You're listening to Civic Media.
You can tune into any of our live shows on any radio station across the state with the Civic Media app.
Find us in your phone's app store and listen anytime, anywhere.
Hey, it's Connie and the mayor again.
I am thrilled to be here, Jim.
Thank you so much.
this was awesome.
I feel right at home.
Are you feeling better?
You're going to be back Thursday.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So he's like, I really wanted to go out now.
We know he had a little skin cancer on his face, right?
Right.
And he had 10 stitches in it.
And he said, well, I want to go out and take a walk, but I want to put on the sunglasses and the hoodie and all that kind of stuff.
He goes, but I look like the unabomber.
So then he shot, he sent me a picture and I'll bring it in later for you guys.
And it's him.
And then a picture of the unabomber.
And I'm going to tell you right now.
They're close.
They're really close, Jim.
Really close.
Well, that's good.
I'm glad he's doing fine up back tomorrow.
But I really, Connie, this is great that you're here.
We got quite a lineup today.
And we had one little change to talk about a little bit later.
I'm fine with the change.
But today though, just weather wise, right?
We can just start with a high, well, high today is gonna be 77.
58 now in Green Bay, 59 in Appleton, 58 in Oshkosh.
Some morning texts already.
Happy hump day.
Vicki, thanks for that.
Luanne, good morning.
Good morning
I talked to my daughter, but not about the weather.
She's in the middle of something else, which is great for her.
But I talked to a lady I worked with at New Community Shelter.
Her and her boyfriend, fiance, whatever, they're looking at going on a trip and she goes really debating.
Costa Rica or New York City.
I'm like, those
are two different places.
You know, it's like,
you
Tiara Bar has
I, I,
And then the guy's like, we gotta keep him away from the Christmas tree.
So I tried, but they jumped.
But anyway, he ate some more and I took him back and like, I don't know, the doctor says this is it.
He lost like a pound, which
classroom.
And she
There's a bigger box in there.
But yeah, it was a box.
And they did all the wrapping and all that and the paper and the extra boxes and stuff.
And so his dad said, listen, you guys got to clear this out.
So they took everything and threw it in the fireplace to burn it.
And then later it's like, you know.
It was awful because I'll tell you what was really weird.
So my dad goes, you guys, boys clean this up and clean up.
We're gonna have breakfast.
So we clean everything up.
And then we're sitting around the table and we had 10 brothers and sisters, right?
So we're sitting around talking all Christmas and all Santa this.
Where's Benji?
It's like, oh, I don't know.
Looking around at my dad, looking at my brother Billy goes, you go find that.
It was a guinea pig.
And
so I was sad.
Oh no, that's even worse.
I
Come to think of
We were just diving in, throwing it back in a pile and it was, and all of a sudden he's like, come on kids, now clean up all that paper and we turn around, there's this mound of wrapping paper and we start to, and underneath it was a little kitty cat.
Aw.
Not a kitty cat cat.
Little snowmobile a little if you remember the the articat little kitty cats.
Yep.
Yeah.
That's
than ours Yeah, we sacrifice things
The
We haven't had him on the list.
Pick him next time, Todd.
I don't know if he's still around though.
Yeah, I don't think he is.
Okay.
All right, then we can't do that.
All right, tonight.
No, today.
I love these afternoon games, but this is in Cincinnati.
Um, 1105.
First pitch, Brewers and the Reds, Cincinnati Reds.
Yesterday we talked a lot about the on Broadway district and their events and
Something new that they have, plus of course they're bringing back a lot of their things that are very successful.
Kind of the west side of the river, right?
And then today, Jeff Merkis is coming on and he's downtown Green Bay, more the east side of the river.
They have activities too.
Try to combine those two into one, but they, that's like trying to combine two east and west to peer high school.
It
just wasn't there.
The
sales
to recruit
So I
Cool.
It'd be fun talking about that.
So and we had scheduled, I just want to tell our listeners, a Brown County board supervisor who's a friend of mine.
And I said,
because they knew they were voting on the coal piles last night.
And I said, look, come on here, 6.30 on Wednesday morning, and just give us the rundown.
What took so damn long?
And finally we got this deal done.
And what was the hang up?
And what is it going forward?
Well, he texted me last night.
He goes, hey, look, can't come on because we can't disclose this until final vote Thursday.
So he's going to come on Friday.
and I don't know this, is they just want it legally written and then signed by both parties before they make the announcement.
I think they agreed last night, but...
And then you agree and that's like, then you reduce it to writing and it's like, no, no, no.
Are you sure it was, you know, three years and not seven?
And I don't know.
I think I'm okay with them waiting because
Because it's
Yeah.
mare.
You're listening to Civic Media.
Stay up to date on the latest news and information for your local community and Wisconsin by signing up for our free email newsletter.
Visit civicmedia.us slash email to get
There's, you know, like the top five things you never knew about your local newscaster.
because I used to get comments from people I would meet, you know, all the time about, wow, you're, you're short.
Or, you know, do you, you know, do people come in and who does your hair and makeup?
And a lot of stuff that I think is fun that you wouldn't necessarily know.
A
Yeah.
He is quite a bit taller.
There was an article on some of the changes in the media.
Now,
There was when we first started in radio.
Oh my god It was like remember every week somebody's leaving somebody's doing this in the radio and I haven't heard a lot lately But on TV, you know with Jarts, of course retired
and
but anyway,
Yeah, it used to be, it was kind of the breaking off point where people would decide, okay, you know, they'd go to Wausau and Rhinelander and then Green Bay was usually at least their second job and the time to decide, am I going to put up with this?
Do I really want it?
Because it's a lot, a lot harder than a lot of people know.
And they would either continue
on in TV from here and move up markets, or this would be the breaking point where they said, no, it's not for me.
people that have moved on.
Yeah.
I mean, and that's kind of cool that they like to go back to their like home area, not necessarily the same hometown, but you know, that state or that region.
And that makes sense.
I did that too.
So here we are.
All right.
So we're going to talk about you and your media stuff.
But I am a dinosaur.
You know, broadcast journalism.
If you enter TV to be on camera, you're not going to last long because it's journalism.
And the reason it's there is to...
you know, is news to tell people stories.
The actual being on TV part of it is very, very minimal to what you do.
So there's a lot of- So you're
be right back.
Connie the mayor.
All
It's a Scotty summer and the Texas win statewide contest is going on this morning.
Connie and Jim will have this morning's keyword for you.
Be listening in for that for a chance to pair a pair of Milwaukee Brewers club level tickets or a hundred dollars cash in those great Wisconsin vacations in the Wisconsin, Dells area or Door County vacation.
Again, that's coming up after seven o'clock this morning with Connie Feldman and Jim Schmidt, Mino and the mayor.
All
Well, I'm going to speak to them from a personal perspective, because I don't want to speak for any other anchor.
But it's just kind of common things in the industry that you wouldn't know.
You see people on TV, and you think kind of what they do and who they are.
But then when you meet them in person, it's often a different story.
They either look different than you thought or...
So
You know, we saw that picture of Michael Chen and I last week.
I was sitting on the Milwaukee phone book to bring me up to about how high he is.
And there's a picture of Jordan.
There's Jordan Lamers and I, we were.
Wow.
the more I was filling in on the morning show.
And when we sat at the desk, we were about the same height.
You know,
his chair
It won't, that's, yeah.
All right.
And I wasn't gonna go there, but yeah, it's not a tremendously lucrative career until you get way to the top, then it may be.
Oh yeah.
But yeah.
The other thing that's interesting is the dudes, the guys you see on TV wear makeup also.
And that's, they have to figure it out.
I was always taking the young male reporters under my wings
and
They probably were.
This is for you, Jim.
The newscast, the part you see on TV, the half hour news, that is actually the smallest fraction of their time that they do every day.
So for example, you know anchors who present the news are writing the show.
They're producing the show when I was At channel five on the weekends.
I was there producing and writing my own show and then anchoring it at night and sometimes going out in between and catching video of whatever was happening
because you have a producer, but you have to have people help you write the show.
And those are usually the people who've been around the longest.
A lot of time for me.
I love to mentor young journalists.
And I was a self-proclaimed dinosaur, but said, this is AP style.
This is why we write this way.
And that was my passion.
I
But you know, and sports guys too, sports guys are covering sports.
all day in a hot summer day, and they come in not uncommon to see them in suit coat and shorts.
And then the sports guys after the show, they have to shoot sports extra or whatever promos they have, so they're long hours and hard work.
Teleprompters go out too.
I was also, nowadays, back in my day, I had to have a paper script on my desk.
They have tablets now, but tablets fail also.
And when you're standing there staring at a live TV camera, you gotta know the teleprompter's gonna go out at some point, and you need to know exactly where you are, and you don't wanna be caught like a deer in the headlights, but if you're really good, you'll never know the teleprompter's gone out.
And that anchor is just reading off their scripts.
Okay, so you
That's where news is going.
People want their news.
where they want it, how they can get it, when they want it, they don't sit around and wait anymore for the evening newscast to come on.
So you also, reporters and anchors, you know, once you're done with your story and you've gone out, you've had one day to find somebody, talk to them, write it, edit it, get out, present it, and then you put it on the web, you put on web copy.
braining it.
So
they want, put it on the
And we're talking about,
But we're talking
back.
You're listening to Civic Media.
Find the latest news, information, and archives of all your favorite shows on the Civic Media website,
We do.
And I really wanted to get into it, into it, you know?
There was a stable on the east side of Green Bay, like in Bellevue.
I took my kids there.
I wish they would have gotten in, but they were so intimidated by the size of the horse.
They just couldn't understand that they were in charge, even though the horse was bigger.
Yeah.
And that grass, they didn't come there.
They were young.
Maybe I took them there too young.
I love that.
Yeah, and it's more, maybe like journalists, but it's a lot more than looking party and being up holding their flag and riding a horse.
They do roping and riding.
So are you still in it or did you get out of it?
Well, I grew up on a farm and that was mainly we raised horses.
So, but I haven't, I haven't ridden in probably a couple of years.
My big thing right now I love is the outdoors.
I love going up north, I love fishing, you know that, boating, hiking.
That's,
I think we have to sell that more here in Green Bay, because I think I told you I'd be doing that recruiting tape for Aurora about, you know, we're a lot more than football.
20 minutes you can be fishing, you can be in the ER, 20 minutes later you can be fishing.
That's pretty cool, you can't do that in New York.
I really do.
I
You look at somebody like Georgia Pacific, but they do, you know, to be green and to support outdoor sports.
That's an awesome company.
We're so lucky to have them.
I don't think we would ever take someone like that for granted.
what they do for the environment's unbelievable.
It's just a great, great company.
And I think we need to sell more of that because to say, look, you can be here.
And like I said, the front page of the paper, study names, Green Bay among the best for first time home buyers.
It's like, well, don't come here because it's cheap.
I mean, come here because of the amenities.
But the younger generation you're talking about recruiting and young professionals, they are much more concerned.
then we were even, in my day, about the environment.
It's a really, you know, really concerned about protecting and keeping it around for the next seven, yeah.
know, that's a
and
But no, we've talked about it a lot, but I think the last few months, Todd and I kind of leaned into it a little bit more.
Good for you.
Which is good.
Yeah.
You want to do that now, because then your knees are better and you're going to have to worry about all this stuff.
So anyway, all right.
So, run down today, you guys, stick around because this isn't going to be good.
Jeff Merkis is going to be giving us the up-down on downtown Green Bay and he's going to talk a little bit about Apple and Oshka.
She works with these other downtown directors and how more we can do together.
Ben and Deanna Melchor course, moving with the Melchors.
Let's talk about this is the place for first-time homebuyers.
That's, I think that's awesome.
a
The national news cycle never stops, but it can be hard to find news about your local community.
Civic Media is dedicated to providing quality local and state news coverage across Wisconsin.
With the Civic Media app, you can get notifications about local stories that matter to you and your community.
Find the free Civic Media app in your phone's app store and choose notifications from the menu to tell us what kind of news you want to hear about.