitschka was my nephew and, uh, he, uh, little, a little bit later in life, um, told his mom he didn't want to have any regrets.
So he enlisted in the, in the Marine Corps.
And that was 2005, I believe.
2008, he was deployed to Iraq.
He was in Fox Company out of Milwaukee.
And in 2008, they were, his Fox unit was deployed to Iraq.
April 14th, 2008, the Humvee, he was in hit a roadside bomb and he was killed along with another young man from the Milwaukee area.
We got together shortly after that and we run a tournament in his honor We
15 years I can't believe it.
We can't believe it either.
We can't believe it either.
We're pretty proud of that mark So yeah, it's coming up starting tomorrow
through Sunday.
It's a
softball tournament.
Softball tournament.
We've got 18 men's division, 18 co-ed division, a lot of good softball.
Yeah.
And the thing I want to talk about after the break, I want to talk about how I always try to make sure we talk about the person underneath that uniform.
I mean, it looks phenomenal, his dress blues and everything like that, but I like talking about the individual himself because when you spoke at UW Green Bay this year for a veteran spotlight, the story you told about the type of human being he was,
Not the caricature of the big tough tatted up marine type thing.
Yeah
Really really special person who cared for kids like I can't believe and I can just imagine what he was like with kids in Iraq So we're gonna talk more about that and why we're hosting you're hosting a softball tournament in his honor coming up All right, okay, and he's a loose key with us.
Do I always mispronounce it?
I also I sell Lou Zalesky.
So there you go.
I know why I always get that that's okay.
I'm
very 36 years and most of my family still says
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin, live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Very special guest, Andy Zoleski here for the Dino Pichka Memorial Softball Tournament, 15th annual.
Coming up at the Casco Village Park, Church Avenue in Casco, rain or shine, starting on May 29th, which is tomorrow through June 1st.
Let's talk a little bit one more time if you don't mind any about your nephew here, Dino Pitchka, who was killed in action in Iraq.
And just about the kind of guy, and again, God bless his Marine experience and everything he did to have the courage to do that.
But talk again about the Dino Pitchka that you knew before he joined the Marines and what a caring
human being he was
he really was and it's it's kind of cliche to talk about someone that way after they're gone but not in this case i mean everyone you didn't know dean without loving him is is what it boils down to he was a good kid he always um he was inclusive he was he always wanted to include everyone even we used to have parties at our house where they'd be playing croquet in the backyard and there'd be
you know a young girl standing off to the side that he didn't even know because there were so many different
you know
families there and he would invite them to play and that's just that just epitomizes the kind of guy that he was he was well known throughout the county because
He was, you know, quite the athlete.
Wasn't it quarterback, point guard, started baseball player?
Yes, but he was also very musically inclined.
He was starred in most of the musicals at LC.
He was part of the boys.
They started an acapella group and we have some recordings from that that I will treasure forever.
Um, he, um, started his own, he taught himself how to play guitar and he started his own band after he left high school.
And so he was, he was well known throughout the county.
That's why the scholarships, you know, go throughout the entire county.
Like I said, if you knew him,
you loved him.
And, um, the Marines was a big part of his life.
But talk about his, he gave all, he took all his talents and became an educator.
He did.
He went, he got a full ride.
He was a scholar too, on top of everything
else.
He
got a full ride to Carroll, now a university, Carroll College back then.
And he got two, he got his undergraduate degrees and then he decided he wanted to take the teaching path.
So he got his certificate and his first job was teaching at a school for disadvantaged kids in Milwaukee.
He took this ragtag group of kids, and he made a basketball team out of them.
They played in shorts and t-shirts, because there was no money at that school for uniforms, but he served as their first coach.
Right, the
lives
he affected, huh?
I mean, his kids, you know, I just think that's great he did that.
For his wake, they brought, I don't remember, it was three or four.
busloads of kids from that school came to his wake and they have since their snack room at their school they have named it Mr. O's snack room.
So this is great so you took this tragedy turned it into a fundraiser
baseball tournament, which people love in this neck of the woods.
Tell me where some of the money goes.
And it's 15 years.
You must have done some great things over those years.
Yeah.
It's funny.
You should ask.
It's almost like, uh, almost like I cued you because last night I sat there going through, uh, cause I give opening remarks, um, when we do our military service on Thursday night.
And so I'm going to give away some of my thunder here, but I mean, we've given out almost 50 scholarships.
And, you
know, we couldn't.
start right away the first year because we were, you know, we were just getting started.
So I think that since 2011, I think we've been given out scholarships.
We have given to, I'm also the secretary on the board.
So I try, I have every single donation that we've made is recorded in the minutes.
So I went back through 12 years and minutes and I found that we've donated to well, almost 150.
individuals, 16 of those being veterans.
And when you include all of the separate charitable contributions that we've made, I mean, we're talking everything from, you know, local like Burma Park.
in Kiwani for their all-inclusive playground to things like Toys for Tots, Shop with a Cop, the food pantries.
I mean,
you name
it, if it's a worthy cause and we've
had it out.
Oh, he would be a part
of.
Oh, absolutely.
That's exactly what, that's our thinking, John, exactly.
But that totals almost 200 individual.
So yeah, we, and we do, you know,
if our funds are running low in any given year, it's like we try to keep them as local as we can, but we've given to people outside the area too, and we see that it's a very good cause.
No, it's
great.
I mean, that's what makes this world go round.
A lot of these nonprofits that, and none of you take a penny, you know, I've been there, I've seen you guys all working, you've got family, and then of course the community steps up.
Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
Let's talk about some of the things that people can do, and it's more than just watching baseball.
Softball.
Softball.
Well, okay, softball.
Sorry, John.
Trust me, baseball players and softball players, they know the game.
Yeah, they're gonna duke
it out.
Yeah, we've got raffles going all four days.
We've got bucket raffles where you can...
buy your tickets and choose what you want to put your ticket
in for.
We should talk about some of the raffle items.
Yeah, they're great.
Those are unbelievable.
Some of this stuff's handmade.
We talked about the cornhole boards.
Yeah.
There's just a lot of very interesting, neat things.
Yeah, people really step up with, like you said, some very interesting items.
We get handmade quilts.
We get...
people putting baskets together for us so that we don't have quite as much to do in that
respect.
to be a grind.
Yeah, we spent about three hours last Tuesday.
I remember one time my whole living room for a golf tournament I put on, my whole living room floor was covered in
stuff.
My dining room was
full until I
took it to, we call it, we call it basket making night.
But yeah, we, you know, anywhere we usually have like, I don't know, 60, we get gorgeous, gorgeous plants.
Good friend of mine puts together a
pot that is absolutely beautiful.
If you're a flower person, you're going to put a lot of money in that one.
You know, another thing here, just reading, okay, it starts off the military ceremony tomorrow night at six 15.
Yes.
Um, raffles all weekend need not be present to win.
Raffle drawings begin Sunday at three.
First price, $1,000 donated by you and your husband.
Wow.
A second price, $500 donated by Scotty's third price, 70 inch smart TV again, donated by your whole all the brothers.
in
the family and mom and dad and yeah, brothers,
uh, $350, better life, Kiwani, fifth price, $300, another local, I mean, on and on and on and on.
And what I'm, what I'm trying to get across here, this isn't like, okay, God bless the Shriver foods or the, you know, of the world.
These are all individual people that are donating for this, which I think is really cool.
Yep.
Exactly.
We get, um, you know,
We can, our treasurer can go to the PO box and pull out a check for 25 bucks.
That's, you know, that's what makes this work,
right?
Yeah.
It does.
And Sunday Booyah, 10
o'clock until it's all got hot.
I'm telling you, it doesn't say...
Booyah at 10 o'clock while supply lasts, it says 10 o'clock till gone.
Till gone, yeah.
Which could be 11 o'clock.
It's the best Booyah
around, guys.
I can imagine.
In my
opinion, it's, I gotta give them a shout out, Tina Lelue and Deb Priebeck.
Okay.
Oh, God, they make the best Booyah around.
Do they sell it to go at
all?
Oh, sure.
Oh,
sure.
They, most of the time, they even have containers.
Okay.
They don't even need to bring your
own.
Awesome.
And just
good.
local food, you know, you got the brats, the burgers, the tripe or trip.
It's all locally
procured.
Explain trip.
First of all,
as I said, it's disgusting.
But we buy it because there's a ton of people that love it.
It's actually sauerkraut within the brat.
And you can taste it and you can smell it.
You don't have my tongue, do you?
We do not.
I mean,
I think there were a couple years where people donated for our raffle.
That happens all the time, and for our church picnics and stuff, I mean, those buckets are full of tickets.
Everybody wants Matanki.
Usually, we don't have it.
Again, thank God, because you can smell that.
Oh, man, right.
I'll know if they bring it to me every year in Kiwani at the high school football games.
That press box smells like Matanki.
You'd have to know what Matanki smells like.
But let me tell you something else.
Not to do.
Leave it in your truck in the back seat for like a weekend You don't use your truck and you had the windows rolled up on a hot day
all it takes is a day I had bought some to take to a good friend of mine who is German and
and Bohemian and she had never had it.
She wanted to try it.
I had it in my car for a day.
I couldn't even take it out and put it in the garage.
I had to put it in an outbuilding because it smelled so bad.
It's all crout.
Yeah, it gets it going.
The whole thing is great.
The whole event, everything you do.
You're the announcer.
It's great to watch a softball.
That's what I mean.
You do it everything.
But no pets alone.
Remember, I brought my dog last year, and you guys were like, hey, you can have your dog in here.
He tried saying Milton was a service dog, and
they
looked at Milton like,
yeah, nice try, sir.
I did not.
I got to go food.
That food was really good.
I mean, I talked to you for a while, watched the game, but maybe it's OK watching the game.
I understand that in the food chance.
You can't have
that.
It's not our
rule.
It's
the village rule.
So, you know, we have to abide by it.
So, sorry.
Well, once again, the 15th annual Dino Pitchka softball tournament.
And I just want to talk one more time about, you know, it always gets me choked up a little bit to the one I see his grave there, like when he was born.
I was in college.
He could have been my son.
I mean, seriously, you know what I mean?
That age is these young kids that are that are getting killed over there.
But.
your area was hit hard.
Yes.
Right around that time.
Can you talk about that?
I mean, I've never seen an area in Wisconsin, maybe Milwaukee someplace where there were more people, but for the population in your area, you guys really paid the price, didn't
you?
There were three guys from, they all went to LC High School.
Ryan Zimmerman, Jesse Theory, and then Dean was the last.
But, you know, as far, I mean,
I think Dean's wake could have gone on for days.
There were so many people that showed up.
When we met him, when they brought him back through Austin Straubel and we drove back all the way to Casco, to the funeral home in Casco.
The 54 even, not just the streets of Luxembourg.
Highway 54 was lined with people waving flags, signs saying, you know, never forget.
Um, and we don't forget that either.
We, we cherish the community.
We, um, we're, we're so grateful to them for all the support that they've given, not only our family, but to the tournament as well.
We, I mean, just in general, I mean, the theories were really great friend of mine, Randy and the, and the whole bunch.
Yeah.
No, I'm a little, yeah.
Yeah.
And, um, and the Jerabex were great friends of mine.
Um, I say a hunt.
His dad was a great friend of mine, played for the Packers.
It, it, it really good.
on a personal level.
That war was brought to Northeast Wisconsin, wasn't
it?
It was.
It really was.
You know, for a while, you kind of hated to turn on the news
because
you thought there was going to be, you know, breaking news with another service member.
Yeah.
Well, God bless you, Annie.
And what you're doing, what your family does for this, you want to talk about coming right from the heart.
It's what you guys do.
Annie Zalewski, Dean Opitschka Memorial Softball Tournament starting tomorrow night at Casco Village Park, Rainer Shine.
And you'll be doing the opening ceremonies at what time?
615.
615.
Just
the directions because I got lost, but it's very easy to find.
It is very easy to find.
Come down 54 out of Green Bay and take a right on Church Avenue.
There it
is.
And then you'll
Right after the
church, you'll hear the noise.
But I
want to thank you guys for this opportunity
to talk about
this.
And like I said before, labor of love for all of
us.
Whatever we can do for you, and I want to thank you for an incredible speech you gave that day at UW Green Bay.
I had somebody stop me after an event I did Sunday to talk about it.
You made an impact.
Thank
you.
Because everything you do is from the heart.
Thank you.
You bet.
Thank you so much.
We do it for Dean.
Yeah, that's great.
We'll keep doing it for Dean.
We
will.
All right.
Mind on the mirror, back after this.
John Fogarty on his 80th birthday.
We're talking baseball last night, Christian Yelich, an unbelievable walk-off grand slam.
Brewer's back in action here on WISS 1135 today, taking on the Red Sox once again.
And of course, starting tomorrow, the Dino Pitchka Memorial softball tournament in the town of Casco.
So great selection there, Todd.
Now we're talking about something else we like, shouldn't say like to talk about, but something we totally support.
And that is the fight.
against Alzheimer's or Dr. David Ferguson and Rob Sutherland to talk about the fight, the battle, and some things I saw in the news fairly recently about some potential breakthroughs as far as like a real early diagnosis and things like that.
So first of all, doctor and my friend, good morning.
I haven't
seen you.
Good morning.
I saw you just
a couple of months
ago.
How you been?
Good morning.
Good to
see
you.
Doing good.
Good.
Go ahead and talk about where we're at with this and your passion for this and how we can all help in any way.
Yeah, well, I guess I just wanted to start off like this.
Thank you for the supporting Alzheimer's Association.
You guys have done a lot.
You came out to an event that I hosted a while back, so it's good seeing you again.
And actually, Doc, you write in here how people, you know, it's over 7 million people now.
I mean, it's growing, which is a little bit of a concern, but maybe it's just being diagnosed better.
We'll get to that.
But Johnny and I both lost loved ones to that.
It's personal.
Right.
My sister, you know.
My sister and
I were unbelievably close
to.
Right.
His mom.
It was grandson is graduating today who was the joy of her life.
How great it would have been for her to be here.
Just so it's personal.
It's real.
There's a lot of a need out there for a lot of things.
But yeah, I just
when you see some of those numbers that come out, you know, I think that it's sometimes hard to wrap your head around
those
numbers.
But I was thinking of my way in this morning about right here in Wisconsin, the number of people that are living with Alzheimer's, you could fill up Lambo and where the bucks play
and still
be and still have.
need to find a place for 10,000 people, right?
So there's
not
something over 100,000 people in the state who are living.
And you think about then their extent, you know, their families and their, their, their kids, their grandkids, all the people that are affected is really enormous.
And we're, and unfortunately, I think we're going to see more, you know, a population is aging.
And so I think we're on the cusp of seeing more, unfortunately.
So your comments about early diagnosis and treatment is really critical.
So
How are we doing?
I mean, this isn't the biggest thing 20 years ago.
I don't remember it.
We'd never heard of it growing
up or anything
like that.
And again, I was talking to the med students about this when I graduated from medical school.
So again, this was a couple of decades ago, I guess,
but
it wasn't in the top 10 for causes of death, right?
So now it's, you know, six or so somewhere in there, right?
Why?
Well, I think that's a great question.
I
mean, I think there's probably we're going to find out.
I think that's a lot of factors, you know, that's
There are potentially environmental exposures.
There are more sedentary, obesity.
There's just a lots of different things that are put people at risk, social isolation.
There's a lot of different things that may be driving that.
Well, OK, let me just
say this.
I'm not trying to sound like a smart bud here or anything, but that's good.
because those are things we can somewhat control or obesity and are moving around and getting away from certain things,
right?
Absolutely.
We
know what some of the modifiable...
And I've never heard that before, you
Jim.
What, don't we
should
exercise, John?
I think I've paid for it before.
I paid no attention to him.
I paid no attention to him.
No, I think it's multiple things, like you said.
I want to stay with Alzheimer's, but, but they does a lot of studies on loneliness and what a killer that is.
And I think that fits into what you were just talking about.
Isolation.
One of
the risk factors, you know, I saw, you know, and I think for a lot of people, you know, they retire and then all of a sudden they're not challenged and they become isolated.
And so there's a lot of, there are,
I mean, one of my interests, one of the things I really like to talk about is prevention.
What can we do to modify some of those risk factors, right?
To try to be on the front end of prevention.
And then the treatment piece is really going to be increasingly important, early detection, early awareness, talking about what happens early on, because a lot of the therapies are gonna be critical in the early part of the disease.
Right.
Rob, you're...
This is a passion for you
as well.
It is.
It is.
It's a serious passion.
Absolutely.
And I can confirm the medical community has come a long way.
My wife actually was diagnosed in 2012, early onset.
She started showing signs at the time we knew none.
Right, right.
She was 52 years old.
I remember we talked about it on time.
Yeah, and at that time, 2012, really, very little funding was taking place to help.
people with Alzheimer's research and so forth in very little progress is being made in the medical community.
But over the last few years, clearly we've taken some big steps in diagnosis and prevention, talking about things we can do differently to help lower the risk factor.
And then also some drugs, I guess, that can, if detected early enough, can actually slow down
the progression.
But they are making progress, and that is wonderful news to anybody affected by this
disease.
And that really is what is so exciting is that there are novel approaches where they're expanding.
The pipeline is becoming more diverse in terms of the types of drugs that are in there.
And so I think it's...
Yeah, that's exciting to see
how early can it be detected?
I mean can it be detected before people are showing like like for yourself You had to be thinking because I remember my sister-in-law.
It was just really little things.
She was brilliant She was an R. And she taught in colleges and she was brilliant and she would do things that just weren't her Nothing major not like you know getting one, but just
yeah, that's it in my case in round this case.
She just
We noticed her asking the same questions over and over again, saying the same thing over and over again, doing things like not answering the phone, not being able to write down messages, not being able to tell me what time it was, things that.
Never dawned on me could be the beginning of Alzheimer's, but I know there are no tests now.
I believe you can take
I think I think that's still early I mean I think there there will be I think a blood you know blood test
at some
point and that's what I was reading about there and that's the next step they're trying to
get right and imaging trying to get to the point where hopefully you can start to find some of that underlying pathology before
some of these later manifestations.
We got Senator Quick Break, Dr. David Ferguson, Rom Sutherland, talking about Alzheimer's and that war against that insidious disease.
Let's keep fighting it, stick around gentlemen, back after
this.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Dr. David Furks sitting in Rob Southern here discussing Alzheimer's and
and discussing Moe's surgery in between here.
But this is one of those things where we're talking about Alzheimer's and we've got Kerry who does such a great job.
Awareness, awareness, awareness, awareness is so important.
Wouldn't you guys agree with that?
Yeah, absolutely.
That we spread the word.
That's how we let people know in the community what's going on.
People need to be aware of what Alzheimer's is.
It affects, as we talked about earlier, thousands and thousands of people in the state of Wisconsin.
We need to get word out.
And with your wife, 52, that's young, young, young.
My passion is early onset because when Rhonda was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she was 56, maybe an actual diagnosis came.
What a shock.
I had
never heard of it.
That's got to be difficult.
You said look for some signs and you mentioned a few.
To get the next step, you should go in and get tested.
I mean, there's got to be some pushback.
It's like, come on, you're overreacting.
I just want to just follow up on that one comment, mom.
My sister who died of that, there were some people who would say some things in my, actually I'm not kidding.
My wife is the one who diagnosed it.
We went and she goes, Jim, something's wrong with your sister.
And then it took,
you know, a lot of pressure to go and get a test.
My sister kind of did the exact same thing.
She said, okay, that's unusual for you to be doing this.
But they're like, ah, just a bad day.
So talk to me, how did you get your wife?
Well, there was a lot of resistance.
She, Rhonda,
I mean, Ronda, she went south fast, I guess, is the best way to put it.
And she would have no part of wanting to go in and see a doctor or a neurologist.
Finally, a couple of things happened at the house that was just evident.
I said, you know, this isn't right, Ronda.
We got to do something.
And she finally agreed with me.
They went and did that cognitive test the first time where they asked you to put the hands on the clock and things like that.
And she did poorly.
Then we went in about six months later and she did.
Even worse and they at that point they diagnosed early onset And from that point forward we did things like clinical trials which everybody can do to help Just help the Alzheimer's community take part in clinical trial if you'd like we did that with Ron to think there might be a drug that would help her Nothing really did help at that time, but it's not easy caretaker.
I was her caretaker and Fortunately, I had friends and family that realized I was struggling and they
Offered help.
That doesn't happen all the time in the community.
People don't know.
Even
Jay Leno's talking about that right now.
Yep.
He's kind of taking care.
He's a caretaker for
his wife.
I believe very very difficult very stressful and That's part of what the Alzheimer's Association does is raise funds not only for research, but to help caregivers Get respite yes to catch their breath a little bit
and that is so important.
I don't think people see that and spend
Five days in a row with someone and you're gonna want that two days off as well, but
they don't we had like governor the former governor on here one day I was
just gonna mention governor Schreiber talks
about how
how how the how this the circle can shrink, you know how
Friends neighbors can withdraw they're not quite sure how to deal with right as Individuals get embarrassed.
They don't want to go out they quit doing the things that they would normally do to help them stay connected
Well, you know what I found though with my sister not when I went down to visitor is that she could be totally the regular her One minute like we're talking about the old basketball games and she was a cheerleader and it was just like any of us having a conversation right now and then a minute later
Completely different so I mean that mentally as the caretaker and I've certainly was the caretaker, but I just thought my goodness You're gonna deal with this every day and you got to be careful what you say that I found because some things seem to They she understood completely
You know what I mean?
Some
things,
yeah.
Oh
yeah, dude, you guys, yeah.
Like, you guys don't know
what I mean, right?
Very bizarre behavior, and the other just bit of advice.
Do not argue with somebody that has Alzheimer's.
I just say, Mr. Sutherland, I mean,
these repetitive questions, and I just, it's not good at...
Taking that's like
you just
asked me that too.
You
know what
I mean like you really got to be a special person to be a caretaker We don't all have the deep pockets
like
Jay Leno.
I mean it can be expensive
to get it in so you have to have to understand It's not about you.
It's about right
he or she
Yeah, your
partner you
really
used to have to start changing the way you think about this because their reality I think that's what's so great about
Governor Shriver's message is that their reality is not yours.
And so trying to be rational, trying to have a rational conversation often doesn't work.
The emotional piece is still there.
So it's really important to be able to
you know, say things with a smile, they pick up, you know, people pick up on the emotional cues, but I have that kind of thing, not to correct, not to argue or not to, you know, to challenge.
And I was tired at the end of the day with one of the individuals I help.
I had a long day and I kind of broke that rule and it went south really quick as you use
that expression.
And I had to apologize.
I had to kind of recover in that situation.
And
yeah,
it's tough.
I should say I went through the exact same thing.
I drove by her son as my godchild.
He's getting married.
I walked in and she goes, what are you doing here?
I was like, yeah.
And he kind of get like mad, he drove, he took the day off, but you know what I mean?
You just really have to, I think it's important that people go through
a little training.
Oh, and I think that's a great thing about the Alzheimer's.
There's educational, all sorts of education and pieces on communication, how to change the way you communicate with someone.
I think
it's important
for some of that's going to be a caretaker, has a loved one with that.
I think that is
incredibly important.
train and it's really, again, learning and retraining yourself to communicate in a different way and educate you, get as much as you can about how to deal with some of those difficult behaviors to avoid burnout in yourself and also just to improve communication.
But they do still feel certain things in regards to like, okay, with that, with my sister-in-law and my brother and I, we're gonna leave to go for dinner over some friends of his, okay?
And she goes, well, why aren't I coming?
Of course I'm going to come.
She was totally lucid.
You know what I mean?
And at that point, it just breaks your heart because you forget which person you're dealing with.
And how did
you deal with that?
Well, you just take it.
Honestly, it's cliche, but a step at a time.
Yeah.
I can, like, in Ronda, one of the most difficult things I dealt with Ronda, she, again, she was, she lost her ability to speak.
Okay, the word really is early.
She couldn't
communicate.
She would you could tell maybe what she was thinking by the tone of her voice, but there were times also when I Had her in memory care and I'd go to visit and she'd be crying uncontrollably just couldn't stop crying and only I mean I kept I didn't what it was the people at the the memory care facility could would help her she wouldn't take help for me But all I could think of is maybe maybe she just had a flash of reality.
Maybe something all of a sudden
And
she realized the situation she's in.
Oh my goodness, what's going on?
And it just crushed her.
That was really so difficult to deal with.
And who knows, right?
Maybe she
knows.
How is the environment where we live, right?
In Appleton, Oshkosh, Green Bay?
Do we know what we're doing?
Do we have the facilities?
We talked about the memory care.
I know there's a couple of places right on the road here.
How's the community doing in Northeast Wisconsin?
Rhonda was in West Bend and I can speak for Washington County.
I never had a bad experience at any of the places she was at.
What I've learned from the City of Green Bay, for example, just traveling and talking to people, it seems wonderful.
There are places to go, but Dr. Knows more about what I do.
There are a number of
member care facilities in this area.
One of the challenges I see is, again, to me it's one of the most complex areas of
healthcare settings that there are, right?
You have multiple individuals with cognitive decline, and it's very challenging to work with.
We've been talking about day in and day out, and so getting people in there who are skilled and trained, I think that's one of the biggest things.
I went into one of the memory care facilities.
I met a very nice young woman.
She had just graduated from high school.
This was her first job.
since she's out of high school, she was gone in two months.
So I mean, I think bumping up compensation, bumping up training, these are really complex jobs, really.
And I feel bad for people who might live in Rhineland or in the sticks a little bit, because they may not have the places we have here, and yet you kind of want to visit a lot.
So I think we have a lot of work to do, but I want to make a really good point, though, with the training.
We have to pay more, but this is...
This is a, I don't know, I hate to say it's a big industry, but it is a big industry and we need to get more people interested in
doing this kind of work.
And I think awareness again becomes important.
I go to a lot of doctors appointments now and just even within the healthcare, within our healthcare system, again, raising awareness in terms of how you communicate and how you talk to patients with dementia as they come into their appointments.
Sometimes I see the healthcare, you know, individuals are again, are so focused on tasks that say sometimes don't slow down and really try to.
communicate effectively with people.
Dr. David, I wanted to ask you, you know, my father had it, right?
Grandparents had it.
So I'm pretty much feeling this will be my outcome.
Okay.
And I've noticed a little thing, little things about my life.
I've always been somebody who likes routine just because then I don't have to worry about where I put my keys.
They're always going to be there.
Okay.
I'm worried about it.
And I can't seem to get my health care provider to check me out.
Well, you're too young.
Well, in my mid-50s, I want to be prepared for this.
How can I get my medical providers to care about something that's important to me when we're talking about Alzheimer's?
Let me just say one thing.
I didn't know Todd
was that
old.
You
didn't know I was mid-50s?
No!
I thought you're in your 40s.
I
thought
you're
like 46.
He's
very, very private.
We don't even know where he lives.
Well, there's a reason for that.
But what about that?
What if you feel like I'm not right and your doctor's like, ah, come on,
you're young.
Don't worry about that.
Well, I think it's just to keep pressing.
I mean, you do have to advocate for yourself.
And I think there does get to a point if you brought up the conversation, not that I'm a big proponent of hopping to different health care providers.
But I mean, I think I have seen
some healthcare providers that aren't as in tune to what's going on.
I mean, they have to stay up.
And, you know, if you start noticing some significant changes, the screening tests are pretty, you know, there
are screening tests,
at least have them done if you don't.
And if you're really concerned, I've helped an individual that day, they got the full neuropsych.
Testing there were some concerns on the screening tests and went for full so a person could do that I would literally I would do
this you need a
referral I
mean you need a
referral
from a physician
right because you imagine there aren't that many nurse Neuropsychologists in the Green
Bay area and so then you do have a baseline because if he goes back in two years three years It's the same thing you're fine, but you know that the doctor you'll reach
That's what he knows, right?
So
I
think.
Exactly.
You start to, I mean, you get a baseline and then you can start to see if you start some noticing some changes that you can get tested.
I know some NFL circles, that's kind of a thing now with concussions, because they'll have that first test and then down the road, same test type of thing to see, recognize if there's been damage done.
I mean, that's, that's the new, that's the big thing right now, right?
Yeah.
Those baselines can be really important, especially with, especially with the strong family history.
Is it?
And we're going to expand.
There's some genetic testing.
That's
what I was just
going to ask.
There's some genetic testing.
What have you found so far as far as is it passed on?
There is a genetic link for some families.
There's some abnormal genes which change the way some of these proteins are handled in the brain.
And so there are increased risk for some genetic profiles.
Interesting.
Wow.
Well, God bless you guys for fighting this fight.
We all need to get in.
behind this.
And
I know money goes to research and that's the cure, right?
I mean, everybody's like, well, where's the money going?
That's just the way this country works.
We spend a tremendous amount of money on research.
But boy, when we find the outcome, it can change the world.
You have a couple of events coming up.
I just want to talk about that.
So people want to attend that.
Maybe, Doc, or one of you on the June 25th, the whole kickoff.
Because the big thing that in this community and a lot of communities, I'm sure, is that Alzheimer's walk.
That's unbelievable how many people can walk for that.
Wonderful job.
Yeah.
Kerry
does a wonderful job in this area.
And June 25th at Higmeister Park, is that what he said?
Right here, right behind us.
Stumbland is literally 50 feet away from us.
It's the kickoff event.
It's kind of the beginning of the walk where everybody's invited, of course, it's free.
And if you're interested, I encourage you to come and just be part of that.
Learn some things.
Put your teams together.
That's right.
And eventually the walk is being held on the 27th of September.
Form a team sponsor team have your employer form a team raise money It's a great day.
They really do wonderful work the Alzheimer's Association does great
speakers Yeah, that is that's a good event and it's nice to get support from people you didn't know when you meet them there It's like wow, that's okay
commitment right here Todd myself Jim.
We've made a commitment to well in we're all in awesome.
You bet.
Thanks guys great stuff great having you both here and
Every time you guys speak every time we get that on the air I think we're helping helping people because of you people so thank you all so much
on the mayor here on a good looking Wednesday morning 58 in Green Bay 61 in Apton now.
Oshkosh 58 partly cloudy with showers high in the upper sixties today but a beautiful forecast heading into this weekend for the Dino Pitchka softball tournament to the town of Casco that one's coming up and man they're two great gentlemen we just had right there Dr. David Ferguson and Rob Sutherland.
Talk about ALS awareness days our awareness month I should say and the walk they've got coming up and now we've all committed because it's all affected our families here that We're gonna be back in that as much as possible brewers and action against it against the Red Sox 1135 right here on W. I. S. S. Brewer is coming off that huge win last night Christian Yelich with a grand slam walk off.
That was really really
cool.
We should play that again before the day is out.
I mean, you know, 730 or something.
830, I mean, 730.
It was cool.
It was, it was really cool.
I like Yelich a lot.
Yeah.
Pretty cool day so far.
Cause you
look
at, you know, we haven't, how important both these things are, right?
Raising funds, giving out scholarships to kids that different needs,
right?
All the way from here to Milwaukee, privately funded.
Then you got these Dr. Ferguson and of course, Mr. Sutherland, just
bringing awareness.
There hasn't been a politician in here.
I mean, what really makes this community work are the people behind the scenes.
No question.
I
don't think you were here the day we had the governor.
Were we?
No, I wasn't.
You would have loved this guy.
That was like the wrong day
for you to not be here because you and him would have hit it off.
Great, great
guy.
Oh my gosh, he was awesome.
He was awesome.
And that book, by the way, he wrote the book
about his wife.
Unbelievable.
Honest and true.
Yeah, this is the way it is.
Yeah, I've got the the audio.
You got it.
You want that again?
This is a highlight last night.
Hang on a second.
Wrong button.
One day you guys
would get a good producer.
I was going to say it was
so hard.
It is tough.
Yeah, many
times.
The last standing off of a rolled this Chapman was rolled over the third base bag.
Pitch 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 Yelich.
He walks it off in grand fashion.
The Brewers went at five to one in the tenth.
How do you do?
And the comeback ended with a Yelly bomb.
How cool is that?
Man, sit there, ten in, come on, come on, ten that way.
that was cool worth every penny
that was absolutely so cool yeah glad to hear that uh john kramer green break press times will be coming in with all the great things they've got going including the packer tidal town area brice came coming up at 835 brice is the young man the young entrepreneur who i can't wait for you to talk more with him about okay what's your business plan what's your what's your whatever i want to see him
Yeah, I know.
Yeah, he's, the kid's gonna do very, very well.
He treats customers right.
He said, he's scheduled, you know, it's not like he reacts.
You know, he kind
of has a plan.
And his whole story is pretty amazing.
He's a cancer survivor and then getting into this at such a young age.
That was fun talking to him that day.
He's got his own place and
he's very confident.
He's gonna do great.
He's gonna do just fine.
I was thinking about bringing my Kia there to get it detailed.
What do you think?
You should.
I would.
Why would
you spend my detailing a Kia?
Hey, look at those cars.
It's really nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Just
because you have oil problems doesn't matter.
Listen, I guess it's not a BMW.
Why would you bother?
I guess I'm not taking
a BMW to the homeless shelter.
Oh, I know, right?
I guess that was one of the funniest
lines you ever
had.
That's I was feeling comfortable pulling up in my BMW when people are waiting to get a free meal.
There's a long line of people, but that's where the parking lot is.
I got to find a different place.
But.
Whatever, that's my
heart's in it.
Yeah, don't don't maybe humble yourself and get a less, you know find a different place to hide it.
Yeah, that's his
whole thing.
And he did.
And the next
time he did it, he pushed him on the dumpsters.
I did.
It did.
True story.
We're going to park over here.
Everything you needed to know about Jim Shit.
Yeah.
No,
I whatever.
I just OK.
I got to say one more time.
We're talking about the burgers thing
and
different burger places like that.
And we're talking about the little frog station.
I still think.
A place like that around Door County for the Chicago people and all the people with someplace old and really, you know, they would love that.
Yeah, man.
And make it look old too.
Yeah, just
keep it original.
Keep the floor slanted.
Yep.
Those are the kind of places people look for
now.
The dive bar thing has become such a thing.
Yeah.
I think there's some money to be made at Frog Station.
I really, really do.
And it's right there into the heading into the heart of Door County.
Yeah,
that building as.
foundation problems.
Not that
bad.
Do you have so many burgers you're going to have to sell to fix that foundation?
You wouldn't even have to fix the foundation.
Leave it as it
is.
You're going to get, you will not get an occupancy permit then, John.
We're going to sell them with the back
door.
All permits are silver rated.
Okay.
All right.
I just spent my life working
on it.
Okay.
You just, all
right,
you go right ahead.
I'm not investing.
I'll buy a burger for
me though.
I still have my heart set on Frog Station.
You talked about that when we first started
a couple of years
ago.
It's still for sale.
I think it's like abandoned.
I think it's just kind of there.
So
you can get it for the back taxes?
I
think so.
I'll look at it, I guess.
You can live upstairs?
I would live upstairs.
How far is that from here?
What, 45 miles?
That's too far.
You're not going to drive here.
You can meet from there?
Yeah.
I don't
know.
Todd?
I don't know.
45 isn't bad.
No!
I mean, I do 55.
Right.
Yeah, I agree with you on people look, you know,
and then all over their snapchats Oh look where we are the dive bar or whatever look at the floor slanted But
you know the chains are the chains, but people will go out of their way to
find for those kind of place I'd have the best burgers around I'd have some lady.
That's like 84 cook in the onion rings, right?
She'd call everybody hun,
right?
She'd make an unbelievable old-fashioned.
Oh,
yeah, yeah,
yeah
Yeah, I could work.
Okay.
Thank you.
Nick, get my man.
Cheese curd, Nick.
Oh, yeah.
Fried
cheese curd.
But don't offer too much.
You know what I mean?
Don't have a plethora of stuff.
Just have
a focus
on
five or six sandwiches, couple of sides.
That guy, when you go down to Georgia Tech, there's that guy that just sells those Cuban sandwiches.
You stand in line and that's all he's got really is you know, maybe
a couple things you can change it But you find a Georgia.
All right, you're done talking the state of Georgia.
Yeah, oh cuz I forget where I was you cupid sandwiches are awesome.
Oh, yeah, and it's just can't get him around here.
Yeah,
no not like that No, that's pretty way.
He just stuck to one product and I'm telling you there's a line out the door.
I'm doing this pasties on Tuesdays
Could he?
He's going
off the business line right away.
He'll go on by a shipload of Swanson pies.
That's what he'll call a pasty.
We'll
have push-ups.
We'll
have
that.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, hour number three, Mino and the Mayor here, 97.9 FM, WGBW 98.396.5 FM.
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We've got some great guests today, Annie Zalewski, Dino Pichka Memorial softball tournament starting tomorrow in the town of Casco, 15th annual for a young Marine who was killed in Iraq.
Dr. David Ferguson and Rob Sutherland.
Talk about Alzheimer's and the big events coming up for that and their battle against it.
Now joining us, John Kramer, Green Bay Press Time, headlines of the Press Time, Jessica Dickett with the Green Bay Packer title town events coming up.
Man, you were just telling me about some of these things, Jessica.
Really cool.
Yes, we definitely have a super busy summer coming and they are fantastic events.
Again, I might be a little bit biased since I'm the one planning them, but I have to say this is going to be a summer to remember here in 2025.
It's fantastic.
Josh Turner.
I love Josh Turner.
Oh my gosh.
It is.
So it's kind of cool.
We're added to his tour.
So he's on tour right now because he's just put out some new music and everything.
And I said, we've never been on an artist tour before and we are.
So it is going to be a show.
It is free.
So this, I think it's actually two weeks.
So Saturday, June 7th,
He's coming, he's put in on a show at 8.30 p.m.
Definitely want to come out early for that one.
Yeah, that's gonna be fantastic.
Those concerts are awesome, and you guys just do it right.
Talk about some of the other things that are ongoing.
Like, I think you're...
Was it called a night market?
Farmers, what do you call it?
Yes.
So we have the title town night market presented by Circle K every single Thursday.
So it starts after the big kickoff concert, you know, Josh Turner, and then that following Thursday, June 12th, every Thursday until the end of summer.
And that one is fantastic.
It's one of those really great events that, you know, there's a ton of like local vendors so you can support local, you know, you can come listen to some local music too.
It really hits on that local tradition.
So if you want to support Green Bay, this is definitely one to come out for.
You know, a little thing like when I was there for the draft that first night, my son and
I was just so overwhelming with the number.
I wanted to get out of the crowd to be on.
We climbed up Aaron's Hill.
If people have it, even if there's no snow to slide, climb up Aaron's Hill.
Is that ever cool overlooking the whole complex?
Oh my gosh, most definitely.
I have to say, like the sun sets on top of Aaron's Hill are probably one of my most favorite parts about, like,
Just our space in general.
So whether we have an event or not, you know, the hill is open all the time.
Um, and like you said, whether there's snow or not climb up to the top, you can also roll down.
So whether in the winter time you're sliding down in the summer, you can roll down, you know, maybe if you're an adult, maybe not, you know, I hear that's more of a kid thing, but
don't roll down, John.
I'd like to break a hit.
I'd like to take this guy out for a few cocktails and push him down and see what happens.
I mean, I might turn my head the other way, but you definitely can do that if you'd like to.
I
still can't like reflexes.
We mean
still.
Your
job is to program it all year.
You just more focused on the summer because you do things
all year there.
Yes, we do all year.
So I'm, yes, all year, all of our programs and events that you see throughout the course of the year.
That's myself and one other coworker, Julie.
And yep, we are doing 365 programming.
So whether you're here in the spring, summer, fall, wintertime, you're going to see something that we're planning.
And let me tell you something, they're great.
Like, and again, I might be biased, but you know, the wintertime, like it's like a Hallmark movie at Titletown, you know, the lights are on, the skating is going on.
It is a beautiful scene.
I
remember I was talking with
guy who came I forget where he came in from to cover the game and the night before he kind of walked around it goes my god he said people don't realize Green Bay Wisconsin that area basically he meant the title town area but he's like these kids he said it's not kind of same thing with you it's like a like a Christmas card these little kids skating and here's Lambo Field and here these other kids are you know for us sometimes we take things a little bit
for granted because we see it all the time.
For the people from out of town, they were just floored by that last winter.
Yeah, most definitely.
It's, you know, it's interesting because you would never think of Green Bay as like a winter destination for folks outside of, you know, the football scene.
But we've started to see an uptick in, you know, people making Green Bay a winter destination between, you know, having our light show and then as well as, you know, all of the things happening here at Titletown and then just even the greater Green Bay area.
There's so many things happening in, you know, not just our space, but the whole area in the wintertime.
And it's really kind of cool seeing, you know, all these people like, yeah, we just made a weekend trip out of it.
And, you know, I'm
from fill in the blank state.
And I'm like, Oh, great to see you.
Absolutely.
And they take a little bit more work to make those things happen.
Snow showing and cross country skiing, but they're big.
You're right.
And they're, they're growing and growing.
And I, there's enough for everybody to do here.
You can come here and go to your place for a day or two.
And then you can get out to the wildlife sanctuary.
I mean, the zoo, that area out in Somaco and go through all head door County too.
It's
beautiful
up there in the winter.
So that's great.
So somebody should be taking pictures of that stuff.
I get
up
there, where are you?
No, I'm sleeping.
So John Kramer in the house.
Your events are quality, right?
No, but they are.
They just are.
I mean, I've been a number of them.
How are they funded?
Because you don't charge or are you going to start to charge?
I've been out there jazillion times and never buy stuff.
Well,
he all said.
Don't you know who I am?
I was mayor for 16 years.
I don't
pay.
Never, never.
Take the kids with ice skating.
That is beautiful.
He walks around with his mayor jacket on.
Absolutely.
Gone, it's gone.
If he does, I've never heard of
him before.
So
where's
the sweater vest?
She never heard of
you, John.
That's fine.
See, that's good.
It's a lot of people.
Really,
how's it funded?
Yes, you know, the great thing about the Packers organization is that Titletown was developed as the give back for the community.
Almost all of our events are free and open to the public and paid for by the Packers because you know our community is so important to us You know we wouldn't be here after how many years without our community They're the lifeblood that you know gives the Packers organization, you know our footprint here and We can't say enough about our community And so that's why we were developed we give back on you know so many of our events and so many of our programs So if you come out for daily yoga or daily Zumba, you know also a free program and again, it's really kind of keep to that model of give back to the
And so, yep, the Packers pay for everything because, again, cannot say enough about our community.
And where do you get your ideas?
You have some unique things there.
Some of the stuff is there, but some of it is unique.
Do you
travel to other?
Do you have a network of NFL team?
What would they call you?
Activity director?
Yeah, so events manager.
So, you know, I have to say I get most of my ideas from social media because I do do some traveling, but, you know, there's only so many places you can go.
And so a lot of our great ideas, you know,
You know, you just see something on, you know, someone's for you page and it's like, hey, this is kind of neat.
We should bring this on in.
So Pumpkin Palooza was actually inspired by an event out in London.
So never been to it, saw some photos and we were like, we think we can recreate this.
I bet you people are reaching out to you too, because this is becoming, you know, this is what, 32 teams, not all of them have, you have, some of them do though.
I think some of them are gonna get their act together around the stadium, but I'm sure they're gonna be reaching out to you as well.
Most definitely.
You know, especially during the COVID times, you know,
I think we did that right with, you know, all of our events and programs and adjusting for that.
And so, you know, starting even back then, we had so many teams reaching out saying, how do you guys do it?
How do you plan your events?
Like even how do you get people to your stadium?
Because for a lot of these teams, you know, they only see them on their game days.
And then, you know, they're gone the rest of the, what, 355 days.
And the big question is, how do you get people there?
And we bring them into our footprint and, you know, they can't believe that we can
do that.
People have to go on the repack of fans, need to go on the road sometimes to realize.
what we've got here.
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
You know what?
Yeah.
You've seen it, John.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I remember being at Foxboro one time from Buddy Night Game.
And, you know, here we've got the great tailgate.
They have their little Hibachi's guys just sitting there drinking whiskey, whatever, just hard kind of more, you know what I mean?
There's so much more of an event, a family thing, a celebration where these other places are like Carolina, they're kind of a crappy part of town.
Yeah, no places to have.
We try to find
parking in Minnesota and go in there for a game.
That's just, I mean, it's a cool stadium, but it doesn't have the footprint.
And they never have because you know when they spent the metrodome.
Yeah, I remember we parked in a bank park We had media passes.
We're in like a bank parking lot like four blocks away
In their defense they have a lot of opportunity down there.
That's gonna be a happening area someday.
I
think
one day
I just yeah, I like
I that area you look you drive around.
It's like oh my god.
Oh,
yeah Well, I would buy us some of these guys are doing and go hey, we need to figure out how to replicate that right.
Absolutely.
That's what
I mean
They're
definitely
they're calling you and asking, you know How help us do this?
How do you do this?
How do you do that?
And I'm sure
Then do they say, transfer me to the floor?
How do you
win games?
We're a
resource, so we like to be that.
I need to talk to the coach.
Well, John Kramer Press Times tells us what else you got going on there, buddy.
Like I said, that ship, I don't, I never realized the size of the ships that come through this port.
The one yesterday was just like, it had to be 10 stories high.
Yeah, she's beautiful.
Norwegian flag ship.
Wow.
Yeah, very cool.
I have a, so my internship finally ended.
Really, so I haven't been doing Jack squat
for the
past couple weeks and I start officially with the press times June 2nd Okay, so I've been helping out a little bit with a few things right big time I've been kind of and what will you be doing now that you're on the payroll?
Pretty much the same thing.
I'll my title will be a multimedia reporter and editor so see the right
stories, too
What's that?
You're gonna write stories too?
Okay, I didn't know what this full-time job.
Okay, well, that's cool.
Do you read the paper?
Yep.
Actually, we do.
Actually, we're done today
too.
No, I'll be writing photography, video, all of it.
Perfect.
Pretty much the same thing I'm doing now and kind of covering a little bit of everything too, so some packer stuff.
That's awesome.
I'll tell you what, that two years or whatever you spent at NWTC, that really propelled you into something.
It was just a year.
Or
whatever, but you know what I mean?
You really learned a lot about that stuff in a short time.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
I'm smarter than I look.
And you're gurning a paycheck by doing it now.
That's cool.
Someday we might get a paycheck for doing this.
Maybe.
Maybe.
I guess you just have to do a job as good as John.
Well, you guys
try to hire me.
I must've been doing something.
I know, right?
He turned me down.
I know.
Well,
tell
us a little bit about yourself, Jessica.
Oh, well, what do you want to know?
Where are you from?
You know, I'm from Born and Raised here in Appleton, Wisconsin.
So, you know, went away for college and then never thought I'd come back to the area.
I have to say I was one of those people.
Where'd
you go
to college?
Small college in Dubuque, Iowa called Loris College.
Of course.
St.
Norbert used to play them in sports.
Oh, did they really?
Okay.
Yep.
So yeah, about the same size as that.
And then somehow found my way back here.
And then I've been at the Packers now for eight seasons.
So I always thought I'd, you know, up and move to a different team after a couple of years because, you know,
onto the big city and kind of fell in love with the Green Bay area and everything that the Packers have to offer.
And like I said, eight years later, I'm still here and hopefully doing good things.
You know, they haven't gotten rid of me yet.
So I think that means I'm doing a good job.
You want to know who's a star basketball player at Loris College?
Mark Skogan.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
He was a superstar basketball player at Loris.
No way.
Yeah.
I'll have to look into that.
I will.
Kramer, look into that.
Who the hell's Mark Skogan?
He only owns all the festival food stores.
We'll put that on our bingo
card.
We'll put that on our bingo card.
Who the hell's Mark Skogan?
The most generous guy in Green Bay.
Well, Jess
guy, we talked about it.
Sorry, Mark.
But how did you handle the draft?
Oh, you know, it's kind of a blur.
It was a very, very busy time.
It's one of those that, like, it was an all hands on deck.
You know, that was an NFL event.
You know, everyone between the Packers, Titletown, team effort to put it all together.
And I'm pretty sure I slept for, like, a week and a half after that.
You know, it was three days of just, like, go, go, go, go.
And then it was like, now it's done.
I know.
Wasn't it like the build-up was so long, and then after
the first night,
it was
over quick.
Yeah!
And we didn't even do that much, but weren't you guys tired after?
I mean,
yeah,
I didn't
do that much.
Yeah, I was exhausted.
I mean, you were out there a lot though, weren't you?
Packer stuff or draft stuff and other
stuff.
So yeah, a little bit of everything.
So I was pretty busy.
Well, we talk about this all the time.
Your paper though is really what Green Bay needs.
That small town kind of paper where you cover the local events a bunch.
There's a need for those kinds of publications.
Hyper local.
That's what it's all about.
Just like this show.
Yep.
Same thing.
I'm writing my book through the
press times.
Which book now?
I'm writing another book.
When are you going to do one on us?
Next.
How
many
years have you been saying that?
Not that many.
OK.
All
right, Jessica.
He's got to put a chapter in there, John, because I asked him this morning.
Oh, yeah.
I'm the reason why he went and had his skin cancer looked at, OK?
It's true.
Sorry, I wasn't going to go.
I kept trying to pick it off with my razor.
And so what I said to him is, am I in the same category now as John Kramer?
You saved his life once.
Have I entered that realm?
You
have.
Skin cancer is no joke.
It can easily quickly spread to flipping everywhere.
And you got to get that stuff checked out.
But if
we put together everybody that saved Mino's life, we couldn't fit them all in.
Oh, there's a bus, John.
There's a bus coming.
It might have
helped if you told me to
wear sunscreen when I was over there.
Well,
that's common sense stuff.
There's Darwinism.
Green Bay Packer, Titletown, John Kramer, Green Bay Press Times, headlines of the Press Times.
Back right after
this.
But you know there's victory in the Lord, I say Hey, welcome back.
That's a little Josh Turner right there If I were a country singer with my voice that sounds like him.
I don't know about that.
I do.
I'm not sure about that.
If you were a country singer with his
voice,
you'd
sound like him.
Josh Turner.
Who's
Josh Turner?
Wait, wait,
next time I'm paying
attention to what we're just talking about with Jessica, about the last
20 minutes.
No, I caught that.
I just don't listen to music much anymore.
I'm sorry.
Hey, you...
Who picks the entertainment?
You guys are
skewed toward country.
Yeah, that would be me.
I picked them.
We try not to do too much country, except we do one a year, because we know the people of Green Bay love their country.
It'll sell.
They do.
Right.
It's
true.
And then we also try to bring in just a whole, like a whole variety of music.
So we do a lot of pop.
So last year we had, you know, BB Rexha, she actually kicked off the concert series last year.
I
had never heard of her.
And I can't believe how huge she is.
I mean, how
popular she is.
We have both
kinds, Country and Western.
You done?
Some blues brothers come on everyone knows
that My
friend was on the the mayor of Oklahoma City was on the Ellen generous show because remember when he put Oklahoma City on a diet He had pictures all over and the whole city was gonna lose.
I
know
we don't go ahead
Oh, no, that's why he was on there and she called him in so he was kind of ready with what he was gonna say And she sat down right before the universe.
She was look
I'm the humor here.
Don't try to be funny.
I'll do that.
He threw his game off a little bit, but it was the way it went.
So anyway, that's what he's telling you, John.
He's the humor
or you're the humor?
Which one of
yours is the humor?
Hey, Jessica.
We trade back and forth.
Jessica, you get things laid out.
You get things laid out for this summer and you have other concerts coming.
Would you care to share with us what's coming?
Oh, you know, I think our marketing team might have my head if I tell you.
I know you can't.
But they're going to be good.
Let me tell you something.
And again, I keep on saying it.
Yep.
I might be biased because I'm the one booking them.
But I actually think they are going to be super great this year.
It's like a wide variety of music.
Can
you tell us how often you're going to?
do something like this?
So we try to do at least one concert once a month.
So, you know, we have Josh Turner in June, and then we'll do one in July, one in August.
Okay, great.
That's a bunch.
That's great.
That is a lot.
We'll actually have one in then September.
So it's not us, like myself planning it, but you guys probably know the kickoff concert, you know, with kickoff weekend.
We'll always have that one as well.
That's a blast.
Those are
pretty big names though.
They are.
That
one blew one time.
That was fun.
Are you in charge of the bowl too?
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm not.
Cause we, you know,
Stones are on tour Springsteen.
Well, he's throttling back, right?
Well, he's in Europe doing that big thing.
Okay.
Anyway,
I don't do any of those,
but
I'm
teasing you.
I'm
excited for the Badger Notre Dame game.
I know,
right?
That is going to be awesome.
We missed that a couple of years ago.
COVID thing.
Yeah.
I remember the LSU game.
I didn't actually go into the game, but I had to do something radio-wise before the departure.
That
was
so much
fun.
That's the whole week.
And they were cool.
The LSU people are just
You know what I mean?
It's not like with Viking fans, you know, bleep or whatever.
You know, they can be.
No, it was just a group of fans that loved their team.
That's what I heard.
Like I had friends who went to the game and they said, you know, if you're driving up anywhere in Wisconsin, you just saw the LSU buses coming up, music blaring.
And they were like, it was a great week.
It was
an awesome week.
Did you see the Badger band over?
Yeah, I was down here.
Yeah, I was down here when they marched down.
Oh,
no kidding.
Yeah.
Yep.
And the.
the their fans they travel really well i mean they do but they like john said they're so thankful for the city for this for that it just it was it was a great great group and the game was great too yeah um that was fun that was a great great weekend and the other thing that the weather was on our side too it was like perfect right so everybody's like oh it's like this all the time yeah i got to
meet a real sports guy Kirk perp street or whatever his name is he was really nice he was really nice
I'm
not a real sports guy.
I'm not really nice.
Wow.
Wow.
Todd, look at the time.
Yeah, gotta go.
I do.
Congratulations on having a great job.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
Yes.
I love your energy.
Yeah.
You know, you got to have that much energy when you work in events.
I
like your.
you're hoody or you're pulled
over the women
in sports, Green Bay Packers.
That's cool.
Yes.
You know, the Packers do a big initiative to support all of the women working in the NFL and, you know, our team specifically.
So yeah, always proud to rep the women in sports logo.
That's cool.
And you talk about this being part of your give back program.
I just want to thank you for that because giving money is great.
I mean, we all like that.
But to do more than that, right?
You're bringing families together.
You're promoting the community.
We love promoting, you know, Green Bay.
Northeast Wisconsin and so you check a lot of boxes.
Yeah, keep doing that.
I hope
I
mean that's really nice that the Packers are funding this too
Yes, you know, it's like give back is just so many different ways to look at it and you know giving money is very important too because you know, right?
That's important for you know buying meals, you know building buildings and you know all of those things that you know are needed in this community But then there's also that other aspect that a lot of people don't think about is you know
what to do in like the free time of, you know, so many things cost money these days.
And a lot of it too, where, you know, we just provide options for, you know, no matter the person, you know, no matter the age or something here in our space, and it's most likely going to be free.
We're very, very rarely charged for things in our space.
And I hope someday all 32 teams do this.
I mean, they've been supported by the fans
pretty
consistently.
I mean,
Granted, it's better if you win.
But I just think it's nice that they can have that special connection like the Packers have.
I'm
glad you do it here.
Maybe that's what it's like.
I think you'll start seeing that among a lot of teams soon.
We kind of talked earlier.
A lot of folks have come on out from other teams to view our space, kind of get the lay of the land.
And I think we're going to start seeing this pop up along a lot of the teams.
And even outside the NFL.
And there's a few of them building new stadiums.
And I
believe they come out and say, what else?
Yep, you know, it's the the one that they can never get over is like especially our game day experience like game day is one that they're like What do you mean people come out here for six hours before?
And they're like, oh, no, they walk right in that stadium and then they walk right on out and then they're out the door and you know for us again It's just the community
every one of us an event.
Yep.
Are you gonna be on the field this year for the games?
Uh, baby, you guys are really great shots during that
Yeah,
I'm gonna be shooting some more practice stuff, and I'll be back in an uptoring.
And I like those little videos you put together with the music and everything.
Oh, sure.
Those are cool.
Yeah.
You're not bad.
I write that myself.
Here?
Mm, liar.
Just so you chew that, guess.
Pack your title, town.
Great having you here.
Once again, Josh Turner.
Tell everybody where he's going to be.
He'll be at Titletown Saturday, June 7th.
It is an event you do not want to miss.
That sounds like so much fun.
He'll be there.
Outstanding.
Beautiful.
Thanks so much for being here.
Congratulations.
Thanks for having me.
I hope the Xavier Hock Alumni Foundation is very proud of you.
Let's hope so.
There you go.
John Kramer, always good seeing you.
Are you
usually good to see you?
Yes, sir.
Sometimes it's good to see you.
Good luck today.
Thanks, buddy.
Appreciate it.
Positive hippie vibes.
You used to be a hippie kind of weren't you at one time?
No, I was a soldier.
How can I be a hippie?
Yeah, you're a hippie soldier.
Bryce Cain joining us next, Rebel Eddies.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mino and the Mayor here on a good-looking Wednesday.
Special thanks to John Kramer.
Green Bay Press Times, Jessica Dicott with the Green Bay Packer Titletown.
Upcoming events, of course, are great with Josh Turner.
Also, Annie Zaleski with the Dino
Memorial softball tournament which starts in Casco tomorrow night.
Dr. David Ferguson and Rob Sutherland discussing Alzheimer's and the wonderful job that everybody's trying to do right now to really get a grip on this thing.
And Jim I gotta read a text I got here from her guys Todd.
He was one of our great listeners.
He goes, hey, John, I'm sure Jim is well aware of many success stories of residents at the homeless shelter, but I have to tell you, and please pass it on to him.
My company employs one of this shelter's former residents.
I say former because he just got his own apartment, very heartwarming, and we'd love to have an opportunity to employ other residents from there.
Wow.
That's awesome.
Thank you, Todd.
These people can.
They can't get out of homelessness.
It's
hard work for them.
They always people talk about all the staff works hard at our place.
And we do, but they work so much harder.
But some of these stories are incredible.
We had a guy on here, I won't take your time, but we had a guy on here that was just, he was sleeping in a park, like two years ago in a park on a slide.
So animals didn't get him.
I said, why is he sleeping in the slide?
Why don't he bug any animals to get me?
He now works, he's got a great job at the Meals to Wheels, whatever that's called, we deliver the meals.
And he just published his first book.
It's awesome.
Can you believe that?
Two years.
Pretty impressive.
But anyway, how are you doing young man?
You're gonna be running this place.
It is.
I've been good.
I've been good.
Good.
You tell us about your business, and I am a customer, so I don't... I'm very...
I would like to be a customer.
Jim, bring the key.
Jim
said this morning, why would you take a Kia in to be detailed?
But
I'm sitting there, some of these Kias are very nice cars.
Todd
drives a Kia.
Well,
not
anymore, because mine blew up.
You'd be surprised I've done everything.
I've done a moped before.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah, like an old one like a collector's one.
So from a moped to a Peterbilt truck.
You got Peterbilt in there today.
Yeah, Peterbilt.
We do everything.
But India Place is so clean, so friendly, and you got that great lounge with popcorn
for the people to wear.
Yeah, you gotta have a
popcorn.
Well, you just show us, you care about the customer.
And I, like I said, I, I don't know, whatever.
I won't tell you what you did to my car, but you made it look great.
Oh yeah.
Thank you for that.
Yeah, yeah.
Was that the BMW or the Porsche?
BMW.
You have to bring the Porsche.
We'll see it, too.
It's Alexis.
It's
not a Porsche.
Still.
Oh, I didn't even know
you
had another car.
Oh, yeah.
Easy.
Do you ever see his garage?
He's
got a
six-tall garage.
Or got six.
OK.
Bryce, welcome.
I'm glad you're here, man.
Thank you.
What's going
on?
Well, we're doing a lot.
We're thinking about, well, I run Rebel at East.
Just for anybody who doesn't, though.
Red Envelope.
Red Envelope detailing company.
We do bunches, bunch of things.
I mean, details, ceramic coatings, window tints.
But that's your voice.
But
you're a young man.
You started this one.
How old were
you?
I was, I believe I was 15 or 16.
It was about five years ago.
It's
incredible.
Skid's 21.
He's
doing great.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I started off mobile.
He went out to Sturgis out Dakota and detailed motorcycles and then it morphed into a shop.
And now we're actually doing a little bit more.
We're morphing into doing accessories and adding like, you know, bumpers, audio, lighting, everything like that.
Yeah.
Okay.
I got back up here.
Sturgis is a pretty rough crowd.
Oh, yeah.
Well, it can be.
You'd be surprised.
You'd see a lot of people who are like,
They're day jobs like doctors and lawyers and they're on bikes, but then you do see you know some one or centers and stuff like that Yeah,
it's a
good
mix.
I mean, how did they accept a young kid like you to come out there and work on their bikes?
Honestly, they loved it.
Okay.
Yeah, we got a really a pretty good reputation out there I'm not gonna lie.
So yeah, people love to see it and they were asking are you gonna be back next year gonna be back next year and we did it for three years in a row and I just got so busy at the shop.
I haven't been back yet, but uh
Hopefully we can go again.
You
don't advertise, but the best advertising is referrals.
Advertising on this
show?
A
lot of your stuff is referrals.
People have said you've done great things.
Great referrals and mine on the mayor.
That's
all you need, man.
Sturgis moved though, right?
Didn't they move that show?
It's still out there anymore,
isn't it?
I think it's still out there.
Well, the full throttle saloon burned down a while ago.
They rebuilt it.
Yeah, that was the hub almost.
Yeah, I saw it before and after actually.
Oh, yeah, it's pretty close.
We're really young when I saw the first time.
So
tell me about what detailing is if they
don't know.
Well, we do have pretty thorough details.
So instead of just like wiping our egg on the plastics and everything and vacuuming, we're going to go through and actually, you know, use some fancier tools like brushes or a tornado, which kind of like works the dust and dirt out of the carpet.
We use an extractor that sucks anything out of the carpet, anything out of the seats, stains, stuff like that.
We get stuff at your headliners.
That's just for the interior of the paint, exterior or interior of the car.
Sorry.
Exterior, we can work on the paint, get scratches out.
We've got a dent guy, you can get dents out.
I
had a little ripple in my tinted window on the right side.
That was driving me nuts.
Took it in to see him.
100 bucks later, and yeah, it was great.
Put it back on, and it was like never happened.
Do you tint windows?
We do, yeah, we do window
tint.
On
Wednesdays.
Every Wednesday,
yeah.
Okay, that's totally legal, because aren't there some laws, Jim?
What's that?
He would
know them.
So yeah, there's 55% in the front.
35 in the rear and which that doesn't make sense because a lot of vehicles come from factory 20% and that percentage is how much light is actually allowed through the window Okay, so like 5% would mean only 5% of light comes to the window which is illegal because you see some around here No, they'll do like 20% on the windshield and 5% of the size and it's like you're literally in the dark
room They
can stop you for that, right?
Yeah
I don't know that they stop.
State Patrol is the only one that will give you a hassle, but they'll give you points for it.
Ooh, that hurts.
Really?
So like windshield tint, two points.
Oh, wow.
I did not know that.
Yeah, so just beware.
Can we get Jim's tinted a little bit more?
I want to see him get pulled over and get
some points.
No, the body can't put it.
I'm good, I'm good.
They do know who I am.
No.
I'm good.
I fought for you guys to
get a
raise.
When it comes to your products that you detail, you say Peter built to a moped.
I mean, my God, that's
wide
range.
Do you older antique cars, or do you like the fancy cars?
What kind of cars you
were busy when I was there?
Well, you know, it depends on what we're doing to them.
If we're doing like a paint correction and ceramic coating, I love brand new vehicles because they're just one pass, you know, use a rough as buffer on it, one pass, throw the coat on, you can have it done in a day, which a lot of people like really a day.
That's pretty surprising.
Yes.
Seriously, get two, three guys on it, you knock it out in a day.
But then you have, I mean, the older cars are fun too.
It depends on if they've been repainted or if they're original.
It's it's all pretty much fun.
Okay, we got
back up here switch gears a little bit if you don't mind because I think your whole life story is really compelling So go ahead and tell your life story going back to sure back to the day
when I was eight I was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer And that was I mean pretty pivotal.
It was different for me because I'm just a little kid You know,
I've never heard of that eight-year-old getting skin cancer.
It's rare I was the doctors in the area here were like we haven't really seen it before but so they didn't want to do
you know, chemo or anything because that would have affected me pretty big because I was eight years old.
So
they
did an experimental excision surgery on my back and they took out like the size of a man's fist worth of skin and then took my lymph nodes out of my armpits and stitched me up and I've been all right ever since.
Wow.
Wow.
God bless you, man.
That would be scary as heck.
You leaned into that pretty much, too.
I mean, you've got into whole cancer research
a little bit.
Yeah, I got a lot of support, too.
So Jerry Perry was huge in the Vanderbess family.
They owned that dealership.
So the Jerry Perry excuse for cancer, I don't know if you guys have further coming up here.
I don't know the exact date I should, but...
Um, I think it's this weekend.
No,
it's the seven.
I think it's a weekend of a
seven June 7th.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So, um,
is that the Saturday?
No, next Saturday.
Yeah.
Next Saturday.
So I was, I was invited to be an ambassador.
So I got to like ride in a fire truck and everything.
And it was a cool experience because I'm just a little kid.
I was there that day.
Yeah.
They kind of help you get your mind off it.
You know, so I got to all the Packers signed like a football for me.
And this has been multiple years.
I was able to go there and throughout the whole thing, they've been supportive the whole time.
I think they've raised a couple million.
Oh,
yeah.
And.
Part of your lounge for us when we're waiting is you have a lot
of that you displayed a lot of it Yeah, so we took the stuff a bunch of pictures.
Yeah, yeah stuff We got an auctions the stuff we got through my through my journey of it put on the walls You know for other people to see yeah, so it's it's pretty cool stuff and he's Jerry's a real good guy If you guys are free just feel free to stop by they're donating a pretty cool stool.
Um, so I don't know if you guys know I think it's um
Rick Hornowski, he does them tattoos.
Absolutely.
Yeah, so he's donating the stool that he tattooed all the Packard players.
No kidding.
Oh, that's cool.
It's a pretty cool.
Yeah, they
always do have cool items.
Yeah, no question about it.
And it's a great bunch, a great bunch of people.
Yeah, it's they got food and entertainment.
We love it when a business is successful and that's
That's your top priority is to make money.
But after that to get engaged in a community.
I think that's the next best thing is getting engaged with the community because you have so many people that helped you get to where you're at.
Right.
So, you know, to be able to give back to other people and it's just pretty cool.
What's the
future?
Well, I I'm talking with a company right now about doing some franchising.
I've got two people interested so far.
I want to definitely expand.
I
just got checks.
I didn't mean to interrupt you.
June 8th.
Jerry Perrin's right for
cruise for
cancer.
Okay.
See, I've talked about franchising.
Wow.
I got a guy in Marinette interested and I got a guy out and potential investor out in Bozeman, Montana, which would be the dream for me.
That's awesome.
That is so cool.
Yeah, and we're doing accessories too.
So I don't know if I mentioned that.
Yeah, you kind of mentioned it, but what do you mean by that?
Go ahead.
Hopefully we cut you off like
we normally
do.
Yeah, it's okay.
Outfitting.
So throwing on like lights and like JL audio, we'll get like a, you know, what do you want to call them?
Partnership with them and then we'll be able to sell their price wholesale, install it.
you know, for people and they can bring in a brand new vehicle from the factory and, you know, drop five, six, seven, eight grand on it and just have it be a new vehicle afterwards.
Put suspension in it, you know, bumpers, lights, a whole bunch of stuff.
Very cool.
So I'm excited about that.
So
basically trick it
up.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And it'll be a whole other accessory department on the
job.
Neat.
You got the room for it or you
need?
Yeah, I'm gonna make some room
for
it.
Pretty understanding
wife.
Are
you married?
No, I'm
saying the guy that buys a car and
then spends another five grand.
Yeah.
No, I'm not married, baby.
Well,
hold on.
It doesn't have to be a man who has that done, right?
A female.
Absolutely.
This little lady just brought me a Lexus GX 550, like a brand new one.
I couldn't believe it.
It's taller than.
You know three times the height she is and she got a bunch of stuff done to it She did like full tint paint protection film on the front end ceramic What is the whole thing?
I mean change the whole top of it to black.
It was pretty cool.
Okay, this sounds like
a cool Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on the spot with Jim how he grills young entrepreneurs Jim
Take it away.
Well, no, I just
you've done a good job You did you must have done some market research too because you really started off and I don't know how long it took you to be profitable But you've got a good little business running there.
Yeah, we try
how did you like tell me where it came from?
Well, like I said, we did that mobile and then it kind of morphed into the shop and then I was just working there by myself at the shop and I was like, man, you know it'd be good to get some employees and Find some different brands that we can use.
So I originally used ceramic pro
Switched over to a different product now we use expel which is like name brand.
I mean they're one of the best film and Coating like makers on the market So we use them and I just found the best companies because you want to go through and I've used a lot of products before and you're gonna find the best companies the best people to work with The best systems in place and once you have all that you just replicate it and then that's what I'm gonna ask you one
non Question like he's asking you but like
Up in the UP, all of our cars and trucks would always rust, rust, rust, rust.
What have you found as the worst types of cars in that for rusting?
It's going to be GM products.
So GMC Chevy Cadillac, they have a factory undercoating that they put on from the factory, which I don't know why they do it.
They cover the frame with a thin layer of this gooey stuff that goes like two years is gone.
It's peeling like underneath that is it's going to start to rust and chip off and everything.
So definitely, you know.
if you have a GMC or GM or any
of that.
What is the best way?
Cause I remember years ago, I remember my brother bought this card and, you know, brand new grand prix in like 1975 or some of those are those big and he spent the extra 500 bucks for the undercoding.
Did those things ever
work?
It depends on the undercoding really cause the rubberized ones don't work.
They just look like they work until they rot out from the inside and then you're screwed.
Um, but if you get like we use wax oil, that's the best one I've found so far.
Um, it lets the water seep through and stuff.
So wax oil undercoding.
Okay, so you have a good relationship with your vendors.
Yeah, I do
you can tell and that's important
people very important
people always look at customers customers customers.
Oh, you gotta look at the bank and the vendors too.
Those are
critical.
You
did a good job with that.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
You're gonna be fine worth Bryce Kane rebel Eddie's detailing back with more right after
this
Get close to wrap it up on a good looking Wednesday forecast.
They partly cloudy with showers high in upper sixties or man, the forecast looks great for this upcoming weekend.
We're at Bryce Kane rebel Eddie's detailing.
This is holder you again.
I am 21 21
here.
It's only
been a business five years.
Yeah.
Right on VELP Avenue.
Basically.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And this guy's 21 sitting next to me and he's literally staring off into space drooling.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I'm
with
you.
That's cool.
That's cool that we didn't lose our love of cars.
You know, sometimes people worry about that technology.
I mean, look how much they changed since when they first, I mean, you look at like a 69 Camaro and you look at a brand new 2024 or 2045.
It's like a little bit of a difference there.
Yeah.
I'll take the 69 every time.
Every time.
Every
time.
Every time.
What's your favorite car?
Huh, there's a
lot.
Okay.
Are you one of those guys because every construction or every contractor I know his wife's always on him to finish products in their own house He's like, yeah, I don't want to do that when I come home.
Yeah, you
work on your own pretty much or do you just kind
of man when I have time sometimes Yeah, I I'll pick up a car here in there, and I don't know.
I'm a I'm a big Audi guy.
I want to get one of them RS sixes
Okay.
Well, you know your car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Bryce, I got a question for you.
We're going into summer, right?
What are some things people can do to kind of protect their car?
You're talking about like waxing, all that kind of stuff?
Yeah, you can do a wax or a ceramic coating.
That definitely helps, especially against UV rays.
I mean, we're not a place like Arizona, so you don't have the really harmful ones where you go out there and you see clear coat literally fading away, but still.
Well, you're not used to
having an Arizona lot.
Your dashboard would crack.
Yeah.
Well, Tint helps with that.
Tint is actually UV-protected, so you can do window tint.
If you don't want your car to be super hot, we have 70% for the windshield, so you can't tell it's on there, but it's, you know, so that's an option for sure.
Especially if we were talking about skin cancer, it protects against UV rays.
So anyone who has like melanoma issues or anything like that, throw some tint on your windows and you won't have to worry about, you know, truckers get that.
Yeah, we were talking about that.
They're left arms.
Can you tint any car?
Any car any car.
Okay.
I mean, it's good that people there I saw one car I couldn't hit and that was in SEMA and it was like a giant bubble So you can't hit that because it's too much too much angle like a pacer.
No, it was this weird
Like
a pulp
mobile?
Kind of sort of, yeah.
You might be able to do the pulp mobile, maybe, if you could seem it.
All right, that's cool.
I want to see you tint a pacer.
Somebody bring one.
Yeah.
All right.
And what are the things that people look for?
I think that tinting is a good idea,
because you just
talked about cars cooler, and it can protect the interior of your car.
That's not a bad idea.
We've got maintenance wash programs.
So if you want to get that Viper stool company to have a saying, I think it's...
Buy once cry once or something like that, but um, but yeah You can get a detailed on first and then you can come in monthly and we'll keep it looking like it just got detailed for 50 bucks a month Okay, let me ask you another
question about cars that you know It's like when somebody brings one in and you don't say it, but you think to yourself
Really buddy.
Oh, wait.
Wait.
What's the worst thing you found under somebody's seat?
Oh man
Of course, they don't have ashtrays anymore.
I told you my
buddy of mine was a ballet.
He used
to
go to the
ashtray and find pot
every time.
And nobody would report it.
You find a bunch of that.
But I think the craziest thing I ever saw was when I worked at Broadway, this is when I was still doing mobile detailing, we found a suitcase, like a doffle bag full of money.
Whoa!
We couldn't take it, obviously.
No.
That's a very big crime.
Why not?
One of the Packer players left is...
Duffle bag in this car and it's all cash.
All cash.
Yeah Wow,
I
bet I know who it is The craziest thing I ever found at the shop was we found some pretty extreme paraphernalia Wow, Bryce, do
you know red Lewis?
Yeah, he used to have or PDQ auto museum
is
you you may
you
know
We've 40 years
you may do something like that.
Yeah 100% I would love to
Was it him
the packer player?
I don't remember.
Oh, okay.
I
wish
he does I remember this guy got stopped he was going back to I think it was Louisiana and he got pulled over down there and had a duffel bag I think it like $80,000 cash and he had three guns and three pounds of pot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, didn't work him.
He didn't play again for a while It's a long suspension, but in terms of showing this stuff off, you know, maybe someday
Yeah,
I would.
I would love to.
I would love to.
Do you know Daryl Burnett over at the.
I do.
I work with Daryl.
He's he's a good guy.
He's a great guy.
He brought me out to that
little orange car in the window of Vega.
It's a little hatchback.
It's right next to Bart Starr's Corvette.
Never mind.
Forget
it.
It's just driving me crazy.
All right.
They got they got cool stuff over there.
I did that Lamborghini.
That's into the black one.
I think it's the Gallardo.
We did the hood on that.
It was very sketchy.
We had to take off PPF and scrape it.
What's sitting though when I thought was an Edsel?
What is that sitting out front that red one?
Not sure.
That's the Cadillac.
I think the guy
called
it.
I'm like, I text us and
surprise it sits
outside
the weather like that.
Yeah, I think it might just be a shell.
I don't know if it moves around.
It might though, because I've seen it go side to side switch one time.
OK,
we're running out of time.
Give us some advice.
Heading into summer here, really hot weather.
What should people do to keep their cars looking cool?
Well, don't go through.
Soft touch car wash it'll scratch your car all up and take wax off it.
So bring it to somebody like us.
We'll clean it up for you
When you go through a car wash and it says you know for an extra, you know two dollars They do the wax
all it is is just misting some hydrophobic, you know renex type stuff on your car So it looks like the water beats off for a week and then it goes away until you get next car wash Are you okay with the club wash?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, they bring us more business because they're soft touch so
Yeah, what do you mean?
I'm in that.
I'm on that 50 bucks a month.
You're ruining your car.
It's not terrible, but it's just, you know, you watch so many cars a day and the brushes are never cleaned during the day.
I don't think, I mean, they may have some sort of system on it where they might run water through them to clean it.
But still, you got to imagine there's a little bit of dirt staying on the brushes.
So.
Regardless of how much I'm kind of cheap.
I'm kind of cheap.
Yeah, go early be the first one through
all right.
I can do that I'm kind of cheap so I still use the wand
when I
go to a car wash
I know a guy washes his truck with a brush like actual Well, I mean you want to use like you ever seen one of them.
Yeah, what do they call them a little a right like a scouring pad.
No, no, no, it's um
Uh, wash
mitt.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah,
wash mitt, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, so they got like the little soft, you know, ends on them.
Yeah, use something like that.
Yeah, use something plush.
That's what you want, plush.
Who does the labor see Johnny?
That's
what I would do it
right
right I would do this
club wash or go to this I would do this is great what you're doing.
Thank
you wash cars by hand you call me
all right do not call
me do not call him call me no call me Brace Cain rebel at his congratulations, man.
You're so impressive.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
You bet.
Hope to see it Jerry parents.
Yes, sir.
See
you there.
All right,
my man.
Hey, we're at
a time You
guys get back tomorrow morning.
Thanks guys.
I'll see you on Monday.
Hopefully see ya
