Jaw-Dropping Dilemmas and Otter Escapades (Hour 1)

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Here are your hosts John Minow and Jim Schmidt

Good

Money, all right.

He's back.

Hello How you doing?

Well, I'm doing good.

You look great.

Thank you.

Thank I've been using a lot of be wax Have you been still using it?

Oh, yeah, really?

Oh, yeah,

I bet that's actually helped.

I loaded up.

I looked like creamer that one day But get this get this

I've lost weight.

You know why?

Does it hurt to eat?

Nope.

Well, it does.

It does.

It hurts a lot.

You know why?

You know why?

Because I think I dislocated my maximal joint.

Isn't it in your knee?

No, it's in my jaw.

Right here.

Okay.

Right here.

I can't.

Okay.

So here's a dilemma I've got.

Okay.

So I got this thing on my left side of my face so you don't want to chew a big there, right?

Yeah, you don't break that open, right?

Yeah.

There's stitches in there.

Well, they got them yesterday.

Oh.

Got him yesterday.

Um, so right over here, I'm still missing a tooth.

Oh yeah.

That.

Yes.

I

remember that.

I was supposed to get that where they had said, Hey, we'll get that taken care of.

But then I'm like, well, I got this other thing on the other side of my face.

I could just, I'll just go without a tooth for a while.

All right.

So then, so here's the deal though.

So like, okay, Hey, just, you know, when you're sleeping, you know, you got to be careful.

Try not to roll over on it, either sleep in a chair kind of thing.

Really?

Prop up.

Yeah.

Okay.

When this, okay.

So, okay.

So.

I'm sleeping on my couch right upstairs, okay?

All right.

And I got, it's a, you know, my, it doesn't, you know, sometimes grandma and grandma would have a couch, had the big cushy kind of armrest type things that were, you know, big round.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

Those were awesome.

Okay.

Well, this isn't, this is just kind of like hard.

Okay, just just very like this was made the Soviet Union in the 60s,

you know, just

you tell utilitarian

that all

right, so Okay, so I'm sleeping on that thing.

I got the pillows all popped up.

Well, I'm sleeping on that hard hard surface So I wake up I couldn't even I couldn't do it.

Okay, so right here I dislocated like I said the maximal joint the maximum max Maximial Maximial joint, I think

I think you're right.

Maximal Maximal.

Yep.

Okay.

That's the opening of the jaw back.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah

So I did something to that so I can't eat anything solid on either side Good either side, so I discovered something that's changed my life No, I eat I eat plenty you know I eat what I eat Greek yogurt.

Yep.

Good blueberries good and 100% natural peanut butter

It's

unbelievable

You blend it like

I don't even blend it.

I just eat it like it is It's like take it's like an ice cream peanut butter Sunday, but it's it's not only that has no calories The calories it does have are good for you

Yeah, I would think that that's those are good ingredients.

Yeah, I'm not sure sure about the peanut butter

No, no, no, it's got no sugar.

All it is is all peanuts ground up

Nice, that's good,

and you even like it says keep in there fridge ready You got to mix it because it'll be like liquid on top comes back.

Let's not eat the oil, right?

Yeah, but it's delicious

That's awesome.

That's a good one.

Yes, so that I have to chew this a peanut butter thick is that okay?

No, it's okay.

Yeah,

so anyway, so then I also developed a new I'm never gonna call it Johnny juice.

Oh, I mean it gets a little too in your face kind of like oh look at John.

You know what I mean, right?

Um

So I got a new one though.

It's unbelievable.

I might call it something like made by God or something like that.

So, you know what I mean?

So because it's so good for you.

Okay.

It's mind-boggling.

Is there alcohol in there?

No, no alcohol.

Really?

No.

I haven't had any alcohol during this whole thing.

Wow.

Well, good.

Because they said when that it makes you bleed more and yada, yada,

yada.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Sends it out.

Yeah.

But my new

My new I'm gonna bring some info.

I'm not gonna tell you guys what's in it.

I'm not gonna give away my secrets I'm not give away that thing cuz I seriously think this could be the one This could be the one I think I'm gonna bring some in tomorrow.

It's about a new blender You know what about okay?

I can't what the hell I I can't buy anything that works.

So I buy a dust devil, okay?

And it won't charge brand new they keep the receipt of course not but it won't charge a dust devil What do you do

plug it in?

I did

So is there a hand like a little

hand held one a little Yeah We

would have guessed that well, you

know

Every eight months, you know, yeah, all right eight would be good

You

got to get a

cleaning company.

I know I know I know I know

and another thing I got to do here's another thing, okay?

It drives me insane I wake up in the middle of the night because my cushions coming out, right?

You know, I hate that the pillow gets in the thing So I'm thinking about doing one of two things either super gluing the cushion in place Yeah, or getting Velcro

now, that's not

about that would be

better.

Yeah

Do you have a bed?

I do but they told me to sleep propped up like so I'm not rolling on my face.

Oh, you see what I mean?

Yeah, so I gotta do that for a couple of months really

months really seems like a long time

You know, that's what I assume.

They don't tell you anything

They meant two days over the

weekend

That velcro is a good

idea.

Yeah,

yeah

I mean, who's ever gone through a store and said, oh, there's some valve.

You can pick it up at Walmart or anywhere.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

Velcro's a thing.

So what I do at my dust devil, that doesn't work.

I'm wondering if there's like a switch.

Either a switch or like a little plastic thing you got to pull off to charge the battery.

You know, sometimes they'll

put those plastic things on so that

they don't

start on fire.

Yeah, they don't want to start the batteries because it might sit in the warehouse for a few months.

And then you buy it and they pull that thing out and that's like good.

Check for that.

I'll check for that.

Yeah.

Didn't save the instructions,

of course.

Why would you?

But it works.

You just have to

plug it in.

No, it

doesn't work.

Well, if you plug it in, no, it works,

right?

No.

I know.

I know.

Bring it down.

We'll take

a look at it.

Thank you.

I think there might be an on-off switch.

I don't know.

What do I know?

I'm not.

By the way, cowboy Dave here says the Lord Jabber is called the mandible bone.

It's a maximal, I think, Dave.

the maximal bone.

And that's lower.

I can't.

The

maximal is a joint

is what that is.

And that's exactly where it's right here.

Look at this.

That's usually

where like if your jaw cracks,

that's what's

popping and stuff.

Exactly.

So if that's the joint, mandibles, the lower one, and then it must be an upper one.

Yeah.

I mean, Dave is probably

right.

Yeah.

That's where they come together.

Right.

And that's it right here.

Okay.

I couldn't even eat like my favorite little snack dessert last night.

A bowl of pickles with mayonnaise.

Oh, it's it's good and you know, it's good for you.

I'm dead serious about this There are this is one of the healthiest things you'll ever have is a bowl of pickles and mayonnaise

can't believe mayonnaise is in the healthy color

Yeah, it is because it's light.

It's like mayonnaise and it's like no carbs and pickles have like zero

It's

a

vegetable.

But when you say dessert, I don't think pickles and mayo.

Like to me, that's savory.

Well, I didn't mean to, I meant snack.

Okay,

snack.

I meant snack.

All right.

Unless you're pregnant.

I meant snack.

But a good thing of dill pickles and mayo is a phenomenal thing.

And I couldn't eat, I couldn't even bite down on a pickle.

Are the pickles sweet or sour?

Sour.

Yeah.

The regular kind of Wisconsin pickles.

Love them.

Yeah.

I like pickles, but yeah.

When I go like this, look at this, Todd.

Yeah.

Right there, I can feel it.

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Vicki, Vicki says, uh, yay, John's back.

Most chiropractors can put your jaw back into alignment.

I

think I need that.

I need

that.

Nick says,

good morning.

Sheila says, welcome back, John.

Uh, Terry says trucker Thursday and Minos back.

Uh, Brian says, John, ice cream is soft and it's dairy munt.

Well, yes, uh, Brian, I will say this though.

I bought, I told you about that big bucket of sherbet or sherbet.

I mean, I bought a bucket, you know those ice cream.

It's phenomenal, but it's got.

Yeah, it's got a lot of calories.

Sure it does.

I put on like three pounds one day.

How much of that is

gone?

Well,

it's gone.

I can't waste.

I literally put on like three.

I went from like 212 to 215 like overnight.

You got a 212?

I was.

I know.

That's

pretty good.

I know.

I know.

We were talking.

We wrote those weight stuff.

I think

I was

232.

That's Todd and I were looking.

Did you have that list?

No, I did.

in your calendar.

I went through my calendar in the little weather book or something.

Okay.

Yeah,

you did.

From from that first year.

Remember, that's two years ago.

You wrote that.

I have to grab that book.

Yeah.

Okay,

you're right.

Two

years ago.

I got that

on my desk.

Okay.

Because I think we're doing okay.

Look at time.

Definitely you guys are.

Look at you, Jim.

Look at John.

It's almost like right by my ear.

Yeah, that's where

that's where it connects.

Yeah,

I can't bite.

I can't even bite a pickle.

I was straw, you know can do that.

I guess You bought a new blender finally.

Yeah,

one was so dirty.

You couldn't use it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's I tell a lot of people that

I'm not gonna have a problem with this one

though Okay,

why is that because I realized that there's a little seal.

It's gonna wash it out every time like we don't do with the old one, right?

That's part of it But also I realized with a little those ninjas are kind of they're not that great all right, and it's got a little rubber gasket

And I took that out.

It was loose.

I took it out.

Well, so all the stuff had been leaking then into.

Oh, right.

Yeah.

Why did you take the gasket out?

It was, it was like, it smelled like it

was burning.

Why you should, yeah.

Okay.

Well, all right.

You got a new one and you're going to take better care of it.

Yep.

Did you get the small, like the bullet thing?

No,

I had a big one.

Yeah, good.

I had the bars, they make the margaritas.

That's what you want.

I bet your neighbors love to hear that thing going

on And then you just like a your Paul said

That's the fun part though, isn't it?

Oh, yeah doing the different ones you see works the best

to get the right right the right texture

So anyway, so anyway, my goal is 207 by the fourth of July.

Okay doable very doable.

Yeah, okay pounds by the fourth.

Yeah

So anyway, well, I'm at two 14 again.

I went out to say stuff because of Sherbert.

So anyway, but I'm going to do I'm going to do what I haven't done in 25 years.

That was the greatest weight loss thing of all time.

I'm making that cabbage soup.

Remember the cabbage soup?

That

was that was that was big.

Oh, very.

All the pack.

Andy Reed, Mike, everybody, everybody, all those coaches were on that one time.

I remember that was 25 years ago.

Well, when those guys were coaching,

Wow,

that

was huge.

Yeah, everybody was on it.

So I bought all the ingredients for that.

I bought broth.

I bought cabbage.

I bought peppers.

I bought an onion.

Yeah.

I bought all the stuff.

I bought, you know what I had last, I had a thing, a spicy tomato juice.

I'm putting some spicy tomato juice in there.

That's

good.

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

Sorry about all that stuff.

I'm gonna make a big huge, but I'll bring you guys some if you want.

It's gonna want soup

on that day.

You know what?

That's winter, man.

Would you find something?

No, that's... Put some ice and make a... No, okay.

Thank you.

But you know what, Jim?

May I study this stuff?

Yeah, that's true.

You've been off.

Hot stuff cools you down in warm weather more than cool stuff.

Yeah.

Never heard of that.

No, that's

true.

But you will sweat.

That is true.

That is true.

That is true.

That's

true.

That's true.

It's true.

Okay,

and you got him at that stuff did work for people.

Oh, they had to stay on it But

it was a fad it was a little bit

I

mean it but it you're right I remember that I got everything

the only thing they've let you have outside of that was like bananas for whatever reason I remember a second remember Sherman Lewis Yeah, I said sure my cousin man Let me tell you something when you have the day on your schedule where you can have a banana tastes like a t-bone steak

But those are those diets where you can't

Go outside the lines or else it triggers something or I mean you gain weight if you eat something else

Yes,

you got

it sounds like it's like keto.

It's hard.

I know I know but I

was I'm gonna miss my goal.

I wanted to be ex wait at my birthday and

I'm gonna be off like six pounds, which isn't the worst.

That's not the

bad.

It's not it's not so I

can make it by the 4th of July.

I'm gonna get

you know what

I'm gonna do with the same day

Listen, I might seven let

me

put you on on my regiment.

I'm good.

I'm good.

I'm serious.

I could make you

something.

I'm good Welcome back, Johnny.

Okay.

We're gonna set a quick break mine on the mayor back up for us Be about a half an hour and I'll be seeing that

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Good looking Thursday.

53 in Green Bay right now, 55 in Appleton, 53 in Oshkosh forecast.

Cloudy some sun later high of 77.

Today is hot air balloon day.

Something that I freely admitted frightens me.

But you've been out, you went

out and got one in Holbert.

No, no, no, no, no.

One in Holbert

that was tethered.

I did not do it.

Nope.

Didn't do it.

I

don't trust them.

Yeah, that we never took off.

I just don't

trust them.

Okay.

You know, yeah, because they can't control them, right?

Well, no, they the only time you hear about hot air balloons is when a

there's an accent, right?

But okay, if you took off in a hot air balloon and said hey, we're going on a An hour tour or whatever don't they have to have a car like in communication following that all all over the place I don't know if they can go left and right.

Can they

sure they

can

are

you sure positive?

I

don't know they can steer over to get somebody you can steer a hot air balloon absolutely

I don't I don't think like real precisely though like the general area.

Yeah, I just think you get caught up in a jet stream It's like

yeah, I

get and see it.

Yeah, exactly But yeah, how do you know that's I when I saw that I thought you know what the first thing I think of when I think of hot air balloons besides Wizard of Oz is accidents

Absolutely.

I mean you hate to say it right?

I know I know

that was nice.

Yeah, um They're pretty cool to look at though when somebody else is it we

haven't done here.

Yeah,

they're very very cool very cool Um veggie burger day nope never had one really you seem like you would have I have I like black

bean burgers are pretty good.

Oh, yeah Oh, I didn't tell you what I had black beans.

I bought a can of black beans.

All right, and I put it my omelet

Really good and work

Really good black beans and I'm gonna open up my own place I Wonderful a coffee shop next door could just give me a little side room or something sure and I'll just make you know what I mean?

It won't even be things on a man.

I'm not gonna have a menu surprise of the day surprise of the day There's a restaurant like that in my hometown of Nagani now.

It's called Strega Nona.

Okay, Nona the witch.

It's called grandma witch

hmm

But they do that.

It's the same prepay, I think, $55, okay?

And you go in and they'll bring you the first thing.

It's like, what this?

Well, this is so-and-so, so-and-so.

Then they bring you the next thing, because this is our catch of the day.

This is the so-and-so.

That's like a lot of money.

$55 for one meal or

for the mob?

No, it's a full, like, four-course meal.

I think that sounds pretty cheap, don't you?

Hey, I spent 36 bucks at McDonald's the other day.

I

spent 70 it poked the berry yesterday.

There you go.

Three people.

Yeah, no alcohol.

I mean, I love it.

Well, that's your problem.

You need a little

alcohol.

But yeah, that salmon salad's $23 to Donna Hanne.

But

yeah, I was I told you I had a sub sandwich last week and a diet Coke that was $19.

That's to meet now.

See, I listened to that.

It's like, that's not too bad.

You know, when

you're

19.

Well, considering what you said, you paid at McDonald's.

Yeah, I know, right?

So mine would be 25, you know, because we had, you know, we didn't have alcohol drinks.

We had drinks, but I was just like, when that bill comes, it's like, you know, you're so used to, I don't know, 15 bucks a person,

20, it's like, wow.

But I

know, I know, it's really the best service ever.

But

like where people come up to my window here, it'd be a window type thing.

Okay.

Hey, John, what's on the minute?

Well, today it's black bean and pimento cheese omelettes.

See

you

tomorrow.

Was that supposed

to

be?

Does that sound good?

Pimento and black bean?

I would not

want black beans for breakfast.

It just doesn't work.

Really?

It's actually really good and it's really healthy for you.

Yeah.

I become kind of a health nut.

I'll be

honest.

Absolutely.

Just look at you.

Yeah.

Oh my god.

Today is National Moonshine Day.

Yes,

I

thought of that.

So did I. So did I. Doing time.

Mm-hmm.

You know I told you I found that article

yep

my old hometown paper where the guy in my neighborhood was murdered He was gonna be going back to the old country as they say and and the guys people knew and he was the big moonshiner He was murdered has skull crushed it right behind my house.

Yeah

That was a tough business back in

those days.

It's an accident.

Yeah, he slipped and fell.

Hey, sorry, Luigi.

Suicide,

you had

nine gunshots.

Yeah, whatever.

Yeah.

World Environment Day.

I remember, okay, you and I can go back to the first, I don't know if it was called

this.

That was a Thursday.

We thought you

were talking about it.

Birthday!

Remember that?

Yeah, oh yeah.

Like, 68, 69.

You were in sixth grade, seventh grade.

Yeah.

That was a big deal.

Yeah.

This is a cool- Do you remember what the poster child was?

The moon?

Nope.

What was the

poster

the Indian with the tear?

No, no, that was a different campaign.

Are you sure?

That

was a litter campaign.

Yeah, that was to clean up the rivers and stuff.

Yeah, it was

different than Earth Day

Earth Day, I think was like the earth but that was the big thing when we were in like junior high That's when that first started all that stuff.

Yeah big but this is cool this world environment date It's it's they have a theme every year right and this year it's on cleaning up the water with plastics

There's

so

much plastic on it.

But get this, we had a lady on yesterday.

This was pretty cool.

When I read this, I thought, wait a minute that the devil, not the devil, the botanical gardens are doing a display and it's a sculpture made out of plastic that we got out of the river and lake.

Isn't that cool?

Like the kids are gonna look at that and say, this was in our

water.

I saw a guy, I saw this on like a Facebook thing.

Okay, this is a national guy.

You can't believe.

the money he's making and the unbelievable orders he has same thing all of his art it's from stuff that he's picked up garbage from beaches and stuff

and that makes even want to pay for it okay because the guy's doing two things he's like a nice piece of artwork but you are cleaning up water yeah

where was this where who

had one

the botanical garden if you look on your screen right now there's one of

the sculptures that they made that stuff that got wow

that

stuff is made out of plastic that was retrieved from

then who put that together different artists yeah from here from Green Bay

Not quite

sure.

Maybe this is the guy I was reading about then nationally.

I want to say he was from like San Diego or something.

It's called wash to shore at the garden.

Wow.

That's unbelievable.

You can see some milk crates in there.

I see a milk crate at the very bottom.

It's

kind of a green color.

It's amazing.

And one of our listeners, Brian, said that his wife went out there with it and just thought it was amazing.

That's a good display.

Your kids come, your grandkids come out there.

That's amazing.

Amazing.

But the whole world is focusing on that this week.

Wow.

That's

cool.

I like to see that, actually.

I got over here.

Good morning, team.

Welcome back.

Johnny thought maybe I'd get a call from an Uber ride over last week.

Mike.

Hey, Mike.

Today's also National Garden Week.

You got a garden?

Yep.

Well, I guess in Wisconsin it would be 50-50.

Yes,

it's our

garden.

We're gonna set a quick break.

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Speaking of those Milwaukee viewers in action tonight at home 635 on WISS, which is great man.

They've had a good run.

Haven't they for a couple of weeks?

It's picking up a game win streak there for a while and yellow just hitting again and trio.

I'll tell you what, that's fun.

Things happen there with Milwaukee.

We got to get down to a game.

You guys.

Yeah.

Um,

except that night, then we're going to get back here and get up again.

I don't

like

that

one.

The

105 game.

Go in the afternoon.

Right.

Yeah.

That's what you gotta do.

We gotta do that.

Dennis in the glam band was rocking the sardine can last night.

Sounded great, says Cherry.

Finally, a nice day

for

anything, for

farmers

market.

For anything.

For the

last

two.

Remember the first one.

Do they cancel either

one of them?

No.

I remember you told.

I mean, I walked out and I came back in here and said, guys, it's gotta be canceled.

It's that wind coming off the water.

Yeah, it was cold.

So I took my granddaughters to Bay Beach.

a couple of weeks ago there, whatever.

And you know, it was a beautiful day to bring a sweater, bring a hoodie.

Oh no, it's, man, that little breeze coming up the water there is pretty nasty, but they were just, they just loved it.

I know we talked to it before, before I left, okay?

But I went walking around a little bit, you know, where the train goes through Bay Beach there, okay?

That area there where it's like old stumps kind of coming up, is that where the old beach was, or the original Bay Beach was?

It's kind of like a mudflap right now.

No, no if

you go into the what the pavilion is called.

Yeah, you walk straight out to that's where the beach was

I was a

doc there.

It's like can't they do something put several tons of sand there and okay.

Yeah, it's just you know the people who ask different things and There's a lot of things we can do but you only got so much money and so much time Yeah, and you know the mayor sets the priorities and you know, he's got his priorities and the next

I had mine, Paul had his, Sam had his, but yeah, I think that's, that can happen, it will happen, but it's not going to happen the

near future.

But I mean, is there anything environmentally is what I'm saying that it's like, no, you can't touch that.

No, you set the

rules, right?

You got to test

the water every day.

Yeah, yeah.

Um, and, you know, you have to bring sand in and

if

it gets, you may have to bring it in again

sometime.

Oh, no question.

It'll go, I know.

I know.

That's what I mean.

Is it worth it?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Cause I was thinking, you know, dig out.

dig out the sludge kind of stuff and just put all nice beach sand.

You know, I don't know where you get, where do you get beach sand from?

But I'm sure there's,

well,

that's what

we would do.

What do

you mean?

Well, that's what I mean.

Dig out the, all the old stumps or whatever.

And you got a clean slate

to bring it back

and start over

that.

That would get it pretty close though.

Yeah.

No, okay.

I could be in charge of that project there.

But that will happen in our lifetime, but it's here.

All right.

But like I was saying just saying looking back on my

grandkids like there's a lot of stuff to do around here.

Oh,

yeah

And it's like where then we're thinking about another thing I was even thinking about was going to two rivers and just go into the beach That's just that nice day.

Yeah, and then I didn't even talk about Appleton and Oshkosh I mean, you know people don't realize it would because years ago there wasn't There was Bay Beach, but that was it.

Yeah, that was it

Children's Museum.

We got the technical garden.

It was in Oshkosh.

Let's say 50 minutes from Green Bay ish

You know, if you hit the right exit and everything, you know, I mean, how many different things are going in this part of the state of Wisconsin?

Yeah, it's it's truly amazing.

It is.

This is a great place to.

And as I told you, the Malva Center, you know that.

We just got to get more comfortable going in there.

I mean, it's a little I still haven't been in there

and

it's it's big It's white.

Yeah,