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 Tuesday to you on a cold and dreary June day.
It's going to get nicer though.
Yeah,
tomorrow.
Yeah.
So good morning this morning to go out and go jogging or something.
Well, it's still a little bit cool.
No, uh, I'm surprised though.
And Todd, you're not the only one other people I see complaining about allergies.
I'm surprised with it being not real warm and not real man.
But your eyes look, I'm serious,
man.
What happens though, it's stuff like bloom, like on Saturday was so nice.
And
then that pollen or whatever that sticks around.
Cause yeah, even.
This morning for me was like, oh, darn, I thought I was out of these things.
But yeah, something you spoke too soon.
Yes,
I did.
I did.
So I don't know.
I mean, no disrespect, Todd, but your eyes are just.
Thanks.
Thanks.
You look good.
Yeah.
You know what you look like?
I can be honest with you.
You look like you're stoned.
You really do.
You really do.
You got that look to you.
Speaking of stone.
I know.
Rest in peace, my friend.
Yeah.
One of the all time great songs.
Sly and the Family Stone.
Sly and the Family.
Only 82.
I would have thought he would be older.
Yeah, well, I mean I'm going back to my high school days like 73 this song was out So I mean you're talking 50 something so he was really pretty well you're good in 30.
I guess.
Yeah, I thought okay.
I was like well 82 Okay, yeah,
maybe you know, I think when I hear I love that says one my all-time favorite song Oh, yeah, and is that a football camp that NMU when I was in high school my high school coach and everybody and the next morning We're in like little commons area.
We're playing that song really loud breakfast and my coach box did and he was
I could tell they had, they had had a few pops and if we go, my no, my no.
And I'm thinking, Oh, Cody.
Yeah.
Coach goes, turn that crap off.
And that was the exact time.
It's like, okay, coach.
So anyway, by the way, I'm on a new diet.
That's amazing.
Oh Lord.
Now wait a minute.
You were going to bring some sort of like
juicy
stuff in that one for now.
Yeah.
Cause you gained weight on it or what?
I owe you guys that.
wait when we started two years ago.
No, you know what?
I was at work yesterday, and I will do that.
You're not
here tomorrow.
I want to say you had a little book, like a new book.
I know it was in his calendar.
Yes, it was in his
calendar.
But at the beginning of the year, I take my old calendar out and I file it.
I still have it just in
case, you know, I want to go back to something years ago, but I have it.
I just, and I told you I was going to do that yesterday.
I was at work, and anyway, forgot.
I will bring that.
You're not here tomorrow, but...
Let's do it Friday.
Friday morning.
Friday will do the weight.
Well, unveiling.
Okay.
And weigh yourself Friday morning before you come here.
All right.
I do it
anyway.
Yeah, me too.
I weigh myself this morning.
So anyway, I'm 214.
214.
214.
That's not bad.
Not horrible.
It's hoping to be like 210.
Well, you've got, you've got a couple of days here.
If
you really watch yourself the next couple of days.
Do you want me to tell you about the mirror?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
One word.
Scallops.
John, that is not it.
That is not the word.
I bought scallops yesterday for the first time.
I was at festival.
I'd never even seen scallops before.
It's like, I'm going to try these.
No, you do.
$9.
Yeah.
$9.
So.
OK, then would you cook them?
Do you have to cook them?
Mushrooms?
And butter?
No butter.
I use olive oil.
All right.
Yeah.
Loaded with protein, like 18 grams of protein, which is what your body thrives on.
Loaded with protein, zero calories.
Zero fat, zero calories, zero calories.
How is that possible?
You cook them out.
You heat them up good enough, the calories leave.
Okay.
You heat them up too much and they become rubber.
Sorry.
So let me ask you this.
How are you cooking it?
Because I know you don't use a stove.
No, I, well, I don't use an oven.
I don't know how to use an oven.
Okay.
I cook them in a frying pan.
Okay.
With olive
oil.
And mushrooms.
All right.
It's unbelievable.
That's all I'm going to eat for a week is scallops.
You watch.
Okay.
Two things.
It's going to cost you a fortune.
And they're, you're, you're not.
You should bake them.
I don't
know
how to use an oven.
Who ever told you to fry them in olive oil, you're not getting
it.
I came up with that on my own.
Yeah, I think you got to look into that one a little bit more.
That's an awesome diet, John.
It's awesome.
It's phenomenal.
I don't know if it's the same net.
It's heavy in something.
It does.
I'm a little
worried about that.
You don't dip them in butter?
Olive oil is all you need.
I don't know.
I'm telling you.
Cheese burger without cheese
well when I'm down 10 pounds in about three days.
I love it Yeah, I just ate Fridays a day.
Yeah, we're waiting.
I'm sure I'm making sure I don't eat hardly anything today though Because I got that yeah, I can't you know what I gotta do You're I gotta
do you
gotta get
naked.
Yeah.
Well, of course the body scan.
Yeah Yeah, they asked me so would you prefer a man or a woman?
I didn't care Really?
Yeah
So I was thinking
about
you this morning.
Good morning.
Great to see you guys yesterday.
It was great to see you, Michael.
You're always fun.
Todd says, good morning from DPR.
Hey Todd.
I was thinking about you and just how uncomfortable that's going to be for you.
I know.
I
know.
I'm thinking that too.
I'm thinking that too.
It's been a lot of years since I've been naked in front of somebody.
And you're going to have a female put
on those big old glasses
and scan your body for, what, 10, 15 minutes?
Wow.
Is that how long it takes?
I don't know.
Well, it depends.
I'm telling you,
John.
They
don't get everything, right?
Well, they have to because if they find it now, you're going to save yourself
a
fortune in, yeah.
Wow.
I'm surprised you said you didn't care.
What would you do?
Would you care?
So I'd say
I would.
I would.
Yeah, I would.
Yeah, me too.
I would say what a guy.
You'd say a guy?
I would.
Maybe it will be.
I just said no preference.
Yeah, I just
I've surprised me that you said that.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
OK.
All right.
It's one thing for them to look at your back or your stomach
or something like
that.
But
they're going to look everywhere.
OK, can I be honest with you?
I'll tell you something.
Let me tell you
something.
You're going to move stuff around, and then you've got to be in between your toes.
Right.
And then you've got to
take deep.
I don't need to know.
You know what?
I don't need to know the details on this.
You breathe in
through your nose,
so you don't.
I'll tell you an uncomfortable moment I had one time with female.
Okay, well not a female.
Well, yeah, nuns are female, but anyway So when I had to have an operation at Good Samaritan no desert Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix Okay, cuz of my injury from football with the yada yada yada yada Okay, and they had to operate on the yada yada.
Okay.
Yeah, and and the nurses were all nuns So nuns were doing my yeah
See that wouldn't bother me so much because they're not supposed to
do any of that
supposed to Lost yeah,
well, I'm not saying they judge.
I heard him whispering to each other I did a little bit a little bit whispering nothing worse than a nun giggle right then I heard
I'm head to the golf course at Hilly Haven.
I need a wind and weather forecast from Todd
Mostly cloudy today mid 70s.
We did a golf.
It's perfect.
That is perfect.
Perfect.
Perfect fees about any wind.
Oh, let me see here.
Winds are low about three miles an hour.
That's nothing.
Yeah.
Is that funny?
Like I was telling you guys right before we went on about some time and all p.m.
Okay.
Um, cause it ambient turns me whack.
No, you gave me no somebody gave me you didn't give me somebody gave me some you know, I've never traded But I Draft I was golfing I went golf good guys and I'm like I haven't golfed to 20 years And I'm thinking how do you hit a golf ball again?
Is that you have just weird dream when you take sleeping things don't you?
Yeah, I Totally
oh, yeah big time.
That's one of the reasons not to take it, but yeah, they they really
Dreamed of stuff that some of it's in your head though, right?
I mean some of it happened throughout the last couple days.
It's your subconscious.
Really they dig
deep on that.
Yeah.
No, I'd rather not.
I told you another dream I had this was I dreamt I was with the mafia guy and we made a whack a guy.
Okay, it's I've been watching old Sopranos episodes, I guess.
Yeah, but the gun he gave me was one of those rubber band guys.
I mean just we it just makes your mind so weird when you take those those nighttime
And
why are you taking that?
Just to sleep better.
Oh, okay.
You know, just to get through a full night's sleep.
Yeah.
One of those things.
Yeah.
But anyway.
So how are you doing?
Well, you came in a little bit of steam coming out of your ears.
Oh, yeah.
I think I got to move controversial meetings to earlier in the day.
Because when they happen at night, I don't sleep.
I'm mad to get up, watch old TV.
Then you don't want to eat, but you do anyway.
So, yeah, today's a new day, John.
All right.
Brad says, John, it hurts.
Scallops caused gas.
Be careful before your appointment.
All right.
Pan seared scallops.
It's like a 137 calories.
That's
great.
OK.
Oh, how
many are you
having, though?
That
one.
Pan seared.
Well, they're small.
You know, they're like this big size of a quarter, maybe.
So probably 10, 12,
I guess.
Well, that's 1200 calories.
What no no no no not not that's not for one.
That's like for a whole panful I think he meant.
Oh, yeah, he did I'm telling you scallops are a miracle food.
I'm not I'm gonna eat scallops four times a week for the rest of my life
I think you're better off eating a salmon out of a can from the Dollar Tree
salad do that
I don't John there's something about that that That's for one scallop, huh?
That's for one scallop.
Okay,
and then I should put garlic in there
Yeah, I did.
Crushed garlic.
That was phenomenal.
Yeah, that's good.
Are you serious?
Yeah, John.
That might be a big scallop though.
These are little ones.
I would say you're probably at least at 500 calories on that.
So maybe not horrible, but it's got good protein.
Supposed
to have good protein.
Yeah,
seafood.
Yeah.
Well, I tell you this.
Okay.
I'm gonna be surprised if that work if that works.
You let me know
because I love scallops I will but
but I wouldn't eat them like that.
I would have to have garlic and
I do have a jar of crushed garlic
Yeah,
so that's good olive oil.
I just don't have a butter.
I didn't have a butter Okay, Karen Catherine Catherine.
Thank you Catherine Lake member Catherine Lake our boss absolutely 30 calories each Okay, so ten of them be the size
of
the
size of a dime.
No, I don't know I
I
I think he's
gonna look at
ten, three hundred calories.
Yeah.
How much for a sub sandwich would be like six hundred?
Seven hundred.
Yeah.
All right, fine.
We're going to get the show moved to the food network.
I know.
Two old
guys
sitting around talking about calories.
Two old fat guys.
You shouldn't be eating that.
Let me tell you what you got to eat.
When we when we have our what's that the free day or what's that called when you don't cheat day cheat day.
Yeah.
I went to a place yesterday and I just sent him an email this morning.
Andy and doozies and yeah, so they built that great northern absolutely Three floors there.
Have you been there?
Did you go inside?
Yeah?
I was a pretty cool.
I was at a bank
with their Friday.
Oh, it
was on the third floor That's right Everybody from the new community went out there kind of celebrate my birthday and they have pizza popes pizza on the first floor and the second floor is all country-western
Think it's brisket?
Oh, food?
Oh, my God.
The food, the music, and the entertainment is all...
Oh, my God.
That's right on my alley.
The country's kind of... I would love it.
We should go and all wear cowboy boots.
And
I sent...
Right.
I
got my boots.
But I sent him my... The food was great, and it was just a variety of all
what you would expect.
So not like just regular bar food type.
No, no, this was
like... Everything was Texas something or...
Wow!
Yeah.
Anyway...
That was my cheat day yesterday, but oh that was good
boy that brisket man.
It was awesome.
That sandwich I never get up to like the NFL draft party and it's like oh, that's right So good.
Oh, it's great.
It was just great,
but it guides only takes like 18.
Oh our guy
all totally
Cody does it doesn't yeah, yeah sloppy hogs Yep, and doesn't do like 18 hours something like that.
Yeah Good place.
Yeah.
Anyway,
all right rockin here.
It is a Tuesday morning man in the mayor back after us
Hey, welcome back, Matt on The Bear here on a good-looking Tuesday morning, 57th of Green Bay, 55th of Hamilton, 55th in Oshkosh, you're 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3 and 99.5 FM WSS, and of course, the specific media.
Hold on.
Did I get that wrong?
You got it wrong.
96.5.
Oh, I
was looking for my glasses.
They're hanging on your, on your chest.
I went all over Walmart trying to find one of those things so you can.
And so I just grabbed a piece of twine.
I had the back of my car in my trunk.
MacGyver.
All right.
What?
That's good.
Well, you're looking.
I know.
What?
They could slide off though.
Pretty easy.
I get pretty good.
I don't know.
What's wrong?
What?
She had rubber on there to hold it.
I can never please.
What
do I have to do?
I mean, it's bad enough that you have to put a chain on your glasses.
They don't make those chains anymore.
Yeah.
It's bad enough that you do that, right?
I mean, I think that's kind of rough.
But then when you end up using twine, that's just enough.
Those are nice, though.
I've never seen those glasses before.
Are those new?
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah, those look good.
Thank you.
They look like man glasses.
They
are.
Yeah.
Now I can see.
57 in Green Bay, 55 in Apton, 55 in Oshkosh, high in the mid-70s today.
Today is Black Cow Day.
What does
that
mean?
Oh, the malt.
Oh,
okay, right?
Yeah, like a root beer float
would be a black cow.
Oh, okay.
Those are good.
Ice-chea day?
Take it or leave it.
Oh, no, I, hmm, ice-chea's good.
Sweet.
We used to make in Arizona, it's called sunti.
We
just put it in the
sun and they would there was like real sweet that one was good egg roll day take it or
leave
it I'm
not big into like Asian food oh I don't know how healthy egg rolls are cuz you deep fry them right but I took a class this lady had his fill where I saw it like I don't just don't like that
Bolton board or something and come over and learn how to make egg rolls one of them to her house There's a little apartment down and I went there.
It's like 10 people and I think we paid I don't know 10 bucks or whatever and she Egg wash all that stuff told you how to make them.
Yeah, cuz they're good.
I don't know.
I think that's They're good.
I like all right.
Why don't you what's the deal?
You got switch?
Rice guy,
and they're right.
There's no rice and there's no rice There's rice noodles sometimes in there.
Maybe I think it's sushi Yeah, sushi rice.
Yeah, yeah,
okay sushi
Really see I just I don't feel like there's a lot of taste I would have to put some real hot on it or something real
you can do that But yeah, you're a bit some flavor, but it
rules meh But it's like you got this whole rolled-up thing of rice or whatever and like one little piece of seaweed or something in there
that will see what's what's wrapped in inside is you know different kinds of well sushi fish raw fish, but you could put avocado in there and Yeah, I can see that having not enough taste.
I think that makes sense.
Especially if you're used to you know
I like flavor.
Right.
Uh, ballpoint pen day.
When's the last time somebody used the term ballpoint pen?
Say, Roger,
may I borrow your
ballpoint
pen
for this contract?
Wow.
Uh, pet memorial day.
That is getting to be such a big thing.
Wow.
Is that getting to be a big thing?
Right.
Um, you know, like, who's doing pretty well with that is our friend, uh, pop ball check.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
I mean, they're advertising.
Yeah, he's doing great with the boards of the highway 41
north.
And there are people could be talking to one of them that would spend a lot of money on that.
I know.
And they do.
They come in just like, you'd never
get it mounted,
though, would you?
No, that's that's freaky.
Yeah.
Don't you think?
Yes, I would not.
No, I don't get pictures that do that.
But I probably might
take the ashes, though.
And yeah,
you know, who was it was telling me?
I think I shouldn't say but.
or you were telling me but the urn was a martini glass
it was his sister told me that because there was you know where they have you know the flag he's a veteran and it was actually wasn't festive but it wasn't the saddest funeral i've been to um and
There was a martini glass, the whole straw and everything in there.
And on top of that, wow.
She goes, he's in there.
Really?
She goes, yeah, couldn't fit them all in there.
Some of it's in the car.
I'm like, okay, whatever.
But yeah,
he
loved martinis, right?
So that's been funny.
You know what?
I remember one time showing a house in real estate and would freak people out.
People didn't get all their you know your it's one of the things if you're gonna have your house being shown get personal stuff And then the urns sitting right on the table type things like and the people it's just like look them out and didn't want to buy the house honest to God Yes, cuz they thought I'm gonna remember that all the time
right every time I look at that.
I'm gonna see that.
Yeah, exactly um Frosted cookie day.
Yeah, that's in here.
Yeah, what?
That you know what that reminds you okay frost cook yeah, yeah
Sprinkles,
yeah,
they don't have a lot of flavor.
Oh, I disagree with that I mean John the way you and I grew up where the mom's cookies tasted like that's what
they take that's what I mean.
No a Good one is good stuff.
The only way I like them was putting peanut butter on them They're good to have peanut butter on a frosted cookie.
You know, I've never had that
peanut butter and butter.
That's what I used to put
Okay, you
wonder
okay
peanut butter and butter on a frosted cookie is fantastic and it's healthy
Um Lee Bryce country singer 46 Sasha Obama is 24.
Um, do you see where she changed her name or one of them?
No, they're last name.
She's not she doesn't want to go by Obama anymore That was in the news last week.
She's going by like her middle name like either her or sister one of them Like they want their own identity where it's not.
Oh, yeah, easy to shake.
Yeah, I know right when you have Secret Service guys brother, but following you around
that
was like actually a big story last week someplace
She's I read that.
I mean, I wouldn't make that up.
I'm sure she wants her independence, but
yeah,
yeah, okay
Get a text here from Terry.
How is the Pope pizza place going there next week?
What's Pope pizza?
That's the first floor of Andy's of the great northern Okay, whatever the place is called so it's Pope's pizza on the first floor and then the Western I forgot the name of it on the second that Western
theme sounds awesome.
We're gonna go there you guys We're gonna go there you guys.
Do they have a
bowl?
Can you ride a bull?
No, they didn't.
Did you
ever
do that?
Have you done
that?
What?
You've never done that?
No.
That was like our time.
I know,
I agree.
I know.
Wow.
Yes.
They had
what was... There was one in Green Bay.
Sure there was, on Main Street.
Is that Sebastian's?
Nope.
Somebody's gonna remember that.
Where did they have
the bull in Green Bay?
Yeah, that ride, but that was fine.
I think liability-wise, they've placed his head to get rid of those.
Just like dancing on bars.
Remember that was the big thing?
Right, but I...
Not that anyone ever drank before they got on a
boat.
No shots involved whatsoever.
None.
None.
Sexual baseball today.
Big, big games.
Depear against Alpton North.
Kimberley against Hortonville.
Wow.
Those are two.
Those are four really good baseball teams.
Should be fun.
We get started.
Quick break.
We come back.
We get rockin' here.
Mine in the mirror.
Back up for us.
All
right, coming up later on this morning after seven o'clock.
Don't forget the Scotty summer text to win statewide contest is still on.
Jim and John will have a keyword for you.
Your shot to win $100 cash in the seven o'clock hour and also qualify to win one of two vacations, Wisconsin Dells Area Vacation or Door County Vacation.
Again, that's coming up later on this morning after seven o'clock with Mino and the mayor.
That's very good.
Milwaukee Brewers back in action again tonight on W I S S.
Take it on the Atlanta Braves once again.
But there's a lot of crazy things going on in the stands and baseball so far.
There's your fights and different things.
It's like, what's going on with baseball?
That's usually chill.
That's normally the most chill.
They haven't said too much more about that guy in Pittsburgh.
Remember the kid that fell out of the bleachers?
And then did you see a guy at a soccer match died following out of the bleachers the other day at a world soccer match?
Those, I'm telling you, that is always
I've always been nervous around those things at the old county stadium.
We were talking about that Yeah, and you watch all these places now that have those kind of things with liability factors I guarantee you things are gonna start to happen.
Yep, but also With that kid and they said oh, he wasn't drinking.
He was under a blah blah blah now He'd been drinking the whole time and somebody else had been buying the drinks Oh, and he is underage and that guy now could be in serious trouble.
Yeah, I mean you imagine if they
I mean, the kid's parents even could possibly, I mean, you gotta be so careful these days if you're gonna give somebody a drink or whatever.
And I mean, the liability things are so crazy.
Remember when we, that ordinance came in for over serving?
Absolutely.
Bartender's got clipped on that,
you know?
I would never wanna be a bartender or own a bar when
you got, I mean, what do you do?
And here's the problem is they come in drunk.
Exactly.
And the guy gives them one drink.
You know what I mean?
But who gets...
Who gets taken in for over-serving, right?
They guys like well you shouldn't disturb him because he's drunk.
I know he's drunk.
He ordered water and his friend gave it to him.
Yeah, I know that that that's a slippery slope.
Yeah, that really is that's why I'm not gonna I was gonna open a bar.
I don't think I'm going to
anymore Todd
Yeah, and I'm the guy right
okay.
I'm gonna
take it off the
list comes up with ideas
Got a text here back the day the bar with the mechanical bull was called the loose noose During the urban cowboy craze in the late 70s the loose noose.
I never heard of that.
Yeah that
Think it was a little later than that wasn't it?
Well, yeah, the okay.
I was in twin falls.
I know how
I think come out
with 81 8081 so that's about what it would be because I was in twin falls Idaho and I actually I started wearing a cowboy hat.
Oh, yeah That's awesome.
Mm-hmm and boots.
Yeah,
I mean that was it that was it and all West like that in Idaho that was
I have a belt that it
I know just it's a very cool.
It has that like a silver like looping around
the bottom like a rodeo belt Yeah, it's
got got my name.
Yeah, whatever not.
Yeah, we call it's not burned into it.
Whatever that's called But yeah, I got into all
that branded to brand it.
Yeah, that's right Did you see the picture got hit in the head with the ball?
They were warming up when it happened.
I did not Sarah
Um, got this text coming in.
I would open a bar with you, John.
But Jim and Todd also have to be involved.
So
much for that.
Well, maybe I'll reopen this.
Todd?
I'm out.
Why?
So am I.
Even a little neighborhood type bar?
Nope.
That's just an awful lot of work.
But there's no money in
that.
Just like one of those little ones where there's just, you just got the one bar and it holds 10 people.
Okay.
In the entire bar, 10 people.
Okay.
And the jukebox would be all old music and country music.
Patsy Klein.
I will handle the music.
Okay.
I'll even DJ and stuff like that.
That's how I'll be involved.
That
would be
fantastic.
You bet.
Walkin' after midnight, Patsy Klein.
You bet.
I'm there.
I go walkin' after midnight.
Little
George Jones.
Oh, man.
You bet.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Love it.
Now you got another text here.
Okay, John.
Okay.
The bar was located on North Madison.
Fire destroyed the place.
When would that be?
When was there a fire in Green Bay that burned down a bar?
So Terry said that that was the late 70s, that that bar was there.
So you guys were even around.
Okay.
No, not here.
You were in school.
Yeah.
Huh.
Okay.
But the bold thing didn't happen until Urban Cowboy.
I mean, that was the impetus for that.
That was 80, right?
Yeah.
Like 1980, 81.
Yeah.
Back to your bar.
Just, just very, very simple math, but 10 people.
And let's say you're going to be open, which you won't be, but let's say you're going to be open 365 days a year.
Yeah.
That's why we're
living upstairs.
Okay.
Um, and 30 people come in.
I mean, I know 10 people come in every day, spend 30 bucks.
And you want to be the cheapest drinks in town, cheapest drinks and your total
revenue for the years going to be 100,000, 109.
You know that you got to run.
You got your electricity.
You got your insurance.
You got your materials.
That is such a,
no.
No way.
I think there's still a place for, you know, there's one in Manitowoc that I've thought of.
What's that?
It's by the church, by St.
Paul's Church, that area over there.
Evo and Ron's?
I don't know.
It's not open right now, but it's the quintessential little neighborhood type corner.
I know what you're talking about.
That is a good bar.
Yes.
And upstairs you could live.
That would be perfect for you.
Exactly.
But there's just don't do it for the money.
Do it because it's a hobby and yeah.
Somebody just sent in what Mina would look like in his bar.
Okay.
Okay.
So here comes the picture now.
Let me just pull it up.
Yeah, I wish I looked like Travolta back today.
What's he drinking there?
Lone Star.
Yeah.
Lone Star beer.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is a cool buckle though,
right?
That is a cool buckle.
That is a cool buckle.
Yeah, I wish I looked like Travolta there.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen.
I think I'll look more like Archie Bunker's place.
Yeah, all right.
But that's always been one of my dreams is to own a little neighborhood bar.
Yeah,
I think every guy's dream has been that, to be honest with
you.
But in the old days, that was your living room, because you lived in these little apartments.
You wanted to get out, so you just...
That's where people went to the neighborhood bar.
But things changed.
I got a buddy, a couple that I went to high school with, classmates.
They owned a little bar in Nagani that had been nothing major or nothing.
And all of a sudden, you know what?
They sold it.
They're driving hummers.
They're driving whatever.
You know what I mean?
There's some serious cash that could be made there.
They were just selling alcohol.
That's it.
I think so.
The
most part you know, so I'm just
wow the business side comes out of just pretty
good to dry hummers after
a neighborhood bar
pull tabs Okay, that that all right that could work.
You're gonna have any food at all.
Yeah, I got a grill grill She's got to be over 70 though.
Yeah, and she's got to call everybody hunt.
She's got a smoke a cigarette That
could work that would be yep
every have
to be cheeseburgers and onion rings
fried
Yeah.
Well, fried onions on the cheeseburger.
Yes.
Oh,
yeah.
Nothing healthy whatsoever.
Yeah.
Zero.
No scallops.
I got to tell you, that's why, like, Pete's bar and Grosh bar and Oshkosh.
Yeah.
Because they've got the grill right behind the bar.
Yeah.
And all of the bartenders have to take a turn on it.
Oh, no
kidding.
Oh, nice.
And yes, they're doing burgers, you know.
Yeah.
doing the cheese curds, doing all that kind of stuff.
I love those little
kind of
places.
And then when your food's ready, if you don't know what's ready, they throw stuff at you to get your attention.
Really?
Yeah.
We gotta stop there sometime.
They're not open though when we come back.
I think so.
Not that
early.
Sometimes you gotta do something in Oshkosh and then go there.
All those places you mentioned, I actually, Thursday, actually, is Tavia listening?
I'm not sure.
Okay, cause Thursday we're doing our show in Oshkosh.
And then afterwards I'm going to do conducting an interview with one of my Vietnam vets who for my book, who's going to be on our show.
And then I was thinking about stopping at Tavia's place in Dale and the way back to Green Bay.
Old station 31 spirits.
Yes.
Yeah.
I'd love to do that.
I'm sure she would love that.
Okay.
Especially if you show up looking like, what's his name?
Travolta.
Travolta.
Okay.
Yeah.
We could coordinate that.
There's a lot of
shark fat Italians that
look like
Travolta.
Yep.
Let's do that because you're going to go do your interview with your veteran and I'm going to go visit my mom and then we'll just coordinate.
That'd be
fun.
Go to Dale, like at, I don't know, lunch, whatever, whatever's going to work.
Yeah, that'd be great.
That'd be great.
Are they open that early, Todd, do you know?
I'll find out for you.
Even I just want to see the place.
Right.
I mean, I'm just, you know, even like when we went to our attorney's place in Oshkosh.
The law firm.
And just seeing these old buildings when they've been restored like that, that's so cool.
That's cool stuff.
I just, I...
That would be if I have another life.
That's I'm gonna be I'm gonna be one of those guys that buys those old buildings and convert them into school stuff
when Don't you wish you knew back then what you know now?
Yeah, in
terms of just acquiring
them and yeah, they're just
yeah.
Yeah, I was watching Nicole Curtis some more last night I'm so excited about that new have you tried getting her on I'm working on it, but it's gonna be tough.
No,
it's not it is tell her I'm
from Nagani.
She knows you
That's what that's the deterrent right now.
I don't know if I want to talk to Mino see I
creeped
out a little bit.
I think probably
maybe a little yeah,
all right.
She's from Lake Orchard Lake.
Nope Lake,
um, Orion, Orion.
That's right.
Yeah,
that's like between
Flint and
Detroit.
Yeah, it's like rich people that work in Detroit live there or rich people that work in Flint live there.
One of those kind of things.
Great little community.
Yep.
Really nice area.
Yeah.
Um
But yeah, she's awesome.
And she was awesome on the air.
She talked about, she'd go to the, she spent her summers in the UP up in Municing.
Actually, I think she was in Christmas, Michigan, which is right next to it.
And she said they'd go to the beach all the time and their bikes and did all that kind of stuff.
And she said that's where she first started getting into like doing things.
She said people would have stuff out on their curb, you know, put out old furniture and she would grab that stuff and bring it home and refinish it.
and all those kind of things.
So her and I, we got a connection like you can't believe.
Kindred spirits.
Yeah.
I won't mention the breastfeeding.
We're eight year old kid.
Please don't.
That's out.
But she actually took her grandparents' family home and redid it.
She bought it back into the family.
I remember that.
I did the whole thing.
Amazing, right?
I watched every one of her episodes five times.
Yeah.
I'm sure because of the let me just ask this because of the work she did in it or because the tank tops It
didn't matter what the temperature she'd be in Detroit doing a thing to me for table a tank top No, I had no nothing to do with
it.
No, I was all the relevant see what's
exactly exactly Nicole Curtis.
She is still the queen of all those kind of shows.
I think she's awesome
And some of those buildings in Detroit, she we did.
Oh my
goodness.
She really did help bring that city back.
She really
did.
She really did.
Michael said, let's do a remote in Madison.
I'm up for that, Michael.
We can do that.
That'd be a lot of fun.
You know, another thing, you talk about those old buildings around town here, Jim, I remember years ago in talking with a guy, you know, one of the old timers from probably a bit in politics, a little bit, whatever.
And, and I was telling him, man, it's a shame.
I remember when I came to Green Bay when I was a kid, you see these big old huge.
buildings and they're, they're knocked down.
He says, he goes, I'll be honest.
And it's almost like, and this is, I'm going back to like the eighties when he was telling me this.
And he said, you, he said, you know, you'd go into some of those places and he said, the wiring was terrible.
The plumbing was terrible.
The windows were terrible.
The, there was water damage and there was mold.
He said, they weren't taken care of.
They were, he said, you know, it would just got to that point.
It's like,
I, those are tough decisions.
And
they're that, and there's a couple still.
Um, that's a tough decision when they're that if they've been maintained, the heat was on, um,
but if they've been shut down, he got the water damage.
Actually, I talked to a guy, Kegers bar right over here.
I used to hang out there at Kegers and talk with the guy.
I said, man, these upstairs of these places around here, and he, he took me upstairs, show me the whole thing.
But he said for like sewer lines, they'd have to tear up the city street or something and do, and it's like, it's a lot more involved than these TV shows.
Make it look right.
But I just.
if you're really, really gonna do that, the municipality has to participate because they, it's good for them to preserve history.
They
gotta
be all in.
They have to be all in,
but they have to
say, look, we understand that the cost of this is gonna be, I don't know, maybe not twice, but it's gonna be more than if you would build new one.
What is that difference?
And if it's X, can we help fund that X?
But if you wanna preserve history, but you gotta get, first of all, you gotta really have a desire to preserve history.
And
I mean, it's you do and I do.
I mean,
why I still think that one just a block away here.
That's cool.
The mad chicken is down below.
Oh, right there.
Oh,
yeah.
That's that's a cool looking.
I think that's an awesome looking view that upstairs seems like it could be so awesome.
It is.
And then you're at the showroom Schumacher one airing bay.
That one's
cool.
There's some stuff on Broadway.
That's, you know, that alley behind there that goes like through Angelina's area.
The funeral
home.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But that whole thing.
Oh, yeah.
I think that alley could be very similar to what they did in Oshkosh time.
They should do it.
Don't you with the artwork and everything?
Yeah, that event went very well on Saturday, by the way.
Yep, and farmers market on Saturday was absolutely Incredible
in Oshkosh.
Yep.
Awesome.
How's Reggie doing with his Caribbean truck?
Excellent.
I had to stop by and get some pork.
Nice.
Yeah, good stuff.
Boy, those are kind of guys you really pull for, huh?
Absolutely
I want to get Reggie to come and speak at my class, because he is like an entrepreneur.
But
what I like about
him is how everybody spends too much money on their food truck.
He was pretty practical on that.
And he's
willing to do a side hustle on that for somebody else,
which I think is really cool.
I know.
I'm going to rent it.
I'm doing it
with scallops.
Just by line for the line for that.
All scallops.
Yeah.
Quick break, mind of the mare, Brad Kepers.
Hey, welcome back.
Good luck on Tuesday morning.
57 degrees in Green Bay, 55 in Alpton, 55 in Oshkosh High today in the mid 70s, mostly cloudy.
Then that forecast looks good for the rest of the week.
So it's going to be fun once again.
A lot of high school sports taking place these days with high school baseball.
I still say one of the biggest
was getting rid of their baseball team.
And for some reason, they just will not bring it back.
I think they're the only team or the only school in the big 10 that doesn't have a baseball team and the talent level of high school baseball in the
state
of Wisconsin is so underrated.
It's incredible.
I mean, there are major league prospects every year coming out of high school in the state of Wisconsin and you would never think Wisconsin would be a great baseball state.
is.
Yeah.
So where do they
go?
Everywhere else.
Oshkosh, right?
Do they go there?
Oshkosh, you know, the white waters, even like lacrosse, all those kind of schools.
UW Milwaukee, you know, very quietly has a Division I program, but you never hear about it.
No.
Whoever hears about the baseball program at UW Milwaukee.
Hmm.
But I mean, so many of these other kids, you know, they've gone to Iowa, you know, a lot of kids have gone to Iowa.
Jason Birkin went to Clemson.
I mean, these kids go to school all over the place.
because there's no, you know, because you want that competition.
You want that big level of competition to take that next step.
So what
if they had it and they stopped it?
Yeah.
But
Barry Alvarez got rid of it and he is adamant.
And Barry Alvarez still carries the big stick down there.
I mean, McIntosh was the AD, but trust me, if Barry Alvarez doesn't want something, it doesn't happen.
because he controls the big money people.
But there's, I cannot figure out why, and I know there's a title nine type things, but big deal, you can go, okay, get another woman's sport.
You think about the money these plays.
You know what I
mean?
You know what they pay?
You know what some of these refs make per game?
Like $3,000 a game to do a college basketball game.
There's so much money that...
You know what I mean?
I mean, every basketball game at Wisconsin, let's say you have what, $16,000, $18,000, I don't even know what it holds, at $50 a ticket.
And concessions, you're talking almost like, what, three quarters of a million dollar night every night?
What did you think of that ruling now on that NCAA?
So every school's going to get $22 million.
So the schools are going to do it now,
which
I think is a great idea.
I think that's a better idea.
It keeps the boosters and the
alumni.
And those guys were.
They were totally up front with everything, you know, I really
what What but and the NCAA turned a blind eye to it what but yet they'll suspend some kid cuz he got a free t-shirt.
Yeah, what?
Yeah, you So you think that's
a good idea that I do is gonna get 22 million and they're gonna decide it in the 80 Who's gonna
what decide on who gets the money?
Yep, I guess
You know, I guess the coaches go to the A.D.
and say, hey, we really want this kid.
I mean, that kid at the University of Michigan, that quarterback, $12 million he got.
The girl that pitched the other night for Texas Tech, she got another, she got a million dollars to go from Stanford to Texas Tech.
Then she just signed another million dollar deal.
But you said that, I hope they have some teeth in that, that if you sign, you're there for two years.
Did you
say two, right?
That's what the coaches were looking for was a minimum of two year contract.
Did they get it?
I don't know about that.
I really and truly don't.
But it's it's you know, and you were anti-qualtric on again the other day and he was talking about different things and it's like It's just a whole different world.
I mean when the dick Bennett's the Tony Bennett's Jay Wright who was a great coach some of these other people when they say, you know, I I'm out.
I just right Tom is will be the next one You'll be the next one where it's like I just don't want to play this game anymore
It's not a game.
It's it's a business.
Yeah, one of those guys just want to coach.
Yeah.
Yeah, I saw that I thought
That makes some sense to me what they're doing.
At least they say, I mean, it went way too far the other way.
It's like, wait, we lost control of this thing now.
So now it's coming back to where the schools.
Well, the
thing is, though, the GBs of the world.
I mean, I mean, if you do, you got to strike lightning in the bottle.
You got to get some great kids come in, transfers, Juco's, some superstar freshman, whatever it takes.
And you can't say, boy, in a year, we're really going to be good.
Every year you're starting from scratch with a brand-new roster in a lot of cases And you've got that one year to get whatever you can out of that group because your best players will probably be poached by some other school Yeah, so I mean I would never want to be a coach at this mid-level ever ever
Yeah, that is that's tough to build something in a year.
It's anything exactly.
It's gotta be that
you got one shot
Every year
you're starting over
with one shot and it used to be just the opposite and that's one of the reasons Tony Bennett had so much success He had kids that would stay there for four and five years because they really wanted that University of Virginia education Yeah, because very few of them were going into the NBA So they wanted that great education would you get there?
So they would stay there and he would take these young kids and develop them and there's a huge difference from the time they were a freshman to when they were a junior and You know sure that was it was great for everybody and now out the window.
Yeah gone
and he gave it up.
Pat says, Pat Richter dropped baseball at UW in 1991 before Alvarez.
OK, I think you're right, Pat, but I will say this.
That was when Wisconsin was horrific as far as with all sports, and they had to find ways that they were just bleeding money.
They were throwing deck chairs off the Titanic type of thing.
But then after all, after they started winning these, getting these big bowl games and the money that was coming in, they went to Alvarez and it's like, hey.
We got more than enough money to support a baseball team.
They were a really big backer.
You know, one of the biggest backers was of alumni wise.
They wanted to remember TV Lenny.
TV Lenny was what's that, Todd?
Crazy TV.
Crazy TV Lenny.
He was one of the main guys trying to get baseball back to Wisconsin.
Wow.
I didn't
know that.
I mean, there is a there still is a huge alumni group fighting, fighting, fighting to bring it back.
Didn't he have some issues down the road?
Oh, I don't know
I don't
know I don't I
have
no idea I love how our conversation
always goes
to
Remember him being in the office if it's the same guy.
This is your office.
Yes.
I don't know.
I know nothing
No, no, I gotta think about that.
All right.
Yes.
All
right.
Yes.
Cool.
So I'm just
think it's gonna happen.
Is there no I just
because Alvarez doesn't want it and Alvarez I still believe controls University of Wisconsin athletic department.
I
think you're right about that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All
right.
I
think they're head coaches on the on the hot seat this year pickle
That's too I'm just
saying I'm just telling you
too
much and they don't anymore and here's the deal Alvarez won like four games in his first three years And they got like 20 more years efforts these days you got about three years and it's and it's like Yeah, it's kind of like this show Crack break day by day back up
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Wow.
We got Larry Kniesbeck and Lutia Vanderveld in here in New Leaf Foods.
And I just love your mission statement.
The goal of the event is to address the concerns of our community as they relate to climate change, our food system and policy to empower people with the tools to create change.
Clean water action council.
of Northeast Wisconsin, FoodWise, NWTC, Green Bay Citizens Climate Lobby, NW, Northeast Wisconsin, Bird Alliance, Slow Farmers Club, Community Water Coalition.
You're bringing all these people together for a very good cause, and I think you guys need not only just a pat on the back, but you need a little bit of a boost publicity-wise, because this is such an important thing that you're doing, and you're doing it from a grassroots level.
So Lauren and Latia, thanks both for being here, and tell us what is going on.
Yeah, I mean Lutia, do you want to take it away from here?
I know you're the main event organizer, so.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I was doing an AmeriCorps term of service with New Leaf Foods, focusing on education and outreach.
And so when I started my term in January, that's when the idea of having a round table like this was brought up.
And so it's something that New Leaf has wanted to do for quite a while, just bringing the community.
eat together to talk about food.
And so yeah, in January is when this all really got started.
And we knew that we wanted to not just talk about food, but make sure that we are bringing attention to other things that fit in with a new leaf mission as well.
And so that's where the idea of climate came in and then later on policy.
And we want attendees to walk away, not just learning about these things, but having actionable things to do afterwards.
So we don't want to just bring them problems.
We also want them to be able to walk away with solutions.
I see
one thing here at Jim Talks, but it's one of your things here is the Eat Lancet Planetary Diet, Food Waste and Climate Change.
Jim always says, we don't have a food issue, we've got a supply issue.
Distribution.
Distribution.
We don't
have a supply issue, we got a distribution issue.
And this climate change, when you talk about that, that's affecting certain groups of food, right?
Tell me about the climate change, because you're going to spend some time on that, and how that's affecting our food.
supply.
Yeah, so that is something that a slow farm farmers co-op will be going more into, but they will be talking about the effects of climate change on different crops and growing and how with the way that the climate is changing gets affecting everything from water to soil to the quality of food.
So that is definitely something that we're going to get that farmer input on how climate change affects that.
And we'll also be getting a little bit of input into how
Climate change also affects like food distribution and things like that So that's something that we will get more into with the food-wise aspect of it Well, they will be talking a bit more about food insecurity and climate change.
So we people are gonna come to this They're gonna learn a lot But I really like the fact that you're gonna give them a not its due list but an action plan when they leave like what are some of the things that will be on the action plan Do you think I mean, I know you haven't had the meeting yet, but what are you envisioning?
So what we are asking round table
attendees not attendees sorry we're asking the roundtable speakers to have action items to come with them so that they can share at their tables so that is something that each speaker will be able to bring to their own table and then kind of what we see
for the most part will definitely be the policy aspect.
So being in touch with your state representatives and letting them know like this is what we want to see in Wisconsin.
Like we want to support these sort of food and climate initiatives.
We also see people just getting more organized, not organized, more involved in their communities.
So these are the things that are happening right here in Green Bay and Brown County in Northeast Wisconsin.
And this is what you can do to help.
This is how you can be involved.
And also like the Eat Lancet diet, like here are things that you can do as an
individual on your own diet level that you can do to support the climate right now.
That's awesome.
And I want to talk a little bit about your background and how you got into this.
But before I want to add, I think it's really important that this at this seminar, this roundtable that you're having, that policy is brought up and that you work with the governments.
But we do that a lot.
John does a lot of things with the government for.
policies for the veterans, you know, we're trying to lobby a little bit for these tiny homes.
And I do some things for the homeless.
I think there should be some things that are different.
And they're very active.
And you can do it locally here, City County.
But, you know, the state is very receptive to new ideas.
I think they are.
But that'd be interesting to see what kind of things you come up with.
Besides, I'm sure there's going to be things with, I don't know how much you get into whole the runoff and the water, what happens with some of the pollution things.
I think it's more
That's
part of this, right?
I mean, I think you saw that on the agenda here.
Okay, so that's that's important stuff.
Lauren, explain your your role in all this and where the passion comes from because that's always the key.
That's the number one thing we always want, not just a job.
Where's the passion come from?
Yeah, so my role, obviously, you know, communications coordinators to try to get the word out as much as possible.
So thanks for having us today.
First of all,
glad to
have you.
And yeah, the passion for me is, you know, I might not be
the most knowledgeable person on the New Leaf team when it comes to the actual science behind climate change and like you know making decisions about what you can do as an individual and you know in your community but I definitely want to do anything I can to like push the message so that you know I myself if I was just a member of the community this is something that I would be super interested in because not only am I like a foodie I care about a planet you know and I try to be aware and active in the community like know what's going on so
I guess that's where my passion comes from is just kind of this sort of this caring this about the planet and like the future of our food.
How is the Northeast Wisconsin region with something like this?
Because, you know, we're talking about some of the cool areas delivered to like Boulder, Colorado.
I could see this being huge, you know, someplace in Oregon.
I could see it being huge, but we're such a meat and potatoes kind of place here.
How is it received around this area?
I would say you're right with we are kind of
I guess more traditional in the way that you would think about diets and just like farming and things like that.
But there are also like a ton of little, I don't want to say little because they're they're mighty, a little but mighty community partners that we have that are all invited to this.
And just, you know, I was just with Wellow recently and they were awarded a huge funding opportunity
that only Robert Wood Johnson.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I think it's only like less than 10 organizations throughout.
the U.S.
are awarded it.
So we do have some force here in Northeast Wisconsin for things, you know, food insecurity, climate concerns, things like that for sure.
They've been on here and I was pleased that they got that.
They work hard.
They're
very
active.
But yeah, Wellow is a very broad brush.
And I think they'll be a good partner with you because they kind of want to do everything with food, health, wellness for the community.
But I like the fact that even like...
the splinter organizations, if you want to call it that, like even the people we had on from the plant type things and growing, you know, where you could go and pick, you know, they're really trying to encourage people to grow a lot of their own stuff.
And that's a big factor with this, isn't it?
I mean, you guys try to really advocate for that.
Oh yeah.
And like, definitely that's going to be part of New Leafs presentation.
Our president, Lynn Walter, is going to be our speaker, and she's going to talk about, you know, our projects that we have.
that are going to be in a way like our actionable items for people as you can learn more about the orchard project that we have.
You know, I've talked about bountiful branches with you guys before and growing your own.
So.
OK, you really lit a spark with him.
You know
that.
I know
he won't.
He won't stop talking about that.
He wants to build his own orchard.
Good.
Good.
That means I did my job.
Yeah.
In the city,
I live in the hood.
It's gonna be cool.
I got a lot next to me and I different trees in the hood, right?
Half a million dollar for story house.
It's
gonna be great.
The eight car
garage right next to it is not and that next door though I think that would be good for my grandkids too to come out and see different.
Absolutely.
Like
everybody knows we can you know cherry trees and apple trees but there's other things that we can grow here that I think
two of each, and I think, you know, they can have little picnics in there.
It's
gonna
be
awesome.
I really want to do that.
I mean, I got, it's a decent size lot,
so.
Yeah, well you should definitely make use of it.
I think it'd
be so much fun.
What are
you laughing about?
I think it's gonna be fun.
I think the picnics line took me out.
What, the
kids?
You see them under there, like, pear tree having a little picnic, you know, at grandpa's place?
I think it's
awesome.
Remember
the bees though, Jim.
Oh yeah, that's true.
Remember right there, whole pollination thing the last time
you were here?
That's right.
Everything needs to be pollinated.
Yeah, so that was a
learning moment.
We learned quite a bit about it.
Every time we have you guys on, we learn a
lot.
That's what New
Leaf is
here for.
I
didn't know that.
Well, how long has New Leaf been around?
And who started it?
Who decided that this area needs something like this?
Oh, gosh.
Yeah.
Well, New Leaf's been around since 2011.
They started out as a...
Food co-op so they were looking to open a co-op grocery store right here in downtown Okay, and the nonprofit was sort of created alongside of the co-op and so the co-op Failed but the nonprofit continued on so it's been around for about 14 years And I do believe that Lynn has been the president the entire time
she I don't think she was the one who initially started it
but
someone and I can't remember who this is but someone reached out to Lynn she had just retired and they were like hey like
You're free now.
You're retired.
Can you help us, you know, get this up and running?
And she's been with us ever since.
So she's been, I guess, semi-retired this entire time.
You know,
those food co-ops, they sound such a fantastic idea, but they're tough to thrive,
aren't
they?
But they can work, too.
I just want to say there.
I was part of that.
And
it's
too bad that didn't work, but you know, they sold memberships because you need that.
You need
some
seed money
to get that thing going.
And
a lot of people volunteer but for food.
And yeah, that was maybe, maybe she was ahead of her time to do that here in Green Bay, but
you know,
Nashville, they're very successful.
Milwaukee has a really good one.
So, I
mean, they, they can't happen.
And
they, but
anyway, I think it's good that they took the other piece of that and are doing what you do and more on the education side of
things.
Maybe it's time again, cause Oshkosh, Oshkosh has a very good food co-op downtown, right?
So maybe it's time, maybe.
You said 14 years ago, maybe it's time.
What do
they do differently, Todd?
I mean, why is that one so successful?
I wish I could tell you, I don't know.
Maybe it's because it opened a little bit later.
It was in the last couple of years that opened.
But I think there's probably enough community support for something like that now that maybe we should try that again.
And I think you need to have the site.
I think it was just a concept.
And to give money to a concept is...
If you really want it, you'll do that.
But
if they would say, look, here's the site.
This is, I just think maybe the cart before the horse a little bit, but.
I think Todd's right.
I think people in here, you just look at our farmers market.
Not that that's a barometer, but boy, those things are just
huge.
It is.
It's
unbelievable.
And, you know, the fact that, you know, some people,
it's not, it's not dissimilar.
No.
I mean, the idea.
Yeah.
No.
Well, I'm excited for the Broadway market whenever that opens.
So.
Sorry.
They've been
on here too.
Because that's one of their big focus things is something like this,
co-op
being a part of it.
So, but again, these are great ideas, but boy, there's just that fine line between.
being really successful, like, gosh, gosh, we're not making it here.
There almost seems to be no in-between.
Yeah.
And some of these things, if you start too big,
that's more difficult than
if
you start... You bite off more than you can chew.
Right.
So we're just, we're very supportive of what's going on on Broadway, but we think
that's... Yeah, that would definitely be worth, I think, discussing with, you know, our board and seeing the future of New Leaf, ultimately what we want are...
our next, I guess, mission to be.
Yeah.
Well, to partner with the public market is a really good idea.
Very successful in Milwaukee, but as
you know,
that thing, you know, went under a couple of times before it got successful.
Those are tough, tough things to do, but.
You still need that.
You mentioned seed money.
You gotta have
that.
You can't be rubbing the two nickels together every week.
That's
the key.
But anyway, that's gonna be great something
worth a break in your name with your sponsor.
I'm good.
I'm sure that's funny.
I'll be faster.
I'll talk.
I guess I'll create it.
Lauren and Latia, newly foods, back right after this.
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Thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Lauren, can you speak?
and Lutia Vanderveld in Newly Foods, Climate Food and Policy Roundtable.
And Lutia, I give you credit being a native of Dallas and moving up here to Green Bay.
And you're staying loyal to your, to your fellows down there in Texas.
I am, I am.
Even though some days it's can be a little hard to be a Cowboys man.
We
went through that here too.
So hang
in there.
But you know
what's funny is we, I, with coach, when coach McCarthy was there, I was like,
a big cowboy fan,
obviously, but it's
like, I really pulled for him so much
that
it's, that's a tough gig down there with Jerry Jones and everything.
Isn't it?
I, you know, I don't want to say too much about it, but indeed I would say yes.
Who's
more passionate Packer fans or cowboy fans?
Well, but
that's,
that's a tough
one because you
guys are number America's team.
You got the most people love the Cowboys, but boy, you've had a dry spell.
Yes.
Yeah.
And I'd longer than when you think, doesn't that long go?
that you guys won, but it was a long
time ago.
It's been a while.
Well, I mean, my favorite Cowboys player of all time was Jason Whitton, and he never got a ring.
And so that's something that I take personally, to be honest.
Right.
And I, but I would agree that your ownership is significantly different than ours, right?
Yes.
Than anybody's, really.
And after the games, all the press conferences, they go to Jerry Jones.
One of their team goes to the GM,
you know, they usually go
to the culture, you know, it's just, it's just, but I don't know, he's Jerry
Jones.
Yeah, I mean.
I hope you do.
I do like, I like the stadium and I, like I said,
I have friends
down there.
I've gone to a few games, but anyway, we're still gonna work on you though.
Don't think we're
gonna let you off the hook.
We will still
try to convert you.
So this thing is coming up on the 14th, you have this educational seminar that you're sponsoring.
It has a lot to do with food supply, the climate change, so many great speakers coming in.
And what I like about this, and I want to talk a little bit more about who you want to attend.
But the fact that they're going to leave with something to do, and I think that's really important.
And then one of the things I want to talk about is the two community orchards going up in Bellevue.
Oh, yeah.
So go
ahead, take it away.
True.
So if we're going to talk about the orchards, that's tomorrow actually going up.
10 o'clock Moonrise Park.
Yep, he's got it.
So we're actually looking for anyone who wants to help like install those trees.
You are totally welcome to come.
This would be perfect
for you for your
orchard.
Yeah.
What time?
No, I am
really
interested in that.
I gotta tell you when you get weird in here when I was a while ago, but I didn't know we could grow all those trees in Green Bay.
I'll be honest with you.
I didn't either.
Either they're like Texas or Florida or.
California, right?
I knew everybody knows apple trees, right?
Cause everybody had those when they were a kid, but I just four or five different types of trees here in Green Bay.
I think that's like really cool.
Yeah.
So I guess, yeah.
If you wanted to come tomorrow, you can see more trees that we're going to install, but what are you
planting tomorrow at that?
And what
do you mean?
Tomorrow is, um, the village of Bellevue parks, wreck and forestry is more in charge of the trees being installed.
So we don't even know what we're installing.
Um,
But it'll be a nice handful of trees at each park.
And the second park, Bethel Edible Forest, they're going to talk about their mission for that park in the future because they're trying to build what I would imagine is similar to our Seymour Park food forest in the village of Bellevue.
So it's tomorrow, beginning at 10 o'clock, Moonrise Park, Moonrise Court in Bellevue.
And then the village of Bellevue.
the village of Bellevue Park's rec and forestry department are coming together to install both of them,
but they are
looking for volunteers, right?
For both Moonrise Park and the Bellevue Park, correct?
Yep.
So the trees we plant are Bethel Park.
Bethel Park.
Bethel Park.
The
trees we plant tomorrow, when we'll be able to eat fruit off of them?
Two years, three years?
You know, that's probably a question for the village Bellevue, but I would say usually the nurseries that we get these plants from, they don't.
you know, grow them all the way till they can, you know, become fruit bearing because it's just a lot of money put in to raise them for five plus years.
So they usually raise them before they're able to bear fruit.
So I would say probably like a few years.
Luthier, I don't know if you have anything to say on that as well.
I'm going
to go, I'm going to find that out because that's interesting to me.
I don't want to plant the tree and have it.
Yeah, but you can see how they do it.
There's a technique to planting.
And also the more mature the tree is, the more expensive it's going to be.
So if you can have a little trust in the process and get it.
earlier when it's more of like a seedling or, you know, something smaller, it's going to be.
Yeah, I'm going to
wait
five, six years.
And he's going to.
No,
no, no, no.
Then on June 14th from nine to one is your big name.
Go ahead.
Once again, talk with us.
NWTC Great Lakes Energy Education Center, 27 to one Larson Road in Green Bay.
Uh, people, do you want them to reserve a spot or to
register?
Okay.
Go ahead and talk with those if you don't mind.
Yes, so you can go to the Newly Foods website and navigate to our events page and you can register there.
You could also go to our Instagram and go to the link in our bio and register there.
So yeah, we do want you to register.
You unfortunately missed the deadline to be able to have lunch when you register, so you can just register for no lunch.
So it's $10?
Yes, $10.
Still a really good time to learn about the food climate and policy thing.
Although I'm
surprised that you're serving for lunch until I read the
whole thing.
You're having a taco bar.
Yes.
But
talk about all local produce.
Yes.
That's why the deadline for food was also kind of push up for us is because they're smaller, you know, a more locally sourced thing.
So they need to know ahead of time.
Yeah.
Well, I think that food co-op thing is still something to kind of look
at one more time.
Think about for the future.
I
really do.
Yeah.
I because there's successful ones.
And like it's just Oshkosh.
What's there's not a huge difference.
There's no reason for it not to work here.
Yeah.
Again,
you got to get that big sponsor or something to have that seed money.
Jim can step up.
Absolutely.
Dude, I got the orchard I got to take care of.
Let
me do
that first.
I got to harm it.
I'm going to note that down.
Please do.
She
says it's going to cost me money because I want those trees to bear fruit like in a year or two.
I'm not going to wait six, seven years till my
kids are nice.
You better get them planted
now,
Jim.
I know.
It's exactly what she's telling me.
I'm going
to go
tomorrow.
I will be there at 10 o'clock.
I want to see that.
Yeah, you should be.
I will be there.
Take some
pictures.
Yeah, well, that's going to be fun.
We'll
talk about that.
That'll be
awesome.
I'll tell you what, they sure got.
two great spokespersons.
Yeah, you guys are awesome.
You guys are fantastic.
Thanks for having us.
Yeah, any
time.
I appreciate it.
Glad to support
you.
Come back and tell us how the seminar went and then update us on this orchard thing.
Yeah, definitely.
Lauren and
Lutia.
Lutia
is a Dallas Cowboys fan.
Just throwing it out there
for us.
Not letting
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Wrote it
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You know, I love local authors.
Love what they do.
I'm one of them and it's a tough gig, but it's a very satisfying gig.
And we got an old friend, Spike Pedersen.
An author extraordinaire.
Good morning, Spike.
How are you?
Morning, John.
Man, it's been a while.
Good to hear your face again.
Now, I was your best customer.
I was your most frequent customer for about six years when you ran a great little hardware store in Allaway, correct?
Yes, yes.
That was a fun time.
Those, I miss a store like that so much, Spike, where you could walk in and everybody that works there.
has like done whatever project you're working on and you need this kind of a widget for the whatever whatever and you guys would have the bins and you guys would know exactly where to go and you just don't have those places anymore, huh Spike?
Not so much you know.
Actually, it was easier than you thought because we got asked the same 20 questions every day.
We only had to be an expert in 20 ways.
It was always like, my wife, even just give me a hard time.
How many trips are you going to make to spike before this one's done?
Because that was the key, man.
You guys would always know where to go and what you had.
And I love those, those little places.
Well, tell me about your career now in post retirement, I guess, as an author.
Yeah, we're living in the Wisconsin rabbits now doing the retired life.
Whenever we get bored, we hit the road, try to do some traveling.
We were just up in Dork County a couple days ago, and we went to Lolo's Food Truck, had a wonderful food.
We went to the 3rd Avenue Players and saw a wonderful play called Buyer & Seller.
It was hilarious.
But other than that, I tried to stay home, mowed along, and right, right,
right.
So when I write, a lot of times it's, it's, um, in weird, like I'll write from like three till five in the morning at times because there's nothing else to do and you can totally focus.
Do you find that way?
I mean, you got to be kind of disciplined to really be a writer.
Don't just spike.
Yes.
Really, really have to be disciplined.
Although I find myself not being normal in that way.
I like to write when I go to a public place, like a coffee shop, so I can watch people.
I put on my earphones.
And I found music in my head because that kind of, that kind of occupies two thirds of my brain.
So now my creativity can be uninterrupted.
So I think I'm different than that, but that's the way I do it.
And I try and do that after news, after we have our slow start, because we're retired.
Everybody has a different way, but you got to get into that groove to really make progress, correct?
Yes, yes, you sure do.
Discipline is number one.
I need to work on that yet.
So do I, trust me.
Jim, you got discipline.
That writing, I have a daughter who just that's what she does.
She writes, she's a publisher.
She lives out East now.
And it's great.
I'm really proud of what she's doing, but she works with you with authors and they're all a little bit different in terms of their style.
Yet they're all like really
Interesting people super nice creative people and she really enjoys working with different people.
What is your like?
What do you love to write about the most out of all the things that are out there?
Well, you know I have a guy who likes great adventure stories and I like to do that type of thing But my stories are not totally based in just an adventure, but that's what gets me up in the morning and says wow
Let's do something that's really exciting.
And I pick up a lot of these by observing people just a little scene.
Somebody walking down the street, a child playing with a toy, and that's what pops something in my head to make that.
work.
And one of them is my wife Nancy.
She's really my muse.
She'll do things like start squirt gun wars in our living room, things like that.
And that I take in the night.
As soon as I'm done being sodden by that, by the squirt gun wars, I rush over to my laptop and I start putting down words.
That's what I mean.
You're a creative writer.
Talk about your
most
recent book spike.
Well, my most recent book, the one that I wanted to talk about today is called
secrets of Hanalei Bay.
And, uh, I can tell you a little bit about it.
Yeah, please do.
You go right ahead.
Okay.
This all started when I was riding my motorcycle down the street in my neighborhood and I see a bunch of smoke billowing up into the sky.
So, you know, I'm a guy, I'm going to go rubber neck.
So I go over to this, to where I, the smoke is coming from.
And there I see a woman standing outside her birding condo, internightgown barefoot and nothing left to her name.
Now that
got me started down this road.
And though my book begins there with that scene, it's a mystery thriller set on the lush island of Kauai.
My protagonist, Chloe, flees the whole Hanalei Bay to escape her old life.
But instead of finding peace, she stumbles into danger, ancient secrets, and a twisted plot could affect the fate of the world.
Between Chloe's missteps and the men who cherish her emotions and for their own gain, Chloe is kidnapped and betrayed.
Will she make the right choice?
Is the fate of the ultimate weapon in her hands?
Or is it just an illusion paraded over her by heroes and madmen?
And what of this magic she seems to possess?
Wow.
All right.
And that's all from your mind.
Wow.
That's
whoever wrote... Every bit of it except for the woman that I saw outside her burning condo came from my imagination.
That's incredible.
What you just read or recited, those jacket covers, I would buy that book.
I agree.
That was...
And that is
important
to me.
That's what my daughter does.
She writes these jacket covers and it's like, you know, that will get you to buy or not buy the book.
Well,
is she ready for my next book?
The jacket
cover?
She, she, she only,
well,
that was a resounding no.
She doesn't work with the newbies anymore.
Okay.
Wow.
She'd probably do it for you.
I'd ask.
Spike,
that's gotta be fun.
That's great.
Create
a person in your mind, a character in your mind.
I
get characters out of nowhere.
Right.
You creative writers are just a special breed of writers.
They truly are.
I mean, we have people that write on travel.
They've been in here.
We've had people that write poetry.
They've been in here.
But that creative writing really just, maybe you don't even know where it's gonna go.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, and that's the fun part of writing.
You know, when I start, I have a story and I do a really, really rough outline that I don't even bother to spell check or put punctuation in.
And then I take that and I start writing it, but that's not where I'm going.
The story takes over.
And the story leads you down the path, and it's just this pure discovery, and it's great.
And that's the part I love, except for when it doesn't work and doesn't come out in finished form.
Wow.
We're at Spike Pedersen, author.
What's the name of your most recent book, Spike?
Secret of Honolay Bay.
OK.
So Spike, I mean, you ran a hardware store successfully.
You then moved from Rapids.
Great hardware
store.
Spike's hardware in Allaway,
right on Liable.
Did you always do this for your little kid?
Did you write grade school, high school?
No, I didn't actually, but really got me into the writing bug is that when I was in the hardware store, I was writing a weekly column for the Green Bay Press Gazette.
I remember that.
Yep.
And it was about hardware and home repair, which is really, really dry.
So I had to find a way to inject some humor and still get the message across.
And so that's where I found it fun.
And that's what got me started on the writing path.
And after the store was gone, I started writing and I wrote my first book at first light and now I'm on to my second one.
What what advice would you give to anybody because I think it's one of those things everybody wants to do it Don't really know how to approach it and I'm not sure if there is any one set in stone way to approach it What advice would you give spike from doing this from the grassroots level to anybody out there listening?
That says I think I've got a book inside my head.
Not sure how to bring it out
Well, that's a really good question and I talked to a lot of people about this, you know, most people have some kind of a book in their head
And the first thing you have to do is just sit down and write a few words down about it and then develop it more and think about it.
But, you know, they always say, write what you know.
I say, don't do that.
Write who you are and be brave and don't worry about exposing yourself.
Expose thyself and you will be successful.
Are there people in your books, are there characters in your book that are based on you?
No, no, I'm way too boring for that I've never had a character that I'd based on me although there are probably some parts of me in every character
But how about people you've met in life does everybody read your book and say will you talking about me in there?
Yeah
Well mine is mine is a collaboration of several people that make a character generally I see I do have one person in my first book that it was all about them that that person was He was unique
And I felt that that person made a good character.
And so I just wrote that character as if I was having a conversation with him.
But that's the only time.
Other than that, everybody is fictional.
So when you start to sit down, your next book, when you sit down to write that book, do you have an outline knowing exactly the directions it's going to go and how it's going to end?
Or does it develop as you're writing?
I have a really, really rough outline.
First, it's an idea in my head for a long time.
Then I write down.
10 paragraphs of 10 words each just to take me direction.
And then I start putting words on paper and then it just kind of pops out from there.
Like I said, the story takes over and that's really the fun part.
See, I love stories based from local writers because you know some of the things that are coming into their writing is part of our experiences of living around here.
And I know yours is based in Hawaii on this one.
But I like it when people can take certain aspects of their life.
And even though they're giving it to a fictional character, it really finds a way to bring that character to life that you can relate to.
I like those kind of characters, Spike.
I got a feeling you do too.
I do.
I do.
As a matter of fact, though, I start this book in Door County, Wisconsin.
My main character grew up there, had her children there.
And once she's done with raising her kids, she realizes that she never got the shot in life that she wants.
And so then she decides she's going to sell everything, move to Hawaii.
She bought a car, she bought a condo, she bought everything she needed.
And who we slayed the condo burnt down and she was left barefoot in her nightgown.
Nothing in her life.
And that's the
hook you got from actually seeing a woman in that situation.
I did.
I did see that
exact situation.
I do too.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
I mean, it is.
I just, that you're pulling it all together.
Yeah, this, you really, really enjoy this.
You can
hear
it in your voice,
Mike.
So how does it go?
Tell me about the, I mean, the writing we've talked about, the whole marketing, the business side, getting it out there.
Is that a struggle or is there a platform for you, new, I guess, new authors or novice authors?
Yes, as hard as it is to produce a book and get it done, finish it.
That's the easy part.
The hard part is marketing it.
And boy, that's really hard.
And there's thousands of authors like me out there trying to get their book marketed, getting people to know it.
And I'm so glad, so grateful that you guys asked me to come on because marketing is the hard part.
And I wish I would hire someone to do it.
But that costs money.
Yeah, I want it.
And it's better coming from you.
Just our only advice is call Oprah Winfrey.
She.
You think she ever gets a
book?
Spike, how
can
people
get your
book?
Yeah.
It's on Amazon.
Secrets of Honolay Bay will be available June 16th.
My first book at First Light is available now.
They're both on Amazon.
It said the name at First Light.
Yeah.
That was my first book and it is available right now on Amazon.
My second book, the one we're talking about today, Secrets of Hanalei Bay, will be available June 16th, but you can pre-order it.
Do you have an intern there somewhere that could just run out and do that right now?
Yeah, no, don't.
Comes in
tomorrow.
I will look those up Spike.
I'm really impressed with what you've done and knowing you for like
30 years or whatever to see this side of you with the creativity part.
It's really cool.
And I'm good to everything.
I possibly can't promote you in your books.
I
appreciate that, John, and vice versa.
I love your book.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate it.
Keep it going.
And please keep in touch with what you got going on.
OK, Spike?
Will do.
Thank you.
And hey, Spike, kick around the idea of a young sportscaster who knows that nobody's doing in a hardware store.
Guiding him, okay and ends
up doing
radio Spike Pedersen great author.
Thank you so much my friend great talking to you Bye-bye see ya shot cats back in the house back up
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We've known each other a long time.
Let me tell you a story about John Minow.
Earlier this week, or maybe it was last week, John brought a coffee cup down from his apartment up in the building.
And he made a cup of coffee out in the hallway.
The coffee cup that he brought in was smaller than the
Throw away cups that we have.
Who would have known that a coffee cup, that this would hold more than a regular coffee cup?
You'd never know that,
right?
No, no, no.
But looking at it.
It overflowed all over the place, so I had to clean that up.
And then when we finally got that cleaned up, he put his creamer in.
And from the coffee pot to the garbage can, there were little droplets of creamer.
So I had to clean that up.
And now you brought in, again, you always bring in treats.
He's in here eating some.
It's a
raspberry turnover.
Yeah, raspberry turnover.
I'm sitting here, he's talking to me while he's eating.
Raspberry turnover all over the floor.
And I said, Sean's got to get his butt in here and actually clean it up.
So.
It's a blood trail.
We've said he could never, he could never do a crime because the cops could.
So many clues.
World's dumbest
criminals.
It's true.
It's true.
But those things are so good.
Where do you get those from?
I actually, so they come.
From Bondiwell, okay, where they come from the because it's I I think it's the Yoder bakery that's that's over there and But the right as you come off 41, okay?
The gas station there,
okay,
they in Green Bay in Howard.
Yeah.
Yeah,
those are they're so fresh that fruit
Oh, they do it out.
Yeah, cuz they drop them off.
They weren't like the last time I didn't bring any because they weren't there
That's how fresh they are.
So they must have just dropped them on there.
Phenomenal.
We're going to make sure we schedule it this time then.
There you go.
Well, first thing we want to do is talk to you.
How did it go with the races?
Oh my goodness.
It was off the hook.
The boat races.
Yeah, it was great.
Phenomenal.
You know, it's always hard to tell people-wise, just because.
Yeah.
Stretched out over a whole street.
But I would say well over 2,000 people.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
First time event.
Wow.
Yeah.
I mean, literally, food vendors were leaving to go get more food to come back because they were running out.
So that's always a good sign.
Great problem to have.
And that's
always a good judge to
talk to the vendors.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah,
they talk to the customers.
Which people would do that?
But, boy, those vendors, they'll tell you how it was.
And if they're
Replenishing that's that's great.
Yeah,
Sunday was Sunday was slower because of the rain Yeah, but then what I was surprised with I was telling Todd that after the rain stopped, which was two o'clock So by then you're in a Sunday.
Yeah pretty yeah Crowds came out came back.
Yeah, so so it was it was one of the
racers enjoy it
the racers supposedly loved it
great
they they in fact I got a I got a phone call from one of the racers
saying we loved this and because the way we set it up the course was set up so that the straightaway was where the crowd was so they could really just lean into it and so I I would be surprised they said like 105 was their top end it seemed faster I mean you know it's always hard to judge once again with speed but some of them were cooking
Well, I'll tell you what, we've talked about this before.
First-time events can be so, so, so difficult because you don't have that built-in, whatever.
So you guys, to pull that off in your first one to be this successful, congratulations to you guys.
Thanks.
Yeah.
You know, we learned some things that we'll have next year.
We need porta-potties throughout, you know, stuff like that, that's more logistical and more setup stuff, but we weren't sure.
So, you know, you try to...
measure and say, okay, this, but yeah, it's, it was really good for you.
And they said they want to come
back.
Oh, that's good.
Cause you, you know, not every first event comes back.
So that's nice.
Cause now you're going to build on this and
you're going to be
known as the place for this speedboat.
Yeah.
That's the idea.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
Sean, congratulations.
That's great.
Thank you.
Yeah.
We're going to talk about something else here with your buddy here, Kelly VanderMeos, independent stay hotel.
We're going to do that.
We got to send it to a break.
We'll be doing that.
But one other.
last quick question though as far as like with the food vendors who'd you have the food truck so we're big food truck
yeah okay we are so we had pasty traveler which does smash burgers oh love it phenomenal smash burgers um then we also had uh Thai chefs uh layers of flavor they do barbecue
okay so they had
barbecue
all right and then we had
um a couple uh one was um uh Thai fusion
Um, so, you know, crab rad goons, um, egg rolls, stuff like that.
And then also another one, Hong Kong buffet, I think, or Hong Kong.
A lot of Asian food.
I was shocked.
Yeah.
So I was pleased.
I wanted to get one Asian food vendor in, you know, because I thought that's a nice.
change, and we ended up getting two, which was great.
And then we had an ice cream, one was ice cream and stuff like that, and another one was just lemonade.
And people brought their own chairs.
Yes.
Okay, so John,
we're going to bring those chairs, those TV chairs, where you put the thing on top.
Oh, yeah.
Those are actually cool.
Yeah, there you
go.
It just sounds like a great event.
Oh, it was in the day on Saturday was just perfect.
It was in the mid-70s.
It was great.
That's
great.
How did the lady that we had on here, how did she do?
Oh, she took second.
Oh, good.
Fine.
We know how that feels.
Wow.
We do.
That's great.
It was really kind of cool how they do it is they run three different heats and they add up their points.
Oh.
So first place got like 800, second place 600, 400, like that all the way down.
And then so you could end up in third the first race and still first in the second and first Yeah, great great great.
I sure hope it's back
next year.
It will be races on
the river in Marinette.
Yeah
outstanding He did anybody go across the street to uh, you know,
yeah, I think so
He thinks over there quick break shot cast back Kelly Vander Meuse from Marinette.
We got another great event coming up
We'll talk about it as soon as we come back.
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.
Jim had a run out to teach his class at UWTC, but we are here.
N. W. N. W. T. C. Wow.
Maybe,
maybe you should go attend it.
It's a high friend.
It's a high friend.
What in the world is
going on here?
Shawn Kastbeck and Kelly Van Amuse, 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 just got done with the boat races, which we were talking about, and that was a great turnout.
We are looking forward to our
Summer time summer times a little busier we get some tourists coming through the area heading up north to check out the waterfalls in the greater UP You know, I that's that's a thing now.
Oh, yeah, I haven't grown up with you P. Okay You know 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 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 want a jacuzzi sweet, we can give them a nice jacuzzi sweet if they want.
I would like a jacuzzi sweet.
Oh, yeah.
I'd like a 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 I love.
I could even blow up in 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 replastered, 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 too.
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 there's Al Capone's hideout on Muscano Island, which is now a hotel in itself.
But, you know, you can visit that hideout.
You can you can do all these different things.
And they're just unique.
You're talking about the U.P.
where you places are up the U.P.
and talk 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 were the log roll used to be they used to drop the old Loggers really they'd be sending 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
Oh, it's a gorgeous, especially if you go up by a 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
air that you know, 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, 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.
I've worked for in my past life But work from oil 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.
Hey,
welcome back.
My name is the mayor and the mayor is about to go teach his class at NWTC.
Sean Katzbeck, Kelly Bannermuse, Independence Day Hotel.
And 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 what?
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.
Yeah.
And 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?
I think also like when we were talking about Marinette and stuff like that, you know, my sister went up to the U.P.
last summer because of you always talking about it.
And I think people want to know a little bit more about the communities they live in, the state they live in, the areas that you know, they want to know.
I
agree.
You know what's getting really popular up there is they're called upper 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 Lights up the whole
thing glows.
Yes, and it and I've actually seen on some of our
General manager trips to Silver City, which is right by the part by mountains right on Lake Superior 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, Aga or whatever Aga yeah, that's huge.
There's that's big up there You see stores all over selling that stuff, but
you see stores all over
Some of the hippie lettuce.
I
have a feeling you guys are looking
at these things.
It's a
hippie
lettuce.
It's not lettuce.
It's gummies.
The hippie gummies.
All I know is...
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 cuz my son goes to Steven's point and he has a geology class coming up And he knows the professor cuz he had him for something else and the professor's like hey ask your dad for one of those those stones, you know
Yeah, Uberlites.
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're
doing.
They're
out there with
high lighting.
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.
Yeah, 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 size of baseball.
Right.
And they just, for some straight 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 a 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 of times is gentlemen getting driftwood.
Yes, that's what I mean.
They'll use a taxidermy.
They'll get a fish because this drift 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
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.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
But so, you know, I mean, that's,
but 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.
Yes,
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 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 absolutely
Absolutely great having you guys in safe travels back.
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Hey, boy, those two guys, Sean and Kelly were just so much fun coming down from Marinette.
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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.
Where on the lake is it, Jason?
Where is it set up?
Yeah, it's on Lake Street, you know, which is, you know, very unassuming when you're in the Lake community, right?
Right.
But 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 have, you know, 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 in your area right there.
is one of those gems, wouldn't you agree?
Oh, I definitely agree.
And, you know, it's, 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 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 rippin and marcos 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 in 20 minutes.
So it's really nice to have that all so 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 eBlast 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 run as some people you may have heard of, Jackson Brown.
Yeah, may have heard of that.
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 gonna 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 thrashyropperhouse.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.
In 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 way.
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 in the business and the entertainment business and everything.
What have you seen?
What what kind of like maybe has cooled and what's getting hot?
Uh, as I said, tributes are always hot.
You know, we get offers for those all the time, right?
And it's everything from, uh, things that happened 40 years ago, performers back then to, to people that like they've only been around for a decade, but there we got a tribute band.
We're going to, we're going to put together a mine on the mayor tribute show.
It's going to be the puppets from the Muppets.
And that's it.
Two guys up in the balcony.
Yep.
Yep.
What instrument you plan?
We all we do is biatch That's all we 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 going to 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 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
guess that come here, watch your 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, um, and we've been doing shows ever since the first year they did three shows.
Uh, last year we did 89 events here.
Wow.
So
89 separate events.
Yeah, correct.
So that's incredible.
Yeah.
So, uh, the opera house holds 200 seed, 325.
If you stand them up nice and close to each other.
Uh,
but
it's, it's really a neat experience.
The acoustics are unbelievable here and, uh,
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 of 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 going to be some beverages available for you too.
So why don't you come out out?
Make a great night of it.
You 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 shore.
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.
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 on July 19th, morning train that tribute to John Prine coming up in August.
All the details and information available for you thrashyouropperhouse.com.
Book them up.
They go quick
sometimes.
Outstanding.
You do a great job pumping your place, Jason.
Thanks so much.
Appreciate it.
You got it.
Thanks for coming on.
Thrash Your Opera House, Green Lake, Pat McCarty 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.
Pat McCurdy.
I mean,
think about
this.
We've been in radio in this area for how long,
right?
Forever.
How often have you heard Pat McCurdy's playing here?
Pat McCurdy's playing there.
It's, it's, it's like you got to do it if you're from Wisconsin.
Absolutely.
No question about it.
Now you, did you?
Do a what's it called an investigation?
Yes.
Yeah, I knew you're gonna bring it up
I know I don't want to bring it up with him cuz I didn't want to scare people away But go ahead.
No, I mean he he was part of the investigation
Oh,
yeah, and we had a great time and we investigated the Thrasher opera house picked up a couple of things One of them was a piano that sits off to the right-hand side of the stage and we got a little activity over there Really?
Yeah,
so are you bringing your equipment with you to Gettysburg?
Absolutely
Are you allowed to bring it out into the fields?
I'm going to
yeah, I mean the equipment isn't huge like it's it's you could fit in your pocket,
right?
Oh, it's
not like if you're out there with it You're
gonna have a sensor type thing.
Yeah
sensors and recorders and stuff like that
Wow
Wow, I was just talking to Kelly from that from Marinette, right?
Yeah, he was telling me that
one of the places would be great to go to is where the Pestigo fire took place.
Oh, I can imagine.
Can you
imagine that?
I never even thought about that, but that's a great idea.
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.
So it was like a grave type of setting.
But can you imagine what that would have been like metal detecting on that, that river bed from that.
Yeah, the whole thing.
Amazing.
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.
I worked overnight there.
It was not a place I wanted to be.
Like, if you were in the studios,
it was
fine,
right?
But the minute you had to go out to the bathroom and you're right next to the auditorium there.
Yeah.
Yeah, that auditorium was spooky.
A lot of stuff went down in the auditorium that people don't talk
about.
We climbed, we had a step ladder one time.
We climbed up in one of the upper buildings.
They just pushed up the ceiling things.
And there was like an old scoreboard for a basketball.
Oh really?
I would love to have that.
Things got to be a hundred years old.
Yeah.
It's just up there behind the thing.
Those old buildings are fun.
All right.
Might on the Mary Show.
Back
after 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
Hey, welcome back my other man here Jim 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?
I think you should have specified man or woman.
I really do.
How are you going to feel?
I
don't know.
Don't they put you out?
No, they're not going to put you out.
They'll probably be talking to you.
Do they blindfold
you
or anything?
No.
So if you don't know what's going on, John's got to have a full body scan for skin cancer.
And that means he's got to get naked.
And that means that someone or some people will be poking around, folding back areas of the body, looking very closely.
I just got six texts.
You
just put me off my
breakfast.
Wow.
So did you
turn over
and do the whole
thing?
They do everything.
Oh my God.
I can't imagine the positions you're going to have to get in.
You better, you better limber up tonight.
Do some stretching.
Hey, where's
the voice of a dispensary?
Dispensary help me out for tomorrow.
Brandon and Jacob, maybe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, 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 literally was worried about you today.
I'm driving in and I'm thinking, okay, so my nose off tomorrow.
Oh, he's got to have that body scan.
And I'm thinking the last time I had to do something like that, I had to have, I had to have a spinal tap a couple of years ago.
I've had those.
Those
are terrible.
And same situation.
You're laying there on your stomach, fully, right?
That was so embarrassing.
Yeah.
I know.
I know.
Don't move.
Yeah.
Okay.
Right.
I know.
Yeah.
You're shoving a needle in my back.
Well, I told you that one time when I was getting my, uh, what's it called a colostomy?
You didn't have a colostomy.
No, colonoscopy.
Yes.
Cause a colostomy is where they attach a bag to you.
All
right.
And Brian, Brian says, still time for your mind on the mayor tattoo to throw them off.
Tori says, bring your yoga man.
Any advice anybody else have any advice for me because I've never had release now.
I'm nervous now I'm concerned anybody ever have a reason I need some advice by the way Jim commented on our Thing about for our gyms thing the time it takes for a fruit bearing tree to 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, he's, he's talking about his grandkids.
They're going to be like teenagers
by
the time he has that.
Yeah.
Especially since he's waiting so long to get it done.
Yeah.
If
you're going to do it, you got to do it.
I know.
I know.
So anyway.
And then what else do we have?
Oh, Michael Friedman says, I had opened 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.
Hmm.
Yeah, I guess I could.
That's all I get.
Okay.
You know what?
Okay, 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.
Right.
Well, we're going to Oshkosh on Thursday.
And enjoy.
Friday morning, I got to tell you, we're going to be, uh, grilling some pizza outside with Papa Murphy's pizza for father's day.
They're coming in to teach you how to grill pizza.
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 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.
Yeah.
I've got one.
You've got one to do.
You know what I'm going to have for breakfast?
What?
I'm going to have scrambled eggs and scallops.
Yeah.
But you already had one of those.
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 turnover.
You can't have him back on because every time he comes in, he brings those in.
But what do
you think of that?
Scramble eggs and scallops.
Yes.
I'm not a big seafood guy, but I could understand why you'd like that.
Okay.
So, 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'll give it a week and we'll see.
I bet I'm down like eight pounds.
All right.
In a week.
So you're at 214 now to write that down to 14 exactly.
So one week from today.
Yes.
How about when I get back from vacation?
That'll give you through the following Tuesday.
Excellent.
214.
Mino.
Yes.
I'm going to be 207 when you come back.
Okay.
Cause that's my goal.
Cause that will, there'll be 40 pounds that I lost in four years.
Nice.
Yes.
So that's what I'm going with.
All
right.
I was looking at some old pictures of all of us from October fest that first year.
We were eating good.
Yeah, we were.
We were eating anything put in front of us.
Some of us more than others.
Yeah, I
know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
All right.
Was that the Leader Holes and Day?
It was Leader Holes and Day.
Yeah, I'm okay if I never
see
that
ever again.
Ever again.
What else you got coming up this week, Todd?
Oh, let me see.
Coming up tomorrow morning on the show.
going to have John Kramer in headlines with the press times.
He's bringing Ryan Hobson in from the Green Bay Blizzard talk about their military appreciation game.
Also, Si Maldonado, the fighter is coming in tomorrow morning to talk a little bit about what he's going through.
Well, he's doing well now.
He's recovering and stuff like that.
Then don't forget, Thursday morning, we're going to be live from our WISS studios in Oshkosh.
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.
Yeah Well, it's old station 31 spirits.
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, can I get on the show and talk about whatever it's like, if you, if you want to get on.
contact us early.
Cause 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.
Yeah, but let us know if you want to get on the show.
We'd love to hear from you.
You can go to our website and contact us there and we'll get John with Jim and John.
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 in while
I'm naked.
Would you, would you please?
Yeah, that would be awesome.
All right.
Need some
pictures or anything?
No,
you can skip those.
Okay.
All right.
All
right.
Thanks everybody.
See ya.
