Mountain Biking & Macramé (Hour 1)

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Schmidt Happy Monday to you on a beautiful day on 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 mode on the healthiest places to live or where you know What we're on the clock.

What's that?

What did they say 78 79?

that were born.

No, no, no, no.

I'll talk

about age.

Oh, age.

We, by the way,

where are you?

Two

weeks.

Where you live the longest and some places.

There's a

place 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 so 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 to live 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.

I'm saying Oregon.

It's west.

Yep.

Idaho.

Denver.

Yep.

Actually it's Boulder.

The guy said their health care 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 they

offer 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 Sun 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, John might know this I rented him today.

So I you know, I interviewed one time at a celebrity ski thing there back in her day Susie Chapman Barbie Benton Remember Barbie?

Oh, of course.

You remember Barbie Benton.

He was having her as 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.

Oh man.

Which was actually kind of nice.

Yeah, it was a perfect weekend.

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.

Now, graduation's 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.

I 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 I, 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 we were talking about cabbage soup?

Yeah.

So I made the cabbage soup.

You know what else I put in, and 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 it was great.

But you know what the problem?

OK, 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.

Wow.

I step on the scales like 218.

It's like, I gained five.

Believe it in pounds?

Nah, I went off this weekend.

The only thing I made that was healthy, uh, 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, uh, 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.

Yep.

Okay.

Canalope.

All right.

Bananas.

Yep.

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.

Well, you make it a little more fluid-y.

Well, you got that.

A little

more fluid-y.

Watering.

Fluid-y.

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.

I'll make it on air.

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.

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 Jo's 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 don't

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 227?

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.

Hey, that's not even a pound.

Okay, let me get this guy.

Let me cast the first zone who doesn't do this.

Step on the scale and you see like 213.4 and you pee and you step back on the scale again.

Totally.

True or false?

Everybody

does

that.

Thank you.

So, but we have a goal for July 4th.

Did we say that?

Yeah.

Yep.

What is

yours?

Um, 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 did, so 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 he

had to been in the

two 20s.

I was in the two teens for

sure

to 17

yeah

I'll find that today.

I said I was gonna do that this week.

How

does that work this weekend?

I didn't look 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 some 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 the 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, that same part of town.

And I wish I had like a card or something to give them or a number or, well, maybe they don't have cell phones.

That's a good

idea,

really.

Something.

I was

just going to say,

Jim,

that's

a great idea.

Has

something

in

your

car?

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 not

us.

OK, that's the, actually, that's the third one recently.

I remember I had that one at the post office up there in Monroe.

Then 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.

He's going to roll me.

But you're right.

Their services out there.

That's what I mean.

I literally would like to have 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 right in the glove compartment.

Just take it out.

You know, right?

Business card make the business card

plastic it so that they have it in the glove compartment.

Hey, look, I would love that Because there's a little day and they're all really coming out now.

I like that.

So yeah, okay I'm on

it.

All right.

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And take a load, take a load off 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 was kind of the last show or something?

I did

not, no.

They were awesome back in their day, weren't they though?

I mean, they had a great run.

But they weren't really top 40 at all, huh Todd?

Not really.

Kind of just below that sort of more indie

almost.

Yeah.

Check out the Tony's last night.

Oh 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?

The Edward R Murrow.

Well, yeah, but hey,

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 it

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know.

I would have watched that me too.

Yeah The whole thing.

Yeah Wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah It is a beautiful Monday morning Green Bay 55 and Appleton 59 Oshkosh 54 forecast mostly cloudy with some showers and storms high in the lower 60s or 80s does that say

Sixties 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 that milk blank that did that.

Well, he did the voice.

Yeah, that's No, he knew that or bugs bunny.

Well, he did bugs bunny for sure, but

I mean

read about read about Walt Disney

Was he a tough guy to work for?

I love reading about those super rich people.

Oh my lordy, lordy, lordy.

The guy

that put a phone booth in his house, people to pay, and then the guy that charges kids for ransom, he goes, well, I don't know what it was, 10 grand, 100 grand, whatever it was.

But then he's like, well, no, I can't do that.

I got seven

kids, you guys.

Yeah, I mean, some of these guys that created some characters that he just took them and it's like, well, no,

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, 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.

Okay.

Yeah, she's not.

And if she's listening now, she knows exactly what I'm talking about.

The pie was a little moist.

Okay.

There was a lot of juices.

Yeah, yeah, yeah,

okay.

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 on 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.

Um, 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.

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 really?

I bet

she would.

I don't know.

I'm gonna ask her after the show because you know, she's listening.

So I would assume that.

But then again, we never bother artificial flowers, Johnson.

Well, I just thought, you know,

less

upkeep,

right?

Yes.

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, it's amazing if you buy a Snyder drugstore,

Nagani.

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 them, you

know, 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 that we 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 said?

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, OK?

You know where she was to spend her summers?

In the UP.

I believe that.

In unisync.

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?

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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.

Yeah.

Yep.

Oh, yeah went around to places hung out with people.

Okay.

I daughter graphs down.

Yeah,

that's good to hear isn't it versus you know the other way you 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 love that guy.

She was amazing.

Wasn't she great with Jean Reno?

Oh, 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 Rip

Mountain and kayaking down the Wisconsin River and bike back home.

Repel the

off of mountain.

She done, Brittany, if you would have been a little bit to learn here, if you remember more like Johnny, we just made something up right away.

Say, oh, this is what I did.

But anyway,

how are 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?

I mean, now you got rib mountain, but what do you consider that kind of biking?

In

the in

Wisconsin

guys a minute we were talking about

Colorado where that stuff is so big so huge and you know, 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.