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.
All right, good morning, everybody.
Good
morning.
Your host, John Mino, is the doctor today.
His whole wrapped up with this whole skin cancer thing, you know?
Right.
So
after you got that, it's all fine.
You going for those body scans?
Yeah.
Have you ever done that?
I have.
Like they put those big goggles on and the doctor's eyes are like big because they look at your...
Right, they got to check out everything.
Did you, when you had your body scan done for skin, for you to look at skin cancer, did you request like a female or male to make any difference
to you?
No, that doesn't,
that doesn't bother me.
I'm trying to, I had this conversation with my sister this morning.
I had one with, yeah.
And I'm just wondering, because John said I don't
care.
He did.
But I wonder how
he's going to respond on
both levels.
Right?
I mean, to have a woman look at you that closely.
You know, they
really look at
you.
I mean, they look
at every part of your body like super close, because if they can detect it now, it's going to save you a fortune down the road financially, but it's also could
save your life.
I mean,
yeah.
But here's the thing, like they're a doctor and they've seen it
all.
But you're not.
She's the female.
I didn't know Todd and I were talking.
I said, look, if they asked me, look, do you want a male or a female to examine your body for an hour, close up like an inch away?
I would prefer the male.
And John's like, I don't care.
And I think when he gets in there, you
care.
I mean, my, the doctor that delivered both my children was a male.
So, I mean, and that's, that's more.
Intense.
Yeah.
For a
guy, though, for a guy that's probably as close to that.
I mean, they're just the embarrassment to know my God.
And so
at that point, it's like.
I just hope they send in some really good luck
on
their own.
They'll be like, ah, I think
I changed my mind, so
we'll see.
Anyway,
so that's that's- Somebody like Loretta Swit from Mash or something, right?
Right, right,
just, and really good, oh man, that's gonna
be fun.
Anyway,
so we'll get that full report
tomorrow.
I know you, I listened to you when I- That's right, that's right.
They'll send in some,
He's a nice, really good-looking young woman.
Oh, I used to listen to you when I was a little kid.
You don't make him
feel old, and then he's gonna try to act like muscular, and anyway, that's gonna be funny.
So tomorrow, I am.
He'll be fine, I think.
But it's just that I think it's great that healthcare is great in this community, and we're so fortunate.
But to do that and then say, look, we wanna look just to make sure you're good for the
next
10 years.
So that's what he's got going on today.
Yeah, I have to do it.
My dad had.
Melanoma, so I'm at a higher risk.
So what every five ten years often you guys got to go in
there?
They say every year just to do not a full like they just do like a quick body check Okay,
is there anywhere that they don't look?
They pull your toes apart and look in there Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they don't mess around.
No, and that's we're trying John because he hasn't had that done before I'm like
Get the full report tomorrow.
Anyway, welcome everybody.
Yes, Johnny's out today.
Shannon Cohen is in.
She's co-hosted before, and thank you for coming
in today.
Yeah, thank you for having me back.
It's nice and early.
What the weather, super easy to get here today, right?
I mean...
See, what I noticed is, so I normally go into work around, what, eight o'clock?
Yeah.
The people at like 5.30 are not messing around.
They are, they're on a mission and they are cruising.
Serious, well, you mean drive, serious walkers too.
They got
to get
that walk in.
They're not strolling.
They're looking at their little watch.
I mean, I don't drive slow, but I was like, geez.
That's
a good observation, actually, because I think you're right.
Early morning people.
Yeah, they're not.
They're not lounging.
I was like, ooh, I kind of got up a little later than I wanted.
So I was kind of like headed.
So
everybody was going somewhere.
Yeah.
They weren't strolling.
They
were like
Sunday driving.
They were on a mission.
Yeah.
I
think that's.
I can't believe the timing.
You know, we've been doing this.
It's gonna be two years in two weeks.
The timing on this, like, now obviously the buses, like the trains, you know, they run on time, but other people, you'll see this car at this intersection
at this
time.
I mean, people are, like you said, they're scheduled at this time of the morning.
Nobody is just
out for a
drive.
Little do people know I have like friends that they don't know we're friends, but I'm like, hey, I see that person every morning.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, there was a lady that, well, yeah.
She walks across the street.
She's walking a little slow, though, I think.
Anyway.
Is
that the one you almost hit and
then she
yelled at you?
She did.
She yelled at me.
Good.
But really, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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I didn't get that close to her but you know I pulled up to the intersection and she was walking and I'm waiting and um so then I parked and I got in my car and she was walking she was um you almost hit me I'm like look if I wanted to hit you I would have
jammed
I did and she goes I was in the crosswalk I said I saw that anyway that was that was the only day in two years that's only was that the only conflict you want to talk about clon conflicts in the morning we'll get mino in here
Why ironically
so do you?
It's so funny because nobody's here in the morning when they show up This one goes off about that this one goes off about that then they come to go together and go off about something else together each other It's it's quite a
show, but we're ready to go.
I will say no coffee.
We just are no we need our coffee.
Yeah, anyway, I thought
It was beautiful this morning.
This is like the weather's perfect here.
I don't even know where
we're at.
I was a little chilly, not gonna lie.
I think it's warmer
today than it has been in the morning.
I think.
And we're gonna hit like, we're gonna hit 80 today.
I love it.
I know me too.
So I
better come back here too, because I'm doing my recording for my Sunday show.
So other than that, I got a pretty free day today.
So
58 in Green Bay.
A little cooler here.
63 in Appleton.
That's awesome.
64 in Oshkosh.
All right, Oshkosh.
And like you
said, you know, today high near 80.
So get out there today because I just heard the weather.
Put on some sunscreen.
Yep.
But yes, especially you people prone to skin cancer like me.
Well, I don't know if I am or not, but I love, I love the sun.
You know that.
Yes,
I do.
Anyway, we, um, today, tomorrow is not as nice.
It's like 60s.
Oh,
well, enjoy today.
Yeah.
And at 10 o'clock
today, just to remind people, if you were listening yesterday, they're having a, in Bellevue, they have like a guard, and that's not a guard, and it's more like an orchard.
How to plant an orchard in your
yard.
Oh, where's that
at?
I'll look it up at the break.
That sounds amazing.
It is.
So I'm gonna go out there at 10 o'clock and check that out, because I might put an orchard in at my house.
Awesome.
Are you gonna bring us, what, apples, pears?
Apples, pears, cherries.
This stuff grows in Green Bay.
I have a cherry tree.
Do you?
Yeah.
Well, that's dork.
Yeah,
but I'm not in Dork County.
But I think pears I don't know.
She there's like four or five trees that grow in Green Bay, which I think is really cool.
They actually bear fruit and everything.
Yeah.
So I'm gonna take a look at that.
I might do that at my house might.
I think you should.
I'm kicking that around.
So anyway, what else is going on today?
Well, anyway, welcome to you though.
I'm glad you're here.
You've got you.
You were telling me I was acting what you're doing with your kids.
for the summer, because you have two great kids, fifth
and
third grade.
But they were out of school and boom, you put them in summer school the next day?
Absolutely.
Oh my
gosh, come on.
What is, how about summer?
No, they wanted to do it.
See, here's the thing, summer school now is actually fun.
When I was in summer school, it was school.
At the desk?
Yeah, so my daughter, she has, it's four classes, so she's doing painting, cooking.
Soccer and scrapbooking.
How cool is that?
But okay, but
you put her in the day after school that out
No, they got out on a Thursday and it started on Monday.
Oh, wow Okay, the weekends there anyway, so it's one day,
but they wanted to
DJ did she yeah, oh
because it's so much fun.
My son's doing wrestling What else he's got?
like here we grow, so they're like planting and learning about growing.
It's super fun now these days.
And they have so many options that it's...
So I'm an advocate for year-round school.
No,
no, no, you guys, you guys, people just that scares people.
It's
the same.
No, no, year-round school is the same amount of days as the school we have now.
The only reason we're off of school in the summer is because of farming.
Nobody farms anymore.
Well, there are farmers.
But it's not like everybody does.
That's
right.
I didn't mean
everybody.
No, no, I know.
Right.
Hey, I was I've never I was just breakfast at the farm.
Love farmers.
Sorry.
I didn't mean it like that.
Just the really, really good people.
No, just the
really, really good people farm.
But we our school is traditionally off because of that.
And that is not the main industry anymore.
So there's schools that go on.
It's it's six weeks on two weeks off in the month of July off.
It's the same 180 days that you go.
right now in your tradition.
Many, many studies will show you that and I'm going to get somebody on here to talk about this.
Many studies will show you that the students do better academically because it's not like this learning curve when you get back in
September
to get started again.
And the summers and the other thing it's really can be really cool for vacations, you know.
July, everybody's on vacation, but
I mean, you take
that six weeks on, two weeks off, those two weeks, you can go places and there's not a million people there.
You know, skiing or, you
know, it's not gonna
go do something.
So this is how long I've been at this thing.
My daughter was in fourth grade, okay?
And Donna and I went before the school board and said, look, we had some friends in Atlanta that said, you gotta take a look at this year round school, this stuff really works for our kids and we love it, it works for our lifestyle.
And so we went to the school board, made this.
Look, we're the Schmitz, we have a fourth grader, and we really advocate for year-round school, give them some stuff.
Still hasn't happened, and she's 32 now, so I think we need to look at that.
I do, I think there's a lot of, I mean, education.
You could
sway me.
Well, education is so important.
You know, we build new buildings, I've voted for the referendums, but at the end of the day, you want the students to do well.
Not every, I like the building, but I'm more concerned about what's going on inside the building.
I just think that should be an option.
I don't think we should change our school.
We got 20,000 kids in K-12 just here in Green Bay.
I don't think we should change the whole thing, but I think that would be a really cool option.
I like
it.
Six weeks on, two weeks off, the month of July, you're off.
And I would tell you, there is, somebody needs to study this smarter than me, but there's a lot of data that shows that that can benefit the student.
You know what I...
you know what that would take away so I noticed uh you know it's getting to the end of the year and everyone's all excited they're like oh it's almost summer it's almost summer summer break and you get kind of excited and then I'm like oh I still have to go to work I don't get summer
break like you do to your kids you're sitting them school the next day is that is that is that what you're talking
about well no and it's only half day well
okay
Here's the deal.
Does
that also impact, though, I mean, think about places like Wisconsin Dalles and Door County, does taking those vacation time away for the summer affect businesses that rely on summer?
Oh, probably.
But I think, in all honesty, I think people, when it comes to vacations like that, they do it.
People just do it.
That's a good question.
I want to say that this survey that was done was not just
parents was not just parents they talked to the YMCA's they talked to your sports they get banned that kind of stuff and it seemed like everybody was on board to try it and I don't know why we didn't try it
but anyway but you know people don't like new people don't like change
true everybody wants to change but nobody wants to be part of it
Exactly.
I love that.
Anyway, I'm glad you're here.
This is going to be fun today.
Did you see the lineup?
It's awesome.
We got these guys that are coming in.
This month is Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.
So you work on your husband and my wife's working on me.
But we've got to be concerned about men's mental health.
Two guys coming in, these guys are awesome.
They've been on before, DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright.
They're brothers helping brothers.
That's awesome great guys helping other great guys to kind of You know really get with the program and help reduce your stress.
We got this.
Was it SIA?
What's now down all right?
No, see I sigh oh sigh local fighter.
You see that guy.
He's unbelievable
No, I mean, I'm intrigued
like he's a golden gloves guy.
I think yes,
I'm excited
Yeah, and then John Kramer course is coming in with the headlines with the press times and Ryan Hopson with the Green Bay Blizzard you go to those games.
We do yeah
So much fun.
That is a lot of fun.
And then we're going to get a little, you know, this big here in Green Bay, um, the coal piles, which has been challenged for 60 years, uh, is going to get relocated.
And Pat Evans is going to come in and talk about how that whole thing went down at the county board.
Fantastic.
I
know it's going to be great.
So anyway, it's going to be fun.
We got Shannon Cohen in house.
We will be right back.
This is Shannon in the mayor.
ready.
All right, welcome back everybody.
This is mine on the mayor with Shannon Cohen sitting in who has done this before and thank you for being here.
This is great to have you because I know
you would
like you and we'll have some fun here today with this.
So today we're just touching on you.
Your kids go out of school on Thursday.
You give them
the whole day of Friday off, and then you put them back in summer school on Monday.
This was their
choice.
But I do, I think that's pretty cool.
And we were talking about maybe, it scares people when you say a year-round school, they're like, oh, I don't want that.
Well, it's not.
They should rename that.
They should rebrand that as flexible calendar year schooling or something
like that.
That sounds a little more better.
Right.
And it would be.
And anyway, but we got a text.
My man, Michael, said it would have a massive impact on tourism in Dorkoni.
I don't know why it you're still off the whole month of July and then when they have their two weeks off
Yeah, but if it's but if it's if you're two weeks off aria in October or December it's
six and two It's you're wrong.
So you got six weeks of school two weeks off six weeks of school two weeks off six weeks
Yeah, but
but think about that
Jim.
Door County has no tourism in the winter.
Yeah, this would help No, it would not
you don't think
people know up there.
No I Don't
we'd have to put them in the survey.
Yes
All
right, I
think the labor thing you're talking about now that that may have an effect on that You know because they need college kids to do the but I don't think but these aren't college kids I don't even think these are high school kids.
I my proposal was k12.
I was not no k8 But anyway, all right, well, we'll figure that out.
That's for somebody Like I said smarter than me, which doesn't take much.
So
here we are today We have some birthday.
Oh, no today.
You know what today is
yeah
German chocolate cake day.
Did you know what's not actually
German?
Do you know why it's called German chocolate cake?
I do, because we've actually talked about
this on the show.
I was thinking, but you know.
Can I guess?
Yeah.
Is it because his last name is German?
It
is.
Thank you.
Really?
And not like, yeah.
So his name is Sam German.
Yep.
And he was a creator of a specific chocolate at the Baker's Chocolate
Company.
It's a chocolate that makes it German chocolate cake.
I love German chocolate
cake.
But the chocolate is not like sweet chocolate.
It's like.
Chocolate, chocolate.
Donna just made that because we were at a birthday party on Saturday.
Actually, it was my birthday, but with my friend's 65th birthday, so he got all the attention.
Anyway, and that's what he wanted, so she made him a German chocolate cake.
I don't like chocolate, so.
Well,
that's weird.
I
know.
Nope.
At Easter, that stuff sits on the table.
I don't eat anything.
I don't like chocolate.
Okay,
Jim.
Put nachos out there.
Leave you gone.
Leave you gone.
I don't think I guess we did talk about that Todd.
So what was his name?
What German Sam Sam German, huh?
That's weird that It got so much notoriety.
I think it would have called like Sam's chocolate cake or something, you know,
like
German
would know
it's not all right.
Wait, wait Corn on the cob day can't go wrong with that.
Right.
That's cool Of course, it's a little early for that.
Why would they have that now?
They should have that in like August.
No, this is the perfect time.
No, there's no corn right now
It doesn't matter.
It's like, corn in the cob signifies like summer, barbecues.
Okay,
you can have it broad day.
Thank you.
Oh,
man.
Ding, ding.
I don't know, it's two against one this morning.
I gotta get going here.
All right, I'll figure something.
Corn in the cob day, yeah, you can celebrate it, but you can't have it.
Like, because it's not there.
Those stands aren't set up right now.
They're set up like in August, right?
Yeah,
but you're thinking about Wisconsin.
I mean, they're close to the United States.
There's other parts of the
that's right.
I
live
I live in my own world.
That
is
true Okay, that is why it's corn on the cob day throughout the country and that's the way we should look at that.
Okay.
I got it, right.
So Some birthdays today
Yeah,
I have no I know two of these four people so Sheila boof who I don't know
Shaya Shaya.
Yeah, he's a he's a great actor.
He
yeah, yes,
his name Shaya
Yeah,
do you get picked on as a kid playground
maybe now he just
He had lots of money.
He was fine.
What did he do?
Even Stevens.
It was a TV show, the movie Holes.
And I apologize.
I know he's been in a lot more grown-up shows, but I only know the kid ones.
All right.
Transformers.
There you go.
Thank you.
Intern, you know who this guy is?
Okay.
All right.
He's my age, so of course I know.
Of
course, Jim knows this guy.
Oh, I do.
Dr. Oz.
He's weird.
He's, he's a loser.
Completely.
He, he is a, uh, he's a media hound apps and run for each for Senate.
I was like, come on,
but then
we came awfully close to winning very close.
He's on TV and people are like, Hey, I know him.
And that's, well, that's what it was.
But yeah, he is a total self promoter, although he got a pretty good gig with the, uh,
Trump administration.
Oh,
so he's in there Hugh Laurie Laurie
Laurie
who's he
house?
Dr. House
Hugh Jactor Dr. House.
I remember that like nine seasons.
Yeah, he's
done
some
others
Correct.
He was a Jasper in the 101 Dalmatian movie.
Yep
Okay,
this next guy.
I know I actually got a picture with him.
I'll find that at the break Joe Montana 69
Go Joe that I
don't would you think he's 69?
I
thought he was older, but
really
yeah I mean he was a quarterback of very very long time ago when I was young, so I thought he was old then So I apologize
speaking of quarterbacks.
I think your buddy signing with the Steelers
and he's married.
Yes married
what
I know did it say was it?
Guy girl, what did she say?
No, they didn't say.
A lot of the comments were just like, oh, did he marry himself?
But I'm very intrigued.
I think he's a very good looking man.
And he's kind of weird, but I like him.
So I'm intrigued.
Aaron Rodgers?
Yeah.
Why?
Why are you intrigued by Adiva?
Um... Maybe that's my type.
I don't know.
As she's sitting with Jim in the studio.
In his peach shirt.
I could wear it.
Thank you for... Who wants to move corn cob day to a different day and change... I do selfishly and change the
school system.
It's only 8, 6, 29.
And we got a text.
Let's finish off Jim's strong start with some world's worst trivia, Brian.
I'm in.
I can do that
too.
All right, Brian.
You might be onto something there.
All right.
All right.
We got a great show coming up here.
Stick around.
This is Shannon the Mayor.
We'll be right back.
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Now back to John Minow, who's not here this this morning, but Shannon Cohen is.
It's Shannon and the mayor with Jim Schmidt.
All right.
Welcome back, everybody.
Shannon, this is great.
You're here and that contest Todd was talking about.
So you can win these Brewer tickets, club seats, awesome seats.
You know, have you been to go to Brewer games?
Baseball is really not our thing.
Oh, but.
It doesn't have to be.
That is such a great stadium.
I have been there.
Okay, great for kids.
The food's good.
There's not lines.
I love that stadium.
We went there quite a bit with our kids.
But once in a while, I haven't been there lately.
Yeah, that's a good contest.
So people should stick around.
You can win that.
Those are great for $100, which is awesome.
Yeah.
But then you're in for the grand prize.
And that's like a vacation in the Dells, which is fun, right?
I love the Dells.
The basement of the Dells.
Or Dora County.
Or Door County
those are two like great great places.
Yeah, so anyway, hey, we're talking during the break Your your miss mom Shaper only shaper on the kids.
I do it in fourth grade.
I've done that I think every parent has done that if they had a fourth grader because that's like
part of what you do to the Capitol.
Every kid goes to the Capitol in fourth grade and you see the Badger.
And did you guys see the governor?
Did he kind of pop his head out?
No, it
was my birthday.
Oh,
that's cool.
The day
we went.
So that was super exciting.
All
right.
Yeah, we went to the Capitol, went to the zoo down there, the Henry
Free.
Yeah, that was great.
So yeah, we did the State Capitol, you know, the tour, the rotunda, the assembly, the Senate, the hearing room, Supreme Court, we got to do the observation deck.
That was great.
The kids were actually really intrigued.
That's a good tour.
And that thing looks so much like the Capitol.
I mean, that's just a cool building.
Problem with Madison is it's growing, right?
I mean, that's one of probably the
I would say the nicest, but it's one of the best places to live in Wisconsin because it's got the academics.
It's got, you know, great jobs, great incomes.
But the housing is tough because you can't build anything taller than the Capitol.
And people are like, you know, so the developers would love to do that.
That will never happen, but I would love to do away with that.
So you could put up some much taller buildings, but they have some really nice development around the Capitol, some great condos, some, but.
It's expensive there, but I think they're growing and there's just a lot.
Madison has a lot going for it right now.
Right.
It's just a great economics are strong there.
Obviously, the institution, the government is, you know, besides the capital, they got, you know, because the university, right?
36,000 kids.
So, so how was it?
I mean, I did.
Tour was good.
Everybody was good.
It was great.
Yeah,
the kids were actually
very
intrigued more than I thought they would be.
Although we had a little mishap on the way home Just got outside of Madison and our bus broke down Really?
Yeah, so there was we had three buses for the school
And our bus was in the front, and one of the teachers in the other bus messaged our teacher and said, hey, your bus is smoking.
And she's like, very funny.
They're like, no, seriously, your bus is smoking.
So we had to pull over at some gas station.
Yeah, sure enough, oil was going everywhere.
Our bus was not moving.
So all of, we had 39 people on our bus.
So it was us and all the kids just kind of hanging out on the side of a gas station.
They had to evacuate the bus.
Yeah,
because yeah, we weren't, we weren't taking that home.
Right.
Were they freaked out?
The kids were really like, cool.
No, they actually thought it was very amusing.
Yeah.
They thought it was great.
They were playing football in, you know, in the grass next to the gas station.
Thankfully, thankfully, there was a bus terminal about 17 miles from where we were.
So we got a new bus and...
Saved the day.
Saved the day.
It was great.
Everybody applauded when the bus showed up, the new one.
Yeah,
that's cool.
And
it was a lot nicer.
So the kids were very excited.
The bathroom was
working.
Yeah.
Nice.
They thought that was the best thing since I spread like that's mom, there's a bathroom on the bus.
And I was like, OK,
that's awesome.
Because people use this for the Brewer's game and they drink all the way there.
No, that's that's awesome.
That worked out.
That's nice that they had that reciprocal thing that you weren't there that they just called.
a different bus, but it was the same bus company.
People were kind of panicking
and they're
like, oh, okay, well, let's get on the other two buses.
And they're like, there's 11 spots open and there's 39 of us.
So we're just, it would only took an hour.
Like I said, the kids thought it was a great experience.
The gas station got a ton of business that day from all of us.
And it was
right by and all their, all that healthy food.
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
Oh, it's vacation.
They can do that.
That's cool.
All right.
So I had a teach yesterday speaking of school.
kids.
And I didn't even tell you this, Todd.
So I had to teach yesterday and I sent out an announcement, you know, two days before, Mr. Schmidt, we're going to meet this room and just read this chapter before you get to school.
And we're going to talk about this, this and that.
So I wrote on there and I said, you know, we'll be meeting in room, teaching the College of Business.
And I put the wrong room number on.
And the room number I put on was the women's bathroom, which was right across the hall.
And so I got there and it's like, are you a professor?
I said, yeah, she goes, you had the wrong room number on the syllabus.
I'm like, what do you mean I had the wrong room?
She goes, you put the woman's bathroom.
I said, well, do you want to meet there?
I said, but I said, right across the hall is our room, 322 and I put, I don't know, 324 or something like that.
So I'm in there and there was some, there was some students missing and I thought, well, they online.
So I went online and, but it's not, sometimes you have those blended classes, kids can come in, but I don't like, I'd much rather teach in person and.
They told me this is an in-person class.
There's some students missing.
So they came to school.
They went and saw the dean after, after, after, not right away, like after the class was over.
And they went in the bathroom and they're like, well, this can't be the right room.
So they left.
Wouldn't you, and I'm gonna talk to them about this.
I'm gonna tell him that, you know, the smarter people ask questions.
Wouldn't you have gone and said, look, I got this syllabus from Mr. Schmidt.
He said the room's 324.
I went there and it's a women's bathroom.
And then somebody would have looked it up, but they left.
No, so here's what I would have done, Jim.
I would have went to the office, whatever.
You would have done
it right.
I would have lit that place up.
I would have been like, Professor Jim says, right?
But yeah, I wouldn't have, well,
I wouldn't have left.
No, but I would definitely be all over social media telling the world about it.
I don't need that today.
I don't need that today.
I don't need that today, but we're going to talk about it.
It was my fault.
I mean, but they happen.
It was just it was a right building, you know, right church, wrong pew type thing.
But anyway, so we'll talk about that.
But there's going to be we're going to learn from that, that you don't.
something like that happened, you don't leave, you start asking questions and you figured out and become a leader.
You could
play it off as like you did it on purpose to see how they would all
respond,
right?
You guys aren't in high school anymore, you're in college and in college things are different and I set up a little scenario and two of you failed because you went home.
And then you can say, I'm very disappointed in you.
How could you do that?
Stand up in front of the class and explain why you chickened out on this deal.
Well, it
just kind of blows my mind because college, you pay for that.
Yes.
So did you just be like, well, I'm out.
Yeah.
And I do want to say the students, then one of them's right across the other side of the glass, one of our interns here, are there to learn.
Well, yeah.
It's not like some of us that maybe went to school that you're like.
You choose
to be there.
Yeah, you want to go there.
They want to learn.
They want to get out of school.
They want to learn something.
Maybe those of us, maybe there's somebody who went to a liberal arts school that wasn't as interested in school.
And they're not like that.
They are there, they wanna learn.
And some of the companies, and God bless you companies who are paying for those students to go there.
If they get an A, they get 100% reimbursement.
If they get a B, 75% and a C, 50%.
That's an incentive.
But I don't, what they come to me and that's the reason to me to give them a higher grade.
It's like, no.
That ain't gonna work.
They know that going in and it's pretty laid out.
This is how you get an A in this class.
And it's not that hard.
You just got to keep up and do your homework and be nice to me.
So not to be nice to me, except to be good students.
So anyway, but yeah, that's Tuesday mornings for three hours.
And I, yeah, so I got to write those kids tonight and say, Hey, look, where were you and get caught up because I don't want you to fall behind.
Cause once you do.
could be trouble.
So anyway, all right, so today again, I just want to say that we have coming up right after this, DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright.
And this is important.
I mean, we talk about, you know, you know, men's mental health, but this is a serious thing.
And we're going to talk about, you know, everybody talks about their physical health.
There's always magazines and great looking guys and muscles and all these
a contest for muscle, muscle, muscle, but it's really a mental health that you gotta focus on too.
It's very stressful.
And people talk about suicide and it happens like people in their 60s, which is like- That's awful.
Well, I think, I don't know, we'll ask them, you know, more than I do, but what I've read about that is they feel like, you know, they just haven't made it, you know?
But that's all relative, right?
Yeah.
I got some numbers that I thought were kind of interesting and actually a little sad.
500,000 men per year take their life.
That's 41,000 a month, 9,400 per week, 1,300 per day, 56 men an hour.
So it's almost
one a minute.
And can I speak on this a little bit?
Please, wow.
I had no idea.
I'm going to be very open and honest, and I'm only doing it because, and Jim, you know me, I'm not very open on the air.
Unless I'm
ripping on you and John.
I've been struggling really bad for several weeks.
And here's what bothers me about it.
When I say to somebody, hey, I'm kind of at the end of my rope, right?
I'm really struggling the anxiety and all that.
I have not had, everybody except maybe one or two has said to me, take a deep breath, you'll get through this.
Are you reaching out?
I've tried, and I will, I'll be fine.
But
when people, but here's the thing,
well, don't be, listen, you should be concerned about me more other days than today.
But you can't do that to somebody.
I'm not gonna breathe and get through this because I breathe and get through most days in my life.
Don't do that.
That's dismissal.
That's looking at somebody who's typically very strong in life.
and who handles a lot of issues on a daily basis, who's really just sitting there going, I'm kind of at the end.
I need, I need you to back off.
I need to get away from this for a while.
So if somebody says, you know, I'm really struggling, take a moment and listen.
If nothing else, listen, but please don't say, you know, just take a deep breath.
You'll get through this
right
well really?
Thanks or write it off.
No really Todd.
That's It you just giving me those statistics make me look at a little bit different story I would maybe make a joke about it, which I apologize if I did that and I probably did But when 56 men take their lives, you know, right?
That's crazy.
I mean, that's just
So if they are asking for help, yeah, we got to get a little bit more serious about that and there's help out there I want to say and I'm sure these guys are gonna tell us there is help out there and I know there is if
someone can actually say it I mean it takes a lot for someone to ask for help these days, especially me So
somebody who asks anybody for help.
I try to do it.
Somebody is openly saying it like you need to be like whoa, okay?
What do what do we got to do?
and help that person out.
Spotted cow.
Yeah, it's more than a bad day.
I mean, you're in a dark place.
All
right, and we'll talk about that.
Todd, I'm sorry to hear that.
But you're going on vacation.
I think that helps.
I don't know anything about this, but I would say that I think that might help.
I'm looking very much forward to it.
And not only is he going on vacation, he's not only going on vacation and going to garden or do something.
He's actually going to experience stuff he likes, and that's an American history.
hoping to yeah Gettysburg a lot of
fun
nice goes
ghost hunting stop
yeah I mean I would be so intrigued but I'd be terrified
yeah but I love that stuff that's that will help that maybe not be
Everything but that's that's good stuff.
No,
I feel bad
Jim, you know, I love you but getting away from you and John Yeah,
he's gonna be like I thought I was supposed to be back today.
Yeah, I don't know
man.
Just breathe you'll
get through it All right, well we'll work on that together.
All right, we're gonna be right back to Shannon the mayor you're listening to mine on the mayor 97.9 WGBW and of course 98.3 FM WSS
You stand in the
All
right,
welcome
back everybody.
So we're talking about reaching out to each other.
That's why we have that song on there.
It's kind of a little sad, but it could be so impactful if you say, look, are you serious?
I mean, you're really hurting.
And the guy's like, yeah, I kind of am.
Tons of.
things you can do.
So we're gonna do that.
We gotta work a little bit more sensitive.
People need to take that seriously.
And especially with men, don't laugh it off.
Right.
So,
hey, I talked earlier this morning, we started like what I'm gonna do after the show and you gotta go to work and Todd, all Todd does is work.
I don't know what the intern's doing.
He's a baseball player, so he coaches baseball.
I am going to go to the Bellevue Orchard installations.
We talked to this group yesterday, Newly Foods.
They're pretty
popular and they've tried a couple of things that haven't worked, but there are some things that they're doing that really, really work.
And one of them is these Orchard installations.
It's pretty cool here in northeast Wisconsin, you know, Oshkosh, Happily, we can grow more than an apple tree.
And they are going to teach us, the public's invited to help install community orchards.
And it's, you know, the mission of these guys is to really encourage people to help plant trees outside, give back and, you know, kind of like live off the land a little bit, you know?
So.
I want to do that, and I don't know how I'm going to do that, but a piece of property next to me that I want to develop into something.
And going through the whole exercise of maybe an outdoor swimming pool, I think that would be fun, but it's so short-lived here in Wisconsin.
Yeah.
I mean, unless you have a heater, you're not
getting many
days.
And the maintenance is a little high for me.
A lot of work.
However, she's telling me this orchard is a little maintenance too.
But I think that
could
maybe...
But think about
it,
like...
You get fresh produce,
right?
You're not buying it.
So it's a little more exciting when you have it because you're like, I grew this.
My thing is when my grandkids come, you know, and visit grandpa in the hood, they can go and go out to the orchard and pick different fruits.
I think that would be like a good memory for them to grow up with.
Absolutely.
So that's why I'm leaning that way.
But I'm not for sure I'm going to do that.
I highly suggest raspberries.
Oh, who told me that?
Did she say that yesterday that you
Todd, maybe I talked to her after.
Now, only do you plant these trees like a pear tree, an apple tree, and I don't know, do we have plums here?
I forgot what the trees are.
But anyway, let's say you plant six trees, seven trees.
But the berm around there is raspberries.
Isn't that cool?
Oh, yeah.
No, I don't think she said it on the air.
I missed it.
But yeah, that's awesome.
That's what I thought.
We had a raspberry bush at one of our houses.
Best thing ever.
I mean, the kids just go outside and they're like,
you know.
See, that's what I want.
I want the kids to like say, oh, man, I want something different than not that it would ever be competitive having other grandparents, but you kind of want to have something that you're, you know.
So anyway, I'm going to learn a little bit more about that today.
They've been on here twice tonight.
Those are super knowledgeable people.
And they said they would help me.
I just hope it's not like, well, I'm not going to need help doing this, but I think I might.
I don't know, I'll kick it
around.
You can handle
it.
Actually, I will pass it on to you, but later in the day yesterday, I got a message from a listener who had some information for you about the orchard.
So I will get that to you.
Nick actually sent that yesterday.
So I have to go through this evaluation because I want to do something I just don't want.
I don't need just an empty yard.
Anyway, I'm going to figure that out.
You're going to put
like a little swing in there too.
Yeah,
I'd be super cute.
Yeah, I had one of those like electric cars they can drive Okay, yeah, they can drive around the trees.
I want to have it like what do
you have that much land that we could drive a car around?
What
if they bang into the trees and
I'm thinking of it like a putting like a little path that they can like a figure eight stuff around I
mean, that's great idea, but
Kids in Power
Wheels.
That's true.
It's been a
while.
They call you grumpy, right?
Yeah, they do call me
grumpy.
Yeah, they do.
They call me grumpy.
That's awesome.
I don't know.
And like even one of my other daughters said, you might take on that persona.
And I'm like, but she actually, she's two and she, she's saying happy birthday to me, which is great.
And she sings on pitch unlike her mother.
So I was very pleased when I heard that.
She
said happy birthday to Grumpy.
Yeah, she sang it.
She did a good job.
What does she call Donna?
Grammy, Grammy Grumpy, because my love that they call the other people who already had grandkids, Graham and grandpa.
Now it's going to be a little bit easier for my other daughter who married this guy from Columbia because they'll speak both Spanish and English in their house.
So it's whatever the grandparents are in Spanish
or
they're going to do that.
They're all set on that.
That's what they're going to do.
That's awesome.
Yeah, they know that and they they can speak English to one and answer in Spanish.
You know, that's just the way they live.
That's impressive.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it's great and she's been down there many times and is she's fluent in Spanish but not enough to Work in a hospital in Colombia because you can't make a mistake.
Oh Right.
I mean if you're a doctor, you can't make a mistake.
Yeah, so she's not she's confident she could do it, but she doesn't want to do that.
She's rather do
practice medicine in English and then like, like socialize and raise their kids in Spanish.
Well, before I
got into this, I was doing the health field thing and not going to lie.
I was kind of nervous on the fact that what I say is like, these people are depending
on it.
It's golden.
And I'm not
confident enough in myself to say, yep, this is what you got to do or this is what it is.
So
that's going to be great for their kid to be bilingual.
Absolutely.
Started that age.
And so that's going to be
Very, very cool.
And then, yeah, so anyway, that's the thing going on.
I struggle with English and Grumpy is my name, but I will be the grandpa with the apple orchard.
I think I'm working on it.
I'm gonna make that decision though by the end of the year.
Is your goal to, so I have one of my grandmother's initials tattooed on me because we were very, very close and whatnot.
So is your goal to have one of your grandchildren have your initials?
I
don't like that.
No, I'm not a tattoo guy.
No, that would not know.
They know if they just
that's like the ultimate like grandparent.
The ultimate what they can do for me to make me proud of them is treat their parents right.
You know, I don't want I want Brady kids.
No, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I don't care how.
Yeah.
No, that's they're young.
They're too young for that.
But that's that's what I would want in a grandchild.
So anyway, hey, this will be fun today.
Shannon, thank you for being here.
You're going to be sticking around for the next two hours.
I see they're here already.
These are.
We
got a full house.
We got some guys that are going to basically tell their story as well.
Brothers helping brothers.
That's going
to be great.
Shannon and I are going to talk to these guys about mental men's mental health awareness month, which is very, very important.
Very important.
Got a little serious this morning about it.
And we got to keep it serious because it's it's a real thing.
It's important.
All right.
So yeah, thanks for sticking around.
We are going to be right back.
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Help these guys out.
Yeah.
They need it.
Yeah, we do.
We do.
We need a lot of help and a lot of things, but this one too.
So, hey, we have a group in-house here today.
Poor people.
We're real cozy.
We are.
We're cozy in here for a good reason.
As we mentioned earlier in the first hour, that it's Men's Mental Health Awareness Month.
And a lot of this comes down to just
people supporting each other and helping each other and there's an organization here in Greater Green Bay called Brothers Helping Brothers and they're doing the right thing to help men become
the men they want to be and should be.
DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright, you guys are the founders or the leaders in this organization.
You got some other guests with you.
Yes, along
with Elton and Gophaux, he's absent today, but
he's one of the other founders.
All right, we'll tell you what.
Why don't, since you jumped in, why don't you, DeLorean, tell us who's here.
Well, hey, good morning.
First, give an honor to God, who's the head of all of our life, to my beautiful wife and family at home.
I'm just very honored to be in here again.
amongst my good brothers from Brothers Up and Brothers.
We go off Psalms 133, how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity.
And when we mentioned this conversation yesterday at our Tuesday night's meeting, these two gentlemen jumped at the opportunity to just be vulnerable on air.
And I was like, I was so amazed and blessed that brother Zac Boat and brother Jose, how you pronounce it again?
I know your last iPhone.
Magic code.
You're getting closer to the mic.
Magic code.
He spelled it for me, but I wrote it the way I say it.
So I gotta make magic code.
Magic
code.
So, you know, Jason and I and brother Elton, it was just, it was just one of those things where we knew June was going to be one of those months.
I'm looking down because I have to...
do this in remembrance of all the men that's out there that suffer from this, this lost conversation where it's over a half a million men lose their life, close to half a million men lose their life every year to suicide.
It's almost 1,100 men a day.
I was actually sharing some of those numbers this morning.
It's almost one a minute.
It's almost one a minute.
56 an hour.
56 an hour.
And we brought it up yesterday.
It's just,
Just imagine if you just had one simple conversation about hey, man, how are you doing or how was your week?
Right and this is how this started this is how this started and We've been very fortunate now.
We have a Another group that we started for the non smokers for everybody know we go to prohibition cigar lounge every Tuesday We love cigars.
You know, we
have our own cigar brand shout out to grandiose
shout out to
grandiose brother Elton go for cigar brand, but you know, there is a There is a need
And there's a lot of men that wanted to express themselves, but this couldn't handle the cigar smoke.
So we started at the terrace room at Bistro Buchanan last Monday.
And this past Monday, we actually had our first interaction with a teenager, high school teenager, going
to be a
junior.
He came and he expressed his story.
And his father's Damian Doren, who's been on the campaign for, we put the Brown and Brown County and I'm so.
Proud of that, as you can see, our man's group influx a combination of every color.
And
so I like that phrase.
We said, we put the brown to brown counter because I used to be one of those kids that colored every crayon together.
And if you did that, you got the color brown.
But I just want to just thank these two.
for being here and being a great support.
We're doing our first ever retreat over at Primal Eats in Gillett, Wisconsin this Friday and Saturday.
They have blessed us with a beautiful campsite, nice cabin, and
we're going to- The amazing food.
Yes, yes,
yes.
And so, you know, we're going to just get back to the, as Jason said, the little boy in us, and
we're just going to
go have some fun
out here in
the woods.
But before I pass it over to these guys, Jason, you want to-
say anything and tell them what they mean to us.
I just want them to know how much they mean to us and we mean to each other.
If they didn't know, they know now where we at right now and talking about men's mental health.
These two young men here is the forefront of what we set out to do.
To be here talking about men's mental health, it takes a lot because a lot of people look at this and really don't understand the significance of men's mental health and how important it is.
to focus on that.
Everything in life, for myself that I've seen, I've changed around and put mental health at the forefront.
They say, it's God, man, then your wife.
It's God, mental health, me, then my wife.
Put at the forefront of it, then the kids, and so on, my brother's family, everybody else after that.
But it's really important, and for y'all to be the age that y'all is talking about, it just says where y'all at in life, and how important it is for us to change this.
You know, we said back in...
God used us to create brothers helping brothers.
And we just said, we want to help other people.
We feel this good about it.
If we were able to get over this, one of our friends committed suicide.
How can we do this for others?
The only way you can keep something is to give it away.
You know, and we've been given in a way.
So I'm pleased to have y'all two here.
We've been here.
We know the significance of the radio show and how important it is to our community.
But this men's mental health is very important.
And this is a call out to everybody in our city to focus on this every man.
Every woman, every child, if you get a chance, because you had a 16-year-old really talking about what's bothering them.
And the thing that I love the most is when we're in the groups and we ask our brothers, how was your week?
It's sincere.
They see it, they feel it, they touch it, and to see them come back two weeks, a week later, and have a success story, because they put in the initiative to start focusing on it.
And this is an example.
He's been two weeks, Joseon.
First week he came, and then the second week it was like...
You can go
ahead.
Yeah, so...
Jose, get a little closer to the mic, and Jose, just...
I kind of want to pick on you.
You're a young kid.
Yeah.
I
mean... And you're at Valin.
Yeah.
Learning nursing, but...
Todd, you can affiliate with this.
And I know these guys spoke very highly of you.
Yeah, so... Wait, who are you?
We do that in group, too.
If you kind of start talking and don't introduce yourself, you're like, who are you?
That's a
Carnegie thing, man.
You got to say your name first.
Yeah, so my name's Jose.
I'm actually pretty new to this brother's helping brother's thing and...
I mean, I'm so thankful for just being a part of this group.
Last week was my first week ever attending a meeting, and it was eye-opening to say the least.
I'm like the amount of support that's still there.
Just because I know we talked about this in yesterday's meeting, but it's sometimes hard for guys to really reach out to someone.
There's a stigma almost to it.
And like, yeah, I'm in nursing school, right?
But what I learn at nursing school is different from what I actually apply sometimes.
So like, yeah, it's important to take care of your mental health.
But just because I learned about that in school doesn't mean I like learned about it, you know, and being able to like reach out to these brothers of mine and like really.
get deep and talk about like my problems that I've had.
It's different.
It's really nice because last week I came in on a friend's recommendation and I mean I really wanted the support.
I had a few things that happened and just having their advice on like not just like life advice but how to
move forward is huge because that's something not a lot of guys really have is guidance, if you will, which is
what
I really like about this group, too.
We guide each other through, and even though I'm young, I can still help guide all these people around one way or another.
That's awesome.
How old are you?
I'm
21.
I mean, that's great that I want to know you said a friend's recommendation.
I mean, just to get affiliated with this group is a blessing in and of itself.
Yes.
And
tell me how that worked.
Did you hear about it, read about it?
So I was actually talking to one of my buddies from my college that I forget what we were doing, but he was like, hey, man, I think you really need to go to this meeting.
Wow, what a friend.
That's awesome.
Yeah, that's how it started.
He is like I really think you need to go to this meeting sounds like you could use the support and I sat on it for like a few weeks, too I didn't I didn't go for
a few weeks
and I Just decided you know what I'm going
We got a really good text This is great.
Do you think the decline in men's social groups like lodges and bowling league stuff like that played a part into?
men's mental health, the connection, right?
Socialization.
Of
course, because the, I think it's the Dressler's theory of not just a man, but just of what you need as a social norm to feel like you are wanted.
And I believe that the decline in those type of genuine social groups and intentional social groups, especially in men,
has played a major part because when, to me, and not trying to get so political and things like that, but I have to really speak the truth on it all, is there's so many forces out there that's trying to divide us
all.
Trying to divide us in everything and not really showing that we are really all the same.
We're really all together.
And you know, one of our main focuses with Brothers Up with Brothers was to say, we're going to welcome.
Every man of every walk of life or every economical Demographical background to say hey you be long you are part of something bigger than just ourselves and and and and that's what we was Attending to do that's what we're attending to do
so
and COVID
didn't help.
No, no that really separated things some of these organizations fell apart Yeah, yeah some of the social organizations and
you
know, we've talked about this on
the
show not not not enough but
When you talk about living a healthy life everybody's know that the pictures of the you know eating and exercising but Socialization is way way up there on living a quality life way way You look at these blue zones, you know where they take the healthiest people in the world and yes That is that's right up there is the fact that they they talk with each other and I think that's
and and the thing is we got I know we got one minute and the thing is We don't just meet on Mondays and Tuesdays our
relationships that we have built with one another, it spans outside of our group.
So we can pick up the phone in any given moment and talk to one another.
If there's something that, hey, we all gonna meet up, we can cook out, we can hang out, we do these things to uplift each other, just not just on Mondays and Tuesdays.
So it's like a obligation towards one another that we have to make sure we check in.
That's fantastic.
This is good stuff.
Go ahead.
We're gonna be going to a break, but hey, we gotta get back here because,
Zach, we're gonna hear from you as well on your story.
Big subject, not a lot of time, but we're gonna get to as much as we can.
Stick around, we're gonna be right back.
This is Mike on The Mayor with special guest host, Shannon Cohen.
All right,
welcome back, everybody.
Such a good song, Todd.
Great song, but even better guests.
We're talking about a subject here, this men's mental health month, and that's in June.
And an awareness, and we are kind of talking that, you've seen this happen before, we're, how you doing?
And it's like, man, I'm kind of hurting.
And they go on, oh yeah, how about that game?
They don't even hear the fact that the person that responded is like,
I'm hurting right now.
They don't hear it, you know, because guys aren't supposed to, I don't know, whatever it is.
I want to, I just, I mentioned it this morning and I never thought I would do this.
And I think the Lorian, I told you this, I will, I'll never share my personal
story on the air, but I
did this morning.
Because
I've been,
I've
been, I've been, I've been saying a lot.
Hey, I'm at the, I'm at the edge guys, like
I'm
really there.
And everybody says, just take a deep breath.
You'll be good.
Get over
it.
And I don't know that anything hurts more than hearing that.
It's been very painful because I'm always trying to be there for other people, right?
And the people that I'm typically there for have said that to me.
It's like, you know, no, I need more.
I need something.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
I want to hear Zach's story.
Zach brought that
up last night.
Like we have to, just what you said, Todd, we always have to.
Tuck everything
and like that's what man was talk to do.
Yeah, we can't be vulnerable
and we hug in the group man.
We talk we cry we Everything we go against everything.
They said men should not be because naturally all men are mama's boys Oh, yeah, you know, so ready you want to say it or not?
Absolutely, man, I'm we all have emotions,
you
know that they put the
the status of a woman and how emotional a woman is.
But to be honest with you, a man is equal.
I'm not even emotional as a woman.
But how do we supposed to
regulate that?
We're taught to tuck that in.
So
that's why in group, I always challenged all of us, including myself, because I did it and it worked, to get back to the little boy in you.
Because if you start there, trauma starts in childhood.
So if you start there and have a conversation and forgive yourself as that little boy and work your way back to the present day, you'll be an amazing man.
Zach start talking if I start crying y'all
very inspiration very inspiration is that
yeah sure story
all right I'm Zach both others to do
a formal introduction because that's
how we do it at group I've been going to brothers helping brothers now for about two years it's been detrimental and kind of like what Jason was saying you know it starts with a little boy and you know you go through trauma and you go through
lot of crazy things and you don't realize that it starts to build up the depression and like I lost my mom at a very young age to a horrific event but you know
I like to say that it makes you, it doesn't break you but in reality it breaks you slowly and you start to go through the things and then you go through your adulthood, you have kids and then the things start to come back and then in a sense they kind of haunt you if you don't you know figure out what is causing all that pain and then you make a rational decisions and do things that are you know
per se unfit for society, which they are and then you learn and sometimes you are you Get separated from your kids for a little bit and then you come back and then you get that time to yourself to really rejoice and reintegrate back into the community and Start to deal with that trauma and brothers helping brothers has been a remarkable part of that and the reason why it's able you're able to express yourself personally from my point of view is
When you come there, your first week, your second week, some people may be even your first month, you just sit back and listen.
But there's so many different people from different walks of life that allow you to open up because now you can relate.
Now you're like, okay.
with that person said they don't even realize what they said but now you're thinking in the back of your head like this is how I can apply this to this and it may be two completely different scenarios but now you have an understanding and now you can relate so now when you can relate now you're allowed to you allow yourself to open up and you know I'm not knocking any other counselors or anything like that because there's a different way for everybody but you know I was in counseling when I was very little my mom was very adamant on that so that helped out a lot.
But you don't get that personal relationship.
I didn't get that personal relationship some people do I didn't get that personal relationship being able to open up like you're able to at group because You feel like they can't relate or they're not understanding or oh, they're just getting paid to do this They're they're forced to be here.
So now you're forced to be there and at brothers having brothers It's a it's you know your own open It's your free will you're not no one's forcing you to go there.
No one's forcing you to do this and that's what that's what I feel is a
extremely detrimental, just being able to open up and just have the comparison.
And then when you're not there, you can reach out, you can talk to each other, we exchange information.
We're there for each other, we talk about our problems.
And
our joys.
Yes.
Yeah,
the problems
and joys.
We have lots of laughs and stuff like that.
And then we have the retreat going on, so that'll bring a lot more joy.
And yeah.
Zach, how did you get affiliated with this?
It's clear to your mom for putting you in counseling.
I mean, I think parents are hesitant to do that.
And that's a great thing.
But how did you get in with this organization?
I've known DeLorean for, I don't know.
When
I got
when I got back home when I when I when I got out of prison
there you
go I got back home.
I was in prison for two years marijuana When I got back home to learn it's like hey, you should try this out.
I was like, oh, okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well that about I don't know
Three weeks later, I finally got around to it.
I'm like, oh, it's that prohibition?
Okay, I've been wanting to go there so that we so that I went there and then yeah, it was something unbelievable Definitely something I didn't expect it to be.
I guess that's a judgment.
That's awesome.
Hey DeLorean, I just
Mention this retreat real quick and I'm good.
Yes.
We did another guest come in.
I wish I would apply.
Yes, we're, um, anyway, tell me about that real quick.
You know, this is
our first, uh, uh, brother seven brothers men's retreat.
We're going to do it at, uh, uh, primal eats in and Dylan, Wisconsin.
Right.
We're going to do some camping.
We're going to do some fishing.
We're going
to do some bonfires and smoke cigars and we're going
to do
some contact info like a website or phone number.
Yes.
Oh, um,
Well, if you want to reach out to Brothers Up and Brothers on Facebook or any one of our telephone numbers, I'll have you, you can put it in the email
wherever.
We'll put something on our Facebook too.
Yeah, put something out there.
All right, you guys, thanks for coming in.
Thank you.
Any time.
Real quick.
I appreciate that.
Congratulations to you two guys.
Thanks.
Yeah, that's nice of you guys to be here.
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Don't move from
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Oh, what?
Fourth?
No, no, no, we got this.
Shannon, beer, did you know that, you say that, like you've said it before, Norm, when he tried out for Cheers, that was, that's what they did, walk into a bar and say beer.
That was it.
there was one word like usually you got to go and read scripts and you know do a little acting or something like that.
So he walked in there and they just loved the way he said that and that's how he got the game.
Would I be in?
I think I'm glad you didn't try out against him because it would have been Shannon would have been like Shannon.
So hey we got those guys were great.
I just really want to thank the people from that whole
Men's mental health awareness is so important and of course the brothers helping brothers.
What a great organization They've got a retreat coming up and we'll have that on our website that you can take a look at but I'm gonna get those guys back here That's that's very important as we said, you know, we lose, you know a man almost every 60 57 an hour, which is unbelievable
Great guests and and of course we got another one.
Oh, we got a great guest coming in now this guy.
We don't mess around with this guy Si we've had you on here before you are young man from Green Bay a golden glove boxer
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, I just don't you know, I'm glad you're on that side of the table.
I don't
mess with this guy
And when you were on here last time, we were very excited for you because you were leaving here and I think two, three weeks later going to Madison to compete.
Yeah.
And you had a setback.
So tell us about that and let's get on.
Then we'll get to where you are today.
No.
Yeah, I was going to go to Golden Gloves.
Right.
Not Nationals.
I was going to fight at Madison to make the team and then go to Nationals Golden Gloves.
The week before the fight, I was just training, hitting the bag.
And when I punched it, I felt something off.
I took my gloves off, my hand wraps off.
When I seen, I thought it was broken because my hand was just swollen.
It was purple, black.
So when I went to the hospital that same day, they said I had a boxer fracture.
That went in the next day and they said I popped a blood vessel.
So they said I couldn't, I asked them, I was like, can I still go fight?
And the doctor was like, no.
And I just asked again.
I was like, can I just go?
Like, is there any way like it'll be healed?
And I was like, it's gonna take about a month and a half to just heal until this day still hurts.
But I just got back into it like a couple of weeks ago, two weeks ago.
So what did you do
during that off time?
Were you?
I was still running.
I was running a lot, but more like no boxing.
It was hard.
No boxing, just running and doing other things.
It was tough.
It was, it broke, it broke me down.
Cause I was like, so many people was counting on me.
I was, yeah.
Yeah.
So it hurt, but just a step back.
It's good you went through that though.
I
mean, it's going to make you, I don't think it would make it a little bit stronger and know that.
No, yeah.
It showed me that anything can happen.
You never, you never know what's going to happen.
So I was prepared, mentally prepared.
I was on weight a week before I lost 30 pounds in that whole training camp.
I was 160, went down to 132, so it was tough.
And then for that to happen like the week before, I was like, man.
Now your dad is your trainer.
Yeah.
And
still your trainer, I remember
seeing it a few months ago.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Still my trainer, yeah, yeah.
All right.
So you're good?
I mean, you don't have to explain too much of your hand because you
were nice
enough to send me a picture and
then
I didn't eat for a few hours.
I mean.
That's amazing that you did that damage hitting a bag which you do, you've been doing for years.
Every day and I had hand reps on and I broke this hand.
I don't know if you can tell my pinky.
I broke this like six times.
So my dad always tells me when I train, wear like big gloves.
So I wear 18 ounce gloves.
I was hitting the bag and I didn't even punch the bag hard.
It was just a little like tap.
Really?
It was just waiting
for you.
Yeah, it just felt like a beam stung me.
And I punched it again, and I'm like, oh yeah, that's not right.
So it happened just naturally.
So are you at 100% 90?
Where are you at with you?
Man, I'm like 80% right now.
Yeah, my hand still hurts.
If I tap on something, it'll hurt.
I can close it, I can punch, but I just can't do nothing.
So when's your next competition?
Is that coming
up?
So right now, I was talking to my dad.
We talking about I'm done with the amateurs.
I feel like I did, you know, what I had to do in the amateurs.
I feel like I'm ready for the pros.
So, yeah, we were talking.
He wants me to give it more time on my hand, keep training.
And we don't know what date yet, probably August, September.
This year, for sure, I'll make my pro debut.
And what's the process for that?
I mean, the press, because
that
covered you.
I mean, you've been you've gotten some media.
I mean, people
And I can see where you felt kind of bad.
You didn't make it because
everybody's
had these high expectations.
But look, that's no fault of your own.
So to get it to Pro, it must be more than signing
up.
Yeah.
Anybody could sign up, but you're not going to go nowhere, really.
You've got to have recognition.
You've got to have your name out there.
So right now, I'm really looking.
I've been talking to some promoters.
They want me to fight down in Milwaukee.
others promoters I've been trying to like you know talk to my dad been talking he takes care of all that right um oh so I got a little sponsorship I got um my friend's clothing brand of his sponsorship or water rich I got um this new aesthetics she does like t-pointing helps with like recovering and all that so I'm trying to get like more
as much as I can.
So
Milwaukee, September, in Milwaukee, September, October, August,
September, you're
going to go down there and you're going to fight.
And if you win, then does that puts you in that class?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm a professional and just keep working yourself up.
You got to just fight good competition, have your name out there, have good, it's all about good connections in boxing.
If you don't got no connections, right?
Kind of like anything though.
I mean, really it's just connections are a
lot of connections.
And
who's your dream to fight against?
Man, well, I could call a couple people out.
Right now, since Amateur, I've been seeing him fight.
He professional right now.
He signed with Floyd Mayweather, Carmel Mullen.
I don't know if you guys know who that is, but I want... There it is.
All
right.
I want him.
That's awesome.
This is your livelihood.
This is it.
I mean, do you work somewhere or do you...?
Yeah, I work at Baytow.
They help me out a lot in my boxing, so whenever I need time off or I need time to go to nationals, they always hook me up with the hours and all that.
And they're very flexible with my training too.
They got
a few bucks, get them to be a sponsor.
Those guys are good guys.
They tell us they have a great, great
employee here.
The best job I've ever had.
That's good company you're working for.
When did you start all this?
My boxing?
Yeah.
When I was three years old at a garage, I was training in the garage.
There was never a boxing gym here in Green Bay except juniors, but they closed down.
But it was always me, my brother, and my dad just trained in the little garage, boxing bay.
That's it.
That's amazing.
Did
your
brother pursue the career?
Yeah, he saw my brother's pro.
He's 2-0 right now.
Really?
He's training.
Yeah, he's going to fight.
I don't know what date, but he's fighting.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, yeah, my brother's already, he started his pro career, he's 22, so.
So where's your mom with all this?
Does she like seeing
her sons get kind of... Yeah, my mom, now she's more cool with it, but man, in the beginning, I don't want you doing that boxing.
Yeah, nobody wants... Boxing's dangerous, there's boxes that get like, you know, like brain dead.
Oh, the concussions... Right, lots of... One punch can change, you could get killed in the ring, you know, so very...
You gotta be careful with it.
Didn't deter you.
Yeah, nah.
I love this sport.
I feel like I'm meant for it.
You know, this is all I knew since I was little.
Yeah, so.
Wow.
Did your dad box or
anything?
Yeah, he boxed in Puerto Rico.
Never professional, but he always boxed.
He said they always love training, but he just couldn't pursue it.
He didn't have people to help him out, like that motivation.
Connections, everything.
How old are you?
I'm 19.
Okay, is that a thing, like boxing, right?
I
mean,
like a lot of us might be in different sports, band, theater or something.
Is there a lot of boxing you went to East, right?
No, probably.
Oh, it's a problem, right.
Do you have friends that box or are you kind of a star out
there?
The only one, like there's people that like, I didn't try to be like, but there's people that claim they're a boxer, but they're not.
Never.
until they run into you.
Yeah, they never fight.
I feel like, man, if you want to declare yourself as a boxer, you at least need 10 amateur fights.
That's my 10 amateur fights.
And you need to have the shorts.
Like, if you don't have the shorts, you can't claim it.
Yeah, like, you got to at least have a couple amateur fights.
You know, I got over, like, 60 fights, so.
That's impressive.
Yeah, you got to at least...
So, at 19, I mean, you're...
You don't need Big Macs.
I mean, what do you do?
Is your diet different?
Do you live a different lifestyle?
Or is this just
something you do on the side?
No, no, no.
You're all in.
No, this I'm all in.
Right.
I know.
I always tell people, before I had my job, I was like boxing is my job.
That's mine.
I wake up five in the morning, run, train.
Really?
Every day.
Yeah, every day.
Monday through Saturday, I'll train my boxing.
I'll run.
Sundays, I do strength training.
Yeah,
so.
But
the hardest thing is to die.
So I lose like training camp.
I shouldn't be saying this, but I lose around like 30 pounds in like a month, a month and a half.
Please share your secrets.
Yeah,
really.
You write a book and make
a
side
hustle.
Well, Chris, I think if
any of us got up at five in the morning and ran,
I think that would
be a good start.
And
I don't
think most of our, well, I can only speak for myself.
I
would answer me.
What I learned, like my dad.
We just learned from this doctor that training doesn't help you lose weight.
It's what you eat.
Right.
So, because I used to train hard, but eat bad.
And then I'll be like losing, but going up.
Yeah.
But my dad was like, man, if you don't train and you just eat good, you'll lose weight.
So it's all about what you eat, what you got.
So this guy that brought us these turnovers, that wouldn't...
You can't eat this.
There's sweet rolls with all this jelly
and stuff.
Right now, like I said, I'm not in no diet.
I don't got no training caps.
OK, so now you can get off.
I'm like, yeah, it's like boxing is all about, like, when you got to fight, you lock in and lose the weight.
But then, like, I hurt my hands, so now I'm just recovering.
My body, I focus more on recovering.
I'm like 165 right now.
I was just 132.
So I get all that weight right back.
Yeah,
so.
Do you do your own cooking when you're in training?
I don't talk about your training.
That's that's pretty strict Your dad cook do you cook or
yeah, my dad sometimes he comes home from work He'll cook us a meal.
I like what the protein boy does egg steak shrimp cheese Avocado like it's like a big protein meal or sometimes me after work.
I'll train at my house.
I got my little like Garage right there.
Yeah go upstairs cook me some eggs some bacon.
Yeah some chicken breasts
Yes
So you're... Do you ever hear this song?
Do you have like a song that you
can choose?
Yeah,
what's your pump up?
What's
your...
The play into?
Like they're gonna introduce you and...
See,
if Mino was here, he'd give you this
great
introduction.
I
can't do that stuff.
Me neither.
You know what's crazy?
Yeah.
I don't know yet.
I've been thinking about what song I want to walk out to.
Because that's like a big thing.
You don't
want it to
be soft.
Pick the right song on.
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Yes.
Maldonado.
Maldonado.
Maldonado, yeah.
Maldonado.
Maldonado.
Maldonado.
You almost got it.
I'll just call you Si.
I think that's a good choice.
For those, Si, you're an impressive kid.
19 years old, you came from Puerto Rico here when you were a young kid, and you, at three years old, kind of picked up the
gloves.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, since little, the reason we started picking the gloves, me and my brother, we will always fight.
Yeah.
And my dad said
that my brother, he had a good left hook to the body.
And since he's seen that, he was like, yeah, these kids can be boxers.
All right.
That's cool.
Yeah.
My dad, since little kids, he'll have like, he bought a WWE belt at Walmart and he'll have me and my brother fight for it and he'll choose the winner at the end.
So.
Well, that's right.
That's how it starts.
I love it.
Thanks.
You brought a couple trophies in and I said to him, you know,
You said you have like 30 of these sitting on your shelves at home.
Yeah,
I got a whole bunch of trophies.
He was supposed to bring in a belt.
I was
gonna bring in all my belts, but I was like, that's probably a little too much.
No, no, no.
We were not too shy about bragging on this show.
So tell me, outstanding boxer, do you remember if you got 30 of me, maybe you don't remember where they're all from?
Do you
know where either of these were from?
No, I think that was the Marshfield.
It says it in the front.
This one.
Oh, Marshfield.
OK, you're right.
The Marshfield Show.
So I don't know about the Outstanding Boxer.
It's just a test.
I don't remember at all.
So if I recently, though, like a couple of years ago, that's awesome.
It's a good problem to have to not.
Oh, I just got so many trophies.
I don't remember.
So tell me you hurt your hand.
You're going to go down to Madison, do a Golden Globes thing.
And you couldn't do that because of your hand.
It's 80% there.
You're going to go pro this year.
And tell me what that looks like.
So you're going to train.
When do you get back into serious, serious training?
Because right now you said you're kind of off the reserve.
You're kind of cheating a little
bit.
Yeah, I'm thinking about even starting next week.
This week I already started as Bard.
Last week, she tested my hands,
so I
sparred.
But next week, for sure, I'm going to start on my dieting.
I already started eating clean, still eating here and there.
But I'm eating more clean, training more, so I'm trying to get back as soon as I can.
So who are you training with?
Is your dad sparred with you?
No, no, my dad.
He's too
old.
How old is your dad?
He's 40 years old.
Oh my
god.
That even hurts me.
He's OK.
Wow.
Well, he recently tried to spar with us last year, but I think we gave him a concussion accident, so he just stops and stuff.
Good idea.
Probably good choice.
Are you sparring with your brother?
Me
and my brother, we spar, but we also go to gym down and all night is like 30 minutes away.
We spar against them people, or sometimes we go to Milwaukee and spar, things like that.
So when you go pro...
Are you gonna think about coming back to Green Bay and making a gym?
Yeah, I
want that.
That's your
goal?
Yeah.
I'm gonna stay in Green Bay for a while, but once my pro career shoots up, I gotta leave.
But Green Bay is always gonna be home, correct?
Man, don't forget about it.
Family's always here.
Like I said, there's no boxing.
There's MMA gym, but that's different.
There's, you know, but no boxing gym is what
we need
here.
And that's not something they had
at Preble.
No, no, it was
I
talked to the principal's before so they should make like a boxing
they were like absolutely
I think like I'm talking like 60 70 yeah things to do I mean everything's football back what they have so many other options out there, but that they didn't give you the green line unboxing.
No, did
you do any other sports?
No,
no,
it was
true.
I try to do football I like football, but
I tried to do it in middle school and high school, but my dad was like, no.
Well, with boxing, no, maybe hockey would have been something too, because those guys... Oh, yeah.
They'd be fighting, yeah.
They take the gloves off, man.
It's something else.
This is impressive to watch you.
I mean, we don't have a lot, a lot of boxers in this community.
We have some great athletes.
We have some great artists, musicians in this area, but it's going to be fun to watch you.
And when do you think, if you go pro...
Not
if when what are you going to try it's that's where you're going pro.
There's this one The first step in that is getting a pretty good agent.
Is that what you're looking for right now?
Yeah, pretty decent one.
Yeah Because those are the people that find you to fight those are the people that get your name out there.
Yeah, those
are the people that
it Just didn't talk in with you.
You have no reservations about you have no like, no, this is what I really want to do This is this is it now.
Yeah, my boxing is I was told everybody man
Boxing is like, it's all or nothing.
But I'm pretty like, I'm 100% confident I'm gonna make it, I'm gonna beat someone.
That's most important.
I
sense that.
I'm not, oh, what if it doesn't work?
No, I'm all in, I'm all in.
I'm proud of you, I think that's gonna be great.
You're gonna watch
you.
I told her, nobody's gonna take my dreams away from what I wanna do.
Boxing helped me in dark days.
Right.
And you said it's like a mental health thing too for you.
Stress reliever, whatever.
Stress
reliever, yeah, when I'm feeling down sad.
Do people like invest in boxers?
Like, let's say not I, but if somebody gave you money, then they would.
Yeah, yeah, people, that's what a promoter really is, is investing in you.
They, um... Okay.
When you get him, you
have him give us a call.
They'll probably, they'd be like, oh, like...
For like four fights will pay you fifty grand and
then
you got a fight for them four times,
right?
Jim's just trying to get some cash
out Thanks for bringing in the trophies,
you know,
good luck to you.
We'll get you back here because we follow you I think you you've got the confidence to take it places.
So thanks for being here site.
Good luck to you Pro Boxer right here out of Green Bay, Wisconsin Preble High School.
We'll be right back.
It's just Shannon in the mirror
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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.
All right, welcome back, everyone.
Our three-year Mino and the Mayor was Shannon Cohen and the Mayor.
Thanks for being here.
Yeah, thanks for having
me.
Awesome guests, aren't they?
Yeah.
This has been just a great morning.
I'm
very...
Talking with Cy, that was amazing.
I
think it's so great.
19 years old.
Yeah.
This guy's going pro.
Oh, wow.
Good for him.
Boxing.
Yeah.
That's not a big, big thing in our community, unlike hockey.
We'll get to that in a second.
Football.
Football.
But even if you say, you know, football, yeah, I know, basketball, even tennis, but boxing just isn't there.
They don't have that at Preble.
And Preble, you know, 2000, they have over 2000 kids there.
Right.
They have.
I think they have like 80 extracurricular activities there.
I'm not kidding you.
They have, I mean, German club and all that, but they have so many things and they don't have boxing and he wouldn't talk to the principal and they're like, I don't think so.
I just think it's super inspiring
that he's, you know, working towards the stream, even though like it's not super common that he's making it happen and he's going pro.
So
I might have his dad pushing him a little bit too, but yeah, I think that's that impressive kid.
Hey, we are.
Here with John Kramer, of course, you know him he's been on many times with headlines from
the press
times We love his paper that comes out on Fridays and do a great job with that.
It's the local news in the written form We hear at Civic Media deliver the local news in the radio and form and streamline it as well Special guest today Ryan Hopson.
All right, so the Green Bay Wizards, which is a great
If you love hockey and
football, I
mean football.
It's okay.
I said gamblers are hockey
I'm sorry.
I was looking at his sweater and it reminded me of the hockey.
Okay.
I know it's
football.
This is my boss.
You know, I take pictures for these guys.
I'm glad you're here.
Football, football,
football.
But anyway, what you do there is you have that military appreciation night, which is, it's just awesome what you do to honor the military, the jerseys.
And that's coming up.
So welcome.
Thank you.
Yeah, this Friday night.
So we have a heck of a football game on our hands, but we always say that you come to a Blizzard game and we hope you catch a football game because of all the other stuff we do.
There's a lot going on.
There is.
And a chance to actually catch
a football.
Yeah, you do.
You catch it.
You keep it and indoor football.
So, yep.
And football, I think we all grew up with football.
It's getting a little, I don't want to say boring, but the TV, it's just, there's a lot of lulls in football right now.
Not in the indoor game.
No, no, I'm not.
I was going to say, I've been to your games.
And you just, it's constantly going.
And you're like you said, oh, there's football going on too.
I mean, there's just, it's such high energy there.
And it's,
I mean, we'll allow the hockey comments, but it's like football and hockey and concert had a baby and it is indoor football.
You are on top of the field, 50 yard field.
You can throw the length of the field.
So 70, 70 is not uncommon.
It's nonstop.
And it's high scoring, which, you know.
which is very cool and some great plays.
And I think, you know, those of us who would go with kids, it's just more fun.
It
is very family
friendly.
It keeps the kids, yeah.
Very interactive.
There's chances to participate in so much stuff.
And what I like about these guys is, yeah, the Packers do stuff for the community, but they get the community involved and on the field.
Big time.
And it's just an amazing opportunity for kids to get to something like that and participate in the show.
And you, you're the GM?
I know, director of sales.
So,
yep.
I like the fact that your players interact with the fans too.
Sometimes kids get there and they may go to another event and they get ignored.
You
know what I mean?
Like, I think it's really cool that you, I don't know if you, that's part of their contract, but you do good
job.
Yeah, it's part of the, part of the.
the gig and we have a good reputation across the league that you know what you're signing up for besides playing football here, whether that's the school appearances, the interaction with the kids at the field.
We definitely make community a priority when we're recruiting players as well.
It's like a culture that you guys have built,
right?
Yes,
100%.
Yeah, I'm 11 years in and when I started, this was average attendance of 1,200 a game and we average 4,900, 5,000 now
and it
is solely
It's not some secret marketing or anything like that.
It is who we've become in the community.
And lo and behold, when you do the right thing, people will come out and support
you on a
Friday night.
Well, the organization has one organization here twice.
Yeah, we have one of
two franchises in IFL history.
We were back-to-back franchise of the year.
So last season,
the prior
season, and back-to-back community relations for the league as well.
So
that's all about all the
stuff
they did
for
the kids.
Thank you.
You go out to the schools too, and I think sometimes kids need to They don't know what they don't know their parents busy and you guys get out there and they're like
come home and say yeah
yeah it's a good reminder I think all of us as we we do our nine to five or whatever it is like sometimes you get caught in the minutiae like I got to do a couple community appearances my job is more this as I'm 11 years in now
yeah
and we were just stretched thin a couple times this year so I got to go do a couple schools and a couple other community appearances and it is crazy to watch what we've become and what
A second grader thinks that guy rotates to the classroom or is in the lunch room and just is really cool.
Did you happen to make it out to Bay
Harbor?
No, I didn't, but I won't go on record that's saying one of my favorite schools, but that is Tony Ebeling played for us.
He's a
principal out there.
That school is good for 500 kids.
Family is a game
when they come out.
We go to that family night game every year.
Yeah, Bay Harbor holds the records for school attending a game with a couple school on his heels now as he's
so many years of doing this, but that one's special for me.
I do still try and make that appearance.
He's become a great friend.
My kids think it's the best thing.
That's
really cool.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
The sponsorship must be there.
I mean, 4,400 people, that's a lot of people.
I mean, she talked to UWGB.
They're good
friends of mine.
We have the money, but I'm just saying, that makes a difference just for fans when there's more fans.
It does.
We like it.
We just love
it.
We use the word partnership.
I understand the industry term sponsorship, but we want a business when they support us to get involved because of the work we do in the community, not just throw a logo on something.
Because that's actually easier to do than truly.
getting a partnership and like the Bay Harbor School, who's now six, seven years in, like partnerships go
on for a
long time.
Sponsorships are logo and out and very transactional.
So yes, the community has really rallied and on military night, folks like Desert Betsy, Wisconsin, Nikolay Bank, WAPL and various businesses.
I won't list them all because I'll miss them in regards to people that have provided tickets for those who serve because it's free tickets for
service men
and women
on Friday night.
because of our business partners in the community.
Well,
I love
that.
So
Friday,
it tells us every game is fun.
I mean, we've already talked about it.
Tell us about how it's different and it's more special Friday.
I mean, you do a great job with the lighting, with everything
about it.
No, I appreciate that.
Yeah, and I'll rattle off the list because then.
The military night has been every year in my 11 years.
That'll never go away.
The folks that own the Blizzard are very vet and services focused.
So that game as we rotate and look for new theme nights every year will never go away.
It'll constantly be on the Blizzard schedule.
But this one has probably had the most things on it.
We threw the kitchens and get this on Friday night.
Really
cool.
Yeah, we'll start from 5 p.m.
and work towards game.
So at five, there's a block party before the game.
So Operation Song, who does songwriting, and John's very familiar
with that organization.
They've been on our show.
They're performing the block party and performing SM.
They're gonna join us on Friday to talk a little bit
about it, give it some more promotion.
Yeah, so in
a real cool moment, and we'll just spend a couple minutes and seconds on that one, like the gentleman that's coming from Operation Song.
Actually, Song wrote with the Blizzard owner last time he was here.
He, her dad passed from Vietnam related stuff.
And so she got to go through the whole operation song
experience.
And that's how I
last time.
And it was amazing.
And that's how I actually met John.
John
photographed the operation song event.
Yeah.
So I met Kathy that night, the owner, and I talked to her for a little bit and didn't realize she owns Blizzard.
then uh got hooked up with these guys and had the opportunity to take pictures for games now wow
yeah so block party from five to six i understand there's weather coming so the military vehicles and everything will be out front um operation song i think we'll let perform in the lobby if we get
some weather, and if not, he'll still be at halftime.
But
from five to six, there's a block party with military vehicles, inflatables, and games, and just free hangout before the game.
At 6 p.m., when doors open, a new partner for us this year in Network Health did an amazing thing in the Bud Light Lounge upstairs,
where
if you show a form of military service of some way, shape, or form, they're gonna do water, soda, popcorn, and snacks from 6 p.m.
until the end of the first quarter at no cost.
So not only is your ticket free if you have
served or are serving, but you can stop and get a soda water and snack at that lounge before we even get to the rest of my theatrics.
Love
that.
And there are a ton of theatrics, which I can rattle them off here.
That's going to be a great
night and
we know that, but I mean just to share this with our listeners and you know Friday, we've never heard, here we don't.
we don't bet on the weather because it changes.
So I don't want to discourage you, but that's going to be a pretty cool thing.
Of course, it's indoor football.
Actually, you can't control when what happens, but I want the rain at kickoff.
Everybody
in
here at kickoff because then people will come in.
But some amazing things pregame.
So if anyone came last year, we repelled the game ball in and the Marine inverted when he did it.
It was incredible.
So from the ceiling of the rest, the game ball got repelled in.
It will be repelled in again.
to hear the game ball delivery is awesome.
I'm not doing that, am I?
No, it is you,
actually.
This is,
congrats.
Boom, while holding your camera, challenge is on.
And then Frankie Moscato, who has American Idol, Oshkosh native, UWGB grad, has sang at Lambo four or five times, is doing the National Anthem.
Right, oh yeah.
And then Operation Songs at halftime again.
It is loaded, so.
Well guys, you guys didn't mess around.
I just saw Frankie sing the National Anthem at another event.
And I was floored.
I'm like, oh, is this girl a runner up?
How did she not win?
Yeah, she's good.
Tell me about the ticket
prices.
Military honoring, right?
Yes,
that's free.
So yep, if you show up.
Right now you could swing out to Replay Sports Bar if you wanted and pick up free tickets.
We've made that a ticket hub or you can go to the box office on game day and show a form of military service and your ticket is free.
But otherwise, the one of the things in my time doing this, it is as low as $12.
to
spend a game and that's actually in the
end zone where you can catch a football and keep it.
And the military balls are one of the coolest game balls we do, so they're specific to the night.
But yeah, it's as low as 12 bucks
to spend a ball to the game.
Isn't that great?
Do the veterans that work for you get a free military
ball?
I'm not gonna say that on air,
John.
There
cannot
be any evidence of me answering that question.
It's free for a $50 donation.
Yeah, right.
That's a great, that is the line I'm gonna use.
I gotta get
a partner to sponsor me.
No press times is gonna pay for the ball.
This
is great.
And I think when we talk about the military, the men, the women, all by branches, I mean, you're all in on
this.
Yes.
Yeah.
And it's just been really cool.
My dad was in the Marine Corps band and it's just, it's neat.
And over the years, we've done this, right?
We've caught lightning in a bottle a couple of times because flag day is the next day.
Marine Corp band has performed halftime for us before because they were in town to do the Appleton flag.
They prayed
not this year.
We got
operation song, but it's just this game continues to grow and we we have efforted this silent drill platoon a couple times and we'll stay on it.
But this game continues to have some really cool things.
And one of the coolest things is when we
Early on in the game do the salute to service piece and you get all those folks standing up One of the Marine Corps ban nights when they played the Marine ham and it was just it was it's pretty cool It's a very special night.
It
is and oh by the way, there's high-paced Incredible
football like this if you're coming to
one this year to have never been to a game It's seven on three seven and three blizzard versus seven and three Jacksonville sharks huge playoff implications.
So it is it was
Take the playoff sendings.
It is the game
with a huge opponent.
Oh man, yeah, this is the one to come to.
Yeah.
I want to talk when we come back.
Can you stick around?
I want to talk a little bit about football.
I love the
adventure
having, but I mean, that is good, fun football.
And I just love the high scoring.
And like I said, I like it, but kids really like it.
You bet.
All right, we're going to be right back.
You're listening to Shed and the Mayor.
We'll be right
back.
All
right, welcome back everybody.
We're gonna do this Scotty one more time.
Nope, we're
not.
It's after seven o'clock.
So we're done.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I hope you got it.
Sorry.
I'm... Man, I called this guy a hockey team.
He's a football team.
I
just
will
put
you guys doing
over there.
He angered
the
farmers today.
Oh, man.
I
know, right?
I gotta...
Last time I come on.
There's a crew outside with tomatoes.
Tomorrow
you'll tune in.
It's going to be Mino and Shannon.
Hey, John Kramer with Headlines from the Press Times and we're here with Ryan Hopson and Ryan is the...
Marketing director what's your title
director of sales
director of sales for the Green Bay Blizzard Which is some just high energy a lot of fun family football which they're bringing in like almost 5,000 people to the arena Which is amazing that is high energy that number of people in that arena Before we went actually during the break.
I asked you you've got a cool job
And I
think there's a lot of people maybe listening or people in college that would like your job.
Yeah, just
How do you get to be
where you are?
I'm not sure they want to hear the answer to that story as they're in school.
But you work for private owners.
I do.
Yep, I worked for really good humans.
So I'll give the abridged version.
So I come from 11 years of height.
Well, Best Buy and the last ran stores and assistant manager at Best Buy for a while.
And I love teaching kids to sell because I think sales is how you treat people and not what you're selling.
And in the end of my Best Buy career, I didn't want to be in the box.
So the four walls anymore and I drove a geek squad bug around.
Not to hang a TV on your wall or fix a computer.
They'd send me out if you were looking to spend a decent amount of money and do a home theater room or home automation project.
So the high-end side of Best Buy.
And I got sent out, ironically, to Larry and Kathy Trinkler's house who had just purchased the team in 2013.
And after doing that, yeah.
Do
you tell people who they are?
I think a lot of people don't want to turn up awards.
Yeah, they are.
They do a ton of work in the community.
A lot of their businesses are in the Pulaski area.
Kathy owns Trinks in the Lawrence area.
Really good humans.
So I had done a two-day job for them, and I usually hung out on the jobs just to make sure the install went okay.
Again, I am not tax-heavy.
Putting a TV on the wall is not what I was doing.
I was just making sure and hanging out with my installers to make sure it all went okay.
And after I got done with the job, I just could tell there was something different about them.
And I literally sent the text after I left and said, hey, I don't know if I want to sell TVs my entire life.
I know you own a couple companies.
So it wasn't even Blizzard focused at the time.
They just bought the team, actually.
And I said, hey, keep me in mind.
I made it probably another five, 10 minutes down the road and the text came back and said, hey, when you left, we said you were going to work for us one day.
We just aren't going to recruit you in front of your install team.
So they finished kind of watching the team do its thing its first year, made some changes.
Ironically, now that I'm talking on air with you guys, my first experience was sitting at military night.
The first year they purchased the team without being employed by him and Larry saying, what do you think?
And I said, I don't know, you're asking me.
He's like, you think you could.
be part of this and here we are 11 seasons later I'm the longest lasting employee in the IFL the entire league oh yeah so it's something great people great people well they they got a good pick you're one of
them I mean that and students need to hear that because there's just a whole there's a lot of
messages in your
store.
Yeah, and I ask the core how you treat people, right?
And as you try and get into sports, because I think go and answer your question there, like every sports team wants to know you can interact with people and probably have cut your teeth on selling tickets or different roles throughout the entity.
But remember how you treat people, 100% matters, not necessarily what you're selling, how you interact with them.
Another great thing with that is all the interns that they have.
So they get an opportunity
to
meet.
Nice.
Mentored by by this guy and and like you said learn how to treat people.
Yeah besides the attendance actually my one of my proudest stats in inner football besides the accolades is everybody that is currently in
paid team member for me was part of an unpaid position game day.
And we, when we have an opening, we go back and call the kids that bus that they're bought for us on game day, throwing shirts in the crowd or photographer for us, right?
Like everybody that is currently employed by us came through the organization in different capacity before they were employed by us.
So
we're
definitely a good farm system, including a lot that are at pro teams across the country too.
So
yeah.
Cool about that.
Everything that you talked about, Ryan, was, I mean, you're a good example to other businesses because, I mean, everybody wants to have a successful business,
right?
We all do.
And I tell my students that, you know, you look at your product, you look at your finances, nothing's more important than your employees.
Period.
That is the number one
thing.
You focus on them.
It's a good step in the right direction.
And you talk about that.
I think that's, I hope other businesses are
listening.
I appreciate that.
And I mean, John's an element out of that too, right?
Like when we...
bring people on, we can teach, I could literally, 11 years in, teach you everything about indoor football and minor league sports, even though we're the major league of indoor football, but I can't teach you to be you, right?
So we hire the person, I will teach you to buzzard.
That's that simple, so, yep.
That's awesome.
Well, good for you, and you have,
I don't want to ask if you have plans, because it sounds like you're going to stick around there, but
I
mean.
I am.
Nice, yeah.
On air, this is my knowledge.
I love my job.
I love my boss.
No, I've had the honor and privilege to talk to other teams.
Or the league.
In pro sports and the league, but I just.
I was thinking more of the league.
as you look at NFL, NHL, NBA, whoever I've talked to, I would just be a sales guy there.
I always tell people I have to do everything here, because you wear a lot of different hats, but I also get to do everything, especially when we look at all the stuff we do on military night, or kids night, or the different theme nights, or the interactions of the school, to look back and have gotten to create that versus just be a ticket sales guy is really cool.
Right.
That's awesome.
This is great.
So Ryan Hopson, Green Bay Blizzard, we have military appreciate it coming up this Friday.
Just give us your website.
I know you
said we
can
go to military guys and get their tickets and where we as general
Yeah, so Green Bay blizzard calm and then rush center box offices where you can provide a military ID or again Brian Vanderbilt man desert vets and replay has a block of tickets still plenty left And I would hope after this you're running out to replay and grabbing a burger grabbing free tickets.
I'll reload him Right,
thanks for what you're doing
Just military night, but just for the community.
Thank you guys.
This is the first for me to be on with you guys.
It's awesome.
You guys do a great job.
Can you come back?
Can you come back?
We're going to have you back for sure.
You bet.
Well, he's got to experience Mino.
Yeah,
I have experienced Mino over the years.
He knows me.
I'll
try to
schedule him when
he's
out again.
So thank you for coming.
Ryan, this is great.
John, thanks for all you're doing with the
press.
Thank you guys.
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Boom, here we are
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This is going to be a fun half hour.
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This is the Eye on the Community, right?
And this is sponsored, Pat.
So just be on your best behavior, because this is Eye on the Community.
I'm always on my best behavior.
Let me finish this first.
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Insight eye care so improving lives by improving sight which is a great motto that they have a great slogan.
We are talking about the community eye on the community.
Something that we've had our eye on in this community for 120 years that was I don't want to call it an eye sore, but it was not the most beautiful And that's the coal piles that are along the waterfront here in Green Bay and other communities have had that right Sheboygan's struggled with coal piles.
They kind of got it resolved and Every community may have that that piece that they want to relocate
It's been tough and 60 years it's been worked on and I can attest to that because I know the mayor who worked on it 60 years ago, he's since passed away, actually spoke at his funeral, Romy Dennison and then of course, mayor's following that, Mayor Hallowen, Mayor Jayden and myself.
And the reason it's like, why didn't you guys get this done?
It's a complicated, complicated process.
One is like, you know, some people will get rid of coal.
Okay, that's not that easy because they supply our businesses here.
Green Bay packaging and that coal is used all the way down the Fox River.
I mean, we shipped that coal by a railroad truck down to Appleton and Oshkosh.
So we need coal and coal is going to be here for the foreseeable future.
Yet that's a beautiful piece of property in the downtown.
And it finally, finally, finally after all those years, whatever happened, and we're going to hear about that in just a second.
was brought to resolution to relocate the coal pile.
So we're saving the industry, we're preserving the industry, plus we are freeing up some land to develop and what more should be.
And one of the people who led that charge was Pat Evans.
And one second, Pat, before I turn it over to Pat, he's been on the county board for, I think 22 years.
23 years.
And I was on the county board.
We're on there together way back in the day.
And you've stuck with it.
Your constituents obviously love you because you keep getting reelected and reelected.
Something we don't agree on is term limits, but we'll leave that off the table for now.
But you've done, we're fortunate to have you there.
Like Pat, let me just, how did this happen?
Well, it happened by WPS deciding that they did not need the Pulleyham site.
And with that, and this goes back to,
In 2021, the county purchased the Pulliam site, which is 43.75 acres.
We purchased it for $2.7 million.
So because we were looking at, well, that's an opportunity.
There's a port there.
And there will be a port there now.
There's not, people should know there's not a port there now with a county.
And this is where it's going to take some time.
And I'll get into that is, is we have to build out the port.
You
know,
I mean, because everything else, it was all rail coming in, all the coal and everything that WPS needed was all done by rail.
But that land is right on the water.
Right on the water.
That's right when you enter
the channel.
Correct.
Okay,
so you bought that.
It's 43 acres.
That's a chunk of land.
Yeah, it's a big chunk of land.
And we looked at, you know, developing our port.
And then we thought about
Well, what could we do with it?
And the main idea was, why don't we relocate the coal piles out there?
And in the state grant, it is specifically mentioned to move coal piles out there for that $15 million.
So if this deal didn't go through, we weren't gonna get the grant.
Okay.
Let's just remind our listeners, we are a port city.
I think some people don't...
And I'm gonna have Dean Hain come on and we're gonna talk about, but there's jobs, there's economic impact.
I mean, that is a very viable industry that we have here in Green Bay.
And I think some people don't, not appreciate, but they don't know it.
Yeah, a lot of people don't understand that.
I didn't bring any of the port
numbers, but they're
big.
And Dean will get that
to you.
But there is so much tonnage of everything coming
in here
and going out.
And I mean, people can just think back to,
all the paper mills that were on the river at one point in time.
And why was that?
Because there is a waterway and it goes out into the bay and the Great Lakes and it's a big industry.
People don't realize how big it is.
And I think the other thing I wanna, we'll get to the coal piles in a second, but that people don't appreciate, the bridge goes up because there's a ship coming through.
But
do you know that that ship is equivalent to taking 900 semis off the road?
Think about that people Just the safety that brings in the fuel it saves and you know the the economics of shipping so again, I think maybe we don't
The listeners get a chance to make sure that they really tune in to talking with when you with your interview with Dean because People will come away from that interview like stunned like
Really?
We do that.
And we do that.
Right.
And we do that.
And then this is how much economic impact
it has.
It's incredible.
So I think that was, you as a county board supervisor and you're a city guy too, but preserving the port was important to you.
Well, absolutely.
You know, this goes back to when we, you know, 20 some years ago when I first was elected, Jaden and you and of course Zima and they all, all three of you said Pat.
You I represent everybody just it's district nine It's over on the west side of Green Bay kind of by St.
Mary's Hospital real easy Taylor Street to the west by Fleet Farm mason to the south one night a street to the east and then kind of everything up and It was always told to me and I've done that is you you worry about the people of your district first
and we got
26 supervisors So I sometimes I've been the only one to vote whatever way yes or no, but I worry just about the people in my district number two is then
I worry about the municipality I represent.
I've never been on the city council, but I'm well attuned to what the city council's doing, what the mayors are doing, and made sure that I have worked on it.
I mean, we worked on the, you know, the KI here together, and I was able to get the 22 million or whatever it was, because that's my job.
And then the county, so there was this great opportunity.
and it's gonna help Green Bay out and that's the people I represent and mind you, everywhere I went when this first started popping up where it was starting to get heated up, everybody.
It was like move the coal piles right and I didn't have you know I saw some things on the internet where people are you know coal piles or whatever blah blah blah and I'm like oh I don't know I'm pretty in tune with the people in my district you know and I go to you know my church is st.
Jude and the quad perishes and right I do all sorts things and and and of course and I'm recognizable you know I'd be at woodmines or something or shopping and people coming hey your your Evans I was pumping the gas the other day and I stopped he walks by my car he comes back goes
You you're Evans and I'm like, I'm bad Evans, you know.
And he says, you got to move those coal piles.
And I said, yeah, absolutely.
But yeah, I know you're doing it.
You're we're keeping up, you know.
And I'm like, yeah.
But in 20 years being elected seldom are things that that supported.
Usually there's, you know, look at the things we did.
My roller coaster city deck and anything.
Well, this and that.
And there's two sides.
You know, a lot of times it's skewed, you know, heavy to one side.
But this was pretty close to everybody.
I
thought the vote was unanimous.
And that's probably because I banged on some people and you were there.
And I mean, I did say it.
And I've seen this over the years.
You can do great work, great work.
But there you can vote one time on one issue and it'll bump you out of office.
And and.
I've seen that before.
And this was one of those issues that people wanted.
You know, I was talking to my fellow supervisors, you know, like Kuhnenin writes down Van Dyke, I don't know, where's he, Holland or something like that.
And they understood the impact.
You know, they like, well, my people, you know, I'm not really getting a lot of information or a lot of any, you know, contact, but they get it.
and they understood the benefit then for Brown County.
And so that really was something important that we had.
All right, so we're talking with Pat Evans, Brown County Board Supervisor, who was really part of that whole process of getting this agreement on the coal piles.
The agreement, though, was between the county, the city, and sea rice, right?
Was there more to it?
Yeah, I mean that is the the macro way to look at and I think that's fine to say on on how that works is you know because it's like a domino effect.
We do something and then the city does something and then they have responsibility for this and then it comes back to the county.
But yeah, it was basically the city the
the county and see rice and
it seemed like it was going to happen and then there and this is just in the last few weeks a little bit of a setback um not that setback but we thought it was going to happen and there was something the county somebody wasn't comfortable with it and then it came back and you guys went in a closed session and put the deal together and I don't know that we all know what the deal is and I think it's going to be public but what
What was like the roadblock?
Was there something in timing or price or what?
Well,
I mean, people have to realize the county didn't have much negotiation power.
When it says, in order to get a $15 million grant to develop your port, you need to move coal piles in there.
So that gives a lot of leverage to see rice.
And the first deal that came through which the county administration
Had negotiated that was shot down at the county board.
I supported it because I understand the intrinsic value of moving coal piles.
Um, but so then I wasn't on the negotiation team that was supervisor at the last one, supervisor Buckley, Pyle and Gannon.
I was that.
Intermediary guy because I had a real good relationship with this CEO Keith Hasselhoff from C rice who's a great guy for very professional and then of course with the fellow supervisors So I'd go back and forth and just kind of talk but I mean the one thing is I did tell Mr. Hasselhoff when I said after it was You know myself and I think Megan Borcher were the only ones that voted for it.
I said I said, you know Keith
I gotta be honest when I first saw the agreement come out and it said a hundred thousand dollars I thought there was a hundred thousand dollars a month You know versus I mean you're gonna get like 14 acres of commercial property and It's a hundred thousand dollars a year You know, I've had my company I've done and you know, I've done business I've done business in 30 countries in the world and I've done you know, I've
I was a little taken back, but I understood the magnitude of this project.
Now, that has since been bumped up to $350,000 a year.
They got more acreage.
They were offered about 14 acres.
They're getting 16 acres.
They're getting 16, we'll say, usable acres.
They have 1.5 acres for stormwater.
And they're going to be the only ones that are going to be using the stormwater because they have a process where they can recycle it and reuse it and probably dump it on the coal pile so that way.
And then the term, of course, they initially wanted a 100-year lease, which I didn't really have a problem with.
because they've been there for 120 years.
And as you said, coal isn't really going to go away.
People may want it to go away, but it's not.
But they came down to a 60-year lease then.
But with that, then there's options to re-up, and they'll deal with the county
board at that time.
Well, this is just good stuff.
And it's one of those things, I mean, we'll touch on the southern bridge when we come back, but this has just been a long time coming, and I'm glad.
It's there.
There's work to do.
I want to talk about what you see next, because this isn't going to happen tomorrow.
Correct.
Yeah, there is still a lease that needs to be
signed.
Right.
And we're going to get
back to that.
And we've got Supervisor Pat Evans in the house, along with of course, Shannon Cohen and Jim Schmidt.
We're going to be right back.
This is mine on the mayor.
Oh, we got one more minute here.
All right.
I saw
him put his... See, there's a little glare here, and he put up two minutes, and
I thought it was one.
There's a clock sheet right on the screen in front of you that tells you a little bit more, which
is the same thing.
When all
else fails, read the instructions, right?
He may have... Okay, thank you, Pat, for piling on.
All right, so we're gonna
talk...
See, I just had these questions all lined up.
I don't believe it starts.
Mayor, I don't blame you.
I blame these guys
over here.
Thank you,
Pat.
Look at these guys
out here.
All right.
Thanks for being with us, Pat.
Yeah.
We love Pat Evans.
You're going to stick around.
We're going to be right back with Shannon the Mayor.
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Back to Pat Evans and talking about the relocation of the coal piles.
Something that those of you who have been in the community for some time, it's been worked on.
They've been for 120 years, but
We thought, let's get these guys in a different location.
And that started like 60 years ago when Romy Denison was serving as mayor of the community.
And it finally got done.
An agreement came to fruition last Wednesday, I think.
And Pat, you were part of that.
And is it a done deal or what's
next?
So the deal is done and we've supported it and everybody seems to be happy.
Now, of course, come the fun part, all the details.
So we have till September 15th to sign a lease.
agreement with with sea rice for that property.
I don't foresee really any problems because everything has been agreed upon but you know it's the little nuances are always something that you want to make sure that everybody has spelled out because you know I had a
Post I was so happy about the vote and then somebody said, oh, it's I can't believe you took this long and only politicians can get this It's just co piles just move them and I'm like Well, there's a little bit more complicated than that
because
it's not like we're just gonna get a bunch of pickup trucks and fill our pickup trucks and move the co piles So what what's next is we have the lease by September 15th.
We have to develop the site and that could take
five years, it could take 10 years.
We have to put a port in there.
There is some area for rail.
We have to basically redo the rail.
We also want to make sure that we got to do some soil sampling and all of that.
But that's going to take some time.
We have to put in a, it's called a pad, and that's for the salt for sea rice.
And we've got to install that where they put the pad down and all that stuff.
So you put a dock that you can't unload there now.
Cannot unload
there.
So you got to put a dock wall in there.
Correct.
Wow.
And a big one because there's a lot of property there.
And putting in a dock wall is, you know,
we
just... Right.
And putting in a dock wall for there is not like we put a dock wall in at the eagle's nest, you know.
Right.
I mean, there's some
serious boats coming in here.
So that's going to be a, that's a big project in and of itself.
Then we have, we have rail.
We're going to have to, you know, stormwater all that stuff.
So it's the...
Well, people don't really, and then of course, you know, like sea rice, it's just not co-piles.
And basically, you know, sea rice on the property they have downtown here, they have something like 14 buildings.
I mean, over the years they've had that, but you know, increased, but I mean, they need to put their office space in there
and all that stuff.
So
there's going to be some really things coming.
And then of course, you're going to take it.
So we get the port all ready to go.
They have the salt pile there and they're going to move the salt from the one area where they have it now to the, to the kind of more to the closer to the bay or to that section.
And then, then you can start putting this, the coal on where they have the salt currently.
And it's going to work out much better just for transporting everything.
And, and, and then they're going to drain down the piles and it could be anywhere from eight.
I mean, this is what Keith had told me.
And they have a good idea, but, you know, things change.
But, you know, it could be eight, 12, 14 months that they're going to drain those piles down.
So you're looking at, let's just say, I'd say at minimum a year.
So if it started today, they could start draining the coal piles down.
It would be a year from today, but of course, it's gonna be five years out.
I think you'll see something, it's gonna be one of those things in 15 years and 20 years when you see this development, you won't even think that there were coal piles there, but it'll be like, wow, we've got this thriving port, and then we've got this nice area where we've had this economic problem.
Let me ask you quickly, and you've represented that district, which is the waterfront.
Do you have a vision?
I know that's going to be really more the city's call.
I don't represent, I
never represented that district.
I'm sorry.
I
only have Oneida
Street.
Oh, Oneida Street.
All right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Well, you've been here for a while.
Yeah, I've been here
for quite some
time.
But do you, let me just ask you then, as a supervisor, someone who's lived here pretty much your whole life, like, what do you see there?
And I know that we're going to have somebody come on from the city economic development.
We're going to talk about that.
But I'm just wondering, you as a, someone who's worked so hard on this, do you envision something there?
Well, you've
traveled, you've traveled like
everywhere.
What
do you
see?
It's, I haven't given a lot of thought to that because I'll tell you why, because I was so in, you know, my wife, I said to her today, I'm, yeah, I'm going on vinyl in the mirror.
Yeah.
She goes, you're talking about co-piles.
And I said, of course, because
I've only been
on the phone for, you know, every day for six hours a day.
And so my job was really to make sure we got the co-piles moved to the city of green bacon development that I think they'll do a good job.
I mean,
There is some speculation.
I mean, you can see... I mean, if you put some really classy waterfront...
housing there, you
know,
I mean, I mean, I mean, like condos and or real apartment buildings, higher and stuff.
And then some maybe a nice office building.
And there's a
big, that's a big port.
They've got a big area.
And I believe that there's going to be focus groups like we did with the city deck, you know, there's just going to be some input.
And I think someone's got to go out and study other communities with a successful waterfront like Seaport Village in San Diego.
I don't know if we can deliver that, but there's some cool stuff.
Hey, Pat, I just want to thank you for coming on.
I know it was a little bit short notice, but yeah, I just want to tell you.
We could talk about other things when I talk to you on the phone.
We'll do that another day.
I just really want to focus today on the coal piles and just really applaud you and the rest of the county board for making that happen.
Yeah, thank you for this opportunity to come.
I want to thank Keith Hasselhoff from Sea Rice, the city of Green Bay, the county board for putting this together.
Quickly mentioned, we did get a $10.1 million port infrastructure development grant that is going to be on top with this.
And then hopefully the legislature now will put some dollars in to develop the port as well.
But thank you for this great opportunity.
and I appreciate the opportunity to serve and the people of Brown County
are great.
We love having you on the board and having you as representing the district.
And Shannon, thank you for coming in.
Thank you for having me.
You bet.
I am still
here.
Maybe not as knowledgeable on the port as you.
No, not at all.
But just thanks for coming in here.
I just want to thank our guests too.
We had a great day today.
I just really had DeLorean Walls and Jason Wright, good guys, brothers helping brothers.
Of course, Jose.
And Zach.
And Zach, great people.
And I guess, Psy, right?
Psy.
Mel, I don't know.
The local fighter who is going to be a pro fighter soon.
And John Kramer, Ryan Hopson for coming in from the Green Bay Blizzard.
And Supervisor Pat Evans.
Thank you.
We will do Oshkosh tomorrow.
So we'll talk to you tomorrow.
Mine on the mayor.
We'll see you in Oshkosh tomorrow.
