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 Schmitt.
What?
That's not John Mino and Jim Schmitt.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm John Mino.
Right.
No, Connie.
So we told you yesterday, Johnny's out a little bit.
I had a little surgery.
Everything's fine.
and we have Cunny filming and now I think if we had the video I don't know how many of our listeners watching on video they saw you they'd know you
maybe well I don't know if they know me like this I'm in ball cap you know I just not what I used to look like
little chill
little chill
but you were the news anchor
yeah
on five
local five news
Fox 11 before that.
And now you've been promoted to radio.
Yeah, that's right.
Is that really a promotion?
No, I kind of a step
back a little bit.
Well, the hair and makeup routine is much preferable.
Yes.
But you've done radio before.
I have.
I have, yeah.
Well, welcome.
This has been fun to
be here all day today.
Thank you.
Glad to be
here.
We wanted to reach out, get the best, and you're here.
So,
and then
tomorrow we have Daryl Burnett that's going to sit in.
He
was another news anchor and yesterday Bill Jarts was here, so it's...
Oh, you got the TV crew going on.
We got
the TV crew going on, so it's...
It's amazing how much you all know about radio.
I think some of
you came maybe through that venue.
I don't know.
And most of us have been radios.
It's, you know, it's the heartbeat.
It is.
Still
is.
Yeah,
absolutely.
Especially at Civic.
So anyway, today, yes, I'm glad you're here.
We're gonna talk a little bit about your background and you're living in Chano now.
I'm originally from
Chano.
Oh, I just...
I live in Green Bay.
All right, well, that's
cool.
But yeah, I'm a Chano gal.
They got it going on up there.
Shanno is an amazing place.
It is.
We've had some people on
here from Shanno.
For people, look, I know mortgages and things are expensive right now, but if you want to get that cottage, Shanno is still not a bad deal.
No.
You
know, you look at compared to Dork County or
Elkart
Lake, that's...
And you have a number of lakes there, right?
Well, yeah, I grew up on the Wolf River.
OK, so then you realize you're kind of spoiled.
You know, I grew up with water all around to be able to enjoy water.
And then you move away and you realize, well, not everywhere in the country has that recreation.
And I would just encourage people to.
I mean, that's a place that's a great place to recreate.
Shaw, I don't think maybe you'll see it every door, Connie, and
one just channel like alone has so much going on in the summer and the winter.
You know, ice races.
But you're loving Green Bay.
I love
Green Bay.
I'm an Northeast Wisconsin gal through and through.
You got some texts coming in already this morning.
Aha!
That's a good one.
Third one.
You can read it.
No, I'll read these.
Good morning from Vicki.
Good morning, Vicki.
Hi, Connie.
That's from Ricky.
And text from Sarah.
Did she vote for Jim?
Oh, I can't disclose that on
the air.
That
means no.
I will tell you I've interviewed Mr. Mayor a few times back in my day.
What
was the general consensus in the newsroom about that time in the city?
Well, you know, it was actually Jim was a really good
good mayor as far as the media was concerned.
He was always available and he would talk to us.
He wouldn't always tell us, give us the information we were digging for, but he would talk.
And that's what you want.
You want someone who's going to get up in front of the camera and say whatever he can, which he did.
He can't divulge certain things.
We understood that, but at least he would get back to us.
He would talk and he was great that way.
I think that's important for all mayors, right?
Just
to get out
and even if you can't say something, you'll be there
and
don't hide.
You know, we try to get
the mayor, they don't respond, try to get the mayor, they don't respond.
It's like, that's not a good idea
because- That just looks bad.
It does.
It looks, and then it looks like you truly are hiding
something.
Whereas I
would just tell you, look, you know, now's not the time to disclose that.
But yeah, I will say this about Green Bay and I don't have a lot of experience with the media, but I did, you know, have a 16 year run with them.
They're pretty good people.
Yeah.
And they would tell me sometimes, like, I've got a job to do.
You know what
I mean?
I'd be like, I
get that.
No, and
I'll help you.
But look, I know I can't tell you when we're going to buy it or not buy it or sell it or whatever we're going to
do.
Well, and that's the thing.
You know, you're on a tight deadline.
You get your assignment at 9.30 in the morning, and you have to be on air by 5.
So you need to know yes or no if somebody's going to talk.
And one of your competitors, a couple of them would come over sometimes and say,
I need a story.
They didn't come in with a question.
They
were just
like,
help
me come up with a story.
There's nothing going on.
There
was always something going on.
The nice thing about the size of the town of Green Bay, too, is when you've been in the media long enough, you get to know people.
And you have your quote unquote sources.
But your friends with the police, your friends with the mayor, and you develop this relationship where you can call them and they're excited.
Yeah, I
think we've been very fortunate with some of the media people.
So
today, 29th.
What what else?
It's alligator day.
What does that mean?
Well, you celebrate alligators.
I would guess okay to eat alligator Let's go.
I've had that but I mean is that what you supposed to do today?
I taste like chicken
you little bit.
Yeah, I don't know it tastes like alligator But I wonder if that's
I don't think you would eat an alligator to celebrate alligator day.
I don't believe so.
I think it would be more like celebrate the animal that is, habitats, all that kind
of crap.
So not the shoes.
Do
you have boots or you have snake boots?
Yeah, but eel.
Eel boots.
Eel and snake.
Alligator boots are expensive.
Alligator boots, those are...
My only alligator story, one of a lot of them.
No, this is a good one.
Do you remember?
No, this was maybe seven years.
During COVID, I think, this guy was walking his dog along this pond
in Florida.
Oh yes, I do remember this.
I do remember
this.
Story was written by a writer in Texas.
which was weird that he covered the story and I ended up, so what happened Todd was this guy was walking his dog and an alligator just jumped out and took his dog and he went in the water and beat him up.
He did open it up and it was pretty cool to see.
I do that for my dog.
So do
I.
called the reporter and of course I was unemployed.
I had nothing else to do.
I thought, I wasn't here yet and I wasn't at TTC yet.
I just was like, I gotta do something.
So I called the reporter, super nice guy to Dallas.
We talked about Coach McCarthy, you know, that kind
of stuff.
And then I said, look, I'd like to talk to this lady because I really can't give you her contact information.
Let me give, I can't give you her contact information, which I understand that.
He said,
give me your contact information, I'll send it to her.
And she called me.
And I said, hey, Green Bay, I just think that's great.
What happened?
It was her husband that did that.
And I said, look, I'd like to send you some money for vet bills.
And she goes, oh, we've actually got that covered.
I think they got a lot of money.
And she said, if you could just make a donation to, it was some preserve.
Oh, nice, nice.
So anyway,
that was cool.
So that's my alligator story.
Todd's a judge,
you know, okay?
No bell.
No bell.
That means it wasn't very good.
All
right.
All right.
You top that.
What's your alligator?
I wore boots.
I wore boots.
I ate alligator.
How's that?
I've got an alligator story.
Okay.
Let's hear
it.
Go for it.
We're camping in the Everglades in Florida and it was at night and we're, you know, let's, let's find some place and just pitch a tent.
It's late.
So we did, everything was fine.
But when we woke up in the morning, we looked at the back of our tent.
We were right up against these mangroves.
And there's all.
No, thank
you.
Are they afraid of you?
Like they run away?
No.
No.
Well, you know, I don't know.
Total
girl from Northeast Wisconsin
not thinking about alligators
and
the.
Wow.
All right.
Well, so it's alligator day.
What else we have today?
Biscuit day.
Biscuit day.
Biscuits and gravy.
Okay, that's all right.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, that's good.
God paper clips have their own day.
They
do paperclip day.
Yep.
Love them
that
what's wrong with a paperclip?
There's like a multi-tool.
That's yeah You could do so many things with that thing
Okay, there's your cold question today, what's the honest thing you've done with a paper?
I don't hear it.
I'm too early to early 614.
Nope.
A better sleep month.
This is this is important.
It is important
and when you go in for
physical health or mental health, not that I've been to both, but sleep always comes up.
I've been looking, just tracking my Fitbit lately so much, checking my REM sleep, my deep sleep, because it is so important and I've never gotten enough sleep, but I'm really focusing on it lately, but I have to get up, I have to go to bed really early to try and get enough sleep, but it makes a huge difference, it really does.
What's enough sleep?
For me, it's about eight and a half hours.
Oh my God,
if I would sleep six hours, I'd think I was dead.
Yeah, I used to average about three.
When I have more than that, but probably five hours, five and a
half hours.
I really
like to
get six or seven.
I
really do.
And I don't always, but if I do, total difference
in
life.
But I will say.
But you also take a
nap.
You get a nap after the show every day.
And then I
go to work at like.
you know, 10, 10, 30
at the shelter.
I'll go home and sleep for half an hour.
See you with eight hours sleep, I wonder.
But what I'm saying, kind of, it won't happen.
I mean, even if, because I don't set the...
Well, everybody needs a different amount.
Maybe you just
need one.
But I'm saying your body gets into a rhythm,
and even
on Saturday, Sunday, when I don't have to be here, I still get up at
the same time.
I do, too.
I make coffee, so,
yeah.
So, but you get, the older you get, the less sleep you need.
It
kind of peaks.
No,
no, that's true.
That's true.
Okay.
Because you get, you need a lot of sleep in your kid.
And then, but as you get older, you know, in the sixties, you don't need as much sleep.
One thing your listeners know, Connie, is don't take anything these two say as, you know, like Bible, because it's not.
You
got
a text, by the way, Jim.
It
said, Jim, I was attacked by an alligator in Bellevue.
Didn't make the news, but I will get you my Venmo, Ryan.
Excepting donations.
That's funny.
This guy's a great listener and he is funny.
He listens, takes copious notes when he's listening.
Cause he sent him references things like eight months ago.
It's like, wow, you're right.
I did say that.
So, uh, yeah, Brian, well, I want to see the video first, just like I did with that little dog in Florida.
So that's, that's more important.
Um, what else do we have going on?
Paperclip day and better sleep month.
We've had people on here from, um, oh, it's not the sleep.
Oh, is it HME?
It's a whole medical equipment.
They were in here a couple of times.
They're gonna be in next week, actually.
The president of the place, and I don't have the percent in front of me, but a huge percent of their business.
I mean, they got wheelchairs, beds, and you
go to
that place, it's, you know, it is in that little room.
It probably like the pharmacist in a store, because all the money's in the pharmacy, you know?
And I think that sleep app, yeah, it only takes up that much room.
It doesn't, you know, it's that big of equipment.
And man, do they go through that stuff?
There's, you gotta make appointments now.
And so I use, I had a minute of that.
And John talks about it, but he's never done
it.
It's a lot of stuff like that.
That's the thing, sleep.
When you talk about TV, you know, you're working crazy shifts.
I know for, for a period of time I was the weekend anchor and then I was also doing the morning show three days a week.
So between I'd get off the air Sunday night and I'd have to be back in.
you know, at two, three in the morning on Monday and you just, and you're filling in for people and you just have to get used to being able to survive on what you can get.
But what I think would be really difficult, and you had a pretty consistent schedule towards towards the end, but I have a, there's a guy that, that's a shelter and he works two weeks, days and two weeks nights.
That's gotta be tough on you.
That's
gotta
be tough.
Oh yeah.
And you can't, especially,
Well, everybody, but especially those people, I mean, they can't be any ambient or anything.
I mean, they are drug free over there.
So, but that's an adjustment, right?
And you have to be in bed like six, seven o'clock at night.
You're going to be up at two.
Yeah.
I remember talking to your early morning reporters.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would
say, oh, do you like the city duck?
And this, did you go
to this event?
And they're like, no, I was in
bed.
You know, they miss so much at that
five o'clock stuff.
You're up at three.
Yeah.
Anyway.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, anyway.
We're so glad you're here, Connie.
This is gonna be a fun day.
We got a lot going on here.
We got Shane Raymaker coming in.
We're gonna talk about some community golf outings.
I'll have an update on Mino
as far as
how he's
doing.
And also, do you have any Mino stories that you can share that he won't necessarily
hear?
Oh, I have so many Mino stories.
Okay, I'll get a couple ready.
Whether I can share them next.
Share them.
We all have the hoes.
We will give you the green light on that.
All right.
Of
course, we've got the guys coming in from the dispensary.
They're gonna give us a little talk on events that are going on with them.
Blue Ribbon Baseball.
So Brian Brick come in to talk about that.
And of course, Spencer Nolan Young.
He's the one who painted these two portraits on our wall here.
So anyway, yeah, we're gonna have a fun day today.
Again, Connie Feldman is in the house.
We'll be right back.
This guy awesome or why Elton John we
both
grew up with him.
We're talking about
that at the break.
Yeah
And she said that was my first album.
I'm like, that was my first A-track.
I chose that because we were talking about alligators.
And I couldn't think of a song that had an alligator
in it.
A alligator rock?
Yeah.
Nice.
She's nice.
Closest I could get this
morning.
That
is actually really good.
I know.
That's why I got the gig.
I know.
I know.
That's why I'm on this side of the
glass.
I had to give you some prep this morning.
So if anybody's watching, it's kind of hard to see because it's behind his super of his name there.
But he's got some cold coffee drink this morning.
which Jim has never brought in the studio before.
And so I wanted to have details on it.
What's going on with
that?
So, Rise and Grind opened up right next to us.
Right
here on Washington Street, right next to our studio.
And I tape, I have a show on Sunday called Lean Local.
It's on from two to three.
Most people just...
go to Spotify or go to Civic Media to the app and download it.
Not a lot of people listen to it from, I mean, one to two.
Maybe that's why they don't listen to it, because it's two
to three.
I was
just
gonna
say, do you know what time your
show is at?
No wonder nobody's listening.
It's the wrong time.
Okay, guys, it's one to two.
No, I...
But you meant one to two listeners?
Right,
yeah, it's off an hour.
And I do the tapings on...
You know, Wednesday or Thursday.
And I did build charts yesterday.
Of course, he's leaving a friend of yours, I'm sure.
Great discussion.
And then after that, I interviewed the mayor of DPR, which is going to be on a week from Sunday about the Southern Bridge.
That's a big.
Project
going on here
in Green Bay, Brown County, $183 million.
When they come in, we have coffee here, but it's kind of cheap.
Do you like it?
I like it.
It's better than what I
brought in.
I should say that.
Feel free to buy some, Jim.
As you say, I like the stories about how I bought everybody else coffee.
I didn't see it.
I said, what do you
want?
So we went next door.
I went next door and got coffee for everybody.
So this was yesterday's coffee, but it was iced coffee.
It wasn't like hot coffee.
Was it good?
Did
you like it?
I love it.
Oh, he's addicted
now.
Mercano is what I got.
I don't know about next day coffee.
I used to hot.
Oh,
I'll drink it.
You
want to try
it?
No.
No.
Connie, you've worked in a news room and radio station.
You just drank whatever was in that coffee
pot.
I would drink whatever I need.
That's
right.
Freshly.
When you come in, would you like some freshly burnt coffee?
Yeah, that's what we
have here in the morning.
You can smell it when you walk in the door.
We do have good.
We do have good coffee here.
I'm just giving them a hard time, but we don't have all the flavors next door.
I
mean, what do they have?
They're 30?
Yeah,
I know.
It's just interesting who
you will buy
coffee for and who you won't buy coffee for.
Mary DePierre, gotcha.
Todd Michaels,
producer who works his
butt off
for
you.
Connie Feldman, long time.
No, they're
not.
Just saying.
Okay,
just saying.
All right, all right, all right, let's move on here.
So, hey, birthdays.
This is not my strong
suit.
Of
course, not much is here, but I don't...
I don't know any of these people except one.
I know
two.
I know two.
That's right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So let's start with how do you read it off the first
birthday?
Lisa Welchell is 62.
62 Blair facts of life.
Yeah,
facts of life.
Remember the TV show The Blind?
Blair 2D Joe.
Yes.
Okay.
Sure.
Blair.
She was Blair.
Yeah.
Did that old lady there die?
They like the house mother?
Charlotte Russe, I believe was,
yeah.
I
think we talked
about that.
Charlotte's gone.
It's Charlotte Ray.
Charlotte Ray.
And then of course, Sandy Duncan took over for a while, didn't
she?
Oh, that's right.
At the very end.
Was it
Sandy Duncan?
It was somebody like
that.
But Mrs. Garrett,
yeah.
Yep, Mrs. Garrett.
And of course, she came from Watch TV show.
She was awesome.
That show was a spinoff of different strokes.
Oh, that's right.
Because she was the main.
That's right.
And it was so popular, they took her
and spun her off.
I love that.
I think
Mina would be proud of me this morning.
Yes.
Melissa Ethridge is 64
today.
My idol.
Melissa Ethridge.
Female rock star?
Melissa Ethridge?
If I knew, I wouldn't ask.
Oh
my goodness.
What does she do?
Like,
what's her song that I would know?
Start
singing.
Oh, yeah.
I'm the only one.
Lisa Hale's going to jump through.
than the internet and kill you for this
joke.
Funny story about this song.
I like the music.
I haven't heard her sing yet.
Hold on.
Let's give her a chance.
Here she comes.
Warming up.
Coming up.
Bound her some
claws.
He
has no idea.
Never heard it, no.
Lisa Hale is a huge fan.
Oh my gosh.
Here's a great story.
You know who Terry Barr is.
Of course.
We love her, yeah.
She and I are in a closet rock band, have been for years.
What?
Yeah, she's a drummer.
I'm a guitar player singer and I did a cover of that song, Melissa Etheridge, my idol.
I want a copy of that.
I want a copy of that.
Oh, there's video.
Are you still performing?
We perform selectively.
Let me say in Madison.
That's awesome.
I love that.
I didn't know
that.
She's never told me
that.
No, Chicktrip is the name of the band.
Chicktrip.
A little spin-off on Cheap
Trip.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought I didn't get it.
Okay.
You know, there are so many people that when you get to know them, you know, just in that conversation, art has some kind of musical tie.
Oh,
yeah?
Even across the street here, you know, Shriver's $6 billion in sales.
Mike runs a great bass player.
Yeah.
And I talk to people all the time and they either got some connection, like there's doctors and medicine that we have here
at the
Widener.
It's just music is a big, big part of people's lives.
I don't know
if it is everywhere, but it sure is in this part of the world.
Well, and there's some amazing local talent here.
We try to feature that every Friday.
We bring in someone that, you know, isn't Marquis name, but he's getting started.
They may be playing on the deck
at the
Hagenmeister, not on Fridays, but during the week.
Tarle Knight owns the Tarleton, that place on Broadway.
And he's bought two other places.
He's got small venues for people to get started.
Because
we didn't have that in Green Bay, right?
Because you're not
going to open up at the Meijer.
So you got my year 1,000 seats, and
then you go to
Weidner 2,000 seats, and the next jump is
Resh.
And Cody James will be joining us tomorrow morning at 8.30 for our live music series.
He's the guy we have on.
Oh, fantastic.
You should come back.
You know what?
You
should join us and sing a song.
Yes.
Would you
do that?
Would you do that?
I think that's
already been decided.
That is a done deal.
That'd be awesome.
Yeah, look at me opening
my mouth.
Opening that.
Yeah.
All right.
We'll get back to a couple more birthdays.
What is this, Anita Bryant?
No, no, I'm not
fanning you.
Anita, we'll get
back
to
that.
Yes.
All right.
You're listening
to Connie.
All right, oranges.
Connie the mayor, we'll be right back.
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Welcome back everybody mino and well minos
Off today getting a little surgery.
He's doing fine.
We're happy for we got great text from him
This morning it's
Connie Connie Feldman you like filming in the mayor.
Yeah, Connie
in the mayor Connie in the mayor.
All right.
All right
That's that's the name of the show from here going forward Hey, we got a nice text and somebody else
is a Melissa
ethridge.
Now, you know who the Eagles are right?
I that I do okay that I do
but seeing Melissa ethridge and Eagles
Oh my gosh,
that would be epic.
Terry, thanks for texting
in this
morning.
Hell freezes over tour.
Wow.
Do you remember that tour?
It was big.
The Eagles were never going to come back
and then
Hell froze over and they did a tour together and they had a country album come out around the same time.
No, nothing.
No,
they weren't at the Carlton.
No, okay.
Did you remember the Carlton West?
Yeah, okay.
I used to work there Yeah, so when these guys drop names and all these people that I never heard of I remind them of you know the mills brothers, you know, John Warwick and my favorite of all favorites.
Oh my god, not Liberace wasn't there.
He was the Polish Prince
Polish Prince.
Oh,
yeah,
um roses
are red
Bobby Vin
Bobby Vin.
Oh my god.
So you so many instruments.
You must have really loved him.
I don't even remember his name.
He's still around
Listen, Florida that guy's he is an unbelievably talented musician.
Did he know I'm thinking
I'm thinking of Neil Sadakha, who did breaking up was hard to do.
Yeah,
Neil
Sadakha
did that.
But
same
kind of thing.
No.
Apples and oranges, no way.
Bobby Vinton is an entertainer.
Neil Sadakha comes out.
Hello, Green Day.
Okay, you know, just this canned, canned, canned
show.
I've been doing
radio
35 years this year.
Okay,
I
don't think I've ever had a conversation about who is better, Bobby Vinton.
or Neil's
the back cat.
You sound a little bit
old.
All
right, everybody, turn up your hearing aids to nine, to nine.
We're rolling here.
Yes,
Liberace sounds a
little bit
weird.
And did Melissa Atheridge and the Eagles start this?
Yes, they did.
They'd be really offended.
Yeah,
that's right.
All right, so next, birthday list.
Who is?
Let's see, Annette Benning.
Annette Benning.
Great actors, right?
Ann, what would I know her?
Well, she was married to, you know, the guy.
Okay.
Yeah.
She was married to that guy.
All right.
Cool.
Let's move on.
She's been in American beauty.
She's been in the grifters, the American president, the 20th century women, tons of movies.
Okay.
Well, yeah.
The great outdoors.
You know who decides?
I just wondered about that because there's some, there's a lot, a lot of birthdays today, right?
And people must be hurt when they, you see that today's birthday, if you're not one of the special people that you feel you should be in that list, like, like who's
the person or the company or do they lobby to, oh, don't forget it's my birthday tomorrow.
Do they send things?
You know what I mean?
Cause I'm sure there's other people that are brought more famous than, and that Benning.
She's pretty
famous.
Yes.
She's very
famous.
Warren Beatty.
That's what I was thinking of.
She's married to Warren Beatty.
Oh,
he was.
Yeah.
Okay.
Who's Warren Beatty?
No, I don't know.
He was in a great, great movie that I was just taken by where he, he's this rich guy and he goes and plays football.
Oh yeah.
Oh my God.
That was one of my favorite movies growing up.
Come on.
He was, he was a super wealthy guy and then he could, anyway.
All right.
I don't know what I'm talking about.
Okay.
Let's go on.
Yeah.
Okay.
Latoya
Jackson.
Absolutely.
69 today.
And then John Hinckley is
70.
So why does Hinckley get in this category?
Guys, you shoot the president, honor your birthday.
I don't think so.
Well, he's got no variety.
Well, that is true.
Yeah.
Not job.
Okay.
Um, hey, what else we got going on here?
Free tickets Friday.
The movie was
heaven can wait.
Yeah.
Thank you, Terry.
That is a good movie.
Great.
Never
saw it.
What?
Never saw it.
Connie.
I've heard of it.
It's a great.
All
right.
The guy
who says he
doesn't know who Melissa Ethridge
is, wondering why
we haven't seen heaven can wait.
That
is,
I'm telling you, I remember
the first time I watched it, I'm like, wow, this is, I love this.
I think
it was, it
was, I
think it
was what took a super wealthy guy that
Is that what interested you?
I wonder what made me, because I'm not a big football player, but he went and played football.
It was, it was very interesting.
Okay.
Hey, tomorrow's free ticket Friday, right?
It is.
All right,
that's cool.
Got a chance
to win four tickets for the crew.
Saturday, June 7th, taken on San Diego.
That will be the game that you'll be playing for.
Isn't that, yeah, they got good seats too.
I mean, it's four tickets.
to, we give these away
every
Friday.
Playing San Diego, I wonder if Michael Chen will be
there.
I was just gonna say, that would be a great tie
to talk about your
old co-host, Michael Chen.
That ages you a little bit, and
I told you this morning.
Yeah, I'm loud and proud.
Okay, I just, what, was that early 2000s?
Yeah,
yeah.
Yeah, he was my co-anchor.
On channel 11.
You know, I actually heard Bill Jartz talking about how he and Kami didn't, didn't socialize a lot together.
Chen and I, Michael Chen and I, just the opposite.
I mean, we hung out all the time.
Chan and I went on vacations together every year.
Wow.
How did you
take time off together when
you were on the same, you know?
You could do that back in the day.
Gotcha.
Well, you know, we worked weekends.
So we had vacation during the
week.
Gotcha.
I would be more like Bill and Tammy.
Yeah.
Like me
and Jen.
Well, you know, I think maybe in early your career.
Iskher and Fiebert, who is this radio guy, those TV crew?
Roger Ebert and Cisco linear well one of them is gone now or maybe both of them But yeah, I mean they didn't hang around right they would just meet and talk about movies.
They
didn't even do any like Pre-work
well early when you're young, you know, you hang up with all because you're working crazy, right?
Once you get married and get a real life then I think you also get to a
point where the honeymoon of the job you're in
is a little
over
Cause when I started in radio, we were out every
Friday,
Saturday night having fun.
And now it's like, I don't want to see anybody from this place.
Do you remember the bowling alley under channel two?
Yes.
And we used to, yeah, that would meet the beer.
Yep.
That was a big deal.
Yes, it was.
Michael Chen was a good reporter.
He was a fantastic reporter.
And we should just, we'll see what's too early out there now, but we got to reach out to him.
Cause I haven't talked to
him in, have you talked to him lately?
Uh, not other than via Facebook, you know,
What is that on occasion?
What is Facebook?
Hey, let's move on.
What day part is he working in now?
I have well nights nights.
Yeah.
So he's probably
not
up at
probably not seven
o'clock.
Nope.
Otherwise, I'd say give
me his number.
We'll call him up later on
the
show.
Right.
We could call him at like 10 to nine, which would be 10 to seven.
He could do that.
Probably sleeping.
Yeah.
I'm saying, hey, can we call you?
Yeah, that'd be great.
That'd be cool to talk to him because it's been a long time.
Anyway, so this
This artist that's coming in today, I'm excited about him.
Do you know Spencer?
You were just pointing out his work, and it's phenomenal.
It is.
Yeah.
This guy, when he comes in here, he's gonna talk about where he's moving to, not moving to his, whereas artwork is moving to, he does all those cleats that you see that the players get.
His sentiment from all over the NFL now.
Does all the fences
over
by Lambeau, that's all his work?
Really?
Yeah, yeah.
Just incredible.
Oh, wow.
Those cleats are incredible.
I was working that display at the draft.
put my shoes right next to him to take a picture.
I saw that.
I saw something or heard the draft.
Tell me, that took a year, over a year.
Sucked the energy out of every day on the media.
There was like nothing going on.
Like my wife said, I don't think people in Green Bay know the Pope died.
It was like a week before the draft.
Do you, what did you think, rate that for me?
And A, B, C, I ask everybody that.
The chief was in here, the mayor was in here.
Just, how do you see that from your eyes as media?
Oh, I was blown away.
I was just, you know, I was concerned, you know, when the Super Bowl, when the Packers went to the Super Bowl in the 90s and then we had all the national attention, I wanted people to know there's more about Green Bay than just football and cheese.
Um, I was so impressed with the way Green Bay represented itself on the national stage.
I was working the draft.
I was one of those community people and nice, you know, everybody, you know, Hey, welcome bears fans.
Welcome.
You know, you just, it was phenomenal.
And everybody we talked to, I can't believe, I can't believe Green Bay.
This is such a cool place and so friendly and so welcoming.
I was, I was really proud.
That's great.
Yeah.
And I think they, it went perfect.
Yeah.
Oh, I
just think it
couldn't have gone any better in terms of inside the fence.
You know
what I mean?
I think outside people, some of the vendors outside, even Bay Beach was wishing more people would have
gone
and experienced
the
city, but they had so much in the fence.
Oh, it was so much to
do.
the Walter Payton Award
and
all those lockers of quarterbacks.
Of course, my wife's in love with the guy from the Chiefs.
So a bunch of pictures with... Is she in love with him or are you in love with him?
You like him pretty well too.
I do pick the Chiefs.
I have a lot of money on the Chiefs though.
I think they're pretty good.
But anyway, there was just so much to do there.
There was really no reason to leave.
I didn't
think the
lines were that long.
I don't know.
I just think they had the distribution of so many of these tents.
And I just never, and I still think back to that all the 200,000 people, it never felt like that.
And the Packard games are only 80,000.
It's like
shoulder to
shoulder.
So it was, but it was spread out.
But I just thought the customer service there was unbelievable.
I thought it was really well run.
You know, they were, I was working the gallery where there's, you know, the museum type thing.
And there was a line, but it was moving.
Nobody was complaining.
It was, you know, they didn't have to wait long.
And I think
people were right.
When you get into those lines, like there weren't the Gawkers there.
Like they understand there's people behind me.
I'm going to spend 30 seconds,
45 seconds
looking at that.
Like the rings, right?
That was a cool display.
Oh man.
Yeah.
And the helmets.
Yeah.
Just everything about that.
So this is where I just don't want that to be over.
You know, I just know why don't we have the footprint?
We have the security we have.
We got to do something else with that.
Like we have to leverage that into.
Something I don't know.
It's
just something because it's we can do it I think there was a little hesitation by some community members not I wasn't one of them, but can Green Bay do this?
But I think it's just that in the little whatever that train, you know, whatever Thomas the train.
Yeah, that's I just
get over the hill
and I
think I
know
I could I knew I could
you know, right?
So we can do it we should want to rest we should do a farm aid
Headliner, Melissa Ethridge.
There you go.
Yep.
I'm done.
Willie Nelson can show
up, right?
Absolutely.
You know what?
You get Willie Nelson there.
So wouldn't that be cool?
I don't know if it's
because we love farmers, but something like that and say, look, this is bigger than the Lambo.
This is bigger than 80,000 people.
We're going to, because we can do it.
We got, and especially if you do it in the summer, I know that we have access to the bowl in June, right?
The contract works.
the mayor's renegotiating a contract and I think one of the things he wants to do is get more dates for that.
But you know, the stones are touring?
Yeah.
That would just, I don't know, we could do something more than-
Maybe a Bobby Vinton concert.
No, that-
Just bring in the
crowd, right?
Wow,
Bobby Vinton and Will Sadaka.
Wow.
Okay, now you think about-
And
Liberace's
hairdresser.
Thank you, Terry.
That is too big.
That's too big.
Well,
you and I are on the same page.
Green Bay's got a lot to offer and on the world stage, people should know about how lucky we are here.
And because I think
we know, right?
As residents of Northeast Wisconsin, we understand how special this part of the
country is, not
just the state, but the country.
And more people do need to know about it.
Do you think I would say, Connie, I didn't watch it on TV, right?
I was there, but I talked to a friend of mine in Atlanta, Todd's heard this, and I was talking to them and I said, did you watch the draft?
Oh my God, we watched it, you know, cover to cover, whatever, from beginning to end all three days.
I said, what'd you think?
I said, watching it, besides the draft.
Take football out of it.
What else did you learn?
Well, I really, the fans really love the Packers, not breaking news.
And the Packers really love the fans.
But I'm like, okay.
And then a little, but I wish, as I said to Todd, Dr. Hunziger runs our medical college
here.
I wish he would have introduced somebody to introduce a player just 30 seconds.
You know, I don't think people know we have a medical college here.
I don't think people understand the, the fishing that we have here.
How it's like one of the
best.
World-class performing arts center.
Right.
So anyway, but it was, oh,
this is okay.
There we go.
All right.
All
right,
Todd's,
get me calm
down now.
I'm good.
I'm good.
I'm good.
That's what
Bobby Vitton does to you.
I can
handle it.
What's
your right to sleep?
You know.
Is this
guy awesome or what?
Ugh.
This brings me back.
See?
To what?
All right.
Connie and the mayor will be right back.
was light
from the stars she was
I know
let's just play this to the top of the hour another eight minutes of Bobby did not take it There'd be cars going off the highway people falling asleep behind the wheel He's got some more upbeat songs, but but what I liked about him and I look
Paul Anka and Neil Sadatka.
I've seen all those guys.
Did I say that?
We weren't talking about Paul Anka, we were talking about Neil Sadatka.
They're all the same.
But Bobby Vinton, he works on that stage like you wouldn't believe.
I don't know how many instruments he played.
He must play 20 instruments.
You played the trumpet.
You've been playing for 30
years.
As you.
As did I.
I
kind of gave it up, you know, like I did with the piano.
He was asked
to give it up.
I was asked to give it up.
Yes, sister.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wish I would have stayed with the piano more than the trumpet, but my neighbor plays in the Pulaski Volunteer Band.
Okay.
And you're in the village.
Well, it used to be the Allaway Village Band now that's the all volunteer band.
We've had them on.
Yeah.
They're fantastic.
Concerts are always free and they're a really good concert band now.
And they have some plans to
do more with that organization.
They talked about a little bit.
They want to, they really want to make that a very strong, profitable
organization.
I think they can.
You were talking about young musicians and one of the great things that the AVB does is the concerts will always be free.
That started with their founder, Bob Searing.
But they take in people's old used instruments and they refurbish them and donate them to schools for kids who might want to play but need an instrument.
I love that.
Yeah.
I think one of the problems we have in this part of the world or this country is, what is this?
So
we got
two texts from
Terry.
First
one, Bar Made at the University of Minnesota this year.
That'll
be fun.
That's very, very cool that they're
doing
that.
And then he sent in a GIF, which is just basically a guy, looks like he's at a ball
game falling asleep.
And it says
Bobby Vitton concert.
Yes, Terry,
you're right, Terry.
It's a snooze fest.
No.
Seriously, the guy that saw Melissa Esher's and the Eagles.
That's right.
So that
tells you a little bit
about
his musical taste.
I'm with you, Jerry.
You got to find a more... I don't do respect to Bobby Vitton.
Play one of his upbeat
songs.
Okay, give me one.
Without help.
Without help, you give me a Bobby Vitton song that has any tempo to it.
All right, let me finish this show.
I'll
do it.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
I'll do it.
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do
it.
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I'll do it.
I'll do it.
I worked for a place that didn't allow that.
It's like, ah, you work here, you're going to work here.
But most places are like, you know, if you want to get on this committee or that, we didn't like it running for office.
But he's on the board of the new community shelter.
And he's also in charge of the golf audience.
So we're going to talk to him about that.
And of course, the guys from the dispensary have, there's a lot of charitable things this summer.
We're going to have to warn him about the Gators at that golf.
I
don't
know if he knows it's
Gator Day.
Just
got
another text from Nancy of Green Bay.
My mother listened to Bobby Vitton.
How old is Jim anyway?
Nancy, 18.
Okay, good.
So I do want to give a quick update on Mino
because people are asking about it.
Skin cancer diagnosis.
Went in yesterday finally to have surgery.
They got all of it.
I think he's got like 10 stitches, you know, and it's whatever.
I heard him talking about though, Jim, if you hadn't pointed that out or maybe it's hot.
Todd, Todd saved his life.
No, Jim was like, I
let it go, John.
Let it go.
Jim's like, don't worry about it.
So he loves to imitate.
He loves, he thinks he's really good at imitating people.
And he's not bad at some of them.
But anyway, Al Pacino will be one of them.
Now that he's Scarface.
Scarface.
I've
never thought about that.
I don't.
Yeah.
No, he's, that's great.
He's going to take a couple of days off, which is fine.
I don't know what he's going to do when you.
I have just stitches.
I mean, he can.
Well, he's going to heal.
Right.
But I'm saying that surgery,
you can like do everything.
It's not like you're healing, right?
You got stitches and you can call.
He can clean.
He should start on his apartment.
Well,
that's not going to
happen.
Well, I don't know.
Anyway, all right, I'm glad.
I cannot find a Bobby Benton song
that has any temple.
All right, let
me just.
Oh, OK.
I mean, that should tell you something.
Yeah, well, here we go.
Yeah, that Todd can't find one.
I'll find one, Todd.
Just got a text
from Brian who says, Bobby Vinton Conversation or the funeral announcements on WDOR.
My choices.
Oh my God, right?
Let's move on.
Thank you,
Brian.
All
right.
Brian, how about the weather?
Let's, we haven't done the weather yet today.
Let's do that.
So we give reports from where we have our towers, right?
So we have Green Bay.
Of course, at 56 degrees, ooh, Appleton at 55 and Oshkosh at 54.
But the high today is 67.
Nice.
Where you
see 67?
On my phone.
Okay, nope.
High today in the lower 70s, partly
sunny with showers
possible
this afternoon.
Okay, and we have a good weekend coming up weather-wise here.
And I just wanna put in a plug.
for breakfast on the farm.
You must have done that a million
times when you were immediately late.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
And they start with a mask at seven if you want to go.
And
then at eight o'clock is when it opens to the public.
And they get like 6,000 people there.
It's unbelievable how many people go in.
It's much more than breakfast, right?
You can see all the equipment they have.
Just a lot of different educational things.
It's great for kids great for adults, too So I'm gonna be serving breakfast from eight to nine.
I love doing that It's so important for people to know and to learn about where the food on our table comes from how it's produced And it's a great opportunity to do it.
Yeah, there's some not very encouraging surveys from some kids About where this food come from, you know, they don't like like the grocery store Yeah, so anyway, that's a fun day.
It's a great day and it's
I don't know what the- I'll look
at the prices.
I have done a milking contest at breakfast on the farm.
Did you?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Do you remember Heather Hayes?
Absolutely.
Yeah, she was an anchor at one of the competition and we did a milking contest.
She was at 26, wasn't she?
Yeah.
I won because I didn't have her false nails pinched the cow.
Oh, the cow didn't like
it.
Kicking the head.
Cow didn't like it.
I did the grape stomping, but
that wasn't breakfast on the farm, but that
was with your-
Shelly
Botot.
Yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
So when you say grape stomping, the first thing I think of is the old Lucille ball thing from I Love Lucy.
I can see
you doing
that exact sketch.
Little hair up in the
air.
There we go.
All right.
All right.
So you listen to Connie and the mayor.
We're going to be right
back.
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.
All right, here are your hosts, Connie Thelman and Jim Schmidt.
John Mino is off today.
So, so far so good.
You're awesome.
You got good
energy.
This is so much fun.
I love radio.
This is great
Yeah, it was cool because the people are I mean it's a little stressful with Todd, but it's really kind of a
You know what, you want it stressful?
It's how
to walk out
right now.
Good luck, buddy.
I just used the restroom and I noticed the difference between radio and television.
In the morning show on television, you have a mic on.
It's clicked underneath your clothes and you have to remember
to
turn that mic off.
We got it bugged.
I learned that
the hard way.
Did you?
I sure did.
Well, that's funny.
So anyway, we have some great guests come in and now we're going to introduce Shane.
You are in here, you are a, what is your title?
You got Bassett?
Yeah.
And you're our, tell me what your title is.
I want to talk about this a little
bit.
Yeah.
So I'm at Bassett Mechanical.
I'm our business development manager for our HVAC and plumbing side of the world.
And it's on our mechanical contracting side.
So that means really more of your large scale projects.
Not only do you run that, but you're also a volunteer on the board of the new community shelter.
And
you have an event coming up.
So I'm going to talk about two things.
I want to talk about the golf outing.
And maybe we'll start with that.
But I'm a big believer in the trades.
I teach at TC.
And I think you say, if somebody goes to TC,
I
mean, they can get a good job in your industry.
Well, absolutely, absolutely.
We're signatory to the sheet metal and pipe fitter unions.
So when you think about mechanical contracting, you kind of think about those paths as well as plumbers.
So they'll get into a five-year apprenticeship program.
With that, they'll be taking classes out at TC.
Those are
some nice paying jobs.
Oh, God,
yeah.
And there was some study on who did the study, but I think there were more unemployed lawyers.
then there were unemployed plumbers.
I believe it.
I mean, we're hiring for plumbers fitters.
I mean, yeah, absolutely.
I
tell you, you make more than you do on TV.
I'm telling you.
And I think
this area is good.
We get a lot of building going on.
A lot of things, you guys keep busy and all you and your competitors are always, yeah, trucks everywhere.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah.
I mean, you drive down the road, you'll see tweak air trucks, you'll see August winter trucks, JFA and Bassett mechanical.
I mean, we're all over the place.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
All right.
But one of the reasons I wanted you to come in here was this is the time of year that there's fundraisers going on.
And the way nonprofits work is through fundraising.
And many of us like the new community show that we don't charge the homeless to live there, right?
I mean, we take care of them.
And so many people offer these free services, but they need to raise money.
And you got an event coming up.
So why don't you tell us about, and you have a lot of events at new community, but this is a good one.
Yeah, we do.
This is one that I back quite heavily.
So I've been on the board of directors with New Community Shelter for coming up on five years, been involved with them for just about over 10 years.
And over the past, this will be my third year, yes, as far as the golf committee goes, kind of like the committee lead.
So really what we have is June, or sorry, July 14th, Monday, July 14th.
We have our 30th annual golf outing coming up, which is crazy to me.
30 years.
Yeah.
30 years.
Can you guys believe
that?
And they do a big thing with Todd and I and a couple of people from the civic media went to the bowling thing has got to be close to 30 years as well.
Another fundraiser at New Community.
And, but this golf thing I worked at last year.
Yeah.
Tell
us
something about it.
Oh, this golf thing is amazing.
So we are out at Oneida Golf and Country Club, which is a beautiful place to go golf.
So I mean, when you're out there, it's immaculate.
It's a private club.
So really an opportunity to get out there for people that may not have been there.
But really we, we, I guess the.
the way we look at how we do our golf outing, it's different than other golf outings.
Other golf outings you're on every hole and it seems like somebody's hitting you up for fundraising activities or whatever that may be.
We try and stay away from that.
And we really tag ourselves as the fastest golf voting in Northeastern Wisconsin.
So instead of having to get there at eight o'clock in the morning, you don't get home till eight o'clock at night, we have a shotgun start at 10
30.
We'll get you in, we'll serve you lunch out on the course.
And then when you come in, we'll have heavy hors d'oeuvres, a short little program, and you're out of there by five o'clock and back home to your family.
Like they didn't even know you were golfing that
day, which
could
be a good thing.
Have you ever run in any alligators on the
course?
The delegate is this morning.
You know, I didn't, but there might have been a hippo one
time.
Think of all the money and all the good you've done in the community over those 30 years.
What an impact you've had.
It's huge.
I mean, Jim, you can speak to it as well as I can.
What we're doing at New Community Shelter is amazing.
It's our fight to end homelessness one person at a time.
And it's working.
But that's a tough challenge.
Tougher than I thought till I got into office.
And even this morning,
documenting I guess, I would taking pictures.
We have a long ways to go though.
We do, I don't think it's getting, overall we're doing getting people back into the system and getting them trained and learning how to cook, learning how to shop, learning how to budget, learning how to just do a lot of things and obviously learning how to stay sober and that's hard to do and that's when you say one person at a time it truly is that way.
It really is.
I mean, you know, you look at it, it's kind of a thing of where you're striving for perfection knowing that you're never going to reach it, right?
And it's just one of those battles that you got to fight and it's one person at a time.
I mean, what Chris and Terry and Shannon and everybody do over at the shelter, it's just amazing what they do.
And you look at the economy right now, grocery shopping, you know, some, a lot of people are one paycheck away, you know.
from really struggling.
It's worth Shane Raymaker.
He's with Bassett Mechanical and he also serves, and Bassett does a lot of that.
You guys allow your employees to get out and get involved.
A lot of companies do that, but some companies don't.
I mean, I worked for a company and they're like, look, I like to get involved.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
You work here, we're paying you.
We need all your attention here.
Okay.
But I think that's great that Bassett does that and that you're doing that and you're taking care of the golf outing that's coming up in July I want to just circle back to the food thing Food's expensive.
Yep, and it's expensive.
We spent $90,000 on food.
It's crazy
Wow,
and we shop right and so what when people are going to we don't really use the term graduate But when they go through our program part of the towards you can be out of here in about two three months you start taking them shopping and
for sure stay around the perimeter because all the junk's, not the greatest stuff is in the middle, you know, but to use these food pantries, I mean, there's nothing to be embarrassed about.
I mean, you can go in there and Paul's pantry is like unbelievable.
Manna's great.
And so we teach them all that.
And then cooking for one.
Some people don't know how to do that.
And we need to teach them that as well.
What amazed me, Shane, when I started working there is how, I would say this is the right way, but how much they didn't know.
Like if you're like 30,
Well, it's like, you know how to cook shop, you know, clean.
And I don't know if they have to really is
pretty basic, right?
Oh, it is.
And the programs that that we have over at the shelter are amazing, you know, from being able to build your own resume, you know, as much as that goes a long way to to teaching them how to cook and do whatever they need to do.
Well, and, you know, it's a lot cheaper to eat junk food.
It is, you know,
and you can go.
But you can go if you can't afford the fresh produce and everything, you know, you can go pick it up.
at Paul's Pantry at places like that, and then you help them learn how to incorporate that because it is.
If you want to go through a drive-through or anything, it's cheaper to eat junk.
I think we do a pretty good job of understanding budgeting.
I mean, that's just key.
The other thing that I think is important is to do things
Not everything's not everything's expensive.
So we go cherry picking apple picking sure we went to the I took him to Don and I took him to the um wildlife sanctuary.
That's free.
Oh, yeah, we had a picnic.
It was just great and
There'll be be cancelling it'd be concert
right and free even the botanical gardens when we we went there now granted We paid for that.
I think it was eight dollars.
No, we're driving home to go never go there again.
I'm like
Yeah, you will just you can volunteer.
You know, I think if you volunteer what four hours you get two tickets or something.
But they have to learn how to live like the rest of us, you know.
Anyway, and I'm so glad you're on that board.
But so the golf outing, you got sponsorships open.
What's open there?
Oh, yeah.
So back to the golf outing.
So we're getting we're getting close.
We're about a month and a half away from July 14th.
So
That's going to cruise up really quickly on us.
So right now we have approximately 22 foresums that have signed up.
We have space for 32.
That's our goal to hit this year.
So 10
openings, good.
Yeah.
So we're feeling, we're feeling really close to it.
We've got some major sponsors, corporate sponsors, golf and tea sponsors.
So you get your four some, you get lunch out on the course, heavy adorbs after.
And that's really a great, a great space to hop into what we're doing over there and helping out the new community shelter.
And those are a lot of fun.
If you've ever been a part of one of those, they're a lot of fun to be a part of.
Oh, it's a blast.
That's a lot of fun.
How much is the, I know there's a little pricey, but I want to talk about the cause.
We did a little bit, I want to talk about it again, but how much is a foursome?
Yeah.
So typically, or not typically, but it is actually $2,000 for a foursome and that's a golf and tea sponsor.
Right.
And so if you own the company, you want to take three of your best customers or just reward the employees, that is a good golf party to go to.
And it's like, oh my God, 2,000, but it really goes, we just talked about where the money goes.
None of that stuff goes to any administration and just boom, right, right to the residents at the homeless shelter.
It is right to the residents at the shelter.
And that's, and that's like you said, Jim, that's what Bassett does.
You know, we'll have a foursome and it's, it's just a great way for me to potentially take some of my clients there as well as, you know, other people to do how they want it.
And all the golf, when I was mayor, every Monday I got invited to golf.
I'm a terrible golfer.
I throw my clubs and I just get mad.
But what keeps me in the game is once in a while I hit like a perfect shot.
I'm telling you, it's like Tiger Woods.
It's not that good.
But sometimes I'll chip something and be like, wait, I can do this.
So that keeps me in the game.
But that's maybe 10 good shots out of.
It takes me 70 or 80 to get through nine holes.
Sounds about
right.
Think about how much fun it is to go on golf.
But then how much good you're doing while
you're out there
is really fulfilling.
And the camaraderie is fun.
I mean, it's fun to tease each other.
That's a pretty good time.
So you got 10, four sums open.
Correct.
a business and call, what's the contact?
Are they calling us to call you?
Yeah, so you can actually just go to a new community shelter website and hit the events tab and under the events, you'll see the golf voting.
Okay, cool.
And then you'll be able to pull up the sponsorship and that explains you how to go ahead and sign up.
If you have my personal cell phone, you can get a hold of me too.
I do.
Yeah, you do.
What else?
sponsorship if somebody can't make it did you have some
yeah signs or we do have some other so if you want to be a tea and green sponsor that's $500 so that gets your name out there we have lots of corporate sponsors that are out there so it may be a good way for somebody to get their name out there we've launched sponsor golf
cart sponsors, skin sponsors, so plenty of opportunities to sponsor for the program.
And before we move off to golf, and I want you to stick around, I want to talk a little bit more about the mechanical opportunities engineering for people in Green Bay.
But before we leave that, I think it's important that you're golf outing, you're not nickel and dime to every hole, because I've been to those and so have you.
And it's really nice to say, look, this has been paid for by whoever, and this is going to be fun.
And it's going to be great.
We're going to meet some very
Nice people.
I know some of the people have signed up already and that's good group.
Yeah, it's a blast I mean we've had it you'd go out there and you don't get nickel and dime like Jim just said It's it's amazing and it's you get to meet a lot of great people
It is and it's when you look around.
That's Green Bay, too.
It is
I think that's cool out of business people are there and just yeah, that's
well.
Thank you for doing that Shane and You know you're you're up there in the company.
I just think it's really important that companies allow people like you to be on boards and commissions because
That's how this city works.
And I know that.
Politicians might take a little credit and they deserve some of it, but the real work comes from these nonprofits and people like you.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Well, thanks for doing that.
Green Bay is just a really giving community when
it comes to these things.
Oh, yeah.
They're awesome.
All right.
Shane Raymaker with Basset Mechanical.
You stick around.
We're talking about career opportunities for some of the youth in our community.
All right.
Beautiful.
All right.
We'll be right back.
This is mine on the mayor.
Akane in the mayor.
Sorry.
All right, welcome back everybody.
Connie the mayor here.
Like a beautiful day, right?
I mean, we're gonna get up to 72 Todd said.
I had 67 written down here.
I'm glad I'm off.
So we're here with Shane Raymaker.
He is with Bassett Mechanico and is really chairing the one of the fundraisers at the new community shelter.
And that's a golf party that's coming up in July.
And the contact information will give you just go to the website, newcommunityshelter.org.
Scroll down to the event tab and everything's on there.
You want to be a sponsor you can pick up a foursome But and and we talked about how the money really goes to a great cause and that causes ending homelessness Shane I want to talk to you when I yesterday when I We're talking we should talk more about the career opportunities in plumbing and HVAC Some of us didn't grow up in that world, you know and
I think what concerns people more than wages is job security.
Getting laid off is not a good thing, you know?
I mean, well, if you experience oppression anywhere.
And there just seems to be more job security in the trades than there is in, I don't know, what do you call it, white collar?
Yeah, we could call it that.
And you're hitting the nail on the head with that, Jim, to be honest with you.
Our pipe fitters, plumbers, sheet metal workers, we have so many projects going on.
throughout the United States, we do work for our clients as well, too.
So if you want the opportunity to travel, there's that opportunity.
You can pick up as much of that type of work as you want to.
How great is that if you're 23, 24, right?
Oh, it's
amazing.
You get to see the United
States.
On your nickel, yeah?
Yeah.
Tell us about that.
I think when people think about plumbing HVAC, you think of a warehouse or something, but how about that?
Project you picked up in Manitowoc.
Yeah, so actually as soon as I leave here today I'm going over to the Manitowoc Maritime Museum with my chief engineer and one of my other engineers and we're looking at bringing a solution to renovate the HVAC system for that.
I don't know, but you can actually sleep overnight.
I
don't know if you've been down or Todd.
They had this unbelievable submarine they brought in.
It was a long time ago they brought that in and they blow the horn scared the Jesus out of everybody, but
That is like one of the coolest things in Northeast, Wisconsin, and it really is good.
It gets a little hot in there.
So good.
Get the get that HVC.
I keep you cool if you're sleeping overnight.
That's
when
you get kicked out of the house.
That's another place to
play Bob.
That's snuggle music.
Okay.
The museum.
Well, that's a great museum.
The guy who runs it used to run ours.
good friend of mine.
But the, there's that submarine, that's, how cool is that to work on that submarine, right?
Oh, it's going to be really cool.
Like I say, we're going there to look at it today.
It's actually going to be getting towed up to Sturgeon Bay to Bay Ship Building.
I want to say it's closer to September.
It'll be there for a couple of weeks.
They'll have a dry docked.
At that point in time, they want to have the opportunity to be able to, you know, do whatever they need to do to bring it up to today's standards.
So if there's a student that
is going to be a senior or maybe isn't sure what he or she wants to do.
What's the first step?
Is it going to TC?
Is it calling you?
Do you have a shadow program internship?
I mean, how does that field work?
Yeah, absolutely.
What we try and do is bring in as many kids just to have them understand what it's like to work and the ability to...
Earn a great career.
You know, you work hard, but you're in a great career.
So if anybody wanted to reach out to me and they were interested, say they're in high school and they're interested, feel free to reach out to me.
It's just Shane shane.raymaker at bassettmechanical.com.
And I can get you pointed to the right direction.
Our HR team is awesome.
That's awesome, Shane, because I think...
A lot of these guys who work for you also have the cottages and the snowmobiles.
They got the toys.
That's a good paying job.
Absolutely.
You take care of pretty well.
And the fact that you're company, and I want to applaud them for allowing you to give time to the charity, because we need that.
Yeah, we're a fourth generation family-owned business.
Kim Bassett, she's our CEO and president right
now,
and she's awesome.
She loves when we're able to get out and do what we can in the community.
That's great.
That's amazing.
Global community.
Why did you pick new community?
I mean, there's so many opportunities, and I'm sure you got calls to, can you help us?
Can you help us?
There's so many of those.
I think we have, I was looking at the number of 501C3s in our community.
I mean, it's in the thousands.
I'm not kidding you.
It's a lot.
It's a lot.
It is a
lot.
Yeah, so it was, I want to say, probably 12, 13 years ago, I was working for Tweaker at Mechanical at the time.
And New Community Shelter was one that was near and dear to Tim and Julie
Howells.
Oh, they were
great.
And
they own Tweak
Air.
Yeah, and they own Tweak Air.
So I had the opportunity to be introduced to New Community Shelter at that time.
Started giving back, serving meals, and then just wanted to continue to be more active.
And then I want to say about five years ago, Terry had reached out and said, hey, we have a board opportunity.
You've been around here for a while.
It would be great to.
to have you on the board.
I'm like, ah, I'm not a business owner.
You know, I don't, and she's
like, no,
no, no, we need people like you
to do this.
She's got a good eye for making a board that helps the community shelter survive.
You know, we have lawyers on there, but we have just, it's just a real mix of people, you know, and across the street here, Schreiber got someone.
Yeah, Corridor and over there.
Right.
It's just nice to have that mix of people.
And we, we get along and that's not a board that just rubber stamps.
I mean, they really have a lot of input into what's going on there.
And I think that's cool.
So I think that I want to just before I let you go here Companies I want companies to do more of that.
We just need that look I kind of know a little bit what this community needs and we need the private sector to help the nonprofits yeah financially, but Of course, but talent-wise to get around that board and say look where we going with this.
What is our mission?
Are we really fulfilling our mission here?
Those are important questions that you guys ask that keeps everybody accountable
Yeah, it is and I wouldn't be afraid if you're somebody that's not a business owner No, and to to reach out to any of the nonprofits that we have and find something that's near and dear to your heart
And the community like I said the community is gonna come out and support you
right
but we need the business leadership to do it
right and you make a good point that if you have a passion for something Alzheimer's or Just the youth boys and girls colleges.
There's so many things we try to do everything here in Green Bay And I think I really applaud the city for that or the community for that, but if you call them and say look
Can I help?
As you have a board opening, there's a pretty good chance they're going to want to talk to
you.
Yeah, that's true.
We just had a text.
Shane could give the email address again with spelling.
Okay, so it's Shane dot Raymaker at BassettMechanical.com.
So that's S-H-A-N-E dot Raymaker R-A-Y-M-A-K-E-R at B-A-S-S-E-T-T-M-E-C-H-A-N-I-C-A-L.
.com.
All
right.
We'll also have it in our socials and our blogs and all that kind of stuff.
We'll put that in there.
Okay.
All
right.
Thanks for doing Shane.
This is awesome.
Helping to youth, helping the homeless.
You're doing it all.
Thank you for being here.
Thank
you, Jim.
See you at the golf party.
Yeah.
Thanks, Connie.
All
right.
We'll be right back with Connie the Mayor.
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All right, I was just gonna say that.
Welcome back to Connie Thelman.
I thought I'd get it right.
You
did.
I wasn't getting it right.
I got it now though.
He's confusing me with mine.
Which is
easy to
do.
People do it all the
time.
Anyway, it's a great day today.
Just again, the weather, we're going to be in the low 70s today and get out there and enjoy it.
We have an in-house sponsor guest here, the dispensary, a very unique business here in Green Bay, a specialized business, I guess, and throughout the country.
And welcome, Jacob.
Good morning, Green Bay, Appleton, and Oshkosh,
Milton.
You got stores in all three of those markets, don't you?
We've got stores in several other markets as well.
Jamesville, Sheboygan, shout out, Shebagdad.
We've also got... Shebagdad?
I just learned that recently.
I'd
never heard he
called that before.
It's a tickler.
And also the co-founder of the dispensary in-house today, Brandon Danforth.
Shout
out.
Good
morning, guys.
Morning,
Brandon.
I want to get to all you have coming up, but I just want to go back a couple...
weeks.
The NFL draft brought in 200,000 people.
I mean, a total of 600,000, I guess, came through the gates.
You down on Aida Street had an event because we talked about it on this show.
I think you had some players coming and some specials and everyone who comes in here, I'm trying to gauge them A, B, C. How'd you rate the draft, you guys?
The draft experience, I'd give it an A plus now as to the
how the businesses did locally.
That's independent scoring big time.
It was
tough.
I jumped in there for a bit, had a good time personally, and then I think for the business side of things, hearing a lot of stories locally, that it was tough.
All 200,000 folks walking straight to and back to their car.
Yeah, definitely a big learning experience for us, and it was a good time with our team.
Um, but the actual event itself was taught.
It was, it was tough.
I think we go a growth opportunity.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Growth
opportunity.
Um, it's just, we prepare, feel like it was, um, very overhyped.
It's a good way to put it.
I guess it's a fan driven affair.
So if you're not a fan, you're anything else that's going on outside of what you're a fan of.
Okay.
Yeah.
The reason I'm
asking is for two, two fold.
I want to really hear from you.
But the other thing, my friend is the Economic Development Director at Pittsburgh, which is where it's going.
And I just want to say, look, be aware of this, that inside the fenced area, inside the campus, very, very successful, outside the campus, we had some people struggle.
Great thing to tell them.
Seriously,
that's
just really good advice.
Yeah, I think that's exactly how it went for us.
And you could have all the good energy you want.
But when folks are on a mission, just like back home, where I'm from,
people go to the DC to see the monuments, not too much going on outside of the monuments.
Not too much at all going on.
And you were just a couple blocks away, but people wanted, where they were heading to Lambeau, they wanted to get to Lambeau.
100% right.
They were walking downhill.
100 miles an hour downhill, go see, and what an experience it was to see all the people on those aerial shots.
I
wasn't
aware that there was that many people here.
Me neither, no.
And it was kind of, ah.
glad that I'm not shoulder
to shoulder down there right now.
I get a
little claustrophobic at times, but thanks.
It can be.
Thankfully for the dispensary having some, um, some receptor line products, I was able to still be functional.
Yeah.
The actual product, the
products themselves, the mobile dispensary.
So we had a mobile dispensary out there.
It's the thing we take to the events and we provide the products and have the stuff available and education pieces and whatever.
And they did pretty well.
They did pretty well.
Absolutely.
You guys talk a little bit more about your product line and then we'll get to the events coming up.
Yeah.
the receptor line that we got rolling out, shout out, Shane Passamoni been working very, very hard back at HQ, trying to figure this out.
He's the production manager.
Um, we have a THC free line.
So all those law enforcement firefighters, uh, federal employees, if you will, or just folks that, that have to kind of withstand from THC, the active psych, uh, psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.
Well, the dispensary has now figured it out on a national scale and we'll be implementing into all of our stores.
this non-psychoactive line that's gonna help you with pain, sleep, and focus, and a lot more variance to come as well.
Is it as effective?
Yes, it's just without the psychoactivity.
Without you feeling that chink in the eye, without you feeling a little bit of, ooh.
Yeah, okay.
We're doing a
lot of in-house research right now, a lot of R&D.
Oh yeah.
This was a big meeting yesterday we had, and so a lot of people are trying this product by saying a lot of people, a lot of our staff,
a lot of
people we get to.
Beta test this product and they are really enjoying it too.
And, and that's without getting you.
A lot of some people don't like to get high or have the effects of THC, right?
So they're like, what options are for me?
And this is something that's available.
Police officers, firefighters, teachers, or whoever has to
do or if you take other medications that you, that your doctor might not recommend you have with getting high per se.
This non-psychoactive line is going to be groundbreaking for folks that have always had that stigma of, oh, I'll never be able to get the benefits of cannabis because I'll just get high from it.
That's an absolute farce.
You stop by the dispensary here in the next month or so.
you'll be able to check out that receptor line and get those benefits.
I'm glad you're talking about that because the education and awareness I think is really crucial.
I was knowing you guys were going to be on the show this morning.
I was doing a little just background research because I didn't know as much as I should.
So I'm glad to have you guys on and talking about what people need to know.
I'm not
sure I knew you did research and development.
I thought you were kind of a distributor.
I think that's great.
Well, that you're I'm glad that we can educate you right now.
We do everything ourselves in manufacturing.
We call that new product development, which is what you're doing.
Yeah.
Shane, like I said, Shane Passimone.
Shout out to Shane.
Shout out to Shane and our crew production.
Bryce
Miller
as
well.
Bryce Miller.
Yeah.
Those guys, they're the ones who send it out, take the feedback in and we do some, I don't know what to call it, anecdotal evidence or
whatever.
Right.
Well, you've done some market research on this
one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Can you talk about some of the
Some of the issues that people come to you with, looking for help that you can treat and give them some guidance and really help people out.
A lot of
cancer-like symptoms.
A lot of cancer-like symptoms.
It seems that the number one treatment for cancer in a sense of relieving those symptoms, especially those going through chemo.
Shout out to my grandfather back in Monroe, Michigan, Detroit Beachboat Club.
Papa Mike, I love you.
Thank you for being a warrior and for using cannabis and giving it a shot.
a lot of cancer patients.
And beyond that, a lot of anxiety.
A lot of young anxiety these days for some reason.
When I was 21, I thought life was peachy.
You know, we're rocking and rolling, feel good.
I wasn't quite in the industry yet, but man, there's so much anxiety
in our youth.
And
it's really cool to be able to tell them, hey, we can simmer that down without getting you overly blasted.
We don't wanna overdose anybody with the THC as much as...
It is our industry.
We're not at the counter.
We preach education first.
And so we're going to tend to whether you have a disability, internal, external, whether it be up top or down low, and then we're going to figure out, are you allowed to have sugar?
A couple of diabetics
come in there
occasionally.
We don't want to give them too much sugar.
So we'll wean away from a gummy and go towards a tincture, something with a lot less sugar.
But as far as ailments, I mean,
John is John has got a bad Achilles right now.
We've got rubs that that go a long way when it comes to Oh shout out Todd right there.
He's got an old
radio guy, right?
I've
got
my headphones and my mic Muff in in my bag and I've got this stuff for my knee and it it helps
Well, you know in me is we're just talking about better sleep month.
I bet you guys have something for sleep 100% talk about the anxiety people just can't sleep.
That's a better sleep month
It is.
It's supposed to be.
Well,
Brandon, it is.
This month is dedicated to a better sleep month.
And we're going to have some people on with these nebulizers.
What
are they?
CPAP
machines.
But you guys can help as well.
Talk about the sleep.
Because like Connie said, you go into a physician for medical or for mental, they're going to ask you about your sleep.
And I'll lay awake at night.
My brain's just spinning.
It won't stop.
I just told Jacobi in the lobby.
Like I hit a good level last night because I just got crashed and it was amazing.
It's been, been a minute that I just, and that's just what some of a lot of our products can do.
So
yeah.
And I like an
edible product for something like that because your body, it lasts for hours.
So now you're just.
You're in the zone and you're sleeping till this morning.
I woke up.
I was like, dang, I
feel pretty good.
Like no
interruption, no midnight P break.
Nothing.
That's just a beauty of cannabis.
I was out.
It was good.
And even just having a little bit of that psychoactive portion in the evening time, when you've wrapped up all taskings, we're not operating any more vehicles today.
You take, you take a prohibition nine 10 milligram coming at six 37 PM.
I go to bed at eight 39.
I don't know about you
guys.
I've been trying to dial that in.
No more going to bed after 10.
Really prioritizing sleep because it is sleep sleep month.
I'm doing the same thing Let's go
and try not to drink too much either before before going to bed And I hate having to get up to pee but something about the cannabis metabolizing over the several hours that I am asleep Keeping me down with just one gummy of a prohibition nine that that You're you basically created my brother.
Yeah, that's all right.
I'm sold on that What tells where we can get how we contact you and then I want to get back to the
pain management a little bit.
But first of all, you guys are here from the dispensary and we appreciate all you're doing for people.
How do we contact you get websites, phone numbers?
What's the easiest
way?
Website, the the d8 dispensary.com is our website.
We're on social media.
I think if you just at this point, if you just type in the dispensary, it should be pretty, pretty top.
Yeah,
so it should be pretty good in terms of searchability, just the dispensary.
and then
if you're
looking for a
phone number to call during the hours of 9 a.m.
To about 7 p.m.
You got any questions dial it up at 920-489-2047 one more again 920-489-2047 get a hold of a professional let he or she know what you are dealing with that you are comfortable and then
Come receive the guidance in person.
If not, you can save that gas and get it over the phone and you can order online Via the websites that Brandon just provided to you.
Well, but you can get delivery of our edible products only The prohibition prohibition nine dot
com.
Yeah statewide nationwide is a matter of fact
Yes, so you can still you can do delivery of edible products only
so we have that available prohibition nine dot com
very easy to type out
I want to give a shout out to your customer service.
I mean, you walk in there and it's like, okay, this is the first time I've been in a place like this.
But you guys are super friendly and you ask the right questions.
And because you come in sleep, anxiety, pain management, and I don't know how many products you carry, but.
You have a lot there.
Quite a bit.
I actually keep track of them all on a daily basis.
It's actually very fun, very stressful.
Shout out my boss, Cliff Wagner, absolute dog and combat veteran.
He's been blown up once and he's just served his country the right way.
And now he's serving, he's serving Americans on the civilian side.
And that's kind of what brought me out here to Green Bay.
Todd signaling two minutes.
So
I just want to shout out
everybody listening right now, get on down to the dispensary and just ask your questions.
And on a nationwide scale,
We're a wellness company.
THC has a stigma.
The D8 dispensary is a wellness company.
A lot of good things are brewing right now.
We're talking possible use of mushrooms into some products.
We're talking about possible use of caffeine or other ingredients that might help build more stimuli on top of what we're already delivering.
That's what I was gonna ask is, what do you find is the most common misconception that's keeping people from actually getting the help that they need?
the overwhelming first-time use.
Like everybody, imagining that the first time they consume cannabis, they're going to go on some Wizard of Oz trip.
I mean, can
we have that happen?
Some of us are hopeful.
Clicked by heels three times.
But that would be the biggest hindrance towards the new lifeblood of cannabis users.
Educate or those
that are gaining the benefits from cannabis.
It's been stigmatized the wrong way
for
years
We're gonna talk a little bit about that because I think there's some older people too that think they're getting into drugs, you know, and I just did they and it's not you guys are Really the stuff you have is great.
All right, we're gonna be right back.
We're here with the Brandon, right?
Yep.
All right with the dispensary stick around Connie in the mirror
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around Wisconsin in the Civic Media Statewide Contest.
Back now to Mino and the Mayor this morning with Jim Schmidt and Connie Feldman.
All right, welcome back everybody.
We are here with the guys from the dispensary.
You guys look like you're having a little bit of laughter in there and I feel like I'm left out in the studio.
Connie, what were you laughing about?
Well, we're
learning a lot.
Yeah, I'm sure you
are.
And we're buying a lot, so these guys are great.
Dispensary we just got a nice text in here love the dispensary and everything they provide the customers super knowledgeable I can I can vouch for that and always there to answer any questions.
I may have is that nice That's live.
That's a live comment.
Yeah sent that in somebody sent that in
But
we're just talking about how important that is because
we're talking about how the stigma thing and we're gonna just clarify that how
But you can help with things besides, I don't know, getting high.
That's not why you exist.
You exist to help people with anxiety.
It's therapeutic, yeah.
It's depression, sleep.
And that's cool stuff to get them in there.
What is the most common that people come to see about?
I think there's a large, large range.
I know that a whole entire customer base is 21 to...
65 plus I've served a 95 year old in French expert Virginia male and or whatever you know like all walks of life and so you hear and one of one of the most craziest stories that I remember is the first customers that I take I took and there's a girl that had just broken up with her
or something came in just loot, like just lose the name.
It was very, very upset.
Emotionally distraught.
Emotionally distraught and came to see us for a, just to chill out.
It was like, okay, that's a good read.
That's something to use.
Like if you're going through something like that, all the way to a Jacobi set.
So from
heartbreak to cancer, to trouble sleeping, to even, if you have bad blood pressure, my uncle Dennis back home can attest to this, that our Delta 10 line
And it's just a Delta 10, it's just a cannabinoid.
Like Delta nine is the main psychoactive cannabinoid for cannabis.
Delta 10 is a little bit lesser psychoactive.
However, it still has all the therapeutic properties.
And if you have high blood pressure, Delta 10 is one of your best friends.
Not saying it's a, it's a fix all be all, but when my, when my uncle consumes our Delta 10 edibles and does a reading, his readings are darn near
perfect.
You know, I played with a drummer in a band one time and he swore he always had to use cannabis oil on his wrists before any show we did.
A little bit
of carpal tunnel going
on for him.
Yeah, and it helped.
And I drummed growing
up
in
the southern
back.
Yeah, I'm drumming myself
back.
I looked at that, yeah, I noticed
that.
grew up playing drums in the Southern Baptist church and have since evolved now to rockin' out in Brandon's garage with him and our other production
assistants.
Bobby Benton covered.
We're
having a good time and it's all under the fellowship of cannabis and good times that have been originated here in Green Bay, as a matter of fact.
Unlike a lot of companies that are nationwide and providing to a vast variety of folks, we're dialed in on the communities that we serve.
That's the work that we do, you know what I mean in the communities by showing up to these events and whatnot and spreading the good word and breaking that stigma that's been held against cannabis now for thousands of years
Well, what let's talk a little bit about the outreach.
Have you do you go and give talks to?
Organizations would you do that?
I don't know about the retired men's club if that would be the place I'd start But I just think there's a lot of groups.
There's don't be sure bicycle club.
There's just
Greenbase got so many organizations and groups that I used to go to and it's you can do Maybe one a day, but you do for sure do one a week and I'm just thinking if the outreach would help your business your industry
100% yes, I mean we should do more we did one I'd we did one in Sheboygan the Yacht Club,
right?
It was a fun one on my our partner William.
He does police
stations.
He goes, we'll give.
Really?
Well, that's
cool.
I did one with him, sat in with him and the Shabuigan one.
And so we just go into a room and give some information.
Or even the
5k that happened the other day here in Green Bay.
We sponsored that and
we're
out there giving, giving good information nonetheless.
And of course you got the golf outing coming up.
That's something that's kind of outreach for you guys too, right?
Green gives back.
Talk about that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All of that.
All of that is.
So all of that is a under the same umbrella is, is where we're cannabis, where this industry, right?
But we're kind of silenced in what we can say.
We can't promote ourselves 100% on traditional platforms
due to local and federal.
restrictions
restrictions,
but we can't promote this golf party.
I want to hear more about it.
How do you sign up?
Yep.
So green gives back June 23rd.
It's, um, I think we got about one, two spots left available.
Uh, you, I think you guys are sponsoring one of the whole sponsors.
So that's amazing.
Thank you guys.
If you're a business owner out
there, you're more than welcome to submit a gift basket.
We can get your name recognized on some of our signage.
to contributing towards the players that are gonna be golfing their tail off that Monday.
Brown County Golf Course, June 23rd, 10 a.m.
You guys are giving back to the community as well.
Yes.
Proceeds are going to Old Glory Honor Flight.
Oh, nice.
Love that.
And
Missions of Honor, which is the new, the more non-GWAD veterans, sort of the newer veterans that are coming up now.
That's right.
We're
good.
And speaking of outreach, I'm glad you said that.
I will be attending Vets with Next.
Next.
Vets with Nets.
Next Friday, the America's largest veteran fishing event that happens right there at Detroit Beach Boat Club in Monroe, Michigan.
I will be attending that personally and doing the outreach there along with doing some fellowship and catching some massive walleyes with my grandfather.
Well, and you're saying veterans, you know, there's a lot of research showing that PTSD can be effectively treated with the help of some cannabis.
Would you say so?
100% the studies out there are confirming this left and right.
And even more so than cannabis.
Now they're talking about mushrooms.
They're talking about removing the psychoactive portion of LSD and doing that in UC Berkeley.
But what we focus on is that therapy.
We, you'd be surprised how many vets work for us as a veteran company.
The whole headquarters building is,
Basically,
one more time the website and then the golf audience is on the website as well.
Correct.
Okay, so the d8 dispensary dot com.
All
right.
Thanks for coming in.
Thanks for what you're doing for the community and you get great future in front of you.
I mean, thank you for your time.
Genuinely.
Yeah, you guys very knowledgeable.
All right.
Thanks for coming in.
That's the dispensary.
They got a lot going on.
Get to their website.
We're gonna be right back with kindie in
the
mirror.
at it.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Mino
and Jim Schmidt.
Oh, she almost got that right.
It's... It's Connie and the Mayor this
morning.
Connie Feldman, who as many of you know, was the anchor at Channel 5 News and is...
stepped away for a little while and kind of getting back into the industry.
And thank you for coming in today.
It's hard for me not to call you, Mr. Mayer.
For back in the day, that's how I knew you
at, you know, mail reporting day.
It's a lot of years.
Hey, I really enjoyed that.
And like I said before we came on this morning, I thought the media was...
pretty good to the public officials.
We had a good relationship
with
you and you were there and you would show up and like I said, that's the important thing.
You can't always divulge the information, which we understand, but as long as you're available, you don't want to hide.
You've got a lot of experience in the media.
I do.
And what's next for you?
You live in Green Bay, which is cool.
I do.
I'm still figuring out what I want to be when I grow up.
We all are.
But yeah, so I've been doing a little gig jobs here and there, figuring out what my next step is.
I've got a kid in college, so I think I'm gonna be working for a while yet.
That's a good reason to work.
The thing is, you just never know where I'm gonna pop up.
You might be, you know, you might see me on the news.
I could be the next shoe commercial.
You just,
you never know where Connie's gonna pop up next.
I remember seeing you on the old Rogan shoe commercials, right?
Your second pair have off.
That's right.
I think they still have that deal.
They do.
Okay, yeah.
You would go back into TV.
I mean, that's such a tough job.
Mornings, it's a little stressful than you.
It's a tough industry, it is.
I'm no older female.
However, you know, you're in it because you have a passion for news.
It's like radio.
You're not in it for the money.
But you're in it because you have a passion for the news.
And you believe journalism is important.
And I understood the industry has changed so much over the years.
But it's still journalism is still important.
So watch, dog.
What was one of the favorite stories that you did?
You know, was it a feature?
Was it a breaking news story?
What was it?
Oh, by far.
Well, you know, one of the highlights was I interviewed, um, John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Okay, and, um, William Shatner, but I had the opportunity to do.
I was just saying, we got mine on the mirror.
That would be an interesting morning show.
That's
about the same.
Yeah.
There was an Eshwabanat man named Jeff Pagels, who attempted to be the first paraplegic to summit Mount Rainier,
Washington,
ended up going out and doing documentary climbing with this guy.
It just became really good friends.
Terry Barr's husband was our videographer, Brian Messmer, did a phenomenal job award-winning documentary and then became part of his climb team.
and climbed in Norway, climbed Kilimanjaro, just, you know, and the whole message was the outdoors as a healing place and as about celebrating abilities, not disabilities.
This guy didn't have the use of his legs.
He was 50 years old when he started climbing mountains with his arms on skis and wheelbikes.
Most inspirational thing I've ever been a part of.
And that got the recognition deserved.
Oh, absolutely.
He was, yeah.
He was a world winner.
Right.
That was all right.
Saw something this morning on Mount Kilimanjaro there Talk about I'll learn more about it, but they have this you breathe better so you can do the trip in in like 25% of the time that it usually takes Because it's getting crowded up there.
Oh, can you believe that milk?
But then I said it's like thousands of people are going there and they're leaving a lot of junk
Are you thinking
of
Everest today
is the
anniversary?
Yeah when Sir Edmund Hillary and tens ignore gay his Sherpa summited Everest for the first time 1953 I think
But you're right people are leaving oxygen bottles.
I just it's awful
and you know one of the things and we're near you you bring down what you bring up Including you know anything you leave like
you
would put it in a blue bag
After
you use the restroom bring it down with yeah
more near.
Yes.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah, yeah
That was one of my favorite trips with Seattle.
And you're in the city, but you can see it.
And what, 20, 30, 40 minutes, you're out on the mountain.
And that's the most beautiful mountain.
Oh, I wish I could live there.
Man.
It's too
expensive.
Yeah, Seattle is.
I went to visit my daughter in Tanzania and, Dad, what do you want to do?
I went to, actually, she's in school and I kind of sat with some of the professors.
But she said, you want to go on a safari for five days or climb?
at eight days.
And you had to be in kind of good shape to do that.
No, I did the safari, but I loved it.
The safari was great, but I kind of wish, and I said I would have done that because,
but that's an eight day climb.
It is, and it's no joke.
I mean, that's 19,000 something feet at the summit.
And it's rough.
You know, people say, oh, it's a hike.
No, it's a climb.
Yeah, I didn't know you were that into that.
Well, maybe a few years ago.
But when you're going with a paraplegic guy, you've got a little excuse
about why you can't take the next
step.
And we also climbed with blind climbers in Norway.
You roped in with blind climbers.
The interesting thing is, they couldn't see on either side how steep it was or how dangerous it was.
They were more steady-footed than we were.
And here I'm thinking, I don't know if I want to be roped in with a blind climber, but it was them who were steadying us
because they
were used to feeling
disability.
Right, yeah.
We weren't seeing all the outside.
That's interesting.
It's just a
great message, you know, about getting out in the outdoors and celebrating abilities, not disabilities.
Yeah.
So we were talking about what Connie Thulman might be doing.
And I'm interested in that.
And I tell my students and I tell my kids that about money that
Just do what you want to do and you know, don't focus on money focus on what you're doing.
I say that to him.
I do.
I thought maybe I didn't do it.
Maybe I didn't practice it.
I say to them don't focus on money focus on what you're doing and the money will come
and follow your passion
and I believe that work a day in your life, right?
But you can start off in customer service.
It's like, but you're really good at it and you get promoted promoted promoted and all of a sudden it's like, wow, I got money.
So anyway, I Todd's give me a hard time because I
He likes money.
Well,
that's because Todd and I, you know, had a passion for media and, uh,
yes.
Yeah.
But there are more lucrative careers.
But I, here's the thing.
I think at some point, uh, you'll get to a point in your life where it's like, did I do what I wanted to really do, right?
And to have the opportunity for me right now, like I could have moved and
I did
move on out of this industry for a little while and I came back and whatever, but.
I get to tell the story of our communities from Oshkosh all the way to Green Bay.
And just this morning with the guests we have, plenty of stories to be told.
You don't have to be a paraplegic climbing a mountain.
You can just be the person across the street who makes sure that there are people being fed or that kids are taken care of, crosswalk people.
And I
did the same thing.
I left the industry for a while, was in a corporate sector, making a great
living.
But my passion,
was for storytelling.
And to be able to tell stories like that, it's a privilege.
And in Northeast Wisconsin, there are so many fantastic stories to
tell.
Yes.
And I applaud Civic Media for starting this.
Yes.
Because, you know, people would, oh, I'm here, the city's going to hell.
And I'm like, where do you get your news?
Oh, man.
Because this stuff's not covered.
Yeah.
We don't talk about the golf following.
We don't talk about the homeless shelter.
We don't.
All the stuff we do for the youth is baseball that's kicking off.
And people, if you don't know what you don't know, and it's our job, not our job, it's our responsibility to inform people.
And if they take advantage of it, fine, but they need to hear the good news.
Oh, absolutely.
Well, sure, there's not so good news too once in a while, but there's just so many great things.
And we go to, we love Oshkosh.
We go down there, we do a show there once a month, maybe twice a month.
And I mean, that is just.
you know, and I'm a guy that lives here.
I didn't know how great that community was until I really got into this company and leaned into it a little bit more, you know?
Appleton, Appleton is kind of close to us.
I mean, I know a lot of what Appleton, Northern Mayor, and we just planted trees there a couple of weeks ago.
And that's just a very cool community.
There's a lot of good things happening in Appleton and here in Green Bay, of course.
And one of my favorite segments that they did implement while I was there at Channel 5 was positively Wisconsin.
Yes.
You know what?
Make sure.
that to highlight a positive, you know, Wisconsin story and every newscast.
And it's really a focus.
I think they got, I'm glad they did it.
a little pressure too because it's like you guys this is you know if it if it leads it bleeds or whatever you guys say that leads it leads but you
know that's a harsh reality what gets ratings often is what dictates the news cover
but it's nice that you put that second yes
absolutely and people love it
well as
they should yeah there's so many I just I kept pitching this um I don't know if you remember off the beaten path
yep
with Jack Jones you know go out send me to any community in northeast Wisconsin and I'll find a story
find a story and
I'll find a fascinating person or place or something it's they're all over
and that's
But it's not as easy as you just made it seem, either.
You can go in and find any story, but is it really intriguing?
That's tough to do.
I've been trying for a while to get Connie to join our staff.
I would love to have her work with us.
She's the right
kind of
person.
She's got a talent.
I would love to be here.
I'd love to be here.
And you... Listen up,
people at corporate.
I was gonna say, let's start a petition.
We want Connie.
Well, just what you said, that's civic media.
Yeah.
They care.
They're locally driven and they want to cover that.
And I think there's some other programs, not this one that takes things at the higher level and maybe you'll get into more political debates on a higher level.
But I mean, our job, which
The reason I'm here, too, is when they first called, it's like, well, we want someone who really knows the community.
I'm like, I could be your guy.
Well, that's
what was so neat to me when I started learning about civic media was the focus on local.
Right.
Because as we were talking, the industry, the broadcast industry, media is swinging.
And there is some more national influence going on.
People have to make a living and stations have to survive.
But that local element is crucial.
It's so important.
And you're right that.
even the general managers at the local stations and we know that I think they wish they could do a little bit more local but they're a little bit dictated because they they're they're owned I mean those are independent
and they have to survive
you
know that you know they need revenue
yeah so I'm glad we're doing this and there's so many activities and we'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow but
just this weekend that I'm participating in, but there's a lot of other things that I won't be, but this whole meat fest that's going on at the Rush Center, I'm a judge for the, it's a chef contest.
I'm judging the youth, like nine to 13 year olds are going to be cooking.
Just cool stuff like that.
And you can go to that.
They got a beer garden.
They've got... As for me.
They got a ton of food there.
I mean, that's going to be a fun event.
And of course, I mentioned breakfast on the farm already and a couple other things that are going on.
Obviously, it's baseball.
And you've got to take advantage of that stuff.
Or you can get depressed just watching the national news.
Yeah.
No, to me, if you can't cook it over a campfire, you don't need to bother eating
it.
I tried to do a story on camping, but I just...
Not a camper, huh?
No.
Unless it's
at a luxury hotel and
camping is a
hotel where he doesn't get a bathrobe.
Yeah, that's a monogram.
I like
that.
I like your bathrobes.
So, antigo.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I was there last weekend.
I even saw some friends of mine in Elko and then stayed in.
That's where
our
place is, Elko.
Really?
Yeah.
I was up there last weekend.
Yeah.
And it was
like...
That is
crazy that you guys were
in the same city and you didn't
know.
I was in
Elko last weekend.
And it's a little, it's an unincorporated town.
You got to
go through it to get up to Ryan Lander and yeah, that's where for 60 years we've had that
place.
I always like to look for the population signs and I don't know.
There isn't one in there.
I know.
I could have counted on people.
Unincorporated.
Yeah.
But anyway, I went to stay in Anago at the holiday, which is, you know, it's a good holiday.
Actually, it is a really good holiday.
I took my dog to a dog park.
Do you have a dog?
I do.
All right.
Love them, right?
Oh.
And Milton was, he was very good, good in the room, good at everything.
Took him to the dog park in Anago.
Get this, you guys.
The dog park, 70 acres, seven zero.
That could be a horse park.
It was huge.
Isn't that nice?
And it was free.
Wow, how many dogs were there just three of us three
Wow was kind of early in the morning, too.
Um, but
it Those are just cool things that I don't know you talked about you're talking earlier that there's a story in every community.
Yeah Travel quite a bit with my kids, you know, I was mayor and they were like, oh, this is a cool city and Then they're like after we did that for a few years like dad, what what's the best city and I'm like honey
Every city is, just ask the mayor.
Every city, it's the biggest, longest, oldest, but everybody's got something to brag
about.
Maybe that's what I should do next.
Connie Vermeer.
He was going to ask you at some point if politics
was
in your future.
I was going to take that up in the last half hour.
So all right, yeah, we still have a lot to do.
Spencer's stopping in.
And he's the painter we talked about earlier this morning.
And I think the lady who bought the painting may be here.
I know she was trying to get here to just meet him.
And because he's just so impressive in all the work he does.
But he'll be back.
We're going to be right back.
Connie Vermeer.
Connie Fulman is in the house.
This has been great with you co-anchoring.
It's just been a joy.
It's just
fun talking to you.
This is your thing.
I
love it.
I love it.
I belong here, Todd.
Do you hear that?
I know.
I know.
HR, corporate.
Right.
I just, when I, Todd said, you know, we have a couple of people coming in because John's out for a week and Daryl Burnett was
He was with Fox 11 and he did some other things.
He now runs the automobile gallery.
He's coming.
Oh, sure.
Now I know who you're talking about.
Yeah.
Good
guy.
There haven't been many people who have been before me at Fox 11, but John Minow's one, Darryl Burnett's another.
Yeah.
Would you dare with
Minow at one point?
At one point, yeah.
At one point.
So
I asked you earlier and you kind of shrugged off the question.
But do
you
have a good Minow story that you can share?
That I can share on air.
Yeah.
I
mean, I
know it's tough.
You know, I don't know.
Okay.
John was famous.
John has, uh, he can be colorful.
Yep.
He's got a bit of a temper.
Yep.
What?
Very good at what he does.
I'll say that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he, he loves his work.
And there's another guy that, um, can find a story
anywhere.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
But there's another guy could have done other things, but he loves radio.
He loves
media.
Yeah.
He
just does.
I mean, um, and that's good.
I'm glad he's happy and.
That's I think we all strive to be content and he's I don't know what he's gonna do either You know, he's could retire, but I think he's gonna stick around for a while.
I hope he does
Yeah, he's done some great things for the community and he's just he's well-known.
He's like I said, he's great at what he does.
I think we all have a minor story I've
got several But the caveat is can you tell it on it?
That's
why Todd was really good about prophecy that can you
tell
me?
Yeah, I I have to tell you so I mean I'm a news geek
Okay, so when I say that, like when I'm growing up, the two things I wanted to do most host a game show or be, I wanted to be a weatherman or a news person.
Okay, but I'm just, I'm not smart enough.
I don't want to do the work.
Okay, just
don't.
But I, so I've been looking for your news open with Michael Chen.
Oh my gosh.
And I've had it before, and I've got some of that kind of stuff saved.
I've got old
Mino stuff and I've got old, but I can't find it this morning.
So if I can get it before nine o'clock, we'll play it.
That would be great.
And we just need to reach out to him.
I mean, it's been
years since
I talked to Michael and I know he's.
He's very much looking forward to going to San Diego and it must have worked because he's still in media, still living there.
Yeah, he's still there.
We call him our little Michael Chen because he was, you know, he's gone so far, but we've gone out to visit him out there and he's just, he's doing great.
And why not San Diego, right?
And then
the laziest
thermometer, right?
It's not
their thing.
It's just 72 centimeters.
I have that open somewhere.
I'm going to all look forward to it.
Okay.
Okay.
It's a funny, it's a funny image of me, but
let me ask you this, filming those.
And I did cameras at Channel 5 way back in the day, filming those.
I mean, what would your producer tell you or the person recording it?
Like you have to act a little bit when you're doing your news
intro.
You do,
you gotta put
the smile on, you know?
Yeah, they'll say, okay, sit this way, okay, put your arm here, look this way, but make sure you act completely natural.
Which y'all twisted up.
You were the...
face of Rogan's shoes.
Like
Mary Smith's might have been with shop go,
right?
A little bit.
Can I ask you, did you get free shoes for the family, kids, friends?
Never.
No?
No.
Really?
I got one pair, though.
I did.
I got a pair of Chuck Taylor's.
Oh, that's good.
And no, but I said, I prefer the cash.
Thanks.
But I was a big...
I'm a huge shoe person, so I would have loved to have get the shoes.
And people used to ask me that all the time.
Yeah, I bet.
If you promote a product, they want you to use the
product,
so they'll send it to you.
Had I asked, I'm sure they probably would have said go ahead, but no.
And they paid me very well.
I was happy to do it.
Now, Rogan's shoes, I know they're not where they were.
Are they still here?
Yeah, they have different locations.
But it's funny because I had been on the news for about 10 years prior to doing the Rogan shoe commercials.
When I did those commercials, everybody recognized me.
Because when they run, they would run back to back all over the place.
So great recognition.
Well, you hit that at a pretty good time, too.
I mean, for running shoes, that was extremely popular
back
then.
My neighbor is...
the brand of the shoe.
It's not Nike.
And he said, hey, look, I used to run, like to run a little once in a while.
But anyway, he said, look, I'll get you free shoes, man.
And I said, are you kidding me?
That's awesome.
They're expensive shoes.
And he goes, the only caveat, they have to be nine and a half, because that's all they give me, which- Do that fit?
I had to get like that stuff.
I put like paper in there.
No, I didn't get them.
I said, I don't want those
shoes.
He's admitting to elevator shoes, I think.
Oh, I'm talking about
the length of the shoes.
I didn't buy them.
I
didn't get
them, I should say, I had to buy them.
But yeah, you stuck with that for a long time.
Well, I did.
How long were you there?
I did.
Rogan Six.
Oh, gosh.
I think I started in 2010.
And I didn't stop until I went back into TV, obviously, because you can't.
As a news anchor, you can't have a commercial affiliation.
So
about 10 years.
And the funny thing about that is they always used to give me different kids to play my children.
So I looked like a mom who had just a whole bunch of different babies.
I'm kind of wondering what you were doing in your
off time.
Yeah.
All right.
So it's going to be interesting to, I hope you end up here.
I mean, it's going to be your decision where you end up, but that's interesting.
You want to get back into media because some people maybe don't, you know, because it's stressful.
It's
working.
You're
up early.
And like I said, you know, I did leave for a time, you know, you take, you take a taste.
They call it growing up and getting real job.
when you leave media for PR, communications.
But then there are some of us who it's just, you know, when you talk about really having a passion for what you do in believing and what you do telling people stories, you're gonna go back to it.
It's not about the paycheck.
Tell me about the community.
I mean, there's media everywhere.
You staying here?
Have you looked, sent resumes all to Kansas City or Minneapolis?
I know you
have a daughter that's wishy.
Yeah, she's at St.
Olaf near the cities.
So I've expanded and I would, I would go around the state, but you know, Northeast Wisconsin is my home.
I'm originally from Shawnee.
I just, we have a cabin in Elko, north of Vanigo.
I lived in California for a time and I remember going up to Big Bear paying $200 a night for a little hut.
And I said, you have no idea what we have in Northeast Wisconsin.
It just completely.
And
I have said that to people that I think people need to travel to learn, but to really appreciate what you have.
What you have in your
own backyard.
I gotta tell ya, I found the audio.
Cool, alright.
So we'll play that when we get back.
Alright, we're gonna be right
back.
Connie Thulman in the mirror.
We'll be right
back.
More local, more often.
This is Fox 11 News at Nine with Connie Feldman, Michael Jett, Kevin Uselman from Weather Lab HD, and Drew Smith from the Fox 11 Sports Center.
This is Fox 11 News at Nine.
Wow.
Dust that one off.
Now, I want to reveal this picture online because we do have Connie at the anchor desk.
With
Michael, right?
The anchor helmet, yep.
Wow.
Spencer, do you remember that?
When is that, Connie?
This would have been early 2000s.
I was watching Fox 11 as a kid, so I remember.
And she was obviously the news anchor at nine,
which is
pretty cool.
You know, the funny thing about that picture, I have really curly hair.
Yeah.
According to consultants.
the public doesn't trust women with curly hair, so you'll have to see.
They make you guys straighten it, don't they?
Really?
Well,
it reflects
better off the
lights and makes a more polished and professional appearance.
Jim doesn't understand what it's like to have a consultant tell you that you don't look the part or, you know, sound the part or whatever.
But he's
got you in my nose.
He was free to wear his pink shirt this morning.
Believe me, I had, yes.
If I had any power, that wouldn't happen.
I can tell you
that right now.
I got a letter from a lady.
I actually read it at my state of the city, which is when you tell people what you've done and what you're going to do for the city.
But I had to read this.
I got just a ton of mail.
she wrote this thing about trimming my eyebrows.
And it was a whole letter that she took the time to sit that handwritten,
was it type, was it an email?
And you know, Mr. Mayor, and she was really respectful, but your eyebrows, I don't know who cuts your hair.
And my wife cuts my hair, so she didn't care for the letter, but anyway, yes, people, I didn't have consultants, Todd, but I did have plenty of free advice.
Okay.
Hey, we're in-house here.
We got Spencer Nolan, young, who has been a guest on our show before and
You know, we talk about Green Bay, Greater Green Bay, Appleton Oshkosh, all the talent here.
And this is like...
one of the best talented people I've met.
And I
just, it's incredible what you are doing.
And I want to thank you again.
You painted this portrait behind me and we took it to an auction and auctioned it off and the lady was so happy she got it and she paid a lot of money for it.
And
she just called.
I told her you're going to be in here because she wanted to meet you, but we'll just have to do that another time.
Yeah, I can always come back.
Right.
So how are you doing?
You paint the fences.
Tell us a little bit of what's going on in Spencer's life right
now.
Yeah, good.
Just got done painting the Packers fences.
for the NFL draft, and that was chaos, but good chaos at the end of the day, so.
A
few people saw your artwork there.
Oh, for sure.
Well, it was different compared to other years.
I paint the fence one day, and then you have cars driving by, honking.
This time with all the roads being closed.
Sure.
Everyone's walking by, giving compliments left and right.
Oh, wow, fun.
It was a different experience.
It was one that I'll cherish forever.
So it was all fans from different walks of life, Tampa.
Tampa Bay to Seattle, you know, so.
Did you get any calls afterward from out of town saying, hey, can you do some stuff for us?
Quite a bit.
Yeah, I thought so.
Yeah, I'm staying pretty busy.
I just finished up a mural last night and I have a lot of commissions right now for like football cleats across like the NFL, college football.
So yeah, work's really picking up.
Well, and that fence was one of the neat things to see about the draft.
People come from LA or New York and they're like, you know, this.
It's in a neighborhood.
Yeah,
you have a fence, you know, and they were just blown away and and that's just such a symbolic
It is it's kind of a crazy tradition to where you know You can have a packer fan from New York and then they'll say I drove all the way from New York just to see this fence You know, so it's such an ingrained part of the community and tradition
even more than it was, like the bikes are a big thing with us, right?
Those little
kids riding those bikes and actually the players riding them and the kid running alongside.
And that fence thing is getting right up there with it.
Now, they're not gonna have fences because so many of these stadiums, you look at Texas, they're just...
They built in a field, you
know, an
industrial park, I should say.
But anyway, I just think that's cool that we had that opportunity and took advantage
of it.
That's what makes Green Bay so special.
It's like you have your own neighborhood and community.
And that was this year's theme for the underfilled draft.
It was community.
It's like there's no place like this in the world of any sports in general.
So did you get over to the draft?
I did.
So the first two days, I worked on the fence for a bit and then kind of walked over.
Yeah.
Like I said, chaos over there.
So I try to enjoy it as much as I can.
went back home and
you were talking about the cleats and those some I was working at the gallery where some of those cleats were on showcase.
Tell us a little bit about that work.
It's really fascinating.
Yeah.
So I play college ball and a lot of my buddies just asked me if I could customize their cleats, you know, and they didn't really have an idea.
Let's just say my first pair I ever did, they didn't hold up for 10 minutes.
So it was a learning experience, but you know, you fast forward and I've had opportunities there and there with
working with NFL players.
And now this past season, it just kind of blew up.
I went to a Jane Reed youth football camp and he saw my work and
cleats for a cause.
Yep.
Oh, for sure.
Yeah.
So like it was every Sunday, just doing like basic like colorway transition.
So like green, yellow cleats and then come my cause, my cleats.
It was like, I did 17 pair in one week.
Wow.
And then the equipment manager just told me, hey, there's like 10 more guys that want clean stun.
Do you think you could have done?
I was like, well, another week, it's less than 17.
So we got a
real kick out of seeing those, seeing them up close.
It was so surreal.
Cause like I went to the game, uh, that Thanksgiving game, that's one of been the my cause, my cleats game.
And I got to bring my grandma, my mom, my wife, just the whole family.
And just to see the interviews on the Chandra vision and with the Packard players holding the cleats.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah, it'll be something I cherish forever.
Yeah, and then my wife was just like, he
did
the cleats in the booth.
So I just like, he's
very proud
as she should.
Yeah, for
sure.
Awesome.
That is a niche that could keep you very busy, but talk about murals, fences, artwork like you just did for us and thank you again for that.
Yeah, no
problem.
What do you like doing something better or an area that you're going to focus on?
You seem like you're doing a lot
right now.
just going to keep doing what I'm doing.
I enjoy the, like I said, I'm going to keep bringing up the word chaos.
It's just like a little bit of everything with my line of work.
That's what I enjoy the most.
That's
what makes
you an artist.
Exactly.
So I can be customizing maybe one to five pairs of cleats or shoes in one day and then the next day I'm working on a mural.
It's just kind of all over the place.
I just, I need a variety in my work schedule.
So it's good.
You know that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Somebody made a lot of money on a book called thriving in chaos.
Yeah.
I mean,
that's some people like that environment.
Yeah.
So
others like it's so structured, you know, living day type compartments, you know, but
that's not you.
Yeah.
I'm kind of all over the place.
So like I said, I was up late last night, finishing up a mural and then up this morning, stop at the show, talk to you guys.
Thank you for coming in.
You're going to get your famous.
I
think, maybe you don't think, famous people never think they are.
I try and be as humble as possible in those situations.
But
you know, the more the word gets out and these athletes all talk to each other.
And
you got, we're
going to get to the point where like if they weren't painted by Spencer, they're, what?
You guys, they break it up.
It's neither my cleats.
Wow.
And they were painted by
Spencer at all.
It's crazy cause like the, doing all the cleats for the Packer players, I just thought, you know, I'm a Packer fan.
I'm just going to be doing cleats for the guys from, you know, my squad that I root for every Sunday.
But now it's been, you know, I've been working with the Tampa Bay Rays and the MLB, Atlanta Falcons.
a lot of other professional sports teams outside of just the Packers and the NFL that I'm working on now.
So it's, it's kind of crazy that just a small kid from Shack and
is there a, is there a place people can go to see your work on those cleats?
If they, if they're not aware yet of what they're talking, we're talking about, but
it's really cool stuff to see.
So like my website for every youngdesigns.com, that's a good place to see like all my gallery with work.
Um, I do have a couple of events coming up.
So.
another Jaden Reed youth football camp, June 13th at the Green Bay Southwest.
I'll be like live painting a custom pair of cleats.
And then the next event will be.
June 27th at the Josh Jacobs youth football camp and they'll be at title town.
So when I'm done painting them, I get, I donate them and then they usually like give it to a lucky camp participant.
So that's kind of my part to give back, you know, so
imagine a kid with
those.
I mean, that's the pros, you know, that's, that's awesome.
You're doing that.
Do it.
Are you?
work alone or do you have some help?
Every time I see you, you're working alone.
Yeah, just me.
Well, I should say my better half, my wife.
Well, yeah, she was with me last night, finishing up the mural as well.
So I mean, I always say I would never be in this situation without like my family and my main support, my wife and, you know, I
love that credit where credit is
due.
Right.
Exactly.
Spencer, we were talking earlier about careers.
We had a guy in here that
really works in the plumbing HVAC, and then of course Connie has been in the media and kind of talking about passion versus profit.
If a kid is talented, well not as talented, if a kid has talented art, that's a little tough career though, right?
I mean, you're making a living, but does everybody?
Yeah, so I always say it's all about the mindset.
So my mentality going into this line of work was,
never be happy with where you're at in life.
Just keep going.
And that's a challenging thing to tell someone.
It's like, you know, the struggle's real at the end of the day.
And
part
of being what you want in life or having what you want in life is to endure that struggle in order to get what you want at the end of the day.
So for me, there were times where...
Man, I don't know if I keep doing this, but then, you know, I have my wife telling me, no, you're doing great.
You're doing great.
And, you know, if you would have seen where we were 10 years ago, you know, living in a small 400 square foot apartment till like now I live out in my hometown on two and a quarter acre on the river.
Like I'm living my dream.
So.
Well, and I know that as being a musician, most people that I know who are fellow musicians, you know, you usually work a day job when you're getting started to support your art.
to
support your music into a side hustle.
Yeah, enable you to, you know, to play gigs at night and things like that until you get to the point where you can support yourself as an
artist.
And I'd say like between everything I do with the cleats and murals, I have a lot of side hustles, you know, so they kind of end up and they just, you know, they pay the bills and everything they need to do.
So,
you know, I, I'm glad you're where you are, but when you weren't where you are, and I told people this all the time,
it's kind of okay to not have money, because then when you get it, you really appreciate it.
You know what I mean?
I mean, really, it's... Well, John will tell you, like, you know, I've done murals for him at the Veterans Village and everything, and he'll tell you, like, every time I see Spencer, he's driving a beat-up van, you know?
If it gets me to point A to point B, that's all that matters.
So money's never been, like, my top priority in life.
It's always been trying to create the...
Best piece of work possible and they have the community enjoy it.
So at the
end of the day, that's what's gonna matter You know impact you may
and that and that's the thing to have a passion to have a love for it I think that's where people become successful in the field and
we're talking about that and that's really important
because you do
not want to be 60 drinking your beer shoulda coulda woulda you know, I mean
or 70, 60 you can still, Colonel Sanders started when he was about 64,
65.
He made a
jazillion dollars, just going place to place.
They, no, no, no, no, no.
If I think guy's like, hey, I like this chicken.
And
he did, but what I'm saying is that if not every job you start on third base, you know, it just, it just takes time.
It's time to prove yourself and make a little bit of money if people recognize that you've done that.
So I
think that's
awesome.
Thank
you.
Do
you have an affiliation with any groups, organizations, like any schools to go talk to or your St.
Norbert grad, right?
Yeah, I am.
The thing is I'm very shy when it comes to public speaking.
So that's one thing I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone and like talk to people more about that.
Yeah, me too.
But I mean like what I would like to do is
do kind of like lessons or classes with teaching art, because I get a lot of inquiries about it.
And I was just like, you know, like it would be cool to give back.
Like I remember like the reason why I got into the art is my grandpa was a rustic painter.
And I always like looked up to him and he would spend the time and sit down with me and like we would be at the kitchen counter just drawing on paper, crumbling it up, throwing it.
We were trying to outdo each other all the time.
So I.
I feel like I would love to give back in some way, shape, or form, like my grandpa did for me.
You
could do videos.
You could be like the next Bob Ross.
You could do
videos where we're like,
yeah.
There's a little more.
Happy little trees.
Happy clouds.
For all my hair,
happy curly hair.
I'll be going in that situation.
You do have the hair you could totally pull off.
For sure.
Spencer, you've got a great attitude.
You'd be a great teacher.
Kids
like to hear that.
The way you get rid of the nerves is, believe me, you know more than they do.
If
you walk in with that attitude, it's like, OK, I can do this.
I mean, that's kind of what they tell you.
Practice makes perfect.
So I can force it myself in that situation.
All
right.
Can you stick around, Spencer?
Yeah,
for sure.
All right, great.
All
right, we're going to be right back with Connie Feldman and the mayor.
Here, this has been great.
This has been great.
Connie Thelman and Spencer Nolan's in the house.
Connie and the
mayor.
We got a few minutes to talk a little bit, Spencer.
You've got talent and you want to share that talent.
And we love what you do because you paint things for the veterans, you paint things for the community shelter where you can auction off and make some money.
Giving back is so important.
I interviewed Bill Jartz yesterday.
What a
great guy.
Amazing.
I remember him like watching him when I was a little kid on TV.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He is just a genuinely good guy.
And we talked about giving back and I said, look, politics, man, everybody knows you.
There's other things he can do, you know, and teaching is always an option, right?
We had a great technical school here at the NWTC.
I mean, it's just one of the fastest growing technical schools in the United States.
Of course, GB, St.
Norbert, but, and then just seminars.
I think people
have a real desire to learn.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah, definitely.
I think that's one of those things where even for me in the situation I'm in, I'm always constantly trying to learn and get better.
So like for me, like I follow so many other artists and I'll be like, man, how did they do that?
You know, and then you just like look at their work and you absorb it like you're reading a book or something.
So it's kind of like free lectures online.
That's how I look at it.
Right.
You know, education is something I wonder if you don't know the value of it.
until you've been out of college for a while and you look back, and you're like, oh, when I go visit my daughter on campus, I'm like, oh, I want to go back to college so bad, you know?
That passion for
learning.
I wish I would have applied myself.
I remember going there saying, okay, here's the front door.
What is the quickest way to the back door?
He
was doing some dispensary research.
I did.
And then I was studying.
Well,
no,
no, but I had my, you know, get those counselors that kind of tell you they think they know more than you.
And he's like, you need to pursue go on to school.
I'm like, that is not on the table.
Even go on to graduate school or something.
I said, that is not on the table.
I need to get out of here.
So
anyway,
but you go back now and.
I sat in with my daughter a couple of times, we were college students, and that is an opportunity.
You kind of chill a little bit.
Pressure's not there.
And if you really want to learn, what a great environment.
Yeah, for sure.
I always knew what I wanted to do.
You can look at the third grade assignments, what do you want to be when you grow up?
An artist.
That's always what they
said.
So when I went to school, I went to graphic design, and then just kind of.
Blossom and turn I worked corporate for a while and then I was like, nah, the same for me.
Yeah, we were
just talking
about that.
I did
the same
thing.
Tell me
about, um, when did you know?
I mean, you said you were, you and your grandpa used to draw pictures.
Yeah.
And then from, uh, did he say, look, Spencer, you've got some talent or did you realize it?
Did a teacher come
up and say,
Spencer, this is you, you got something special.
Actually, it's funny because like my wife's a teacher up at, um, the school for my hometown school.
and the art teacher just retired yesterday and she was like one of my inspirations why I loved art so much and my wife was there when she gave a retirement speech and she even said that like my name was mentioned in there so
like for
her to even say that like that meant the world to me so it's like the impact that like teachers can make on you at a young age can shape
what you're gonna do eventually down the line.
I think we
all have that.
That one I shot out to educators because
it was the
same for me and it was an English writing teacher.
And parents will tell their kids you got talent but the kids probably think well that's your job.
But
when
they hear it from an outside source a teacher or somebody who's really in that industry it's like yeah they come home and oh dad you know someone said I can do this.
I've been
telling you that
for three
years but you know
now they believe it.
I just think that's like you you
could
influence with a kid someday.
I mean, if Spencer Nolan said,
I got some talent.
And that's why too, like I feel like that's another way of me giving back.
Like it's one thing to paint and, you know, raise money for something.
But like if I can like change someone's life at a young age and, you know, help them at least guide them in the right direction, like.
that's even just as rewarding as.
Dude, you're inspirational, whether
you're a kid or not.
I mean, I'm sitting here, right, going, I wish I was doing something like that.
And not just the artistic part of it, but like, how can I give back to the community more than I already am?
In a lifelong
impact.
Right, yep.
And that side of the brain, I mean, you're an artist, musicians.
Those are great qualities to have because you can apply that.
We talk about this often now.
A lot of these musicians,
They run businesses, but I don't know that they could be as successful running the business if they didn't have that music with them.
You
know what
I mean?
Discipline in terms of the creativity and you have that.
Yeah, it's gonna be fun to watch you.
You're a young guy, aren't you?
How about you, 30?
34, I think so.
Well, I'm always gonna be young.
That's my last
name, you know.
Oh, that's funny.
All right.
No, that's gonna be cool.
Do you have any?
thing that you'd like to do in the community, like would you like to do portraits like you did these ones behind us here?
Is there somebody you're chasing?
Not chasing, you don't chase people.
There's somebody
you'd like to do.
No, I mean, honestly, whatever opportunities given to me, like that's, I'm thankful for every opportunity that I had at the other day, so I can't ask for anything more.
Go
ahead.
Yeah, just as long as they, you know, reach out to me, that's all I can ask for.
You
ever thought about doing portraits of former mayors of Green
Bay?
I think that's
where he was going to be honest with
me.
No, I wasn't.
I had a guy, Spencer, I could be honest with you.
I hope he's not listening.
He was old when he came to see me, but he gave me a picture of myself and I looked at him like, what the hell is this?
The one on my wall, I got another one at my house that's, it looks like, but anyway, may he through his eyes, you know?
That's all that matters.
I was like a dad.
This is good.
Was it the same woman that called about your eyebrows?
Well,
Spencer, just, you know, thanks for what you're doing for this community.
I mean, this community works because of the special people.
I mean, that's what makes it work.
We had some pretty good politicians here, but.
It's the people, it's the non-profits that really make Green Bay what it is, and you're part of that.
I'm just glad I can give back.
Thank you for having me, I appreciate
it.
All
right,
Spencer
Nolan is in the house, and Connie Feldman, man, I really enjoyed this.
Thank you, I did too, Mr. Mayor, and
I still have to call
you
that.
All right, Todd, thank you.
We'll see everybody tomorrow.
This is Connie Feldman in the mayor.
