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.
Good morning.
Happy Monday to you on a beautiful day and a beautiful time of the year.
Isn't this the greatest time of the year?
Is there any place that would have like this?
type of weather and stuff like 12 months a year.
Now we'd all be there.
I know.
But they had a thinking out on the healthiest places to live or where, you know, what, we're on the clock.
What's that?
What did it say?
78, 79 people that were born.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'll
talk about age.
Oh, age.
We, by the way,
I got two
weeks.
Where you live the longest and some places.
There's places like Italy.
Oh yeah.
There's only one city in the United States that made that top
10 list.
Don't tell me,
don't tell me, don't tell me.
Okay.
One place in the United States, but you're right.
Italy's in there, Spain.
I
think we're in
Greece.
The Netherlands.
Greece.
The Netherlands.
But the study and the guy tells you, this is how I did my survey, but you know, obviously.
Oregon.
To live to be 88.
is no fun if you're in a nursing home.
But it'll be 88 and still be in the yard gardening.
I'm gonna
say some place on the West Coast.
It's West.
Yep.
Idaho.
Denver.
Denver.
Actually, it's Boulder.
But the guy said their healthcare is great.
And because of all the trails and hiking,
It's it's not like a special thing.
It's just it's
there.
It's what you do.
It's a culture.
Everybody
does it.
They they bike it Very healthy and I guess they're really into like good food like non-processed food That's I could see that well the customer the the vendor is gonna supply what the people want and if you got a group of people that want that you get more and more so but I've
never been there a
little bit Not no not to Boulder Too bad that we only had one
City you know in the world
for the whole country.
Yeah, I
only had one you think probably thought West Coast for sure.
Yeah, but that Idaho that's Boise the
some of the cities are on Valley
court Elaine
Sun Valley.
Yeah, if I win the lottery I'm moving to Sun Valley, Idaho
man
The problem is it's so all priced people that you can't they have terror like okay It's like one of those catch 22 things.
It's such a phenomenal place all the people that got the money move there, okay
because all the people that have the money move there, the rental rates, everything went so sky high, they can't get people to take care of those people.
I mean, that's literally the problem there.
Two things you're right, that one is rich people, that's just a beautiful, beautiful place to
live.
Unbelievable, phenomenal.
But then when people with money and COVID and working out a home, they're like, I don't have to be in this city,
I can go somewhere else and then
correlate with that whole.
area up there and that's it's beautiful.
It's it's a twin falls or excuse me.
Son Valley, Idaho is the most beautiful place I personally have ever been in the world.
Honest to God.
Yeah,
it's incredible.
I have to think about that.
But yeah,
I remember interviewing Ernest Hemingway's son, John Hemingway.
He was president of the Wood Creek Ducks Unlimited.
They were just why not?
I saw one of the daughters skiing there one day.
I mean, they're just and nobody gave him any hassle.
That's just cool.
That's what's keep Steve McQueen live there then.
Yeah.
All those people.
Yeah, I only got with all the stars.
Yeah, you didn't die And then they go back and they're like, you know, I John might know this I rented him today So I you know who I interviewed one time at a celebrity ski thing there back in her day Susie Chapman Barbie Benton Remember Barbie?
Oh, of course.
Remember Barbie Benton you have nurse girlfriend.
Oh, yeah
Didn't she resurface lately?
Yeah
Or is she dead now?
Something she was in the news recently.
Maybe that.
That could be it.
Got a text here from Snarky Bryant.
It says, greatest place to live.
I thought it was Flint, Michigan in the 80s.
Let's see.
Unemployment was what, 20 some
percent?
Oh God.
I didn't know anybody had a job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Vicki says, another week.
Here we go.
Good morning all.
Hello, Vicki.
It's always nice to hear from our people early on.
Isn't it though?
Beautiful weekend right by the night, which was actually kind of nice.
It was a perfect week.
It felt really fresh.
You know, Saturday was like the perfect day.
And I'm so happy for all those kids that have graduation
parties.
No question.
No graduations period.
But we were up in Door County and it was just on the lake.
It was beautiful.
Just barbecued.
It was a lot of fun.
It was great.
Great day to spend on my birthday.
You can't beat it.
What else did you do for your birthday?
I started going.
Went to a wake.
Went to a field.
I wanted to get that out of the way.
Had breakfast with some friends and then
at some old college buddies.
We all got together in Door County.
And that was fun, because it's fun when you don't see people for a while.
But when you get there, it's like the exact same.
We had a lot of fun.
That was a good
time.
That's great to get together, old people.
That's what I hope I can make to my class reunion.
In one month, I don't know if I'll be able to make it or not.
We're
talking
about that.
Well, of course, we're that age, but there's a lot of 50.
That's a big reunion.
What's the last time I'd see a lot of these people?
I guarantee you, if I do make it.
Why?
because you're not going to go to the 60th or because people
are going to die.
Yeah, we won't have.
Oh, you guys won't have another one.
Well, I think this is only the second one we ever had in 50 years.
Oh, yeah.
So, you know, that's what it is.
Donna, we were talking about that yesterday and she hers is next year, but she signed up to be on the committee.
And I think you'll even enjoy it more when you're on stuff.
So I'm like, actually, I wrote the email for her.
I'm like, look, you guys, let's have, you know, the Dick Clark Award, you know, who looks yeah, close to the
Then I said, well, you know, who traveled, there it is, who traveled
the floor, the rest who's
got the most grandkids.
Then I put in practice, you know, you could really make it fun and, oh, who's done the most time?
Well, I drove driving three days, boo, I've
been in longer now.
That's nothing.
I like that.
By the way, so, okay, so I'm on a health kick, you know that.
Oh yeah.
So you know what I mean?
Well, we talked about this a little bit.
I made, I actually made the cabbage soup.
Remember to talk about cabbage soup?
Yeah.
So I made the cabbage soup.
You know what else I put in it?
Todd, you'd be so proud of me.
What's that?
Quenona.
Quinoa.
Yep.
Quinoa, that's right.
And I put some of that in there.
Yeah.
And, um, I'll, I'll, uh, it was great.
But you know what the problem?
Okay.
This is no lie.
So I'm thinking, Oh my gosh, this is like a fat burner.
This is unbelievable.
So I ate like the next morning I gained like five pounds.
I'm not even joking.
I step on the scales like two 18.
It's like, I gained five.
Believe it in pounds?
Nah, I went off this weekend.
The only thing I made that was healthy, cauliflower.
Yeah.
You know, seasoning and oil and that and then baking it, that was
good.
That's good.
I like that actually.
Actually,
that was really good.
But then I made baked beans for our party and then I made ribs and it just wasn't.
They got a thing down at, where Dom used to work in Kohler.
It was a thing of grilled cauliflower with something phenomenal.
It is, that was.
I mean, nobody really wants to eat cauliflower for the sake of eating cauliflower.
It's kind of a weird thing because you break it off and some of the
pieces
are big, some of the items like, yeah.
But when you do a little something, something extra to it, it's
incredible.
Yeah, that's good stuff.
That's great.
But I, it's like, you know, you know what I don't have?
You know what I do not?
Chromosomial.
I'm missing.
Yeah, go
ahead.
Well, one of
them.
OK.
Ty.
What?
Portion control.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm reading about something like, how did I just put out five pounds eating a gallon of.
Cabbage soup and you want
to be careful of it's
got a lot of car this does
yeah, I didn't know that yeah It's like rice and all that kind
of like 38 carbs for per serving.
It's like oh Oh, yeah, that cabbage is great for you.
I know but I got a hold off in the Q and a mm-hmm, so I'm putting together a Yeah, I'm putting together a shake today.
That's gonna be unbelievable.
Yeah, it's the juice of life It's the Johnny juice of life.
Why don't I tell you what's in it sure?
Blueberries.
Yep.
Uh, pistachio seeds.
All right.
Pistachio nuts.
Yeah.
Okay.
Canalope.
All right.
Bananas.
Yeah.
Greek yogurt.
Okay.
Little bit of honey.
Mm-hmm.
Protein powder.
All right.
And tang.
Why?
No, my question is why would you need the tang?
A little
sweetness.
What do you make of our fluidity?
Well, you got that.
And
we're fluidity.
Watering.
Fluidity.
What's that?
But
what?
No, that tank tank tank, you know, it's all mixed.
It's like the juice.
It's like juice.
So you've already mixed.
You've already made made tangs.
Yes,
you're putting
that.
Yes.
That makes sense.
All right.
Yeah.
I'll bring you guys tomorrow.
You
know, if you look at the
car, bring some a little bit.
You could try it.
I'll make it on air.
I'll bring it here.
All right.
Can I bring my blender in the studio?
Yeah, I'm going to do that.
Yeah.
Tomorrow morning, people tune in tomorrow morning.
It could it could be life changing.
It'll be kind of
like.
Kind of like watching Spencer Nolan Young do a painting, because
when
John turns that on, boom, the
entire room.
Same thing.
Yeah, same thing.
Splatter paint.
Okay, all of our guests tomorrow, I'll save enough for them.
Everybody gets a little bit of Jotty Joe tomorrow.
This is
so weird, the texts are coming in, our guests are canceling for tomorrow.
What?
What's going on with them?
What's going on tomorrow?
I
understand why.
Spike, no, don't cancel.
Sean, don't cancel.
Guys, come
on, man, I'm saving your life here.
Come on.
All right, we'll try that.
I have to find that...
calendar when we first started.
It's coming up on 10 years.
I know I was 232.
Wow.
Yeah, I mean, wow, because you weren't too far from that, right?
Was it
220 something?
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, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Back to where?
Thank you for that information.
That's not even a pound.
Okay, let's be honest.
Let me cast the first stone who doesn't do this.
Step on the scale and you see like 213.4 and you pee and you step back to the scale again.
True or false?
Everybody does that.
Thank you.
So, but we have a goal for July 4th.
Did we say that?
Yeah.
What is
yours?
207.
because then I would be 40 pounds down in four years.
Nice.
Okay.
Mine will be July.
Well, no, it was the start of COVID, the exact start of COVID.
Cause that's where I got my hip replaced.
So I was, it was January of, no, March.
March of 2020.
That'd be March of 2020.
Which is actually on my birthday basically when COVID started.
Cause I was sitting there to watch the high school and college basketball tournaments.
And all of a sudden they're clearing the arenas.
So that's how I remember
that.
So from that day on okay, so I'd be done 40 pounds if I can do that
I Don't know where I was Well, if it's 167 plus 40 is 207 so that's more than 40 cuz I was higher than 207.
Yeah, you were I still thought you were 228.
I don't know why 224 had to been
in the
two you were in the 220s.
I was in the two teens for
sure
to
17 yeah
to
19.8
I'll find that today.
I said I was gonna do that this week.
How does that work this weekend?
I didn't know for that.
All right, I'll find that, but we're gonna have a goal then for, Todd, you're hitting your goals.
I'm already, yeah, kind of there.
I'm
hovering.
Nobody likes a bragger, Todd.
Well, he didn't say anything about it.
It's just,
you know, but I don't... Okay, I gotta add something.
I'm not gonna say what I said.
Isosempicism.
So the other day I had another homeless person come up to me.
At least I assumed they're homeless.
What should I tell them?
Because I'm not gonna give them money.
I'm just not, because it's probably gonna go...
no disrespect, whatever, but when they're coming up to your window and knocking on the window, you know, where should I direct them?
There's
so many places, John.
I think I kids, boom, Freedom House.
There's just a lady by the middle age, just whatever.
It's like, I don't know what to do.
There's
the Golden House.
There's House of Hope for her.
You know, our place too, but that's what, because
that's a second one in like two weeks now that I've told you I've had.
Remember that guy?
Yeah, over that same part of town.
It's right over here at same part of town and I wish I had like a card or something to give them or a number or maybe that's a good idea really.
I was
just going to say Jim.
That's a
great idea.
Yeah.
With a bunch of numbers.
Yes.
Say look and this is who we're for because people come to our place with kids.
That's that's not
okay.
That's the actually that's the third one recently.
Remember I had that one at the post office of Thurman Row.
The other one.
I bought two blocks away in Monroe.
Remember that guy?
I do.
I think he was looking to roll me.
And then that lady, yeah, this weekend.
So it's three of them right in that same area.
What?
It's Monday morning
at
6.19 and we're using the term he was going
to
roll me.
He's going to roll me.
But you're right.
Their service is not there.
That's what I mean.
I literally would like to have some.
But if
they came in from out of town, John, they don't know that.
I know that's what I mean.
So where should I direct them?
Yeah,
that's a good idea to get that
thing to put in your car in the glove compartment.
Just take it out.
Right.
We'll
pick a business card.
A business card or
plastic it so that they have it in the
glove compartment.
Absolutely.
I would love that.
Because there's a lot of them.
And they're really coming out now.
I like that
job.
Yeah.
OK.
I'm on it.
All right.
We're going to set a quick break.
Get it started in a beautiful Monday morning.
I know the mayor.
Take a load of free.
Take a load of
plenty.
And take a load, take a load of me.
You know why I chose that song?
No.
It's called The Weight from the band, right?
You guys were talking about your weight.
Did you see that documentary that they did with them?
It's called The Last Show or something?
They did not,
no.
They were awesome back in their day, weren't they, though?
Mean they had a great run, but they weren't really top 40 at all hot Todd not really kind of just below that sort of yeah, I think they India almost
yeah Check out the Tony's last night.
Ah No, I did not
You know what I'm not watching
all right.
We'll move on.
I watch I would have bet money on that one.
I would have bet money.
I
don't know
that That's okay.
Did you see the George Clooney thing?
Wasn't that on live Todd?
Um, the Edward R. Murrow.
Well, yeah, but he, well, he
got interviewed by 60
minutes.
Okay.
But I think it aired live last night.
Didn't it the whole play?
I was reading about this morning.
I doubt it.
I think it did.
I
think that's like 500 bucks a ticket.
I can't believe, and that's relatively new.
Well, they did that with Hamilton a couple of years ago.
Yeah, but Hamilton had,
yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I would have watched that.
Me too.
Yeah.
Wow.
The whole thing.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It is a beautiful Monday morning Green Bay 55 and Ampton 59 Oshkosh 54 forecast mostly cloudy with some showers and storms high in the lower 60s or 80s does that say?
60s.
All right today is Donald Duck Day How much money did the guy that created Donald Duck make right not a lot?
No, you ever said Mel blank that did that.
He did the voice.
Yeah, that's No, he knew that or bugs bunny.
Well, he did bugs bunny for sure, but I
mean
God, that guy
was read about read about Walt Disney.
Who was he a tough guy to work for?
I love
reading about those super rich people.
Oh, my lordy, lordy, lordy kind
of put a phone booth in his house
because
he's people to pay.
And then the guy that charges kid for ransom, he goes, well, I don't know what it was, but 10 grand, 100 grand, whatever it was.
But then he's like, well, no, I can't do that.
I got I got seven kids.
Yeah.
I mean, some of these guys that came created some characters that he just took them.
And it's like, well, no, it's
it's mine.
Yeah.
So does everybody have that uncle that don't see somebody to talk like Donald Duck?
Everybody's got that guy, right?
Everybody's got that one guy.
Everybody's got that one guy.
It is rhubarb pi day.
Love it.
Not a huge fan.
A little tube tart for me.
Todd.
Add sugar.
Todd's always the voice of reason.
Add enough
sugar,
you're okay.
That's what I mean.
You gotta add sugar.
Love
it.
But, but, and you have to admit, Jim, if they don't do enough sugar,
he's
right.
Yeah.
Could I tell you a story about Lisa Hale one time?
Yes.
You can, no, you can always tell us Lisa Hale stories.
Cause they're always good stories.
I was literally, so I was living in Mississippi.
That's where I met Lisa and she had a Thanksgiving celebration, right?
Cause I didn't have family.
She didn't, whatever.
So went over to her place.
She made a rhubarb and strawberry pie.
Okay.
Now that's not, you know, when you mix it with something like rhubarb, apple, whatever, whatever, that okay.
Sounds good, right?
Yeah.
So it was on the table along with the turkey and all the food, right?
Lisa is not a very good cook.
You can't
say that.
I
can.
Oh, I can.
Are you sure?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, she's not.
And if she's listening now, she knows exactly what I'm talking about.
The pie was a little moist.
There was a lot of juices.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Soggy
crust?
So
we had
taken out a piece of pie.
I looked over on the table and the cat sitting up there licking
all the juice out
of the pie.
So now I call it, Lisa just texted me.
She said, stop.
Wow.
The
cat liked it.
Like I said, there are no such things as bad Lisa Hale stories.
They're all good.
Wow.
Nice.
Nice.
It is loneliness awareness week.
You know what?
That's a serious thing.
Oh my God.
Are you kidding?
And we were talking about thriving.
You talk about thriving, you know, when they say, you know, a person loses their thriving to live or whatever.
That's a huge thing is with the loneliness aspect of it.
Absolutely.
That's, um,
you know, it was one of the most heartbreaking things I used to do.
And this is no lie.
When I used to be a flower delivery guy and you'd walk into one of those homes.
and you're carrying this and you're walking on the hall and all these ladies are sitting out their wheelchairs looking at you like, are those for me?
And you have to walk by them and you know, and then you bring them to the one room that has like 12 different, you know what I mean?
Bocays and these other women have nothing.
And every time you go there, you see these same women sitting there
like that.
lady with the guilty kids has all the flowers.
Yes, it's exactly right.
Or it could be like my mom, who was so disgusted that I bought her artificial flowers and put
them
in the drawer.
That doesn't sound like a mom thing.
I certainly remember her.
I know.
Oh, Johnny bought those.
Just put
them
away.
Because Jim, not all of our moms were like your mom.
You know?
I was afraid of my mom most of
my life.
My mom would put those flowers in a vase with water.
Yeah.
Even though they're artificial.
Oh, she was
she
would I don't know.
I'm asked I'm gonna ask her after this show because you know, she's listening so I I would assume that round but then again, we never bother artificial flowers.
Johnson.
Well, I just thought you know
Less
upkeep,
right?
Thank you.
They look so real preventive maintenance.
I'm not kidding.
They're the most realistic looking flowers ever made I mean you can be some misery to buy a Snyder drugstore Nagani
I
Well, you've been to my house, but I, you know, we had window boxes.
Yeah.
Those are fake, right?
Well, they weren't for the, but what a pain those are to water them, to keep a meal.
If you have real ones.
Yeah.
I've had that
for
a while.
But I went with the, I watched this show.
Um, I really like it.
This couple, buried couple, they do homes, rehab homes in, in Mississippi.
Home town.
Yes.
And the one girl, you know, she's like, Hey, I just love your window box after.
How do you keep those flowers?
They're fake.
Really?
Remember that you see that?
I've seen it.
I watch it every week.
Oh my God.
I love that show, aren't they cool?
They're great.
Great people.
My girlfriend is coming back with a show.
No, she's my girlfriend.
She's my girlfriend.
I've
spent
the last
I've been watching the last couple of weeks catching up on her old shows,
getting
ready for June 26th or something.
She's back.
No.
We're getting her on the show.
I had her on my show before, okay?
You know where she was to spend her summers?
In the UP.
I believe that.
In unisick.
She's from Michigan.
Yeah.
And they used to go to the UP all the time.
Oh, she's my girlfriend.
No.
That's why I'm doing all my windows this summer because I started watching
her again.
Hey, was it a little freaky though she was still breastfeeding your kid when it was like nine?
I'm just saying,
can I
be your son?
We saw my
Oh, yeah, our Scotty summer text to win statewide contest is still going on this week.
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Hey, thank you for a month.
To Minow and the Mayor.
Welcome back.
Happy birthday Johnny Depp, 62 years old.
You know, when they shot that movie in Oshkosh?
A lot of people said he was cool.
He was very cool.
Oh, big tips.
Yep.
Oh, yeah.
Went around to places, hung out with people.
I
had autographs.
Yeah.
That's good to hear, isn't it?
Versus, you know, the other way you can hear about guys.
Natalie Portman, 44.
Man, when she was like 12, she was in such a good movie.
Was it called The Professional?
Do you remember that
one?
Yeah, The Professional.
I loved that guy.
She was amazing.
Wasn't she great, Matt?
With Jean Reno.
He was the assassin.
Great movie and what's his name Gary Oldman who always plays bad guys?
He's great too man.
Oh good movie underrated movie Michael J. Fox 64 Boy that poor guy,
huh?
Yeah, but boy he had a run though I lived out in LA during the 80s We're obviously very similar in age and he was just people are following him and just his life was like great great like unbelievably great and
You know, this whole Parkinson's, right?
Is that it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Man, poor guy.
And he's, you see him now.
It's
like, wow, he is.
64.
Brittany Merleau, how are you?
Good morning.
I'm fantastic.
How are you guys doing?
Good.
Let me guess.
Okay.
So, Michael, do you know
Brittany?
Michael Friedman in the house, simple life hospitality.
And, um, no matter.
Okay.
There's, here's a guarantee.
Okay.
You had a good weekend, right?
I had a great weekend in Chicago.
Todd had a nice weekend.
Jim had a nice weekend.
Yeah, I was
in Chicago.
Let's just see who's cooler.
Hey, Brittany, what'd you do this past weekend?
You know, you're going to lose today because I was actually sick last week, so I didn't do anything this weekend.
I thought I was climbing Ribb
Mountain and
kayaking down the Wisconsin
River and bike back home.
Repel off the mountain.
She, now, Brittany, if you would have been a little bit to learn here, if you remember like Johnny, we just made something up right away.
Say, oh, this is what I did.
But anyway,
how you feeling?
I know.
You know, I just had to be transparent and honest with you.
There you go.
But what I wanted to do was actually go mountain biking.
You know, I got that fat tire bike we always talk about and stuff.
So I got it all pumped up and ready to go, cleaned new brakes and everything on it.
And then I got sick.
So I just watched it sit in the garage.
I did clean the garage a little bit this weekend, but nothing fun and cool like I usually do.
Yeah.
Now, let me ask you this.
So when you go, when you say mountain biking, like what, what would be concerned now you got rib mountain, but what do you consider that kind of biking?
In
the in Wisconsin guys, I mean if you're talking about
Colorado where that stuff is so big so huge and if that's real mountains, but how about in Wisconsin?
I would go with a single track trail, or if it's anything that's like a dirt or gravel trail, then you could consider it mountain biking, but my favorites are the single track, or it's those skinny trails through the woods, where pretty much only you and your bike can fit through it, where you're weaving in between rocks, you're weaving in between trees, and it could get dicey at times, and you gotta have some skill to get through.
Those
trails, Brittany, does the municipality figure that out, or is that just done by people using it?
usually clubs, so the people using it in clubs, you know, maintaining it and making sure that the trails are, yeah.
So is it only
one way then?
I mean, because if somebody was coming your way, would it be tough to get around each other?
It is both ways.
Some tracks have you go a certain way the whole time, but most of them are both ways.
So you kind of just have to pay attention.
Like same thing with snowmobiling, right?
And being out on those trails, you go around the corner.
Someone else could be going around that same corner.
So that's what I mean.
Stay in your lane.
Be careful.
Look ahead if you can.
That's kind of the thing that you got to do.
That's got to be an
amazing cardio fat burning.
The whole thing put together, huh?
Doing that.
Forget the gym.
I hate gyms.
Yeah.
No, no offense.
I mean, they are helpful, but I'd rather be outside doing something.
So yes, the best cardio.
That is my favorite in the summer to do to burn the fat.
And then in the winter is cross country skiing.
Right.
Another cardio burner.
Amazing.
I know
I do it a
lot.
Why
do
I not believe that turn Michael's wake up?
We got
snarky Mike.
We got snarky
Brian snarky.
I was doing cardio lifts this weekend sitting outside 18 to
20 I'm not sure what term I should use this but I
I stopped at Quick Trip the other day, and it's like, I haven't been drinking hardly at all.
They told me not to drink after the surgery type thing.
But it's like, sometimes you're just on a nice night, you feel like a beer.
You just feel like a cold beer.
So I was gonna go buy one can of Bud Light, okay?
At the Quick Trip.
That didn't sound bad, right?
I bought the Tall Boy.
That's what they say, that's what they sell, yeah.
I felt a little,
did
you?
But that's okay.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
He felt
bad for buying it or you felt bad afterward?
I felt like he felt good after drinking it.
Yeah, that was fine.
But you know what I mean?
It's like, that's what like... No, no shame.
Okay, John.
No shame.
But you're not the only one who buys those there.
Right.
And I remember when they got there, when they came to Green Bay and opened up that store and, you know, we're a little concerned about alcohol.
We're like, you can't sell singles.
And they're like, oh, then we ain't open our store.
Well, I think I want to say it's like 24 ounces.
Right.
Those things
are.
they are yeah um was that cold 45 that was very popular yeah cold malt liquor or yeah that's what it was oh yeah anyway yeah give me a can of the bull we used to say and that was good yeah did you didn't drink it in a paper bag walking home did you or did you go home what'd you do with it john it was plastic
hey britney hey somebody's complaining here our man terry is july going to be our only summer month in wisconsin britney this june
weather of
60s dirty day and 50s at night is puke
Terry.
I think
that's
what he
said with his little
emoji there, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I like it, to be
honest with you, kind of.
So what's it gonna
be
like, Brittany?
A little roller coaster up and down, still cool, breezy today.
Got chances for scattered showers and storms later on, highs in about mid sixties.
Then tomorrow, though, high pressure moves in a lot of sunshine for tomorrow and Wednesday will be in the mid seventies tomorrow will climb to the low eighties on Wednesday.
But then another low pressure heads our way.
So we go back to the upper sixties Thursday, Friday and Saturday with more, of course, unsettled weather chances for showers and storms.
And then Sunday, we dry things out and warm things up back to the mid seventies.
OK,
I don't want to be that guy.
You know, when somebody all of a sudden discovers a new hobby or whatever, whatever, and all of a sudden they're an expert and they keep telling everybody how great.
Macraman
I know people like
that.
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Yeah.
Kind of, but, you know, they made plant
hangers
with that.
Yeah.
But tie knots.
Yeah.
That's a big 70s thing.
They were in clubs.
But anyway, so then they disposed the benefit.
So, OK, so I got a little bit of skin cancer right now.
OK.
And the number one thing that you notice now, like, just when I was walking back the other day and it's so beautiful in the water, it's like, cover up, man.
Put some, and one thing they stress at the hospital or the thing I was at, cloudy days, if you're on the water.
You'll not know what you're gonna get burnt just as bad
So
I don't know you spend a lot of time outdoors, Brittany But it's like now that I see you that you know, it's like man puts and I'd never I'd never one time in my entire life had I ever put on The only thing I'd ever use was baby oil and Hawaiian Tropic I'd never put on sunscreen in my I still have it in my entire life And it's like it does catch up to you
Oh, that's so scary, but you're right.
You're right.
I mean the water reflects it.
Yeah doubles that for you.
I'm not sure if it's actually double, but you know, it definitely right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's one thing they
stress.
Everybody thinks to put on sunscreen in a sunny hot day.
Nobody thinks put it off.
It's a little bit overcast.
Yeah.
But if you're on the water,
it will come back at you.
I never put on sunscreen at all.
Exactly.
And
another one, I remember the worst sunburn I ever got was from skiing back.
Like I said, when I lived in, I know that.
Sun reflecting off the snow, what that does to you.
And then your, that does raccoon eyes.
Yeah.
Cause that goggles.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We just got a text in from Brian who says, new weekend show, macrame with mine.
Oh, there you go.
Everybody had an aunt or a sister-in-law or something that did that.
We
had all that stuff hanging in our house growing up.
That
1970s decor.
And it's usually like avocado green.
Yeah.
Or orange.
Yeah.
No question.
You're too young for that, Michael.
No, I mean, I was born in 65.
But I do remember it now that Todd was saying, you know, what it was.
Yes.
Put wood beads
in it
and stuff like that.
We had an art class on that in high school, maybe.
Maybe.
And you
know, people that were really cool, Todd, they would have those chairs hung with a hook,
those
like wicker chairs
in
their living room.
Remember those?
Yeah.
Remember those, Brittany?
No.
No, she doesn't remember.
I'll send you a picture later, Brittany.
So
give us a great forecast, Brittany.
A really good forecast.
Sunny and 70 for three months straight.
How's that?
Nice.
We'll take
it.
We'll take it.
Absolutely.
But
Brittany, in reality.
Nope.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
You know that.
But it comes to the farmers online because people who look out far, they say it's going to be hotter than normal.
Um, yes, they do.
Everybody's saying it's gonna be warmer than normal.
Um, and we're not even in an El Nino or a La Nina.
We're in an Enzo neutral pattern.
So to be warmer than normal and not in the El Nino is kind of, you know, different.
Hey, you know what I've noticed?
There's more beach at places
like even like
Nishoto.
There's more beach than a couple of years ago.
I thought the water was high.
I know it seems like that one's gotten bigger.
It's not like it used to be, but it's more good.
Yeah.
That's awesome, man.
That's a beautiful beach man.
Yeah, you know what Brittany this whole global warming I'm not sure I'm as knowledgeable as a lot of other people but something has changed because I've had allergies themselves a little kid I mean and got the shots and everything you know I have been and this year it's one of two things it's either
Something hasn't grown that normally grows or it's the stuff John gave me this nut nasal crumb.
I forgot what it's called.
I
don't think we should talk about sharing prescriptions on the
air.
I never did that.
I didn't give you anything.
How's that ambient working for you, John?
Not bad.
Great dreams.
But
anyway, I just think, I don't know if the allergy season has changed over the years, but man.
I love it.
I'm so glad it didn't hit me.
You're fine.
You're just your allergies are good this year.
I'll be honest with you.
I had
I had in
two days.
Remember, Jim, we walked
outside and I said, man, it's him.
And it was the first day things bloomed.
Haven't had a thing since.
Right.
So
no way.
Oh my gosh.
I'm jealous.
I have been struggling.
I never had allergies my entire life.
And now between the allergies and everything started to bloom, I had.
Close all the windows and stay inside.
Right.
I've
been through that.
Take a shower.
It's just, oh,
yes.
Yeah, and now it looks like a fire smoke.
Yeah, that's,
wow.
I'm sorry you're going through that.
It only lasts about...
25 30 years, so yeah,
you know my eyes just get that these tell me to put teabags dump teabags
and
put them on your on your eyes Remember that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I did all I have an ice serum that I use a bomb every morning and I bomb yeah Is it
like a real thick almost like a syrupy
thing?
That's
what they gave me.
No, no, it's a roll on.
It's a roll.
Yeah.
It's really nice.
It's a roll on.
Yeah, and that's cool Yeah, it's just nice.
It's just you know, tightens the skin up a little nice.
There you go.
Can I use it all over my face?
I'm using that I'm using my honey tallow
But it's a bomb.
It's a bomb.
Mine's
a bomb.
A bomb.
Oh,
it's a
bomb.
Oh, yeah.
Todd says I'm looking better.
I like that word bomb.
Bomb.
Right, Todd?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Give us a forecast, please, Brittany.
One more time,
Brittany.
All right.
Breezy mid sixties today, chances for scattered showers and a few rumbles of thunder.
Lots of sunshine tomorrow and into Wednesday.
We warm things up mid seventies tomorrow, low eighties on Wednesday, but then we fall back to the upper sixties Thursday, Friday and Saturday with more chances for scattered showers and thunderstorms.
The good news is none of them look strong to really severe because we don't have a lot of that heat and humidity here yet.
On Sunday, it will be sunny, low 70s, so it will end to the weekend.
We'll take a
great month of the year that there ever is.
Brittany Merleau, you're awesome.
Thanks, Brittany.
Thank you so much.
Take care.
Feel better with all these allergies.
I know she had that.
That's too bad.
Got ticks here.
It's back in style.
Lisa from Simple Life.
Macramay.
What's back in style?
Macramay.
Matt,
Matt, really?
Lisa says so.
I know, she sits back and stuff.
Maybe she's, maybe Lisa's doing it.
I, I, you know, I, I don't know.
Sarah, Sarah says I took a macrame class a year ago.
Why is
it back in style?
Because it's cool.
Everything old is new again.
Yeah, you
know,
that's
true.
It is
absolutely.
Absolutely.
I don't know that you'd have to make it if you wanted.
There's so much of that stuff at rum sales.
It smells like cigarettes.
We
got
a
center to a quick break.
Michael Friedman from Simple Life Hospitality in the house.
Back after
this.
Hey, welcome back.
Mine and the Mayor here on a beautiful Monday morning.
55, Green Bay 59 after 54, and gosh, Brittany Merleau says we might have some showers coming up later today, but still, nice, nice day.
Todd, introduce our next guest along with Michael Friedman, the boy of hospitality who's joining us.
Well...
That's who's joining us.
That's who's joining us.
Well, Michael, let me ask you something.
I saw somebody else walk through.
Oh, no, no,
no, no.
That's for seven o'clock.
OK.
Got it.
I think
a lot of our listeners know Michael Freeman, who simple life hospitality, who does the Airbnb and vacation.
And we had
so much fun
doing
shows at your places this past winter.
Weren't those fun?
Oh, yeah, that's great.
Well,
thank you.
Those were
events.
Yeah, they are.
And actually, we're going to talk to Todd some more in the team from Civic about probably doing some more of those this either summer for Packer training camp or even in the fall when the season starts.
We would love it.
We're going to work on that and get that together.
Because I think it's number one, it's supporting the community again, but getting people just to be aware of your show and but also what we do.
We enjoyed
it.
the other dads always looking for something for the family to do, but when that overlaps EAA, I mean, that's a pretty good week to bring your kids up here, right?
And there's things to
do,
and there's also sports and, I mean, fishing and things, but yeah, to be in a house, there's just something.
just better.
It is.
It is.
It's no question.
Right.
Yeah.
It's not for everyone.
I mean, they're still like, you know, I just was in New York.
I was telling you guys earlier for our conference and normally I would try and stay.
We don't have properties there, but I would try and stay and support our industry.
But there's just certain cities you go to and places if you're doing business travel.
Yeah.
Stay in a hotel.
Yeah.
But yeah, I mean, houses are great.
I mean, well, my
daughter was, I don't, I don't even know what she does for a living, but she just got.
back from Mexico City for a shoot there with the Olympic team and then LA and now she has to spend the week in the Hamptons.
No, that's for a wine company that she
promotes.
Yeah,
that's tough.
And I told
her that too.
She says, well, okay, I'm not good.
I don't mean to sound whatever dad, but
It's so crazy up there.
It's so expensive.
The hotels are beyond.
We got a whole bunch of people from the crew renting an Airbnb.
Yeah.
No, and with traveling in general, I mean, you know, when I used to travel for my old company, I was traveling all over the world and people are like, oh, you're in Paris.
Oh, you're in Rome or you're in London.
And yeah, it was great.
But I was working like I wasn't just hanging out.
Right.
You know, and but I think when you look at vacation rentals and what's happening in our industry today, you know, it's it's the travel vertical.
That's just
exploding, you know, with growth.
Did you see, just contrary to what you do, it's the one day vacation, where they just jet out for the day and come back.
That's very popular right now.
I forgot what it's called, but this guy's giving you things to do.
That's not a vacation.
I mean,
you
want to really get a feel for the culture and kind of that's an Airbnb allows a little that because it
does and you know, we as Americans, I'll say this and it's the truth.
True fact, you know, when we travel and we go on vacation, we go for seven or eight days, maybe 10.
And but think about it, you know, it's a two day travel to somewhere.
If you're going another day coming back, you're really there five days.
And by the time you get there and start to try and decompress, I was at a resort and
Barbados, this was several years back.
And everyone there was from the UK or Ireland or somewhere in Europe.
They were all there for two to three weeks.
I was there for eight days.
And they're like, how do you even decompress and relax?
And I think with homes though now, with the vacation rental industry, we have a lot of people, especially our Dork County and Northwood properties, they'll come up on a Thursday and stay until Monday.
And they're still enjoying it, but they're driving two hours or three hours or four hours from Chicago.
But having a home, having
the space, having the ability to cook.
If you're with a group of people and you want to go to your bedroom and not talk to them, you can't.
That's where it really comes in,
I
think, for me.
When you talk about the vacations, the rentals,
the people who our country does not give a lot of vacation, you'd think Americans would, we're kind of low.
Did you go Germany?
How about France?
Those people are all, you're here to get six weeks, you gotta be there 40 years
or something.
The month of August for most of Europe, for France, at least France, Spain, and Germany, we used to, my old company was a French based company, and they literally shut down.
We did no tech work from the middle of July to the end of August, because everyone was gone.
Yeah,
we do a lot of
things right, but that's something we could take a look at.
Oh, I think so.
I mean, I think having, you know, I don't want to say unlimited, you know, most companies don't unlimited vacation time, you know, with our company, our team is mostly remote, but we're really flexible.
We just, you know, let them work from where they want.
I mean, if someone wanted to go to Hawaii and work for a week, cool, as long as the work gets done.
Right.
Can I come work for you?
You've asked that already.
I know.
I
was going, gosh, John, look at the time.
I got to run to Door County.
I got to run.
Hey, well, Lisa, make us some quiche when we do a thing at your house again.
I'm sure she will.
But yeah, I can't speak for her.
Well, I think you should.
Well, if I do, then, yeah, I'm sure she'll make you a quiche.
That was really good.
She'll make you a
quiche.
Thank you, Lisa.
That's
great stuff.
That's
great stuff.
Yeah.
Mike, one last quick question.
People looking to rent for a pack or season yeah for training camp season.
Yeah
What should they do?
They should go to symbolofliferentals.com.
We are already booking out for Packers season.
You know, when the Green Bay, excuse me, when the Badger Notre Dame game was announced, we were already booking for next year on that.
And right now is a great time.
I mean, you know, this July is family reunion month.
It's a great time for family reunions.
So all of our homes in in Door County in Northwoods that are available, simpleliferentals.com.
We've got some beautiful new homes, just a brand new home that's going to come on.
on this week in Bailey's Harbor right next to the Yacht Club, five bedrooms, sleep 16, brand new construction.
Jim's got that
rented out already
for the month.
Yeah, Meadow Ridge and Egg Harbor, we've got a compound there of I think four or five beautiful.
condos, all luxury condos.
You can rent one or multiple.
So we've got some great inventory.
And by the way, our friend Brian from the Heights, he actually, we manage one of his properties in Meadow Ridge.
Yeah.
So he's got a nice property there we
manage.
Well, maybe after the break, but I want to give a plug for those family reunions.
That's
work.
It's work to do, but boy, are those fun.
And if you've got cabins, we can kind of split up a little bit.
Absolutely.
But those are great, great things to do because
life goes fast, and to have a reunion, even if it's every five years, have something.
Yeah, it's fun.
I would like to do that, but with somebody else's family, not mine.
I'd
like that idea.
Michael Freedman, always great having you
here, man.
Good seeing you guys.
Man, it's great having you here.
Simple and
hospitality, they're the best.
Mind on the mirror, back at this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
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And that's Todd.
Exactly.
All
right.
Hey, I'll tell you what's fun this summer, going to the YMCA throughout Northeast Wisconsin.
We had Eric Gorder, Group Vice President, Greater Green Bay YMCA, and Emily Smith, Executive Director of Financial Development.
Good morning, Eric and Emily.
Good morning.
How are
you guys?
Great.
How are
you?
Good.
You guys look like white people, don't
they?
When they
walked in, it's like, okay, I know.
Before
they hire somebody, they got to look the part.
They give you a t-shirt when you start.
How you guys doing?
How's it going so far this summer?
Good.
We've got a busy summer going on.
We've got a lot of stuff going on, don't you?
Yeah.
OK, when you say the why, let's be honest.
How many whys are we talking about?
It used to be there was the why and it was downtown Green Bay.
right
and
that was like the why and now it's like you guys are branched out so but and it just keeps growing and growing doesn't it
it does we have six wise in the green bay area and then 18 wise in northeast wisconsin if we go as far south as vandalek and north tamir net and door county that's fantastic that
is that's great and i think one of the reasons they're so successful is because of the programming
And I know we're going to talk about the summer.
You have stuff going on all the time, all year.
But something new this summer?
Great.
Well, we have our summer block parties coming up.
Eric, you want to talk a little bit about that?
Yeah.
So each summer, each center holds a block party.
It's a community event.
It's free for anyone in the community, members or non-members.
We do bounce houses, food, games, water, all that kind of stuff.
And it's really meant just as a thank you to the community for...
coming to our Ys and being our members.
Nice.
We have one in June at our east side location.
We have one in July at our broad view location and one at our west side Y in August.
So we spread it out throughout the summer and we usually get somewhere between six and 800 people that come to those.
Wow.
To give us your website now, people can look at it.
We'll get through it again later on, but if we just want to find out what's going on.
Yeah, if you go to our website, it's www.greenbayymca.org.
Okay, pretty simple.
Do you still are you guys affiliated with the
Father, daughter camp and all those things
we did when we, okay.
We still have, we also have a lot of really great summer programming.
So camps, a lot of camps.
So Camp Enoliah, which is up near Surring, Wisconsin.
That's our residential camp.
Kids get to sleep overnight.
We got trips that run up there.
And then Camp Wabunze, which is in the, on indoor county in Brussels, which is right on the bay.
And that's our day camp.
And we still have a lot of opportunities for people to schedule programming.
I know a lot of parents out there that are still trying to figure out what to, what to do.
with their kids this summer.
So that's a great way to do that.
And family programming.
So popular.
And a summer's got to include.
sleep over in a cabin.
You know what I mean?
A hundred percent.
You
guys do it right.
There's just a lot of things that you do that are camping.
That's my favorite part of the summer is going up to camp.
I'm sending my kid next week up there.
What's been the secret for you guys for the why?
I mean there's so many health clubs or this or that whatever and you guys just keep thriving and some of the others kind of fall by the way you said what is the secret of your success truly?
If I had to pick two things that would be why we've been so successful.
One is we meet the community where they're at so every
what, three, five, seven years, the community changes, things arise.
And we are there for them for that reason.
But I think we also have opportunities from kids from zero to 85 or
100.
Like
we
have programs for everybody.
I think our team engages them really well.
We're very intentional in what we do for those age groups.
And kind of like Jim had said, you know, we do it right.
We do it right at all levels.
But you know what else you do, and you guys do come up with new things, you know, you stay with the times or whatever, but
You also have such great traditional things where like yourself be an apparent now.
Yeah,
whatever or it's like
I went through Unilaya.
I went through that swim program.
I went through whatever.
And you keep those things where the parents are like, it's so awesome.
My kids or even grandkids at this point have gone through those programs.
True?
Yeah, there's a lot of tradition at the Y. You know, we have all of our swim programs, youth sports programs.
I mean, I learned to swim at the Broadview Y. Everybody did, right?
Back when they called it minnow and shark classes.
My daughter just finally swam across the pool.
at the Broadview Y, and so there's a lot of tradition in that, and I think also just accessibility with the number of programs that we offer, but also the price point for parents and the financial assistance we're able to offer, too.
Right.
Well, it's a good touch on that.
I
mean,
the swimming programs are great,
and
Eastside and schools, kids go there.
My kids, too, you know, the lifeguards, because of you guys, not because of me.
The kids that can't maybe afford it, you know, we...
We're always concerned about that.
You talk about, Eric, that demographics changing.
I mean, I think we have people in need here that we always did, but I think some years there's more than others.
And you give them some opportunities, right?
Yeah, so our mission of the Y is to make sure that we have access for all to our programming.
So we run fundraising throughout the year, our annual campaign to raise the resources we need so that anyone who wants to participate in our programming can, regardless of whether they can pay a dollar or pay nothing.
And we really make sure that that's available.
We partner with a lot of community groups as well so that we can expand our reach.
I got a text there from my buddies who's
you know probably in his fifties and just just let them know I failed sailfish twice.
We
do offer adult swim classes as you
know.
I know we've talked about that.
I
heard about that.
Dad's gonna come in and get some adult swim classes with us downtown.
And yes I
am.
So people that are a little bit.
Shut
up Todd.
I just wanna say
that
I would have to
do that if I was gonna do the triathlon thing because they're
You can swim across, you know, I'm not gonna drown, but that's serious swimming.
I mean, people kicking you in the head and you really gotta.
There's people that do that.
I know that people have gone to the Y, they've told me that, and they're like, what are
the Ys?
That's why I don't do it anymore.
Yeah, so you can learn how to swim, but there's also classes that would specifically focus on those strokes too, so maybe a little bit more advanced for someone looking to hone their skills on something more than just being able to tread water.
So we have opportunities for those beginner triathlon classes.
We work, like Emily said, with a lot of organizations in town, like Green Bay Multisport, they come in, they'll do lessons, they'll work with people looking to just pick a healthy path.
And I was appreciated what you did for lifeguards.
I mean, we need lifeguards.
You saw that one of the pools doesn't open because we don't have enough lifeguards.
But when you become one, that's a good job.
And it's a good job when you go to college, too, because they need lifeguards there.
So you taught all the kids that.
for the city, our lifeguards.
Yeah, and it goes so much further than just being a lifeguard.
A lot of them, it's their first job.
So they have to learn responsibility, you know, working with other people and different people in an organization.
Again, we talked about engagement.
They've become some of the best friends of our members.
They really enjoy being out there and getting to know the lifeguard.
So it's a full scope spectrum for the lifeguards, especially at the YMCA and obviously the impact it has on the whole city of Green Bay.
Right, right.
Well, how is it growth-wise?
I mean, you guys are never stagnant.
You guys are always moving forward.
What are the big projects this?
summer.
Yeah, we're very busy.
Our branches are packed full of people.
Our West Side YMC is actually the busiest Y in the state of Wisconsin.
I believe that.
In terms of the number of people that are scanning in every single day.
Wow.
Yeah, so we beat out Milwaukee.
We beat out Madison.
It's a busy place.
So, you know, I think, Eric, you want to speak to some of the kind of the programming that we're doing this summer beyond what we talked about?
Yeah, and I think to add that we, I mean, in the last 18 months, two years, we've opened
two new YMCA's.
We call them more of an express location where they focus mainly on specific programming or fitness, but the four branches we had were too busy.
We needed to expand to meet the community where they are at.
So that, to answer your question on growth, it's been rather significant over the last 36 months.
You
know, I think the only one that closed was my favorite one, and it was at the Lady of Charity Church
right across from Southwest High School.
Do you remember
that?
Oh, that was our old West at YMCA.
Yeah, and
on Saturday mornings, we would go to rent the gym.
We'd have to knock on the nun's door and she'd give us the basket balls.
Other retiree nuns live there.
It was like, and then now you guys, you boys make sure to lock up when you leave.
Well, in this summer, we're celebrating the 100 year anniversary of our downtown YMCA too.
So it's been 100 years that that building has been built up.
Okay, you failed me in one thing though.
What did I ask you the last time you were here?
To take you first with my son
besides that other than that if I could rent out that top
room
party but
we have so many things we'd love to do with that space you know it just seems but
such a great old you talk about just architecture in downtown Green Bay I mean just the facade of that is something to kind of really respect and pay homage to isn't it but
that if you did make that into housing that's where it started at too
you know what I mean it's
kind of a
be full circle, but
I read about Packer players when they came to play for the Packers.
That's where they live.
Well, that was
a lot of people in the community that have used that space to stay there for a night or for a extended period of time.
You did
archery up there for a little while.
But
yeah, what
are you going to?
Do you have any plans for that?
I mean, that is a beautiful space.
Well, I think it's, you know, dependent on both, you know, if somebody were to suggest something to us on it and also capacity and and fundraising.
I mean, it all sounds down to fundraising.
I mean, you know, we have some other.
critical couple needs that we need to address first like our west side you know is busting at the seams with folks and then our broad view YMCA that pool you know is quite a few years old and so I heard a story from a donor that they
that they were a kid swimming in that swimming pool at Broadview, and their dad came and picked them up to bring them home to watch Man Land on the moon.
So that's how old that pool is.
July of 1969.
Yes, we have some other things we need to address first, but that definitely is an untapped potential.
It's been talked about
a lot,
but
you've got so much to do, and I said 18 Ys to manage.
I mean, that's a lot of work.
Do all your Ys have pools?
No.
Okay,
well financially
whatever some of
your projects coming up you guys are gonna be delving into because let's be honest in these kind of days and times fundraising is always there you never
shut the door on that.
If you want
to keep expanding.
Yeah, so our annual campaign, we're still raising money for that.
That is the campaign that helps support things like youth scholarships, financial assistance for all of our programming, our full circle program, sending kids to camp for un-financial assistance.
Great.
And then also, and I will say on that, we also have our golf outing coming up on June 23rd.
That supports sending kids to camp.
We have our summer block parties, as I mentioned, we are looking for sponsors for those to help make sure we have a really great party for people in the community.
What would
that entail?
Because we can pub that as much as you want.
What would you like for sponsorship?
Yeah, so we have different sponsorship levels ranging from $500 to $2,000.
We're also, you know, looking for people who can help support so we can have food at our events and arts and crafts and just, you know, balloons and all the things like when kids and families come out, they can have a great time.
Okay.
And how would they, if somebody wanted to donate, if somebody listening out there in their company or just personally, if they wanted to donate, how could they go about that?
Yep.
So they can go to Green Bay YMCA.org and there is a page that has all the, all the information, how they can support on there.
It directly links to my email.
So you can email me.
Perfect.
Yep.
Or you can walk into the downtown Y and ask for Emily.
Drop off and
check.
Your website is easy to navigate.
Like you said, there's programs in there.
There's hours.
And when
you
have all the different Y's, you kind of want to know, is this one,
And I just want to compliment you on just the programs you have there.
You know, for us, for adults, but for kids, too, there's just so many different things they can do.
And we can address pickleball.
Did you
ever hear that?
We'll keep you guys around, OK?
OK.
Let's break.
All
right.
Sounds good.
We'll
get center quick break.
We'll be back with more talking.
Why MCA in Northeast Wisconsin?
Back right after this.
I did
not turn the camera on soon enough to get Emily dancing to the song.
I'm
sorry.
I missed it.
Did you hear the assembly?
I
missed it.
I will tell you if you ever put this on at the Y people just go crazy.
It's
crazy everywhere.
If you're feeling a lull.
Put this on.
Yeah, right?
That's going to pick the group up baseball.
Oh, is that going to
work?
Because I'll use it more on the
show.
Every 10 minutes.
I
always get that confused.
They're trying to do the thing.
I always get the letters wrong.
Yeah.
YMCA.
It's really
not that
hard.
Why?
Do the Y. Do the Y. Then the M.
Then what's the C?
The C is this.
Oh, OK.
Right.
And then
do the A for me.
You need more caffeine.
I don't know.
Is that it?
OK,
that's
it.
Wow.
That's a
lot to remember.
It is.
Where were the Eric Gardner?
Group Vice President Greater Green Bay YMCA and Emily Smith Executive Director of Financial Development of the YMCA.
And you were talking about meeting people where they're at
and
you look at the community where it's at, but we left when I just mentioned pickleball.
That's just been crazy, and then you talked about log rolling too.
Tell me a little bit about both
of us.
I'm gonna let Eric talk about it.
I've done that.
I've done that.
I was actually pretty good at that because I got a low center of gravity.
I was pretty good at that.
True
story.
Yeah.
I want photo evidence of this.
I
got a video of it.
I got it from an old TV story I did one time.
I'll show you guys.
All right.
You guys would be so
impressed.
How deep was the water?
It could have been, what?
Well, up to my knees maybe.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I can talk to both of those.
First, I'll talk to Pickleball, a much larger program than the log rolling offerings we have.
But to Pickleball, our larger centers, our east side location, and our west side location have it every morning and every afternoon of the weekend.
And on the weekends, we do have a small offering at our Ferguson downtown location as well.
But definitely a booming sport.
We've seen that going on for the last two or three years and dedicated space for those individuals.
We do see in the summertime, if the weather is good and the winds are low, they typically will do the outdoor courts.
And you've seen many of those pop up around the community.
So they would prefer to play outside when they can.
But anytime that wind is up or inclement weather or winter, of course, the gyms
are.
And I don't know if this is what the life cycle is about.
If it's here to stay, but do you still have racquetball?
We do.
We
have a few racquetball courts throughout the
association.
Because that
was, oh my god, was that the thing?
We've got two at, or one at Broadview, and we have a couple at Westside and
one downtown.
One downtown.
Two at
Eastside.
My father keeps the racquetball courts alive.
Yeah, they still
have a good following.
It's just not like pickleball.
Yeah, right.
Tell me about the log rolling.
That sounds interesting.
Yeah, that's more of a specialty program.
We do have one log that we...
transport between centers.
So they'll run special programming for, usually it's engagement, just something fun in the pool for adults, kids.
We do have our lifeguards go through a special certification to teach people how to log role.
And I guess John can probably show us how it's done.
It's challenging.
Are there
people on there?
Are you kind of fighting each other?
Or is it just
one?
We've done one.
We do one at a time.
You can
do
too.
I think you both should get on the log together.
I am
Todd.
I'm up for that challenge.
I'm 100% up for that challenge.
Jim and I in a log rolling
contest.
He'll knock me off because he said he's got a lower center.
I think I don't think I'd last
a long
with you.
I think we'll do the singles.
So we'll see who lasts longer.
There you go.
All right.
That'll
do.
And then you can chase it with pickleball.
All
right.
That I would
do.
So do you guys actually work out at the Y or is it one of those things where it's like, I got to get out of here.
I'm going to go home and get on my trip.
or do you
guys actually use it?
I actually don't.
I told this to one of my colleagues.
I don't own a single piece of workout equipment at my house and she was shocked because I do, I like to work out.
I am at Broadview Y every single morning.
Working out?
Yes.
Well, it's half workout and half talking to members at this point, but yes, I'm a tried and true Broadview Y MCA girl.
I just want to pick up on that a little bit.
It's a social place too.
a little bit.
I mean, I
don't want to go
downtown.
It's like, well, I fixed this parking ticket.
What are you going to do with Walmart?
It's like too much socialization.
But still, it is a great place.
People are so friendly.
It's a community.
It's a family.
It's locals.
I mean, that's
what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
And I think that's part of that success you talked about earlier.
Once we can create that.
engagement and a safe social environment for them, they're coming for that mental piece of it versus the physical piece.
And I think we would, you know, one of the things
we're attacked a little bit earlier though, and I don't know if, if we even stress this enough, swimming is so important for young kids.
You got to do it when you're really young.
And the number of people that you guys have taught to swim in Northeast Wisconsin is astronomical, isn't it?
It is.
I've heard this before that we're the largest owner of water in Green Bay, pool water.
And I will say, this is the time.
Get those kids into swim lessons and safety around water.
There's so much water in Northeastern Wisconsin.
And it's a lot more fun to get out in our lakes and streams if you feel confident that your kiddos and yourself can be safe.
And you don't
have to wait until
you
talk about 9, 10 lemon pool.
whatever you're talking about.
But you can start when they're listening.
They're a year old.
Yeah, we do preschool parent-child.
So as soon as they can get in that water with mom and dad to get comfortable and use it.
That's the key to the comfortable part.
That's what I think.
I
told you swimming lessons were like for us in Nagani, right?
We were like seven years old.
You get on the school bus on a Saturday morning at the church, okay?
They take you to Champion Beach, it was called.
Okay, the instructor would bring a lawn chair shoot sit there the stack of magazines read magazines
and
smoke cigarettes all day
The
older kids threw the young kids off the dock
true story
100% true story.
Yes,
we have private swim lessons too if you if you maybe your kiddo needs a little bit more support in the pool I know my my youngest she needed that and so we do that the private swim too as well And that's that's really helpful for a little extra pool time.
Oh, just
thanks for bringing all this
talk, we didn't even touch on the nutrition and some other things that you do for, you know, a healthy community.
And I
just think it's great that
we talked about that a bunch last time.
And we'll pump that whenever you guys want.
Yeah, a lot of
programs,
great,
constant programs going on.
Always, always.
Well, give yourself one last quick picture.
You got one minute.
Go ahead.
Floor is yours.
I think the one thing I wanted to mention, we talked about meeting the community where they're growing.
And we've really expanded our adaptive programming.
So we talk about those youth and adults with mental and cognitive disabilities.
We have what we call
full circle camps we have full circle swimming lessons and quite honestly one of our largest growing program areas and we have that we've been able to build the staff to meet the community where that's at but you see that quite a bit that that population demographic is in need of programs to support there's just none out there and the Y's kind of taking lead on that in the last two years.
That's terrific.
Phenomenal.
That's fantastic.
Thanks for having us.
Congratulations guys.
One more
time.
Greater Green Bay YMCA.org.
One more time.
Greater Green Bay YMCA.org.
Or call Emily
if they want to drop
off a
check.
Or just hop on in downtown.
Come talk to us.
Thanks
very
much.
Eric Gorder, Emily Smith, and you have put a nominal job with the YMCA.
Back after this.
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Hey, welcome back.
Kristen Ambrose, Point Mortgage Corporation in the house.
Good
morning.
OK, so you're going to be proud of me.
Show me what you got.
Will she be?
Yeah, I did some homework.
Oh, yes.
Yes, this is good.
And yeah, who finances?
The source is Freddie Mac, so all solid information.
OK, so what
I did, we were talking about that.
Yeah.
What I was talking about when I was getting out of college, interest rates were 14% to try
to buy a
house.
So I
went, I found this thing on Freddie Mac.
OK.
You get a read that's too small writing, but show what some of the interest rates have so you know people nowadays.
Oh my god.
The interest rates are so high Oh,
it's
crazy.
So go
ahead and
go through that if you don't mind Kristen I actually from like when I was getting out of college till now with the interest rates have been
Yeah, well, I'll start I was born in 80.
So I'll start so
as I
oh, yes 16.83% was the highest interest rate 16% percent and the lowest was in 21
down to 2.96.
Right now, we're sitting right around 6.9 for the national average.
So I would say that if you're looking at this graph, we're closer to the bottom than we are to the top.
Absolutely.
But it just shows that, you know, so many years, you know, it's almost like an anomaly when it was so
low.
And this graph is perfect, honestly, because it really, from
if you go to 2005, between 2005 and 2020, so 15 years, there's really only been maybe five to 10 on average in there that's been lower than where we're at now.
Otherwise, every other year in the last 45 years.
I think in 2006 when we built, it was six, I think our interest
rates were six.
So I mean, people are scary, because oh my God, I can't buy a house, the interest rates are too
high.
Right, and in my, so I'm going into my, this is my 24th year writing loans.
Rates when I first started rates were about seven and a half and then they came down and no one ever thought they'd come down to where they did right
And then now they're back up, but we're still, like I said, we're still, first home buyer rates are still in the low, low to mid sixes.
Right.
Remember that national average is not every single loan, every single product, but it's the average of what's going on.
So you can still grab some loans that are lower than that too.
There are some options.
And it's just funny because Jim, you'd get a kicker that says, remember we're talking one day about gas wars?
Oh
yeah.
And Todd doesn't remember the gas wars.
He was too young.
Yeah,
he had
it.
But I was reading this one thing.
I got to find the article where talk 1974, I believe it was 73.
74.
And the guy said, so I went to get gas.
Okay.
And I could not believe it.
It was 99 cents a gallon.
For the love of God, I can only afford a couple of gallons to get it and drive home.
Why in the world isn't gas 79 cents a gallon anymore?
Amazing.
Yeah.
Amazing.
I remember gas, the cheapest gas I ever remember as a kid growing up, 39 cents a gallon.
Really?
Wow.
39
cents.
That's low.
I do remember the 99 cents.
gas days.
Oh, I
do.
We hit those not that long ago.
Not
for a little
while, but then, you know, five years ago, four years ago.
Well, yeah, but during crazy times or whatever.
But I mean, it wasn't standard.
Back up to three.
Yes.
Yeah.
Those I think those days are gone.
What what it's, I think in interest rates, we talk to you and you have such a variety of rates for veterans for first time home buyers for
refinancing and interest is very important.
But we still need to deliver more properties in this community.
That's what's really driving
the prices up.
Oh gosh, 100%.
And the other thing is, is yes, interest rate is low.
I was texting with an agent and a client this morning and they got an accepted offer over the weekend and they're, this one is a particularly a jumbo loan, which is anything over $800 and I think $5,000 right now.
So, which is great.
But that loan program is so specific.
And if you think about the state of Wisconsin, how few jumbo loans there probably are, you need a really specific loan officer who understands that product in order to get it done.
And you go shop 20 of them, somebody's going to give you a low rate, but they probably can't even take you to the closing table on time because they have no idea how to do that particular loan program.
So it's crucial to have the right.
Person as well as it is to have the best interest rate you can offer if you're if you're working in a competitive space, you're good
I'll go ahead Jim.
Okay, and you understand the jumbo loan.
Yes,
and I think this community's I don't okay, but I think this community's got to get more comfortable with the $800,000 mortgage because we've passed these million-dollar homes and it's really been the last two three years and I don't think we're building them They're there.
They just assess so much
right and and they're not
going anywhere.
No, they're
not
what I'm saying is that we
I can't believe you live in a million dollar house.
You know what I mean?
Like it's not a
mansion.
Yeah.
So anyway, that's good that you
know that because I think there's gonna be more and more of those on the market.
Right.
Yeah.
So there's so much that goes into a jumble loan.
For example, it's not just what's the, here's my, here's my credit score and put 25% down.
What's my rate?
I need to know how many reserves you
have.
which is the money that you have after you put your down payment because now you're taking, now the lender's taking a huge risk on you.
They're borrowing you a lot of money.
They wanna really make sure that risk is minimized.
So the more money you have, the more reserves you have, the better the interest rate.
So it's not just about credit score and down payment.
You have to go into another factor of that.
And you can't blame the bank.
That's a lot of money, right?
Yeah, it is.
For
one
person.
For one person, that's a lot of risk.
And yeah, you want to make sure that they have some backup on that.
We've talked about this with young people, about little things with your credit score that could hurt you.
I'm always not late with my spectrum bill or whatever.
But something like that, if somebody lets that lapse, can that actually affect you
if you're a younger person?
Here's the deal with that.
And we just had this conversation.
So it's a great point because so many times I'll run into younger people and they'll be in college and they'll be like, well,
My cell phone company made me mad, so I didn't pay the bill.
Time Warner Cable is always a huge one.
My cable company, whatever.
And it's like they're not going to report you good, but they're going to turn you into collections when it's bad.
So you're going to get hit with the bad right away.
You're not going to catch any of the good on those.
because they're not reported.
So those types of things, if you don't pay them, you're only hurting yourself.
So pay them and work it out after the fact.
And with that too, credit score is so big because, and we're running into it a lot, and it's kind of newer to our market.
And that's nationally, but you used to have a 680 credit score.
That was a really good credit score.
The max credit score is now 850.
680 isn't cutting it anymore.
720 is hardly cutting it, which means if you have
Really now can you get a loan with 10 20% down under 720?
Yeah, if you have if you have closer that 20 plus percent down But if you're trying to do if you have a 680 score and you're trying to do 3 to 5 percent down on a convention alone Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are pushing back and they're not accepting them which means FHA is gonna come back in loop
VA is really coming back around.
Sellers are not able to just say, hey, I don't want your government loan financing, just figure out conventional, we're not taking it.
Things are changing in that.
And that's like in the last four to six weeks, us as funders are really coming around on that.
That's interesting.
What with Kristen Amboz from Point Mortgage Corporation and your podcast again?
Always on Point.
I knew that,
always on
Point.
You don't have to make a lot of money to have a good credit score.
No, you don't.
I think it's important that people know that money.
Yeah.
So I'll give you a perfect example.
My daughter, she's 19.
She's just getting started.
You know what I mean?
She doesn't make great money.
She's saving every little bit she can.
And we started with a secured credit card at her bank and you put three, you know, we had to put $300 on it.
And it's $300.
So what they did is they transferred it from our savings to the secured credit card.
So she's only borrowing her own money.
She can't get in trouble.
And then what she did was she paid it back every, like she'd put a tank of gas on and then pay it back.
One of the little tricks of the trade that's kind of an unwritten rule is 30% of the balance.
So you just use 30% of, I'm sorry, not of the balance, but of the limit.
So use 30% of the limit.
Don't go over that.
But while you're building credit, don't pay it off in full either because the credit bureau has to see
that revolving movement.
It's gotta know that you have it out there.
If you pay it off, it just reads it as nothing.
But if you leave a little bit on there, it'll read it as, okay, she's managing her credit really well.
So in this case, you know, she wouldn't put more than like 30 or 40 bucks on it just to be safe.
She'd pay it down, she'd only leave $10 on it.
So the interest she was paying was super minimal.
And she's got over a 720 score right now as a 19 year old.
That we did not.
We did not put her on any of our cards.
Like I was super particular about that.
I'm like, you have to as like an authorized user.
It's your credit.
You have to earn it.
And when you earn it, you are not going to let anyone hurt it.
So you're like shaping your own score.
Yeah, you absolutely can shape your own score.
I've worked with clients over that so often the last 20 years.
She's not making 100 grand.
She's a young kid.
Yeah.
I think that's a really good point.
I think people think, well, credit scores are some.
People might think it doesn't matter when you're 19, but it's gonna matter to her
pretty quick because
she's gonna want to buy a car or a house or something some days.
And as much as I love and respect Dave Ramsey on so many levels, the cash is king.
In mortgage world does not work because when you, like you just said, when you pay cash for everything, I don't know as a lender.
If you paid Time Warner on time, if you paid Verizon on time, maybe you paid six months late, but it didn't go to collections yet, so it's not showing up.
I don't know.
So I automatically assume you don't pay your bills because that's the risk I have to take.
How do they get access to all of your records like that?
That's a little scary.
What do you mean just as far as like if you're paying your bills or like how does you know how do people know if you paid your Spectrum bill or whatever whatever when you go for a loan how
do they access all that?
It'll show up.
So your spectrum I mean you would think that'd be more private wouldn't it?
They're the ones that are reporting it negative.
So that's how we know Otherwise we would never know if it's a month or two late They're never gonna report you negative, but if you call and dispute Right a dispute is a negative on your credit.
So if you call and say I'm not paying this bill and they're like
John Mayn, are you disputing this?
Yes, I am.
Okay, click a button, credit hit.
I would never dispute anything in the world.
Never, ever, ever.
Never have.
Where are you?
I'm coming over.
I'm coming over.
That's right.
But yeah, the point that needs to be really understood is that you don't have to make a lot of money to have a good credit score.
You don't.
That's
a really great point, but I love what you're doing with your daughter.
What a great
idea that is.
Yeah.
And she calls me now, and she's so excited, because she's earning it herself.
She's so excited.
She's like, nobody.
She's lying at like a hawk.
It's awesome to see.
And I just want to pick up on that.
As long
as, and you kind of managed it a little bit, but because kids' credit cards are, wow, free money.
You've taught her well.
And I hope that's a podcast of yours, because I think that's terrific.
Yeah, we've talked about it a little bit and get her on season.
Yeah.
Season two is coming up here.
We're going to start, we're going to start recording those soon.
And that is definitely what we're doing.
She's happy and excited and eager to talk about it because she wants to share it with a lot of people.
Kristen
Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation.
Michael, you, of course, in the hospitality business and buying and selling properties and all these kind of
things.
It's
a crazy
world
out there,
isn't it?
It is.
And I was going to ask Kristen, I mean, so for our side, we were talking before we came back on the air.
For secondary home buyers now, if they've got their primary residence, are there any special programs for people who are looking to invest and say, I'm gonna buy a vacation rental in Dork County?
Do they have
other
programs for like the secondary home buyers or is it mostly it's
a
traditional loan?
It's the traditional loan.
It is.
I love, I get asked this question a lot.
And right now you second homes, you can do second homes.
You have to, so the difference between a second home and an investment property is you have to have the intention
of living in it at least 180 days of the year, then it can be a second home.
If you don't have any, yeah, when you don't have any intention of living it, that's an investment property.
It is considered mortgage fraud if you do it the other way.
So I just liked it.
Cause if you get busted on that, yeah, if you get busted on it, because people are like, well, I want the lower
interest
rate on
this.
I gotta go call my, Kristen Ambo's point mortgage corporation.
You stick around.
We got
a lot
more to talk about back after this.
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Six to five on WISS coming out of a tough loss yesterday.
Michael Friedman, you saw that one, huh?
Yeah, I listened to the game on my way up from Chicago.
It was a no hitter until like the seventh inning.
Both teams.
Both teams.
I did not catch it
because we were
at the races.
They
just couldn't get anybody across.
No, no.
They've struggled a little bit offensively here and there.
Well, Kristen Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation.
Jim, you had a really great point we're talking about during the break.
We're
just talking about credit scores, how important those are.
And 19 years old or at, you know, I don't know, 89 years old.
But I wouldn't talk about the products that you offer.
We have over 100.
different products.
When should someone come and see you?
Like we're looking, I'm not saying we're, if someone's looking for a house.
Yeah.
So one of the best times to start is not the weekend after you have an accepted offer.
Typically it's the week before.
But no, if you're even starting to think that you want to look in the next couple months, start now.
Right.
Get ahold of them now because if there is something on your credit that's not yours that we have to clean up or if we run the numbers and you're like, okay, I just need to save a little bit more money.
Otherwise, you're constantly chasing it.
In the reverse, there's a lot of people who will come see me who will be like, can we just look at this?
I want to know.
And they're shocked at how much better off they are than they thought.
Because in their head, they didn't realize
Oh wait, I've got, I check all the boxes.
I can buy a house.
Well, why wait another year paying rent if I can own now?
And the market, it's a very interesting market right now because it's where it's not really a seller's market.
It's not really a buyer's market.
They're kind of playing tug of war right now.
And so it's interesting because about 50% of our offers right now have home inspections, financing contingencies, things like that.
So the,
which is a big change or a couple of years ago.
And buyers are really kind of,
putting their foot down going, I'll put 10 offers in, one of them's gonna accept my inspection.
And if it's not your house, that's okay, I'll move on because I'm no longer taking on your junk.
You know, because for years, there were a lot of buyers who were buying, who had no clue what they were buying, because the seller's like, I'm not accepting your offer without an inspection.
And I think a couple of wake-up calls to that, but one is just the terrible stories that came out of that.
you know, people going in with a mortgage up their eyeballs and then they have something that's, you know,
10,
15 grand.
That doesn't mean they lose the house.
Well, another thing though too that I said in real estate was terrible with some of the flips that were done that weren't really professionally done.
And they'd have like a really bad foundation that put up drywall over those foundations.
And then all of a sudden, you know, it's springtime and everything.
And all of a sudden their walls are soggy.
I mean, those kind of things.
And then those poor young people that bought those houses, it's like,
Holy crap, what do I do now?
Well, we I mean we even bought a house it's a rental But when we bought a house within two months of living they are having a renter there the basement water was backing up from the wash machine We're like what the heck come to find out there was a root in the front an old cast iron So we had to dig the basement up.
We had to have you know PVC put in all that $6,500 so the city's fault the root
It's all the city's
fault.
Hey, Kristen, I think it is.
Got a text here.
Kristen, how accurate are apps like Credit Karma?
Yeah, we were just talking about that.
So they used to be not accurate at all.
They are the longer they're out there.
the more accurate they get, they are becoming more and more accurate.
They're not, it's not like doing a hard pull and seeing exactly what's out there.
However, where they're really good is if they all of a sudden start to fall a little bit, you can catch it right away and figure out, did I miss a payment by accident?
Did somebody pull my credit when they shouldn't have, you know, those types of things because there's a lot of people out there who will just pull credit randomly with, you know, with or without, you might check a box and not realizing you gave them permission.
And all of a sudden they got your credit and they're calling you and all kinds of things.
So it's really good to monitor it.
It's not written in stone, but it is, it is a good monitoring system.
So yeah.
All right.
So I, to see you is something.
Thinking of buying a house, stop it.
It doesn't bother you even if they don't have to have an order.
They don't have to say, look, I bought this for you to do all this work.
Call us.
We'll set up an appointment.
We'll talk to you over the
phone.
We'll set up an
appointment.
It does not cost anything.
It's just a matter.
And we'll work with people.
I always say there's no credit we won't work with because even if you have a 620 score right now and you really want to buy, we'll give you all the tips and tricks we can to get you there.
will determine a timeline that works for you, budgeting, okay, you need a couple months, this and that.
That way you go into it, really feeling comfortable and know.
I also have a first time homebuyers of Wisconsin Facebook page.
That is good for first time homebuyers who just don't know where to start.
It doesn't have to be first time homebuyers, but just anyone who's looking for understanding or more without pressure of, come see me tomorrow, I'm not selling on it, I want to educate on it.
one last quick thing there used to be a thing that if you declared bankruptcy it was like five years or something before you know is that still a
yes so bankruptcies are two years for government loans four years for conventional loans so i mean it's not the end of the world v is one year so it's not
the end of
the world that's where you know a lot of people maybe had medical bankruptcy maybe lost a job maybe had a divorce like bad things happen to good people and i am never going to sit down and be like
This person sucks.
You know what I mean?
It's
okay.
This happened to you.
Let's fix it.
No judgment zone.
And sometimes it all happens at once.
And it does.
And it's hard.
And
you just get somebody to tell you it's going to be okay.
And you mentioned the medical thing.
I've seen that numerous
times.
Oh my gosh.
Medical is horrible.
So, did anybody ever come to you and you say you need 20% down?
He goes, um, and where's it?
We're getting that 20%.
Oh, my point is coming in.
Yes,
yes.
I've got
a big card game coming
up.
No, I don't yet have good credit.
Talk to Kristen.
Kristen Ambos, tell everybody where they can find you on your podcast.
You can find me always on point on any of the podcast stations.
You do a great job.
Thank you.
You make it so down to earth.
Hey,
if your hubby ever needs a fill-in driver for the off-road racing.
Yeah, let him know he's got a backup.
Yeah,
okay.
We'll get Mino in the car.
I think I'd be great
at that,
don't
you?
Think about it.
That's swimming.
That's swimming.
And log
rolling.
Kristen Ambell's point mortgage preparation.
She is
awesome.
Back
after this.
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.
Hey, thank
you very much.
Welcome back, our number three of Mino and the Mayor, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 WISS in Appleton and Oshkosh, and of course, the Civic Media app worldwide.
Special thanks to Kristen Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation, Emily Smith from the downtown Green Bay Y, Eric Gorder from the Green Bay Y, Brittany Merlo, of course, Civic Media Meteorologist, and now one of our favorite people, because she's got the cool job, Beth Kowalski, Neville Public Museum, Curiosity Unveiled Programming.
Good morning.
Good
morning.
How are you?
I'm doing great.
So once again, so many people have disappointed me on this show, and you too, because you've never hooked me up for that architectural dig I want to do, allowing a fox.
Well, we'll work on that.
Yeah, you always say that.
Michael, I'm gonna discover some really cool stuff around here.
Do you
have
one of those
medals?
Yeah, but I loaned it to a guy to find his property stake and he never got it back to me.
Yeah, but that was the best thing
about it.
I know the greatest
thing is with two things.
You know who else asked me to use it one time?
Mary Jane Herber, because they wanted to find the two... No, what do you call it?
The time capsule thing at the courthouse.
And they couldn't find where they had buried it, but they thought there was some metal.
So that's where metal detecting comes in best, finding property stakes or time capsules and bottle caps.
That's what I found a lot of.
How are you, Beth?
I'm doing great.
Good to see you.
Beth, is this your program or is this a national thing?
This is a cool
program.
It's a brand new program.
It is Neville-based, obviously.
So its curiosity is unveiled.
It's on Tuesdays monthly.
And it does a deep dive into different programming in different areas of the museum.
It's almost like you didn't know.
It really unveils something.
And we're all curious about certain things.
So yeah, we're going to have you back here.
But let's just go through some of these.
The first one that kicks off, well, soon.
Soon.
And
it's one hour every evening, six to seven.
Correct.
Okay, so tell us about the first
one.
So the first one is June 24th, and it looks a deep dive into a Dr. Seuss exhibit that we have up right now.
So it's called Secret Seuss, and it looks at two private collectors in the Fox Valley area that have loaned us some items that take a look into the life of Dr. Seuss as an artist.
Do they have some of his artwork?
Yes.
I've got a friend that has a bunch.
Worth.
Big big big money.
It is.
It's a very valuable big money collection.
In
fact, I'll tell you what it was it was where I used to work and Spencer or good friends
or
artists here I said hey Spencer and he went like oh my god.
Yes, you guys realize the value of these
things Yeah, it's pretty impressive.
So again, it's original It's original art on the outside of the gallery walls and then we have some three-dimensional pieces So it is a really amazing piece.
So yes, it's an opportunity to take a deep dive into the exhibit and the content and the life of dr. Seuss
and how cool to know that
Just, you know, I don't know what age you're expecting there, but that would just be something when to talk to your grandkids or something, you'd know a lot about.
Absolutely.
Everybody's heard about it.
Everybody's heard about it, and everybody has a different favorite book.
Right.
You know what I'm saying?
That's the coolest part, and the exhibit's only been open for, you know, two weeks now, but getting, building up to opening it, talking to folks, it's just, they have...
It's just a love for Dr. Susan again everybody so
everybody I think the most exciting thing when I was a little kid was that once a month or once every three weeks You'd get that you'd get mail.
They'd be that package.
You'd be a new Dr. Sue spoke
and again He had such a career over 70 bucks published, you know, he had a great advertising career So there's just things that that you don't really know, you know the book but then it's the backstory of who he was
So was he kind of like a mr. Rogers guy?
I mean, I just never met him, but what he didn't die what?
When did he die, 1999?
I believe so.
Yeah, something like that.
Late 90s.
Late 90s.
But had a very long career.
Oh, yeah.
Very long career.
I'm just curious.
I'm curious.
I'll have to go.
But his background, I mean,
just... So, yeah, his background was he was... His most of his career was in advertising, and that's how he made a living was, but then the artwork came in after the fact, and he would work evenings and nights and create these characters, and he...
what's really cool is like the cat, the cat in the hat was like his, he always said his persona was either the cat the hat or the Grinch.
And you can see when you compare the artwork side by side, you can really see similarities in how he drew the cat in the hat versus the Grinch, but then there's some subtle differences.
Wow.
At your next one.
In July.
John can help.
Yep.
Go
ahead.
I was gonna say we have, we have a dinosaur traveling dinosaur exhibit up.
So again, we look at the, the kind of,
Aspect of when you see a movie like Jurassic Park or Jurassic World What what are you looking at and then what you know how we can debunk what some of those
so the name of that program But the first one was secrets of Zeus, but the second one is misconceptions in the media
So again, it's looking at really using the exhibit content and taking a look at what dinosaurs really truly
I
told you this, I would be willing to donate this.
I got a woolly mammoth bone.
Do you?
Yeah.
Okay.
I bought
it in Alaska.
Okay.
We have a Tusk, a woolly mammoth tusk that did come from Alaska.
It's been part of our collection for decades.
And a woolly mammoth with teeth of mastodons and mammoths.
Is your
bone real?
Yeah.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Do you have like an authentic certification piece of paper?
I
think so.
I'll bring it in.
I'll show you.
Can you see,
this was manufactured in 1974.
Made
in China.
Wow, Michael.
Michael V. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Oh my goodness.
You guys, you know what?
Who comes up with your stuff though?
Your displays and your ideas?
Cause this
is a big process.
We work between three to four years out.
So again, a lot of times community members will come to us and say, I have a suggestion and we'll say, okay, how can we work with it?
The dinosaur exhibit that we have now, we actually signed that contract in 2021 to get it here for, to get it here in Green Bay for six months in 2025.
So again, the Seuss exhibit we've been working on for over three years.
Cause again, it's two private collectors and we had to coordinate and
kind of help curate that storyline because it's different pieces.
Not a lot of risk though with dinosaurs and sews.
Correct.
You know what I mean?
You can plan out that far.
Some of these things, they become a fad and it's like, who's that again?
But those are two good things that, especially kids with the dinosaurs, but you know.
Every time we do a community survey, dinosaurs is top five.
Top five.
So, you know, we try to look for high quality, good science and...
get those things here to Green Bay.
So again, our community can be exposed to really cool things.
And I mean, it keeps, I mean, the Jurassic Park.
So I think that series
will go on forever.
Jurassic Park 12 someday, won't they?
I mean, that there's still the
issue.
You know what, you know what a cool one would be on the Wizard of Oz, Wizard of Oz.
I think just the story behind what the true meaning was at Wizard of Oz.
You know, all the characters and just the storyline and everything.
Well, I was funny when you're talking with the little people.
They're like grabbing what's her name's
button.
Those guys are wild.
They were crazy.
They're crazy.
They're parking all the time.
They were drunk.
They said.
Yeah.
But when
we grew up watching the Wizard of Oz, it was on its surface.
Yeah.
It was a Wizard of Oz.
I remember my, my, my youngest daughter's writer, she's the smartest kid I got.
And she came to me and she goes, that.
which I said, she said we're studying the Wizard of Oz and she was in grade school and I'm like, oh, that's good.
I saw this pretty good movie, little scary ones.
So I was just, um, I said, well, you know, it started seeing that Yalbert quote.
She goes, dad, that's everybody.
No, that's just the gold standard.
Oh,
so they're analyzing what it represented.
I got it.
And the Tin
Man was like the union.
And I'm like,
oh, you're on the dance.
Big time.
I'm like, I'm like, yo, I don't know.
I didn't know there were so many messages.
Oh my God.
That that if you really look into it, it's unbelievable, John.
It is.
I did not know
that.
What's in there?
And she's like, I have seventh grade telling me this.
I'm like, wow.
Wow.
Anyway.
Okay.
That would be cool.
I just threw that out.
Well, there's curiosity.
You know, Beth, you could get that going a couple of years.
That movie still scares me to this day.
It's still scares me.
That's why I have a, I have one tattoo.
It's a flying monkey tattoo.
Okay.
So why does it scare you?
Oh my, you do have a flying monkey tattoo.
Yeah.
Because we were doing a thing on our own radio show, our nickname was the flying monkeys, all our listeners and everything.
And I came out because it's like we were talking about what scares, what has scared you in facing your fears all your life.
And mine was when I used to walk home from school when I was really little and have walked through this woods area like, and it reminded me so much when the little monkeys used to come down from up above, they're running and chasing and grabbing them.
And that was always my, so I'd have to run thinking those little monkeys were chasing me.
And they were, pick me up, type thing.
So that was always my fear.
That was my number one fear.
So I embraced my fear by getting a tattoo of the flying monkeys.
Wow.
Who knew?
Were there a lot of snakes tattooed?
No, why?
Oh, because I think that's a big
fear.
Spiders.
Oh, snakes.
Yeah, but mine was the flying monkey.
Yeah, I'm
sure yours was.
There's some of those little short lengths chasing those people down and then picking
them up.
So you had a bunch of friends do that?
Is that
your thing?
Oh, I think we had 52.
I think we had 52 people get the same tattoo.
I'd be curious as to
what.
Anybody out there with a flying monkey tattoo?
Oh, they all got flying monkeys?
Yes, they all got flying monkeys.
I thought they tattooed what their fear was.
No.
Well, they weren't, but that, that's, we adopted that, then, as the flying
monkeys.
Oh, that became the umbrella.
That was a neighbor of our listeners.
Okay, I got
it.
Yeah.
The flying monkeys.
So they weren't
necessarily like you afraid of these monkeys.
They were afraid of something, but they
wanted to join you.
Yeah.
Okay, I got it.
I got it.
Well, what yours be?
If you're afraid of like one thing, what would yours be a snake?
Oh, I have
it.
All right.
I'm not a fan of spiders.
Spiders?
Okay.
Yeah.
I don't think I like tornadoes.
Those would be a cool tattoo.
Todd?
I don't know, but that's a good one, Beth.
Tornadoes,
right?
That's in the
Wizard of Oz, too.
Yeah, that's true.
That would be a cool tattoo, though.
I've been thinking of the way to draw that
out.
That would be...
What did you say yours was, Michael?
Spiders.
But there's so many.
I like claustrophobic.
Like, I can't, like, just claustrophobic.
It's not a fear, but it does get me a little in...
Yeah, that's what
yours
be snakes.
Yeah, I think cluster full but doesn't or heights that that would I wouldn't
get another one.
Yeah, me
too with heights Yeah, my sister didn't but anyway in the snake I know I mean there's a million tattoo snakes.
Oh, yeah,
go pick that out
easy.
Yeah,
but I've been good
So, Beth, tell us more about your projects this summer.
These are all cool.
We've got a whole list of them
here.
We've got more
dinosaurs and more sews.
It's just
different angles.
Two win-wins though.
And if you notice on there too, later on in the year, behind-the-scenes tour.
So again, custom tour in behind-the-scenes and collections, which we talked about last time.
Oh, I would love
that.
I would love to see your collection room or
storage room.
So again, it's all tied to the exhibits.
So you can come see the exhibit, but then this is a deeper dive into the content of what we have on display.
that's awesome so tell us about the the museum you know let's take a step back and the cost the hours that's free
yep so it's
a while to coney
Residents,
but go ahead.
Yeah, the best part is for first Wednesday of each month, we're free for Brown County residents from 9 a.m.
to 8 p.m.
So the entire day and those days are super busy and there's usually a bunch of different activities that are happening scattered out throughout the day.
So again, checking Facebook, that website gives all the details because we updated all with different partners each month and then we're open Tuesdays through Sundays.
Oh, the reason we have the Tuesday Curiosity Programming is because we're open noon to eight, because our community asked for evening hours.
So every Tuesday we're open noon to eight.
Really great opportunity to see two amazing traveling exhibits here at the Neville this summer between the Doctor's Secret Seuss and Darwin and Dinosaurs, plus our local history content.
NevillePublicMuseum.org usually has all the updates to it as well as Facebook and Instagram.
I know I ask this every time, but what are some, I mean, you guys get so many people wanting to offer things to you guys and it's like, okay, you know, we have to put it in storage.
But what are some of the things if they walk through the door with that you guys be like, yes.
So we're working on a food culture exhibit in 2026.
Is that right?
Yeah, 2026.
So right now we don't have a bouya kettle, or bouya, bouya.
So we're actively looking for one of those.
We might be borrowing one from the Belgian Heritage Society, but we're always looking for, again, the past and present and things that we wouldn't necessarily have, but are centered to the community.
Nice.
It's gonna, that's interesting.
I mean, across the street, they got some antiques over there and cheese, you know, when that was first getting made.
The guy who invented the cheese slicer worked there.
He died a few years ago, but it's unbelievable what the history of Shriver.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
And again, we've helped them out and they have their history hall, which is pretty awesome.
So again, we look to borrow things as well as we look to...
collect things.
Todd, go ahead and read the snarky comment.
This is
from Todd and Depeer.
John was afraid that flying monkeys are going to pick him up and carry him away.
That must have been a hundred pounds ago.
I don't think he's got much to worry about
these
days.
All right.
Yeah.
Just pull him down.
Ouch.
Ouch.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Wow.
Oh, Beth Kowalski, Neville Public Museum.
Can you stick around?
Yes.
Michael Friedman in the house.
Mine
on
there.
Back at
this.
That always finds a way, doesn't it?
That's
the music.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
I thought he was going to play Barney, but this was much better.
Unbelievable.
Why would I choose Barney?
Wasn't he the Purple Dinosaur?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, OK.
Oh, OK.
Finally, I got one step ahead of him.
That's the
first
time.
Two years.
Two years.
Two years.
Hey, we're only like a week, two weeks away from our two-year anniversary.
Wow.
Congratulations.
I'm celebrating by taking a vacation.
He's gone.
He's gone.
It's been two years since I've had one.
So I just.
Well,
anyway, I
remember that first
day.
Beth Kowalski, Neville Public Museum, Curiosity Unveiled Programming.
Interesting stuff.
Let's pick it right up from where we were.
Well, that's one of your
programs.
I want to take a step back a little bit.
You went over the hours.
Do you have agreements with other museums and people who like to travel in?
So our museum membership.
Okay, supports all of our programs and exhibitions, but getting a museum membership, whatever level it is, we're part of Association of Science and Technology Centers, which means our basic membership allows you to travel.
across the United States and even some international museums and get you basically into science and technology centers.
So like if you're interested in going to Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Museum's general admission is covered.
Discovery World Field Museum in Chicago, Science and Industry.
So Minneapolis.
So again, so depending on where you're going, a Neville membership supports locally, but also allows families or individuals to travel and go explore other museums.
Are there people in Chicago that buy?
your membership so they can go to that.
That's
not an
expensive museum.
and that's right down the University
of Chicago.
Yeah, the Chicago Museum.
So a lot of grandparents will purchase memberships for families during spring break if you're traveling.
It's a really great opportunity to support the Neville and then again, be able to explore other places.
You're from Ohio, right?
I'm from Indiana.
Oh, Indiana, okay.
Indiana.
Just watched the golf tournament a couple weeks through the memorial, the Jack Nicklaus Memorial in Dublin, Ohio, and they've got a big World War II museum there that they were showing that looked really cool.
Okay, I'm not familiar with that one.
Okay, but what I'm saying is with the different types of like the military history
has become, I think, band of brothers, for one thing, really helped.
Don't you, Michael?
You know, with
people wanting to know more about that.
Do you have people come to you and ever ask for, like, exhibits, like, hey, would you ever want to do something on the 32nd Division here?
Do you get that?
So we have a large World War I collection, so we've done that before, because, again, we had a lot of Brown County residents leave and fight during World War I, and they brought things back with them.
Today, you know, you can't really bring stuff back, but they could at that time.
We're planning
on next year's, our country's turning 250 years old, right?
So we're already planning on looking at a community room exhibit that looks at the revolutionary time period and connections to early family members here in Green Bay.
So we're working with the Daughters of the American Republic on that one and are the local chapter and they helped do some research and tie things together and then we're working on how do we tell those stories.
That's fantastic.
Have you looked at
music in this area and having a display on the, the talent
goes
back here pretty far.
And some of those even radio shows, but even there were good writers of music as well.
Absolutely.
So Wisconsin has a great history to that.
You know, even Madison, we were talking about Madison earlier, having, you know, recording studios.
We've looked at it.
It's just, again, it's working with community partners that have private collections and how to curate that.
So it's definitely something that's come up before and something that we can explore.
And,
you know, if it's three, four years out, I mean,
who cares, right?
It's a museum.
It just, it takes a lot of work and you're right.
A lot of the stuff is sitting in private
homes.
But I think people like to show it off a little bit too.
They do, they absolutely do.
But again, you know, so it's again, helping to tell that story and how did you collect it?
And then what is the, what was happening here in time?
You know, what was happening with the recording and what was happening with the genre of music, but it's definitely something that has come up before.
We
were talking earlier, just a little bit to do with that, but even in the 20s, the music was, but
The world was great, right?
We were building all these buildings.
That's when we built the Northland.
We built, you know, the WBAY.
Who was just in here?
The YMCA.
The YMCA.
Three of the biggest buildings in Green Bay were built in the same year.
Yeah.
And just that was good living.
I think it'd be fun because if you listen to that music, I bet you take one, they're all too old now.
But it takes you back to that time,
right?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So.
So I gotta ask this.
I mean, you work in the museum world.
When you go on vacations, do you go to museums?
Or is that the last thing in the world you'd want to do?
I do.
I just got back from vacation.
And actually, my boys and I were in Providence, Rhode Island.
And we went to Boston for a day.
And my boys are museum kids, too.
So we went to the USS Constitution Museum.
And it was really fascinating.
So again, it's nice to be able to go explore across the country and see what other museums are doing and how they're telling stories.
See, I would love to take a summer and just do that kind of stuff.
Like, I'd love to go to the Holocaust Museum.
It's a very, very somber and very impactful way again, telling those very personal stories.
I remember when the first military museum, Stephen Ambrose actually in New Orleans opened, it was called the DD Museum at the time, then they changed the name of it.
Then it got hit bad with Katrina and they had to move
it
and
everything.
Those are just like, yeah, they're somber, but boy, you get a feeling when you're in there and when you leave it's like.
You learn something.
Again, it's about paying tribute to the past, understanding the past, so that way we can go forward.
We can do that
here, John.
I want to
do a Green Bay Military Museum.
Northeastern Wisconsin.
They're expensive.
Museums are very expensive.
Yes, it's hard.
Again, it's big building.
You have to take care of the
collection.
Keep the
lights on.
Yeah,
I know.
All right, so the boys enjoy Boston.
That's
a great, great city, isn't it?
They
did.
Love it.
It was so much history.
We started on the Freedom Trail, and it was just, again, and there were things that, because of the earlyness of that, I would just be able to be like, okay, Green Bay.
is historically significant.
Like we were existing at the same time, you know, we were huge, huge with the fur trade.
And so they were able to make those connections.
Well, like I've told Jim, I got a different route that I've walked.
Now I go the opposite way on the river here.
And I had never seen that plaque before, like 1639.
This was the trail to Chicago.
Yes.
You know what I mean?
It's like right here.
Oldest
city.
Oldest city.
That's amazing.
You know, it's a great museum in Boston, the Isabel Gardner.
Did you go?
No, I wish we had more time.
You should have gone.
I mean,
and it's great because the paintings that were stolen, they just leave those spaces open on the wall.
So you know the story of the
Gardner Museum?
No, I don't.
So three, like a van goes and I think
very, very expensive paintings.
Three or four were stolen back, what, in the 80s maybe?
And they don't know who did it.
So the paintings have never been recovered.
No one knows where they are.
But all right, so, all right, Van Gogh, did you go to,
but
did you
go to Cheers?
No.
Did you go to Fenway?
We watched, we, we, we, we lived at Fenway.
Oh
man, that's cool,
man.
I love
that city.
It's weird.
That's just like right downtown,
isn't it though?
Yep, absolutely.
Beth Kowalski, Neville Public Museum.
We love with you, what you do.
What a phenomenal museum.
Barney.
Barney,
love Barney.
Come back!
From local stories to local voices, we're shining a spotlight on what matters right here in northeast Wisconsin.
It's more than just talk.
It's about connecting with the community.
This is Minow and the Mayor.
Now here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
It was so great having Beth Kowalski, Neville Public Museum, and the phenomenal things they've got going on there.
Kristen Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation, she always brings it strong.
Eric Gorder and Emily Smith from the YMCA, the great programs they've got going and Brittany Merleau, of course, Civic Media Meteorologist, but right now we've got Michael Pittman from High Music and...
Song!
I'm not even gonna try its song.
I'm gonna let you pronounce your name because you say it's so much better than we can.
Songgyeong, but you can call me Song.
Everybody calls me Song.
And that's absolutely fine.
Like, S-O-N-T.
We'll just go with that then.
We were with Song.
Great.
We had some folks from Hyde Music in here the other day talking about a great project you guys are involved with.
Oh, yeah.
The first Street Music Week this week.
Yes.
Yep.
We had Leah Reid here on Friday talking all about Street Music Week down in Appleton.
So, hey, if you're looking to do that, this is the time to do it.
Lunch hour, come on down.
Absolutely.
Now
Song is, I think everyone knows, is the...
the conductor of the civic music, uh, civic symphony of Green Bay.
And, and by the way,
he wants to well throw us out the term.
When I was a conductor of the symphony, so
I'm going to be honest with you, you've
created a monster
with
him.
He was great.
He was, he conducted the civic symphony and we had a confetti and he was just glorious under the podium.
That was, that was a lot of fun.
When I think of, when I think of Jim Schmidt, I think of confetti and glorious.
I never thought the word glorious is actually Jim Schmidt.
All right.
I think you come back any time.
Okay,
I will.
You've got a lot going on.
went to some of your concerts last year.
I just love what you bring to this community, but tell us what's coming up on the 21st, which
is
a great event by
the way.
Yeah, about two weeks from now, Saturday, we open at noon, but two o'clock, we have a concert, a patriotic usually close to July 4th.
But this year, it's going to be the International Make Music Day, that day is, as well as the first day of the summer.
I mean, yes, we don't have summer yet, as you can tell.
But I hope it's
come soon.
So we have a theme of music and summer, as well as patriotic pieces.
And the environment is very cool.
Yes, we are doing it at the airport, Green Bay, Austin's Trouble International.
The Jet Air
Hangar?
Jet Air Hangar, Pilar Smith Training School.
jet air group hangar and it's very, very cool atmosphere.
You get to see a lot of different planes and you actually look inside and also we have a flight simulator.
So you get to experience what it's like to fly.
If we go to AA this year, we got to do that.
Remember
we go out and talk about
that.
Simulators are great.
It's a free, free concert.
Really?
Yes.
of course donations are appreciated right yes
that's awesome
i know as well i'd love for the day i love watching a
boston pops
oh absolutely isn't that great oh she can do that
yeah i mean you guys
yeah you guys
can bring it on when it comes to well anything really but i i think that patriotic music that you play is
yeah it's something like a symphony
right
yes and everybody is so uh you know excited to hear uh you know usual tunes like the stars and stripes and um
other ones and we honor veterans.
Yeah.
And so that's it.
That's a great, great family event.
It's just a
great, great event.
Yes.
Especially if you have
whatever.
Yeah.
Grandkids or kids of young age, they get to have so much fun face painting and they get to actually experience playing different instruments.
And we have Michael from the hide.
Michael from hide music.
You
are one of those great sponsors that we need to make our community work.
And you've got a lot of things going on, but I want to focus on this one today.
Yeah, tell us your involvement in this symphony thing at the airport.
Yeah, definitely.
So we've helped sponsor every single year that this has been happening for the third year, instrument petting zoo.
So it sounds funny because you picture a petting zoo, petting little goats and things like that.
But this is for instruments.
So
Come on over, you're here to try an instrument, flutes, clarinets, violins, violas, cellos, a lot of those are orchestral instruments, percussion.
So we have volunteers from the symphony that help us out as well, but come on over and just try instruments.
You know, if your kids maybe thinking about doing band, it's a good place to try an instrument before try a few instruments.
If you're an adult, we do rentals and things like that for adults too, so try some instruments.
Maybe you're like...
I want to get back into playing or I never had the opportunity.
It's time to start playing now.
You know, we talk so often, especially on Fridays, we have Dennis Peters from the glam band here.
And we talk about the artists, the young artists that come through and Jamal was asked them, you know, where was the spark?
Somebody gave you that confidence to stay with that.
But the fact of the matter is Northeast Wisconsin, I think, is really underrated with the interest and with the ground roots level of if anybody's interested in music at any level, where you want to play a gig at a local bar or you want to be a six year old wondering how to play.
a certain instrument.
It's here.
I mean, it's people like yourselves who are real advocates for getting people involved, not just listening to it someplace, getting involved.
I think that's great.
Absolutely.
We have so many groups that would love to have you.
If you have instruments in the attic, bring it out and try it out.
And the more you play, the better you get.
And in fact, the Civic Symphony of Green Bay is a volunteer orchestra.
They don't get paid.
Actually, they pay their members' dues.
But they get to experience amazing symphonic literature.
Right.
Also, there are other city band and other groups that would love to have you and join us.
And it's so great that they can join you because some people, you know, if you're good, you kind of want to not show it off as the right word, but you really want to share it with
other musicians.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So you don't have to be a professional musician.
See something?
Oh, yes, I see it.
Yes, I remember that.
I remember that moment.
It was a lot of fun.
Where was that?
Where is that?
Myer theater.
Oh, the Myer, okay, wow.
That was fun, and thanks for, yeah, that's one of my highlights.
I got, yes, anyway, I got that picture framed in my house, so,
okay.
Oh, awesome.
And I think you, Song, I...
besides bringing this to our community, you've influenced some people as well.
And I think if they, we talk about your parents tell you you're a good musician, you know, it's kind of what parents should do, but they hear it from someone like you or Michael, it really can spark them to say, you know what, I think I am pretty good and I'm going to pursue this.
Absolutely.
I mean, you don't have to, like I said, a professional musician that 99% of our musicians have a day job.
They work from eight to five and then they come to the rehearsal once a week before the show and we bring the music together and it's just a teamwork.
And nice to kind of get out of the house a little bit and have that socialization.
That's
so important to
people.
There's a lot of studies that that's really important if you want to live a healthy life is to have that socialization.
What a great opportunity there.
Absolutely.
I mean, you get to share the music, you get to talk with somebody else.
We have a lot of physicians and lawyers and school teachers and so many different occupations.
It's funny you say that because I remember going to, I forget which.
bar I was at or whatever a few years ago.
And it was the, all the doctors had their own band.
And then, and then with Dr. Kristen, we talked about, she has a group that at the wider every year where it's all physicians and everybody.
It's almost like that's a really good outlet for those types of people.
Sometimes.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
It's, it's good for your mental.
Right.
Right.
They memorized stuff their whole life.
I mean, it was just the way they think as there's a correlation to music.
That's where that doctors and recital is like.
You know,
I think so.
I think the numbers and a lot of the engineers and they have a specific brain.
I don't know.
I'm not a neuroscience.
They can use it in
a fun way.
Absolutely.
Right.
I've released
for them almost.
Yes.
Okay.
I've asked you one quick question.
We're talking a little bit, but you have your parents or grandparents are involved with the Korean War, of course.
I've had many Korean War veterans and they could not say enough good things about the South Korean people.
How well they took care of the American troops over there.
We should have.
Yes, we should because I mean,
I mean, we appreciate so much of U.S.
troops, what they have done and risking their lives and putting their lives on the line and sacrificing their lives.
And that means a lot to us.
I really appreciate that.
That's beyond, you know, it's Korea, a different country from U.S.
and they sacrifice their lives.
It's amazing.
But then the
American, those soldiers, and they appreciated that.
And like I said, many of them, some of them went back to help with villages or excuse me, with orphanages, with schools, with different things.
They wanted to repay the South Korean people for how well they took care of them.
So I don't know if people realize what a great relationship or American troops had with the South Koreans.
Thank you.
I mean, there are a lot of orphans who are adopted by Americans.
You know, there is one of my guys, they did the big breakout from the chosen reservoir.
you know, the frozen chosen, which was a terrible situation.
And they went down to the port city of Hungnam, okay, and they evacuated like 100,000 civilians who would have been massacred by the communists if they'd gotten through.
And the guy went back and he was saying, or he went to church, Catholic mass, and
I got to talk to the priest afterwards, and the priest was one of the young orphans that they took care of and put on those bolts to take them out.
Isn't
that a small orphan?
That's the seeds, the seeds that they've planted and it grows.
So you've been over here since 1989, which that's
a long time.
Look at it, you look pretty much your whole life.
Tell me about your perception of Green Bay.
Are we right when we
say that?
Oh, I love Green Bay.
I absolutely love it because, except.
except the weather.
You've never liked the weather.
I know.
I mean, I am a heat resistant person, so I can tolerate the heat, but the cold, not so much.
However, I mean, I love people here.
The mallet, you know, community feel to it is just amazing.
So I,
yeah.
What do you think of the music?
Every sports sports, right?
I mean, talk about the Packers and
GD.
Absolutely.
There's some great talent in this part of the world, but you know as someone who comes from a different country that is conducting you
there are a lot a lot of talents who are hidden, you know, uh, so I'm I'm Very grateful to be involved in a community ensemble and the mentality is it's actually kind of similar to a packer
support mentality.
That's great to hear.
Yes.
So I love the community of Green Bay.
Okay, after I throw this, I got some more sports questions.
Why are female golfers from South Korea so amazing?
Oh, because...
because of the parents.
It's incredible how good they are, isn't
it?
Because I had... They swing a
club at
4.30 in the morning?
Oh, yeah.
It's a practice, practice, practice.
Study, study, study.
That's the mentality of Korean parents.
Wow.
It's
turned out a lot.
I mean, they're great musicians too.
And that's the
same reason.
Yes.
And the same reason they
do so well on discipline, huh?
Just practice.
Practice six, seven hours a day.
Wow.
Other, even after school, before school, I mean, that's the mentality.
Wow.
But it works.
It works.
It does, you guys are unbelievable.
Hey,
Michael, Hyde Music has, aside from being a, I mean, how many generation music store,
But you guys don't rest on that.
You guys are so involved.
Like we had a couple of your people last week talking about that.
You guys don't just sit back and say, hey, come to us and buy an instrument.
You guys are out there making the whole music scene, something special.
Oh, definitely.
We're a third generation.
We are a Wisconsin family.
You know, they live in Appleton for the hides, but we've been all around.
We are here for the community.
That's how you foster musicians.
You grow musicians, community enrichment.
I mean, I'm a musician for life.
Right.
I'm not originally from Green Bay.
But I love this area as well.
That's awesome
what you guys
do.
It is.
And are you involved in some of these school board meetings?
Because sometimes you hear, you know, music might be on the chopping block a little bit because of budget things.
Do you guys going to go over there and raise a little hell?
I did.
Well, we are here to support education because that's where it all starts.
He says it's different to me.
My father was a teacher in the public schools back in Washington state.
My wife is a teacher in the schools here.
Okay.
And so I'm always for education and growing.
I went to a school with a lot of music educators in Washington state for my undergrad.
And we're just talking about how music besides
you know playing a song is there's a correlation to other educational things too right we talked about you know engineering medicine it's just it's a great um side side job to have is just play an instrument you know i think it's awesome michael petman high
music sung artistic director and conductor civic symphony of green bay concert coming up
21st.
It's
great to have you guys.
Come on out at noon and enjoy the activities and concerts.
Whatever we're going to do to support you both, please let us know.
It's great.
Thank you so
much.
Thank you for your family service.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Quick break.
Back after this.
Hey, welcome back.
Might on the mayor here in a good look at Monday morning.
56 in Green Bay, 59 out in 55 in Oshkosh.
Might get a little creepy later on, mostly cloudy storms, showers, lower sixties.
Time to warm up a little bit.
Time to warm up, Michael.
Time to warm up.
Time to warm up.
You know, I was
thinking, I was thinking in that last segment, you're talking to them about the symphony and everything.
Yeah.
You're talking about your musical mind prowess.
Yeah.
A kazoo.
I
could do that.
You can play a kazoo.
I could do
that.
I could do that.
Todd said he went to that camp.
I didn't know Todd was a musician.
So it was a summer camp.
I was, no, remember I'm a percussionist.
Drums, timpani, all in the up.
What's the other thing?
Play your other thing.
The Vibra Slap, right?
The Vibra.
That's pretty cool.
I know.
Xylophone.
Yes.
That's pretty cool.
I forgot about that.
I didn't know you actually went to summer camp for that though.
I did.
I was going to be a music teacher.
Wow.
See, we keep learning things from Todd.
We never know.
I can see that.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Wow,
I think music, every kid should try it.
They don't like the first instrument because it squeaks, they all squeak when
you first try
it.
There's so many things, you can move from one to the other to the other.
I think it's
great.
I'm not musical, but I love music, all kinds.
I love everything from classical, I love bluegrass, jazz, alternative rock, the 80s, 70s, but even some of the harder stuff, like Rage Against the Machine and Nine Inch Nails.
You're into them?
Oh yeah,
I
mean, but not so much because like, I just think the writing is very interesting.
The sound can be very interesting.
I mean, Trent Resner from Nine Inch Nails is one, I think,
five Academy Awards for his music writing.
Wow.
Even though, you know, he's this hardcore musician, you know, it's just, I don't know.
I think music can, it just does so much for the soul too.
I agree with that.
I still think whiskey in the jar is one of the greatest lyric, lyrical things.
Whiskey in a jar.
Been drunk and weary, went to my Mollies chamber.
Remember?
Great song.
Love that.
I don't remember that.
Metallica.
There's thin Lizzie before that.
Thin Lizzie.
Yeah.
Remember thin Lizzie?
Oh yeah, that was a good
name.
And that's, I think it's important even if the parents didn't play to let your kids try music.
And she said,
do you know what she's
down the way out for?
But
when should we start a kid's four?
That's young, but five, six, seven,
but that's what she thought.
And that's amazing.
Anyway, that's
my dad plays the harmonica and I tried, I could not pick it up.
My
parents were musical at all.
And, you know, I tried the trumpet in grade school, like elementary school.
It just not my thing.
We had to play an instrument.
And I don't remember fighting it.
It was just everybody plays an instrument.
So we just did with trombone sax, just clarinet, flute, whatever.
We
all did
something.
So anyway.
Well,
Michael, let's talk a little bit real quick here about simple life hospitality.
What are you guys looking for these days?
You know, great time of the year for us.
It's high season.
We have new homes coming on up in Door County, as I mentioned earlier, you know, and right now we're adding more homes for the summer.
But as we, you know, it's just a busy time of the year.
Our homes are booked for the summer.
We're adding more homes in the Northwoods.
We're expanding in Eagle River, Rhineland or Monacoa.
Oh, cool.
We have a great house up in Boulder Junction, which is an area I absolutely love.
Beautiful area.
Really killer house cabin in Florence, Wisconsin, if you really want to get away.
That's a way.
I mean, just
really away and just kind of just unplug.
But yeah, we've got some great homes and it's a good summer for us and we're excited by what we have going.
We've added a few new homes for the upcoming Packer season, which we're excited by and we're really pleased by the
the response so far for our homes booking for the Packers seasons.
And I think, you know, because of the games, you know, it's interesting.
I think some of the games, the teams that are here, it's very interesting to see that trend and, you know, the Eagles are playing on Monday night and we got some great bookings that weekend for that.
And I think the teams who are coming in, you know, play a big, big deal in, you know, if someone's going to rent or
not.
You know, a friend of mine asked me if I could get some Eagle tickets, Die Hard Eagles fan.
And I just,
kick the tires a little bit.
It's like, whoa, is that a tough ticket?
Oh, it's going to be a tough ticket.
It's going to be expensive.
And I think with this whole push push thing, you know, I
mean, that's going to be one of the bigger marquee games we've had here in a few years.
It's going to
be big.
We may go to Pittsburgh.
We might.
To watch
Rogers?
Yeah, because he plays the Packers.
I forget the date of
that game.
Yeah, but it'll be if he's still standing.
I
just did, right by the tickets now.
Well,
we were
talking
about this coming.
We were talking about this coming in.
I mean, he's in a division now that has the Ravens, the Bengals, and the Browns.
And all their defenses are stellar.
And tough pass rushes.
Tough pass
rushes.
Miles Garrett and the fellas.
I
don't know.
I have no comment on Aaron Rodgers.
Hey, I just want to get back to your company, that Simple Life Hospitality.
I think people pick an area and then they start looking at your website.
I would encourage some people to look at your website and then pick an area.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know if we're going to go to Rhineland or if we're going to go to Door
County.
It's a great point, Jim.
I mean, we're launching our new website, by the way, this week.
It's going to still be simpleliferentals.com, but it's a brand new website.
It's going to be laid out in a way where we've got pet friendly now broken out.
We've got
about
50 homes just for, you know, if people want to bring their pets, waterfront.
So yeah, I'd say encourage people to go there and see, because we have everything for everybody.
We've got a great little Bailey's Harbor.
It's like a mini resort.
It's got six cabins.
You can rent one or if family wants to come and do a reunion there, they can rent all six.
And
they're not like laying all over each other?
No, it's
called Sunset Shores.
So if you're looking at it on the website, it's Sunset Shores and it's cabins one through six.
Or a group of friends
too.
A group of friends.
We all want our own cabin yet we all want to hang out all day.
Exactly, exactly.
And that's that I was saying earlier.
That's that old Wisconsin.
and I remember as a kid growing up, we'd go up to Green Lake or somewhere and we'd get a little house.
And we went there to fish and jump in the lake and grill brats and hamburgers
and
just have a great weekend.
And it's not fancy, but it's wonderful.
And it's not a bad thing to close the door and get away from them at the end of the night either, right?
Yeah, but what I'd say is
we...
a lot of families done a ton of vacations and we've done a couple of those.
Like I said, Rhinelander ones and they remember those.
They love that being out in the woods and it's just they love it.
It is.
It's a great time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Michael Freeman, Simple Life Hospitality.
Always fun having you in the house buddy.
Thanks for having me again.
Yeah.
It's good
to see you guys.
We'll look forward to this summer.
We've got something planned I think for training camp.
So we're going to work.
Nice.
Let us know.
We're
going to work on that with you guys.
We always have a great time at your places.
We'll have a good
time.
Thanks.
I guess they taught great job putting all together.
My brother will be back in tomorrow morning.
Mine in the mirror.
See ya.
