Gossip, Gardens, and Good Neighbors (Hour 1)

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Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And here are your hosts.

John Minow, and Jim Schmidt.

All right, good morning,

everybody.

Back by popular demand, it's Jim Schmidt and Connie Feldman.

Connie and the mayor this morning.

Thank you for coming back.

Oh, it's great to be here.

We had so much fun last week, Jim.

And we got some nice

texts on you, too.

So welcome.

This is going

to be a

fun day today.

And we're starting off with great weather, right?

Green Bay, 56, Appleton 52, and Oshkosh 52.

Oh, pretty close.

Do you see the high today?

70 something?

No, 82.

Are you kidding me?

Oh, we got to get out of here and go play.

Well, no,

no, we're gonna, we got an exit plan coming up.

Did you see what you read?

This is today is leave the office early day.

So Todd was about 630.

What time we leave in 630 quarter to 7?

Well,

we'll

be out of here.

It's

pretty much when the show

wraps up

anyway.

Most

morning.

It's going to be that kind of a Monday morning.

It

might

be.

I'm sorry.

But this, this weather, like we're there.

Yeah.

What a gorgeous weekend it was out.

Yep, I'm just digging this.

Are you a gardener?

Well, I'm a wannabe gardener.

Todd, you're a gardener.

Yeah.

My wife's a big gardener.

Yeah.

And our neighbors are.

And you know what I think is cool about gardening is even though what somebody could afford to maybe get a gardener, you'd like to do it yourself.

Oh, I do love

it.

That is a do it yourself

thing.

I love being out there.

Yeah.

Hired out, but she

didn't see how

he started that

You know my challenge this year's I'm trying to get our grass to grow.

I mean, it's you know, we have clay Green Bay's got a lot of clay and I'm bound to determine I've been out there every day, you know, I'm overseeding and watering and sprouting and

Now that I do I would admit I do find that out but it is

Those guys know what they're doing and you've got to, it's a process.

It's not like one

thing.

So maybe if you want to go to Liza or somebody and just ask them, how do I get a putting green?

Yeah, but

it takes a while.

But that garden, I really think that's an interesting thing because if you have the resources, you don't really wash your own windows and you don't really clean your house.

Well,

I don't know about you, Jim.

No, I want to make a point here

because

People can afford to get a somebody do their their whatever Draniums or whatever you guys put in there and they and they don't and the reason we were in Miami And we took one of those tours.

I like looking at houses.

Yeah,

so we took a house tour and this guy is out there working and he is on it just in his garden this trim and trees and It wasn't a gardener.

I mean it was yeah, and he is the guy who is the president.

He's got a

unbelievably home right in the peninsula, the company that makes Viagra.

So he made a fortune,

an absolute fortune.

And there's a lot of entertainers along there too.

Now, maybe they farm it out, but not farm it out, but they have people do it.

But I just am amazed by how many people, even our neighborhood, you drive around our neighborhood, there's just a lot of neighbors working in

And they love

it.

We bought our house.

The woman who lived there before us was a premier gardener.

All I heard of was, oh, wow, Linda was out there all the time in the garden.

And she had the entire gardens around her house all mapped out.

She gave me the grid to find out this plant is here.

And I've tried to keep up with it.

I really have.

You might have to bring her

back.

Do you feel like you're disappointing the neighbors?

I do.

I do.

I felt all the pressure.

Oh, and Linda was

here.

Yeah, I'm not the one out there.

She was out there all day, every day I heard, you know.

I was out there this morning.

This morning before.

Yeah, it's so nice

out.

And she,

yeah.

I spent some time.

I had to redo some porch steps and do some painting in my house.

I was out there.

Now.

Jim, you know this, Connie, you probably don't.

But I really don't know my neighbors, right?

I know, I know one person who lives next to me two lots over.

I know her name is Holly.

Other than that, I don't know.

And that

I really like it

that

way.

So yeah, Todd is not

the president of Neighborhood

Watch.

No, no,

don't even let people load on the sidewalk or something when I'm driving by.

I look the other way like I'm, you know, looking for something in the trees.

But so I'm out there and I'm doing some work.

Two people came up.

to talk to me, two neighbors, right?

But it was because they had gossip about somebody down the street,

right?

Oh, did you hear about so and so and such and

such?

His car was there, too.

Yeah, right.

Yeah.

Well, they came in and they cleared the house out.

Okay, great.

Thanks.

Bye.

You know,

so I was out there trying to enjoy the weather and people were bothering me.

Oh,

yeah.

Do you have

a

front porch?

I do.

Okay.

And that, that's the way.

A lot of old homes.

I mean, I will you're gonna come over on the 17th where I remember a party big

month is playing right

across the street

Oh,

and Jim arts is coming over.

Yeah.

Oh, you're on vacation that week.

Yeah, I'll be gone.

Yeah Anyway, we have a lot of front porches and that's I think how people go.

Yeah, we're all over neighborhoods We've had someone on here from the Green Bay neighborhood association.

There's like 40 different neighborhoods in in Green Bay and

You know, if people get to know each other and they have like a block party, like in the

old days

or just a neighborhood, you know, the city will pay for, well, not alcohol, but we would pay for like the food,

the

ones, that kind of stuff.

I don't know what the limit is on that.

Neighbors knowing each other reduces crime.

And

that's

the reason we do it, but we also want them to know each other.

Well, you know what?

So you're not

going to be, you're not going to run for city council.

Absolutely not.

He's the only boy who's going to get his hollies.

I told this

story and I don't mean to take time away from you, Connie, but when I lived in my other house in Oshkosh, I had a very old house and it was a doctor's house.

So the doors automatically locked.

You always had to have your keys with you.

Okay.

Well, I left and forgot my keys.

So I had to get in the house.

There was this box on the door.

from where the chemist or the pharmacy would drop off drugs

and the

door automatically locks and then you can open it on the inside.

And then when that closes, that locks all the, you know, the whole thing.

So I thought the only, I'm not breaking these old windows.

I'm just not going to do it.

I'm going to bust open this box.

The only thing

I,

the only

thing I really

had in my garage that I could use was an axe.

So I'm out there prying away.

Now I'd lived in the house for like three years at this point.

But you wonder why the neighbors don't want to talk to

them.

So I'm sitting there, apparently my neighbors who don't know who I am saw me breaking into the house because all of a sudden I heard, sir, drop the weapon.

And

I turned around and there were three cops in my driveway

with their guns drawn.

Now, those are

good neighbors.

It was my

neighbor Kitty Corner for me

who had never

met me before.

Who called the cops?

Okay.

Can you blame her?

You know a guy that looks like you with an axe getting in a house?

That's okay, Jim.

You know what?

Do you know in our neighborhood?

I know everyone's dogs.

Yes.

I know their dogs by name.

Great way to

meet neighbors.

Then I have to try and remember what's the dog's parents name?

Yeah, but they know my dog by name too.

I don't know that they know who I am.

That's cool walking your dog.

You know our neighbors, well we get along with our neighbors pretty well, but it

I think that's kind of important, but you know, Todd, you're a little bit of a... Enhaxman.

Bubble?

No, no, bubble or recluse, whatever.

I'm not a recluse.

I just... I

don't like people.

Right.

I have said that.

Anyway, that yesterday, I just couldn't believe all the people that were working outside.

We're going to get to this a little bit later, but also yesterday, breakfast on the farm.

A lot.

Oh, what a beautiful day for

it.

Yeah, 6,000 people.

Wow.

You know what I mean?

In four hours.

About that far?

Well, they

started a little bit early, like at 7.30.

But it's really four hours to get all, and then one of our, you know, they make those eggs and those huge, they look like satellite dishes, you know, and they're scraping that.

And one of them went down.

Oh no.

Think about that.

Think if you have four of those and one went down.

Like if you had a machine,

that was

a capacity, and one went down.

So.

Just that wasn't bad, but a little weight on the eggs.

And they're stirring them with dust pans.

You know,

that's anyway, we'll get to that because that was pretty cool.

I'm so glad they had a great turnout.

That's such an important event.

Yeah.

And, you know, we were talking to, you know, there's four age kids and stuff there, but I was with, is it Miss Dairyland?

Is that it?

Yeah, Miss Dairyland.

Alice in

Dairyland.

So I was with her.

And she still says she gets that question that

from adults too.

I was like, oh, those kids, adults, that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

She still

doesn't.

Okay, Connie.

Yes.

And the other.

She really enjoys talking to schools because she talks about, especially those of us who live in the hood, they maybe don't have that connection to farms.

So

it's important.

Well, we were talking about that last week, how important it is to know where the food comes from.

And this is such a great opportunity.

I was reading about that farm has been in business since the 1800s in Wisconsin.

And that's how long local farms go back in this community.

So to get out there and check out everything they do and see it up close and where chocolate milk really does come

from.

So

I think we

have, we're gonna get to that.

We have some audio that I took.

I'm not, you know, Mr. Interview, you know that I, but I took, I gave it.

I don't know.

Wish I would have known that before we hired you.

I know.

I'll tell you something I did Friday.

Friday night there was an event at the Mulva Center.

And we've had them on here and they want to come back and they listen to our show.

That is the cultural center to hear.

beautiful building.

Yes.

Um, have you been there?

I have not yet.

But you've been by there.

Everybody knows where it is.

Yeah.

And we're, they were talking about that.

Um, I think it's too, it's a little intimidating.

Like maybe I don't, they just aren't getting the public to come in like they had hoped.

So

we really helpful with

that.

I, I, we're trying to figure that out.

Is it, it is, it's, it's, you know,

It's a big building.

Are you not highbrow enough?

Well, I know.

I didn't want it to be that.

That's not why they built it.

But I wonder if

people think

that.

I

wonder if people think it's

too highbrow for me,

you

know?

And I think, but if you look at the events they've got going

on,

it's for everybody.

It's totally for everybody.

Well, Jim goes there, you know.

You know, he hires out his garden.

I don't know.

I'm not left with that.

But they're really trying to do that.

And the director,

we should help him out.

Yeah.

And he's going to come on here.

We've had the marketing.

I forgot her name twice, but he wants to come on here.

That's one of his, I don't know if they say it's a challenge, but they want to get more people there,

and I don't

blame

them.

Well, when we talk about everything there is to do in Northeast Wisconsin, it's not just about football, it's not just about cheese.

That's one of the things.

We have some real cultural gems in this area, and we need to promote that a little bit more.

People need to be aware of it.

That

is our job.

Anyway, so that was that was a cool event but I just want to tell you why I was there It was private event because you can rent it out too.

I was rented out by Berkstrom Yeah, they need to become a sponsor of ours.

They're great people.

Yeah, and of course they have so they brought in their You know the Porsches the Mercedes they had like 30 cars parked up there in the building and on the terrace neat I think the cheapest car there was 67,000 but they went up from there and it was just kind of an open house

And I talked to a friend of mine, and he said, yeah, I'm going to buy one of these.

Like, wow.

So anyway, it was a very cool event.

But it was nice to get in there and see that.

You can use it for things like that.

But like Todd said, it's mostly

for like a library.

It's like, come on, use this place.

There's movies, there's so much to do there.

So anyway, yeah, we gotta get them back on here

though.

Got a couple of texts coming in this morning.

Vicki says, good morning everybody.

Terry says, enjoy the wildfire smoke.

Coming

this way.

Well he

asks how Mino's doing.

And I spoke with Mino on Friday.

He's doing relatively well, I think.

Gave him the weekend to kind of rest up.

I'll call him and see how he's doing today.

Hopefully he'll be back on Thursday.

And then Brian said so.

Did she answer your question about the chocolate milk,

Jim?

He digs pretty deep.

What did she say?

You know, about the chocolate milk, does it come from Broncos?

He thinks I asked the question.

I'm sure you did.

Good morning, Vicky.

But her reign is kind of ending in, what, six weeks or so?

But oh my god, what they do.

get her on here too.

The traveling they do, the schools they go to, the

events

they do, you know, a lot of them.

Anyway, that was a lot of fun.

So let's, well, today we got a lot to do today, but let's talk about what Monday is, Connie.

You want to just mention, we got one minute here.

We'll just start with rotisserie.

Rotisserie

chicken

day.

Okay, so do you cook on a rotisserie?

I don't, but I will always get the rotisserie chicken.

at the store, and you can make, you know, five meals out of that.

Really?

I'll eat the whole thing in one

second.

I know,

on the way home.

That's right.

That's right.

You're right.

I'll be right back.

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It's a pretty music, Todd.

It always

is.

Connie Feldman and Jim Schmidt.

Connie's in.

What I like

about having Connie here is we dance.

You and John never

dance,

which thank

the Lord for that.

But we jam out.

She does.

Got some good tunes going.

You've got great energy.

So those of you who don't know the name, you would know her face, she anchored the news.

Was it Fox 11 when you were there?

Or was it just Channel 11?

No, it was Fox 11.

Shortly after I got there, it was NBC when I first started.

All right.

Way back when.

All right.

And then you decided to take a break and,

you

know, here you are.

Isn't that nice?

And then I was at five for a few years after getting back into TV.

But yeah, the bulk of my career was at Fox 11.

Isn't radio like chill?

I love radio.

You can wear your sweatshirt.

Because

we're on but that, you know.

I come in and a ball cap, you know.

you know, sweatshirt, t-shirt, you know, tennis shoes.

It is.

It's

great.

And she is, she's, yes, tennis shoes.

She's sporting

a pair of

Chuck Taylor's.

Did you see

that?

Is he?

She

is.

All right.

Chuck

Taylor's.

So yeah, that's it.

All right.

So today, rotisserie chicken day.

So this is the thing that people stand in line for at Costco, right?

When they're out of chicken and then

they come in

at 4.95 or 5.95.

But you guys, that's, that's not good.

What?

It's okay.

Who cares?

Do not say it's not, it tastes great.

Are you kidding?

Yeah, but still.

Okay, you're not supposed to eat.

Don't make a diet of those.

That's a treat.

It's like ice cream.

Yeah, whatever.

Okay.

I'm gonna eat whatever I want to eat.

Okay, here we go.

Rocky Road Day.

So that's the ice cream,

right?

Yeah, not my favorite.

Not my

favorite

either.

And why not yours?

Well, doesn't it have marshmallows in it?

I can't deal with marshmallows.

There's too much stuff, right?

Yeah, they tried too hard.

Yeah.

I like simple plain flavors of ice cream.

See, I can't mix.

I love

Fruit ice cream, and I love chocolate ice cream, but I can't mix like cherry chocolate.

Nope.

No, you don't make fruit and chocolate.

I can't do it

Yeah, like 33 flavors their number one seller

Vanilla, well, that's see and I'm that's me.

That's boring though jam

Nah, I'm a boring guy.

Well, but I I

will say would when you

over for my party will have I'll have different ice creams, but I have lots of toppings.

Oh see that

There you got it, but

I don't put them on but there's like nuts and chocolate and cherry They got cherry that squeezed cherry stuff and sometimes it the right season all the right cherries and you can put those in too.

So

anyway,

hot caramel

Will

there be just asking will there be cloth linens at the party?

Okay, this I don't want to listen you hear this last time you guys but We don't use we use cloth for everything and even I was just in the kitchen and making something and I just

opened up the drawer and took out a cloth, and I could have used paper, but it's just something that you do.

You know, there's some people that, I don't know, you just do certain things a certain way and it's hard to switch over.

We use cloth.

Let's see.

All

the time.

Up at the cabin all the time.

Love it.

It's reusable.

It is.

Yeah.

And yeah.

Are yours?

embroidered with...

Monogrammed?

Are they

monogrammed?

They are not monogrammed.

It's not that expensive.

But my mother made them.

It's

not as expensive as you think.

And yeah, my mother made them and I remember as a kid learning how to iron.

Cloth napkins.

What you

can do is cut back on some of the gardening money and

get

them

embroidered.

And lawn

care.

I will hand embroider them myself.

That I could do.

All right, so hey, we got a text in.

This is interesting.

7.30 yesterday morning, we're talking about what a great time to get out and work in your neighbor.

Okay, 7.30 yesterday morning, my neighbor was cutting his lawn.

I thought that was a little too early.

Am I right?

Probably talk to him today.

Well, here's the deal.

I think it is seven o'clock the noise ordinance so I think he was okay we used to get a lot of complaints about leaf blowers because and now there's communities banning leaf blowers because it's so damn loud

real yeah mm-hmm well see one of my fondest memories growing up every Saturday morning my dad was mowing the lawn that's how I would wake up every Saturday morning fresh cut grass yeah and here in dad

mown the lawn right so he did it early i don't know if it was that early

but well there's a noise ordinance and i i know it starts at 10 at night but i think it goes to six or seven so i just remember it's got to be seven i think it's seven probably because Notre Dame where my kids went to school were you know heavy on the academics but they were going to a contest for their band so they were

playing at six in the morning, outside, marching band.

And some neighbor called and put the smack

down on him.

Let me come on there.

High school

kids practicing for this tournament.

And anyway, so I think it is seven o'clock.

You know, I was telling you, we... So anyway, just to our

call, I just want to

say,

so 730 is legit.

Yeah, probably.

Maybe you got to get up a little

earlier.

I played in this jazz band, this New Orleans style jazz band, and we were on a morning show.

And we were playing in some local park, but you know, it was like 6 30.

Yeah, and we're you know busting out Saints go marching.

Oh, yeah We got a call we got a call

and But did the cops let you play or did they put the smack down on you?

No, they let us

play.

I see that we should have done that Set by that right what else we got going on today Rocky Road now here's a cool day I love my dentist day and I saw that yesterday when Todd sent it and I I don't have my dentists

I have my doctor's home phone.

Why don't I have my dentist's home phone to call him?

So I'm gonna try him a little bit later.

You know, maybe it's seven, seven, 30, but I wonder if those guys celebrate that, if they get gifts.

Is this a thing?

Did you ever hear of this

before?

I have not heard of that.

I do love my dentist though.

I know him very well.

So

if you knew it was, I love my dentist a, would you do something?

Well, I have not done anything.

We

just

don't know, but would you?

I don't want you to send him a card or drop off like some cookies.

I would.

I think I would.

I wouldn't die.

I don't know.

Cookies, that's not good

for your teeth.

Drop

something

else off.

I'd probably drop off a rotisserie chicken.

That's what I went to.

He'd never forget me then.

And then the day that we are

celebrating, Connie.

Yeah.

We got about leave the office early day.

So we're out of here in, like, what, 20 minutes?

Whatever.

Yeah, as

soon as Todd goes

to the bathroom, we're gone.

We're gone.

Fishing and boating week That's really kicking off and we there you go.

This

is

New Orleans jazz Yeah, but that fishing and boating week we've had people on here I'm gonna talk about this again the safety so many of those actions are preventable So we're gonna talk about that life preserver life preserver life preserver should see

the text that came in

Jim didn't

you make your fortune from the paper industry

yet using cloth come on Jim jobs That is funny and

I didn't read that because it is kind of true.

All right.

Exactly.

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Thank you, Todd.

Yes.

We have like 21 stations, right?

And we compete.

John and I are the best, but we compete on these contests.

So we need our work.

We're second fast.

We went to this awards ceremony.

What's the title of it?

It was got some

broadcasters

association.

We went down there, tons of people and we took second twice.

Well, WBA is a big deal.

It

is a big

deal.

Well, that's fine.

I won't spend the money to put your stuff in.

No, we

gotta

win though.

Johnny and I are a little competitive.

Well, you shouldn't be, yeah.

Anyway, get behind them.

At seven o'clock when we do this, Scotty Summer, you're gonna give the keyword away,

so we'll

just hold on to

that.

Hey, so we talked a lot about kind of what was going on, but at break, we talked about fishing and boating week,

which is this

week

to kind of get out.

That's your thing.

It is, absolutely.

Fishing and boating, and you don't fish, you said.

No, it's boring, I hate

it.

I'm

there for like, let's go.

Oh, no, no.

That's my passion, get out there.

I mean, even if you're having a catch in anything, to be out on the water.

Man,

when I was done being mayor, I went and saw a shrink or whatever, what are they called?

Male career counselors.

And the guy's like, you gotta find a hobby.

You gotta

find something to do, you know?

Cause that's all you did.

I'm like, yeah.

He did a lot of fishing.

I said, no, I hate fishing.

I said, it's just boring.

It's sitting a boat.

And I've gone before, my brother's a big, big fisherman.

And he's retired.

He said, look, let's go on.

golf, you know, I told you that I'd throw my clubs.

I have no patience for that.

Um, anyway, cause Connie's new, you guys and you listeners, you're gonna hear this, but I'll make this really quick.

They go through all this, they ask you all these questions and what do you like to do?

And you know, I like people and you like to give people things.

And, um, so, okay, well, let me do a little work on this.

And so I went back there and he goes, I think I got it.

Yeah.

I'm like, cool.

Yeah.

He goes, I think you should make candles.

Oh,

because I have a place to do it in my house and I like giving stuff away and he'd like thought I was a little creative.

But wait, needless to say, it was the last time I saw him.

But that is a cool little hobby.

You know what?

It's interesting.

So it's interesting that you like parties, you like to throw parties, you like linens, you know, and you like barbershop, you like.

Yeah.

But you don't like making candles.

I would think that would go hand in hand.

Yeah, maybe you're in the wrong field.

That's cost me 250 bucks to hear that.

And it does make sense.

It is that you have the area to do it, all this other stuff.

Candle making is fun to make candles.

It

is.

And there's some cool things you can put scent in there

and, you

know, yeah.

You know what's fun?

It's watching.

If you've never seen a little kid catch the first fish.

Oh, man.

I saw that the other week in our cabin and cousin was up.

He caught his first fish, and the rest of the day, little kids running around saying, I caught my own dinner.

I caught my own dinner.

So we filleted up for him and said, all right, here you go.

Awesome.

He hated

it.

He hated it?

Yeah.

What kind of fish do you catch up at your place?

Oh, everything.

Mainly bass and crappie, if you perch.

But there's some monster musky in that lake, and I'm

after it.

I would take my kids, would they like put the fish in there?

you know, and then they give them the rod and reel

so

that

they knew it.

So they learned the truth challenge of the

sport.

They learned it.

The fish is already

attached to the line.

Don't look, look over there,

kid.

Anyway, that's there where we didn't grow up fishing in my house.

See, and maybe that's it.

I grew up with my dad fishing and those are some really great memories.

No, we sang barbershop music, so.

Well, I sang barbershop.

Barbershop.

You think you were in band too?

Yeah, we can do that.

All right.

Sweet Adalines.

What else do we have going on?

We got some birthdays.

I told you this is, well, I have a lot of weaknesses in this show,

but this is really

a big one of them.

Joy

Coy.

Joe Coy.

Joe.

Comedian.

Funny, funny guy, right?

Really?

I knew he was a comedian.

I'm not familiar

with it.

He did one of the big award shows this last year,

and there

was a lot of...

Bad things said about him, because some writer strikes.

I'm not sure exactly what happened, but he is a funny guy.

Lisa Hale actually went to see him a couple of weeks ago.

Oh, really?

Was

he?

Yeah.

He

was in the air.

I think he was in Milwaukee or maybe he was up here.