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Jim had a run out to teach his class on at UWTC, but we are here.
Are you?
Wow.
Maybe
it.
It's a hype.
It's a hype, Fred.
What in the world is going on here?
Shawn Kastbeck and Kelly VanderMeos, independent stay hotel.
All things happening in the greater Marinette area.
Welcome to the show.
Great to see you here, Kelly.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you very much.
Well, tell us about the great events you guys got going on.
Well, we uh, just got done with the boat races, which we were talking about and that was a great turnout.
Uh, we are looking forward to our, uh, summertime, summertime is a little busier.
We get some tourists coming through the area, heading up north to check out the waterfalls and the greater UP.
Uh, you know, I, that's, that's a thing now.
Oh yeah.
I mean, having grown up with the UP, okay.
You knew where the waterfalls are, but now there's like, you go on the internet and it's like complete guide.
where you can go this one on this time, this far to the next one, this far to the next one.
That's a huge thing is the waterfall tours in the UP.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, and we have them.
And a lot of people don't know, but Marinette County has the most waterfalls of any other county in the state of Wisconsin.
We got a
beautiful whole little thing
right outside the high falls that already come through town.
Yes, absolutely.
And one thing that we are looking at doing is actually fall time.
We're going to do waterfall tours and we have a shuttle bus where I can have a whole package and people can come and sign up for the package and take them around to the waterfalls and we're going to do the same thing for the color tours.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
Yeah, he's really
one of the outside of the box thinkers when it comes to the hotels.
And so one of the things that he is looking at doing that I'm excited to work with him on is these different tours.
And Kelly also is willing, he's now also put up a weekend stay.
He's working with you guys and civic media.
Okay for the logging in heritage festival.
Oh cool.
Yeah, absolutely, you know, we will give away a free two nights room
I can leave it up to anyone's choice.
You know, if they wanted jacuzzi sweet, we can give them a nice jacuzzi sweet if they want.
I would like
a jacuzzi sweet.
Oh, yeah, they'll do
jacuzzi sweet.
You know what, they are very popular.
They are all, everyone loves the jacuzzi sweet.
Anytime someone asks for, hey, can I get an upgrade?
And we usually give a lot of free
upgrades.
Tell you, give your place a plug.
your hotel?
Oh, well, yes.
I'm the general manager of Independence Day Hotel and Suites.
I actually have two hotels.
I have an Independence Day Suites hotel, which used to be a country in Suites, and we rebranded it.
And then we have our own branded hotel, which is Independence Day Long Term and Suites, which has
basically 29 efficient apartments, full fridges, full kitchens.
You can camp out there.
All you have to do is bring food.
We have all the pots, pans, dishes, silverware.
The big hotel has all your variety.
We just upgraded our breakfast room.
We have a nice buffet style kind of continental breakfast kind of mixture.
Always three hot dishes each day, pancakes, waffles, cereal, you name it.
I'd take all hour to tell you everything we got.
That sounds
fantastic.
And Andy, what's really cool is they have a pool, but it's a saltwater pool.
No kidding.
Yeah,
which is, which I love.
I could even pool that, I think.
Yeah,
I was like, that is awesome.
And so when a lot of people come in, they'll be like,
Oh, you know, the chlorine's so bad in the pool.
I said the pool is salt water, but the hot tub is chlorine.
And I just had both of them re-plastered, re-tiled.
We have another hotel in our area that's part of our family, which is Holiday Inn Express.
It's a year old.
It's an executive hotel.
It's very nice, well put together, well managed hotel.
And then we have my two hotels.
We basically, I work for a oil hospitality, is who owns our hotels.
And most of them are,
up in the UP.
So if anyone's traveling UP, take a look at one of our hotels up there.
And then I just want to jump in because Jim went out to Maine or Vermont one time to see the
colors.
And then he came back and he was like in the UP one time or whatever.
It's like, this is better.
People don't realize you don't have to go out east to see the fall colors.
Northern Wisconsin, the Marinette area and into the UP is spectacular.
I
one time took a drive that I swear was the
most beautiful my parents live in Tennessee in the smoky mountains you know that by far like you said i was just like oh my the canopy yeah was like
this yeah it was an
arc and you just drove through it it was actually northeastern wisconsin in the north woods
yeah i mean people don't have to travel they just they just gotta get on these back roads exactly
it off the highway
yep
Yep.
We have a lot of people, especially when it comes September, October, and the colors are starting to change.
And they're coming up just from Milwaukee, Chicago, Minneapolis, just to come stay at our hotel to go on tours.
And we have guides that will show where the colors are, where they can go.
City has done a wonderful job with putting together kind of a
route for you to take and the waterfalls are in our regional guide.
So that will tell you exactly where, like you mentioned before, where it tells you exactly how many mouths to each waterfall.
And it really does.
You open up the book, there it is.
And a lot of people come to see that because a lot of people don't get the opportunity in their life to see this many waterfalls.
But with our three hotels, we have something for everyone.
If it's just someone coming up for work, someone come for leisure.
I have a lot of workers that will bring their wives with them.
and the whites are like, what can I do during the day, Kelly?
Well, here, let's look at the regional guide.
You wanna go look at some waterfalls and we tell them, hey, this is where you can go waterfalls.
Hey, if you wanna see some hydro plants or something, hey, if you want some hiking trails, Marinette City has so much to offer that people don't know that.
Besides just building ships, we're more than about just building ships.
I agree.
What are some of the workers that come up here from other places, or even the Navy guys that stay up here?
Navy.
What do they say about the area?
They love the area.
I think they love the pace because it's not, you know what I mean?
When you're talking like to the naval people or people who work in the shipyard, you're talking high tech.
So
they
have all the technology stuff that you would see in a major city.
but yet you get this laid-back kind of attitude that doesn't feel intense, that kind of gives you that... It's a cool vibe.
Yeah, I can breathe.
Yeah, I'm not getting...
Plastered by traffic.
You guys You guys do such a great job at promoting your area.
I mean you really do I mean Oshkosh does a phenomenal job to Alpton does a great job Green Bay is Green Bay.
I don't know if they have to promote right, you know, whatever But I just think these outlying areas like that people need to get out of Dodge and come to those smaller areas for really unique type of things that they will enjoy
John, you know, we were talking about this off air about how cool it is that like like in Marinette County
There's Al Capone's hideout on Muscano Island, which is now a hotel in itself, but you can visit that hideout.
You can do all these different things, and
they're just unique.
And you're talking about the UP, where your places are up at the UP, and talking about that a little bit, but the Marinette area is a great launching pad.
to be at and then go up.
Exactly.
Oh, absolutely.
We get a lot of people that will, you know, they'll take in the drive from Chicago and you're looking for a five hour drive.
Right.
They need to spend the night before they go for another three, four more hours and they'll stop and they'll spend one day by me, spend one night at one of our hotels and then they'll travel up into the UP because, you know, Houghton, which is a beautiful area, Cali Mints beautiful area, you know, the whole UP is.
Copper Harbor.
Copper Harbor.
Yes, just gorgeous.
I was up there for the first time
couple falls ago and I was just amazed at the beauty it was and it was during the color change so it was really really
cool.
I think the most beautiful drive I've ever been on in my entire life and I've been around the country okay um you go from municing up on Lake Superior over to Grand Marais and towards Sault Ste.
Marie and you drive around that area it's called Paradise Michigan and the water is is
Aqua green it's so beautiful and you're up above there and they got those those where the log roll used to be they used to drop the old Loggers really they'd be sending the the big white pine down to Chicago Just slide it right down this unbelievably steep sand beach type thing and they would go so fast that they'd catch on fire at times Put them in the water
they'd round
them all up put them on barges and take them down to Chicago went to Green Bay and everything everything like that But they've got they've got signs posted and I did it one time
That it looks so easy to run down to this beautiful pristine Lake Superior.
It's just gorgeous But the the walk up is so strenuous that they tell people if we have to bring out I don't know if it's the Coast Guard or park rangers It's like a five thousand dollar fine or something.
It's like you can do it But if you have to call us to get you out, you're gonna pay like you can't believe But you got to make that drive sometime along Lake Superior.
It's really something
It's a gorgeous especially if you go up by Porcupine mountains up by Silver City there Lake of the clouds.
Oh, yes, absolutely It is just gorgeous up there and that's you know, that's where kind of Marinette City We have we offer a lot of hiking trails.
We offer a lot of unique fishing water stuff pretty much a lot of
Outdoorsy stuff to get people into that absolutely air that you know that yeah
got a text here from Brian Which hotels and
where in the UP?
We have hotels.
We have two in Iron Mountain.
We have one in Iron River
uh, those are American ends and then we have a days in, in Allian Mountain.
Uh, we have a hotel in Silver City, which is two blocks from the Parkupine Mountains.
Uh, we have a hotel in Houghton, which is another Independence Day, 29 room hotel.
You're in some great areas.
Yes.
We have a hotel, American Indian Calumet.
Uh, we have a brand new hotel in Marquette universe or Marquette, which is, uh, best Western plus.
And then we have Sue St.
Marie.
Is that
by the water?
Oh, yes.
Was
that just opened a couple of years
ago?
No, that was just actually opened up this past winter.
Oh, okay.
The fourth floor actually overseas Lake
Superior.
I'm to Marquette.
Unfortunately, in some ways it's being discovered by the rest of the world.
Yeah.
It is getting overtaken.
That is an.
was an undiscovered gem for a lot of
years.
And we've been we our owner has been great.
He's been putting them new hotels We have four different brands that we go with and I'll tell you what it's been a wonderful experience You know, I've been in some major corporations that I've worked for in my past life But work for moral hospitality and what they've offered to me and what they've done for myself and for my staff and for us to create this beautiful hotel which independence day in Marinette and it has just been
You know, we put new carpet in we repeat my whole staff repainted the whole hotel We have great ratings, you know, look us up on Expedia.
Look us up on booking.
Please come check us out.
Look at our Google reviews our Name are our website is independence day
We have all three hotels on there and give us a call if you'd like our phone number 715-732-3400.
If you'd like to ask for Kelly or anybody at my front desk, we'll be happy to take care of you.
By the way, if anybody stays up at Iron Mountain, there's a couple of little cool places up there.
You got to check out the National Glider Museum.
That's where gliders were built during World War II.
Really?
And they were very instrumental in the D-Day invasion.
Really?
Yeah, and they were built there.
Yeah, and they were built there because Henry Ford was building some of his cars up there.
That's why the Kingsford, their nickname is the Flivers.
Because that's what they call those old Model A's or Model T's
up here, which one it
was.
Because they had so much and the Reeds and Henry Ford built up there because there was so much access to the hardwood.
The real hardwood up there, which is
what they needed, so
they didn't have to transport it anywhere.
It was basically
right around there.
And then they built those World War II gliders and there's a museum in Iron Mountain for the World War II gliders.
It's really cool.
I did not even know that.
I know they're known for bats.
Yeah,
they have a lot of bats up
there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Todd, you give me a motion.
Oh, quick.
Oh, one minute break.
We got to talk more when we come back about just again, about what a great, um, launching pad.
The Marinette area is, for all the different places, people come up from the Milwaukee's, roofing the green bays, they're everywhere.
All right, we're gonna start our quick break.
We got Sean and we got Kelly back after this.
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Kelly Bannamuse, Independence Day Hotel.
The guys have pretty much run the entire city of Marinette
in all
points beyond.
No, don't put that on me, bro.
But once again, we were talking about this because you guys do such a great job of promoting everything you have.
And some of those, like I was telling you about Iron Mountain, they've got the Glider Museum.
And you know,
I think the UP needs to do a better job of promoting itself and some
of
these cool little things that they got.
Like I said, the waterfall thing has become really popular.
But some of these other things they have in those areas, I think they need people like both of you to really, you know, bang the drum.
Well, thanks.
I would tell you that, like, you know, in Marinette, we've got this logging and heritage museum that is just filled with artifacts and is just so cool.
you know, and there's a ton of those little kind of, you know, neat outposts
that
you could you could spend a whole day kind of just
go from one to the other.
Yeah, I make a day trips even from
there.
And I'll tell you what's what's interesting is that the numbers are showing at least on our website showing that history is one of the things people want to see the most of right that it's that that that history is is
one of those types of things that people are.
Well,
Todd next week is going on vacation and he's not going to a beach someplace, he's going to Gettysburg.
Yeah.
The battlefield at Gettysburg, right Todd?
Absolutely.
So I mean, those are things, wouldn't you agree though, those kind of trips these days, vacations are getting more and more popular with historical type of basis?
last
it.
that, you know, they want to know.
I agree.
Yeah.
You know what's getting really popular up there is they're called Uper Rocks.
Have you heard about those?
No.
Oh yeah.
She got some.
Yeah, she did
I explain those Kelly what they are Okay, they're a rock that actually comes from the Canadian side and some somehow works its way across Lake Superior to our shoreline and you can only find them on Lake Superior shoreline
and it's a rock and it's got some kind of element in it that if you hold a black light to it, it shines, it glitters.
It lights up, the whole
thing glows.
Yes, and I've actually seen on some of our general manager trips to Silver City, which is right by the Parkway Mountains, right on Lake Superior Coast.
And I've had seen some people out there for hours just with a flashlight looking for these rocks because they, that and Aga Smith.
Ega or whatever.
Angots.
Yeah, that's huge.
That's big up there.
You see stores all over selling that stuff, but you see stores all
over.
It's not
let us it's gummies They
don't
need the black like to
see the
glow Absolutely, but those things are like it's like when the only places in the world
you can
find these, right?
Exactly.
In fact, it's kind of funny because my son goes to Steven's point and he has a geology class coming up and he knows the professor because he had him for something else.
And the professor's like, hey, ask your dad for one of those, those stones, you know, um, we call it uber lights.
And so I plan on setting them down.
I said, don't lose it.
I said, they're hard to find.
Yeah.
But people comb those beaches at night
like crazy.
Are they combing the beaches or are they actually spraying the rocks?
I don't know what they did.
They're out there with highlighted things.
But they go, I mean, people from lower Michigan go up there specifically to find those things.
It's crazy.
And some of them are huge.
Some of them are like boulder
size.
They get big.
And once I got a couple there about inch and diameter, they're not big ones.
But I've seen people pull out ones that are sized as a baseball.
Right.
And they just, for some strange reason, that's the only place in the world that you can find them.
And people, like I said, it just
You watch at night and you just see these people combing, you know, it almost looks like
D-Day
though.
You know another thing we were talking about this, Todd and I were talking about this with somebody the other day, ArtWise.
And we've got a local artist, Naomi, who's just unbelievable.
She can create...
piece of art out of anything.
And that's another thing that's big up in the UP.
People are beach combing and making art out of just the things that they find up that are washed up on shore.
And they scourge the same things.
They'll be out there at sunrise trying to find what was washed in from Lake Superior and creating things with it.
It's really cool
stuff.
Also another thing up there I saw when I was up there a couple times is gentlemen getting driftwood.
Yes.
That's what I mean.
They'll use the word taxidermy.
They'll get a fish because this driftwood has been sitting in there for hundreds of years and they pulled this driftwood and just take it with them.
Yep, that's
huge.
But like you were saying, I think one of the things that's really cool is that the city of Marinette is that kind of that gateway
to
where you can launch out.
And I've often said this, you know, you can stay here and go there.
and come back.
And that's the nice thing is because when you do start going out to these outer regions, you know, it's a drive, but it's a little bit of a suspect as far as, okay, do we want to have a restaurant that Bob and Kitty's Roadside Diner, or do we want to maybe come back and, you know, get some go to a restaurant that
Oh,
I will say, if you're in the UP and you stop a little Bob and Betsy's thing, you'll have the best service.
You'll have a 78-year-old woman cooking your hamburger.
She'll call you hun.
She won't make you an old-fashioned, because they don't serve old-fashions as far as they know in the UP.
I don't even think they know what they are.
Really?
Interesting.
I
did not know that.
But so, you know, I mean, that's...
When I took my basketball team to Negani one time, the waitress didn't know what a bloody Mary was.
Honest to God.
Yeah,
yeah, that's that's rough.
That's a John
Tapper story.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, guys, it's always great having you guys down here.
Congratulations.
We're just impressed with the enthusiasm you have and the passion you have for your communities.
Thank you.
Thank
you.
I think
that's the bottom line.
You've got to have that passion.
You do.
But we've got some great events coming up.
Check out our website.
Also, Kelly, as well as the Holiday Inn Express to top notch, top level.
Hotels that you can really expect some great stuff
and a quick thing.
I want to I want to go up to Marquette I had to spend the night in Marinette first.
Okay at that best weather friend.
Yeah And then I when I drove it's like what was that an easy drive?
Yeah compared to that one night made such a difference
it may it does because you're breaking it up a little
absolute Absolutely great having you guys in safe travels back.
All right.
Thank you very much mind on the mayor back after this
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Mino and the Mayor here, the Mayor of NWTC right now, doing a little teaching.
You're listening to Mino and Todd right now.
Hey.
Hey, boy, those two guys, Sean and Kelly were just so much fun coming down from Marinette.
Spike Pedersen, the author we had on Lauren Kniespeck and Lucia Vanderbelder from New Leaf Foods.
Having a great time.
And now we're being joined by Jason Mansmith.
That's just the most perfect name for the Thrasher Opera House, Mansmith.
Thrasher Opera House Green Lake.
Hello, Jason.
Hey, how you doing, sir?
Good to see you as well.
Good to see you.
What is going on, my friend?
Oh, you know, we got a busy stuff going on here in Green Lake, Wisconsin, right?
It's a lot of people back in town for the summer and a lot of things going on around the community.
We continue to stay busy here at the Thrasher Opera House.
We like to get outside every once in a while and do an outdoor show.
So we've got one of those coming up in a few weeks.
Some performer, Pat McCurdy, you might have heard of them around Wisconsin.
He's going to be performing on the shores of Green Lake here in just a couple of weeks.
And what a better opportunity to be out and about with friends.
And have a few beverages or two.
Listen to some great music on the shores of Green Lake.
It's going to be a wonderful night.
Always is.
But don't fret if it rains.
We've got a place to put them too.
So we can always come back to the opera house.
Yeah, it's on Lake Street, you know, which is, you know, very unassuming when you're in the Lake Community, right?
Right next to Murphy's is a great little on the water kind of place to have some dinner and things like that.
And it's just directly to the south of that.
Jason,
you guys.
We're talking with our fellows here from Marinette and everything.
There are certain little places that maybe not the whole world knows about in the state of Wisconsin that are absolute gems, and your area right there is one of those gems.
Wouldn't you agree?
Oh, I definitely agree.
you know, when people ask where you go on vacation in Wisconsin in the summer, we stay here because we love it, right?
And and then we just try to find those spots and in Green Lake always bubbles to the top and not only Green Lake, but the area as well.
And that's, you know, Princeton and Berlin and Ripon and Markizan and down into Amish country and Kingston and Dalton in those areas too.
So, you know, the nice thing is it's all 20 minutes apart pretty much, right?
And and for some cities, you can't get from one side of the town to the other side of the town.
20 minutes.
So it's really nice to have that also local and it's also friendly here too, right?
So that's a really big important part.
Now, if people want to come to some of your shows, they need to be kind of proactive and buy some tickets early, right?
I mean, don't you sell out almost every single thing you guys do.
Well, we certainly hope to, you know, it may not be every single thing, but we get real close on a lot of them.
So we highly encourage you to check out our website thrashorhopperhouse.com.
Become a member of our e-blast group as well, because you'll get some pre-sale ticket opportunities there, too, before they go on sale to the public.
And we've announced a bunch of shows recently, a lot of great performers coming up.
We're looking forward to it.
Tom Rush, a great performer coming in, he kind of
ran in the same round as some people you may have heard of.
Jackson Brown.
Yeah, yeah, may have heard of them.
Yeah, may have heard of them.
So that's coming up in in July on the 19th of a week before that.
Such a fun story.
Daniel Van Kirk, a great comedian, but he's got ties to the area here, like his family's from Montello, which is just to the west of us a little bit more.
But he did a show for us last year and came back and he's going to come back again this year.
So it's going to be a lot of fun for that.
That's coming up in July as well.
And then.
you know tribute shows are hot right now like there's everybody seems to be doing one and and we do have some in here and we've got a great one come up in August and we're excited because it's called Morning Train and it's a tribute to John Prine which is going to be a great thing for the the opera house and it's
You know, the music and the stories and everything that goes along behind it.
So I highly encourage you to check out our website thrashropperhouse.com.
If I can just jump real quick, Jason, has that just been put together since his passing?
Was there a couple years ago
now?
Yeah, absolutely.
This particular version of it features a lot of bands, a lot of members from other bands in Wisconsin, right?
Some horseshoes and hand grenades and a bunch of other bands too that they kind of put together this prime tribute.
So yeah, it's a really neat thing to see and we're excited to be bringing to it a little bit later in the year.
We talked about Dwayne Betts, I think, before he's coming on in.
So that's going to be a good show.
Crystal Bowers actually may remember her.
She was on American Idol for a while and a couple of great blues players a little bit later.
this year too, so so much stuff going on here as well.
What do
you guys sense as far as you're talking a little bit about the tribute bands?
And things are, you know, what's the word?
Cyclical?
Cyclical at times in the business, in the entertainment business and everything.
What have you seen?
What kind of like maybe has cooled and what's getting hot?
As I said, tributes are always hot.
You know, we get offers for those all the time, right?
And it's everything from things that happened 40 years ago, performers back then to people that
They've only been around for a decade, but they already got a tribute band coming
We're
Yes.
That's it.
Two guys up to the balcony.
Yep.
Yep.
What instrument you playing?
All we do is biatch.
That's all we talk about.
Talk about our physical
problems.
No, a lot of the things that we're seeing, too, is there's a lot of, like, jam band shows, right?
The jam bands seem to be hot right now, and those coming in, and you just never know what kind of mix of music you're gonna get with that.
It could be Americana, it could be bluegrass, it could be country, it could be pop, it could be rock, and it's all put into that mix.
So, jam bands are really big right now, too, so, you know, we'll see some of those things coming up a little bit later.
So, it's always, the great thing about us is we try to bring this much diversity into the area when it comes to the music that we have and the people that we have.
just so people get that sense.
Arts in the rural community is a real big deal.
It's super important to make sure that everybody has that experience and that we try our best to make sure we do that.
Who's on your wish list?
Who's on the wish list?
Oh my good.
The wish list has to have a lot more extra zeros on it.
Yeah,
but
yeah, we're always the great thing about this is, you know, we do a really good job of doing our work and making sure we research everybody and finding out where they're playing the recommendations and how they are.
We want to work with people that are great to work with too, but people love coming here.
You know, we've got this reputation of treating our artists very, very well.
And people recognize that and it rolls right down to the guests that come here to watch our show too.
Well, tell a little bit about your actual facility.
I
mean, that's a story
in itself.
Yeah, absolutely.
So historic building built back in 1910, right?
It did a lot of things.
Charlie Thrasher started the facility and hosted movies and films and other silent films and things like that and a gathering place for a significant amount of time.
And then it became a couple other things, a sewing factory, a storage facility.
And it kind of wanted to disarray a little bit.
Then it just kind of, you know, wasn't there.
A local group was able to purchase and restore it and open it back up and
26 27 years ago, right?
So and we've been doing shows ever since the first year.
They did three shows last year.
We did 89 events.
Wow, 89
separate events.
Yeah, correct.
So that's incredible.
Yeah.
So the Opera House holds 200 seeded 325 if you stand them up nice and close to each other.
But
it's
really a neat experience.
The acoustics are unbelievable here and
People pay a lot of money to get the kind of sound that you would get in this place without having any microphones or
you know, it's funny that
I don't know how the who the engineering people were when they built these kind of things Because like when I was at the Weidner one time and had to a speaking thing.
It's like, oh my gosh I can't believe how great this sounds but then when we were in Oshkosh We're at the Grand and it's like oh my gosh.
This is amazing and then your place built in 1910 years saying acoustically It's the same thing.
Isn't it amazing how back then they took that was such a serious aspect It wasn't like just let's just build a building they were
craftsmen and artisans in how to make that place come alive.
Wouldn't you agree?
Is the homage you have to have for those people from 120 years ago or whatever is really something special.
I have a lot of appreciation for those people.
Yeah, one of the best sounding rooms I think I've ever been in, and I've been in a lot of rooms to pick it out.
And we've had a couple of artists who come in and say, you know, there are organizations now that spend millions of dollars to try to dial in sound with this, that, you know, was put together back in 1910, and they didn't have any of those tools available.
So it's really just a special place.
And, you know, that's the reason why we're on a national historic site.
Hey, tell me a little bit more about the Pat McCurdy show.
Yeah, Pat McCurdy show coming up on Thursday night, June 26, 7 o'clock on the lake on the shores of Green Lake.
You can get your tickets at thrash or opera house.com.
Just 25 bucks.
Bring your own share, but there's gonna be some beverages available for you too.
So why don't you come out out?
Make a great night of it.
You'll watch the sunset and listen to some great music, pass a wonderful performer.
It's incredibly hilarious.
We love having him and talking to him.
So it's always a good thing that we encourage you to come out and check out that show or any other shows that
you may want to see.
You know it's one of those things too where we talk about Elkhart Lake and all those different things but in Green Lake itself where I used to do fishing stories all the time and racing stories and I just love driving through that area.
I just think the terrain in that part of Wisconsin is the coolest terrain.
Is it from the glaciers or whatever it was but there's something about that area that's just unique and just driving through the countryside down there I just think is really enjoyable.
Yeah, very much.
So I took a road trip a couple of weeks ago and drove to Ohio and Indiana is boring.
Oh, terrible.
Horrible.
And I come back home and I'm like, oh, man, OK, there's some hills here.
There's some action going
on here.
Yeah.
Well, one more time, give us your highlights for the summer coming up here, because some of these things I think people probably have to get tickets right away.
Yeah, Tom Rush coming up morning train that triv coming up in august.
All the d available for you
thrash
Thanks so much.
Appreciate it.
You got it.
Thanks for coming on.
Thrasher Opera House, Green Lake, Pat McCurdy show coming up.
Check it out.
Cause man, those, I've heard people say, I wanted to go to that and it was sold out.
I mean,
this.
right?
Forever.
Absolutely.
No question about it.
Now you've, did you do a, what's it called?
An investigation?
Yes.
I know.
I didn't want to bring it up with him because I didn't want to scare people away, but go ahead.
Oh,
Yeah.
So are you bringing your equipment with you to Gettysburg?
Absolutely.
Are you allowed to bring it out into the field?
I'm going to.
right?
So it's
going to have a sensor
Oh, I can imagine.
Can you
I wanted to metal detect when they, I forget what they did.
They shut down the dam or something a few years ago.
So the river, the Pestigo River was, was like dry, but they wouldn't let people because people had died in there.
Sure.
So it was like a grave type of setting.
Yeah.
But can you imagine what that would have been like metal detecting on that, that river bed from that.
Yeah, the whole thing.
Wow.
Have you ever, you didn't ever do the BAY building, did you?
I didn't.
Because man, I had people tell me that worked overnight there.
They would just hear weird things out of the blue.
Yeah.
about we climbed We don't step ladder one time.
We climbed up in one of the upper buildings They just pushed up the the ceiling things and there was like an old scoreboard for about really I would love to have that things got to be a hundred years old.
Yeah, it's just up to behind thing Those old buildings are fun.
All right, my mother Mary's show back at
this
But then I know it's growing strong Wasn't the spring And spring became the summer Who'd
have believed you'd come along?
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Hey, welcome back.
My name is the man here at GM Out Today.
I will be out tomorrow getting some testing done.
So Todd, what do you think I should have done in regards to that?
are you gonna
I don't know.
Don't they put you out?
you or
I just got six texts
You just put me off my breakfast.
Wow.
So did you turn over and do the
thing?
Hey, where's the boys with dispensary?
help me out for tomorrow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's not a bad idea.
I agree.
I might do that.
Just to take the edge off.
Just to take the edge off.
Yeah, cause it's smell of Jack Daniels.
I
was
couple of
had those.
Those are terrible.
Yeah.
I know.
I know.
I
I know.
Well, I told you that one time when I was getting my, uh, what's it called a colostomy.
attach a
All
Anybody else have any advice for me?
Cause I've never had release.
No, I'm nervous.
No, I'm concerned.
Anybody ever have a release?
I need some advice.
By the way, Jim commented on our thing about for.
Our Jim's thing the time it takes for a fruit bearing treaty yield fruit depends on the type of tree yada yada stone peaches cherries plums three to six years Pairs and apples four to seven years berries two to three.
I mean, he's he's talking about his grandkids.
They're gonna be like teenagers by the time he has that.
I know I know
So anyway, and then what else do we have?
Oh, Michael Friedman says, I'd open a bar with you, John, but Jim and Todd also have to be involved.
Todd, you, yes, Jim, no.
Yeah, I would be your DJ.
You'd be my DJ.
You'd be my DJ.
Amanda, would you like to work at my bar?
It's a little quarter neighborhood bar.
At a bar?
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess I could.
That's all I get.
OK, you know what?
OK, we'll keep your application on
file.
Wow.
Michael said Paradise Lounge in Madison is amazing.
You guys would love it.
Let's go.
Let's go.
I'm off the road.
Well, we're doing a road trip this week.
I did not know that grilling pizza.
I've never seen that or heard of that.
To be honest with you.
So you're going to learn that.
Wow.
You know what I should have, you know what I regret?
I regret not keeping that black stone that the police department gave me last year for doing that banquet.
Cause I've talked to my brother and other people.
They've got those this time of year.
They are so cool.
one.
I do.
You know what I'm going to have for breakfast?
I'm going to have scrambled eggs and scallops.
Only a half.
And half was on your floor.
He had a quarter.
Those are good.
Those things Sean brings in.
Those are really good.
Those turnovers.
You
what do you think of that?
Yes.
Like I said, this is my whole new diet.
I'm going to eat scallops.
That's going to be my number one food.
That's going to be my main food.
And I'm 214 pounds.
And we're going to give it a week.
And we'll see.
I bet I'm down like eight pounds.
All right in a week.
write
Yes.
Yes.
I'm going to be 207 when you come back.
Because that's my goal because that will be 40 pounds that I lost in four years.
Nice.
Yes.
So that's what I'm going with.
All
I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
All right.
Was that the leader holes in day?
Leader holes in day.
Yeah, I'm okay if I never see that ever again.
Ever again.
What else you got coming up this week,
Oh, let me see.
Coming up tomorrow morning on the show.
Good to have John Kramer in headlines with the press times.
He's bringing Ryan Hobson in from the Green Bay Blizzard to talk about their military appreciation game.
Also, Cy Maldonado, the fighter is coming in tomorrow morning to talk a little bit about what
he's been through.
Well, he's
And then afterwards, I'm really hoping to do that interview with one of the, I'm bringing in Vietnam vet that day.
Wait till you hear his story.
He was a Marine in Vietnam went through an unbelievably unbelievably deadly night But then also I'm gonna be interviewing him afterwards for my book But then I really hope to stop in the town of Dale to one of our favorite little breweries.
Yes distillery.
Yes.
So hope Tavi is there, but it's gonna be a good time and
This is like such a great time of year around here.
You know, cause people ask me, Hey, could I get on the show and talk about whatever it's like, if you, if you want to get on.
contact us early because like when we first started River, it's like, okay, hey, can we even feel this week?
I mean, we're like two to three weeks out and something pretty much.
Sounds great.
Well, thanks everybody.
Thanks, Todd.
And we're going to have a good time tomorrow morning.
I'll let you know.
I'm going to call you while I'm naked.
Would you please?
Yeah,
right.
Need some pictures or anything?
No, you can skip those.
Okay.
All right.
Thanks
everybody!
See ya!
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