
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.
Good morning, everybody.
Mino and the Mayor.
You know, Johnny's out because he's a little minor surgery.
I have been hitting.
I've got the All-Star team in with him being gone.
I got to tell you this.
Bill Jartz was in, now he was in as a guest.
Yesterday had Connie Feldman, who was a big time anchor in the media business.
Today, save the best for last.
Dill Burnett.
You are a big media guy, too.
And thank you for coming in and helping us out today.
My pleasure.
We've
known each other for years, but the first time we sat together behind the mic.
That's true.
And this is going to be a fun day.
Just so you know, Daryl, you can't officially be a fill-in guest host unless you do like the boys do, which is spill your drink all over the desk, at least once during the show.
Oh,
he's drinking water, so it won't be as bad.
That challenge has been accepted.
Honest to goodness.
It was earlier this week.
They both spilled that morning.
And then before John left, he spilled more coffee and then walked out the door.
He didn't clean up.
Yeah, at least
I tried to do that.
Yeah, welcome.
It's going to be nice to have you here.
We got a great morning coming up, but we always like to kick off with the weather.
Did you guys see, did you look at the weather for like the next?
I saw when I hear a nine in the forecast, like 90.
But they're all eights.
There's eight or nine.
I mean, the 70s are going to be gone.
This is...
like awesome.
And there's so many activities coming up this weekend.
We'll get to that later as well.
But I think you gotta get out
30 degrees swing today.
We started
out at
46 and end up at like 75, 76.
Yeah.
So it's take Green Bay right now is 55, Appleton 52, Oshkosh 52.
So yeah, and it's going to warm up to the upper seventies and then tomorrow we start this streak of eighties.
I think that's going to be great.
Are you an outdoor guard?
What do you do?
Do you do a boater?
Just like the outside
garden?
I love the outside.
My wife is a huge gardener and
I
get pulled into that.
But anything outdoors when the weather is nice is I'm up for.
Me too.
I can teach you how to get out of that.
I don't own a lawnmower.
I do
need some.
Tutoring on that.
Okay.
It's
allergies.
It's just like, I'm not
feeling
right.
I'm not feeling
right.
Oh,
okay.
There's so many times on the show, I either say poor Julie for John's wife or poor Don for Jim's wife.
He does.
That doesn't set a lot.
I put up with a lot with you too.
Obviously it'd be a fun weekend.
So, Del Burnett, you were at, you can talk about your background, but I just remember you mostly from, did you anchor Fox
11 or what did
you do?
I
did.
I was the sports director there for,
Almost four years.
It was four seasons, and I had an opportunity to leave to go to Indianapolis and do the Colts, but it was a great time.
Three years with Bart, one year with Forest Greg.
Oh, yeah.
And some of my fast friendships in life remain right here in Green Bay.
Yeah.
You were very tight at a Bart's
Star, I know that.
Yeah.
A lot of people.
So what did you do then?
Because you're still...
I mean, I was even reading about you.
I mean, you've got that, not anchor voice, what am I looking for?
You're a good presenter.
I mean, you enjoy doing that, right?
I do.
And you even...
You know, when we talk about places where most comfortable in life, anytime I sit down behind a microphone or on a television set, and I say this all the time, if I got a call right now from one of the TV stations saying, it's an emergency, we need you tonight,
I could pick up as if it were yesterday.
There's just something about this business.
And Todd and I talked about this earlier today.
I started out life just eating up everything broadcasting.
You know, if it was...
Emptying the waste baskets, whatever it was back at our old radio station WBYS in Canton, Illinois, I think, you know, a hundred watts or something like that.
But you know, that's where I got my start.
And I can't explain why my parents weren't media oriented, but from the age of seven on, that's all I
wanted
to do.
I was going to ask
you what got you into the media.
And I will say this, underscore what you just said, people who are in it love it.
And even when they leave it, even Bill Jartz left it for a little while.
I was talking
to him.
It's
tough to leave and not want to come back.
I left for a little while too, and it was like, ugh.
It's not like you come back here and make
a fortune.
People just love, I don't know if it's the people or if it's that they're doing something for the community because you are, right?
You're broadcasting to the community, but I'm just surprised by that.
Even yesterday, we had Connie Fulman.
She worked at Fox, but I think you guys missed each other by a couple of years.
Same thing.
I think that's great.
I do think it would be akin to acting.
I mean, you get on stage and, you know, the smell of the grease paint, the roar of the crowd.
I mean, and people like to get back into acting.
But this media thing is, you know, it's new to me, right?
A couple of years ago.
I just think the people in this industry are cool people because they love the industry.
For me, what it was was I loved the work.
Yeah.
Some people want to be a star.
I loved the work, the grind every day of trying to be the best I could be.
The media has changed dramatically over the years.
It used to be extremely, extremely competitive because we didn't have all the tools that are out there today.
Now with a cell phone, you can go live from anywhere in the world.
We were flying tapes in at the airport and things like that, rushing out there.
If the flight was late, you know, you're driving a hundred miles an hour from Austin to travel back to the station.
I loved all of it.
Yeah.
I got a little present for you.
I did this for Connie yesterday morning when I would do it for you.
Oh, good!
An old New Center 11 intro.
Oh, yes.
So check this out.
Here we
are.
This is
News Center 11 tonight with Nancy Bruce, John Natali, Brad Spackowitz, and Daryl Burnett.
There you are.
Where
did you
find
that?
It does that one off.
I told Connie this.
I'm a news geek, right?
But I like weird things about news.
I don't like the news.
I like the production of it.
There is actually a site that has every news open for every TV station in the country.
Just for that station, for WWE UK, there's 20 of them here.
I can go through every incarnation of the theme.
It was a wonderful experience here and obviously it was a springboard to going on and being able to do things I had only dreamed about.
you know, as a little boy.
But I
want to get back to this.
But I
want to say this, I hate to interrupt.
The highlight of my career is right here today with the mayor himself.
Yeah, yeah.
The guy who usually sits there is full of it.
So no, we want to be nice and clean here.
Give you a nice balance.
Yeah.
But really, your dad wasn't in it, your neighbor, you just.
I
was.
Did you have a teacher that said, look, Darryl, you need to do this.
Oh, you're
a farm
guy too?
Were you shy growing up?
Were you shy?
See, me too.
I was.
Yeah.
Except, uh, in fact, uh, I'm revealing this for the very first time.
So, uh, you know, be prepared for a shock.
I remember I mentioned WBYS, the mighty station in town.
I started in the Explorer program and the Boy Scouts.
I was not a Boy Scout, but I got into the Explorer program and they had broadcasting at WBYS.
And my first opportunity to be on WBYS, I turned down because of my shyness.
Their host for the Saturday morning high school show was not going to be able to make it that Saturday.
And I came up with some concocted
reason or
excuse.
But fortunately, I got over that.
And everything I could drink in about the business from that point on, I took advantage of.
And you like jarts, or maybe jarts like you.
do a lot of MCing for community events.
I mean, I see you at a lot of things and you'll build charts.
And I was talking to him and I think you would probably say the same thing.
It's when you connect with the community, it's just an unbelievable feeling.
And that's why he's on the Packard board quite honestly.
And Mark wrote him a letter and just said, Hey, look, it's not cause you are really good at reading a teleprompter.
And that was Bill's words, not mine.
You are involved in this community.
I'll bet you he did a hundred events a year.
I'm not kidding you and they don't have to they're not they're not under contract like some stations you got to do 10 20 and I just If you can leverage that that you're on TV because you're a little bit of a movie star to some people But to get out there and be there be a real person I think and you do that and I've seen you at many many events And I just thank you for doing that and you especially are tied into them
Brian Love-Elect Foundation.
Oh, it's wonderful for now, 33 years.
33, yeah.
But, you know, I think it's really an extension of our personalities, and I think that's what made Bill so great.
He's a dear friend and always has been.
We have been competitors back in the day, but always friends.
Yeah.
And then to be able to work events with Bill Jartz was a real treat, and he too is a farm boy, so we have a lot in common there.
Right.
Yeah, he talked about that, you know, pretty humble beginnings and like, why'd you get into Northwestern?
But it was on a football scholarship and he went and not that, but he's a smart guy.
Anyway, it was just interesting.
You media guys are all interested because I do think.
Well, for different reasons, right?
I mean, there's there's some in the media and it's, you know, we've all worked with them a little crazy little little nuts.
We've got we've all got I wouldn't say ghosts in the closet stories, but a lot of stories that we could share over the years of the stuff we had to do.
Right.
just to have a broadcast on the air,
you know?
Right, and you know, I always said that the business was inverted.
When you're starting out, you don't have any help.
And when I got to NBC, I had people spilling out of the hallways who were there to produce and to help and to co-produce
and
things.
When you finally know something, that's when you have all the help.
When you need that help,
That's when it's sparse.
But you
learn really fast.
You get good really fast when you're on the air every day, making mistakes and Jim.
No.
And when you're on the air, you're on the air.
I mean, you can't like, let's do this over.
I mean, you're kind of on there to do it.
And that's the excitement.
That's the high wire act
that I always loved the most.
And that's what worries
me the most about those two in the morning.
But you know,
I
love that kind of pressure.
I used to do the NHL
studio show.
And it was like being an air traffic controller at O'Hara.
Doing 12 games, having producers in both ears going, you know, pitch it to Pittsburgh.
And again, at the end of the evening, I was ready to towel off.
But boy, I just loved it because it meant this is pressure, you've got to be spot on.
And
you know, again, I think it comes back to, do you love the grind?
Do you love the work?
And at the end of the day, if you're proud of the product, you've done a great job.
We had a guy on yesterday from Bassett Mechanical and talk about love the work.
And he is making a lot of money, but in plumbing and HVAC, you know, I'm saying there, I think it's really important.
And I was telling these guys yesterday, and I don't know if they totally bought what I said, but it was just,
Focus on what you're doing and the money will come and I really think it will I think maybe you might adjust your living expenses in that industry because you love it so much You know I mean but you won't be I think people are this pays more than this than that and I'm like don't don't do that Find what do you really love to do and you're like you love broadcasting Todd loves producing you know wait a minute what?
I'm here for the money.
I
think there's a lot to that.
I never ever in my career chased the money.
I always chased opportunity and I think that's why, whether it's HVAC and a lot of these other industries, when we were growing up, often we were kind of guided to what our parents did
or what
our father did.
And now the whole world is out there
for you.
And it's amazing that we kind of stuck with an industry like you.
have and pretty much haven't.
Well, not me as much, but now these kids switch industries, not jobs.
I'm talking industries, like, you know, they can go from education to healthcare to being a firefighter.
You know what I mean?
Like, usually it's like one lane when we're
kids.
Well, it used to be, if you weren't somewhere five, six, 10 years, you were branded as over a job hopper.
Now it's just the opposite.
If you stay that long, what's wrong with that
guy?
Talked to a guy yesterday and said, you got to come up with a reason why you're jumping so many jobs.
Both
are
friends.
And he's a very ambitious kid and he's going to do fine.
I'm not worried about him.
But I said, I'm not used to that.
But he's building a base where he thinks he can be.
And that makes sense.
I said, but you got to get that down because that's the first question I'm going to ask you is how come you've had three jobs in two years?
Well, it's like this business.
If you can communicate.
Right.
There are so many things and so many doors that will be open
in your life.
And we'll talk about this community and the doors that are open right here in Green Bay.
Daryl Burnett's in the house.
Thank you for being here.
This is going to be a fun morning.
We'll be right
back.
This is Daryl in the mayor.
Welcome back, this is Daryl Burnett in the mayor.
Daryl, who of course, many of you may know him from the media, but right now you got a good gig here in Green Bay.
I do.
You got a cool title, I was reading it.
Your title's like procurement, like...
Director something director of curation and preservation
I spent
six years
as executive director at the automobile gallery and event center Which was another dream come true for me.
We were talking about dreams of being in broadcasting before For the last 40 years I have collected cars and shown cars at car shows put on car
shows
major car shows and that led to a wonderful opportunity with the automobile gallery and event center and then
You know, seven years ago, to be quite honest, I signed a two-year contract.
And, you know, last year, my wife said, you know, it'd be a nice idea if you came home.
So I'm on a contract, honey.
Sorry.
And so, you know, I was playing to walk off into the sunset and the board of directors was very, very generous and said, we would like you to stay.
So I'm supposed to be part time, but, you know, as we were talking, when you love something, you live something.
And by the way, I'm going to trademark that when you love
something, you live something.
Jim will try and get it cut out.
at least 30%.
But the Card Museum, again, your title, Securator, you secure the shoulders.
Every single day I am on the phone with a collector or I'm on the phone with someone who would like to be involved with the gallery.
And like he was talking before in the last break with...
Bill Jartson, his great connection to the community.
My connection to the community through this role and what I did previously, you know, really is the bedrock for what we do.
because, you know, Festa Italiana, which you were nice enough to attend, that show starts with a blank sheet of paper every
year.
You bring a
Ferrari in your L10.
And we have 200 cars show up, you know, from all over the place.
That's relationships.
It's not, you know, calling the dealer up and saying, hey, send over some cars.
It's relationships.
And what was the value of autos you had for that show?
Over a hundred million.
A hundred million dollars of cars.
Yeah, that was that was that was a lot of fun.
I enjoyed that.
We have some guests coming in.
that they love what they do, especially this guy who's coming in from the theater down in Oshkosh.
I mean, he is all in on
that.
Have you ever acted?
Yeah, I did.
Oh, word.
No, I'm in a couple of movies.
Hey, I am.
If you
have that on your bingo card, please mark off.
I
was a prisoner in, who was the
guy?
Ace Champion.
No,
Ace Champion, but no.
Roberts Roberts Eric Roberts.
Yes, and he was actually and he was he really
he came over to my house for dinner Yeah, he was it was his movie.
I forgot the name of it and then I was in a I remember Tom Millboard who used to work with right?
You know him but
I remember after
they showed a couple clips.
He's like the mayor shouldn't quit his
day job But anyway, so the thing about Jim's part was that I don't know if it was like a foreboding But he played the part of a criminal in prison
He looks so natural in that Daryl.
It was unbelievable.
Yes, I was
We're in a blue shirt.
You're the prison outfit.
I was on the phone at speaking lines.
My real question
is
how he got cast for that.
What did they know about his background?
I think mayor don't charge us for using these police cars and that kind of stuff.
It was just they just threw me a bone to do that.
But it's fun, isn't it?
I've had parts and there's a great local director, Freddie Moiano, who's put me in two or three things.
And I think it's only because I can get a full sentence out.
but it's been fun.
Everyone should act.
Yes.
I mean, it's just, it's great to get on the stage.
I was in the Music Man 2 at the Capitol Theater Mantua stage.
What role?
Barbershop Grittat.
That's what
I was
saying.
Yeah, that's fun.
Give us a
little something this morning.
Friday, Friday.
There you go.
Perfect.
Ice cream.
Ice cream, ice cream.
Maybe I've shared this before, but growing up, my mother would stack the hi-fi with every
soundtrack from every Broadway show.
So when you talk about the Music Man, you're hitting me right there
in the
heart, my friend.
I was, I talked in one show.
My kids are a little bit older now, right?
28, 29, 32 maybe.
But we're, believe it or not, kind of runners.
And one time, Anna, my oldest daughter and I, we would run together.
We switched playlists.
And I can't believe how close they were.
There was musicals on there.
I think that's cool that we can all appreciate.
I think music is like the ultimate connector in the world.
Oh, it is.
It's the ultimate language that connects all countries.
And I admire that because, you know, and I feel this very strongly.
I think people should act because, you know, learning how to deliver when you need to.
And the other thing about that is make sure it's your very best work because the take that the director wants or likes maybe not the one you do.
So
you'll always
try to be the best you can possibly
be.
And I tell, I'm never telling anyone how to raise their kids, but we're sports, sports, sports.
But I think to put your kid on a stage or in the band, I think that's cool stuff.
I really do.
And I enjoyed that.
I liked it a lot.
But I just read something where every kid should be a waiter, a waitress.
And I believe that.
You judge people how they treat a waiter, how they cheat.
I think that's because it's not their fault.
Again, multitasking at
its best.
That's tough duty.
All right.
So
hey,
today,
Let's talk about the lineup.
This is gonna be good.
What a lineup.
Thank you for stacking this today for
me.
Todd does all this.
Todd
does
this.
Todd, that's the guy.
That guy on the other side of the glass, he does all this stuff.
But Lisa Hale from Newisco weekend, she does a great segment.
Just about talking great things in Wisconsin.
Of course, Mark Houston's in from Bell and Sports and big sponsor and you know, that company, look at that.
Oh, Bell and Hospital.
Man, they are, they're tentacles and so much stuff in this community and he's gonna.
and so timely because I've got a pain.
Oh, don't be John.
That John does that.
It's like, let's let's talk to our guest.
But yes, he's always something.
You know, I admire that because just I think elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers Hall of Fame.
You're no more.
Oh, yeah,
he should be.
That guy's awesome.
Yeah.
And then we're going to talk, you know, more about this than I do this Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
been around for 90 plus
years.
Yeah, not that.
All right.
And then, of course, we have the music coming in today as well.
So we'll be right back.
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Now back to Mino and the Mayor.
Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
All right, welcome back everybody.
It's Jim Schmidt, but we're here with Dale Burnett, who I think many of you know.
who now runs the automobile gallery, I shouldn't say now, he's been running it for about seven, eight years, and was on Fox 11, and Johnny's out for a couple of days, and I called Daryl, and I want to say about you media people, because I've called a few of you, and this has to be with your training.
You do call back right away, and that's because of your training, because other people, politicians, two days, three days.
Two things this business teaches you to do, call people back, and secondly, be on time, because...
As you know, the red light comes on whether you're sitting there or not.
Did John take that course?
Anyway, hey, speaking of great media people, we've got on the line with us is Lisa Hale with Newisco Week in Preview.
Morning, Lisa.
Good morning, Jim.
Good morning, Darrell.
It is nice to meet you.
Nice meeting you as well, Lisa.
Lisa's got
quite such a good voice.
Isn't it?
Oh, I love your voice.
I
know.
I'm a little worried.
He brought us a resume.
Hey, Jim, after the show, come talk to
me.
I know.
Yeah, I got something I want
to
talk to you
about.
And then you see HR walking.
It's like, this is not good.
This is not going to be a good morning.
You
have nothing to worry about, my
friend.
But they just want to talk to you.
They want to coach you up.
Yeah, coach y'all is what they're going to do.
So, uh, at least then, uh, Todd go way back.
They've got, we started working together in 2000 down in Mississippi, Mississippi,
Mississippi, Mississippi.
Yeah.
Interesting.
And then, but we've, she's been at Y 100 before up here.
She worked in Ripon and, uh, she was out of the radio business and I was looking for somebody to do news in Northeast Wisconsin.
I said, Hey, time for you to do me another favor in life and come work for me.
So
now
she's got, she's got the best job in the world cause she's got the best boss.
How
wonderful.
Actually, I have to correct him.
It wasn't, hey, it's time for you to do another favor for me.
It was more like, it's time for you to repay all the favors I've done.
There you go.
You owe me.
I'm calling the marker in.
There you
go.
That's
right.
So Lisa does the, works at our Oshkosh studio and we go down there.
I wish we'd go down there often, go down there at least once a month, twice a month and do our show from there.
Oshkosh is
Man, I don't know if he's been a lot of time there.
That is an awesome little community.
It is.
It's not that little.
It's 80,000.
Yeah, we did our show live from the EAA one year.
They have a guy there, Mr.
Oshkosh.
Pat Tracy.
Yeah,
Pat Tracy.
Even his car has...
What's his name?
His hat, his shirt, his, you know, I'm sure his pajamas.
It's all Discover Oshkosh.
This guy's got his car painted and he is Mr. Oshkosh.
So he's been our tour guide.
He gets on the show and great energy and he just reflects that city very well.
So Lisa, what are you working on this weekend?
New WISCO weekend, which...
Darrell, I don't know if you know about this.
It's a weekend news magazine that we put together, an hour long news magazine that features stories, feature stories, interviews, music, and even some fun commentary.
And this week, we are focusing on all things Lactosenia.
One more time.
Lactosenia.
I'm just seeing if Jim knows what the word is.
English, please.
No, what is it?
Say it again.
Lackfacenia.
Lackfacenia.
L, A. Did you guys watch that
script spelling
bee?
Do you watch it,
I
think?
No.
Oh, the guy won last
night.
It's incredible.
I've been watching
the last two days.
What's that like, the longest spelling bee in history?
You know, they started
off with 16 people a
few
years ago.
There's 200.
Right.
You see how he's trying to avoid you
Lisa As I Google it
Basically is a big old fancy Latin word for all things dairy and so this This week we are featuring Dairy as it begins June dairy month on you know June 1st and our Terry Barr has a great interview with a guy who is the executive director of the National
Dairy shrine.
Did you know there's a shrine?
Dairy
shrine, Jim?
What?
Really, they can't call it a museum?
A shrine?
It's a shrine.
It's a shrine.
And here in Wisconsin.
Is that like Grand Champion milk examples?
Or what is in
the
shrine?
What's in the shrine?
We
guys like India worship cows.
What's there?
All things dairy, all things lactocinia.
By the way, Lisa, who is the big cheese of the
shrine?
Hold on.
I haven't written here.
I didn't do the interview.
I didn't mean to put you on the spot there.
And you did.
You did.
It's Mike Oppenher, I think is his
name.
He is the executive director of all things dairy.
Where
is the
shrine?
Ask me these questions and I don't have everything pulled up.
Can you give me a half second?
I swear.
Well, while you're doing that,
Lisa, I had the opportunity a few years ago to go to the National Dairy Conference in Madison.
I had my eyes open.
What an amazing industry.
It is.
They come from all over
the world.
All over the world.
And it's not just cheese and butter.
So many other things and it is I believe in Fort Atkinson Mike Opperman Mike Opperman is the executive director and the National Dairy Shrine.
I mean it does everything about cows about milk about butter about cheese about Wisconsin and you know, there's so much more to dairy than just milk butter and cheese and
Food's made from dairy, and it's just a wonderful thing.
So we focus on that.
That's our cover story this week.
But we also have a whole bunch of stories and interviews that are really pertinent to the beginning of June.
For example, it's hurricane.
month, the hurricane season starts in June.
So we've got a little bit of an explanation on how that does affect Wisconsin from our meteorologist, Brittany Merleau.
We have stories on social media and children and how they interact with it and how to keep them safe on social media.
Or off.
Well, yeah.
I'm a big fan of the previous.
General surgeon and he just thinks that's that's the epidemic.
That's worse than drinking smoking.
Dada is is social media and he that was his parting was parting gift to the country is parting memo was part
of the mail,
but I Saw an interview with him and I don't know.
He's very convincing to me
Anyway,
you're right to control social media that maybe that's a better word
Control because it's there now and there's no going back really.
There's not we're too connected
where social media is concerned.
And it changes
parenting,
too.
I just want to say that I did, at least I'll listen to your show, but he thinks just the opposite.
We think we're connected, but we're isolationists because of social media.
Right.
That was his theory.
Don't know if it's right.
But like I said, I was impressed with him.
Anyway, yes, I'm going to listen to that.
That's going to be interesting.
It is going to be interesting.
And we also have, you know, of course, our normal
segments like Peach Wabba's classic cinema pick of the week.
And we've got Amanda Nimmer with an extremely, she's always so funny.
And this time he's talking about cheese.
So.
I liked her kid snack thing.
Yeah, she's, she's very creative and
she's funny.
But that's coming up on New Wisco weekend.
Okay.
That's when do we listen to this?
New Wisco weekend is Saturdays at eight Sundays.
No, Saturdays is not, is it eight or nine?
The
producers
at eight.
and
11 on
Sundays.
You and Jim need to stop.
No, you listen to me for a second.
He does say that once in a while.
Jim didn't know the time of his show yesterday.
I had to fill him in.
Come on.
They download it.
They
just go to Spotify and they just type
in
local boom.
Or they can go to the Civic Media app.
But mine's at 1.
OK, 1.
I'm Sunday.
2.
Almost at 2.
Darrell, do you see what I deal with with these people?
I am so sorry, Todd.
You know, I just want you to know, Todd, I feel strongly both
ways.
All right.
It was a weekend, Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 11 on WISS and WGBW.
That sounds like a great lineup, but that'd be fun.
All right, we will listen to that.
Yes, that's exciting.
She talked about dairy month, and I'm going to talk about this a little bit later, but we kick off breakfast on the farm on Sunday, June 1st.
Right here in Brown County at Waysside Dairy.
So a few of us would be, I'm going to go out there and they start, it's not called a shrine, but they do have church service at seven.
And then eight o'clock till noon is when breakfast is served.
Are you
serving?
Or are you
just going to go?
No,
no, no, we're serving.
They get about 6,000 people.
Like if 6,000 people come over for breakfast.
Oh, they should come out.
I've said this many, many times.
I learned more on the farm that would help me in a boardroom than I ever learned in a boardroom that would help me on a farm.
So I encourage everyone to go out there and really learn what it's all about.
And those of us who live in the hood,
it's nice to
get out there and kind of
see how it's so close to jobs.
And jobs aren't all milking cows.
There's technical jobs there.
I mean, they're pretty sophisticated, some of these farmers.
It's unbelievably sophisticated.
Looking at the markets, and it's a cool business.
We got a cool text.
Sarah texts it in.
She says, I think I have a cheese shrine in my fridge currently.
She must be a fan.
Cheese Kurt Nix says, good morning.
There's a morning, Jim, morning, Darrell, from Kerry, and happy Friday from Vicki this morning.
Isn't that nice?
All right, this is a happy Friday.
All right, well, Lisa, this will be fun.
We will tune in Saturdays at 8, Sundays at 11, new whisko with Lisa Hale.
Lisa, so nice that Todd pulled you away from the state of Mississippi to come back home.
Right, right.
She
wanted to meet a dentist.
Isn't that the kind
of
joke about Mississippi?
OK, sorry.
Wow.
Oh, wow.
Back it up.
I back
it up.
Back it up.
I just, I'm sorry.
This show is on tape, right?
It's not live.
Right.
We're going to, we're going to
cut that out.
All right.
We'll
cut
that out.
Sorry.
Sorry.
We're going to, we're going to leave that in and Jim, I'm going to call every Mississippi and I know when to have them.
No, we
love, I love.
Jim, what do you got coming up this weekend on Lean Local?
As long as we're talking about weekend shows.
So
I have also a one hour show that is on at one o'clock on Sundays and Lean Local is a show where we do what we say we.
lean local just into the local community and as I start every show not to say we're not concerned with what's going on and you know the Gaza Strip and DC and Madison but it's all about local and every six eight weeks I'll do Green Bay's greatest and I interviewed Bill Jarts who I've known him for years but he is a really humble came from like nothing
One of the sweetest guys you'll ever meet.
And we just got kind of behind the curtain a little bit with him.
And he's an emotional guy too, which I think good people are.
That was fun.
So he talked about his career.
We talked about the highlights.
And then it's tough with your job.
And that whole Steven Avery, what a nut job he was in raping that girl and killing her.
He said, that's hard to report that, but you have to.
You don't have a choice.
I'm not gonna do this story.
You're reading a teleprompter, but he sure enjoyed this first Super Bowl we won.
after that dry spell out in New Orleans.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, he said that was worth it.
Anyway, not to give the show away because it was an hour
long.
You've heard everything you need to hear.
No.
Don't bother listening at one o'clock on Sunday.
No, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no,
no,
no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh God, she said no way.
W H E Y. Brian, the comedian.
I hear the groans
from out of state.
I
know it's a little early for that.
No, Brian.
That's funny.
Anyway, so
that's
what I
have going on on on my show on Sunday.
And yeah,
people should tune
in.
Yeah, they are.
It's and it is hers is more Wisconsin, mine's a little bit more Greater Green Bay.
Anyway, it's gonna be a good show.
All right, Lisa, well, enjoy this weekend.
Breakfast on the farm that we have here.
I don't know if you're gonna stop in on that one, but this weather is like, there's all eights across the board now.
It's all eighties coming up.
And we'll thank Brittany for that on Monday when she comes in.
And she's gonna tell you that it's gonna get warm next week.
That's awesome.
Daryl and I were talking earlier, our spouses can work in a garden.
That's right.
which means we can work in the garden.
Yes, of
course,
of course,
of
course.
You can work in the garden too?
Of course.
All right.
All right.
Lisa, thank you.
Have a great weekend.
We will talk to you again.
We will all listen to Whisco Weekend.
This is Daryl Burnett and Jim Schmidt.
We'll be right back.
All right, it's Friday and mine on the mayor and it's time to give away some tickets on a free ticket Friday with all the details.
Here's Jim and Daryl.
All right,
it's free ticket Friday as Todd just said.
It's your chance to win a four pack of Brewer's tickets for Saturday, June 7th, my birthday.
So Saturday,
June?
Is it really?
Yeah, you threw me a great party last year.
That was like one of my better birthdays.
I guess I better start working on that because I
have
nothing planned for
that.
No, it's Saturday.
I know, but we'll do something,
right?
OK, because I was just telling Daryl that said,
Big event up in Marinette.
That's right.
That's right.
That's Saturday.
You gotta go.
There's
a lot going on that day.
And we'll get to that, sure.
Billboards and buses with your picture on it.
I did that when I turned 50, man, the whole city.
I mean, if you, you ever rocked, you know, it was my birthday.
And I
was just so,
I was just so like embarrassed how they overdid it.
The city paid for it.
That's not enough billboards.
You know, you got six, I want 10, and I didn't do that.
All right.
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And by the way, Jim, if I win, I'm giving you my tickets for your birthday.
All right.
That's
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Comes from the heart.
OK, there
we go.
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Which is what we want.
Otherwise, the guys lose their job.
Next chance of Iowa coming up later on this morning after 9 o'clock with Matt and Aaron air free ticket Friday with my
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We do compete with our, we have, we're all one big happy family here at Civic Media, but there are 21 other stations and we all compete to see who can get the most texts.
But this is the best one.
Well this is the way out, we
know that.
We're second place award winners.
Johnny and I have gotten second place two years in a row
and we're not real happy about that.
Let me just say this, you had Bill Jartzen
There's a guy who did TV for 40 years and it one of the things he said is he he's kind of a quote-unquote Failure in the industry because he never won an award.
No pulse.
It's not about that Jim, you know, right?
I told
Bill that this I mean who this guy's got an unbelievable career and respect and yeah, he doesn't have that doesn't have any pulse What do you guys call those awards?
Well, Emmys.
Yeah, the Emmy Award.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, I would I don't know
who the judge was because he's got
the award in our hearts.
Oh man.
I have a funny story to tell you about that later if there's time.
Absolutely.
There's always time.
There's always time.
There's plenty of fill time on this.
Yes.
Oh
yeah.
Notice.
Okay.
Now what?
So hey, we went over the weather, which is great.
We're going to hit high seventies and then we hit the eighties streak starting tomorrow.
But May 30th is also creativity day.
Yep.
Creativity
day.
That's how do you honor that?
Be creative today.
Go do something creative, Jim.
Something beyond six to nine.
Being on the show was mine, so what yours?
There it
is.
All right.
Are you cooking anything today?
No, I'm going to a party tonight.
I saw that party I'm going to tonight at Malva.
Put on my Berksman, that's gonna be a good time.
All right, so the other, all right, I'll think of something creative.
They give you a free car for that.
Water a flower day.
Okay, that's weird, because you're supposed to do that every day.
Okay, did you water your flowers this morning boys?
I did not
yet, but I will when I get
home Jim I remember when they said it was one day was a kiss your dog day and I'm like done that I do every morning.
So anyway, poor Donna I'll see you when I get home heat awareness day
We get those
temperatures coming this week,
okay, right?
You gotta be careful with that.
All right, how does how do you have heat awareness day?
What if I mean, yeah, what if it's cold that day?
I think it's just a day to realize, to take care of yourself in the heat.
I would guess, and Mark Euston talks a lot about being hydrated and all that kind of stuff.
So it's just a day to bring awareness to it.
Because people die of heat.
Oh, of course.
You know, they don't want to turn on the air conditioner or whatever.
Anyway, e-bike day.
Have you been on e-bike?
It was awesome.
Take off.
Okay.
E-bike day.
I mean, sheltered life.
And then mint julep day.
Like, I thought that was weird when I saw that, because isn't that like Kentucky
Derby Day?
Kentucky Derby Day.
I mean,
yeah.
Medjool of it.
We're gonna get a date today.
So get out the bourbon All right.
Now we have some birthdays.
This is this is my well I have many week spots, but this
is another
one right here.
So do you know the first one?
You know what?
Yes,
and She's awesome.
Yes.
I
mean that is probably I don't want to say the best but wicked is unbelievable.
It is
great and she is yeah, I Don't I dena
Idina, Idina
Menzel,
54 today.
She was in the play or in the movie.
She was not in the movie.
She was in the
original musical.
Okay.
Which, I
don't know, I think
everybody's seen that, but it's, if you haven't, yeah, it's great.
It is.
Okay.
Wynonna Judd.
Yes.
Of the Judds.
Do you know the Judds, Jim?
For the
country singers?
Well, Daryl's our guest.
Daryl, why don't you take this?
Well, I mean, one of the great duos in country music history.
And then Wynonna had a great,
Solo career.
Yeah.
Coming out of that.
When you get down to nothing, you know, there's nothing to lose.
That was one of her big hits.
It's almost like having Mino in the studio.
Yeah.
I mean, very similar.
Yeah.
She's 61 today.
And here's one that you probably don't know, but I'm
going to throw it out
there.
Ted McGinley.
Yes.
Who is it, Darrell?
Well, he is an actor who's been on many, many shows and married with children.
Love boat going way back in the day.
Known for being one of those handsome blonde haired
Hollywood leading men guys
who really was not a great actor.
No, but he got away with it.
I think he was on happy days toward the end.
Yes, he was
Ted McGinley.
Yeah, I think he closed down happy days.
I think he was like the last cast, right?
Right.
Yeah.
credit.
Yeah, that's a tough business.
And to sustain like he has, you know, in bit parts and the like for what 40 years now.
Every time they
brought him in, cause he was brought in toward the end of married with children.
He was brought in toward the end of love boat.
It's like, if Ted McGinley shows up, you're done.
The cancellation's coming soon.
End of
show.
The auditors are in.
Oh, wow.
I don't
know who they are.
Ted's agent is on the phone right now with us.
I think line three, Todd.
All right.
Well, we got a great show coming up here.
Mark Houston is in the house, Bell and Sports Medicine.
Of course, everyone knows we got the bell in coming up.
So let's touch on that and a few other things.
Ken Leo and James Bornek with the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
And Darryl, they've been around 90 years.
Yes.
That's awesome.
Jennifer Lin and a group rivaled concert at the Grand in Oshkosh, which is a group.
unbelievable theater, and of course, Cody James with Mino and the Mayor live music series.
Stick around, we'll 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, welcome
back everybody.
Our two here at Mino and the Mayor, but special guest in-house, Dale Burnett, who you would maybe know from Fox News.
Ben around, and now he is the, you're not the executive director, what's your title?
You
have a great title.
Director
of
Curation and
Preservation.
Pretty cool.
At the Automobile Gallery, which is one of the best museums we have in northeast Wisconsin.
And you just pulled off that Italian fest.
We had Italian wine, Italian food, and $100 million of Italian cars.
That's right.
You
knew that?
$100 million.
It was a great
day.
Great
event.
I sent you that email, thanks for the ticket.
And if the guy forgot the Ferrari, the red one.
Send it over.
It's parked over.
They're waiting for you.
Okay.
Anyway, May 30th today and great weather coming up.
We talked about the weather here.
Are those updated, Todd?
Green Bay's, oh, okay.
Green Bay's 51, Appleton's 55, Oshkosh is 52, but we're gonna be in the high 70s and then tomorrow it's all 80s.
Great running weather, right?
It is.
It's gonna be great.
We have someone to talk about.
getting outside, exercising, and not getting injured.
Mark Houston from Bell and Sports Medicine.
How you doing, Mark?
Good, how are you guys?
We're good, we're good.
That's, you and Darryl go catching up on some stuff.
Yeah, yeah, get to, you know, it's a small world.
It is, it is.
Our fans have crossed over the years.
Yeah, no, it's awesome and there's some great opportunities.
What about this weather though?
I left town.
Right.
So I live in the valley and it was nice and sunny and looks like we got a little rain command and I had a few sprinkles.
Oh, thank you, Brittany.
No, I didn't.
I didn't know what I was expecting.
But we have sunshine in the studio now, more because you're here.
Wow.
He fell right into
John's
seat.
Yeah, the
BS
meter.
Okay.
I thought we were away from that for
a few days, but I guess
not.
So what's going on?
I mean, I know what's, you got a lot going on at Bellin and you guys do so much for the community.
I was telling Daryl, Bellin Hospital, people know you guys for.
You do so much more.
I mean, you guys are known for hearts.
I
mean, you win that award every year.
But what you're doing, sports, medicine, but I'm gonna touch on the bell and before we go to some other things.
How's that looking?
Yeah, bell and run 49th year this year.
And you know, as we talk about these things, I'll put it right out there.
We have gone through a merger and we are known as amplify health.
by Bellin right now.
It'll be, it's Amplify Health.
There's a little bit of extra by Bellin, but the Bellin run will stay the Bellin run.
A lot of people ask that after the fact or after an interview, hey, what's going to happen with that?
It's going to stay the Bellin run 49th year coming up in two Saturdays.
So it's great when we talk about, you know, it's great running weather, great walking weather, 5K race, 10K race.
8 a.m.
On Saturday June 14th.
I was interviewing the gym boy.
He's the mayor of Depeur.
He was he ran like You still have what eight ten guys that have run everyone.
Yeah, I don't think it's was it more than that.
Yeah, I want to say maybe it's 12 15.
Okay.
He was
like
five years ago, we missed it.
I forgot, isn't that too bad?
Because
that's
pretty cool.
You've run 49 Belms and you know, they wear that old shirt they have.
That's very cool.
And they're very humbled.
You wouldn't know it when you talk to some of these guys and they're like, yeah, this is my 49th year and done every one.
And they'll tell you the stories, how they came close and a couple of them.
But yeah, great, great opportunity.
10k, which, you know, 6.2 miles.
It's not the end of the world.
People can do that.
Do you have training runs going
on right now?
There's practice runs on the training runs on the Wednesdays, but you can get out there.
There's plenty on the website.
Just, you know, you're going to be behind if you try if you're going to start training today for in two weeks, a 6.2 run.
But you
can walk
it, you know, the focus has always been that.
it's a 10k race but they've added a few years ago a 5k so you want to come out right and the other thing is come out and walk it yeah you know bring the family walk it it's it's just a great it's you know yeah it's cool to see the start and then we're there at the finish so it's going let's see it's going south to start and then come in north the last block and a half
And then people are still starting at that point.
Yeah, I know.
Right.
They're in heats, right?
Or seven
heats or something?
Yeah.
Well, it goes, they're probably, they're releasing 45 minutes later.
Right.
Those
people that are done.
So, but it's just, and they got bands, Big Mouth is playing right at the end.
And then there's stuff over in the park.
So come out, enjoy it.
I was just going to say that it's much more than a run.
I mean, first of all,
Green Bay's there.
I mean, it's
about 10, 11, 12,000 people.
You get a lot of people for that
thing.
Yeah.
At one point we were at 20,000, but we tipped off at 20,000.
I want to say back in 19.
But we, yeah, definitely a great race.
And then the after party is
fun.
And it's great.
It's great way to start the summer.
Yeah.
A lot of kids just getting done with summer school.
We do a lot of summer.
A lot of students getting ready for the summer.
And it's a great way to start summer.
We'll show what a thought of this.
I know we're talking about the Belling today, but I got a great picture I'm going to show you from yesteryear in the Belling.
But that is just a great family event.
And that's what people should do, I think.
I mean, there's a lot of races this summer.
But this is one, bring the whole
family.
Yeah.
And it's one of the kickoffs that we have for a running series.
They've got.
there's plenty of other races all in Northeast Wisconsin.
They're not all associated with our health care, health hospital system.
Right, so easy to register, but what, website for this?
You have your owners that just
call under Bellon.
Yeah, Bellon runs, but if you, I mean, if you went to the Bellon Health website, you'd be able to get there, but it's a great opportunity and it has their locations and practice times if you want to do the training runs.
It talks about, there's a dinner, spaghetti dinner the night before, there's festivities, there's...
There's a lot of fun.
Yeah, that's spaghetti dinner.
I mean, it's exactly
minutes carbs.
Sorry.
Yeah, I mean, but it's just it's nice to get out check out, you know, they've got plenty of Tents and stuff out there.
There's kids games, you know, there's a you know, you know, you have depending on the age of your kid Are you gonna run up?
You know a block or two blocks run four blocks, you know, you know, is it a half a mile?
You can walk take your kids out 3.1 do the five five mile loop on Saturday morning.
Not bad
I'm curious, 49 years in, half century, have the winning times changed dramatically in those 49 years?
I would say yes.
When you look at the winning times, I think also what sometimes affects it, and it's give and take on this, is it an Olympic year or not?
So it affects some of these, we've brought in some of these big time runners, but it all depends on
is an Olympic year and do they need to go to trials for their country?
So, you know, so great example with this is we were always the second Saturday of June.
And then a lot of them will go to Peachtree, which is in Atlanta, and that's like 50,000 people on the 4th of July.
Wow.
So they're all, it's, you know, this for us, this is used to be one of the biggest races and it still is one of the biggest races in our region for these.
top notch runners it's one of many so you have to kind of it's when that race that weekend is hitting um some will come in saying you know hey i had a hamstring injury last fall this is my first big race coming back into it so you have to play they have to play into it of how fast can they go how can't how fast can't they go um what are they doing a lot of these guys and gals will do so much training before and after it's not just running for them to 10k
They're warming up.
They're running, you know, a mile or two down.
They're doing a cool down later on and they'll go for a run in the afternoon before they fly out.
All right.
Mark Houston with Amplify Health by Bell and Sports Medicine.
We're talking about the Bell and Run that's coming up.
A couple things.
Darrell, that's a really good question.
But I think the other thing that you kind of danced around a little bit, used to have a lot of just locals that would win.
But then you guys started bringing in those Kenyans and stuff and they
got
to pick up the pace a little bit.
I mean, I don't know.
the cell come, they guys always win that.
It's just where they live, how they train, they maybe train all year and I don't know, but I think that helped the times a little bit.
Yeah, we definitely had, I mean, our elite runners, I mean, some of them come from Germany, Kenya.
Some are right here in the US that are up and coming runners.
I haven't seen the list of elite runners yet.
Sometimes you're still trying to finalize it, but some great runners.
I think it's also, what's great about the elite runners
It's how they engage with their community.
Again, they're going to sign autographs.
They're going to talk to your kids.
They're going to come out and do programs before the race.
It's not just the race.
That's what some people don't realize.
It's sometimes just getting a business tie to us saying, geez, we have 500 of our runners engaged in the race today.
So that's what's fun.
Or 500 runners that work for a company, but now they're bringing their families.
So it's 800.
with their kids and their spouses.
So it's just a great way to kick off the summer.
And you know, even if you walk it, if you can't run it, fine, walk it.
But it's a good spectator sport too.
I mean, they line the streets for that.
Yeah, it's very packed and people love coming out, just hanging out.
around the park, hanging out that Saturday.
So a lot of people will say, hey, after the race,
come back to my house, we're having a party.
What a thrill to be able to say I was in a race with an Olympic champion or an Olympic competitor.
And I've told Mark this story, but I told you this, Darrell.
So I ran the, I've run the ball a lot of times, but the outcome
had the marathon and I was running it, you know, the half marathon and the media's like, oh, what time are you going to get?
And I trained for that.
You train for these runs.
And this 10K, it depends where you are, but I think you should train no matter what.
But so that when I went to all the training runs on Saturday with my daughter and they're like, you know, where do you want to be?
And they started everybody at the same time.
And I said, my only goal is to beat the Kenyan.
And I did, but I could hear the sirens behind me, but he ran
a
whole marathon.
I ran a half marathon, and he was
right on my tail.
But I think I was 211 or something, 212, and he came in to 13, to 14.
But anyway.
You did train.
I did.
I did.
I did train.
You
guys do a great job with training.
And I think that's, if you're really going to try to push it, you really need to do the training runs.
And you're behind in two weeks if you're in shape.
You know your body, you know
what you can do and can't do.
Now, again though, coming out to walk or run a 3.1, which is a 5K, half of the distance, you could do that.
A lot of people
can come out and
engage.
So that's one opportunity.
I think the other thing I always call out is just your food and your prep.
They do have the spaghetti dinner.
I will tell you, these are elite runners that come in.
You'd be shocked that probably beforehand they're big on rice, water, no ice,
in chicken.
Why no ice?
You know, a lot of it's the Kenyans.
They've just never been raised with ice.
They'll have water that's just lukewarm and they're okay with that.
Now, I'll tell you afterwards, I've been with them and they'll order up ribs and you better count
your fingers because those guys
after the race, I've seen them not say many words and clean a half rack of ribs in 10
minutes.
That's
awesome.
Right?
Let's
celebrate.
Yeah, it is.
So it's one
of those...
I've
seen
Mino do the same thing,
not after a race.
For
breakfast, right?
It's one of those things,
though, that I think that... I think so many times people think, oh, they're an elite runner and they're on a strict schedule.
I think they are.
But post-race, they do kick back.
They should.
And then it kind of goes back of, where is that next race?
Now, if they had a competitive race maybe two or three weeks later, maybe they wouldn't, but...
It's just a great for us.
It's a local event 49 years.
Love to see people.
It's
gonna be great and like I think that's cool It is a family event and sometimes a family tradition, you know, the family runs it every year and I think that's very cool
and and some of them That's all they did is they just did the one bell and run some people decide the night before I'm gonna do the bell and run.
Yeah, but yeah, it's just a great opportunity
some work for you is this
24 hours a day right up until the time the race is over, or is this at a point now after 49 years, do you have this down and you're just looking for everything to go
smoothly?
That's a great question.
As an athletic trainer, I kind of help with the elite runners.
It's pretty easy for me.
I've been 28 years, I've been doing the same position.
I will tell you the crew of Randy Van Stratten, Linda Maxwell, the Roland Schmidt Setup Medical, they have improved it every year.
I will say they run it.
so smooth, but they put it a lot of time into it that most people don't realize.
I'm just going to go there and get the picture with that foil around me, pour
a bottle of water over my head.
That's
awesome.
Mark, stick around.
I want to talk about some other things Bellin's working on.
We're going to be right back.
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We are back with Mark Houston, who is the sports.
Sports title again.
Empathy Sports director.
No.
Whatever.
Yeah.
Great, great guy.
Great guy.
Great guy.
24 years.
Yes.
And you
love, love living up here, working for Bell and Health.
And you do a lot.
on the high school football fields, making sure that those kids don't get injured.
I wanna read this text and I wanna talk about, people are starting to get out more, run a little bit more jog around.
We're just sitting on the window here.
You see people jogging by.
We're gonna talk about what we need to do so we don't get injured and take the month off.
But somebody wrote in here that I did the bell and run two years in a row back in 2010 and 2011.
I improved my time by 54 seconds.
That's good.
But both years.
The mom's pushing strollers were passing me around Green Isle Park.
That was my cue to retire.
Well, yeah,
okay, Todd.
I'm glad Todd didn't say it when he was going down
the
hill.
Are we just letting those kids just go for a ride or what down the hill?
But
yeah, the mothers weren't holding on to the strollers.
But I will say that in terms of getting past and all that, you guys do a good job of putting
People in their kind of times in the heats, you know, you're gonna run a six minute seven eight minute mile
Yeah, they have staged areas and stuff and and it's yeah run over.
Yeah, I mean after you if you really understand how a race can start Some people are pretty fast at that beginning so yeah, and I don't want to really say it's funneled it's it's on you have two lanes of a street,
right,
but You want to be with people who are?
You don't wanna have to be dodging in and out.
So it's just one of those things of getting to the people where you're running a eight minute mile instead of six minute mile.
There's a big difference.
They don't want you in front of them either.
Correct, correct.
It's the same thing of why they don't want the strollers all up front.
Exactly.
There's always that challenge of, hey, can I bring strollers?
Can I bring a dog?
But there's a safety side of things of,
where are people positioned?
But after 49 years, you guys kind of got that down.
Yeah.
You guys run
great.
It's very
smooth.
Again, another person I forgot is Sean Ryan.
Sean Ryan helps does a lot of races.
I think there are people that are not only these people will give will take the credit.
They don't speak highly of themselves.
They just kind of sit behind everyone.
But there is a core group of the bell and run that will come back and say, hey,
We're ready.
We're ready to go from porta-potties to bananas at the end.
And I will, but they, it's so coordinated effort.
And I think the other thing is you see the bell and run that morning, come back at two, two PM, drive that race course.
You never know.
You never know.
Randy Van Stratten gets on a golf cart and used to drive the whole course.
Cause I've done it with him years ago.
You pick up every cup, every piece of trash.
You leave it cleaner than you let them know when it was there.
That's awesome.
A few minutes,
you're the sports guy at Bellwin.
People are getting out running.
A couple words of advice.
I think no matter what, stay hydrated days before the race.
You have to get water in your body.
Some people say, do I need that spaghetti dinner?
I'm not going to say you have to have a spaghetti dinner.
You have to know what your body is.
going to accept.
Don't change your diet the night before the race because someone says, oh, you needed to have this.
Whatever you've been training on, stick to that plan.
Right.
Before we run out of time though, I want you to talk about people.
I'm not, we'll put the race aside.
People are just going to get out no more.
I mean, it's summer.
It's going to be like 75 today, 80 tomorrow.
And I want to get out.
I want to do some biking.
I want to do some jogging.
Garden work.
Garden
work.
You got to do some garden work.
Yeah.
I mean, but it's,
I mean, we just talked about, you know, heat, wellness, heat, awareness.
Yeah, right.
What's today going to be?
75, you know, maybe 78.
Not a bad day.
It's overcast.
I believe on Monday, though, like 85, 89.
Again, if you're saying, hey, I'm going to do this on Monday, you got to make sure you're hydrating yourself beforehand.
How much do you need to hydrate?
And it's tough because, you know, what a lot of times, if you do an activity, weigh yourself and then weigh it after, and if you lose, let's say, five pounds,
you really need to say, I need to drink 10, 8 to 10 ounces of water throughout the day to replenish what you needed.
You also may need your electrolytes.
So there's a lot of, there's a lot of different liquids you can put.
We've talked about this.
It's the same thing with eating, you know, make sure you're, you know, you're going to run the bow and run.
You don't need to have a huge breakfast.
before you run, but have something in your stomach.
And let's remind people to stretch before.
Everybody stretches after, because that's what we did when we were in school.
Just
stretch after, but, right?
I don't know about gardening if you stretch before, but you don't want to, right?
I mean, that's a big part of
working out.
Last week and I was putting on a deck, my wife said, one, sunscreen, two, make sure you're ready for it, because trust me, I just turned 51 years old yesterday and my body
was feeling it.
Oh, happy birthday.
Thank
you.
But it was, I mean, my wife's just saying,
And she was gone and she was worried.
Sunscreen, making sure you're taking care of yourself.
And the other thing she reminded, there's food in the fridge.
She knows that I don't stop and eat sometimes.
You have to.
You have to put that energy back in.
So it's just being smart.
So Mino's off today.
Normally he would sing Happy Birthday to you, right?
So Jim, do you want to take a step in?
I
will defer to the long-standing host of this show.
And he'll be back on Monday, on Wednesday, Thursday.
Anyway, you brought up something earlier, though, that I think runs counter to what most people think.
And you say, eat something before you go out and run.
That's great advice.
Yeah.
You got to have that
energy.
That's in the tank.
Mark, thanks for all you're doing.
We'll talk more next week when you're in here.
Still time to participate in the Bellin.
Just go to the website.
You can
watch it.
You can
write what he'd seven eight if you're nine ten minute mile.
There you go.
Still cool.
All right.
Thanks for coming in.
All right.
Mark
Houston
with with Eplify Health Bellin Sports Medicine.
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Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Alright, welcome back everybody with Daryl Burnett and Jim Schmidt.
Johnny's out for a couple days.
So America's past time, right?
We, everybody loves baseball.
And right here in Green Bay, in Joanne's Park, which we're just telling me Ken is 96 years old, which is terrific.
That's where you guys play.
We have Ken, Leo, and James.
Is it Bornek?
Bornek.
Bornek, I got that right.
All right.
From the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
Yeah, you're throwing out that first pitch pretty soon.
So how things going, Ken?
Yeah, really good.
Last night, we had our media scrimmage night, intra squad scrimmage with the guys, red-blue.
I believe blue came out victorious.
Yeah, blue on you.
Yeah, James was on the red team.
Sorry about that.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
But yeah, so last night was a good kickoff.
We had a lot of good turnout with fans and that type of thing.
So I was excited to see that, excited to see the players, obviously, and that.
All that going on.
But opening night, next Wednesday night against Manitowoc, 7.30 at Joannis.
Terrific.
That's going to be fun.
And we got Guido.
No, he's just going to say, you know what I love about this kind of baseball is it's pure baseball.
You know, the average fan is going to look and go, oh, this guy's got a big contract, whatever.
You're out there for the love of the game and you're looking.
out there to play the game at the highest level you can possibly do and I admire that a lot because baseball was my favorite sport growing up and I have to say of all the sports I miss baseball the most just the camaraderie and all the intricacies that go into the game you know you're prepped before the game you have a great game it's wonderful you have a bad game you can't wait to get out there again tomorrow and do it again so congratulations on what
Almost a century run here.
Yeah, almost a century at Joannies It's a great ballpark to be to be in every night.
It's got a lot of stories to tell and It's good to have some of those older fans come out and tell those stories and talk about what Joannies was to them Whether it was Babe Ruth League or or even the Blue Ribbons, right?
So
those of you who watching on video, it's no
It would be hard to guess who the athlete is
But
James four years at Marion
you
played ball and now you are What position you play here on blue ribbons?
I play first base here, and I played it in college as well.
All right, and Tell me a little bit about your college career was it?
Puff good.
Yeah, I mean I
could pick basketball too, right?
I tried to pick up basketball back in high school and that didn't work out too good my height
was about the only thing I had when it came to the court.
But, um, see, we can't even start with that.
So yeah.
So yeah, I came in as a freshman, when I went to Mary and I came in as a third baseman, then I ended up having some shoulder problems.
And eventually once they realized I was a decent, decent enough hitter, they moved me over to first.
They wanted me to still stay in the lineup, but I couldn't make the throw across the end field anymore, moved me to first base.
Then I played there in my sophomore, junior and senior year that eventually picked up first base for the ribbons.
How does that
work?
How does someone at Marion or Oshkosh get affiliated with you, Kim?
Yeah, so we have a group of coaches who are very dedicated in the recruiting in the off season.
And that really starts from second week in August all the way through right now.
I mean, we're still recruiting for potential arms later on for this summer.
But yeah, we look for those folks.
We know James Bornock from his days at Bayport.
and we really seek out those green bag guys, right?
We want that local talent and there's plenty to be out there, to be had out there.
Good for the fan base too.
Or exactly, right.
Yeah, you know, you know.
Kendi, you have any need for an aging second baseman?
Define aging.
You're looking at him.
All right, got it, got it, okay.
Maybe.
You know, it's so amazing.
And Jim, that was a great question because the game itself has changed so much.
Now,
Pitchers are grown where they're throwing as hard as they can for as long as they can they're not pacing themselves as a hitter that must make it Extremely difficult for you James.
Yeah.
Yeah, so you say obviously I mean I've been playing baseball for a while So I face a lot of different pitchers, but now with the way they're trying to get them to throw is is Just like you simply like you said throw it as hard as you can So when when you walk up to the plate and you got a pitcher who's really just trying to throw it hard
It's almost harder as a hitter because he's throwing the ball all over the place.
He's not really, you know, in one specific part of the strike zone.
So it makes it a little more difficult because, you know, this guy's just going to go up there and throw it as hard as he can.
And you have no idea where the pitch is going to be and makes it harder to hit.
So
this is your first year with the Blue Ribbons.
This is my fourth.
Well, so we just got a text in here from Owen who said, hey, the Blue Ribbons aren't they the Wisconsin State League 2024 champions?
We're the new bowl.
2024 champions.
We just won it last summer.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Congrats to you guys.
That was exciting.
Congratulations.
Did you have a dry
spell before that?
We did.
Yeah, we were dry for about 10, 12 years.
Right.
That
must be awesome
to win, man.
And then that just goes back to the coaches, the players like James, dedicating themselves to the program.
And we were super excited to pull that out and make it work.
So families that want to come to that, you're still
Priced right you're not over a hundred dollars like
no not over a hundred dollars Like the hot dogs aren't nine dollars right right adults three dollars to get in That's awesome.
That's awesome.
Say that again three dollars adults three dollars right.
Yeah Wow, you know entertainment.
That's a good environment to exactly right and we we try to and my wife who runs the concessions both of us try to Gear family of four we're gonna feed you and get you into a game for 20 bucks.
That's what we want to do.
Yeah that I mean come on
And like you said, that's a cool stadium, great sight lines, and just a really fun environment.
I mean, I like that place.
It's a classic baseball, classic baseball.
Yeah,
that's cool.
Did you play as well?
I did, yeah, all the way through junior college.
And then Stop got married, had kids, and then here I am running a team.
So you're the president?
Yeah.
Wow.
You see everything, right?
They all report to you, the
recruiter guys, the possessions.
Yeah, they all filter up to me in some way.
I kind of let them have free reign as long as things don't get out of hand.
Yeah,
I'm a good manager.
Yeah, right.
Just let them do their thing.
City treating
you all right?
I think they're doing pretty good.
Yeah, doing really good.
Yeah, doing really good.
We've got a couple of projects at Joannis right now that I think are in the hopper that I think hopefully knock on wood will go through committee and that type of thing.
But yeah.
Yeah, you want to preserve those old.
I'm
a history
buff,
you know exactly right now
96 years and four years celebrating their hundredth year.
That's cool Coming soon to that.
Yeah, there's so many leagues out there James What is the next step for you and for that matter your teammates?
Well, you see so we all obviously like we all like playing for the ribbons But when you're younger, you know, you're always trying to keep progressing and I want to play baseball as long as I can so When you're younger and still going through college the next step would be the Northwoods league That's where you play like they're
the Wisconsin Rapids Raptors, Doc Spiders, Green Bay Rockers right over here.
That would be the next summer step up.
But for me, since I'm done with college, now I have to look towards like independent league, which those guys actually start making a little bit of money when they're playing and it's like a hundred, 200 bucks a week.
But if I'm getting paid like 200 bucks a week to still play baseball, that that's more than enough for me.
You know, I, like I said, I want to play as long as I can.
So whatever, whatever details that is.
And
Jim, that's the
purity of the game right there.
We're just
Yeah.
Talking about doing what you love.
Yeah.
And some people don't and like, you're not doing it for the money, but it's okay when you make money.
Right.
Right.
I love that philosophy.
So that's cool.
Well, you say man, your team, how many people will advance or if they want to do that?
Is that does that
happen?
Yeah, yeah, it happens.
We over the last couple of summers, we've had a lot of guys promoted up to the Northwoods League.
Unfortunately, as a hitter, you can't go up after you graduate from college as a pitcher.
You can for one more summer.
So it's a little different because that league, well, pretty much every baseball team on the planet is always looking for more pitching.
It's just that the baseball thing.
But we've had a lot of guys, including myself, get bumped up to the North Woods for like second half of the summer contracts or the last like two weeks.
I mean, I don't even have the number.
It's it's been a good amount.
Yeah.
Since I've been on the board for the last four years, we've had at least 20 guys go up to the Northwoods.
And we've actually had a couple, a couple of guys scouted by pro scouts.
That
speaks to the quality of kind of baseballs being played right here.
Yeah.
And just to remind our listeners that Joannis, which is great parking, easy to get to, you have 17 home games, 17 home dates.
Yeah.
So.
Think about that, Darryl.
You can go to every game for $51.
Right.
You can't go anywhere else for that.
You can't go to a good basketball game.
Our season pass, $30.
Oh, the season?
We have a season pass for $30.
Otherwise, yeah, you're right, $51.
That's incredible.
And what a
fun thing to do.
And you know, just to do something a little bit different, but be outside, right?
I mean, that's it's cool.
It
could be a
date night or it can just go with your buddies.
And you know, a lot of people that I
walk through or I talk to and walk through the stadium.
They're not, they're just talking baseball, right?
They're there to date night, casual, just conversations.
And that's what it's all about.
And it's really important
that families spend time together.
Exactly right.
And the affordability I think is important to a lot of people.
Yeah, that's very cool.
Do you have a liquor license there?
We do.
Oh, okay.
So
it is it is baseball.
Yeah, two dollars because we are the blue ribbons, right?
I know you're the pass that it over.
So we got PBRs in the can obviously for two dollars, right?
We have a every once in a while we have a strikeout batter during the game.
If he strikes out two for one PBRs.
So, dollar PBRs, that's pretty awesome.
I think it's interesting that the first question Jim comes up with is, you've got
to
liquor
license.
There's
some
places that don't remember what a hassle was over GB.
Oh, yeah, right, right,
right.
I
totally
understand.
I get
pretty comfortable with that.
I want
to clarify here, the strikeout promotion is the visiting team,
right?
Yes.
Oh, yeah.
I just want to do a nuclear.
No, man, we're not going to.
I'm not going to throw that on Jane.
We're not going to throw that on Jane.
We don't need that.
And honestly, it wouldn't go very well.
He's a pretty good hitter.
So it wouldn't go well.
Got some power, I guess, too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I would classify myself as more of a power hitter over the last, well, this is my fourth summer over the last three summers.
I think I had 18 home runs for the team.
Right.
Climbing the leaderboard all-time leader, right?
Yeah, all time all time in a a couple of things Wow, thanks
for bringing this
guy.
I mean, I walk
he'd look he'd look athletic.
I didn't know you're all time Wow,
right?
Yeah, and I'm just the plan is to keep making that number higher So hopefully one day nobody
passes you get put a little bit of show when you get up to like point, you know
Sometimes sometimes if it's a no doubter
Give it a little extra enthusiasm when I'm walking around.
Oh, you know when James hits it.
It's
pretty awesome to watch.
All right.
When you start the competition,
your
league, is there?
Yeah.
So our Nuba League that we won last year.
What does Nuba stand for?
I should know that.
Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League.
So pretty straightforward.
And that league, it consists of Sheboygan, Appleton, Monashia, Greenville, us, obviously, and Key Wascom.
And then we play in the Wisconsin State League.
And that consists also of Sheboygan, us.
We actually traveled down to Kenosha, Burlington and West Alice and play teams like that down there.
So yeah, it's, it's competitive baseball.
It's probably some of the best baseball in all Wisconsin.
So
anybody that you don't like,
that's like a little bit better.
Are they, are they, uh, I mean, we have our rivals in each league.
I think Sheboygan right now is our rival in both leagues, right?
Because we compete.
in the standings in both sides.
So I think Sheboygan right now is our rival.
I like that.
Are there any players who come through unconventional routes like they didn't go to college?
It wasn't their thing.
Who are now using this as an outlet for them?
Or are you basically the standard ball player you're going to see in this league?
Well, we hit.
So the majority of our team is either high school players coming out, coming out.
people just getting done with high school transitioning to college.
And that's why it's a little more beneficial to have some guys like me who I just got done with college.
I can kind of show these younger guys the ropes, kind of show them how college baseball is going to be an introduced into that.
But we do occasionally get some guys who haven't or maybe they've been out of baseball for a year or two and they come out and they we have like a little tryout.
You can say for them.
And if if they end up, I guess, making it, they make it.
But I would say the majority of the team is either college ball players or
High school people, they just graduated.
Wonderful.
Can you guys
stick around?
A few more questions on that.
Engaging the youth and, you
know, it's
competitive.
And I
want to talk to you, James, especially about, did you play one sport?
Did you play four sports?
Parents are always like, you know, they pick a lane.
I want my kid to be in the Hall of Fame, but doctors will tell you it's better you play all four.
And we'll talk about that.
And Ken Leal, who's the president, of course, of the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
Darrell and the mayor will be right
back.
All right, welcome back, everybody.
We are Talking Baseball with Dale Burnett, Jim Schmidt as the host and our special guests that are in-house right now talking baseball.
Ken Leo, who's the president of the Green Bay Blue Ribbons, and James Borek, who is the all-time home run hitter.
I think that's awesome.
I do.
A little bit of a chick magnet, too.
Oh, no, no.
I didn't say chick magnet.
Whatever.
Hey, I wanted to ask you, though, James, because we have...
Talk a lot of sports in this in this community And some parents stick to one sport
right
kid gets really really good boys and girls, right?
Yeah, and other ones I just know Carol good.
They are I wanted to be exposed to all the mud What was your track?
What are you?
I don't know what you did boss.
I want to know what your advice is.
Yeah, so Basically well what my parents had told me that from like the age or one of one or two I I picked up a bat and just started swinging it
Um, so I pretty much grew up playing baseball my whole life.
That was, that was about the only thing I did.
Um, all the way up until like freshman year at high school, I tried out for the basketball team when I got here and I, I didn't make it.
So I was like, all right, I'll just stick with baseball, played baseball, my freshman sophomore and junior year of high school.
And then just randomly decided to pick up bowling my senior year.
Um, I had a real close friend who was on the bowling team and he was pretty good.
So we'd always go, um,
We'd always go to a bowling, bowling alley and play together.
And I was like, Hey, I kind of, kind of like doing this.
You know, it's kind of fun.
So I bold for Bayport senior year.
Then I got to Marion and just played baseball for four years.
So for the most part, just a baseball player.
I love golfing, um, but I can't hit the ball very straight as, as some people probably struggle going on.
Yeah.
Jim, isn't it interesting to see the pride in Ken's face,
you know,
when you see how a young man like this.
not only handles himself on the baseball field, but prepares himself for not only a situation like this, but for life.
I mean, that has to be a great feeling for you.
It's awesome to see him especially grow up in the program and just see him year after year after year grow up.
And actually now he's, we just talked about this in the lobby.
He's one of the older guys on the team.
21.
Oh my gosh.
Right.
I mean,
that is.
He's aged.
You come in here with a cane this morning, did your games?
Yeah.
And now, and now the younger guys who we have coming in who graduated senior, you know, from high school and that type of thing that we're bringing in, they look to him and he's the guy now, right?
And that's kind of awesome to see that whole transition.
And I'm glad that you understand that and that you seem like you're a pretty nice guy and you're not going to ignore him because you're big and they're not.
And I think that's, that's very cool.
Marianne Fondelach, what did, what did you study?
I studied exercise sports science.
As my freshman and sophomore year, I was just a majoring in biology.
I got pretty fed up with chemistry classes, decided I didn't want to take chemistry anymore, so I switched to exercise sports science with a psychology minor.
Right now, I'm going to, well, eventually I have to go to school for either physical therapy or athletic training is what I'm on right
now.
The guy that just left, he'll give you his card.
Okay.
Bellen, but Bellen, it's...
It's physical training, but that mental health is a big big thing
right now.
We gotta keep an eye on that That's why that's why I want to add in the psychology minor just in case I want to do anything like sports health and then I can Kick some psychology in there and talk about the mental part of the game too because as a lot of people say baseball is like 90% mental
Wow, Jim you raised the question earlier.
I'm curious.
What role has social media played?
in what the blue ribbons are doing now.
And James, what effect does that have on a ball player?
Yeah.
Social media is honestly great, in my opinion, for the blue ribbons and any ball club.
It spreads the word about what you guys are doing and it shows what we're building over each summer.
I mean, the blue ribbons when I first got here and the blue ribbons now are completely different.
I've been here four years now.
I've grown with the team as well.
But yeah, the publicity is great for the team.
And
the cost, I mean, you guys can't buy TV ads.
I mean, a lot of people can't.
It's just
cool about social
media
and you get a good following.
And that's the positive.
I mean, there's some negatives when they start getting on you, but that's more political than it is baseball.
But it's great to have is that.
Do you post things and look, I hit another home run?
I don't quite
post when I hit home runs or anything, but obviously I do.
Nothing I would.
Did you see that
bat flip when I
hit it loud?
I mean, sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes.
But yeah, whenever the blue ribbons post something, I'll forward it and share it to the people that...
I follow or follow me or whatever.
Yeah, you know,
the power of social media with a nonprofit is huge and it really gets to the community.
And I have more people ask about our social media presence out there rather than just want to whatever have a discussion.
So it's out there.
So as president, Ken, what the future?
You've been around for, what did you say, Joe?
90 years?
96?
96.
The field has.
Yeah.
96.
Yeah.
So what's the future for the Blue Ribbons?
You know, we're looking to always grow.
I think from even where I came from five years ago, I've been on the board for five years.
From where I started to where we are now, we're always looking to grow.
How do we make in Giovanni's a destination?
How do we make this even better than it was two years ago, last year, that type of thing?
So, yeah, we're always looking for improvements.
The older it gets, the more unique it gets and the more attractive
it
is, you
know, you know, Wrigley Fenway.
I mean,
that's just
cool to have.
It's like the Northland Hotel, right?
That's just a cool hotel.
It's also 100 years
old.
Exactly.
And people like that.
And there's a lot of upkeep with the park too, right?
Oh my God.
And it's always, you know, communicating with the city.
This is what we need.
How can we work together and partner together in that situation?
So yeah.
Well, thanks for doing anything else.
No, I was
just going to say in five years, Ken, what would be the perfect outcome?
What would the blue ribbons look like in five years?
Because James, you've talked about the differences in four years.
I'm curious from an administrative.
From an administrative, uh, bigger and better than what we are, you know, from five years from right now, I want players to come to us because we are a James Bornick style baseball.
We are the blue ribbons way.
Uh, it's something that we've wanted to have year over year with our coaches and the recruiting.
Um, I think we just want to have that way about us where people want to come to us rather than us trying to seek out more people.
So, yeah.
Green Bay Blue Ribbons social media.
How do we follow you?
How do we so yeah on the web blue ribbons baseball calm Twitter X whatever you want to call it at GB blue ribbons and then Instagram.
I'm not on the gram.
Are you?
Yeah, I'm on the gram.
I think it's all time hitter.
I'm the
gram.
Blue
Ribbons
baseball.
All
right.
Well, that's
cool.
Yeah.
Thanks for
what both of you are doing.
I
mean, this family thing, the price, everything about it is, is good for Green Bay.
And I appreciate what you're doing.
Thanks for having us.
We'll see you
June
4th.
June 4th.
Home opener, 730.
We will see you there.
All right.
Thank
you.
Ken Leo and James Bordek with the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
We'll be right back.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
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All
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This morning, it's Jim Schmidt, Daryl Burnett, and joining in the studio right now is Mr. Dennis Peters.
All right, we are
all in the house.
Hey,
Dennis.
Dennis, welcome.
Dennis Peters.
Thank you.
I think everyone knows, but for those of you who may not, this guy is with the Glam Band, who is one of the most award-winning band, but when I introduced him to Daryl, and he's like, boy, Daryl's got a great voice.
I'm like, I said to Daryl, you want a great voice?
Dennis Peters is two years in a row waiting for the...
best vocal in the state of Wisconsin.
Outstanding,
congratulations.
He's one of the nicest guys to
whoo.
Like I was saying during the break, I paid a lot of money for that.
People sure, sure love you.
This has been a great morning and we're in our last hour here, Darryl.
But I just really want to thank Lisa Hale for coming on from New Wisco.
I mean, she's got her shows coming up at Saturday at eight and Sunday, of course, at 11.
And then we were followed up by Mark Houston.
Talked about the bell and that's coming up.
It's we're two weeks away from that.
And
I've been
belated, Mark, by the way.
That's right, his birthday was yesterday.
It
was.
51.
He kept it under color.
He did.
He did.
51, that's it.
No, I don't know.
He's a young
buck.
He is.
He is.
And then, of course, we just talked with Ken Leo and James Bornek from the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
And their first pitch is June 4th at Joannis.
It's three dollars
That
guy's gonna go places.
Yeah,
that's he's and he's the all-time home run hitter But he's like the nicest guy just very respectful
just like Dennis.
Yes,
exactly And we're gonna
get
right now.
We're gonna talk about a concert at the Grand So Dennis, I'm glad you're here cuz no one knows music better than you.
Ha Jennifer.
Are you online?
No, I certainly have
guys
Jennifer.
All right, and the groove revival.
So what up?
What's going on with that?
Oh, we're on tour right now, and going to be heading through Oshkosh.
It's going to be a good time.
We're looking forward to it.
How cool is that that you get to play the grand?
Have you played the grand before?
This will be our first time, and I'm very excited.
It looks like a really cool historic venue, so it'll be a
good time.
The acoustics, the sightlight, everything about that.
That is just a very, and I'm glad they put the money into it, because it's easy to, sometimes those things don't last.
And they did a good job.
The city stepped up.
The community stepped up.
And yeah, you're going to love that.
Oh, good.
We're very excited.
It's going to be a great crowd.
And we're looking forward to making our debut in Wisconsin.
All right.
So what can we look forward to?
What kind of music show?
Tell us a little bit more about you.
Yeah, well, we are a blues rock band.
So think of like the 70s and cream and the Rolling Stones, what they were doing back then.
Some great influences
there.
Everybody here is nodding their heads.
So, okay, we're with you.
We're all digging this already.
We're all on board.
We're all on board.
Yeah, we just released a new album.
It's called Retrograde.
So we'll be performing a lot of the music from that album and doing a tip of the hat to a lot of the bands and artists that have come before us and inspired our music.
Jennifer, I can kind of hear it in your voice and gentlemen, I think you can too.
You got a little bit of that grit in there.
Is that kind of the sound we're going to hear?
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, it's gonna be a great night.
We're gonna rock out and the crowd's gonna have a great time and we can't wait to hang out with everybody.
Tell us a little bit about the groove revival.
How many people are in the band?
What kind of instruments you got, Jennifer?
Yeah, we are a five-piece band.
So we've got drums, bass, keys, and two guitars.
And we like to do a lot of dual lead guitar stuff.
So think of like the Almond Brothers.
And yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
So I guess it's a throwback type of sound to the 70s spirit, if you will.
Musically, gear-wise.
I mean, I'm a gearhead, kind of, sort of.
Are you using orange amps, for example, old Ampig amps?
So what are you using these days to capture that sound?
Are you using original old equipment?
Are you using adaptations, hybrids?
I'm
so excited.
I hear
70s
music.
It's like, wow, what do you play with it?
I'm just like, you know,
really, I'm sorry.
They interrupt
you.
I'm so
excited.
The tech side of it.
I can't.
How do you deliver that?
Oh, yeah, I play a Vox amp AC 15.
Which is the the little sister of the ac thirty
oh yeah
which um obviously it's kind of got that vintage sound the Beatles played through that brine may of queen plays uh true box as many and lots of other actual blues rock artists from that time period and uh my bandmate the other guitar player he plays um pretty much exclusively through fender amps old tube amps and uh he plays a gibson less paul and
For this trip, I'll be rockin' with my Fender Stratocaster, so we'll be goin' old school and it's gonna be fun.
Wow.
Jennifer Lin, who's with the Groove Revival, they're playing a concert at the Grand in Oshkosh.
That's comin' up, that's June 2nd.
You sound pretty interesting, you know, all these relevant,
all this
stuff.
Like, how have you been doing this?
It sounds like for a
while.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we've been at it for a while, and believe it or not, we're actually based out of North Dakota doing blues-based music.
And so we've been kind of performing in the upper Midwest.
And like I said, this will be our first time to Wisconsin.
My dad grew up in La Crosse.
I'm really looking forward to heading over that way and rocking out with everybody in
Oshkosh.
I actually got a little sample of some music.
Do you
mind, Jennifer, if I play a little bit of burned it down?
Oh, yeah, sure.
All right.
This is good stuff, guys.
You're going to love this.
Check it out.
I mean tell me right there that that's not good so good stuff.
That lady
has swallowed some soul in her
time.
I'll
tell
you that.
That is fun.
Smooth.
Just as smooth.
Oh my word.
That's really good production by the way too I want to say.
That's awesome.
Jennifer what was- That's actually a-
Pretty old song, so I'm glad you guys dig it.
Yeah, thank you.
I can
really dig that man.
Jennifer, what
was the
inspiration when you picked up the guitar for the first time?
Every musician I've ever known or talked to, singer, has had that one moment or that one video they saw that flipped the switch.
Who was it or what was it for you?
Oh boy, well I grew up in Minnesota and as we know and where we all live there's a lot of snow that happens in the winter time and I was an only child.
So when the snow storms hit it was nothing but boredom because this was pre-internet days and I was watching a special on VH1 and there was a documentary on Bruce Springsteen.
And when I was a kid, I used to write a lot of short stories and I was like, you know what?
I want to do this.
I want to write songs and take my words and put them to music.
And the rest is kind of in history.
So it's all Bruce Springsteen's fault.
A lot of stuff is his fault lately.
Yeah.
Yeah,
right.
You got pretty true.
Well, that's awesome.
So it's a five piece.
five people together or you make some changes throughout?
I started out actually as a trio and then as you know kind of the longer you keep doing it you kind of refine your sound and what it is that you want to be hearing and we went as a four piece which was two guitars based in drums and then we added the the keys about actually kind of during COVID time period is when we added the keys
so it really rounds out our sound.
And it also, for me, feels a lot like, you know, kind of that retro vibe.
Yes, I was just gonna say that, to
me, that
really
makes a difference in the sound.
When you hear that organ kind of sound, that's amazing.
Love that Hammond B3 sound.
Yes.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah,
there's certain things in life, and we've talked about this before on the show, that you cannot improve upon.
And those old Hammond organs, some of those old mics, they just have a richness and a texture that cannot be duplicated.
I don't care how much technology you pour into it.
Sounds great.
Oh, I couldn't agree.
And, you know, the Hammond weighs about 5,000 pounds.
That probably gives it its nice, rich texture.
Are
you drinking the Leslie with you two then or what?
Yeah.
You are?
Well, luckily, well, actually, luckily, thanks to technology, we do have the ability now to not be lugging around, like I said, 5,000 pounds worth of gear.
That's right.
Yeah.
Definitely having that old-school vibe, though, is how we like to go.
We maybe achieve it a little bit different nowadays, but
yeah.
How does a person do that, by the way?
How do you make the switch?
Is it gear-wise?
How do you replace the Leslie?
Um, well, many of the keyboards nowadays, uh, the technology is so great that, that they'll have a basically a Leslie feature actually on just a preset itself.
Okay.
Yeah.
So there's actually kind of looks like a little rolly ball almost that you can kind of manipulate to give it that Leslie sound.
That's kind of
funny.
John's got a rolly ball too that he manipulates to get his sound.
The show is called retro grade.
The spirit of seventies rock returns.
That is Jennifer Lynn in the groove revival Monday nights.
730 at the Grand in Oshkosh.
You can go to thegrandoshkosh.org, click on events, and that's where you can get tickets.
And it's, like you said, Jennifer, great venue.
I've seen so many shows there, and it doesn't matter where you sit, you feel like you're on stage with whoever's performing.
That is a great
venue.
Oh, yeah.
What a voice.
You have a wonderful voice.
You
do, and I look forward to meeting you.
Oh,
thank you so much.
Yeah, likewise.
I look forward to meeting Leslie.
Haha, I didn't know what you were talking about.
Now I do.
All
right, Jennifer, we're so
happy that you're going to be there.
Tell me, where's your next thing?
You got a website so we can kind of follow you.
You have great music.
Yeah,
absolutely.
Yeah, our website is Jaylinndegrooverevival.com.
And if people want to keep tabs on where we're going, we have a couple more dates also in Wisconsin.
And, but yeah, Oshka shall be our first trip to Wisconsin.
And we're looking forward to making the trip here on Monday.
All right.
Do you have any of the other dates in Wisconsin in front of you, or should we just look it up?
Oh, yeah, we actually do.
On the fifth will be in Stevens Point.
Cool.
And June 6th will be in Eau Claire.
Hitting the college towns.
That's awesome, you know.
And they love your music.
Well, everybody loves your music.
Well, this is great.
It's just thanks for bringing us to our community.
I mean, this just sounds like great music.
And as Todd said, you're gonna, you're gonna enjoy playing at the grand.
That is a, that is just a great acoustics and it's got some history to it.
And you're gonna add to that history.
So all right, enjoy your show there.
We will see you on June 2nd and at the grand.
Anything
else you want to add to
that?
No, we're there.
What time does the show start?
It starts at 7 30 and the doors open at 6 30 that day.
Cool.
All right, Jennifer.
Jennifer Lynn and The Groove Revival.
We will see you in Oshkosh on June 2nd at your concert.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you, Jennifer.
Sounds great, guys.
Thanks for having
me.
It's just great to hear these, you know, great voice.
Oh my
gosh,
she rocked it out.
She belongs
on that stage.
Oh my gosh.
And you could hear the duo lead guitars on that song too.
Oh,
indeed, yeah.
Yeah.
And I think that's really cool that
This is nothing, this isn't new.
She was writing stories when she was a little kid and her kid, I shouldn't say a little kid, but a kid and turn that into music and now, she's got a great stage presence.
North Dakota Blues is a real thing.
You
know?
Yeah, I would imagine.
That and Sunflower seeds.
It's a desolate area
for sure.
All right, so we've got, coming up here, we have got Cody James and of course Dennis Peters is in from the Glam Band.
We'll be right back.
Alright Dennis, what
do you think man?
Is
this unbelievable?
I was
right.
North Dakota blue is a thing.
Right.
Yes.
And you can see this live at the
grand.
I'm going Monday
night, 7.30.
Listen to this.
Jennifer Lynn and the group revival.
Hmm.
Oh.
That's a little slide guitar.
Yes.
Wow.
I wonder if she's using like a beer bottle on the, you know, did they ever use beer bottles on their finger for the slide
or show?
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wrote a song about it.
Like,
Dwayne Oman was famous for using a pill bottle.
Oh, that's correct.
Yes.
Yes.
Indeed.
Wow.
They're good.
Jim, we're going into the weeds here like you wouldn't believe in the music.
I think that.
Music would make me go into the weeds too The weekends coming up you guys this is and there's a lot going on in our listening area Oshkosh Appleton Appleton's got a
cool thing going on tonight, that light the market.
I'm gonna get you a little bit more info on that.
That is a cool thing.
It starts at five o'clock, goes to 10 College Avenue.
They just got it going on there.
That city's always got it going on there, right?
Fantastic location too.
So many places to see and check out.
And I'll ask you guys in just a second what you're doing, but just if anybody wants to hang with me this weekend, that Meat Fest is tomorrow.
And she was been on here at the Rush Center.
That is very, very cool.
It's all sorts of
We're kind of foodies here in this part of the world, and they have some cooking competition as well.
They have a kid stage, and they have an adult stage.
They make different things.
I don't know why they put me, they put me on a celebrity judge, which means, like, you kind of know him, but he doesn't
know what he's doing.
You know, that's the category of a
celebrity judges, but I'm doing that, but, you know, they just make different things.
There's this maple, what, sriracha chicken wings at 1030, and then they got this crispy maple mustard.
grilled pork belly at
12, 13 feet.
And these are all pros, right?
They know what they're doing.
They know what they're
doing.
And there's a contest for adults, and I'm not judging that.
That gets pretty serious.
But you'll brighten your beef, they got the chimichangas, they got it.
And
they
also have what's cool, and you can go to it if you want, but they got this whole outdoor beer garden, too.
And tomorrow, the weather's perfect.
I mean,
it'd be nice
inside, but I mean, you got to get outside, too, for a little break.
So that's tomorrow at the rush center, and the doors open there at 11.
So go down there and get your tickets.
This is a great, great event.
And then Sunday, I just want to give a plug for a...
Sunday's breakfast on the farm, right?
And I've been to a million of these things and everyone is better than the previous one.
Sunday, June 1st, and it's from eight to noon.
That's all at wayside.
And we've had those of you who make this an annual event.
It's been out there a couple of times before, but the nicest family on the planet, Dan, who's really running this thing with the family, that's at wayside dairy.
You just go and Google that.
Again, that's a huge breakfast.
for $10 for adults, $5 for kids, and kids under four are free.
But what's cool about that is it's a learning experience.
They show you everything.
They got this unbelievable equipment.
They have just different displays of things that, I mean, a farm is, it's a business.
And
it's an integrated business too.
And it's a lifestyle.
It's a lifestyle.
Amen to that.
And you know, there's great job opportunities.
And it's not just in the barn.
You should get tech.
technologies there.
Just a great place to learn about the industry.
And there's a lot of people there.
I'm gonna get 6,000 people for breakfast.
And they know what they're doing.
That line moves so fast.
So that is a very, very cool thing.
Wonderful place to go.
Yep, it is.
So you gotta go breakfast on the farm.
You gotta go to Meat Fest.
Can I plug where I'm
gonna
be?
Yeah, I wanna
hear what both of you guys are doing.
You know, I'm not nearly on the level with the mayor over here getting invited to judge anything, but we're going to be supporting the car show at diamonds and gold jewelry store over in Bellevue on Sunday.
And it's a wonderful event, very different than other car shows.
They have some whiskey.
tasting.
They have watch displays, chance to win prizes and all of that.
And Adam Funk and the team over there just do a great job for the community.
And so we're going to go support that from the gallery stand for it from 10 to two on Sunday.
What
kind of cars is it going to be like a 50 hundred cars and a whole bunch of people and just bring in cars just for show and tell basically.
Exactly.
Everyone's invited.
So
No judging, just come out, relax, enjoy yourselves, win some prizes, have some great food.
I'm gonna bring my 1976 Pacer, okay?
Yeah, wait, yeah,
wait.
We have the number one spot reserve.
There you go.
Darrell, that's what my dad made me drive
when I was
learning to drive
was a
Pacer.
Talk about
a non-chick magnet.
Yeah.
All right.
Driving
around the base.
Thanks dad.
Yeah, 76 pace or boy
make your kid drive around the pulp mobile.
You're right That's not gonna get attracted.
I have attention
Dennis.
How about you anything going on?
Just happy to be alive my friend.
I got
nothing going on this weekend.
Thank you Lee
And that's nice and I'm okay for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, what's your next gig for the glam
band?
We are at rear X actually at at sardine can next Wednesday.
Yeah, oh farmers market farmers market, right fine, then cheese fest
kicking off uh june is very month in wisconsin right so we'll be uh friday at um it's a it's a busy weekend yeah but yeah
see
Oshkosh, you know, we talked about Discover Oshkosh, you know, because Appleton, but Discover Green Bay, go to their website.
There's a lot of things we're not mentioning here because we don't have time to mention everything, but there's no, don't sit in the home in the house this weekend.
No.
There's too much going
on.
It's a beautiful weekend.
It is.
We've been waiting all winter for this.
We
have.
We have, so we get out there and enjoy
this.
Hasn't this community come so far over the years?
I mean, when you're looking at 2030 things to do, choices.
Right.
in this area, that's amazing.
Even our restaurants and bars, they're trying.
I mean, it's a competitive business, but the live entertainment they have there, it'll be just acoustic guitar, but what Tarle's doing with Tarleton and his other two venues, and of course there's something going on at the Meyer, there's something at the Weidner, and of course I just mentioned the Resch Center has that, and it's a variety of things.
It's not all the same, which is cool about, you know,
something you like you can find and
we just got a text from Terry who says don't forget conscious pilot at Chambers Hill tomorrow afternoon so there's another there's another what time
what time it do you know I
it doesn't
say well you gotta go see conscious pilot my friends in that band are amazing musicians amazing
as good as it getting around here.
All right, so we
discovered, made, discovered Oshkosh.
Look at their websites, discover Appleton and find out what's going on and get out there.
Some of this stuff is very reasonably priced too.
I mean, you can't get it.
No, it's just a great place to be and the weather is going to be perfect for the next week.
So let's all enjoy that.
We are coming back with our might on the mayor music series with Cody James.
We'll be right back.
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It's a free ticket Friday.
Next chance to play kind of after nine o'clock with Jane and Greg Matton air on air.
And I just want to say something about Daryl.
This is the first time since I've been producing this show, which is almost two years.
that one of the hosts actually reminded me to do something.
So thank you for being a true broadcast professional.
He's a pro.
And Darrell, with the voice.
Well, if
I didn't say
it before, the man with the class behind the glass, Todd Michaels is
one of the
best.
And this is not just buttering you up.
The man with the
class behind
the glass.
Full of sass.
I thought he said the class.
Yeah, it's
the class.
You know for my appearances on this show in the past
Todd has always spot on.
And Jim, you talked to before about, you know, having the information when you need it at the right time.
Todd Michaels is that guy.
Yeah, it is.
It's the
show's.
That's the nicest thing anybody here has ever said to me.
So I love you, Darrell.
You can start on Monday.
Okay.
So
he's got this Connie Feldman and Darrell.
I'll tune in.
I'll tune in because he's in love with both of them.
Say, it's Friday and this is our last half hour of the show.
Really, one of our favorite times, not because we're ending our week, but we had a great week this week.
Cody James is in the house and you talk about talent in Northeast Wisconsin.
And we talk about that often because we have a lot of talent here.
But I mean, this guy is born and raised.
He's he's the solo man in Cody James and plays all over.
We're talking about Florida, New Orleans, going to Minneapolis next week.
I want to welcome you.
Welcome.
Hello.
And you are.
Cody James, you're not bringing in three pieces.
You're
the guy.
Yeah, it's just me.
So the solo thing is all me.
I just released a new song a couple of weeks ago and I'm playing drums on it.
I play bass on it.
I produced it at home.
I have a studio at home.
I did everything from the ground up.
No outside influence, you know, except for like the music that I listen to and whatnot.
But yeah, yeah.
Kind of nice when it comes to some of the drama with these bands.
It's extremely nice.
Yeah, I grew up in bands.
I was in punk bands and rock bands and stuff for a long time growing up.
And I went solo in 2018.
And yeah, it's kind of like having three girlfriends, three or four girlfriends, you know, and scheduling and stuff like that.
And it can be a headache.
And actually, I have a band now that's completely separate from Cody James.
And there's five of us.
Yeah, it's a little bit harder to book shows than it is for just myself.
Right.
And you're a full-time musician.
I'm glad to hear that because
I sometimes worry that some of this talent can't really be what they want to be because of finances,
economics, but
you're living.
Yeah, I've been lucky enough to be able to do it.
You know, I think being solo really is kind of the ticket for that with what I'm doing because, you know, I'll do three-hour shows.
You know, I play three or four shows a week generally.
And that kind of pays the bills and everything and I you know I've got kids I've a nine-year-old and seven-year-old I'm married and we got a mortgage and all that stuff and I feel like if I can do it
Anybody can do it.
That's very cool.
I just
we have we're joined here besides Cody, of course Dennis Peter from the glam band who award-winning from the whammy awards Wisconsin vocalist two years running plus your band is one a ton of awards and again, you know Daryl Thanks for being in here.
You know music, you know sports and So we're just gonna have a little conversation with you Cody and then
we're gonna hear
some of your music
cool Cody.
I'm curious.
Yeah Dennis and I were kind of referencing this off the air
the 1960s, you could cut a demo in Chicago and it would be on WLS or WCFL in the afternoon.
It's almost like that again.
I mean, you went through that period where it had to be the record companies and when you say you released a record last week, it must be very freeing for an artist to be able to have
the ability to get it out
there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, especially at my level where I don't have a label and I don't have, you know, anybody's, you know, hands in my pockets or anything, I can do whatever I want.
You know, I can do anything I want and I can, you know, do anything.
And it kind of can be a double-edged sword because anybody can do anything.
So you got to cut through a lot of noise, but you have to, you got to not worry about that.
You know, I'm not doing this to cut through noise, right?
I'm doing this because I'm passionate about music and I have something to say and I want to have
You know really better people's lives and so if I can do that with just one person That's the best success to me.
You know
what an awesome way to live
and I
the reason I say that we just interviewed a guy who's retired after 40 years of News and asked him what what keeps him going what what his purpose is here?
And he said the exact same thing.
Yeah,
I want a better people's life.
Yeah,
that's pretty cool
Yeah, it's a motivation.
You know, I always ask myself.
What is my motivation for doing this?
for anything, you know?
And definitely with music and what I'm doing, I try to keep it as pure as I can, you
know?
I'm
assuming you write your music.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I write, like I said, record, I have a studio right at home.
What I do is I record songs and I edit them and everything and then I'll send them off sometimes for mixing and whatnot.
But this song that just came out 1000 miles is the first single to an album that's coming out September 5th and that's gonna be 100% homegrown.
So I'm gonna do all the mixing, all the mastering and everything.
It's gonna be just me in the room.
What is your writing process?
Elton John says, if he doesn't have it in the first 20 minutes,
he
puts it on a shelf and comes back to it later.
Jackson Brown will spend years writing a song.
What is your process?
My process is daily
engagement.
So I have well over a year and a half of writing one full page in my journal.
And so just doing that,
keeps me in that realm all the time.
And so when I need to sit down and write lyrics, I can bust some pretty cool stuff out all the time.
I read, I love poetry, I write poetry.
That's a big part of who I am.
And so just being in those realms daily, even for 10 minutes, keeps me in that artistic space.
So it's intentional.
It's very intentional.
So you have your intentional aspect of it where you
have
your disciplines, plus you also have your inspiration that makes...
The magic happens.
I think that's the way to really...
We got
the
words.
Let's put
it to music.
This sounds like it's going to be great.
Go
ahead.
I'm going to take these headphones off.
That's fine.
That's fine.
I'll
grab them for you.
So your song, are you gonna play Thousand Miles?
Yep, this is up on all the streaming services everywhere.
And like I said, it's gonna be on my upcoming album, which is dropping September 5th in your website.
Website is official.
Cody James dot com.
All right.
And how do you monetize your songs?
How do we make you money for your song?
The best way to do it is actually to go to band camp.
It's another streaming site.
The link is TheRealCodyJames.Bandcamp.com.
There, you can purchase music, you can purchase merch, and they are extremely artist-friendly, and so you pretty much get all the money that is sent there.
We're going to talk about that again before we go.
Go ahead.
Yeah, here we go.
Here's 1000 miles.
A thousand cars and a thousand signs A thousand clouds and a thousand pines We're moving close to infinity A thousand rivers, a thousand trees A thousand birds and a thousand bees passed by
This wild frame is home And I want to lose myself with you And I want to love you just like you want me to
A thousand miles in a thousand ways A thousand smiles in one thousand days with you My level of purity beckons your name And I want to lose myself with you
You just like you want me to
A thousand smiles in a thousand waves A thousand miles in one thousand days with you My level of purity backends your name And I want to lose myself
A thousand miles and a thousand smiles A thousand miles and a thousand miles A thousand miles and one thousand smiles
That was awesome.
Thank you.
You got the thousand smiles.
We just got a great text in here.
I don't know if every day has a lot of things to recognize.
Today is Creativity Day.
And
then we got a
text in from, well get this, we got this text in from one of our listeners saying, what an awesome guest to have with you on Creativity Day.
Isn't that cool?
Really inspiring.
Everybody's got 10 minutes a day to be creative.
You just said that.
Nancy from Green Bay.
That's good advice.
It's good space to be in
ten minutes a day.
Yeah, yeah, you know, people think it's gotta be, it has to be some big commitment and you gotta take hours and, I mean, yeah, it takes a long time, you know, but I really believe if you just give yourself that short time daily, no matter what, it makes a huge difference.
It really does.
Same time or just a time?
I like to do it in the morning if I can, but if mornings end up being a little crazy or I don't wake up as early, two kids, I mean, I get up early.
I wake up at five.
Stretch I like to read and then I write with my coffee and if for some reason if I play or I don't you know Wake up that early then I'll do it anytime.
It doesn't matter when Before the kids
wake
up.
Oh, yeah, we still have your piece.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a must.
All right.
It's a must.
This is awesome
But when did you really know that I've got it and not in an egotistical
way, but when I when I was
In elementary school, I knew I was going to be a rock star.
I wanted to be a rock star.
I loved the band Kiss.
They were my favorite band in the whole world, so I wanted long black hair and I wanted to be a huge rock star.
I would write stories about that in school and being a big rock star.
I always knew I loved music.
I don't even remember doing this when I was like three.
My family has memories of me standing in front of this.
Everyone has stereo with big speakers and I'd just be standing there head banging.
I loved the doors.
rock bands like that, you know, all the time.
All right, we gotta pick this up.
This is great.
I mean, it's working.
Whatever you did.
You don't look like KISS from here,
but anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
Not anymore.
All right, Cody
James.
Cody James, Dennis Peters, and of course, Darrell Burnett.
We'll be right
back.
It's Todd's music.
It's
new
favorite.
It is.
Jennifer
Lane and the Groove Revival.
Music more next week.
It is.
We do.
We hit the music.
A couple things.
Cody, we're gonna get back to you in just a second and you're gonna...
Talk a little bit, then play us out.
We only have a few minutes left in the show, but I just want to thank our guest today, you know, Lisa Hale, who is awesome, Mark Houston, who is here, and then Ken and Leo and James Brock from the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
We need to support that team.
And of course, Jennifer Lynn and the group, which we were just playing, was going to be at the Grand in Oshkosh.
And I want to thank you, Darryl.
It's awesome you're here.
You are a great.
guest host because you know all these people you kind of see them and you talk to them I call them and he says yeah I'll do that and so I was gonna thank you for coming in today this has been a lot of fun
it's been a pleasure you've been a great friend over the years and Todd as well and so thank you so much it's been a delight being here
and then before we get back to you Cody just want to my co-host John Minow is out with a little minor minor surgery
so he'll
be back
Thursday next week Friday,
but anyway, yeah, so I want to just give him my regards.
Exactly.
He better be listening.
All
right,
so
he'll be under the knife again.
Cody James.
So as it is right now, you've got shows lined up.
You're going to Minnesota coming up.
Yeah.
But before we even get to that, I forgot to ask.
We talked about Kiss being a motivating factor to
get to,
but was there a person that inspired you to pick up the voice or the
guitar?
It was definitely, like I said, it was definitely Kiss.
I think they were the biggest, the big one in the beginning.
I wanted to be a big rock star, but I loved Nirvana as well.
I remember being in third grade and we're in this big, big Nirvana shirt with baggy pants.
I was always just kind of different from other kids.
for whatever reason and I just knew that I had to pursue it.
I don't know, I just had this thing inside of me that I knew that that's what I was gonna do.
There was never any other option.
There was never a plan B. There was never any of that.
I always just knew.
We're the
same, man.
Kiss Alive is what inspired me to
do
that.
Also on the mamas and papas and the
Beatles and stuff like that.
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cody, I think that's cool what you said about, maybe you were...
not odd man out, but maybe just a little bit different, but you're stuck with it.
Yeah, I think
that's cool.
I hope our kids listen to that
because that's so important.
That is so important.
You have to stick with it.
You have to be okay with being a little bit different.
And you'll find other people who are a little bit different and then
you'll
have your group and you'll be good to go.
And sometimes it'll be tough and sometimes you'll fall on your face and sometimes you'll have embarrassing moments and you'll suck and whatever.
But you have to go through that and to see the other side of
it.
But you know how many of us in this life
didn't have a plan B. Right.
I think sometimes that's the secret.
Don't have a plan B. It really is.
Put everything you have into being plan A.
I agree with that.
And I think that, you know, if you do end like me, I quit my job, my day job in September of 2021.
And with two children, you know, and a mortgage, and like I said, and like everybody else and, you know, things to pay for and bills to pay.
And my whole attitude was, if I don't do this now, when am I going to?
And
if
it doesn't work out.
I can always go get another job.
You can always go get another job.
Kiss, right?
Kiss.
Yeah.
Did you ever see the Halloween special with Paul Lin?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
It lives in my head.
So good.
Love it.
It's on YouTube all the time.
Love it.
Yeah.
That and Phantom
Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park, the worst
movie ever made.
Oh my God.
My ears are still ringing from going with our children to Psycho Circus.
That was my
first concert, yeah.
Really?
Loudest concert I've ever been to in my life.
Yeah, that was like 98 or something.
Wasn't it great?
Yeah.
I grew up with Barbershop, so I'm not in this.
You're like spandex,
makeup.
That's
real
musicianship there, Jim.
That's real musicianship.
Bob Even and the
Baraccio.
Talk about being the weird kid
right here.
So me now, I don't listen to really anything past like 1968 right now.
So I'm all about old blues.
I love Elvis.
I love like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.
There you go.
So I'm kind of there now a little bit.
Okay, a little bit.
All right, so
Dennis.
We had about three minutes.
So let's talk again.
How do we get ahold of your music?
How do you monetize you?
How do we make your living?
Yeah.
So the online way, I guess the best way is, actually not my website.
It is a streaming service called Bandcamp.
So my link is the real Cody James.
dot bandcamp.com Bandcamp spelled with the C, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's so you'll see all my music there.
I have some merch there.
I have shirts.
I've got CDs for sale there.
If you just want to pay a dollar for a song, that's beautiful.
You know, and then I end up getting there.
They're the most fair for artists.
So and they have certain days throughout the year, well, they'll waive all their fees and give the artists all the money.
And so that they're really, really strong.
Yeah, they're a great great resource.
I'm
assuming that is run by a musician.
You
know,
it was, and then it got bought out by like
a video game company or something, but they've still been really nice.
All right.
Well, what do you want to play?
How would you like to bring us out for the weekend?
So I think I released a song.
This is on my EP that came out in November.
It's the only acoustic track on the album.
It's called Wasteland.
And what that is all about is I love to meditate and be all inside of myself and try to figure myself out.
as much as I can and shine a little bit of light in the gooey ooey darkness
that's in there.
And I call that place the Wasteland.
Okay.
And then so I'm always in the Wasteland.
Okay.
And so this song is called Wasteland.
Fantastic.
I need this.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
Thanks for listening.
Take me down to the Wasteland.
Let's cut the path to go.
We can't avoid it forever Confine me in his glow And we need some courage to get there It's dark and ambiguous
But if I contribute my presence Reveal so much of us
And
I fall inside And I fall in stride No fault this time Because I fought this time And I fall inside
strike no fault this time because I fought this time I fought this time
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
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This morning, it's Jim Schmidt, Daryl Burnett, and joining in the studio right now is Mr. Dennis Peters.
All right, we are
all in the house.
Hey,
Dennis.
Dennis, welcome.
Dennis Peters.
Thank you.
I think everyone knows, but for those of you who may not, this guy is with the Glam Band, who is one of the most award-winning band, but when I introduced him to Daryl, and he's like, boy, Daryl's got a great voice.
I'm like, I said to Daryl, you want a great voice?
Dennis Peters is two years in a row waiting for the...
best vocal in the state of Wisconsin.
Outstanding,
congratulations.
He's one of the nicest guys to
whoo.
Like I was saying during the break, I paid a lot of money for that.
People sure, sure love you.
This has been a great morning and we're in our last hour here, Darryl.
But I just really want to thank Lisa Hale for coming on from New Wisco.
I mean, she's got her shows coming up at Saturday at eight and Sunday, of course, at 11.
And then we were followed up by Mark Houston.
Talked about the bell and that's coming up.
It's we're two weeks away from that.
And
I've been
belated, Mark, by the way.
That's right, his birthday was yesterday.
It
was.
51.
He kept it under color.
He did.
He did.
51, that's it.
No, I don't know.
He's a young
buck.
He is.
He is.
And then, of course, we just talked with Ken Leo and James Bornek from the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
And their first pitch is June 4th at Joannis.
It's three dollars
That
guy's gonna go places.
Yeah,
that's he's and he's the all-time home run hitter But he's like the nicest guy just very respectful
just like Dennis.
Yes,
exactly And we're gonna
get
right now.
We're gonna talk about a concert at the Grand So Dennis, I'm glad you're here cuz no one knows music better than you.
Ha Jennifer.
Are you online?
No, I certainly have
guys
Jennifer.
All right, and the groove revival.
So what up?
What's going on with that?
Oh, we're on tour right now, and going to be heading through Oshkosh.
It's going to be a good time.
We're looking forward to it.
How cool is that that you get to play the grand?
Have you played the grand before?
This will be our first time, and I'm very excited.
It looks like a really cool historic venue, so it'll be a
good time.
The acoustics, the sightlight, everything about that.
That is just a very, and I'm glad they put the money into it, because it's easy to, sometimes those things don't last.
And they did a good job.
The city stepped up.
The community stepped up.
And yeah, you're going to love that.
Oh, good.
We're very excited.
It's going to be a great crowd.
And we're looking forward to making our debut in Wisconsin.
All right.
So what can we look forward to?
What kind of music show?
Tell us a little bit more about you.
Yeah, well, we are a blues rock band.
So think of like the 70s and cream and the Rolling Stones, what they were doing back then.
Some great influences
there.
Everybody here is nodding their heads.
So, okay, we're with you.
We're all digging this already.
We're all on board.
We're all on board.
Yeah, we just released a new album.
It's called Retrograde.
So we'll be performing a lot of the music from that album and doing a tip of the hat to a lot of the bands and artists that have come before us and inspired our music.
Jennifer, I can kind of hear it in your voice and gentlemen, I think you can too.
You got a little bit of that grit in there.
Is that kind of the sound we're going to hear?
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, it's gonna be a great night.
We're gonna rock out and the crowd's gonna have a great time and we can't wait to hang out with everybody.
Tell us a little bit about the groove revival.
How many people are in the band?
What kind of instruments you got, Jennifer?
Yeah, we are a five-piece band.
So we've got drums, bass, keys, and two guitars.
And we like to do a lot of dual lead guitar stuff.
So think of like the Almond Brothers.
And yeah, it's gonna be a lot of fun.
So I guess it's a throwback type of sound to the 70s spirit, if you will.
Musically, gear-wise.
I mean, I'm a gearhead, kind of, sort of.
Are you using orange amps, for example, old Ampig amps?
So what are you using these days to capture that sound?
Are you using original old equipment?
Are you using adaptations, hybrids?
I'm
so excited.
I hear
70s
music.
It's like, wow, what do you play with it?
I'm just like, you know,
really, I'm sorry.
They interrupt
you.
I'm so
excited.
The tech side of it.
I can't.
How do you deliver that?
Oh, yeah, I play a Vox amp AC 15.
Which is the the little sister of the ac thirty
oh yeah
which um obviously it's kind of got that vintage sound the Beatles played through that brine may of queen plays uh true box as many and lots of other actual blues rock artists from that time period and uh my bandmate the other guitar player he plays um pretty much exclusively through fender amps old tube amps and uh he plays a gibson less paul and
For this trip, I'll be rockin' with my Fender Stratocaster, so we'll be goin' old school and it's gonna be fun.
Wow.
Jennifer Lin, who's with the Groove Revival, they're playing a concert at the Grand in Oshkosh.
That's comin' up, that's June 2nd.
You sound pretty interesting, you know, all these relevant,
all this
stuff.
Like, how have you been doing this?
It sounds like for a
while.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we've been at it for a while, and believe it or not, we're actually based out of North Dakota doing blues-based music.
And so we've been kind of performing in the upper Midwest.
And like I said, this will be our first time to Wisconsin.
My dad grew up in La Crosse.
I'm really looking forward to heading over that way and rocking out with everybody in
Oshkosh.
I actually got a little sample of some music.
Do you
mind, Jennifer, if I play a little bit of burned it down?
Oh, yeah, sure.
All right.
This is good stuff, guys.
You're going to love this.
Check it out.
I mean tell me right there that that's not good so good stuff.
That lady
has swallowed some soul in her
time.
I'll
tell
you that.
That is fun.
Smooth.
Just as smooth.
Oh my word.
That's really good production by the way too I want to say.
That's awesome.
Jennifer what was- That's actually a-
Pretty old song, so I'm glad you guys dig it.
Yeah, thank you.
I can
really dig that man.
Jennifer, what
was the
inspiration when you picked up the guitar for the first time?
Every musician I've ever known or talked to, singer, has had that one moment or that one video they saw that flipped the switch.
Who was it or what was it for you?
Oh boy, well I grew up in Minnesota and as we know and where we all live there's a lot of snow that happens in the winter time and I was an only child.
So when the snow storms hit it was nothing but boredom because this was pre-internet days and I was watching a special on VH1 and there was a documentary on Bruce Springsteen.
And when I was a kid, I used to write a lot of short stories and I was like, you know what?
I want to do this.
I want to write songs and take my words and put them to music.
And the rest is kind of in history.
So it's all Bruce Springsteen's fault.
A lot of stuff is his fault lately.
Yeah.
Yeah,
right.
You got pretty true.
Well, that's awesome.
So it's a five piece.
five people together or you make some changes throughout?
I started out actually as a trio and then as you know kind of the longer you keep doing it you kind of refine your sound and what it is that you want to be hearing and we went as a four piece which was two guitars based in drums and then we added the the keys about actually kind of during COVID time period is when we added the keys
so it really rounds out our sound.
And it also, for me, feels a lot like, you know, kind of that retro vibe.
Yes, I was just gonna say that, to
me, that
really
makes a difference in the sound.
When you hear that organ kind of sound, that's amazing.
Love that Hammond B3 sound.
Yes.
Yeah, sure.
Yeah,
there's certain things in life, and we've talked about this before on the show, that you cannot improve upon.
And those old Hammond organs, some of those old mics, they just have a richness and a texture that cannot be duplicated.
I don't care how much technology you pour into it.
Sounds great.
Oh, I couldn't agree.
And, you know, the Hammond weighs about 5,000 pounds.
That probably gives it its nice, rich texture.
Are
you drinking the Leslie with you two then or what?
Yeah.
You are?
Well, luckily, well, actually, luckily, thanks to technology, we do have the ability now to not be lugging around, like I said, 5,000 pounds worth of gear.
That's right.
Yeah.
Definitely having that old-school vibe, though, is how we like to go.
We maybe achieve it a little bit different nowadays, but
yeah.
How does a person do that, by the way?
How do you make the switch?
Is it gear-wise?
How do you replace the Leslie?
Um, well, many of the keyboards nowadays, uh, the technology is so great that, that they'll have a basically a Leslie feature actually on just a preset itself.
Okay.
Yeah.
So there's actually kind of looks like a little rolly ball almost that you can kind of manipulate to give it that Leslie sound.
That's kind of
funny.
John's got a rolly ball too that he manipulates to get his sound.
The show is called retro grade.
The spirit of seventies rock returns.
That is Jennifer Lynn in the groove revival Monday nights.
730 at the Grand in Oshkosh.
You can go to thegrandoshkosh.org, click on events, and that's where you can get tickets.
And it's, like you said, Jennifer, great venue.
I've seen so many shows there, and it doesn't matter where you sit, you feel like you're on stage with whoever's performing.
That is a great
venue.
Oh, yeah.
What a voice.
You have a wonderful voice.
You
do, and I look forward to meeting you.
Oh,
thank you so much.
Yeah, likewise.
I look forward to meeting Leslie.
Haha, I didn't know what you were talking about.
Now I do.
All
right, Jennifer, we're so
happy that you're going to be there.
Tell me, where's your next thing?
You got a website so we can kind of follow you.
You have great music.
Yeah,
absolutely.
Yeah, our website is Jaylinndegrooverevival.com.
And if people want to keep tabs on where we're going, we have a couple more dates also in Wisconsin.
And, but yeah, Oshka shall be our first trip to Wisconsin.
And we're looking forward to making the trip here on Monday.
All right.
Do you have any of the other dates in Wisconsin in front of you, or should we just look it up?
Oh, yeah, we actually do.
On the fifth will be in Stevens Point.
Cool.
And June 6th will be in Eau Claire.
Hitting the college towns.
That's awesome, you know.
And they love your music.
Well, everybody loves your music.
Well, this is great.
It's just thanks for bringing us to our community.
I mean, this just sounds like great music.
And as Todd said, you're gonna, you're gonna enjoy playing at the grand.
That is a, that is just a great acoustics and it's got some history to it.
And you're gonna add to that history.
So all right, enjoy your show there.
We will see you on June 2nd and at the grand.
Anything
else you want to add to
that?
No, we're there.
What time does the show start?
It starts at 7 30 and the doors open at 6 30 that day.
Cool.
All right, Jennifer.
Jennifer Lynn and The Groove Revival.
We will see you in Oshkosh on June 2nd at your concert.
Thanks for joining us.
Thank you, Jennifer.
Sounds great, guys.
Thanks for having
me.
It's just great to hear these, you know, great voice.
Oh my
gosh,
she rocked it out.
She belongs
on that stage.
Oh my gosh.
And you could hear the duo lead guitars on that song too.
Oh,
indeed, yeah.
Yeah.
And I think that's really cool that
This is nothing, this isn't new.
She was writing stories when she was a little kid and her kid, I shouldn't say a little kid, but a kid and turn that into music and now, she's got a great stage presence.
North Dakota Blues is a real thing.
You
know?
Yeah, I would imagine.
That and Sunflower seeds.
It's a desolate area
for sure.
All right, so we've got, coming up here, we have got Cody James and of course Dennis Peters is in from the Glam Band.
We'll be right back.
Alright Dennis, what
do you think man?
Is
this unbelievable?
I was
right.
North Dakota blue is a thing.
Right.
Yes.
And you can see this live at the
grand.
I'm going Monday
night, 7.30.
Listen to this.
Jennifer Lynn and the group revival.
Hmm.
Oh.
That's a little slide guitar.
Yes.
Wow.
I wonder if she's using like a beer bottle on the, you know, did they ever use beer bottles on their finger for the slide
or show?
Sure.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wrote a song about it.
Like,
Dwayne Oman was famous for using a pill bottle.
Oh, that's correct.
Yes.
Yes.
Indeed.
Wow.
They're good.
Jim, we're going into the weeds here like you wouldn't believe in the music.
I think that.
Music would make me go into the weeds too The weekends coming up you guys this is and there's a lot going on in our listening area Oshkosh Appleton Appleton's got a
cool thing going on tonight, that light the market.
I'm gonna get you a little bit more info on that.
That is a cool thing.
It starts at five o'clock, goes to 10 College Avenue.
They just got it going on there.
That city's always got it going on there, right?
Fantastic location too.
So many places to see and check out.
And I'll ask you guys in just a second what you're doing, but just if anybody wants to hang with me this weekend, that Meat Fest is tomorrow.
And she was been on here at the Rush Center.
That is very, very cool.
It's all sorts of
We're kind of foodies here in this part of the world, and they have some cooking competition as well.
They have a kid stage, and they have an adult stage.
They make different things.
I don't know why they put me, they put me on a celebrity judge, which means, like, you kind of know him, but he doesn't
know what he's doing.
You know, that's the category of a
celebrity judges, but I'm doing that, but, you know, they just make different things.
There's this maple, what, sriracha chicken wings at 1030, and then they got this crispy maple mustard.
grilled pork belly at
12, 13 feet.
And these are all pros, right?
They know what they're doing.
They know what they're
doing.
And there's a contest for adults, and I'm not judging that.
That gets pretty serious.
But you'll brighten your beef, they got the chimichangas, they got it.
And
they
also have what's cool, and you can go to it if you want, but they got this whole outdoor beer garden, too.
And tomorrow, the weather's perfect.
I mean,
it'd be nice
inside, but I mean, you got to get outside, too, for a little break.
So that's tomorrow at the rush center, and the doors open there at 11.
So go down there and get your tickets.
This is a great, great event.
And then Sunday, I just want to give a plug for a...
Sunday's breakfast on the farm, right?
And I've been to a million of these things and everyone is better than the previous one.
Sunday, June 1st, and it's from eight to noon.
That's all at wayside.
And we've had those of you who make this an annual event.
It's been out there a couple of times before, but the nicest family on the planet, Dan, who's really running this thing with the family, that's at wayside dairy.
You just go and Google that.
Again, that's a huge breakfast.
for $10 for adults, $5 for kids, and kids under four are free.
But what's cool about that is it's a learning experience.
They show you everything.
They got this unbelievable equipment.
They have just different displays of things that, I mean, a farm is, it's a business.
And
it's an integrated business too.
And it's a lifestyle.
It's a lifestyle.
Amen to that.
And you know, there's great job opportunities.
And it's not just in the barn.
You should get tech.
technologies there.
Just a great place to learn about the industry.
And there's a lot of people there.
I'm gonna get 6,000 people for breakfast.
And they know what they're doing.
That line moves so fast.
So that is a very, very cool thing.
Wonderful place to go.
Yep, it is.
So you gotta go breakfast on the farm.
You gotta go to Meat Fest.
Can I plug where I'm
gonna
be?
Yeah, I wanna
hear what both of you guys are doing.
You know, I'm not nearly on the level with the mayor over here getting invited to judge anything, but we're going to be supporting the car show at diamonds and gold jewelry store over in Bellevue on Sunday.
And it's a wonderful event, very different than other car shows.
They have some whiskey.
tasting.
They have watch displays, chance to win prizes and all of that.
And Adam Funk and the team over there just do a great job for the community.
And so we're going to go support that from the gallery stand for it from 10 to two on Sunday.
What
kind of cars is it going to be like a 50 hundred cars and a whole bunch of people and just bring in cars just for show and tell basically.
Exactly.
Everyone's invited.
So
No judging, just come out, relax, enjoy yourselves, win some prizes, have some great food.
I'm gonna bring my 1976 Pacer, okay?
Yeah, wait, yeah,
wait.
We have the number one spot reserve.
There you go.
Darrell, that's what my dad made me drive
when I was
learning to drive
was a
Pacer.
Talk about
a non-chick magnet.
Yeah.
All right.
Driving
around the base.
Thanks dad.
Yeah, 76 pace or boy
make your kid drive around the pulp mobile.
You're right That's not gonna get attracted.
I have attention
Dennis.
How about you anything going on?
Just happy to be alive my friend.
I got
nothing going on this weekend.
Thank you Lee
And that's nice and I'm okay for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, what's your next gig for the glam
band?
We are at rear X actually at at sardine can next Wednesday.
Yeah, oh farmers market farmers market, right fine, then cheese fest
kicking off uh june is very month in wisconsin right so we'll be uh friday at um it's a it's a busy weekend yeah but yeah
see
Oshkosh, you know, we talked about Discover Oshkosh, you know, because Appleton, but Discover Green Bay, go to their website.
There's a lot of things we're not mentioning here because we don't have time to mention everything, but there's no, don't sit in the home in the house this weekend.
No.
There's too much going
on.
It's a beautiful weekend.
It is.
We've been waiting all winter for this.
We
have.
We have, so we get out there and enjoy
this.
Hasn't this community come so far over the years?
I mean, when you're looking at 2030 things to do, choices.
Right.
in this area, that's amazing.
Even our restaurants and bars, they're trying.
I mean, it's a competitive business, but the live entertainment they have there, it'll be just acoustic guitar, but what Tarle's doing with Tarleton and his other two venues, and of course there's something going on at the Meyer, there's something at the Weidner, and of course I just mentioned the Resch Center has that, and it's a variety of things.
It's not all the same, which is cool about, you know,
something you like you can find and
we just got a text from Terry who says don't forget conscious pilot at Chambers Hill tomorrow afternoon so there's another there's another what time
what time it do you know I
it doesn't
say well you gotta go see conscious pilot my friends in that band are amazing musicians amazing
as good as it getting around here.
All right, so we
discovered, made, discovered Oshkosh.
Look at their websites, discover Appleton and find out what's going on and get out there.
Some of this stuff is very reasonably priced too.
I mean, you can't get it.
No, it's just a great place to be and the weather is going to be perfect for the next week.
So let's all enjoy that.
We are coming back with our might on the mayor music series with Cody James.
We'll be right back.
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Next chance to play kind of after nine o'clock with Jane and Greg Matton air on air.
And I just want to say something about Daryl.
This is the first time since I've been producing this show, which is almost two years.
that one of the hosts actually reminded me to do something.
So thank you for being a true broadcast professional.
He's a pro.
And Darrell, with the voice.
Well, if
I didn't say
it before, the man with the class behind the glass, Todd Michaels is
one of the
best.
And this is not just buttering you up.
The man with the
class behind
the glass.
Full of sass.
I thought he said the class.
Yeah, it's
the class.
You know for my appearances on this show in the past
Todd has always spot on.
And Jim, you talked to before about, you know, having the information when you need it at the right time.
Todd Michaels is that guy.
Yeah, it is.
It's the
show's.
That's the nicest thing anybody here has ever said to me.
So I love you, Darrell.
You can start on Monday.
Okay.
So
he's got this Connie Feldman and Darrell.
I'll tune in.
I'll tune in because he's in love with both of them.
Say, it's Friday and this is our last half hour of the show.
Really, one of our favorite times, not because we're ending our week, but we had a great week this week.
Cody James is in the house and you talk about talent in Northeast Wisconsin.
And we talk about that often because we have a lot of talent here.
But I mean, this guy is born and raised.
He's he's the solo man in Cody James and plays all over.
We're talking about Florida, New Orleans, going to Minneapolis next week.
I want to welcome you.
Welcome.
Hello.
And you are.
Cody James, you're not bringing in three pieces.
You're
the guy.
Yeah, it's just me.
So the solo thing is all me.
I just released a new song a couple of weeks ago and I'm playing drums on it.
I play bass on it.
I produced it at home.
I have a studio at home.
I did everything from the ground up.
No outside influence, you know, except for like the music that I listen to and whatnot.
But yeah, yeah.
Kind of nice when it comes to some of the drama with these bands.
It's extremely nice.
Yeah, I grew up in bands.
I was in punk bands and rock bands and stuff for a long time growing up.
And I went solo in 2018.
And yeah, it's kind of like having three girlfriends, three or four girlfriends, you know, and scheduling and stuff like that.
And it can be a headache.
And actually, I have a band now that's completely separate from Cody James.
And there's five of us.
Yeah, it's a little bit harder to book shows than it is for just myself.
Right.
And you're a full-time musician.
I'm glad to hear that because
I sometimes worry that some of this talent can't really be what they want to be because of finances,
economics, but
you're living.
Yeah, I've been lucky enough to be able to do it.
You know, I think being solo really is kind of the ticket for that with what I'm doing because, you know, I'll do three-hour shows.
You know, I play three or four shows a week generally.
And that kind of pays the bills and everything and I you know I've got kids I've a nine-year-old and seven-year-old I'm married and we got a mortgage and all that stuff and I feel like if I can do it
Anybody can do it.
That's very cool.
I just
we have we're joined here besides Cody, of course Dennis Peter from the glam band who award-winning from the whammy awards Wisconsin vocalist two years running plus your band is one a ton of awards and again, you know Daryl Thanks for being in here.
You know music, you know sports and So we're just gonna have a little conversation with you Cody and then
we're gonna hear
some of your music
cool Cody.
I'm curious.
Yeah Dennis and I were kind of referencing this off the air
the 1960s, you could cut a demo in Chicago and it would be on WLS or WCFL in the afternoon.
It's almost like that again.
I mean, you went through that period where it had to be the record companies and when you say you released a record last week, it must be very freeing for an artist to be able to have
the ability to get it out
there.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
You know, especially at my level where I don't have a label and I don't have, you know, anybody's, you know, hands in my pockets or anything, I can do whatever I want.
You know, I can do anything I want and I can, you know, do anything.
And it kind of can be a double-edged sword because anybody can do anything.
So you got to cut through a lot of noise, but you have to, you got to not worry about that.
You know, I'm not doing this to cut through noise, right?
I'm doing this because I'm passionate about music and I have something to say and I want to have
You know really better people's lives and so if I can do that with just one person That's the best success to me.
You know
what an awesome way to live
and I
the reason I say that we just interviewed a guy who's retired after 40 years of News and asked him what what keeps him going what what his purpose is here?
And he said the exact same thing.
Yeah,
I want a better people's life.
Yeah,
that's pretty cool
Yeah, it's a motivation.
You know, I always ask myself.
What is my motivation for doing this?
for anything, you know?
And definitely with music and what I'm doing, I try to keep it as pure as I can, you
know?
I'm
assuming you write your music.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I write, like I said, record, I have a studio right at home.
What I do is I record songs and I edit them and everything and then I'll send them off sometimes for mixing and whatnot.
But this song that just came out 1000 miles is the first single to an album that's coming out September 5th and that's gonna be 100% homegrown.
So I'm gonna do all the mixing, all the mastering and everything.
It's gonna be just me in the room.
What is your writing process?
Elton John says, if he doesn't have it in the first 20 minutes,
he
puts it on a shelf and comes back to it later.
Jackson Brown will spend years writing a song.
What is your process?
My process is daily
engagement.
So I have well over a year and a half of writing one full page in my journal.
And so just doing that,
keeps me in that realm all the time.
And so when I need to sit down and write lyrics, I can bust some pretty cool stuff out all the time.
I read, I love poetry, I write poetry.
That's a big part of who I am.
And so just being in those realms daily, even for 10 minutes, keeps me in that artistic space.
So it's intentional.
It's very intentional.
So you have your intentional aspect of it where you
have
your disciplines, plus you also have your inspiration that makes...
The magic happens.
I think that's the way to really...
We got
the
words.
Let's put
it to music.
This sounds like it's going to be great.
Go
ahead.
I'm going to take these headphones off.
That's fine.
That's fine.
I'll
grab them for you.
So your song, are you gonna play Thousand Miles?
Yep, this is up on all the streaming services everywhere.
And like I said, it's gonna be on my upcoming album, which is dropping September 5th in your website.
Website is official.
Cody James dot com.
All right.
And how do you monetize your songs?
How do we make you money for your song?
The best way to do it is actually to go to band camp.
It's another streaming site.
The link is TheRealCodyJames.Bandcamp.com.
There, you can purchase music, you can purchase merch, and they are extremely artist-friendly, and so you pretty much get all the money that is sent there.
We're going to talk about that again before we go.
Go ahead.
Yeah, here we go.
Here's 1000 miles.
A thousand cars and a thousand signs A thousand clouds and a thousand pines We're moving close to infinity A thousand rivers, a thousand trees A thousand birds and a thousand bees passed by
This wild frame is home And I want to lose myself with you And I want to love you just like you want me to
A thousand miles in a thousand ways A thousand smiles in one thousand days with you My level of purity beckons your name And I want to lose myself with you
You just like you want me to
A thousand smiles in a thousand waves A thousand miles in one thousand days with you My level of purity backends your name And I want to lose myself
A thousand miles and a thousand smiles A thousand miles and a thousand miles A thousand miles and one thousand smiles
That was awesome.
Thank you.
You got the thousand smiles.
We just got a great text in here.
I don't know if every day has a lot of things to recognize.
Today is Creativity Day.
And
then we got a
text in from, well get this, we got this text in from one of our listeners saying, what an awesome guest to have with you on Creativity Day.
Isn't that cool?
Really inspiring.
Everybody's got 10 minutes a day to be creative.
You just said that.
Nancy from Green Bay.
That's good advice.
It's good space to be in
ten minutes a day.
Yeah, yeah, you know, people think it's gotta be, it has to be some big commitment and you gotta take hours and, I mean, yeah, it takes a long time, you know, but I really believe if you just give yourself that short time daily, no matter what, it makes a huge difference.
It really does.
Same time or just a time?
I like to do it in the morning if I can, but if mornings end up being a little crazy or I don't wake up as early, two kids, I mean, I get up early.
I wake up at five.
Stretch I like to read and then I write with my coffee and if for some reason if I play or I don't you know Wake up that early then I'll do it anytime.
It doesn't matter when Before the kids
wake
up.
Oh, yeah, we still have your piece.
Yes.
Yes.
It's a must.
All right.
It's a must.
This is awesome
But when did you really know that I've got it and not in an egotistical
way, but when I when I was
In elementary school, I knew I was going to be a rock star.
I wanted to be a rock star.
I loved the band Kiss.
They were my favorite band in the whole world, so I wanted long black hair and I wanted to be a huge rock star.
I would write stories about that in school and being a big rock star.
I always knew I loved music.
I don't even remember doing this when I was like three.
My family has memories of me standing in front of this.
Everyone has stereo with big speakers and I'd just be standing there head banging.
I loved the doors.
rock bands like that, you know, all the time.
All right, we gotta pick this up.
This is great.
I mean, it's working.
Whatever you did.
You don't look like KISS from here,
but anyway.
Yeah, yeah.
Not anymore.
All right, Cody
James.
Cody James, Dennis Peters, and of course, Darrell Burnett.
We'll be right
back.
It's Todd's music.
It's
new
favorite.
It is.
Jennifer
Lane and the Groove Revival.
Music more next week.
It is.
We do.
We hit the music.
A couple things.
Cody, we're gonna get back to you in just a second and you're gonna...
Talk a little bit, then play us out.
We only have a few minutes left in the show, but I just want to thank our guest today, you know, Lisa Hale, who is awesome, Mark Houston, who is here, and then Ken and Leo and James Brock from the Green Bay Blue Ribbons.
We need to support that team.
And of course, Jennifer Lynn and the group, which we were just playing, was going to be at the Grand in Oshkosh.
And I want to thank you, Darryl.
It's awesome you're here.
You are a great.
guest host because you know all these people you kind of see them and you talk to them I call them and he says yeah I'll do that and so I was gonna thank you for coming in today this has been a lot of fun
it's been a pleasure you've been a great friend over the years and Todd as well and so thank you so much it's been a delight being here
and then before we get back to you Cody just want to my co-host John Minow is out with a little minor minor surgery
so he'll
be back
Thursday next week Friday,
but anyway, yeah, so I want to just give him my regards.
Exactly.
He better be listening.
All
right,
so
he'll be under the knife again.
Cody James.
So as it is right now, you've got shows lined up.
You're going to Minnesota coming up.
Yeah.
But before we even get to that, I forgot to ask.
We talked about Kiss being a motivating factor to
get to,
but was there a person that inspired you to pick up the voice or the
guitar?
It was definitely, like I said, it was definitely Kiss.
I think they were the biggest, the big one in the beginning.
I wanted to be a big rock star, but I loved Nirvana as well.
I remember being in third grade and we're in this big, big Nirvana shirt with baggy pants.
I was always just kind of different from other kids.
for whatever reason and I just knew that I had to pursue it.
I don't know, I just had this thing inside of me that I knew that that's what I was gonna do.
There was never any other option.
There was never a plan B. There was never any of that.
I always just knew.
We're the
same, man.
Kiss Alive is what inspired me to
do
that.
Also on the mamas and papas and the
Beatles and stuff like that.
Oh sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cody, I think that's cool what you said about, maybe you were...
not odd man out, but maybe just a little bit different, but you're stuck with it.
Yeah, I think
that's cool.
I hope our kids listen to that
because that's so important.
That is so important.
You have to stick with it.
You have to be okay with being a little bit different.
And you'll find other people who are a little bit different and then
you'll
have your group and you'll be good to go.
And sometimes it'll be tough and sometimes you'll fall on your face and sometimes you'll have embarrassing moments and you'll suck and whatever.
But you have to go through that and to see the other side of
it.
But you know how many of us in this life
didn't have a plan B. Right.
I think sometimes that's the secret.
Don't have a plan B. It really is.
Put everything you have into being plan A.
I agree with that.
And I think that, you know, if you do end like me, I quit my job, my day job in September of 2021.
And with two children, you know, and a mortgage, and like I said, and like everybody else and, you know, things to pay for and bills to pay.
And my whole attitude was, if I don't do this now, when am I going to?
And
if
it doesn't work out.
I can always go get another job.
You can always go get another job.
Kiss, right?
Kiss.
Yeah.
Did you ever see the Halloween special with Paul Lin?
Oh, yeah.
Absolutely.
It lives in my head.
So good.
Love it.
It's on YouTube all the time.
Love it.
Yeah.
That and Phantom
Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park, the worst
movie ever made.
Oh my God.
My ears are still ringing from going with our children to Psycho Circus.
That was my
first concert, yeah.
Really?
Loudest concert I've ever been to in my life.
Yeah, that was like 98 or something.
Wasn't it great?
Yeah.
I grew up with Barbershop, so I'm not in this.
You're like spandex,
makeup.
That's
real
musicianship there, Jim.
That's real musicianship.
Bob Even and the
Baraccio.
Talk about being the weird kid
right here.
So me now, I don't listen to really anything past like 1968 right now.
So I'm all about old blues.
I love Elvis.
I love like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.
There you go.
So I'm kind of there now a little bit.
Okay, a little bit.
All right, so
Dennis.
We had about three minutes.
So let's talk again.
How do we get ahold of your music?
How do you monetize you?
How do we make your living?
Yeah.
So the online way, I guess the best way is, actually not my website.
It is a streaming service called Bandcamp.
So my link is the real Cody James.
dot bandcamp.com Bandcamp spelled with the C, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it's so you'll see all my music there.
I have some merch there.
I have shirts.
I've got CDs for sale there.
If you just want to pay a dollar for a song, that's beautiful.
You know, and then I end up getting there.
They're the most fair for artists.
So and they have certain days throughout the year, well, they'll waive all their fees and give the artists all the money.
And so that they're really, really strong.
Yeah, they're a great great resource.
I'm
assuming that is run by a musician.
You
know,
it was, and then it got bought out by like
a video game company or something, but they've still been really nice.
All right.
Well, what do you want to play?
How would you like to bring us out for the weekend?
So I think I released a song.
This is on my EP that came out in November.
It's the only acoustic track on the album.
It's called Wasteland.
And what that is all about is I love to meditate and be all inside of myself and try to figure myself out.
as much as I can and shine a little bit of light in the gooey ooey darkness
that's in there.
And I call that place the Wasteland.
Okay.
And then so I'm always in the Wasteland.
Okay.
And so this song is called Wasteland.
Fantastic.
I need this.
Have a good weekend, everyone.
Thanks for listening.
Take me down to the Wasteland.
Let's cut the path to go.
We can't avoid it forever Confine me in his glow And we need some courage to get there It's dark and ambiguous
But if I contribute my presence Reveal so much of us
And
I fall inside And I fall in stride No fault this time Because I fought this time And I fall inside
strike no fault this time because I fought this time I fought this time