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National Guard Insights and Community Growth (Hour 2)
Maino and the Mayor · Mon Jun 16, 2025
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Good morning.
Happy Monday to you.
Hope you ever had a great Father's Day.
Wasn't it nice?
That was great.
It was awesome.
Kids called.
Zoomed or whatever they call it all on the same time and Yeah, we had fun.
Did you see?
They posted some pictures of us when we were young dads on the minor and mayor Facebook, which I don't follow that.
I did not.
Yeah, Todd was showing me that.
It's his show.
I don't follow it.
Thank you.
I just didn't I would look for it a little bit because I talked to my brother because I sent in a picture of planting a tree.
Oh when I think my dad was
speaking of which
I'm trying to.
Well, look at that haircut.
I know.
He's got
to
get ready for vacations.
Boot
camp.
It just turned out that
way.
No, I'm OK.
So I'm trying to get my buddy Piano Jimmy.
I call him.
He's an arborist.
Yeah.
Oh,
and I want him to come on our show and talk about you trying to cultivate your metal side lot into it.
Yeah.
Yes.
I'm
like, I was.
Yes, although I'll be honest with you.
I can't wait to metal detect that.
I know.
Yeah, we'll do it together.
Yeah.
Next year, I think.
No, no, no.
Next week.
No, no, no.
Well,
here's the thing.
I'm not done.
You should metal detect it soon, right?
Because if you find something that may put off putting your orchard in.
Yes,
there could be
historic significance.
Okay.
That makes sense.
I can't wait to do that.
Yeah.
But we can do a
live show.
I'd like to talk.
Yeah, like that, like that Holder Rivera guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What's there?
I wonder, that guy's coming on?
Well, I'm gonna get him.
Okay, good.
That'd be great.
Yeah.
Cause I, uh... This guy's
nuts though.
Jimmy, he's one of my greatest friends in the world.
Which Jimmy?
Jimmy.
Oh, the other guy.
I thought you were talking about me.
No, he's a, he's a, but here's a bodybuilder, the whole thing.
But anyway, um, he, he climbs those trees and will be like, oh, done a branch with, uh, you know what I mean?
He's
an arborist.
Yeah.
Well an arborist means he does everything.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well cool.
I mean he's got bigger
Yeah, you know.
Yeah.
Cohonists.
He would have to.
Oh my god.
Those guys.
But John, if you haven't seen the picture
of Jim as a little
kid.
No I haven't.
And I called my brother.
I thought you would call me when you saw this because actually I didn't see it.
Come on brother.
Did you remember when we planted that tree with dad?
He goes
Yeah, that was a long time ago like like 60 60 years ago, right?
Maybe that was not 58 years ago or something because yeah, I do I'll show you we oh That's
true He wanted to do my god looks like first communion.
Yeah, he wanted to do that
that he told us, look, if we take care of that tree.
Is it still there?
Yeah, it's huge though.
It's taller than a house.
If we take care of that tree, it's going to grow, you know, be big and strong.
It's like we take care of each other.
And that was like a little message in that.
10 seconds, but I don't see a shovel in that picture.
I said to Carl, I said, do
you remember planting
a tree?
I remember standing by the tree.
He had somebody behind the house.
One of the guys that worked for him at the
lumber mill.
He planted it?
Tony, but isn't it cool how like plants can do that?
They'll plant their
memories, right?
I've got some plants that were my mom's.
They always remind me of mom and now they're huge,
you know?
That tree is.
Totally and you know, you don't really believe it when you're a little kid taller than you.
No, it's not and it's like anything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that I agree with that.
So I thought when I sent them, I think you'd give me, you know, okay.
Got it.
Got a text here.
Ray Niskey bridge temporarily closed to the malfunction.
That
is
the worst imagine that
thing in the state of Wisconsin ever happened.
That's always closed.
It's always stuck.
It's like, what's up with that bridge?
The, you know what?
And that it is even when that was.
When Brett Weicker opened up Tidal Towns, remember that?
It was closed for like two weeks.
His grand opening and nobody could get across the bridge.
This is what I think.
I think there were two vendors and the parts really just never married.
You know what I mean?
Years and all that, it just meshed.
That thing has been problems for years.
Remember I
told you last week that the cars were lined up here on the road all the way to like 12 blocks because it was stuck?
Oh, yeah.
No, it gets stuck open.
That's the
worst thing in the state of Wisconsin.
Whoever
built that, whoever signed off on that, total failure.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
Got this.
Good morning from Madison, Michael.
Hello, Michael.
How you doing in Madison, my great friend?
Hope you all had a great Father's Day.
I took my family to Chicago Street Pub in Depear for their world famous swan club roasted chicken.
Oh, that's...
That sounds good.
You can't go
wrong
with
roasted chicken.
Can you?
Especially not at the swan
club.
No, you can't.
It's just, it's the best.
No question.
Today is fresh vegetable day.
Very nice.
You know what's so unbelievably frustrating?
I'm gonna be honest with you
on something.
I
actually, I almost, you know what I almost did.
I almost punched.
Good
Monday morning everybody.
Almost I almost punched my mirror this morning and smashed my mirror why because my weight You know what I ate all weekend vegetables.
I ate mother bleeping Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah
vegetables,
yeah, and I gained weight.
What's did you gain?
What you have would you have mine?
I would have with a cheese or your dip nothing
You nothing wet vegetables.
I cut up a
head of lettuce.
Yep,
and put in vegetables and and boiled it and Nothing else and I put on three pounds.
I was so I swear to mmm.
I'm sure I'll
just
smack I was gonna
just for the record I think it's probably water weight because vegetables do give you a lot of water water
But I was talking to my doctor
although I will say this so too.
I have to blame my son Dom
Um brought me a big box of siruji's
All you had was vegetables
see it was father's day
Jim Okay,
all
right, then not water
well that
wasn't water.
That was
definitely fat sugar well and
some vodka
Yeah, okay, so that's why you put on I'm surprised you only put on three pounds You know what I did yesterday just
I was talking to my doctor.
I'm like, look, I'm stuck at this weight.
And he says, are you working on it?
I'm like, no, he goes, that will break it.
So yesterday, I just want to let you know, I did go to Western.
I did.
I did.
I did was,
I might do, I might take the shot.
Yeah.
Give me
one.
Like we do, we do, we do script.
We do share prescriptions.
Yeah.
That nasal crumb.
I don't, that is really regulated by how much you get.
You know point two point five point six whatever and I don't know what you would get so you'd have to go to a doctor I'm not gonna give you mine besides I think that's just go see the guy he's just give me one but he just said look if you're he goes you're stuck and I've been in for like a month.
How many times have
I given you Viagra?
Alright what else we got going on Todd?
all that from fresh veggies day
yeah okay well that makes sense I was gonna be a little concerned about that because you should lose weight and you would lose weight I know I got you mix it with chocolate and vodka yeah that's that's not gonna work
world sea turtle day um I had a friend who lived in South Carolina and that was like they would camp out on the beaches
And the the turtles would hatch and they would like watch them go into the water It's like it's like a weird
like hundreds of them are
like this weird thing They would camp for like a week on the beach for these
two Carolina because they do that they people go to Mexico.
There's a whole foundation that my cousins my nephew's wife, so whatever that is to me
Um, and they go down there and it's funded by some guy with some money and it's it's he sent me video.
It's huge and they save him
His because this guy's what he was in the Marines in down in South Carolina and his wife was huge into this but it was like this big thing on for turtles.
Yeah
I didn't know they did it in South Carolina.
That is a huge, huge thing in Mexico.
It's it and they go every year.
There's a bunch of people that go, they got to pay their own way.
But they save these turtles because they would be, I don't know who eats them, but I don't know if it's the natives or something.
No, it might even be the people there.
You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know.
They protect them.
But without them, these turtles wouldn't survive.
And they show these, you know, how those night things, like the night cameras, you know, it's like black and white.
And it's it's it's like.
Wouldn't go too many like there's a yeah, like it's not like you know ten turtles It's like that like that it looks like thousands, but I'll tell you
something.
Okay.
She's right here's me I'll tell you
something.
I have a phobia snapping turtles.
Yeah, right
I had one that kind of snapped at me when I was a little kid one time and that stays with you snapping turtles scare the hell out of me
I'd never encountered one, but you never have
oh my god I was fishing a couple of times and you'd see them just like float
Under it's like it's like it's like a shark.
They're like snapping turtles are vicious.
I know it's snapping turtle
They got their heads are like this.
They're jaws are unbelievable.
Oh, no, I didn't know we had those here.
They're nice
Oh my god, they would take your arm off.
Yeah, but okay snapping turtle could take off your arm
I've never heard that I've known guys there are one there are one arm people walking around up there right now because of snapping toes And I'm not lying.
I bet we got listeners that have lost an arm because we're snapping turtle
South Carolina actually touts that as one of the things for tourism you can go I
didn't I didn't know we did that in the United States.
Yeah, I don't why she keeps going She was
like us she had this like weird thing about her that they had to save the turtle.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's a thing
Yeah, yeah, people do that for vacation and they pay their own way down to
Mexico.
I know we can't I didn't know that in South Carolina.
Well, that's like I didn't want to do it, but his wife was big into
it.
Yeah, I'm happy wife.
That's
right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
How you doing, Todd?
Good.
Is this your
last day?
Wow.
Isn't that the greatest?
There's vacation.
The day before vacation is better than vacation.
Isn't it though?
You
know, we'll find
out
how the
day
goes.
Yeah,
are you leaving right after the show?
No, okay.
I've got all my other work to do.
Oh, all right.
I told Donnie, you might be taking off right after the show.
All right, but you're gonna be down there tomorrow, right?
Or wherever you're going.
Yeah.
On your way, I should say.
Do your
thing.
A few plans changed and whatever,
but... That's awesome, man.
Just chill.
I'll tell you this.
I'll be sleeping in
all week.
Isn't that great?
Yeah.
Probably won't even hear the show.
You know what, though?
That's so... That's so disappointing.
in this business, and you're probably seeing it now after a couple of years.
It's hard to sleep.
Your mind, there's something that your alarm clock in your brain just goes off,
even when you're on
vacation type
thing.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
I mean, we get up, yeah, I get up same time.
Yep.
Today is natural fudge day.
Take your cat to work day.
Please don't
do that.
Right.
I
hate
cats.
I don't, I'm not a
big
fan.
I'm
gonna lose 90% of our listeners.
I don't like cats.
I'm not gonna say anything.
I want to keep the 10% we have.
I know, I just, they don't like me and I don't like them.
They do have an attitude.
They got
attitude.
There's, you know, I don't know what kind of a person I am, but something, there's like a gene pool, something, something that cats don't like me.
Oh, I think, yeah.
I think you love them or you don't.
You know what I mean?
I think.
Whether the cat loves you or not, I don't know but there's people that they just they don't like cats and I don't know cats are all right, but I I didn't have one little kid
despise me Lisa Hale just texted in she said blast for me See there she's
also a tarantula person
that is true.
So mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah waterfall day Have you?
Seen that thing in the UP you got to do that this year Jim
In the fall, you
gotta go on the
waterfall tour of the UP.
It's unbelievable.
You been to Niagara?
No.
You?
Beautiful.
Hurt's overrated.
No, it's not.
It's not.
It is not.
I heard Niagara Falls is overrated.
It is not.
I heard two things
overrated.
Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon.
What?
My two favorite places.
Ah, come on.
That's what I got from other
people.
Okay, alright.
Hey, happy Monday to you.
Mind on the matter, back with this.
Texted a picture of a snapping turtle from the golf course last year William.
Thank you.
Aren't those like prehistorically looking evil creatures snapping
to do they look mean
yeah, they are they're vicious
Man didn't know we had those here.
Oh, yeah, and I'll tell you what I go I go back I've never heard a story when I was a kid and
I was fishing on the stream and there was like the shell was sticking out of the mud Okay, so this is cool.
I'm gonna get a turtle shell
You know, that'll be cool.
So I'm, I'm digging out, digging out, digging out.
Well, he was like just chilling and he stuck his head up and did like a snap at me.
Yeah.
I could have taken off my arm at the elbow, at the elbow.
I'm not even, I'm not joking about this.
Yeah.
You should leave well enough alone.
Yeah.
But you thought it was a
fear of snapping turtles ever since.
Yeah, that would do it for me too.
You thought it was just an empty shell.
Yeah.
I thought it was just the shell.
That happens.
I guess.
I think when they die, right?
I would think there would be a turtle underneath that, but I don't know.
Well, I thought it was just that empty shell.
I know that they
died.
There's a term for that.
They mowed.
I don't think they do, but disintegrate the turtle.
If the turtle died, right?
His body would decompose and the shell would be left behind.
Yeah.
All right.
And that's what you thought it was.
Yes.
And it was.
He was just chilling and he did a big his jaws were unbelievable.
I could lost it at the shoulder
Yeah,
you could take off my arm from the shoulder.
I'm not even I'm not joking with it Okay, John I would have been you know, I've been like the guy in what's called the movie time.
Yeah, which movie?
There's a golf movie
There's
a guy that Adam Sandler.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah Remember we get from the alligator.
Yes
Apollo Creed
He played Apollo Creed in the movie.
Right.
Then
he was the golf guy.
Yep.
And he always had that
faith.
Happy Gilmore.
Happy Gilmore.
Happy Gilmore.
Boy, did you watch that golf tournament yesterday, by the way?
Did you see that rain come through
at the US Open?
That
was mind boggling how hard that came through.
That was unbelievable.
Plenty going on this weekend.
I know we don't talk politics here, but oh my God.
You know, Minnesota and all these.
Yeah.
Horrible, huh?
It's just there's a lot going on right now.
Yeah, it's unbelievable.
I
will say this though, and I didn't watch it or anything I don't watch it here, but I will say this with that parade I think it's really cool that they had people in all the different eras You don't
even like it
they
were in World War
two
right
uniforms.
Oh really?
Yeah,
I think that's
really neat
yet.
I really do
that was well.
They were celebrating the history Yeah, that was that was that before
right?
So, so they had like actors?
Well,
army people, but they were, you know, dressed 100%
in
like, you know, with
the old canteens and the whole
thing.
I thought that was neat to honor that.
I really do.
I just think the way they were dressed was really cool.
I think that's, that was cool.
Lori Metcalf is 70 years old today.
You know who she is?
Yes.
No, she's aunt Jackie on Roseanne.
Yeah, and then she was also on Big Bang Theory.
Yeah, but man.
She's funny.
She was also Chris Roth's sister-in-law
Shut
up.
Really?
Yeah.
Really?
Yeah,
I didn't know that.
Yeah,
I think I divorced.
Okay, you said what?
But that was
Chris Roth's of Channel 2.
That was his sister-in-law.
Really?
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah.
Yeah, I remember we tried getting her for an IXX one time in Murphy and Katie or
Tammy whomever we're doing like who's your most famous person you can get on
yeah,
we tried getting her on one time and she wouldn't do it Yeah, you think she would yeah.
Yeah, she's too cool for the room Got this one going to copper Harbor in the fall touring the waterfalls in the UP is the best My favorite is the fresh water spring in Palms Book State Park near Manastique Terry.
I'm telling you people
the UP with their waterfalls.
They've got that thing going on right now.
And I will say this, good or bad, they will also, every little town you go to will have a brewery and a weed shop.
Did you see that big bust for weed here?
No, in Green Bay.
Yeah, cause you guys from, uh, pretty much.
Minnesota too much Michigan Michigan weed came a ton like a ton they're like look you can buy it there but you can't bring it here are you serious I didn't see this table yeah where where did it happen yeah I don't know it just they showed the it was I don't know thousands it was just there was a whole that guy had a lot a lot of weed with them a lot too much wow they like that
I didn't think they'd even matter anymore you know what
you know you must think surrounded by I
mean come on you drive an hour
I mean, you live in Marinette, you go across the bridge and it's there.
It's legal there and it's not legal here.
It's like, really?
What's the big difference anymore?
I'm told to the judge because he's going to be.
Yeah.
I mean, I haven't been in front of a judge before.
Okay.
But you're right.
When we're surrounded by all the states and I do, I kind of like can't bring it back.
And anyway, um, yeah, well, the budgets, you know, they're working, our state government is hard at it and they're going to
You know, there's there's still debating whether we should have it legalized should we have it for medicinal purposes medical all that so
I mean, I haven't seen the state of Michigan all of a sudden huge crime way
because
You know,
yeah, and I there's enough data out there to make a case
Yeah, I think but that's just the people that say look there's people a little bit older that try it and end up in ER too.
Well, okay Say that
I gotta tell you something.
Well, yes, you know, you know what?
I just read the other day my my niece is an ER nurse or ER doctor She's a doctor in Pontiac, Michigan, which is one of the highest crime rates in the United States Okay, and I read a thing 50% of the people that go to emergency rooms between like 7 o'clock to 7 o'clock type of thing
Alcohol oh,
I'm sure I'll correlate.
I'm sure
percent of the people that go to emergency rooms.
Oh, yeah, you know percentages of weed
zero Wow, yeah,
see now that's the kind of stuff.
All right.
Let's open the doors.
Let's do it I'm just saying I mean it's like the money to that the state could make and all that kind of stuff Yeah, and make and also make it a little bit safer.
Yeah, cuz we don't know who's
ever wanted to take on a bar in a fight being
Weed versus on Jack Daniels, you know what I mean?
Yeah, I I'm a hundred percent for it.
I'm 100% for it.
I'm on it right now
There we go, that's where the chocolate.
Okay, I got it.
It's all making sense now.
I'm gonna be on this engine and chocolate
damn siruji's
Damn you, Dom!
We love Joe.
Bring the Merlot!
Coming up, we got a full line of folks back after this.
From local stories to local voices, we're shining a spotlight on what matters right here in Northeast Wisconsin.
It's more than just talk.
It's about connecting with the community.
This is Mino and the Mayor.
Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey,
thank you very much.
Welcome back!
Back a beautiful Monday morning here at 97.9 FM, WGBW 98.3 and 96.5 FM.
WISS and of course the Civic Media app worldwide and somebody that is world renowned is Brittany Merlo.
All right, Brittany.
Coming our way from Brittany, like what town do you actually live in?
What town do I actually live in, Wausau?
Okay.
I didn't know if you're like one of the little towns around that or whatever.
I wouldn't give it away if I did.
Oh,
wow.
She does not want Mino showing up at her.
No.
This got to be a great time of year for you, Brittany.
I mean, you love the outdoors and everything, and this has to be fun for you.
It is, but I'm hurting a little bit.
So I went out for a fat bike ride yesterday and then I went out for a couple of hours.
I was just going and going.
The temperatures were nice and cool.
So I wasn't like sweating too much.
So I was just able to go for hours.
But now my lower back, I'm telling you guys, I could barely get out of bed this morning.
So you got one of those fat bike, fat tire bikes?
Yep.
Yep, I do.
So that's not a trail.
Yeah, so I've got the snowmobile trail right here at the mountain bay trail the one that goes all the way to you guys So that was fun.
We met I know
I know I came to what that's why I was asking cuz I did that this week
Yeah, I'm like you're gonna meet Sean.
I know I was trying to find
you
and
I just turned around and came back
Well, then we would have said hi to each other because I was out there
They say those fat bikes you talk about a calorie burner though.
They say they're like crazy, right?
Yeah
They are you're going a lot slower than the rest of the bikes on the trails But you know, it's fun because you can go through the mud you can go through the sand you can go through the snow You can go over the rocks the trees, you know the trees that are down you just pop your wheel go right over it You can lessen, you know the air pressure in your tires So you gotta gotta pay attention to what you're gonna be riding through but it is a blast.
That's awesome You get good leg muscles your butt looks good.
It's all great.
Did you go in my butt?
Did you go with the group?
Is that it?
Like they have those bike clubs here that people go together.
Did you do that solo?
I did it solo, but yes, there are definitely a ton of groups that you can get into and We've got single track trails out here too, which that I usually have to do with someone I don't trust myself alone in the middle of the woods trying to track into those trails because those are tough you take one little spill
You're gonna need someone around.
Yeah, that's the thing.
I saw something on the news one day about people underestimate the injuries that you can get biking.
Oh, yeah.
Seriously.
I have gone over my handlebars, tumbled over the bike, rolled down a hill, and thank goodness I avoided all the trees and the branches because you think about what could have impaled me, what could have happened, what would I have hit.
So I was very, very lucky, but one time.
But always a
helmet.
Yes, always always always a helmet.
I've also got those gloves on too.
I've got the padded shorts Doesn't hurt to have knee pads.
I know that sounds geeky, but I have definitely scabbed up my knees very bad before I
wear padded shorts just on a day-to-day basis to wear them to bed.
Yeah Hey, why not?
You know, they got those butt pillows.
Yeah Do
you stop other places do you stop and have like coffee or lunch or do you just go right at it?
I used to when I first started biking, I had to give myself motivation.
So I'd go get ice cream.
I know that sounds counterintuitive, but hey, I was burning calories to go get my sweet treat.
Do
you carry a
weapon?
Do I?
Do you carry
a weapon?
I do.
Yeah.
Yeah, I was reading this thing about this girl.
She was biking out there and these two hillbilly kind of guys.
You know, it was harassing her in the truck.
I think Brittany carries them for animals, but okay.
Oh,
but anyway, so anyway, they like ran rough the road and they had bad intentions.
Okay.
Well, she was an off-duty cop and she pulled out her 25 caliber and put two rounds to their transmitter to their radiator and said, you guys good?
And they just got back on her bike and left.
I love that.
That's great.
You
have to.
I
love women shooting guys who have bad intentions.
Yes, me too.
I just do.
I
love
my
daughters to do that.
Absolutely.
Did you celebrate Father's Day?
Is your dad still around?
No It's
a sad day for people
you
we're talking about when my brother's yesterday about that and You know, it's like I don't know all your dad's not there It's not really I mean your kids are happy about it, but it's it's a weird day, right?
Yeah, cuz you just
yeah, but
it is John had some pictures we both
sent pictures to Civic had posted some things about her dad.
So it's nice to look at that.
I really got a kick out of looking at finding those pictures like, oh my God, I can't believe that.
So anyway, it's just, yeah.
What were your favorite memories
of your
dad, Brittany?
Like me and my dad was fishing.
We just were big trout fisherman and that was our passion.
How about you?
You know, you'd think that my dad was the outdoorsy guy, but it was actually my mom was the outdoorsy one.
So.
Think it back into memories.
I liked golfing.
That was a blast.
You taught me how to golf.
Oh, that's
cool.
That's great.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
We were arborists.
We planted trees.
You
weren't arborists.
You planted one tree.
I planted one tree and I sent the pictures to
anyone
sent.
Todd.
Todd.
He's an arbor.
I'm gonna pull up the picture before Jim the
arbor.
We that's okay.
Yeah, that's my memory.
Yeah.
Hey Brittany, can Brittany give us two weeks of 8 to 85 degree temperature, please?
Tomorrow.
All rain,
excuse
me, all sun, no rain or clouds.
I have an in-ground pool.
I would love to finally use it this summer.
Yeah, Terry.
You're telling me.
Yeah.
That means I don't have to work if there's no showers or storms and it's just sunny and warm.
Oh, I get to relax too.
I want it.
Um, unfortunately, you know, we've got a lot of heat and humidity moving in and a lot of storms
with it.
However, I was looking, you know, did you see the golf tournament yesterday, Brittany?
No.
Oh, no.
Oh my God.
It was unbelievable.
The weather that came in.
I
just,
the, the, the weather though, I was, I'm having a party tomorrow night or something.
There's a lot of outdoor concerts coming up, right?
I mean, there's this screen.
It's Wisconsin.
Everybody does stuff outdoors now, but it seems like the rain though is going to be.
in the mornings, not in the evenings.
Is that accurate when we
go in it?
I don't think so.
I don't know.
I guess.
Well, here's the thing.
I mean, it's hard to explain.
So first, what we have going on right now is the warm front moving through.
So there's a few scattered showers and storms sparking up.
You'll probably get those, a few of them this afternoon.
Then we've got the cold front following behind it.
That's going to slam in later tonight.
So probably after 11, right around midnight, you're going to get some stronger, maybe severe storms, probably hail, gusty winds with those.
So those will move through tonight.
But then we're still slightly humid and warm.
We're still sitting in the low 80s tomorrow.
So when you get that kind of weather, you get those pop up showers and storms and we still have this low pressure in the vicinity.
So still a chance for some tomorrow night.
But a lot of those want to stay south of you.
So fingers crossed, you don't see any tomorrow.
Good chance you're dry tomorrow.
Wednesday, though, is a soaker.
This has been
kind of a crappy spring, summer, hasn't it?
Like she said, it's just so on and off.
So
Wednesday, yeah, it's going to rain Wednesday, right here.
Absolutely.
Yeah, we're going to be overcast, crummy showers, storms, maybe some of them soaking, maybe the potential for flooding comes Wednesday.
Wow.
We dry out Thursday.
Then we really ramp up the heat.
I'm talking near 90 degrees dew points in the mid 70s for the weekend It is going to be that summery sticky hot humid weekend But a front does move through and that looks like Friday night into Saturday So that one could be yes, like you said in the morning.
Hopefully that's Saturday and gone So
pretty heavy the all the fire warnings we had there for a while.
Are those gone now?
Um, last I checked, yes, they were because of all this rain and moisture and greening up, you know, we're not as dry from the spring, you know, so that should be gone.
But the fact that we're going to get a lot of lightning, you never know if something could spark with that.
Well, I got the picture ready for you.
Check this out, Brittany.
Brittany, that's.
Oh, my dad.
Brothers, we were planting trees.
Your dad looks eight feet tall in that picture.
I think we're a little shorter.
It's like one of those weird things for this guy was like seven foot nine.
Not at all.
He's six feet something.
But the thing that's funny in the picture is they're all wearing ties.
The little boys don't have ties.
Planting a
tree.
When they're arborists.
Yeah,
I'm in the middle.
I'm the guy in the middle.
So that's my, yeah, that was, well, I talked to, um, as I was telling John this morning, I talked to my brother.
I said, Hey, do you remember that picture that of us planting that tree?
Man, that was a long time ago.
And I'm like, yeah, it really was.
But yeah, he remembered that.
So anyway, that's, that was our family.
That's cool.
Didn't fish though.
Didn't fish, didn't hunt.
No.
Then golf.
No, he didn't.
But is the tree on your property?
It's unbelievable.
No, that's that was by our house.
And he told us it was going to be a big tree if we took care of it.
And that tree is what kind of tree?
Just a pine
tree.
It's just a
pine tree.
But it's it's I don't know.
But is it 50 feet?
I mean, I kid
you, it is really, really a huge tree now.
So anyway, that was that was cool.
I was fun finding
that
picture because I
They asked us to turn over, you found a picture too of your dad.
And it's just fun to go through those books.
It's like, oh my gosh.
So anyway, those are nice.
I like the story a lot because I also have pine trees.
I have one that my mom and I planted when I was born or they did, I don't know.
But then we did it again for my sister as well.
So there's two pine trees in my family's yard, one for me, one for my sister.
That's cool.
It's a special thing and I did it.
And
put the Christmas lights on it, but it's unbelievable how big those trees get, right?
I mean,
yeah, it's huge.
Here's the scary sad thing.
So mine is starting to die and down in Illinois.
And it's because of the warming temperatures and they're not able to sustain it anymore.
The pine trees are just dying all over the place in Illinois.
We had that.
My
mom and dad's land, they had a bunch of pine trees to block wind on the top of a hill.
And little by little, they're all
kind of
the same thing.
Same thing.
Because of water?
Why are they dying?
I don't know too much about this, but the tree experts, the arborists, they were saying, yeah, that because of the warming temperatures, the climate's changing, they can't sustain these temperatures.
So they're slowly
just...
Wow, we got text here.
Do you guys have a picture of Jim folding linens with his dad?
He wouldn't do
that.
Of things we did with our dads back in
the day.
He would not do that.
No, I'm just throwing it out there.
Wow.
I mean, it's our listeners, Jim.
Mother's Day.
They want
to know.
Yeah.
So, Brittany, give us a really good forecast for this week, would you?
Make
it really good and then this weekend is still all these graduation parties are still going on and So the weekend Saturday is really when we're going to a couple of them
Okay, all right, so we're getting muggy right we're already feeling that today low 80s today tomorrow good chance of storms overnight tonight Tomorrow, I think a lot of them are gonna stay south but we could see some in the afternoon by Wednesday It'll be overcast damp dreary showers storms soaking rain highs in the upper 70s or so
Well, hang on to the upper seventies Thursday.
It'll be sunny.
It'll be dry Friday, partly sunny mid seventies.
Then that front moves in showers, storms.
Some of these could be strong to severe, of course, because that heat and humidity really pushing in Saturday, 86 degrees.
Wow.
It's going to be humid Sunday, probably about 90 degrees.
Wow.
Really?
Who's the guy that texted in with the outdoor pool?
We're coming over, man.
Terry.
Oh,
absolutely.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's nineties.
We haven't seen that in a while.
No, we have not so stay hydrated this weekend.
Definitely so
pretty one back to your fat Tire bite.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Could you can you write those on like regular roads or those only for like off-road type things?
You can definitely put it on a regular road.
I've done it I think it just probably wears the tread maybe a little bit faster, right?
But I've done it a bunch of times.
So yeah, man, I
Hey, I was a woman.
I'd be you Put that on your bingo card.
There you
go Because
I'd be doing all that
kind of stuff.
Yeah, you know I
would shoot like ten guys.
I
swear to God
Well, I'm not arguing out of it every morning.
Tim and I are laying out at this
point.
All right.
Brittany, we love having you on.
Thank
you so much for getting up early for us.
Have a fun week,
Brittany.
Thank
you, guys.
Love to
come back
with
you.
You're the
best.
See ya.
You know what?
I'm hoping, well, this summer I can't because I'm battling, you know, whatever.
But otherwise, I'm going to meet her halfway between wasa and here on my bike.
She's very cool.
She's the female version of me.
What is that?
Is
somebody going on vacation today?
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
I've got some text here.
John, there's still time to be like Brittany from Brian.
Come on over.
I live in beautiful
Ash
Wabanan.
It says Terry.
All right.
There you go.
That's where the pool party is going to be.
Exactly.
That's
good.
I have nothing going on Sunday.
Couple graduation parties Saturday.
So that's what you find out.
I like it.
Todd, you have our guest on?
Uh,
no,
no,
no,
no, this is we're just at the OIS now.
They're doing their Oshkosh things.
We're
doing Oshkosh.
Oh, you're right.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We got some great guests coming out.
We got Grant coming on.
Grant Soletski.
He's with the National Guard.
I talked about the deployment.
It's going to be taking place.
Um, I might still be going.
Really?
Really?
Yeah.
We're going to talk about that.
That's cool.
You're going
to, you're going to
go.
Where
are they going?
Hopefully.
That's fun.
Yeah, you like
that.
I would love that.
Um, got Ariel Perez, who was a phenomenal man.
Do you read his stuff?
Isn't he a great reporter?
Unfortunately, it's one of those kind of things where Green Bay is still kind of a stepping stone in some ways.
He'll be at the Chicago Tribune or New York Times or something.
Yeah, shortly.
It's so good.
He's such a great writer.
Although he
I know.
I know.
I know.
His kids like school, his wife likes it here.
He's too good.
Well, yeah.
We retained you, John.
Huh?
We retained you.
Nobody else would hire me.
Actually, you want to know a place that my old news director one time called me and said, hey, I want to hire Buffalo, New York.
I had no interest in going to Buffalo, New York.
Would you?
Yeah.
And I know the bills were good at the time, but it's like... It's not that dissimilar.
I
know.
I mean, that is a...
But the snow there.
That's
true.
Everybody complains about
us.
Yeah,
that is
true.
It's
almost like anywhere, because there's a huge jump market-wise, but almost anywhere else in the country, but Buffalo, New York.
just didn't do it for me.
Our buddy Chuck Lakefield worked there for a while.
The Laker.
Yeah, the Laker.
We got to get the Laker
on here.
All right.
He beat down for sure.
He liked that.
Yeah.
I still owe him
a, uh, a Krivich board, a Toledo mudhead.
Cause he also worked in Toledo.
Yes.
I used to make, I used to make Krivich boards.
Did I tell you that?
No, I, yeah.
I used to make Krivich boards that were phenomenal.
They're unbelievable.
What I would do is I would take that.
That's a cool thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
When we had chess pieces and chess boards, but we didn't make cribbitch that that's awesome.
Well, but here's the deal.
What I would do is I would laminate them with pictures.
Right.
Like I do old Packer ones.
I hadn't laminated.
They were phenomenal.
Anybody out there that has one of my cribbitch boards that I made for you.
Let me know.
I have a really cool cribbitch board I bought up in Anchorage with mump Kenley.
Yeah.
It just
And that's cool to look at and play.
I didn't know you did that.
I would have... I like cribbage.
There's a picture for Father's Day, something like that.
I mean, my dad playing cribbage.
We played a lot of cribbage.
You know what my favorite cribbage board is?
It was made by this guy that was the murderer.
Okay?
Nice.
No, but they would have, okay, the Marquette State Prison.
Every pin was like a shot.
It is, Mark.
You could look at a Gypsy Bob somebody.
Because it was even autographed.
What they had, the craftsmanship.
of the prisoners.
They had a gift shop at the Marquette State Prison, and they would, you know, they'd make stuff and sell it.
Todd, look at Gypsy Bob Marquette State Prison.
It says unbelievably craftsmen and the artists in the prisons were amazing.
There's actually a story on here about some canoe paddles that he painted while he was in prison.
Gypsy Bob?
Gypsy Bob.
Gypsy Bob.
Yep.
Is it
incredible
his artwork here at the reformatory here in Green Bay where we got, you know a thousand prisoners there they have a Section where they make like outdoor like bird baths.
Yeah, things for out.
Yes.
I did a thing with that one time.
I
was
those.
Yeah, you know,
yeah, the bird baths water that
goes so
many so I said You know, we're kind of enhancing some of our parks and I went there took a tour and I'm looking at these things This would be awesome in this park or that park.
I said to the guy, can you
This is great.
Oh yeah, we'll work something out with you.
I said, can they come and install them?
He goes, no.
No, they're not leaving.
Hey, I got to tell you something.
You know, they talk, remember those scared straight programs or whatever?
I'm going to tell you something.
When I was 18 years old, 18 and 19, and I played fast pitch softball, one of the teams in our league was the state prison team.
And we would go into the prison.
And this is hardcore with you, 19 year old kids.
They like 18 years old.
And we were in there.
And I'll tell you what, you want to talk about, you're going to live your life and not go to prison.
I mean, you would have these guys.
I got into a situation.
I had an altercation, believe it or not.
No.
Geez, with a prisoner
in your 18.
Are you
serious?
Good
idea.
Dead serious.
I know.
Wow.
Well, I mean, I showed him.
I wouldn't make up.
OK.
Wow.
OK.
You're taking on with those guys.
No wonder you seem to take
it.
It was an accident.
It was a total accident.
Yeah.
I'll tell the story sometime.
But whatever.
But the third basement for them was amazing.
An incredible athlete.
And there is a book written about him.
He was a horrible human being.
It's called The Michigan Murders.
And he killed like six coeds.
And Jonathan Collins, look him up, Todd.
Look up Jonathan Collins.
I can't believe they let
you kids that close to those
guys.
Yeah, we had a guy with an automatic weapon standing right outside of our dugout.
And they said, if anything happens, they kept one cell.
They had another guy with an automatic weapon with a cell, with the door open.
And he said, if anything happens, all you guys run to this cell, we'll lock you in.
What I would do if I were the prisoners,
is, I mean, nothing more valuable than a kid.
I would have taken you guys hostage.
I just...
Well, that's what I mean.
That's what they had to automatically...
No, all at once.
They're not just one.
I would take the whole team and get the prisoners and I'd say, okay, you guys, we're getting out of here.
Or this kid's not... Todd?
He's got it in him.
I know.
He's got
it in him.
I don't know.
I can't believe he did it.
From that one bullet, he does it in one roll.
If I were there.
No, it's true.
But, okay, so there's this one prisoner whose name was delicious.
I remember it delicious.
Remember this story?
Well, a little bit.
Yeah.
He was a she type of thing.
Okay.
Wow.
And she was flirting with me.
John, I think she could have done better.
Okay, start to thank God.
All right,
we'll go to break.
Wow.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Beautiful Monday morning out there.
55 in Green Bay, 61 in Alton, 58 in Oshkosh.
As Brittany said, partly to mostly cloudy today, scattered storms high in the low 80s, up to 90 by the time the weekend rolls around.
Well, right now we're very honored to be with Grant Soletsky, Wisconsin Army National Guard, and of course the big deployment taking place.
Everybody shipped out last week.
So, Grant, you know what?
You know what's funny?
People also those poor people that have to go.
No, that's what they sign up for they love it.
Oh,
we guys love it
Yeah as a recruiter like yeah, I miss it so much.
It's what you do
Yeah, it's just it's something to go do and it's a year away and go do yeah, and you just you wake up you do what you're told to do and then
You're
living
your dream.
So you don't have to cut the lawn after one of your wife's saying go
clean the bathroom.
Yeah, you have you have a first sergeant on that
Where we sign up?
Are we too old?
That's cool.
That is
cool guy.
I think John's right about people are very worried and concerned but feel sorry for them But they don't these guys like you said you recruited them.
They signed up and they're energetic.
Yeah, I have like nine people
that I recruited so it's really it's kind like so my son's on it as well I know yeah so he's a he's a combat engineer but he hopped on with the the infantry for this but yeah it's uh I'm very like I'm more nervous like yeah like I'm as I did I'm happy my son's there right I think it's safer for him there than it is here yeah because he's living the young life and we all know all the young life is
well that's the that's the thing though too that I took away from being when I right you know visited embedded
They take care of each other.
So you will never have more protection.
All right.
You'll, you know, they have who's got my six, you know, who's got my back.
You will never have more people supporting you and defending you in whatever in your entire lifetime than once you're in the military and you're deployed.
Yeah.
And then so I was, I got to go in 2019.
I was lucky enough to go to Afghanistan.
And we were in Bagram for a little while.
And when I came home and we were going through Chicago,
And I'm like, if I got, like I feel felt safer in Afghanistan than I did there.
Absolutely.
Because there's towers everywhere.
Like it was, yeah, it was, it's crazy.
You get that situational awareness.
Yeah, you
do.
Yeah, you notice a lot more things.
Yeah.
Yeah, you watch everything.
Yeah.
Tell me about the recruiting.
I mean, how is that?
We get concerned that we're not getting the talent that we used to have yet.
On the other hand, you hear that, you know, there's.
It's
hard to get in.
It's hard to get in.
I know it is.
But American Pride is back.
Good.
So the National Guard is up, Army is up.
I'm pretty sure all other branches are up.
So that's good.
But again, the biggest issue is all these people are looking to join, but it's so easy to get antidepressants, anxiety medication, all these different pills that doctors give out.
when kids can't sit in their chair, because they want to sit in their chair for eight hours a day, and they're wondering why they're jumping around.
So hey, give them this pill.
But then it's an instant, like a three year wait.
So you're on, so anxiety medication and antidepressants, like three years, ADHD is like a year, year and a half.
So the moment you go up, like I want to sign up, like, ah, sorry, bud.
But you guys, the thing is, and I told you, a great friend of mine lives.
Wonderful lady.
Her daughter is a medic and she actually sat with Jim.
You were at the The music thing last year, weren't you?
Yes.
Okay.
She was her daughter was sitting with us, right?
And she's a medic now and being deployed and it's like, you know, I followed her since she was like six years old I've been friends with her mom and everything like that.
It's like She is so proud to be in the National Guard and be a medic in the National Guard.
It's like, you know years ago and I grew up
Like I talk about you know my high school graduating class was the first class that didn't have to register for the draft Okay, you know through Vietnam And nobody want to go into the military then I mean it was you know if you if you got in trouble with the law This is going to the army, you know whatever
jailer army,
and it's a whole different world right now.
You guys only want
Very cool people.
You know what I mean?
You got your heads on straight.
It's it's not the place to go to get straightened out It's like we don't want to deal with knuckleheads.
We want the elite
Yeah, if you uh criminal records or another pain the butt together, so yeah, it's uh,
it's tough It's tough to get in
it is but the benefits are so good The payback so when you look at like National Guard for instance we we give eight years of college
Incredible.
So the state of Wisconsin, which loves their National Guard, so thank you, Wisconsin.
Get a four-year, 100% tuition grant, all right?
And then the GI Bill, which is another four years, which all federal components get.
And since we're state and federal, we get dual options.
So like, you can go get your bachelor's degree, and then when you're done with that, you want to go to your master's?
Okay, go do your thing.
Wow.
Yeah, it's just, and then insurance-wise and camaraderie-wise, family-wise, like, it's... It's incredible.
Yep.
And they gave us cool uniforms and MREs too.
The only thing, the only thing, the only negative, okay?
These young guys, alright, when they re-up and they get that beautiful huge cash bonus.
Sometimes.
Don't buy a truck or a motorcycle right away.
Invest it somewhere.
Yeah, so the bonus isn't so much the investment parts.
Like all the guys are deployed right now.
They're gonna go overseas for...
However long it is and when you're when your boots on ground overseas, it's tax-free.
Yep.
So that's just accumulating.
Yep.
And then they come back.
And they buy that truck.
So I'm pushing myself like, let's go to college, please.
Yeah, please.
You have nothing.
Who cares?
Because when you're 48 years old, you will look at that amount of money and say, oh my goodness gracious, would I love to have that right
now?
And then they went and bought a truck with those like.
Rubber things over
well, and it's all
rusted
off in the
bed.
I was looking at one this morning.
It was like a 2020 and it was all rusted.
I was like, oh, those are nice rubber side things we got there.
Good job.
So tell us a little bit about your unit.
I know I never want to talk about where people go because that should be kind of classified or everything.
But tell us about all the National Guard members that are deployed right now and they had the big send off a couple of weeks ago.
So it's a 127.
So we
got second
division.
Yep.
So we got Alpha Company down in Rippon.
We got Bravo Company in Green Bay.
We
have Charlie and Fonda Lack.
We have Delta used to be in Marinette.
Now it's Clintonville and then all the medics and yep.
So they're headed over.
They're in training right now.
They'll pop out sometime down Texas.
Texas.
And then at some point in the next couple months, they'll pop out and they're going Middle East area.
And yeah, they have a few different missions.
Not sure exactly what they are, but they're going to go over there and do their thing and enjoy a year and eat well and work out.
And they'll be better protected than
anybody walking
the streets of Northeast Wisconsin.
Yes.
So moms, they'll be okay.
Absolutely.
And I just think I want to underscore how they're
How much you're looking forward to it?
It's
what they signed up for.
Yeah, they jacked a goal against something to do.
Right.
And like, so the cool thing about, again, National Guard, right, we got, we live this, I also like to say civilian life, military life, they both suck at some point.
So like with the National Guard, like you work two days a weekend, sometimes three, there is not a weekend, but a month, like three days and then two weeks in the summertime.
But just when the civilian side kind of is starting to get you down.
And guess what?
You get to take that civilian uniform off, put your military uniform on, go do stuff, and right when the military starts to suck, which is about three to four days, we get to take it off and go back to regular world.
It's like a great reset.
So like this is like a great one-year reset to like truly like...
appreciate what you have here, appreciate what you have there, and you come back balanced.
But the benefits are for the rest of your life.
I can
see why you're the recruiter.
I mean, that makes a lot of sense.
I love the National Guard.
I was going to say, how
old were you when you
34?
34.
It's not incredible.
And it's the best decision I've ever made.
And the amount of older gentlemen that came up to me,
Like the day after I signed up, it had to be like 15, 20 dudes.
I ran a gym at the time.
So I
had
like saw a lot, a lot of people.
Um, and they're like, my number one regret in life is not signing up for service.
So you know what?
Guys and gals, if it's in your heart, go do it.
Right.
Just do it.
And you know what?
Regret sucks.
There are so many opportunities for women.
in the National Guard.
It's incredible.
I would say it's getting darn close as far as recruiting.
So I'm down in Madison now.
I teach ROTC at UW.
I took a promotion to Sergeant First Class down there.
So I run the recruiting office
on the campus.
You're Sergeant First Class?
Yeah.
Big shooter now.
Wow.
A lot better than Private
First Class when I
started.
Just a little.
It was 50-50 this year for recruiting for me actually from my whole office like we it's there's a lot of females doing it like and they should like it's Do your thing.
So
you're teaching at the U.
Correct.
Military science too.
Yeah, I took that at St.
Norbert,
but it
wasn't I'm sure it's much more sophisticated now with you.
The same thing I bet yeah overall.
He wasn't real pleased with our class though.
He gave us a map.
Okay,
but just They fill in the countries
That's not easy.
Well, we weren't very... God just choked us.
I everybody knew Italy was the boot, but ever in that he was not really happy and we had to really study that and we're all college, but I don't know where kind of maybe I was in Norbert's maybe two... I don't know, we just never studied it for whatever
reason
and he didn't like that.
I just remember that we repelled and did a lot of the cool stuff.
Oh, you did that stuff too?
Yeah, that was fun.
Yeah, we don't do that.
So that's like, so... Oh, that was... You don't repell?
Well, we do the like...
Military
science
Oh, oh do you shoot do you teach your kids how to know we did that?
No, so I
told myself I'm not much of a hunter because you know we prefer people like you because these guys who
break any bad
But I liked him a lot and I had a couple friends of mine that
signed up with a good deal.
We're sophomores, I think.
And then they paid for your other two years at St.
Norbert, and then you were committed to another four or six.
But they loved it.
I mean, they stayed in it.
One of the guys stayed.
I think he's still in it.
OK, yeah.
So we have the option.
So there's cadets that are actually already contracted with the cadets become future officers.
Like they're contracted with the U.S.
Army.
And then there's just regular students that are in the class.
ROTC in high schools, I know.
They have JROTC,
junior ROTC, and that is down like Appleton area.
We don't have it up in this area.
But there's no correlation between the two of them.
So do you
teach both or are you just teaching the people like me that we weren't?
I teach both.
So that was the craziest thing for me.
So I went in there.
And I never taught a college class before.
And they're two-hour classes too.
I found out like the day before that my class was two hours.
That was awesome.
Anyhow, so I have like 15 of my kids were the cadets.
So like they got it,
they've
been in for two years, like they get the thing.
But then five other kids were just regular students.
And I wasn't tracking that there was students and cadets.
So I had to figure out, because you talk to soldiers a little different than you talk
to, and not like with
swearing and all
that,
but it's the abbreviations and all the different things that we just say that we, you know, it's just what we do.
But it's a cool chance for the cadets to be able to show the students, because as soon as I'll throw out something, like what's an ORP or whatever, and they'll be like, what's that?
And they'll say what it is.
And then the other students are like, oh, that's cool.
And then before you know it,
I get to recruit a few new kids out of there.
It's
nice to my cadets.
You know, you actually throw out one quick little term that was totally military.
Normally, you and I or Todd would all say, oh, I'm following that.
You're tracking that.
Tracking.
Tracking is such a military term.
It is.
I have you said before, like, what do you mean?
I'm like tracking.
Like, do you get it?
Understand me?
Yeah.
You know, that's a really good idea in having the mix, because we were just all novices.
We didn't know anything.
And it would have been.
It's cool to see somebody who signed
up and
maybe look up to them a little bit or talk to them after class and say, you know, how's this really going for you?
That's a good idea.
So
that's at Madison.
Yeah.
Okay, good.
It's awesome.
So Madison and St.
Norbert's and GB has the
same
thing
in
Oshkosh, Stevens Point.
What are
you guys looking for, Grant?
You as a recruiter, who do you want to see walk through your door?
I want to see people that know what they want.
Like, what do you want in life?
Like, what's your direction?
And then once you do that, like, all right.
And they're willing to make a map and make that and chart that course and that's my job and that's us as recruiters job like all right Here's the course you want to you want to start here with us and they say yes or if they don't whatever but I just like motivated people that are that love their country and Appreciate the benefits of it and appreciate what they have and then just give back a little bit.
It's really not that much
and
I don't know that that's a good way to recruit though because I think even I thought a good school that recruited was Drake and they come in they said what do you want to do and if the kid knows the guys like look we can work
with you on
that
but you
gotta I think people wanted when they were kind of lost back back in the day and now they go in with a goal anyway.
Yeah, it's
quick break Grand Seleski Wisconsin Army National Guard back at this
We're here on a beautiful Monday morning with Grant Sileski, Wisconsin Army National Guard.
Well, Grant, you know, obviously you guys had a big send off.
There were a couple of weeks ago.
Just, they're not getting into details of who, what, when, and where, but just in general, for all the people in the National Guard that are deployed right now, tell me about their day to day.
So, and the training-wise, you will wake up in the morning, eat your chow, whatever it's gonna be.
Living in some, not the greatest barracks, but...
Whatever, so how
we are we can see Texas,
right?
Yeah, it was it was kind of funny I don't want to get any politics or whatever But like when they showed the the soldiers in California that we're laying on the thing that's how we sleep like we don't we're not Congress or senators that gets sent to
Super rich hotels.
No one no one says anything about that like why are these guys getting this that like we sleep wherever we get to sleep like it's just the way it is like We there's hundreds and hundreds of soldiers.
What are you gonna do put them up in a hotel?
Yes, you should but they save that money for the senators in Congress Yeah, so no worries.
So um, but yeah, so
anyway fine with that.
We don't care like we
sleep anywhere doesn't matter then it's
as
as the one thing I learned the great phrase Embrace the suck.
Yeah, you just deal with it like it's and we're all doing it together.
So it doesn't
It doesn't faze
us.
Yeah, that always gets me when the people complaining aren't the people that should be complaining, right?
You know what I mean?
Like well because they're using
it as a as a
political right now You just said we're fine.
Yeah, and they're like all these poor.
It's like no we're And
then go talk to a Joe and like hey does this suck like yeah,
you okay?
Yeah, right?
Yeah, we're fine
If you like MREs, no, but are they okay?
Yeah, I
like
MREs so again.
I don't, it's the second time I brought it up, but I chill the MREs all day.
Hey, you people eat well.
Yeah.
Let's be honest, you people eat well.
And then when they get overseas, the food is phenomenal.
Yeah.
Well, most places.
I actually put
on weight when I went to Iraq the first time because of the midnight snack where they'd have the ice cream sundae
thing.
So good.
Oh my god.
And then the omelets in the morning.
Yeah.
We had some
They're from Africa.
The ones who are African Indian were cooks.
And by God,
they
make an omelet.
Yeah, unbelievable.
So good.
Yeah.
Anyhow, get back to training.
So they wake
up, they wake up and they go do whatever it is.
They got to slowly but surely you build up training, different exercises and.
Well, you'll do PT and then you go do live fire.
You'll go do squad tactics, whatever your mission is going to be.
That's what you're training up to go do.
Um, and then yeah, you train, train all day, sometimes into the night, sometimes all night, um, go to a live range, you go pick up brass when it's done mid that that's miserable.
I will say that picking up brass rounds at three in the morning.
Like.
You need a certain amount before you get to go to bed and you have two people that are working in that
one thing one thing about the the 127 though It's an infantry unit.
You know the 432nd was civil affairs.
Yep, but you guys are an infantry unit.
Yeah,
we're there
So
the primary reserve combat force of the United States Army
the National Guard
people have to understand correct like we are so It's active duty and then National Guard.
Yeah,
remember you National Guard when we're established.
Yes.
No
No.
1636, we birthed everything.
We are the OGs of the military.
So that's why we are the backup infantry.
And then also...
Hey, I just want to throw, when I was doing the Wisconsin, or the basketball team in Oshkosh, the herd.
And I was talking to this one guy, he said, hey, when Young Play goes, what's up OG?
I'm like, hey, that sounds like a cool thing.
Tell me, oh gee.
And then somebody said, it means old guy.
No, it means old goat.
Old
goat.
The original gangster.
I like that.
I like that.
That's
what he meant when he
was talking.
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, right.
But yeah, so it's pretty cool.
In Highway 32 signs, you guys know that, right?
On all the Highway 32 signs throughout the state, there's two red arrows on it.
Never notice that take a look
really now you know Wow, I will say this the 32nd Division and in my first book I wrote and I the history of the 32nd Division is mind-boggling
Yes,
we
impressive legit the longest running concurrent days in World War two of any active or reserve element
It's in World War one.
Yeah, where they first got the nickname late terrible
in the French pronunciation.
I think that's
Like history, I love history, and I think that brings a long pride.
And heck, that's great that you teach them.
I mean, we look at how much we're learning.
We've been around forever.
Yeah, that's just very cool that that's part of who you are.
And I
didn't know that.
It's not in the red arrow.
Oh, I
got
it.
We
haven't penetrated.
Yeah, I got
it.
They penetrate further into enemy territory than any other unit in World War One.
Yeah.
So
these
is incredible.
They're
heritage
down in Texas.
So they're they're taking these.
How long are they there?
It could be oh, so I'll just talk about my experience.
Yeah, so in 2019 we were gonna go to Afghanistan and It ended up we were down in Texas and we were supposed to be there for a month We ended up there three months and that's when it's like oh, please get us out of here So anyway a month two months three months and then it all depends because everything's scheduled everything's planned out.
There's nothing like there's no surprise.
It's not like it sort of playments with the guard
Nothing is a surprise.
It's not like oh World War three kick and that would be a surprise Then we would have like whatever you called but that's active element side that does that Everything's planned out years in advance like we know where we're gonna go We know all this stuff and just got to go with the flow So if
somebody is listening right now and thinks you know that might not be a bad gig for my son or whatever or my daughter What do they do?
Um, so we have a few great, great recruiters in the Green Bay area.
Uh, good friend of mine, Sergeant Miller, um, and Sergeant Martin there at the Green Bay Recruiting Office at 801 Military Avenue.
Yep.
Military go figure.
Um, yeah.
And all you got to do is just go push the button there and say, Hey, I'm interested.
And to hear more about it, isn't committing to anything, but if you have interest.
Go find out.
But yeah, Sergeant Miller and Sergeant Martin, phenomenal recruiters.
They're both really good friends of mine.
Miller used to actually work for me at CrossFit Green Bay.
And once again, the educational benefits are mind boggling.
Yeah, don't pay for school.
Dummies do that.
Like, we can go, you can go to school, like, do you need college?
Not necessarily, but if you get it for free, Ken, do you need it?
Why not?
Yeah.
We'll pay for it.
But don't buy a truck with your bonus.
No, unless it's used.
Exactly.
Grant,
Great having you here, my brother.
Thanks for what you're doing, man.
Anything we can do to support you guys.
Yeah, and
that's hot.
You've
got about November.
All
right.
Okay.
Hell, yes.
Let's go.
I'm so excited
right now.
I can't believe
it.
Well, yeah, I just said a quick break.
Eddie Alpanez, Green Bay Prescasette, extraordinary reporter, joining us next.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Special thanks to Grant Sileski from the Wisconsin Army National Guard.
Of course, they're deployed right now in Texas, and they're gonna be going overseas.
Man, I can't say enough good things about the Army National Guard, how wonderful they are in every way.
Joining us right now is an extraordinary reporter, and I'm not throwing that out there.
Ariel Perez from the Green Bay Press, he's one of those guys.
Ariel, I'm serious.
When I see your byline, it's like you read the article no matter what, because you have such a great style.
Writing and I really and truly mean that it's
short.
It's informative.
Yes,
and
no BS So you read it quick and you learn what is happening you kind of have an idea What's if it's a restaurant for example, what are
you?
Right?
Yeah, you know what I mean?
It's a little bit of history I
want to be a writer I major in journalism.
I I want my goals to
be a sports illustrated writer, whatever.
So I love good writing.
And you're just a good, and I'm not blown smoke at you, but I just enjoy reading your stories, no matter what it's
about.
I think it's easier for me in Spanish, but English, I'm getting there.
Wow.
Well, I hope you stay here for a long time.
Like I said, the Chicago Tribune or somebody's going to come knocking.
I'm
staying.
I'm
staying.
That's awesome.
What are you working on?
I know you're working a lot of business things.
I read that.
And you've talked about new businesses, which is exciting.
But there's businesses that close and you put those in there.
You don't spend as much time on those as you do on the new ones.
But is there a common thread why they close?
I mean, I teach business, it's capital.
So are we too generous with money?
But we do have some failures here.
And I don't want you to dwell on that, but you can learn from failure.
You know
what's hard.
When a business close, it's tough to get the owner to talk about what they, why they close.
It's, you
know, they're probably hurt, maybe they have dead, you know, and I
try, I really,
I really, really try to get in touch with them.
And, you know, because precisely because of that, because I want to learn why, what happened,
how they fail.
Is there a common thread?
Is it because we didn't have the density downtown that they thought we had?
Is it because they couldn't recruit?
But if like businesses are failing, it's not always their fault, Ariel.
No.
I mean, it could be external
forces.
So for example, I interviewed this new owner.
He's opening at Café in Suamico.
He had a restaurant before, and I think it was Oshkosh, and he had to close it down after, I don't know, eight months.
The thing is, he is a cook.
He said, what I like is to be in the kitchen and work there.
But I had a guy that I was managing and money goes going the other way.
So I didn't know about all the taxes that I had to pay, all these things.
There's some of that, I guess.
There's other people, and this is for what I've seen when I asked them, are you leasing?
And they say, yeah, I'm leasing.
And I figured the rent here must be really expensive.
If it's in downtown Green Bay or in Bellevue, for example, that area that's developing over there.
If you're not doing well with sales, eventually you're gonna go down.
And that happens a lot.
And I think we have a responsibility
people who don't and don't know workman's comp and taxes and accruing for that.
Yeah, we got to ask those questions and we got to help them do that because business is tough.
I mean, it is.
It's like I.
It's like they say when the most successful ones that I've talked to is like they plan for a year and a half with losses, for example, even if they're doing well, you know, they're smart with money.
They save.
They may be, you know, hire one more person because if they're having good business, but.
But it takes a lot to get there.
And we've had people on here, we talk about research before you get in, because everybody, I mean, it's exciting to get in and start ringing the till.
But if you don't know what you're getting into, I mean, not just the industry, I'm talking about your local thing.
And we had a gallon here from Appleton or Oshkosh that did like subway sandwiches.
She spent a lot of time researching that little business a lot.
She'd sit in her competitors restaurant and listen to what people ordered.
And just she's not going to fail because of research.
And things happen.
She almost saw what not to do.
I
love my Hispanic people, but they they I've seen it a lot here.
A lot of Hispanics, they go into the business without knowing much.
Just they think it's going to be like easy.
You know, I start selling and
You know, I'm going to make money and that's it.
And then, you know, on Military Avenue with Leah, the executive director, she's told me many times, like, you know, I've tried to help, but some of these people, they don't even know about the permits.
They don't do it.
And then they get shut down because you get an inspection.
You know, you're using something you shouldn't be using, or you're selling something you can't cook there, you know?
And
that's where government has a little bit more of a responsibility to say, look, before I give you that, the permit where you can occupy the property.
And I'm saying we have to give them a class, but oh boy, it's nice if they could just take a few classes and just really, because there's like, yeah, people are like, I didn't know that.
And I'm glad it's good.
Let's learn it now before you're, you know, two feet in.
It's
almost what Sarah White used to do.
Right.
Remember that group?
She had a group.
It was...
Oh,
yeah.
But for entrepreneurs.
Yeah.
And it was people... Showing
the bad side.
Yeah.
You know.
And the people who taught there were business people.
Yeah.
That would go in there.
We're not urban hope, but it's something like that.
I know.
Anyway, and she had a program and really 30, 40 kids would be in the class.
That's a lot.
Yeah.
See, wow.
And just look out for this.
Look out for that.
Look out for this.
Well, I
saw a thing just very recently.
Maybe it was in one of your articles.
Like within five years like 60% of businesses like restaurants fail.
Yeah, I mean it's
it's incredible
But it also I mean you have you have a lot of restaurants
Yeah, you know
there's a lot like I talked to a person who has
several restaurants and he's like, you know, it's getting saturated.
It's a lot of the same things.
What have you found, Ariel?
What have you found with the ones that do succeed?
Is there a common denominator?
Yep.
Yeah, I think the good food is one, obviously.
The uniqueness of it, of the food too, and the service.
I think those three things are major.
Isn't
that something about service?
You might have one employee that can do more damage than any advertising on the positive side, that one bad employee.
Isn't
that the
truth?
And people do talk about the food, but boy, they talk about, like someone like me talks about the service more than the food.
You can
see it in the review.
I think the food here is all, I think, you know, the restaurants are all pretty good here, but I think what's good about all the restaurants is the industry is good.
People are going out to eat more, you know, and that's great.
Whether you go out,
date night or whatever you do.
So where you're gonna go is gonna depend on the service.
And price is not the most important thing for some people.
I mean, it's really the service and the quality of the food.
So yeah, restaurants are tough industry to get into, but there's some people who do very, very well.
I get this, I got a kid in my class and all my family's into Italian food.
I'm like, oh, really?
Where are you from?
I'm from Appleton.
I'm like, your family owns Victoria's.
And we talked about why, and I think kids need to learn why they're successful, but you know, portions, I mean, don't you think of that?
If you, if you,
if you
throw
Victoria's, what's the first thing
pops in your mind?
He said that.
Lots of food.
That's what he said.
Here's portions.
I said, what percentage of people are to go?
He goes, it's high, but yeah, just a consistency too, right?
Yeah, you know what you're gonna get.
COVID, I mean, they weren't open, but they kept serving.
Where the
Ariel Perez reported Green Bay Prescosette.
And it just, it's just, I'm really,
happy for the other students that they're gonna learn from this kid.
I mean, they learn from me, but they're gonna, he's gonna share some stories.
And he wants to get into the restaurant business.
I'm not sure he wants to do the Italian thing, right?
Cause he grew up in that.
And by the way, it's a dude, you might want to take that over too.
40
years.
But there's not a lot of Italian restaurants in Green Bay.
There's a couple and they're
good.
They're
okay.
He's Italian, he can say that.
I just want the smell of garlic.
I told them we talked about the venting on College Avenue.
You know, you can vent.
You know, like Al's does too, right?
They vent the fumes out.
So when we walk by, it's like, oh my God.
Smells good.
Yeah, those are minor things.
Ariel
Bean, obviously, not from Green Bay, okay?
And now being a diehard resident of Green Bay, what perspective do you have of this whole community
that somebody who lived here all their lives don't have.
And
good or bad?
I think the first thing I would say is I'm very much, I appreciate it a lot.
Having conversations with people, I learn...
It's difficult for me because I come from a place where people are always joking around They it's partying all the time in a good sense of the word like not like Joking around and poking at each other Here that you get you have that but I would say the first thing I notice here that people are very kind and In you know in business
The service is always there most of the time, whatever you go, if it's a store, if it's the good mornings, that doesn't happen where I'm from.
I think there's a lot to change in the aspect of the amount of people that is in the city.
It's not enough for businesses to grow, I would say.
It's like you get...
I try to give love to all the businesses that I cover, right?
Every now and then I go and eat there, I talk to the owner, I don't know how you're doing, how's business, some say that we're doing okay, others say, oh, we're doing great.
And for me, it's like there's not enough people for the amount of businesses, especially in the restaurant industry.
You can try it once, you can go once or twice, but...
You're not going to go every day, you know?
It's
not cheap.
Going out to eat these days is
not cheap.
It's getting a
little bit more expensive, for sure.
But we don't have the density to support.
No.
Look, Bellevue is growing.
Lambo is growing.
The population isn't growing to the same extent.
But
there's so much space.
There's
so
much land.
Well, a ton of Lawrence is exploding.
Yeah, it's growing too.
But you need density.
You need people.
We feel sorry for it.
There's a business that we're pretty good friends with and they don't have a drive-through and it's...
It's just hard.
There's not enough people walking past their business to support.
Especially
this area, for example.
Right.
What do we
need to do?
Right here, within a
hundred yards of us downtown Green Bay, what do we need to make the next
step?
For example, downtown Green Bay, the organization is doing a lot to bring people, to keep people here.
But I think, I don't know, first, what I mean,
it's going that way, you know, you're building new apartments, there's new projects, now the coals are moving out, there might be an opportunity there for more buildings, more apartments, but I think you gotta attract more people from the outside of, you know, either the bigger cities in Wisconsin, Madison, Milwaukee, or other states, and you gotta make it more attractive with, I don't know,
Maybe low taxes, maybe, you know, more... How about parking?
Everybody
complains
about
parking
in
this, and there's so much space everywhere, you can walk.
But parking tickets are so expensive here,
it's mind-boggling, isn't it?
I
only've had one in five years.
It's because you walk everywhere.
I'm gonna be honest with you, I was at the library the other day.
Okay.
And
I didn't have a quarter with
me.
It was like 20 bucks.
Yeah.
And it was, it was, it was 10 minutes.
It was 10 minutes to six.
And I sat there defiantly without an expired meter.
I wanted a parking attendant come and try to give me a ticket.
I was going to have an altercation.
They are, they're too aggressive here.
They're not friendly.
Bingo.
Bingo card.
I was going to have an altercation from John.
No, there you go.
Bingo card.
Ariel Perez, reporter, Green Bay Press, Gazette extraordinaire.
Back with more right after this.
I apologize, Ariel.
Oh, man.
Good thing we're having a
race fight.
Jim was talking about the dumbest thing the city's ever done.
I said it was tearing down the mall across the street.
That's the best thing we've done.
Ariel Perez joining us, Green Bay Presquizette.
Well, Ariel, let me ask you this.
Green Bay, we had the draft and the whole world was watching us and everything like that, which turned out fantastic.
But what do you try to tell people when you leave here and you go back to Miami or wherever and they say, Green Bay, that little po-dunk kind of town?
What do you tell them about
Green Bay?
Well, one of the things I was just talking about before, people are nice.
I was telling Jim a story.
We were talking about parking a couple months back.
I was going to park.
I spilled.
And I see this truck leaving.
And when I park it, I'm going to put some coins in the, there were 10 minutes left.
Parkimeter.
Yeah, in the parking there was 10 minute left.
So like, you know, yeah.
So now every now and then when I'm leaving, you know, I do the same thing.
I put up nice.
I put one or two coins and leave like 10, 15 minutes there and I leave.
That's awesome.
And that can make someone's day.
And you're going to take it.
You
were
a block
away.
Tell him about the story you got.
So yeah, I I parked.
I went into Matt chicken.
You get some chicken place.
Oh, man.
And dude.
And I didn't even see anybody go by.
And then I come out and there's a ticket in the way.
And the thing is that I put like five minutes.
I only had a couple pennies.
So I put a bunch of pennies.
And it was like five, seven minutes.
And I just ordered the food and came out and I had a ticket.
$22 or something.
Is that
amazing?
And what's sad about that is someone will take that out of Mad Chicken.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They won't go
there again.
They won't come
back.
What?
That was a great food, great service.
That's
unbelievable.
I've never seen that.
The number one hated thing of Dahl Green Bay is the parking.
Society, whatever it's called,
how unbelievably aggressive they are, how they want to get so many tickets.
But I wouldn't say any of that to anybody in Florida or whatever.
I would say people are nice here.
There's everything.
Except for parking.
Well, he doesn't say that.
What he's saying is he's the mayor, right?
He's
our ambassador.
Eric,
Eric, if you're
listening,
you
can
change this, Eric.
You can
do this.
We had a group of people come to see us, like five, and they had two cars, and they parked here.
Um, they put an hour in and they went to lunch and they came back in an hour and 10 minutes and they both had tickets.
It's unbelievable.
They said they're never eaten in downtown again.
Yeah.
What?
Nothing hurts
downtown Green Bay business more than the parking.
It's
too aggressive.
It's the guy's
got to change it.
Now we have an opportunity to change it because they won't do it.
Eric,
I
think he gets a cut out of every ticket.
I
think he's got a slush fund just like you had with that cardboard box under your bed.
I think Eric gets a cut out of every ticket.
That's right.
Well, there's yeah, we it.
That's an issue for us.
You gotta do that story.
Well, they don't take that much of slush fund that the mayor gets for the parking ticket.
I don't think
that's
for me.
It's true.
I'll do it.
That's Jesse, right?
That's Jesse.
He's
the
investigative reporter.
I'll blame it on Jesse.
Poor Jesse.
Jesse's working with his salary and all that.
Maybe he can squeeze that in.
But Harria, what's going on here in downtown Green Bay?
And obviously we had the draft, which was such a cool thing.
But in general, what do you see the future of Green Bay?
Well,
we were just talking about that.
I think there's there should be more events also You know, especially at night to bring the young people down and maybe you know Make make it a little bit more lively There's not a lot of space though like what do you think the coal pile thing?
I think that's going to be a fantastic area for potential.
You know, whenever I'm crossing the bridge, the big one, I see all that land there.
And I'm like, oh, it wouldn't be nice if there were like buildings and stuff there.
It's prime property on the water.
Yeah,
right
there.
And it's like, oh.
I mean, the city was built around industry, right?
I mean,
just
by the train tracks and coal piles.
that's not easy to change.
But
this coal pile thing is, there's a real opportunity there.
They can't screw it up.
I mean, this is, this is, this is it.
And I don't know, and look, I love everybody in Green Bay, but I'm not sure that we have the talent internally to do that.
I think we really need to go outside and get somebody who's done this or has experienced with that because, right, you got to get a tax base because you got to pay for this stuff, you know, and
There's just a real opportunity to kind of differentiate us a little bit.
The suburbs are competitive, although we're a city, but you know, there's a lot of cities in Wisconsin, right?
And Madison's only twice the size we are, and why can't we be more like them?
And I think there's... She was running for
Mary again.
I
was just gonna
say, we have
all
these... There's
some
hits in there.
We're like, what are some
buildings?
I saw the glint in Todd's eye.
Finally, we'll get them out of
here.
I know
who I'm
voting for.
Mine on
Ariel.
But
yeah, urban planning is something that is very important.
And I think, you know, where I come from, we build as we go.
And that's why now there's a huge problem in Santo Domingo with traffic because the streets are too small and there's too many cars.
So it's important.
Yeah, for sure.
We've
got 50 square miles here and like 2,000 people per square mile.
I mean, that's, we could have three, 4,000 people per square mile.
The infrastructure is here.
We just
need to get more people here.
And
the way we're going to get them here is through education, right?
Better schools and just.
more reasons to live here.
It's not the weather.
People say that Minneapolis is doing just fine.
I mean, there's some cities in the Midwest.
Madison's doing great, and that's one of the most sought after places to live.
I mean, everywhere is Madison.
But we've been here for a while at this 100,000, and we could really elevate this.
It grows, and it comes down.
It grows a little, and it comes
down.
But we've never done the big catapult, where it's like, oh my god.
It's
going very slow.
Right.
We've never been
booming.
And I think there's an opportunity for us to boom.
There's a little bit of booming in the past, Kablooey, since the news about Green Bay, the best place to live.
Since there, there's a lot more money coming in, but still it's very slow, the process.
Just a lot of opportunity though.
You talk about the land, you know, up by Lambeau Field, there's East Side,
West
Side, Howard, there's just... So we're there, we're not...
where we're not overbuilt.
So it's interesting.
Aerial Perez,
we absolutely love having you on
this show,
man.
Aerial for mayor, man.
You
do it all.
Aerial Perez, refate press cassette.
He's trying to
get
out
of it.
You just want to get away from babysitting,
let's be
honest.
Beck.
Look
at this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts.
John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, Minow and the Mayor here, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 FM, WISS, and of course the Civic Media App Worldwide, 61 degrees in Green Bay, 62.5, 64 in Oshkosh, partly to mostly cloudy today from our gal, Brittany Merleau, scattered showers high in the low 80s, and special thanks to Ariel Perez, Green Bay,
Presca Zett reporter extraordinaire, Grant Zaletsky, Wisconsin Army National Guard, and now Amanda Misselli talking about a great thing with the bold marketing agency.
From Luxembourg Casco High School, I just want Amanda, who's the most famous person you went to high school with?
Oh, I get to say her name, Cassie Schilds.
The one and only.
Right.
She's something else.
Hi, Cassie.
All right.
She better be
listening.
She just stopped outside of our window and waited for you,
so she better be listening.
She would probably say the same thing about you, right?
Because you're getting famous.
You're
just...
You know, okay, I have one
negative thing to say about Cassie.
Oh, gosh.
I have wanted to challenge her in a horse competition, basketball-wise, and she always comes up with excuses.
Oh,
we're going to have to make her.
I know, right?
I agree.
I know.
I know.
You might get beat, though.
No, I don't think I will.
I love you.
I think she doesn't want to make you look
exactly She's she's that Green Bay nice compassionate.
She doesn't want
to embarrass you Whatever I sell a bold marketing agency, you've got great things going on and we're just talked with area about downtown Green Bay the good things what you do in downtown Green Bay is one of those good things
and it's unique, right?
That's what we need to differentiate ourselves.
I mean you're an Appleton which is
They got it going on there.
And here, tell us this fashion show.
I mean, that's...
We just don't hear a lot about fashion shows.
Right?
Sports, sports, sports.
And you
guys
go against the grain.
Yes.
On everything that we do, we go against the grain.
That's really what we love to be able to do and just kind of stand up in that exactly the, you know, stay bold and do all of those things.
And I have been to different fashion shows around everywhere.
And like you said, you know, it could be this hoity, toity
kind
of mentality of what people see in movies or what it may be.
And it's just a huge celebration.
You know, it was one of the coolest things last year.
We had over 150 people.
and I asked, you know, who's been to a fast show before?
Maybe 10 people have raised their hand.
and it was just so cool to be able to see their reactions after.
I'll never forget this one guy came up to me and we had this little girl in the show that she just stole the show with this walk that she did.
And he came up and he was just screaming and he's like, that was the coolest thing I've ever been to.
Like that was so
awesome to watch her do that, this grown man.
It was just so much fun to see the excitement and energy that people have from it.
And when people come to see fashion, I mean, it's more than...
Close.
Yeah, more than more than close.
So we have over 30 businesses involved along with sponsorship vendors, just people involved.
We have over 18 models that out of those 18 models, you know, whether they're entrepreneurs or just people doing awesome stuff in the community.
It is huge involvement with just building the community.
And the whole purpose of the event is to celebrate creativity in all forms and remind people that, you know, creativity is not just fashion.
It is, you know,
how this chair was made, the fact that it can even be here, or that we can speak into a microphone, and somebody invented this.
You know, that was a creative idea, or math problems.
They're a creative idea.
And reminding everyone that they all have that in them, and it's not just taking, you know, paint
to canvas.
In your motto, which is tattooed on your wrist and on your shirt, give us your motto.
Stabled.
Right,
love it.
You're doing this in a creative part of...
our community
yep yep at the compound um which is where the art garage is um
which is a phenomenal place for those
Great for a Naomi.
Yeah, such a cool building.
Um, the history of just kind of that, it used to be the green green bay canning company.
So it's this really old industrial warehouse building.
Um, it's got this long spot that we can have the runway and the two owners that bought it, they're two siblings and they're just absolutely incredible and a huge part of making, you know, this new development in what green bay is and that a huge part of why even want to stay here and a huge part of why we're at the compound where our office is at is because we get to be a part of that and actually feel like it's a compound, you know, like.
We are all working together for this bigger mission.
That's not just about us, but the community.
Love it.
And kudos to people who bought it, because that was struggling a little bit, right?
I mean, it just was with six different nonprofits, this and that.
That's nice that you're here.
They're doing awesome stuff.
Right, they are.
You guys are doing some awesome stuff there.
So this fashion show is just coming up soon, right?
Yep.
Friday, June 20th, doors open at 6 p.m.
OK.
Tell us a little bit about when somebody walks through the door
that night, what are they going to see?
And who's walking through the door?
Oh, well, we love to say that anyone and everything is welcome.
It's really about, like we said, the community and just bringing those people together and continuing to show that idea that you don't just have to be a woman or dressed in the nines or whatever it may be to be able to show up in this.
It's about celebration.
We have families.
We have kids walking.
One of the designers is actually an Appleton East High School student that she designed two different looks from class.
And you know, when they walk in the door, we're really all about the experience start to finish, like with every single event that we curate.
through the bull marketing agency and bull events is all about just very intentional gatherings and that we're all here for a reason to be able to step into the door and kind of transmit you into this new experience that isn't your day-to-day life and that you're going to go, you're going to kind of forget about everything else that's going on in the world and you're going to have this incredible time, you're going to meet other people that are going to help you and build into the next part of life.
And when you leave, you're not just going to be like, oh, the experience is done, you're going to walk away.
feeling changed and that you actually had this experience that then you kind of pay it forward to other people because of this mission and this objective and purpose that comes from what we created.
You're the right person to Like really really good
People
are looking for that you know I mean we talk
There's things to do in Green Bay, and I don't know if it's...
a lot of the same things, because everybody likes to think they're unique, but this is really outside the box.
Yeah, thank you.
We like to say that.
One of our events was called Think Outside of the Box, actually.
I believe that.
Yeah, and it's just really about how can we continue to do those?
You know, when I lived elsewhere and I travel a lot, it was a lot of those things there.
And I was really sick of kind of hearing that.
We don't have any of those things here, because we are developing into this really, really cool city.
And there's so much new stuff.
And why can't we continue to build on that to be our own unique version?
You know, we're never going to be Chicago.
We're never gonna be Miami or New York.
We don't wanna be though.
Like, we're Green Bay.
But there's bits and pieces we wanna take from those places and bring them here.
Yeah, and make it our own thing.
Right, like, I don't know that I'm...
that there's a lot of fashion shows here, I can be honest with you.
That's why we love
doing it.
And to the scale.
I was doing that one time.
And
to be honest, just
like at this
scale, like there's maybe some small ones here and there, but like at this scale, we really go all out.
And like I said, I've been, I've been in events, I've been in hospitality since I was, you know, a kid and just being able to see all of that and then go to all of these different fashion shows and really be able to execute that in live time of just like, it's a really creative experience of what you can.
do when you have music, when you have a creation that somebody is putting on somebody's body and wearing, and then somebody who is actually showing up and being a bold individual.
And walking the runway is not an easy task at all.
And these people are all volunteers.
They do it because they want to.
They
do it because they want to step outside of their comfort zone and be bold.
So give us an example of somebody that's going to be on the runway.
Yeah, so anywhere from we've got a life coach who is an entrepreneur and a mom all the way to, you know, one of a hairstylist that is one of our clients at the salon, salon 54.
That's also a sponsor
as
well.
And she, her name is Asia.
She's going to be one of our models as well.
She's coming for round two.
We have probably over eight to 10 models that were our models last year as well that are doing it again.
And
what will they be modeling?
So we have four different designers, myself being one, and then my sister is actually one as well.
And then another designer, her name is Ann Parizzo.
And then Macy Smith, who is the student that I talked about, she'll be showing two different looks.
But it's a lot of upscaled, very unique outside of the box fashion that you just typically won't see all one of a kind, all handmade by every single one.
And yeah, just pretty much very sustainable of like, what can we find or what can we thrift and turn it into something that's
different.
We talked about the fashion, but tell us about the jewelry.
I just, you came in here with that.
Did you design your
glasses?
Oh,
I
wish I did.
They were like $30 on Zenny Optical.
They're my real glasses.
People don't believe me when I tell them that, but they've become a part of my personal brand that people don't recognize me if I don't have my glasses on.
And yeah, I love jewelry.
I always have.
He's talking about I'm decked out in rings and jewelry and all that.
So we will have Weldon Arrow, who's a permanent jewelry.
the show as a vendor as well.
And then we will also have, we kind of talked about the tattoo on my hand, Adorn Studio, Amanda Marvin, she will be one of the vendors as well, giving out tattoos, Stay Bold will be one of them that you can get.
And yeah, we have over 30 businesses involved with sponsorship vendors and just everyone come in.
Amanda, could we, I mean, I'm just throwing this out there for the third annual.
Would it be possible to get these guys to walk down the catwalk?
That would be fabulous.
You better wear your sparkly glasses.
I
will.
I will.
I know all about that.
Yeah, only rule.
Oh, man.
Yeah, I love it.
You know, one of the things that I love about you, and I've got two daughters and three granddaughters, the Be Bold aspect.
You know, we all grew up in an era where the, you know, the daughters or whatever, like subservient or whatever, whatever.
And I love your generation of people.
Yeah, it's just like, you know, I have both kind of values of like, I love being a CEO and I love being a founder.
My boyfriend's also an entrepreneur and we both just start going at life in
that
way.
That's
awesome.
But
yeah, like we come back together when we need to and in kind of that space and being able to still have that kind of family orientation.
But yeah, like, I'm gonna just keep doing me and I love that.
Good energy that comes out.
It's funny because we were talking to Ariel a little bit earlier.
people on here about people that aren't bold and they can lead to some not so good things later in life, you know, and you're young, really to step out and like John's daughters, my daughters step out too.
I mean, they don't, they've never- And sometimes
it takes kind of that hand to hold that someone else can help you along the way
and
just being able to be like, hey, you know, there's been plenty of people that I've kind of taken their hand and been like, you know, it's going to feel weird at first.
It's going to feel really weird, but um,
Once you
gotta get out of the comfort zone.
Yeah.
You know, it takes the first one and then the second one.
And once you keep doing it, it starts to feel, you know, less uncomfortable because you've done it.
But sometimes it just takes that welcoming hand.
And I also want to applaud you for bringing the vendors out because they need exposure, you know, and.
This wouldn't happen without all of them and the sponsors and just everyone.
My point is small businesses, it's expensive to get the word out.
I mean, there's social media, which there's a lot of that.
But you know, to get on TV or in the papers, extremely expensive, even in this town.
So that, but there's nothing like
what they eat in the old days, belly to belly selling, but I mean, just seeing the vendor and-
Yeah, and I just said a glimpse of them, a small amount, so.
Yeah, that's great that you're bringing them together and what a fun night.
Is there, what's the cost to get in and-
Yep, so we have three different ways you can either do general admission, second row or front row experience and you can find more of just what's going on and everything on our social media at the Bull Marketing Agency or Bold Events Wisconsin or under my personal command and chief and be able to see kind of-
of more of what's going on.
Awesome.
We're going to be setting a quick break, hoping you can stick around.
Yeah.
Man, I want to talk a little bit more about the compound and the art garage and that whole little section of East Green Bay that I just think is burgeoning.
I think that could be a really cool kind of thing.
Yeah.
And we've actually talked about Oshkosh.
They've taken these alleys that normally would be like dead end kind of things and turn them to these great art type things.
Yeah.
I think Green Bay is right on the cusp.
of that
in that part of town.
That needs some infrastructure.
You know, we've talked about unique lighting, something to really call it out.
And people like yourselves are
doing that.
I think it's cool.
All right, we got a quick break.
Mine on the back with Amanda Macelle, bold marketing agency right after this.
Amanda, this is the music I want John and Jim to walk down the catwalk to, okay?
I can see
me.
I can't
see me.
He's like, I'm picturing it.
Right?
Okay, right?
You know what I want to have on?
I want to
have one of those mesh kind of shirts.
Oh, no, please.
Yeah!
See?
There we go.
I have a friend who said the same
thing.
You got to do
like a retro thing with the polyester jacket.
I could do that.
The mesh shirt under.
Yes, there you go.
With the cat glasses.
Yes.
Yes.
Fabulous.
Friday is it this coming Friday?
I'm in.
I'm in.
I'm in.
I'm in.
Amanda
Micelli, the bold marketing agency which
It's really a misnomer as in because you're so unbold
as a
human being.
Second annual bold fashion show coming up.
I want to talk again.
We're big fans.
Jim and I talked about this all the time and with Ariel we're talking about the two about downtown Green Bay and the historic aspect of downtown Green Bay and your part of town right over there.
I still think is has a potential to really
be something so cool.
And Naomi, as we mentioned, has the art garage there and you're worth the compound.
Describe a little bit about that part of town for people that haven't been there.
Yeah, so it's very industrial Which I really love like I always kind of like to say especially when I'm in the compound upstairs.
I'm like, I feel like I'm in New York, but I'm not And I love New York So I love the very old industrial vibe and kind of the history with that building is that it used to be the Green Bay Cannon Company And the building itself is from the early 1900s But then they had a fire in the 40s and then they kind of rebuilt off of that.
I stayed up really late one night chat
the whole history of it.
That's so awesome.
Yeah, but it was really cool to just kind of know the history of what building I'm in and that, you know, the two owners who bought the compound on the recent year, their two siblings, Kayla and Kiefer, and they're doing just some awesome stuff, like with the actual cafe that's open, long-term vision for what they see for the building, and that they're really just continuing to bring in other tenants that are part of a compound and doing more for the community.
And they've got...
a family that has grown up in that world.
I mean, they are creative
entrepreneurs, and then you got the artisan right behind
you.
And that whole area, and even some of the housing there could fit into a really cool arts district.
And we were talking in the break a little bit, but there's some infrastructure that I think the city needs to do.
And I want to say that we talked about it, but there's only so much one can do.
But some different lighting, we talked a little bit, Oshkosh does a really good job with some lighting for their artistic area.
There's pavers you can put in.
a
lot of cool things you can do.
It's like, wow, I'm in a different.
Park
right
of Green Bay.
Yeah,
and
it would
have been so
easy to knock them all down and build whatever whatever You know, and
they're not keeping it.
Yeah, so sad it was cool because this building was one that I remember as a kid always driving past And I always be like that place looks really cool.
I wonder what's inside.
Yeah Yeah, it was kind of a full circle moment moving in there of like wow I remember this as a kid But like I agree of that There's just other ways to be able to make it a little bit more lively and ways to make it feel a little bit more like you can just walk around casually where it's just kind of like
like these small sections at the moment and not like this big congregation to walk around in.
And like parking, we could do better.
I know you guys were talking about that too.
You want to talk about it again?
No,
we don't want to talk about it.
Parking could be a little better, but that's
okay.
I'm grateful that people like you, that you're here, but people like you because, you know,
just a whole Broadway thing.
We came in within one boat of tearing that down and putting it in a Walmart.
Oh my gosh.
And you look at,
they tore down the downtown and put it in this mall that was a total dog.
So we just need to step up and speak up.
be bold.
It's important.
And continue to have more small businesses too.
I know that sometimes big corporations have the money and the means to do so to bring in these things, but it's like when you can just have this cool downtown walk around small businesses, it's so fun.
I'm gonna tell
you that some of those big businesses really support the small
businesses
like Shriver,
Associated,
Nicolet.
They love the
uniqueness.
And they're Wisconsin fans, which I love.
You know
what's so cool though, even like with Ariel, I mean Ariel could
Any place in the country he could go right
now
New York Times, whatever.
He's that talented and for yourself being homegrown, you know, Luxembourg casco
to bring your vision and your passion to stay here in Green Bay.
And Jim always talks about the brain drain where young talented people leave Green Bay.
And you and Ariel and people like that, you're the future of Green Bay.
You people are the ones that are gonna take it, you know, make
this place.
I've noticed the ones that are meant to be here come back.
We come back.
And I just want to say that it's okay that you left, went to Naples, Ariel of course, you know, he's done his, but really we gotta get that talent back here.
And I think,
Maybe appreciate Green Bay just the opportunity
a little bit more so much more, right?
I love this place like at first I used to be like I don't like Green Bay.
I'm getting a hell out of here like
totally my mentality coming from a very small town.
And I was like, yep, I'm leaving, which I'm so glad got that perspective left came back.
But like, like you said, it made me appreciate Green Bay so much more for everything that we're doing.
And just like Wisconsin in general, that it's so beautiful to have a little bit more of a slowdown.
If I want to go fast pace, I can, but it's this very quaint Midwest living.
And, you know, my boyfriend lives up in Managua, and my family's from Managua too, so I'm always up there, and that's another level of peaceful, but it's like...
That's about
a... In
the United States of America, that's
about a place you'll find.
Yeah, so it's like, that's just beautiful.
But I think you realize you're really not here because...
you like it here you kind of hear because you see the potential here
both both i would say i love being by my family i love the seasons which people think i'm not for but and just also yeah like it's about the community and that i really do love it
that's
why i
went to school in arizona
And when I'd come back, you know, people would be like, Hey, would you do for spring break?
I would go back to the UP.
And I loved it.
You know what I mean?
Because
you need it.
I'm wanting to see snow and the change
of seasons and everything.
And people love to come visit.
And they're like, Oh, I get it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's so cool, man.
You are the future of Green Bay.
You
and your people be bold, which is what you are.
The bold marketing agency.
Give it a plug, once again, what you got coming on.
Yep, we've got our second annual bold fashion show this Friday, June 20th.
Doors open at 6 p.m.
Show starts at 7.30 after party 9 to 11 at the compound in Green Bay.
Tell me where the compound is.
1429 Main Street, Green Bay, Wisconsin, 54302.
But
nominal.
Amanda, you're great.
Thank you
so much for having me.
Thanks,
guys.
And by the way, if you talk to Cassie.
Oh, a game of horse.
Tell her to be
bold.
Yeah, come on.
Come
on,
Cassie!
Back
after
me.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
My name is the mayor man.
We had some great yesterday.
I'm mad at myself Lee the bold marketing agency second annual bold fashion show coming up this weekend.
She is awesome aerial Perez, of course, Green Bay Press Gazette Grand Saletsky, Wisconsin Army National Guard and Britney Merleau and now David Rocker vice president of retail banking bank first coming your way from our Studio in beautiful downtown.
Oh, gosh.
Good morning, David
Good morning.
How are you gentlemen doing?
Fantastic.
How are
you?
I'm fantastic.
Thank you for having me today.
I really appreciate it.
You
bet.
Well, we love what your bank does besides this great rates and customer service.
What you do for the community too.
That's I think banks leaning into that a little bit more than some other industries and we just really appreciate that.
Yeah, you bet bank first does a great job in the community with our customers.
I just take good care of people and good care of our communities and just make a difference.
And that's super important and what we do and why I do what I do.
And banking, that's competitive, right?
There are many banks.
I bank at your place.
But what makes you different, right, unique?
Because there's some kids that are 20, 29 that have never been in a bank quite honestly, right?
So what makes bank first different is just the way that we give cut good customer service We take good care of people and we just want to do the right thing And I think it's it's it's all about people.
You know, I work with a great team a great bank Especially here in Oshkosh our team takes good care of our customers One of the things that I always think about especially with with what I do is, you know, I'm I answer the phone we you know, we call back
our customers.
If you need something done, we will get it taken care of.
And we're there to take to do good things.
Nothing more frustrating than this phone tree that goes on and on and on.
You know, I mean, we look if I don't care costs a little bit more, I would love to talk to someone in person, right?
And there's the airlines are the worst.
But some companies, even though they're large companies have really focused on
Talking to you person to person you know American Express is one of them.
I just think those there's some great companies that can be big and still be close to their customer
Yeah, absolutely, and it's it is about you know, just those simple things answer in the phone and really what I like to think about is owning any issue So even though I do primarily mortgages for purchases here in the community But if you call me and have a problem with an escrow or a
Anything you know,
I'll
own it.
I'll make sure I get it to the person that can get it taken care of and I think that's really important in our customer service.
So what are you finding in the old mortgage business?
We have we talk about real estate a lot here.
We have some realtors that come on here We have some mortgage bankers and is that that's a tough business right now.
Isn't it just because the skyrocketing housing prices not right?
Well,
there's a number of factors that will
drive this particular market, whether it's a housing inventory, whether it's the price of the homes that have increased over the years.
Interest rates have changed.
I don't really want to speak specific interest rates, but one of the things that we can do is find different programs for just about anybody.
There are things that drive interest rates, whether it's your down payment, whether it's
your
credit score.
And those are all things that I really pride myself on.
call me and let's take a look at your situation and let's put you through, you know, a pre-approval program.
We'll figure out what we can do, you know, what your interest rates are going to look like, what programs, whether it's some down payment assistance, and then just making sure we get you in that right program and get you with the right, you know, right realtor and the right title companies and all those kind of things.
And we really educate and take our time with each individual.
person.
Absolutely.
And people today like doing business with businesses that support the community.
You know, I mean, it's it's competitive, right?
And we talked about that.
And I've worked with you here in Green Bay.
What not you personally, but your bank?
What are some of the things that you like to get involved in as a community bank?
Well, I can, you know, speak specifically to some of the things that we're doing this year alone.
You know, we've we've done some
things with the United Way.
Great.
We were big supporters of just last week of the Waterfest show.
I know Xroads 41 is coming up and we're big sponsors there with the Bank First stage.
So there's a lot of things that we'll do.
I personally get involved with some of the neighborhood groups, library, city of Oshkosh.
It's really just about
being and volunteering in our community and our entire team here in Oshkosh and Bankwide to pride ourselves on absolutely being in the community, volunteering, helping when we can.
And that makes a huge difference.
This is this is a bank that really does a great job with that.
And that, again, I want to underscore how important that is to important to everybody.
But
these younger kids that are, when I say younger, you know, 20, 29, 30, that really means a lot to them.
I mean, it's really important that they do business with someone who's doing something for the community.
And like I see, I see that with your bank, but people, those events, they, look, and I was in that world for a little while, these things don't happen without the business support.
They just don't.
I mean, they can say, well, ticket prices are this or the city is going to do that.
Unless,
someone like you know you guys or other institutions banks step up these events won't happen and you got some great events down in Oshkosh you just talked about waterfest and then I forgot x something used to be country music but I mean those things wouldn't happen without the support of banks I just I think the community needs to know that and appreciates it
Absolutely true.
Yeah, there's so many things that we can do to help our community and and Banks generally do a very very good job of being engaged in that.
Well, I mean when somebody comes to you and you know, we're talking mortgages.
I mean boy
They're all in.
I mean, you guys, you know, it's not just, you know, walking into some place and, you know, punching a ticket type thing.
They're investing a big part of their lives with somebody like yourselves.
I mean, that trust factor, that confidence factor has to be there, doesn't it?
Oh, it absolutely does.
You know, when someone first initiates a call with me or comes in to see
Me I I learn everything about them and I still I learned about their credit scores.
I learned about their families I'll learn about what their hopes and hopes and dreams are We're gonna go through the process We're we're going to talk about what they're what their credit looks like.
How much money do they have down?
And if we need to look for different programs to help through that And really guiding them through that whole entire process that educational piece is so important
And to really understand what we're doing here.
We're buying a home.
We're going to put you and your family in a home.
And we just want to make sure that we get into the right loan program, something that you can afford.
make those hopes and dreams come real for them.
And that's one of those things too.
We're talking about back in like 2008, I remember so many times, I had numerous, well not numerous, but I had several friends where it's basically they just, they left the keys on the table and just walked away.
I mean, it destroyed their lives in certain ways.
It really did it affected them.
So that, once again, that confidence factor that you need to instill with the people that walk through your door, it's not just your customer,
your reputation, your livelihood, everything you're putting into it as well, correct?
Yeah, everything I do is a representation of bank first.
So when I'm in the community, whether I'm at work, I'm here on the radio with you fine gentlemen, it is about representing who I am from an ethical person doing the right thing.
You talked about the 2008 era.
You know and there was some ethics issues and certainly nothing that I can speak specifically to but you know I've worked for a couple of different banks over the years and that's always so important is that we're doing the right thing for people and I think if you do that you're gonna you're gonna win.
Well you know I guess I cannot
I got somebody specific in mind.
I obviously would mention, but I knew how much he may have worked with them.
I knew what he made, you know, wage wise for living versus the amount he was paying for a house.
It's like, how, how could I, I don't see, I'm not a mathematician.
I don't see how this could work and it didn't work.
So like you said, it's like those types of people, they've been weeded out of that business now, haven't they?
Absolutely.
Yeah, the first thing that we're going to do when we talk about a pre-approval, we're going to, what can you afford?
Yeah, we want to make sure that your debt-to-income ratio is at a percentage that is going to be successful for you.
We don't want to put you in too much house.
make it so you're just living for that.
So that's that's so important.
And that's one of the first things that we'll do.
And when we get sit down and figure this whole thing out for you.
And you got a text right here, just get does David work with small businesses?
How is that looking in Oshkosh these days, Tamara?
Well, yeah, we have an excellent small business commercial division in our bank.
Myself personally, I
Really especially this time of year with with the pace of home buying.
I am very focused on purchase, you know programs But we do have an excellent small business division For bank first absolutely some of the best I've worked with
So you've been in this for a little while would you recommend this?
Okay,
David Rucker vice
president
retail banking bank first
right in Oshkosh
I think I told you last time, I'm teaching at TC and students are looking like, I don't know what field I want to get into.
Banking is a well-known field, changing field.
Would you recommend that to a 20, 21, 22-year-old?
Currently at the bank, we've got a couple of interns that we're working with.
And these individuals are in college and putting together their
future careers.
So I work with a couple of individuals directly right now and I highly recommend the banking industry because you get
you help people and that's the big thing is that yes there's ways to earn money and to have an excellent career but you also have to think about in all aspects of banking whether it's savings or home buying, small business financing, you are helping people achieve their dreams and I highly recommend banking.
I've been in the banking industry for well over 20 years now.
and different capacities and just highly recommend it because you're not only helping people, you're giving great service, you learn a lot about what is really going on.
So highly suggest banking as a career.
And there's so many different aspects you can get into, whether you want to do investment banking, you want to do commercial banking, you want to do customer service, we've got excellent relationship bankers that are making this their career.
So absolutely.
And I think the other good thing about banking that I just,
It's transferable, right?
I mean, you know, people may love Oshkosh and love your bank, but you know, they want to go to Nashville or Miami, there's banking down there too.
You know, it's not like it's maybe cheese or something where, you know, we're a little bit more focused, it's a little more specialty.
Whereas banking, I know you have specialty products, but it is transferable.
And I think that's healthy for a student, somebody young, because I hope they stay here, but if they want to leave, I want to make sure that they're leaving with a good resume.
And right banking allows that.
You walk into any
town in the, anywhere.
Yeah, there's a bank of some sort or credit union or some sort of a financial institution.
So when you do think about, hey, I live in Oshkosh, maybe someday I want to live here, there is probably an opportunity for you there.
Very, very transferable.
You are very correct.
David, I want to ask this for Jim, because I know he wants to.
Could he come down to the bank, go in the vault and just roll around in the money?
Could he get that done?
Rub it all
over himself.
Naked?
He's not
nearly as much cash in the bank
as he is.
All right, let's look at the safety
deposit boxes.
That's good enough.
David Rocker, vice president of retail banking, bank person of Oshkosh.
David, thank you so very much for being on.
You are very welcome.
Thank you for having me.
Appreciate very much.
We're gonna start a quick break.
Back after this.
Hey, welcome back my little mayor here wrapping up on a beautiful Monday morning.
Although it's getting cloudy out there mostly cloudy Scattered showers coming up low in the or a high in the low to mid 80s coming up today This is a great time of year though Todd's going on vacation starting what tomorrow Todd.
Yep.
Yeah about ten
minutes I wish yeah eight minutes.
Yeah, not that anybody's counting.
No, no People need vacations.
Don't they?
Yeah, you just
It's just good.
I never want to do a
lot though on a vacation.
I want a vacation to be chill.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
I wouldn't be like, oh, I'm going to go on vacation to Disneyland or something.
Yeah.
Well, you got to do that.
Well, when you're kid,
you know, you know what I mean?
Nowadays, it's like, oh man, just let me sleep in and eat what I want and drink a little bit.
And that's, that is kind of what we're going to be doing.
So it's just, yeah.
Then we have of course my son-in-laws.
I'll be with them, but we're gonna do stuff and you know, the when are you going Jim?
They're so I talked to him yesterday.
They're all coming in in July Definitely, I'll be here for the 4th of July and we got a place We're just setting up who's gonna do what you know the women gotta do there not the women have to because the guys are invited No do the spa day.
Oh, I'm not gonna do
that
Some of the guys like that spot.
You're going to a spot.
No, no, I'm not there.
They're doing they do
pedicures and all that stuff
They do it's a whole day and the robes and yet lunch.
That's a fun day I mean guys do that couples do that I'm not gonna do that.
We're gonna do some other stuff like I want to tour
I would hire
somebody to cut my toenails.
Distillery.
We're going to
do some
other more.
I would.
My toenails are grotesque.
So over the weekend I went to cover a couple of events and then I went to area 509 Saturday night for some drinks and music and then somebody brought up the fact that you mentioned that
You had your little thing last week where they had to check your body for a cancer.
Yeah.
And the fact that you did not clip your toenails.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That came up in conversation, John.
That was, honestly, that was embarrassing because he's, he goes all the way down your body with that little scanner
thing.
Yep.
Yep.
And
he's actually did my feet.
Okay.
Yep.
And it's like, oh, crap.
Look at
those toenails.
They're gross.
Just that, uh, Donna said yesterday, you don't get a pedicure.
And I'm like, no, I don't really, but I would
have to be sedated.
No.
I
don't like being, I don't even like get my hair cut.
I don't like people touching me.
But you just said that you would pay somebody to clip nails.
Cause I can't do it myself.
Why can't you?
I don't know.
It grosses
me
out.
Your own body grosses you out.
That's sad.
I know.
Welcome to the world of
Mino.
I mean, I'm kind of there, but I still clip my toenails.
I
want my body grosses
you
out.
I'm
just
asking, you know.
But yeah, it's just one of those things.
I'm just really squeamish about being touched.
Did you get the results of your scan?
And that's different than when I went in, because you said they just, like a
meter.
That's just,
that's kind of cool.
I mean, mine was just
tall.
Okay, can I just say one thing that?
No, we don't want to, no, don't.
Is it like when he got down, what?
Okay, go ahead.
Okay, so, and I still, I,
despised Todd for this, that he had me so worried about what I was gonna have to do.
It sounded like when I was gonna be in prison or something, we ended up being
checked for contraband.
It wasn't just me though.
Jim said the same thing.
John.
We just worried, we were worried about you because we hear stories.
You guys were
enjoying it kind of.
We were,
we hear stories where somebody goes in.
Todd, a little bit, yes.
Somebody goes in, it's like, oh my God, it's, that's in your bloodstream.
That's serious.
You, they just, I thought it was going to be a little bit more,
Todd made me think it was going to be a lot more invasive physically than it was.
I
literally couldn't sleep the night before.
You didn't even know how many layers of skin you had.
And it's, and they, they went to the one layer and boom, you had another six to go and they got it right away.
So.
It was nothing.
And you're right.
We probably said, we didn't scare you.
We just said, look, I wonder how deep that is.
That's all we said.
My, for him, it was me saying they're going to look in every crevice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, the scan.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm going to be honest with
you.
Okay.
I'm just, I don't want to gross anybody out.
He told me I was going to be naked and have to bend over.
Well,
he told me
that.
Yeah.
I'm surprised.
Well, how did they scan that?
Okay, that's the part that was a little uncomfortable.
So there's this young
girl in there, like
a nurse or whatever she is, young attractive girl.
Yeah.
Okay.
And the doctors, like whatever, and he was Latin American, which is girl, Middle Eastern, whatever, whatever.
So, okay.
So you kept your underwear on.
Okay.
You put on a roll, but keep the underwear on.
A paper robber or yeah, that's just the
whatever, you know, things
like
that.
Yeah, yeah.
Disposable
and he goes okay, and he he goes may I look I'm like what do you mean?
He's so he pulls the underwear in front of that girl.
It's like Really they're
professionals.
I Yeah,
that's seed.
That's what I was worried about see that that's what worry that was
the the warning shot we sent and that's okay.
I handled it
well
Were you looking at her when he was looking at you?
Don't say I look at out the window.
Okay.
That's good.
You do have tendency to do that.
Yeah Nancy says please please please tell me that Can I just say one thing is going to be on the bingo card?
It will be
yes
Brian says couldn't sleep because of excitement, John.
Brian, that's not right.
Brian, what's wrong with you?
Oh my God.
Brian.
Hey, I didn't answer my question.
Are the results back?
Yeah, it's great.
Yeah.
Right that day.
Yeah.
Right away.
And what do we say?
Three more months.
No, do you say five years, ten years?
Three
months.
I
have to get another
scan in three months.
That doesn't sound to me like everything was okay then.
Why would he have to come back in three months?
Probably just to be sure, right?
I guess.
I don't know.
Maybe just enjoyed it.
Was it from him or her?
Her.
You got to come back in three weeks.
She told
me that.
What are you doing tonight?
Because like colonoscopies and stuff is 10 years.
A lot of stuff's five years.
I'm surprised.
I told you
about
a
colonoscopy thing, right?
I
don't know you didn't
what happened.
I want to know I
don't this will be my present for my trip.
He's leaving.
Yes.
I'm right.
Okay, so they
do the prep work.
Yeah, and they're whatever whatever and the nurse comes over she goes Okay, can I ask you a question?
Are you minor from IXX?
Yeah, I win the bet Yeah
They're not supposed to do that.
Yeah, I
know.
I'm
just saying.
All
right,
Todd, have a phenomenal vacation.
We'll call you every day.
See ya.
