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Battling Alzheimer’s & Casting New Lines for Vets (Hour 2)
Maino and the Mayor · Tue Jun 17, 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 Tuesday to you.
Good looking Tuesday out there.
That's going to be awesome today.
Yes, yes.
I thought it was good.
You know what?
Yesterday though, um, I went to one part of town and it rained a bunch and the other part of town, not a drop.
That was like the weirdest thing.
Yeah.
And it was actually right up here, almost heading towards your area where it was all wet and then everywhere else bone dry.
So something must have just swept through.
Told you about my night.
Yeah, you had a bad night.
Not something that you want to talk about too much about getting sick,
but it's funny.
You you got sick and I was cooking.
So yeah, the good thing we didn't call each
other.
But I'm just doing this as a public service.
Yeah, I don't
try to help people health wise.
Pretty much the it's great out of PSA because I think everybody knows what you're going
to say.
Yeah, maybe not.
Don't eat spoiled Greek yogurt.
Breaking news.
OK,
John, everybody knows that.
But you can't tell the difference because it always tastes weird.
So I was eating and it's like, I taste kind of sour.
Does it always taste this sour?
Some of us look at the date, but anyway, go ahead.
I
couldn't find my glasses.
Okay.
And, uh, wow, does that get you?
Like you wouldn't think so.
Cause basically yogurt is a bacterial type of thing.
You know, it's made up of spores and, um, you know, normally that's, it's called gut health, gut spores.
And so what happened?
You ate it and you didn't stop.
It tasted, didn't taste good.
And you thought, well,
That's yogurt so you
kept eating it.
I put some um, you know my favorite fruit fruit in the world is this to me a cantaloupe Yeah, all right, isn't cantaloupe one of the great tasting fruits
of all time.
Yeah, that's
good.
Yes.
Yeah
pain in the butt to
clean, huh?
It is it's work.
That's why we miss our moms
But that's all do you ever see if you buy one of those little containers these days like nine dollars for where they're cut up?
I've never seen it cut up.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah, no plastic containers.
Oh, yeah
for the lazy man.
Yeah, hmm
No, the rich lazy man Not just the lazy man not for poor lazy man like myself.
Yeah,
okay.
No,
yeah So I thought maybe that would kill the taste there everything would be okay
That just gives me a stomach.
He's just thinking about
I know don't do it people tell you that right now.
Don't do it now So hope I'm saving somebody today.
All right by doing that So happy Tuesday to you Todd on vacation.
Hope he's having a great time.
Hope he's sleeping in Hope he comes back refreshed.
I think
He needed that vacation.
He needed he was a little stressed.
Right.
We're
talking
and even One of my radio listeners just said I think Todd needs vacation.
I'm like, you know what?
Yeah, he's just working when he works
all the time.
All the time.
All the time.
This is
nothing.
It is this
is this job is this is just
Right.
Oh man, and he does
despite leaving at 430 getting up at 330 and driving 430 and
yeah the side hustles.
Yeah, just then and you know, I
We don't deal with corporate.
He's
looking for ghosts.
Right.
But no, you and I don't deal with corporate, right?
We're
an island.
And when they invite us to stuff, we're like, oh, I'm too busy.
He handles all that for us.
Right.
So he's got that pressure too.
But.
Well, OK, but.
It's
corporate.
I know.
But remember the time we were sitting at the corporate table and they got up and left us?
Yes.
It's
just throwing that out there.
So I'm not so sure they want to hang with us.
That's okay though.
I mean I
in our age and just I just don't I Could do care right I was to make money and be
You know, great company, but I going down and what's going on and that Todd can do that.
Yeah.
He's perfect.
Yeah.
He's good.
Perfect.
He's the guy.
He's the guy.
Uh, today is, um, apple strudel day.
Got to love the apple
strudel.
Not today though, right?
End of the day.
No, no, really.
And then it's 90 or 80.
I can take
cherry tart day.
Hate it.
Hate cherry.
Hate cherry.
Anything cherry I don't like.
Is that crazy?
Except for like mericino cherries.
I just don't like cherries.
Do you know when your kids, you guys didn't go
cherry- Yeah, we had these beautiful cherry trees in our yard.
Oh.
And me and my buddy, we were probably seven, eight years old.
His grandma said, hey, pick them enough cherries and we'll bake a pie.
Okay.
Right.
We picked the cherries, give them to her.
We're tearing it.
She goes, oh, just so you know, I didn't have enough sugar.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
There's no sugar.
And we're by-
It's just, and I hope you guys didn't expect me to pit them.
Oh, geez.
Wow.
So they were tart and they had pits in them.
Yeah, I can see why you had an inversion.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
Wow.
Isn't that something?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I like cherry picking is always, yeah, but you need sugar in those tart
cherries.
Absolutely.
You run out.
There
was no sugar and they were full of pits.
Yeah.
How did I I can visualize that sitting there like you can't believe is that funny when you're seven years old?
Do you visualize that like nothing things?
Yeah, there's some things that come back.
Yeah.
Well today's Bunker Hill day.
All right.
Um, Crocodile day.
Have you seen some of those things in Florida with some of those crocodiles?
How big they are?
Oh, yeah, they're that one.
It was like 21 feet or something.
And it was like in a neighborhood, right?
It was like, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
I
And they just I had in the walk.
So
they're like
like almost like a little monster.
What did you see?
Oh my god, you want to talk about a terrible way to go that that couple was vacationing in Florida and they were kayaking And it was only like four feet of water and there was this big like 18 footer under the water and he overturned their canoe or overturned their kayak and ate the woman in front of the guy.
Yeah,
can you
Uh-huh.
Oh my
god.
Uh-huh Wow, how about the guy in Africa who was like a like kind of a philanthropist for wildlife And he was in like a you have the pickup truck and he had those like campers on
the back Above above that.
Yeah, those are
cool.
Yeah, and then but on top of that he had like a Like a like a police.
You sleep outside, right?
So guys to a new 60
A lot of times they have to go to the bathroom.
Remember they
used to sound old.
He's a young
guy.
He's a young
fella.
He's a
young man.
He's just a kid.
The hell is he doing out there alone?
Did
you guys see that?
He was in Africa on a safari and had that great experience.
But he had to go to the bathroom.
So he went.
just y'all climb down, you know, whatever, two, three in the morning,
you know, whatever time
again.
And there was a lion in wait, waiting for him.
No.
He ate him.
No.
I think about
his wife was up there.
So it's just the opposite, right?
That guy saw his wife get killed by an alligator.
This guy,
he's the, and he couldn't just whiz off the top of the
thing.
Right.
I mean,
right.
I do that now here.
Right.
I just,
I don't know what he was.
Wow.
Unreal.
So yeah, then they,
And that line was like, um, I don't know, like it was hungry.
So it kind of was like waiting.
It was, it wasn't just, you know, it wasn't
happenstance.
Smell them or something.
Just waiting for the
chance.
Waiting for him for a couple of hours.
Unbelievable.
I know why he didn't go off the
top.
I don't
want to wake up his wife for one, but
wow.
Wow,
wow, wow,
wow.
Anyway,
where do these have her go down first
to just check
things out?
Well, sure.
We'll see.
Everything's fine.
That's what I would,
yeah.
Right.
Why don't you just run down there?
Here's a flashlight.
I think everything's fine.
I think I left my keys down there.
Could you go try to find them?
I can't find my glasses and check it out.
Why
didn't he just have like a jar up there?
Why didn't he do
that?
Anything.
Wow.
Anyway, I know.
And he was like a nice guy to the wildlife, so I don't know.
Well, that's, they're the ones that, cause they know you're an easy mark.
They sense that stuff.
You know they do.
You know, it's just like that guy, the grizzly bear guy.
Remember that guy?
The bears have accepted me as part of their family.
I live
amongst them as one in harmony with nature.
Steve's remains were found along the trail.
Does
gorilla people, that happens through that one lady in New York.
Let me show that orangutan.
Yeah.
Interface.
Yep.
He eat it and yeah.
But my alligator, my nice alligator story though, I told you this before, but was when, this is, I don't know, three, four years ago, that guy was walking his dog and that alligator came out of that pond and took him.
I remember that.
Yeah.
And then I just,
like I was all freaked out about that.
So I chased that story down, called the reporters in Dallas, and then I ended up sending some money for your dog for repairs.
I talked to his wife and she's like, no, I can't tell you how much, how many people have called.
Because people, you know, they like dogs and they don't know that we don't
like dogs.
And then you'll have just as many people saying, that poor alligator, he was just doing what mother nature told him to
do.
The guy went in there and just opened the jaws and took the dog out.
Anyway, but they had a,
Know some conservation or some society should just send the money there.
So anyway, it was yeah Those stories can be that's a terrible way to go.
It
doesn't
happen right away as bad of a way because they drowned you first I think oh the alligators do the crocodiles they drown you they pull you down They flip you over or something
imagine
that
that that two minutes
or how
long it takes
not good Not good.
It's not good.
I used to watch.
What was it swamp hunters or those guys are?
Didn't go after I didn't think it was a very cool thing though where they would They would put out those hunks of chicken and then the Crocs would you know get hooked and then they're going to just shoot it in the head.
That's not much
No, I saw you ever they shoot him off the
side.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, that's not you
know, but Get in there with get in with the elegance do something come on, but now you see what they're doing They're going after those pythons.
Yeah, I wouldn't that
yeah
And those are her
I love that one guy with the real Cajun accent Look at that boy, look at that big boy, look at that big boy Look at that John don't that boy, I don't want to get hold of him I know, yeah
Look, look,
his
brother's the same
thing and his
dad
Absolutely Love those guys But those pythons are
amazing And that's a problem It's
taking over the Everglades
And it's killing like a lot of good stuff those things will eat any those things will eat a pig It's mind-boggling.
Do you okay?
So if you get one are this edible?
I don't know I don't know
what you'd like do with them.
I mean, that's a good question.
I don't know I don't know I wouldn't eat it if it was on a menu.
I just know like snakes,
but you said you had some right did you rattlesnake or something one time?
I thought you told me that
those are my boots.
Oh I thought you ate rattlesnake one time.
You know what I did I thought so I did
I had rattlesnake like
colorado or yeah, I had
rattlesnake was on the menu I tried it and it was not like tastes like chicken, but it was yeah It was it was like cubes.
Okay.
It wasn't like a steak or any right cubes, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Well, it's remember that I did have that once
I
don't It doesn't didn't do anything for me.
I just did it
to do it just to say a rattlesnake.
Yep.
Yeah, I agree Happy oh actually, you know what it's also Recycling workers week ways to recycling workers week.
What does that
mean?
You know the people that
Pick up your recycling all those things.
That job would have
been
so much more fun about 20 years ago.
Why?
Well, because now it's so automated.
But back in those days, you could go through people's stuff.
Oh, yeah, that way.
Oh, my God.
I had a buddy who did that.
In fact, I bet he's listening.
He used to give me so much cool stuff.
Yeah, that is true.
Because right now they don't even see it.
You're not even allowed to, you know, you're allowed to
take it.
Yeah.
And people
I still I still check out stuff.
I wrote
do
you what you mean?
Oh on the curb.
Yeah.
No, like I I will knock in the door though Like if I see something like I'm not in a curb.
It's just it's free game I know but just to be you know, it's nice like there was a lady had an army trunk out
And I went knock to the door.
I said, Hey, are you throwing these?
Oh, yeah.
I said, can I give you something for own?
I said, well, how about just even $10?
Oh, well, that's nice.
You know, just to be courteous that you're not just.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Oh, I picked up some cool furniture.
There's a, that is a thing.
There's people.
It's the same truck.
He drives around and I don't know what they do with it though, because you gotta have like a, you have to have a warehouse.
You can't take that stuff home.
I always did.
I just stored it in my garage.
I couldn't park in the garage.
You gotta make sacrifice someplace.
Understanding life.
Wow.
Hey, we got a full lineup for you folks.
We are here in a beautiful 69, 69, 67 degree morning.
Partly cloudy, some scattered showers high in the 80s.
Beautiful day in
summertime.
WGPW 98.3 96.5 FM WISS in Appleton and us gosh, of course the civic media app So you mentioning today also some birthdays today Venus Williams 45 Aaron and Diane Murphy Tabitha 61 Wow, the little girl from Bewitched.
Yeah Great can air 62 he was so great in in fact Then you were there
the night of the big banquet for the Medal of Honor Convention.
Oh, yeah.
Back at, uh, Oh, yeah.
Was that on it?
And, um, I sat with him.
And I said, what did you think?
Cause he won't use the Medal of Honor recipient, obviously he, and if you saw the movie, we were soldiers once it was called, we were soldiers once.
Um, he was the helicopter.
Snake was his call sign.
He was the helicopter pilot.
The guy that.
I was sitting with and Greg Keneer played him and he said phenomenal.
He said just he just thought he was just great.
He said he's he's a lot cooler than I was and a lot more whatever whatever but he was really, really happy with Greg Keneers.
He just he said he had it all down.
Studied him and yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's cool.
That was kind of cool.
So I always been a big fan of Greg Keneer after that.
Joe Piscopo 74 whatever happened to Joe Piscopo.
I don't remember how popular he was.
Then he wrote it out.
He just he got big into Roy's Just like bizarre into steroids and then you got fired or whatever from Saturday Night Live and just kind of disappeared right yeah Barry Manilow 82 happy birthday Barry many more and Newt Newt Gindrich 82
I Don't know that they've met each other Wow two different people
Yeah,
you gotta
play you
know you gotta play today.
What's that at the Copa Copa Cabana or despite Norse of Havana
Yeah, I know that song, but I know it from friends because they played it.
Yeah, well, you know what you're gonna play it right now today.
Okay.
Yes.
I guess text here from Sarah says, Hey, Jim, will you be at the city concert tomorrow night?
I am volunteering for it.
Oh, yes, I will.
Absolutely.
I have some friends coming over.
Yes, we will be there, Sarah.
Absolutely.
Sarah, I live right there so you can stop over popcorn lemonade.
I'm gonna, I don't know what I'm gonna make tomorrow, but yeah, I always, I'm on my front porch every city band concert.
Yeah, I will be there.
There you go, sir.
Stop over.
You do.
You have an open invite.
You can park in my driveway, too, if you want.
Is this bathroom?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Whatever you need, sir.
Tell all your
friends.
That I got to stop there.
But yes, absolutely.
I don't know what the theme is tomorrow.
I have
that.
Who's playing?
The city band.
Oh, the city.
OK.
And they play every Wednesday for the next nine Wednesdays.
All right.
Every Wednesday, seven o'clock.
And.
It's different themes.
They may do a Star Wars theme.
Obviously, in the Fourth of July, they do the whole patriotic.
But they do old show tunes.
They'll do a Country Western.
And they're good.
They get paid, but they're very good.
And yeah, we enjoyed that for 15, 20 years.
That's cool.
Yeah.
And that band show there was donated by, oh, I forgot his name.
He kind of made it big in Hollywood.
Actor.
Tony Shalub.
Nope.
It was everybody says that it wasn't it wasn't Tony Shalub, but it was what
other
actors came out of here But he they obviously knew each other both went to East and I
met him.
He's he's dead But I met him.
I don't know.
We every donated that probably as long
as Charlton has
no that's too rivers guy All right, I'll have to find that during the break, but anyway, he donated that band shell which Two reasons I like that one it looks cool, but secondly
it solidified the band playing at that part because, you know, people would
rotate.
Oh, you got me now, now I'm really stumped.
What are their actors from Green Bay?
It was a, you probably wouldn't, it was a soap.
Ah, soap.
Okay.
But his name's Plex on there.
Was there when
he dedicated it?
Okay, we gotta find out who this is.
All
right, anyway, that.
I would know
that Nick says hot dog bar at the marriage house tonight
at Nick.
Yeah, that is
everybody's welcome to stop over
No, what no the the reason why I'm having that so the Big Mouth is playing at St.
James Park tonight at seven o'clock and that
is they said the city band was playing
that's tomorrow.
Oh tonight
So we have a neighborhood association.
There's many of those in Green Bay, and you do certain events, and people have back-to-school picnics.
They have rummage sales.
So
you guys have back-to-back concerts in that park?
Yeah.
That's pretty cool.
So tonight is Big Mouth.
That is... The city band concerts are extremely popular.
Four or five hundred people.
I don't know how many people are gonna come tonight, but this is put on by the Neighborhood Association by Aster
Neighborhood.
It's
Big Mouth.
Yeah, I think they were there last year too.
That's
huge.
They're great, and they're fun.
You having all of them over your house afterwards?
Wow,
cool.
You know, when I talk to them, I'm like, you guys want to come over?
You know, I'm hot dog bar and spotted cow.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Don is like, were they coming over before or after?
They're probably going to come over after.
Yeah, I would think.
Very few performers eat before they put on a show.
I remember I tried bringing, actually, it's kind of ironic.
Last summer, I went to Cheese Curtain next place.
had one of those big hot dogs.
He has those really good hot dogs.
I
know he
does.
I can't
compete with him.
So I don't want any criticism from him.
But I brought some cheese curds, fried cheese curds over to Dennis from the glam band.
They were playing at the Sardine can.
Yeah.
And to a man, none of them wanted any.
They were still setting up for that.
But no, no, no, we don't need anything for the show.
But did you eat before you talked?
I never did.
Oh,
as often as
possible, as much
as possible.
It never bothered me.
Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Last year.
Especially when it's those small town.
I had to speak at the ladies American Legion auxiliary in a little town right by Wild Rose I can't remember what it was and every single thing was homemade by these ladies one of the ladies there was a hundred years old and she had made one of the and it was just
they can just
tell right yeah I love those small town banquet foods
but I'd
Just eat after like we had talk of the town played last year and
then
they came over after that was fun I mean those guys are awesome, but yeah, I whenever they want to come over I told them look you guys you're you're you're welcome But yeah, it's just it's simple.
I'm not having as big like Christmas party thing is just simple hot dogs that made baked beans They tasted great made them last night and you know just so party at your house
with big monsters and all their friends All right, I'll tell you come back all down to the actual address
Thank you
very much Conrad.
Of course.
Very nice of you to do that.
Birthday boy.
Yeah.
Is it your birthday?
No, no.
It's
very
manly.
How you hitting them these days, Convoy?
I'm hitting them pretty nice actually right now, yeah.
So what do
you
shoot?
I mean typically between a hundred and one ten, but.
Okay, that's good.
I did get a 96.
Nice.
On my birthday actually.
Very nice.
Yeah, last
week.
Very cool courses are in great shape this year.
I heard,
huh?
Oh, it's beautiful out there right now.
Yeah.
Where do you play?
I play all over Green Bay.
Yeah.
The one place I go to a lot though, because it's not as expensive, because it's only nine, but the woods.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Woods is great.
Woods.
I've always been great.
Yeah.
Good place to get through around quick.
Yes.
Type of thing.
And
yeah.
Oh, that's great.
You know, it's got a lot.
I mean, Healy Haven was always popular.
You know, kind of little places.
Yeah.
In Luxembourg, they have a decent course, too.
Oh,
Northbrook?
Yeah.
Well, that's more than decent.
That's a great course.
That's right.
Kids took lessons, but I want to go back to the woods because they were, you know, they were kids, right?
But we would like to golf on Sundays, so we would go and we would just sign up for the last tee time because I don't want them to get nervous about people playing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
So we would a
lot of times only get in six holes.
But you
know what?
That's the best way to do it.
They needed to just get comfortable because I didn't want anybody yelling at them.
But the woods is great.
Then that wasn't that expensive.
No, that was a while ago
to have me there.
I mean, it's it's I think it's like 20 bucks for around there.
There's a lot of little
courses around here that you can get a good deal on.
Yeah.
Well, Scott.
Yeah.
Oh, I love that place.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
A lot of great places around
here.
We had a tournament Friday.
I was there last week at the one on 41.
That's mid valley holes and they're gonna add nine more.
Do you hear that?
I
didn't know they're gonna add
more.
Wow.
That's the guy said who took me out and That's that's a huge course and that is some they must be making money because boy, that's prime land to develop.
Oh my
god Well, I'm surprised that you got two courses so close to each other there with which is Irish waters
No, I was
caught that it's not it.
I know what you're talking about.
I just can't think of
the nuclear plant looking type things there.
Oh on the left
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Um, yes.
No, what is it?
Somebody hope not Irish waters.
It's, um, yeah.
You know, another fun little course though.
Crystal Springs in Seymour.
Oh yeah.
I went there for the first time, uh, that's a fun course two weeks ago.
Yeah.
And we were in the second hole and it started down.
Oh,
yeah.
So I got a free round there.
Oh, I love that
place.
I've done a million tournaments out there for different types of things.
Yeah, but I'll tell you what, golf in the state of Wisconsin, people don't realize how big it is, how popular it is.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, you think of the Arizona's and the California's
and the Florida's and the whatever.
It's
crazy up here.
It really is.
There aren't many golf courses closing down.
And I was, there was something just on TV about.
women's golf.
Do you know that it's incredible how that's grown?
I
mean, having the women's open this
year,
I mean, Wisconsin has become a golf mecca.
34%
of the golfers are women.
And it was 15, like not that long ago, 2000.
So it's, that's cool.
I mean, I think that's great.
And they had some lady on there who,
If you followed women's golf you would know her but some super famous lady well
think about it though years and years ago like when we were in high school Okay, I didn't know a single girl that
golfed
I mean and if there was it's because her dad was a member of the country club or whatever and You know she worked there and that's right But there were no other little courses to just kind of like
learn on did any moms go
none I didn't know of a single one didn't know of a single one
Yep.
Yep.
Got this one from Sparky.
He says, personally, I prefer bowling over golf.
So I have never lost a bowling ball.
Hey, I told you that story.
It doesn't matter how much money a guy has.
Oh,
that's
if you find a lost ball, I told you that a friend of mine who's got more money, he could burn his money and he'd still have more than us.
OK.
Oh,
yeah.
And I found we're golfing.
I found one.
I go, didn't find mine by phone.
Let me have that.
I lost one the last call.
Okay, I had 18 million dollars in his check, but he wanted a free golf
probably wise guys 18 million
St.
Patrick's.
Thank you.
That's it.
That's that's a long hard course
It is
that one is a law and you want to talk about losing golf balls?
You are gonna lose a lot of golf balls that course
You were I think is a tough courses that Green Bay Country Club.
Oh god.
Yeah.
Oh,
that'll worry
out.
Yeah, that's I That I'm not a great golf.
I'm not a good golfer
And you
know what the worst part about that course is?
What people can sit on the in the bar and watch you tee off and watch you as you come up on your 18th and they're all sitting there.
Yeah, she's so in watching you finish up.
Yeah, but what a great.
Well, actually, you know, it was a real big gym when it started was Michigan.
Oh,
hey, that.
No, that.
No, no,
no, no.
I've golfed
there a billion
times and they have three courses.
They got 27
Because there was that kind of links course, you know, I did a thing with there once that's 27 holes there.
Are they red white and blue?
That's But I said, you know with the long grass or was like a Scotland type thing, you know who did a thing there one time was Bob Hope He was there for
I don't know what I think I think I remember that.
It's my dad was out.
Yeah, but 86 87,
okay
Was that late?
I thought it was early enough.
Oh man, 85.
One of that era.
Really?
Yeah.
And I still remember because it was like we're at a press conference for him, okay?
And what's the name of that course?
Why can't I think of it?
Misha got the... Okay, whatever.
So they're having the press conference and there's people bring him in.
He's like an hour late, okay?
And he said, well, he had some friend visit or something.
So he gets up there, okay, and you know, they he had like an emcee and so Bob,
you know,
how about to and you played with Oh, let me tell you so that he started taking some questions So I asked you know a question and it was he was huh, what who what?
Look at a record.
He was off script.
Oh, oh, he was on those cam guys
So then I did that, you know the quest and they repeated to him and then boom he became Bob Hope
You know what I mean?
Yeah, but they say I was seeing it.
I was reading a thing.
What was he doing in Fox Hills?
Yeah,
first Fox Hills that Fox was
doing that Was it for shopco did shopco used to have their big thing there?
I think they had it there.
They had big golf outing I don't think
I know it was Bob
Hope at Fox Hills Wow.
Yes, I know
that I just wonder why he went miss cut I think Fox Hills was I'm not Fox Hills shop go didn't they I think they were tonight.
Oh, I don't think I don't know maybe it wasn't shop go
Wow, maybe
Bob Hope I Know he was definitely there
he Bob Hope was yeah, it was
there But I was reading a thing with Johnny Carson hated having Bob Hope on his show because everything had to be scripted oh Had to be 100% scripted and I guess just funny I could see it there where he had the character Bob Hope versus us You know 80 something year old guy.
Yeah, I mean he still played golf that day.
We followed him around for a while and everything Wow and
That that's you know, it's funny you tell you whatever So my cameraman I remember he started laughing he comes he's getting the shot of Bob.
He goes there's a great effin there That was kind of funny
I got this one from Brian says, I'm such a bad golfer.
I lost a ball at UWGB went back the next year and such a consistently bad shot.
I found the exact same ball next to each other.
No one else had hit one near it.
That was a fun little course out
there.
It's too bad that closed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I mean,
that'd be fun to have on a golf course.
You know, when you're going to school and you got a golf course on your campus.
No, really?
You think we need a golf course?
I mean, you
got a golf team.
And there's so many other golf courses and they, that was, they weren't making money there.
I know, but that's a nice little perk when you're going to school there.
Isn't it?
You don't think so?
I don't.
Why would?
Yes, it's a great perk.
I don't know that a necessary perk.
I think that's what it came down to.
It wasn't, what'd they do with all that land?
I have no idea.
They developed that?
Bye.
That's about golf courses.
They, they're in some pretty good, and that's gotta be a real decision.
Do we stay golfing or do we, you know, cause you're only, what?
Five months maybe hey, you know what
I've never seen
you know that I like to see some
time Curly Lambos cabin.
You ever seen Curly Lambos cabin.
Yes.
Well, what do they do with that?
Is that for sale?
I'd like to buy that move there.
No, no, no, I Thought I don't know.
I'm gonna get over my skis here.
I thought they were gonna try to sell it But I don't think you could I don't think it stayed there for some reason that's GB's property, right?
Yeah, did they move it?
I don't know and there was
Used it for some retreats, but I mean that's nothing but the curly lambos the good house is on Irwin Yeah, where he was born.
Yeah,
I think so that's a Dave did a good job with that house.
Have you been any party?
But his wife Marguerite was a good friend of mine.
Oh, I'm gonna be talking about that and
she lived I actually went to pick her up one time
and she lived in their same house in Allaway over off of Riverside.
And they lived there for forever, pretty much.
And she stayed there then forever, even after Curly hooked up with that Starlet and brought her back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Did she?
Stay loyal.
Was she does she support him?
She was great.
She was fine.
She was just a classy lady Okay, never had her but you know one of those ladies worked for Prangies her whole life that
or
something and just had a great just super super like I told her we're gonna go for lunch it was me her and Lindy and Fonte's wife Stephanie and we thought that was gonna be really cool the first Packer coach wife and the current Packer coach wife
you know, separated by like 60 years.
And she was, I want to say she was 92, if I'm not mistaken.
And I said, what time do you want us to pick you up, Marguerite?
She was, what, what, what for?
And I'm thinking, oh boy, she doesn't remember.
I said, well, you know, for the lunch, she says, well, young man, I know that, but why do you need to pick me up?
I said, well, how are you getting there?
She goes, young man, I've been driving since 1927.
I think I know how to get to the union hotel.
Like, okay, Marguerite.
And it was I was like so great and I still got the card good that she sent to my mom You know she sent my mom a nice little card had lunch with your son, you know,
yeah classy
classy classy people Yeah, that's cool.
I still say anybody that sends a thank-you note a thank-you card and you will always be remembered
somebody will always
Remember that that means a lot
it does and it is really tell you to do it
and people don't do it.
I mean, they just like, look, if you really want to make an impact on someone, anything from selling cars to real estate to just being a good classy person.
But yeah, those are that thing of the past.
It's really true.
And you know what, an email doesn't do it.
Yeah, I mean, nothing better than
nothing.
But
no, yeah, really.
And yeah, I remember just making those kids sit down and write out your graduation.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you for the gift of money.
You're not leaving this table yet for my education.
You know, it's important.
It's important.
Yeah.
Tina says Irish waters is my favorite course of all time.
It's the only course I ever hit par on a whole.
And I'm 57 years old.
L O L.
Nothing
better than making par.
Oh man, you feel like
it's
like I
can play this game.
Yeah, I get that once again.
Yeah.
Yeah, that is a that is a that's cool feeling.
Hey, I
gotta
tell you
I can't enjoy that pickleball the other day in Oshkosh.
You're good.
I don't know about good, but one of you you were
volume you that's what with with the pro was I don't know
20 well once I chased Peter out of there jeez Louise I Give me somebody I could give me something to play was I close I'm embarrassed the guy.
I know I was a very nice event So Peter's out there.
He's kind of playing Peter our sales guy.
Yeah, good guy.
Just you know try hard.
He tried hard did play a lot tennis in his life and
I think it was the first time I picked up a rack and not a racquetball.
Yeah.
Pick a ball court and John's playing and John's just, hey, get me somebody else.
Somebody else.
Go ahead.
Go go go.
But
that that guy that you played was really good.
That is such a nice place.
Pickles and bags.
Yeah.
And I
tell you, if you're looking for a corporate office, family reunion, VIP room bar, just a
beautiful bar.
Yeah.
It'd be a
great bar
in
itself.
Right.
You gotta check that place out, right?
Congress Street, right?
Was it Congress Street?
Oregon, right?
No, no, no, you were on
Oregon.
It's Congress.
Okay.
Really great
place.
All
right, quick break back
up.
It's like it brings you back exactly, you know when it was this is the first day I started my new job in my first TV job in Twin Falls, Idaho And remember I was riding to work and I couldn't find the TV station and remember this song was on so it would have been November of 1979 Wow,
do
you ever have that with songs?
Yes, you know, it brings back like it was
Tuesday.
Yeah, I yes One song that when it plays George Winston I was in Seattle driving back to the airport and that song was on and
Just every time I hear that, I
remember that drive like yesterday.
Exactly where I was going.
Conrad,
what's yours?
You know, I mean, just the song I just played, it's in grownups.
Have you seen it?
Oh, the movie grownups.
Yeah.
And every time I hear that song, I think of that movie when I first saw it.
I will say this, songs in movies do more for that song, man.
They say that gives them a whole new re-life, rebirth
in that.
More than music.
I mean, there could be a product.
Yeah movies that you know, I always wanted that when I was mayor because they were filming movies track
to
your life No, no, no when they get when it got more competitive.
Everything's moving out of Hollywood They're going to Atlanta.
They were going to Michigan and they did that Arizona.
Well, they did that thing here in Oshkosh.
Yeah But boy if you can get a scene where the bench they kissed on or something that can become
I
kind of
tourist attraction I mean we have a great tourist attraction now at the Packers and a couple other things But I always think that would be really cool and people would go there just to see that like in fame that
Like in home alone, right?
Oh man big time they say with that a couple other ones like that are you bunkers thing?
Yeah, if you can land one of those things you can leverage that so anyway, we just never
So, okay, why is, you know, okay, so I just saw a thing on Facebook about the movie.
It's like a streaming movie or something that they shot at the Union Hotel.
And I believe you can, yeah, yeah.
Does anybody know now what, where that is, how you find it?
It's a historical piece.
And it was shot at the Union with local actors.
Does anybody know where that could be streamed?
I want to start, I want to watch that.
But it's all shot at the Union.
At least I think it was all shot at the Union.
Call Mayor Boyd.
Yeah.
Yeah.
DePierre owns that, or even his
family
does.
Yeah.
That didn't really get in the paper.
I don't see anything.
When's the last time you
read the paper?
This morning.
Oh.
I still get the paper.
I'm one of those old...
That's right.
You still get the physical paper.
I do.
That's cool.
I mean... I do.
But sort of my neighbors saw it's like we're all bunch old.
No, that's all right.
But that's cool.
Our dad's got it.
So we're going to get it.
You know,
I still you know what?
It's so funny when I find old newspapers.
I've got boxes of old stuff that I never throw away from whatever, whatever.
But it's fine.
You know, you think about this every day.
Those people walked into that building down here at the Presquizette or the Post Crescent River and turned out this humongous volume of information.
Right.
Humongous.
Yeah.
But you do like.
Reading the newspaper,
but
you read it online.
He's like that,
but I just don't enjoy that as much I do let when you bring in the paper here.
Yeah,
I love reading that I really are something about it.
Yeah,
and you can't you know, sometimes it's really it's There's nothing there, but I don't know it's still something you know
what I mean like I do But even like when we get the press times.
Yeah, I love that.
I love having that physical paper
Sometimes sitting in front of
me.
Ten minutes.
Sundays.
But really, weren't you even buying paper anymore?
I mean, when I worked at the B.A.Y.
building, they had all the boxes right out front there on the sidewalk.
Do they have newsstands like that anymore?
No, like Webster Market.
Yeah, groceries.
You can
go there and buy them.
I mean, bosses in Depeer, I guess you could go there.
Well, you could go all the way there to buy things.
Well, that's what I mean.
They don't have those stands anymore?
I don't think so.
Oh.
Yeah, I don't know a quarter and take like three Like if you know there's an article about you there be honest.
I'm on the front.
No Oh, come
on.
I would when I was on the front page which it happened I would go and I would go down to the press because that I would buy them.
Okay.
That's true Okay, no, no, I
don't think that's no everybody's done that.
I don't think those quick pull convoy quick pull
If you were, but that's, that's a pretty limited- If you
knew
there was going to be something about you in the paper, it was good.
Would you put a coin
and
take three?
I mean, I don't think I, probably be on the, on the, on the internet, you know?
No,
no,
no, don't
forget it though, go back in
time.
Come
on, come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on,
come
on, come on,
Feed it a couple more quarters though.
No, you just put in one quarter and steal to take
it from me.
That's built in If it opens on one quarter, you know, I guess that is true It doesn't open on
one quarter that is true and they don't they're all there.
Yeah,
they're all there for the taken
I mean you talk about trusting people you know an honor system,
but who wants to read more than one paper,
right?
Right, that's true.
That would be cheaper than going behind it.
Yeah
Hmm.
Everybody's done that.
Trust me on this.
Get over your uncally alt boy days or whatever.
I know you did that.
Everybody's done it.
Yeah.
How about Ariel?
Who's so great?
Isn't it great having Ariel on?
He is so good.
You're right about
he could go somewhere else, but
I
told you yesterday before he came in, I just think he likes it here.
He's
a coachy
soccer, doesn't he?
And these kids are in school and I don't know.
He's not gonna know.
I mean, he probably 20 years he'll leave, but not the next.
Brian
says
I would take 10 papers and sell them.
There's
the entrepreneur.
Ever a paper boy?
No, my brother was.
No,
I never was either.
Yeah, I never was.
I
always had practice or something after after school.
He had the morning.
Oh, I would never get up early.
Yeah.
No, he had the morning
one.
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
I got this I've been getting the press because that for 35 years or I went to renew the paper Gannett raised my rate from $15 to $45 a month.
Yeah, I terribly missed the paper But I'm not paying
that.
Yeah, you know what?
I don't know I don't know when you did that but I've done that but I I just go crawling back I do I just but if you take a break then you can go as a new subscriber But
I
think it's gonna be a month and
then it's like
oh you get the the $10 a month deal.
It's like okay instead of 45 but
I've cancelled.
Oh my god.
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.
Hour number two, Mino the Mayor here.
97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM WI says an opt-in in Oshkosh and of course worldwide on the civic media app nice forecast out there for the morning 69 in Green Bay right now 69 in an opt-in 67 in Oshkosh high in the low 80s scattered storms Expected it's all right.
It's not gonna happen.
We'll take it.
We'll take it We got Kerry Josephson in the house Alzheimer's Alzheimer's.
Why do I always mispronounce that word you like Al?
Alzheimer's Association kickoff event coming up shortly.
Hi, Kerry.
Good morning.
Are you proud of me that I brought you in something for my alma mater?
I am.
I got
presents this morning.
Yes.
Yes.
And I started reading it so I didn't get through the whole thing yet, but very interesting article.
Arizona State University leading the way in research for Alzheimer's.
Absolutely.
Isn't that
cool?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's why we can't, we have to be very cautious when we cut funding to schools if it's in research.
You Chicago does a really good job of research as well.
I mean, you talk about all the pharmaceutical companies, but a lot of their stuff comes from the research that's done in these higher institutions.
Oh, absolutely.
There's a
lot going on UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee.
Oh yeah, here locally too, like your buddy said about TC.
We need technical schools.
I mean, that's very, very important this country, but we also need universities and research and John Hopkins and those people to deliver it.
I didn't know AC was that into research on Alzheimer's.
I think that's really cool.
I'll
just read the
headline here.
But as soon as I saw this, oh, I'm bringing this into work.
Wow.
breakthroughs in Alzheimer's prevention.
A healthy lifestyle and a future treatment for a common virus may reduce the risk for Alzheimer's disease.
Nearly 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease in a condition that Devon statingly impairs memory and identity.
It's a heartbreaking disease that Rob's loved ones of their sense of self and ability to recognize loved ones.
There's some good news.
Research from scientists at Arizona State shows that there are ways to reduce risk, including through exercise, adding enough of the essential nutrient
chlorine, in addition, a recent breakthrough suggests there may be a common connection to a common virus in 25 to 45% of new cases, which may allow the use of medication to prevent the virus from causing damage to the brain.
Isn't that something?
Very cool.
That is very cool.
Yeah, and
we talk a lot about, you know, a healthy lifestyle, getting enough sleep, protecting your brain, you know, against falls and traumatic injuries, things like that, eating right, getting exercise.
You know, I get it, it's funny.
The one thing we blow off, in fact, there's, there was almost like a manly type of thing of, I don't, you know, I only got four hours sleep last night and I'm working 12 hours today.
And even with my little thing with my cancer surgery for my whatever.
And one of the things they stressed was sleep.
They said sleep is so underrated with, I mean, people will go jogging, they'll lift weights, they'll eat good, they'll whatever, and then they'll get four or five hours sleep, which undermines all of that.
Yeah, your body needs some time to recharge and relax.
I
didn't sleep at all last night, other stuff going on.
What a difference that can make a good night's sleep, but it's, you want to get consistent and there's ways to do that, but sleep is, and that sleep apnea is a big thing too now, right?
And we had HME on here a couple times, and-
I thought they'd come back and test me.
Yeah, and they, but I forgot, what did he say there?
It's like the pharmacy in a grocery store, it's a smaller square footage.
But the volume that comes out of there is unbelievable.
Like, you
know, they got a huge place and they used to be a car dealership.
And now, but he, I forgot what he said.
He gave us a percent, like 40% of their business is sleep apnea.
Maybe it's
not that high, but it was, it was a whole lot more intense.
I'll tell you that.
And yet that only takes up 10% of their building.
So I think, but he says, you wouldn't believe how many people are on there now that they have this home test, which is awesome.
You don't sleep apnea.
Right.
So you used to have to go to that lab, you know, on Webster Street.
And then all those dots on your head.
And I took a picture that sent it to my kids.
But you don't have to do that anymore.
So it's really pretty easy to get diagnosed.
And then the machines last, I don't know.
10 years now.
It's not this, you know, yeah.
They come a long way.
They have and they just tell you what to say that eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, because they, the test will tell you that.
It's a man.
I mean, sometimes
you've got the little lines in your face
from the, whatever, whatever.
It's amazing how many guys do how many guys we have come through here in this show that have those lines in
the
morning.
It's
incredible.
But
I mean, better having lines on your face than not.
Absolutely.
They have this new thing now and they, you just hold it up.
it's an app, you hold it up to your face and it looks at your face and it will tell you the best mask for you.
And a lot of stuff doesn't need, that's the lines in the face.
It goes in the nose and they have a lot, there's been a lot of advancement on that.
I think back in the day, everybody had these like, these harnesses on their face
and
you could do the wide lines and they'd come into work.
It's like, okay, but there's just been a lot of advancement.
And you talk about,
I don't know that it's secure for Alzheimer's, but a good night's sleep, no matter what, is important.
Yeah.
Well, and that's the hard thing.
There's no one cure or
one thing that's been
prevented.
But you know, all of those things together.
So getting good sleep is definitely one of the.
But I mean, they're really stressing that.
I mean, even for like my thing, it's like, but you've got to make sure you get, you know, eight hours of sleep, seven to eight minimum.
And it's
like, that's hard to do.
I mean.
You know?
Yeah,
I
don't know that you need that much sleep.
That
seems like a lot, doesn't it?
That's a lot.
And it does.
It seems like a lot.
I don't know.
And I think as you get older, you need less.
I mean, no, that's a lot of sleep.
I don't.
Well, we're
not
going to sleep on this because it is you and
Alzheimer's the Green Bay kickoff coming up Wednesday, June 25th.
Hagamister Park from five to seven just right behind us here downtown Green Bay.
Everybody welcome.
Come to learn about the walk to end Alzheimer's and get registered.
Um, a really cool thing brewers Alzheimer's awareness game coming up on July 27th.
Earn tickets to the game.
Raise or donate $100 on your personal walk page between June 16th and the 30th.
Earn two tickets to the Alzheimer's Awareness Brewer's Game plus a pre-game tailgate party on July 27th.
Each $100 raised equals two tickets.
Bring the entire family.
Go to act.alz.org slash Green Bay to register and then donate.
Bonus!
The top two individual fundraisers between now and June 30th will earn a VIP experience for themselves.
A guest at American Family Field includes the thrill of sliding down Bernie's iconic slide.
Well, that's cool.
John, that could be you.
I know.
That's cool.
I know, I know, I know.
Yeah.
Wow, that's a lot going on there.
That's cool.
And we're in the zone right now.
That started yesterday.
Yes, just started yesterday.
Kicked it off.
So we do the Alzheimer's awareness game with the Milwaukee Brewers every year.
It's a big deal.
Absolutely.
We have our sports casters against Alzheimer's.
So
they're talking during the game, obviously.
Lots of shout-outs about Alzheimer's.
Lots of purple in the crowd that day.
We get a really good crowd of people to go and help to raise awareness.
We really
need everybody.
I'm sorry.
Sportscasters against Alzheimer's back for the fifth year.
Incredible initiative.
Been a total game changer in the efforts to raise awareness and concern about Alzheimer's disease.
The nation's seventh leading cause of death in a state that lives and breathes sports like Wisconsin.
Having a team of celebrity sports personalities on board has helped us reach entirely new audiences and shine a spotlight on this devastating disease that impacts over 110,000 Wisconsinites.
And I'll tell you what it's we had the the general I can never remember his name dream the guy who was governor for a while in the 70s
Marty Schreiber.
Yes Wow, is that a spokesperson for Alzheimer's?
Yes, he does
and that book you wrote is incredible
Yes, and now I believe the last time I talked to him.
He's over 800 appearances Wow,
isn't that
great
the
enthusiasm
so
much
for caregivers incredible
And the Hagemeister thing, which is coming up.
Right.
I've been to that, but tell people about it.
I mean, that's a fun
event.
Fun event.
It's really, like John said, it's open to the community.
A nice time for people just to pop in.
If you're not there at five, that's okay.
Pop in anytime from five to seven.
You get to learn more about the walk, more about the association.
We'll have lots of...
posters and yard signs and you know items so that people can help promote the event and a good chance to get signed up.
So whether you're registered already or not, whether you've done the walk before or not, come on down and
learn more about us and get involved.
What are some of the things?
Obviously, awareness is so important.
And there are a lot of charities out there in the world.
I mean, you've got to fight to kind of get your seat at the table these days, don't you?
And you guys have to do events like this and everything.
And the big and bold purple shirts, I mean, there is no.
holding back saying, oh, well, I hope you help us.
You got to be up to the forefront.
Oh, for sure.
And a lot of people, I think, look at the event if they don't really know what it's about.
And they just think it's another walk run.
Honestly, it's not really about the walk.
It's about the community coming together and showing support for one another.
A lot of times our event is referred to as the largest support group.
It's just amazing to see all of those people coming together.
And you know that they all
have a shared experience and understand what the other is going through.
And
I think you're right about sometimes the benefit of, and we want to raise money because we just talked about research when you got here, how important that is that we support the research that's been done for Alzheimer's.
But boy, to meet someone else and share your story is very healthy.
Absolutely.
I
mean, that's the reason.
So therapeutic.
It is.
And I think that's another reason to go.
Yes, 100%.
Yeah, so obviously come out, do the walk.
If you don't want to do the walk, that's fine.
We have a lot of people that come to the event.
There are also a ton of resources.
It's really, it's just a great event.
So I encourage anybody that's interested in supporting just to come.
And I think that's nice because the place we went to on Riverside, the restaurant, but it's nice you have booths and information there because people know
One thing but they don't know all that's offered here I mean you just right some of the training you do and some of the businesses that are more sensitive
We've known you and you're
right
on this show things have changed.
I'm just a fountain of
knowledge
No, but I think what you mentioned about awareness, it is so important because the last thing that you want to hear is, you know, to run into somebody at some point and tell them about the Alzheimer's Association and then you hear that they had no idea about us or what we do.
And
they say, I
wish I would have known.
Yet they knew someone who has suffered with that.
And it's like, wait a minute, you didn't connect those two things.
And they didn't have
us
as a result.
Well,
you
hate to say it, but it was one of those diseases that was almost, you know, behind closed doors type of thing that, you know, nobody really talked about it.
Yeah, there was a lot.
a lot of stigma
for
a
long
time.
Yeah, and we're finally coming out of that, which is good, because we need to talk
about it.
These events, that's what you're doing right now.
That gets people out of it, so it's great.
Now, you're responsible for Brown County and Dore, right?
Yeah, Brown County and Dore, and then Oversea the Valley, and Bramander and Antigo.
Oh, wow.
Where is there an area in the state of Wisconsin that, unfortunately, is more prevalent than others?
Do you guys ever get research like
that?
I
have seen some,
but
I don't have that memorized.
Because has it ever brought up as a, what's the term I'm looking for?
Your environment type of cause type thing or anything?
There seem to possibly be some environmental things
that do
affect.
And that's where, you know, we talk about sometimes it is genetic, but sometimes you'll feel, you'll find that there is more of an occurrence in one family and it's not necessarily genetic, but it is more a lifestyle or.
Oh, it's had environmental factors.
That's what I was wondering.
OK.
That is interesting.
I'd like to know.
I don't think I
agree.
I don't think the jury is out on that.
I don't think they've figured that out yet.
But my sister, who Alzheimer's died of that.
My mother is very concerned that it's something we did as a family because it wasn't the genetic thing didn't work.
And we couldn't find anybody else.
And but then she lived in a certain place and you think, well, it's the water, the environment, but we all lived in Wisconsin.
You know, I just.
There's a little bit more work that needs to be done on that, because I think there's some external forces that we're not aware of.
And that would
be a
huge breakthrough.
That would be huge.
Absolutely.
If you'd kind of like neutralize that.
But there's some things, countries like, you know, down in Costa Rica, I mean, there's less, some of the diseases down there than we have up here.
You know, I think the environment can play a role.
I think genetics is probably the number one thing, but anyway.
But environment
and even lifestyle, you know, we talked before about
food, but it's also eating habits and, you
know, amount of physical activity.
Yeah,
yeah, we're with Kerry Josephson Alzheimer's Association kickoff event coming up back with more right after
this
Hey, welcome back.
My name here and a good looking Tuesday morning.
Kerry Josephson, Alzheimer's Association.
Big kickoff event.
Let's talk some more about this Kerry.
And Jim was asking, do you have to have a team to be involved?
Not at all.
Not at all.
And in fact, you can have a team of one person.
And it's completely free to register.
Like I said, it's really just an event to get resources out there, get information out there, and bring the community together.
So if you want to learn more about it, please come out next week, Wednesday, June 25th at Hagenmeister Park from 5 to 7, and learn more, ask questions, get involved.
I just saw my name on this.
Sure enough.
Welcome our newest sports casters against Alzheimer's member John Minow.
I just saw that.
Yes, congrats John.
Thank you very much.
I'm honored.
Very cool.
You've had some big names though.
Matt LePay, Paul Brown, Craig Koshin, Jeff Levering, Play by Play, of course, the Brewers, honorary chairman of the Wacht and Alzheimer's.
We all talk for a living, so we'll definitely get the word out there.
What would you like to see, Kerry, as far as with what you're doing here, and you've got such a big area, Jim was mentioning during the break, how big of a geographical area you have, what would you like to see to make, I don't wanna say make your job easier, but to really, everybody's got their goals, everybody's got their mission, everybody's got whatever to really make it all come
true.
really would just like to see more and more people get involved in some way.
And there are so many different ways to help, whether you volunteer or participate in the walk itself.
Just share information.
We provide education sessions free of charge.
So if you're part of a business or an organization and you would like to provide it.
information or education to that group or to your customers, reach out to me.
We can definitely set something up.
Just because it's the Walk to End Alzheimer's in Green Bay or the Walk to End Alzheimer's in Sturgeon Bay, it doesn't mean that you can't be involved if you don't live directly in that community.
We can't have walks everywhere.
Unfortunately, they are a lot of work.
So we kind of pull from a bigger area.
So we just want people to get involved in some way.
So we're talking about...
a lot on this show about people living healthy lives, you know, and not food, food, food.
Well, the social interaction is becoming so much more important
that people,
it is that people, and this is, this is an opportunity here to do something good, but also meet other super nice people like you, you know, and I think people really need to set that because I think COVID hurt the country a little bit.
I think
we all kind
of, you know, hunkered down.
Oops, that's my phone.
And I just think that, you know, there's a lot of things
that need volunteers and there's a lot of great places to volunteer, you being one of them.
So I just think it does, it really checks a couple things.
Oh,
for sure.
And each community that has a walk, we have a volunteer planning committee.
And then there are so many opportunities, even outside of the planning committee, to get involved.
It's really cool, you know, being part or helping to lead those planning committees.
You see so many people come in and maybe they don't know a single other person in the group.
And in a very short period of time, they're really good friends.
They make
some really strong connections there.
Another thing here that when we had the governor on that made an impact, he was talking about how he thought, you know, well, heck, I ran the state of Wisconsin.
I could certainly take care of my wife during this.
And it was like, wow, you don't really know what the caretakers, the extent of
What that's like, huh?
Yeah, it is a full time job and then some it's 24 seven and it's it's hard hard work.
You need to get respite.
Yeah, you need to have a really supportive team around you.
And
it is the 24 hours.
I don't think people understand that it's it's it is and it's tough to do all that.
And that's nice that you really focus on the caregiver, your organization.
Oh, for sure.
Caregivers need a lot of support.
It's not something that you can do yourself, for sure.
And whether you're a professional caregiver or a family caregiver taking care of a loved one, either way, it takes a toll.
Even professional caregivers, they get very involved.
It's very emotional.
you know, dealing with some of the behaviors, it's, it's very taxing.
And it can be dangerous.
I mean, there's red stories about, you know, somebody leaving something on the stove and totally forgetting about it.
And, you know, some of these caretakers who want to take care of their loved one, who might be very advanced ages.
Yes.
You know, I mean, this is, this is a serious thing as far as that caretaker.
And for the people that do that professionally, man, all the respect in the world for them.
Oh,
yes, it takes a very special person.
And thank goodness we have them.
Yeah.
Yeah, they are out there, huh?
Yeah.
They need to get paid and they need to get a break.
You know, that's just a, that's a tough field.
I just, I, I don't know if there's nothing
else.
And Kerry, who really takes care of this in regards to like, okay, somebody's diagnosed with Alzheimer's, you know.
It's not just a medical thing now where you go to the family doctor.
What's what are those next steps?
Um, so that's a great question.
Um, you know, there are so many different things to consider when
there
has been a diagnosis and it can be extremely overwhelming.
Um, I always encourage people to call our 24 seven helpline.
Um, you know, they can talk to professionals and get some guidance on what things to consider.
Um, even just, you know, planning.
more long-term for the future and having some of those hard conversations about, you know, how do you want your care to be handled once things advance?
It's, you know, it's important to have those and the sooner the better, honestly, because you want to do it when, you know, before the disease advances too much.
Just throwing this one out there because I have no idea.
with health coverage, health insurance and those things.
Does this one fall under the big umbrella or does it fall through gaps?
That is definitely not a question for me.
Yeah, that's another big factor to absolutely when you get this diagnosis boy You're all in you got to be all in
yes for sure and that's a good one for our helpline
as well
And you know they are trained in so many different areas
or
even you know your local ADRC They're a fantastic resource.
We are so lucky in the state of Wisconsin I know other states are not nearly as lucky as we are we have a dementia care specialist in every single ADRC in the state
which is incredible.
And in Green Bay here, that's right across from the police station, right?
Yep.
Great job here.
Great place.
They do a lot of good
stuff
there.
Great place.
This is great.
Well, we got to get the 20th for sure.
I mean, give us your website.
People just start thinking now.
I'm going to contact them.
Oh, absolutely.
So yeah, come out June 25th at Hagermeister Park.
But if you want a quick and easy way to get there, go to ALZ.org forward slash walk.
You can punch in your zip code and it'll give you the walk nearest you.
This morning, we're talking about Green Bay, but there are 26 other ones.
So.
Wow.
And we got until July 20.
We got a long time.
You have to talk a little bit more about this.
The walk and earning tickets to Brewer's Game.
We'll be doing that.
We'll keep this right in front of us.
Kerry Josephson, thank you for everything you do.
Thank you.
Thank you so
much for having
me in.
Back after this.
Very special thanks to Kerry Josephson Alzheimer's Association, their kickoff event coming up very shortly.
We're going to be talking a lot more about that when we got a great bunch in here.
I'm going to just open it up and let everybody just introduce themselves.
Big boy, you go ahead
and start doing.
I'm Vinny and
I'm with
Hula Wisconsin.
Hula!
I'm Terry and I'm here with Harborview Charters.
And I'm Mike with Harborview Charters.
And tell us what you got going on here, Vin man.
Well, what we're here, we're doing a fundraiser for a program for who it's called Veterans Fishing Universe.
And by the way,
go back and just one more time, tell everybody what who is.
Who is Wisconsin Bay's 501C3 and we're geared toward the prevention of veteran suicide.
And you guys have
done an amazing
job.
Thank you, yes.
It's a lot of work, but we get a lot of rewards out of it as well.
I know you do.
And there's not just one thing you do a lot, which I think is we
talk about
socialization and how important that is.
So
many, so many programs.
Right.
And we've got skydive free fall.
We've got scuba.
We've got motorcycle license.
We've got wellness.
But even like we carry just now, you know, one of the main things is just get it out there, get
the word out there,
you know, and then proceeds or donations will follow.
But it's a competitive business
trying to get
that buck from people these
days.
So
you
got to fight hard on a daily basis, don't you?
Correct.
Always.
I mean, like you said, it's a it's a competitive dollar that you're going for.
Yeah.
Um, and we can only do what we do with the funding that we receive.
And it's not, you know, a lot of it is just rely on donations
and people are, people are generous.
I've
done
my share of fundraising, but it, there's just, you know, you go in to see these people sometimes and they're like, look, I'd look at my desk.
I got three asks in one wallet.
I'm like, just give it to me.
You know, but you know, but they're all good.
You know, you can't really, I would never talk down anyone else, but they're all.
worthy and yours is terrific and yet we had this lady just in here before you Alzheimer's I mean that's super important and we all know people who are touched by different things so I think this is really cool what you're doing with this whole partnering with the fishing and getting people because you don't if we do what prevented suicide we we would do it
and we don't know yet we would
cure
it right yeah well talk a little bit about veterans fishing university
all right well what we do it's a year-long program
We bring a veteran and his either his caregiver her spouse or a family member And we teach them all three aspects of fishing and we start out with ice fishing We go to conventional fishing the summer and I lead the fly fishing fly tying section
No, you
get them a whole whole gamut of opportunities.
It's a year-long program We start in January it ends in December and we just basically teach them how to go out and do that on their own without you know
and as a family or as an individual.
Awesome.
And we supply them with gear and all that to use.
So, you know, if they are financially strapped or whatnot, we're here to help.
I mean, so it's just another outlet that we can give our veterans to get them out of their darks.
Beautiful.
Because loneliness can lead to a lot of bad things.
Just
sitting in a room like this.
He'd look at four walls all day and got nothing going on.
But what's in your head?
You know, another thing, I like how
you guys do the hands-on type thing, because we have one more great friends who comes down from a DC farm for veterans, where it's like they start gardens for the veterans and everything.
And having something like that to look forward to and a sense of achievement is so important, isn't it?
It is.
It is.
It almost, it's like it gives them a new purpose.
Yeah.
You know, and anything to change their mindset is, is great.
And you
couldn't
do it without great people helping.
And let's quickly
introduce once again, these two people
here.
Next to me, I got Mike and Terry from Harborview Charters.
They have teamed up with us at VFU to do a meat raffle fundraiser for the program on August 16th.
And it's going to be just a great event.
We got raffles.
We got all sorts of prizes going on.
They have been a great, great supporter of the program.
I'm so happy to be paired with these guys.
They're awesome people.
And we're just trying to do good things for good people.
Terry,
Mike, this is great you're doing this.
I'm sure like you, you get a lot of opportunities to help people out.
I mean, what attracted you to this organization?
Well, we jumped on the first year of the VFU.
If we can get veterans out on big water, everybody can get on shore and do some shore fishing, but there's more to fishing.
There's big lake fishing.
To get those individuals out and teach them, it just ain't crappy fishing or bluegill fishing, but there's a whole another world of...
big fish fishing um and to educate them on what baits and lines and techniques techniques to use um out on big water and
just how to play i'm taking them in
right right yeah so that it's a whole another aspect of fishing so um we want to we want to jump in and do that as well
and once they latch onto
one of those hang on yeah you're you're in a fight for about 20 minutes to 45 minutes so if you can
you know, pardon the pun, get
them hooked.
But that's just something to look forward to week after week.
And people who fish, and I'm not one of them, my brother is, but he's just nuts about it.
And
I
think that's great because you talk about, you know, looking at those four walls are going on in the big water with these guys and really learning something that you can learn, continue to learn too.
It's not like you learn it all in one.
If that's a process, that's great.
You're doing that.
How you enjoying this?
Yeah, so I actually work in the mental health field So obviously supporting anyone in that area has been huge for me So I believe you've had them on as well, but like the wellness command post who also does like mental health services for The who I'm you know, I've worked with them before and you know stuff like that.
And so I've just always had Like a passion to help people we kind of get asked that like do you I have you served in the military or does your spouse serve in the military and I'm like no
It's just a population that you want to help and you want, you know, to give them as many opportunities as possible because-
And they will appreciate it.
Yes.
God bless you.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
And so we just, you know, when this came about, we're like, what better way to kind of support in all different areas?
And so we jump the board.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I mean, you know, gas isn't cheap these days.
You
go
out about three miles to a gallon
or
whatever.
I mean, there's some costs what you guys are involved
with here.
Right.
Yeah, it's, yeah.
I mean, you burn 45 to 55 gallons of fuel.
Where's about five bucks a gallon?
Yeah, yeah, Marina gas is a little...
Why is that?
Isn't that crazy?
Well, I think there is, you know, the agencies have their hands in it, you know, for potential spills.
And Dean, that's a whole nother show.
But I was like, when I used to do fishing stories, you know, we'd always, you know, help pay for the gas, obviously.
We'd give them the publicity, but also pay for the gas.
And it was just always shocking, even back then, in like the 80s or 90s,
how
much more expensive was when you pull up there at the dock versus what you could have done at, you know, down the street.
And people, I think they know, but they have to be reminded that these things cost money.
They, they just do.
I mean, life, life costs, everything costs money.
And, you know, I work at a home of shelter, it costs money.
And, and people I think are generous, but they need to know that it's going to a good cause, which obviously it is.
And what, what are some of your expenses?
And you talk five bucks, that'll get anybody's attention.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, you got your gear, you got your, you know, your slippage on your, on your vessel or, um, you know, all your, there's.
legal fees, you know, documentations with your boat.
There's this, it almost seems like it never ends when you have a fishing business, but you do it because you love it.
You do it because you want to.
And we got to meet Raffle coming up.
Those
are fun.
John's done a million of those things.
I've done maybe half a million.
But what if we're not going there?
What other place can we donate?
How
can we get to?
Go right to huawisconsin.org.
You can donate directly right there.
That's easy.
You can do it in general.
donation or you can ask to put it towards VFU or Skydive Freefall, whatever you want.
Okay.
If any, talk a little bit about some of the men and women and I always want to make sure we talk about women.
There's just this, you know, big of a issue with women and post-traumatic stress and different things like that.
What are some of the things that you guys do if somebody comes to you or to Will or whomever of the bunch and says, ma'am, my wife, my husband, my whatever, my brother is really struggling.
You know, and sometimes there'll be like an event that sets them off and puts them in a bad place.
What are some of the things that you folks try to do?
Well, we try to give all the opportunities and resources.
Just so if someone does call, we can kind of like the calls I take, I would try to kind of get a little background on who I'm dealing with.
And that'll kind of point me in the direction where I need to send them.
Got it.
You know, if I just created a whole deal on like veteran homelessness.
So I got resources I can use for that.
Financial resources are always a big deal.
And just basically their mental health is just, we got tons of resources for that.
You know, we try to do, if we can't help them, we always try to at least point them in the right direction to get them to help.
And I hate
to say this, you know, but convincing them that that solution isn't in that bottle
sitting
in their place.
you know in the first the biggest act of courage that they can do is to reach out and ask for help and we got to make sure that they know that that's okay no
one's
gonna fault them for you know saying hey you know I'm not feeling right I need I need help
that's got a text here good morning I just want to say thank you to all of you there that what you do my husband is a 30 year army veteran he has participated in some of these programs they are so beneficial to the veterans and the family
Thank you all, and we appreciate what you do, Kathy.
Our
pleasure.
So to
you guys.
How did you,
what's your passion?
How did this come about, Terry or Mike?
Well, like I said, I've always, I've worked in the mental health field for over 20 years.
I do have family that was in the military, excuse me, and I have a cousin that struggled with mental health for quite a while.
And so just when I started hearing about the HUA and starting to do things and all of that kind of stuff,
It's like, what more can you do?
What more can you be involved in?
And so when this, you know, the Veterans Fishing University came about and the fact that obviously he's passionate about fishing, it was like, okay, this is where we can head and lead.
And, you know, there's so much with wellness and being just outside.
creates just such a space for like mental clarity and all of that kind of stuff.
So it's like to be able to help in the mental health aspect of it and then partner it with our business and getting people out.
I, to me is what better way to serve.
Yeah.
And this, this, this program is, is something that I never want to see fall to the wayside because of funding.
It's just, just the.
the veterans, police officers, et cetera, firefighters, even school teachers that I've had out on the water.
Once you get them out there and you start fishing, you can physically see the stress come out of them.
You can just see it,
and
it's wonderful.
as a captain of that boat, that's, I did my job.
Whether we got, you know, a cooler full of fish or not, but that rate there was my job.
And you know, I've done it where I've gotten out, you know, as the reporter type thing, and sometimes there'll be like two people and, you know, they were asked, are you okay if another two come, whatever.
Total strangers, by the end, by the time you get to that dock, they're exchanging phone numbers.
You know what
I
mean?
There is a unity thing, something about being out in that water that is magical.
I'm serious.
I mean, it's
so melodramatic, but it is
strange.
So that's why the whole meat raffle kind of, we collaborate it with the who are like, we need to raise some funding and do something so that this program alone.
never falls to the wayside.
We continue this and it grows in a positive direction and we get new people every year.
It would be awesome to almost have a waiting line to get more people on board.
you know, just the growth, continue to grow.
And I think you will, because I'm sure there's testimonials that people, there's something about leaving the land and going
on the water.
I mean, that's just a good
disconnect or whatever.
It's different.
I mean, that's very healthy for people, but I'm sure the testimonials, and we just got to get the word out how...
the word I'm looking for, just how invigorating this is.
This is really, that it works.
You know,
it's
just, we, like we said, there's not one thing, but this is something that can really help to getting that, that mental health that we're all looking
for.
We get some of a quick break back with more on the Veterans Fishing University and awesome organization right after
this.
Hey, welcome back.
My name is Eric here with our man Vinnie.
from the Veterans Fishing University.
Veterans look brought to you by Olson legal group of Oshkosh and Berlin.
Great, great organization.
What he does there.
And he's a purple heart recipient from Iraq and so, so very proud that we have him.
And we're a Terry and Mike here.
Tell us again, just a little bit about the, uh, the world of charter fishing, Harborview charters out of Kiwani and you guys doing it.
It's, it's not for the meat.
Let's be
honest.
40%.
Wow.
Yeah.
If the weather's good, then it's all good.
But we generally try to steer around.
I mean, if the weather predictions are nasty wins, then we'll work with the customers to reschedule, to have their day a little more pleasant.
But a lot of people, we don't get that opportunity.
A lot of our clients are coming from Minnesota or North Dakota or something.
That's right.
It
seems like whenever I was doing stories, there was somebody from Minnesota.
Yeah, and they love that Lake Michigan.
The Minnesotians, they...
They travel and there's actually a lot of people in our harbor that have their seasonal boat slips that drive every weekend just to be here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I
think sometimes fishing is a little, it's not talked about enough.
I mean, that's a little underrated.
That is a unbelievable.
It's a vital part of our product.
It is.
The
economy, and it's also, it attracts a lot of people
here.
Like, if you
look at this other medical, you know, we're
booming.
We've got
such a great fishery.
And the
doctors that can be in the OR and then be on the water, and what, 40 minutes?
Yeah, like Lake Michigan, it's literally at our back doorstep.
And the majority of people in Green Bay or, you know, in our surrounding area has never been
out on Lake Michigan, you know, regardless if it's a charter or even just visit one in the local communities, you know, just to go look at it or go to one of the beaches they got between Kiwani and Algoma, there's beautiful beaches.
Right.
And how fun is that to just do something to do with, I don't know, with your dad or your brothers or whatever, your family to do one of your charter things for half a day?
I mean, that's just, it's an experience.
Yeah.
And it's right here.
Well, let me
ask you something.
You grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan in two rivers.
How often did you go out?
It was shore fishing, right?
To go out is totally different.
It's
an experience and also the world looks different from the water
looking back.
I
always think that's something that people miss out
on.
And there is good pure fishing, definitely.
But you get the full
idea of it all when you leave the dock at 3.30 in the morning and you're heading out in a, you know, a fairly large boat and you're running out there to, you know, the, you know, 35 plus pound King salmon, you know, that's, you're, you're going to be in for a treat.
And I don't like everybody's, you know, like father's day is a big thing, you know, sons and dads, like that's, that's wonderful.
But mom's fish too.
And a lot of people forget that.
Like I had a, I had a mom and her three sons, just the mom booked a charter.
We had.
a fantastic time.
The mom and her three boys, it was awesome.
Now that's neat, because I gotta be honest with you, I don't know that I've taken my mom fishing.
Yeah, great, great, great.
Tell
us how you guys hitting.
It's good.
I mean, it's right now, it is on fire.
Steelhead and Salmon are just from from Sheboygan all the way up to the upper-door County Peninsula.
It's on fire, so.
Yeah, find a charter captain and get out there and get some salmon on the grill or the smoker.
So how do we get a whole deal?
I mean, you eat those babies.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
And they're good for you.
Yeah.
We talked about the veterans thing, but just if somebody independent of that, they want to just contact you.
Do you have a website?
Yeah.
What number you want to give us?
Harborview Charters.
You can find us on Facebook or our website.
Yeah, we're out there.
That's awesome.
Thanks for doing this.
Yeah, this is really
great.
For the veterans, this is great what you're doing.
But it's also from the heart.
Yeah.
But it's also, like you said, it's good to get people in Northeast Wisconsin out on the water.
I think that's healthy for them.
And they may get the bug and continue doing that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we educate.
Well, they make it sick like me and not do it again.
I mean, there's ways around the sea sickness.
I mean, that's, you know, people, people, they.
They condemn the idea of going charter fishing because of the seasickness.
Well, I get car sickness.
I get seasickness.
There's so many options out there now to curve that, to over the counter stuff.
There's a patch you can wear in back of your ear.
You can actually go see your doctor and get a prescription to take care of that stuff, too.
So explore those options.
You can get out.
And just don't go down below,
Dick.
Well, that's yeah.
Stay up in the air.
For sure.
Yeah, that's for
sure.
Patch, I went on a cruise and I couldn't believe the number of people that were wearing those patches.
I'm like, they really work, or is it psychological, you know?
But
anyway, they do work.
They
work.
They work, I guess.
Any quick question for you, buddy?
If any veterans out there listening right now,
they want
to take part in the Veterans Fishing University, what should they do?
Go to www.HuaWisconsin.org, search under programs, you'll see VFU, and just simply apply.
You know you guys
have done so
much
in such a short time.
I remember talking to Will when you guys started up I think
I
was at one of your very first meetings and the way you guys
have grown is incredible It's it's we got a we got a great board and it's just a great Everybody's in line.
We partner with great people like Terry and Mike It just takes it takes a lot of a lot of aspects to keep the ship moving so
and who knows how many lives you very possibly have saved not enough
But it's true, right?
Just even that one is
right.
It is and I you have done some and you're right You just baby can't document it But I mean come on what you're doing is checking all the boxes of socialization and you know nature's healthy like you were talking about I mean just it's good to get out away from whatever we will afford to whatever and
get out
and see nature and
There's no better way than being on the water, right?
I
just think it's terrific what you do
Mike could attest to this you took our first class out on a charter and it was all
parent sibling or parent child type of deal.
And you could tell how they were bonding together on the boat.
It was just a great
event.
So the father and the son, the son was overseas for many years and the father said, I can never, ever get that time back.
But with this stuff and this organization and doing these things, I can start.
getting my time back with my son.
I can start making new memories.
That
says it all right there.
We're gonna leave it right there because that's perfect.
By the way, you guys booked for the summer now or?
There's some openings, but we're, yeah, we're extremely busy.
Give yourselves a plug.
Hard review charters.
Again, Facebook, hard review charters, LLC.
You can look us up.
Then you go out of Kiwani.
Out of Kiwani.
Beautiful.
Do you serve Matanke?
No.
That's
good.
That's a good thing.
All right.
Thank
you so much for being here.
Veterans Fishing University is an awesome organization.
Back after this.
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, Mino and the Mayor.
The Mayor is going to be heading out to NWCTC to do some teaching.
coming up and a lot of great things.
Very, very special guests we had here.
Talked with a great thing with the Veterans Fishing University.
What a tremendous organization.
It was just awesome.
Well, we're talking about some other tremendous organizations.
Who else wants to come on the air here?
And talk with us.
Noobby Shy.
Introduce yourself, young lady, if that's okay.
Hi, I am Chris Tiafalo with Make-A-Wish Wisconsin.
Which is a tremendous organization.
Yes, it's amazing make-a-wish grants life-changing wishes for critically ill local kids and we have one in studio today
Lucas Hello
Nervous.
Oh, don't be nervous.
Come on, man.
It's just us.
This is fun.
This is the fun part.
But you guys are doing great things.
You know, we have the Veterans Organization here and the different things they do for fundraising and different things like that.
And this is something really cool that I've been involved with at times for the oil changes for Make-A-Wish.
Everybody needs an oil change.
And what a great way to go about raising some tremendously needed funds.
Absolutely.
Oh, no, you
can sit down.
We'll adjust this.
Absolutely.
So Berkstrom Automotive.
This Saturday is a really big day, so come on out too.
There's multiple Bergstrom locations throughout Green Bay, the Fox Valley, and Oshkosh, and get your oil changed.
Bergstrom will generously, if you make a $15 donation or more, Bergstrom Automotive will generously match your donation and give you a $30 discount on your oil change.
That's tremendous.
Yeah, and while you're there at Test Drive, they're amazing vehicles because for every test drive taken, actually throughout the month of June, they'll donate $5.
But on Saturday, they'll double the love and they will donate $10 for every test drive taken.
Yeah.
And
you just got to bring just comes a little bit of a caveat there.
Um, you got to bring it back within your lot of time because John Bergstrom got a little upset with me one time when he let me drive one of his cars and I took a little further towards the UP than I should have.
Oh, well, their cars are amazing.
I don't blame you.
What a great organization.
Lucas, tell us a little bit about yourself, buddy.
Um, I.
am 12 I have this brain and body thing called tuberous sclerosis complex and it basically makes it so that there are a whole bunch of tubers throughout my body mostly in my brain at my kidneys and my hearts
The shirt never not looking at you.
You think the healthiest kid around I
mean
He's a cool kid.
He certainly is.
So what do you want to do for Make-A-Wish or have you done it yet?
I have had my wish granted and it was to go to Hawaii.
Oh cool!
Which part, all of it?
I went to...
What did you do that was fun?
Other than lay on the beach?
Because that's fun.
I
went and...
did this thing called rock a hula and Snorkeled oh
cool I'd be afraid to snorkel in the ocean.
Do you see any sharks or anything?
No, we it was at Hanuma Bay.
Okay So I got rid of the sharks there
There aren't any
oh there aren't any oh wow.
I didn't know that.
Why did you want Hawaii?
We got here in your book kind of a book you got here
It's a kind of like picture-ish book where like it shows a whole bunch of pictures and on the front cover it has like a sort of drawing of a Turtle
a big sea turtle.
Yeah, and in Hawaii We were there for one week
In Hawaii, I got a henna tattoo of a sea turtle.
Oh, no
kidding.
Oh, that's cool.
It's not there anymore.
I got it on my left arm, but it's not there anymore.
So...
Did you see any sea turtles out there?
Um, yes.
Really?
Yep.
In the water?
They're huge, aren't they?
Yeah.
And they are actually a endangered species, Hawaiian green sea turtles.
Wow.
So we were not able to get Super close to them, but we were able to Go closer to them that I would have expected.
Well,
that's cool
Yeah,
were they friendly type like not like a snapping turtle or something are they?
No, they're Hawaiian green search green sea turtles completely Non-dangerous
to humans.
That's cool
And they're in danger.
That's cool that you're bringing awareness to that.
Yeah.
That's cool.
So what's the best part about taking trips like that?
Probably that you are actually able to go there for basically for free since it was my make-a-wish other people.
paid for it like the Make-A-Wish organization paid for it with some of the money from Bergstrom and some of their own money.
But yeah, it's basically that I went there for free.
That's fun.
Is this mom?
Hey mom, you want to say hello?
Hello.
Hey, tell us a little bit about the program.
It sounds like a lot of fun.
Yeah, so Lucas was granted his wish and we got to go to Hawaii in September of 2023.
September 28th.
Yeah, as he said, we were there for a week and it was just everything you could imagine about Hawaii.
It was, it was paradise.
It was beautiful.
It was wonderful.
And since we've been back, we've been able to participate in a lot of Make-A-Wish events.
And so this being one of them, and knowing that Berkstrom supported and sponsored Lucas' Wish is really special.
So we really like to come out on the car wash day and the oil change day and the...
that.
And how about with that?
That's awesome.
What a great organization.
We're just going to ask you again that how do you I mean, Bergstrom's been so instrumental in this, but what are some of the other things you have to do?
Because this you get a pretty big not to cover here with these types of organization or with these types of trips and everything.
Correct?
Absolutely, and we couldn't do it without our wonderful partners like Bergstrom Automotive and our wonderful community.
Honestly, right now there's more than 400 life affirming wishes like Lucas is pending for kids.
So we definitely in Wisconsin or where?
Yeah, and a lot of them are right here in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Northeast Wisconsin area.
That's why our office is in Appleton, and we cover the 13 counties of Northeast Wisconsin.
But yeah, the Bergstrom team is so passionate, so dedicated, and we need partners like them year-round, and they support us in such a big way, and you can tell they just care.
They're so you know, you see them and they work so hard throughout the month and They've seen the impact of what that a wish has on a child and kids like Lucas who are fighting critical illnesses They experience extreme physical and mental challenges every single day hospital stays harsh treatments scary surgeries They're exhausting and traumatic for these kids and their entire families But the hope and joy of a wish is truly the most valuable gift you can give to these kids because you're giving
them a better chance of thriving and surviving.
You know, we were just talking when we had the veterans of the fishing university here, they deal with a lot of post-traumatic veterans.
dealing with that.
And just getting out and having just the camaraderie of others that, you know, maybe you're in the same situation.
The mental aspect is so important that can't be overlooked, correct?
It's huge.
It's huge.
Imagine no human being should go through what these kids go through, much less these precious children.
And so, you know, instead of thinking about hospital stays and scary surgeries and all these horrific things that they have to think about, because of our wonderful partners and our
wonderful community and partners like Bergstrom, they're able to dream about what can I wish for.
And that's part of the process.
You know, they think about it and think about what is my greatest wish.
And then when they determine what their wish is, they get to, you know, that excitement and think about their thoughts are diverted.
You guys
make it happen.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So what
are some of the more popular?
wishes
you get.
I think Hawaii would be pretty cool in swimming with the sea turtles.
Some of the more popular ones that I've seen are definitely Disney World and Disneyland.
Yeah, that's right.
Especially for the younger kids, you know, a lot of them.
And Disney wishes are magical as are all the wishes that we grant.
But you can't experience Disney like a wish child can because the characters come up to you and you don't have to wait in lines and you get to go the
in front of every line.
So if you've ever gone to Disney, there's a lot of waiting involved.
But if you're a wish kid and a family rightfully so, you do not have to wait for anything.
That's
awesome.
Now, if somebody is listening right now.
and they're interested in the program.
What's, how do they do it?
Well, get involved right now with Bergstrom Automotive, honestly, because it's a huge campaign for us throughout the- And you'll have a lot of
information there, right?
At
Bergstrom.
Yeah.
So go ahead and
talk about that a little bit.
Yeah, absolutely.
So right now, become a new fan or follower on Bergstrom Automotive, any of their social media platforms, Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn, and they'll generously donate $5 and do all four, and that's a $20 donation that's
they'll make on your behalf.
And on Saturday, they're going to double the love.
So it's going to be $10 for each new fan or follower that Bergstrom Automotive receives on any of their social media platforms.
Do all four, and that's $40.
And Test Drive their vehicles throughout the entire month.
They will donate $5 throughout the entire month.
And on Saturday, it's going to be double to $10 for every Test Drive.
So while you're waiting for your oil change, and really there's not a wait, it's quick.
Plus they have a lot of fun things going on.
on everything from silent auctions to even dunk tanks to, you know, car washes to brought fries to, you name it, they do it.
But test drive their vehicles while you're there.
They have the most amazing vehicles and it'll be $10 for test drive.
And there's some vehicles you'll
never drive ever
again probably.
Oh, for sure, for sure.
Yeah, they have everything there, so.
And they're in Green Bay now, of course, right in National.
Yeah.
Casey Keen, Keaton.
Chevrolet?
It's
Berks from now.
It's
Berks from now.
It's big and bold right there.
Just
very cool.
Again, though, if somebody wanted to, if they're listening and they've got a child in this capacity, what should they do if they can't make it out there?
Can they just call you or?
Yeah, absolutely.
Definitely call us or go to our, even go to our website, which is wish.org backslash, Wisconsin.
So there's all kinds of information there and anyone can refer a child.
But we have great relationships with all the medical facilities throughout the state.
So when a child is admitted, they are thinking about make a wish.
And oftentimes the doctors and social workers, they'll make that referral for the child.
Got it.
And is it the parents or who goes with the child?
Oh, yeah, the whole family.
The whole family.
Yep.
Absolutely.
The entire family.
If you can imagine, you know, a lot of these kiddos, the mom or dad, oftentimes the child's being treated far away.
and mom or dad have to leave the workforce.
And then the other parent is taking care of the home front, the other kids working.
The wish brings the families back together and it strengthens those family bonds.
There's so many benefits to having a wish granted for a crickly old child.
Lucas, anything you'd like to say to anybody out there listening?
If you are a...
Make a wish kid just instead of feeling bad for yourself and thinking oh I Don't feel good about this cuz it's like Since I could have something I could You're feeling bad about it You should actually feel good because there is a chance that you could still have
Good feelings.
Understanding.
And swim with sea turtles.
Yes.
Lucas, you're a great young man.
I
guess so.
It's awesome to have you in here.
Thank you for doing a great job and being a great representative for Make-A-Wish.
Once again, Bergstrom.
Yes, it's Saturday.
Come on out.
Oil change day, 8 a.m.
to 1 p.m.
We'll keep pumping this all week long.
Wonderful.
Thank you so very.
Introduce yourself one more time.
Chris Tiafolo with Make-A-Wish, Wisconsin.
Located in Appleton.
Our office is located in Appleton.
Yes, but we cover northeast Wisconsin.
Thank you for what you do.
Thank you.
Thank
you so much for what you do.
Quick break back after this.
you
word he'd like to say.
Hope you have a great day.
97.9.
Nice.
That was good.
I know what you're going to do in the future.
You're going to be talking for a living.
Beats real work.
Thank you guys.
Thank you so much.
We're going to talk about this for the rest of the week, what the great things are at Berkstra.
It's a fantastic organization, fantastic project, and everything we can do to help support them.
We're 100% behind them.
Okay, convoy.
Jim had to leave, he has to go do his classroom work over at NWTC.
So how's it going for you here in the early mornings?
You normally work with Pete Schwab.
Are you doing double shifts these days?
I'm doing a double shift, yeah, for two
days.
Okay.
Well, yeah, Todd's on his well-deserved
vacation.
Yeah, well-deserved vacation.
Very well-deserved.
He's taking over, taking over the morning for him.
Nice.
So what kind of cool things you guys doing on Schwab's show?
Whenever I get a chance to listen to it, it's always fun.
And, you know, just talking about what we love and that's the color television.
And, you know, it's just fun to talk about the things you watch.
You know, you don't often get a chance to talk about with even family or sometimes, but getting it out there.
What are you watching?
That's why.
OK, you got to look something up for me then.
Remember I mentioned yesterday that I saw a thing about their debuting of streaming about the movie they shot, the historical type movie they shot at the Union Hotel in Depear.
Are you sure it was a was it a movie or a TV show?
movie
it was okay
ish like a movie series type thing and they're having like the debut of it they're having the thingy
so I see it's the union hotel union house hotel okay and it says it's based in 1990
okay yep it's historical
yeah so I mean yeah I see an article on it from the Green Bay press
okay okay when is the debut and how do you watch
it
Well, I Don't see too much about what where you can
get Schwab on this thing cuz you're feeling miserably Conrad.
I wish I could
I wish I could keep
reading this
article, but I can't miserable.
I have to sign in
Okay, never mind then.
All right, so tell Schwab I want a report on that tomorrow on our show sounds good Okay, he has to give us a report tomorrow morning on that show.
All right, so one of some great events coming up here We're talking about the Alzheimer's get together with their walk
and that is coming up on Wednesday, June 25th.
So that's just a week away, basically.
Hagamister Park right behind us here at Green Bay, downtown Green Bay on the city deck landing.
That's the kickoff from five to seven.
Everybody's welcome.
Come and learn about the walk to end Alzheimer's and get registered.
Then another great event they're doing with Milwaukee Brewers, the Brewers Alzheimer's Awareness Games July 27th, earned tickets to the Brewers game.
Raise $100 or donate $100 on your personal walk page between June 16th and June 30th.
Earn two tickets to the Alzheimer's Awareness Brewer's Game, plus the pre-game tailgate party on July 27th.
So each $100 raised equals two free tickets bringing the entire family go to act.alz.org slash Green Bay to register and then donate Kind of a bonus the two top individual fundraisers between now and June 30th will earn a VIP experience for themselves
and a guest at American Family Field, which includes, which includes a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to slide down Bernie's iconic slide.
Isn't that cool?
I've always wanted to do that.
Me too.
Since I was a kid.
I could see me like something going wrong and like going over the side.
You know, apparently it's
actually pretty fast
going down.
I can, I know that.
I know that.
I just, I don't do well with certain things.
Like I told you, I had to be pulled out of the Lazy River at Wisconsin Dells.
I didn't know that.
Yeah, I got hurt.
on that.
How do you get hurt on a lazy river?
So, okay, so you're on the inner tubes.
Okay, you're floating along nicely.
Yeah.
Well, my daughter behind me, she's like five at the time, maybe whatever.
She yelled dad, dad is something I want.
So I lean back like that.
And I put too much weight on my buttocks in the back of the inner tube, inner tube went flying up.
I went ash over teacups as they say.
Okay.
My knee, you should see the scar on my knee.
Scraped against the wall, cut my knee wide open.
They had to pull me out.
I think they shut down the ride for a while because there's blood in the water and stuff like that.
And yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
I've never heard of a lazy river incident.
Oh, it happens a lot more frequently than people realize.
Then another, I think it was on the same trip.
This might have been the day before where they got one of the really big slides where they just have those and those things were fast as heck.
And I'm just, okay, what they, what they were supposed to tell you is for guys, when you're hitting the bottom there, you know, really keep your legs together.
I didn't do that.
And I suffered a severe traumatic, um, injury from that.
The guy had to help me.
I couldn't even hardly walk.
Helped me over to the fence to kind of catch my breath.
Wow.
Yeah.
That wasn't too embarrassing at all.
So.
Those are my trips to Wisconsin, Del.
So if I do win the Bernie Brewer thing, I got to be careful going down that slide.
Yeah, yeah.
Things are going to happen.
Yeah.
But I'm up for it.
But those are two great events.
And of course, the big thing coming up with Bergstrom with the absolutely tremendous organization they're doing with Make-A-Wish, like to help those people out as much as humanly possible.
I think what they do is just awesome.
And here it is one more time.
Bergstrom Automotive going their Facebook page.
Instagram or LinkedIn, they'll donate $5.
You can do four different ways, a $20 donation that Bergstrom will make on your behalf.
Test Drive, any of their amazing vehicles, Bergstrom will generously donate $5 for every test drive taken any day in the month of June.
Plus, it'll donate $50 for each vehicle sold throughout the month.
Saturday, June 21st, coming up 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock.
all the Bergstrom locations throughout Green Bay, the Fox Valley, and Oshkosh will hold a special oil change day.
When you make a $15 or more donation to Make a Wish Wisconsin, the great team at Bergstrom Automotive will match your donation and give you a $30 discount on your oil change.
So once again, $10 they'll donate for each test drive, $100 for each vehicle purchase or at least $10.
Each new follower fan on their Facebook page Instagram X or linked in and it was great Have the people here and just you know wonderful wonderful wonderful young people that are being benefited by the make-a-wish Foundation we got set a quick break and we back right after this
Hey, welcome back.
You might know the mayor here, the mayor of the NWTC, educating our youth.
Right now, but I'll tell you what, right now, we've got some people that are big into educating our youth.
Alex Owen, ATC Manager of Corporate Affairs, Dennis Rockhill, the Einstein Project mobile STEM program.
We have been talking about this for quite some time.
Now, Jim is really fascinated with this.
And for anybody that's not familiar, whoever wants to jump in, introduce yourself and just jump in what the goals and dreams are of this great organization.
Sure, so I'm my name is Axel Owen.
I am the corporate manager corporate affairs manager of ATC and for us this was you know We as a company really kind of focus on STEM education getting kids involved having them understand that STEM is a viable career for them and a viable option and so as we were going through kind of look meeting with nonprofits we came across project Einstein and it's kind of a funny story that we were talking about earlier is our company actually did a volunteer effort through the United Way
Doing a kind of a volunteer project for Project Einstein.
So when we got connected, it was kind of a match made in heaven for us.
We are looking to kind of make sure that we provide kids opportunities to learn about STEM, STEM education.
Go ahead and explain STEM.
STEM is so it's science, technology, engineering, and math.
For us, it's really about kind of providing for the future, giving students an opportunity and really kind of giving opening their eyes to what the potential is.
And taking them outside of just the classroom where you have the book and you read this chapter.
whatever yeah you guys are a lot you're way beyond that
yeah listen I have two children myself I have a seven-year-old and a four-year-old and so it's it's really encouraging to see the amount of
STEM that's being taught.
And for us, it's about kind of building into that, giving kids the opportunity.
An ultimate success for us is one of these kids goes to a STEM lab that we helped working with Project Einstein, gets excited about, you know, STEM and wants to go into that.
That is the ultimate goal and the ultimate success for us is, you know, providing that opportunity.
And so when we met with Project Einstein, it was, hey, we have the STEM lab, we like moving it around.
And for us, that was amazing because we want to be able to kind of give kids opportunity where there aren't often
an opportunity.
So we focus on the smaller towns in the area and really kind of give them an opportunity to kind of experience this.
See if it's something they're interested in.
Listen, if you go in and say, hey, this isn't for me, that's OK.
And that's really what's important to us is, you know, giving kids.
You know, I
think so.
I come from the dark ages of school.
This would have been 97 percent.
All guys.
Yeah.
Now what's the percentage of girls?
It's it's it's rising.
Yeah.
For our company specifically, it's really interesting because our CEO is actually a woman engineer.
And so that's a lot what we focus on is just making sure that everybody has this opportunity.
It's about including everybody in the opportunity to see, hey, is this something we want to do?
And as a father of a seven and four year old, I love what Project Einstein does.
They take it out of the classroom, they bring it in, and they say, hey, let's make a car.
Let's have you guys learn about the different aspects of it.
Make some battle bots.
It's incredible.
We are very happy with this partnership and we're very excited.
We are currently actually working with them to do more around the area.
We've already announced two and the plan is to actually announce some additional stops throughout the summer as we kind of build this up and get more kids involved.
And I know, I'd love for Dennis to kind of jump in here as well.
Yeah, Dennis, go ahead, jump in with the Einstein project.
Great organization.
It's great to be one of the boots on the ground that ATC is supporting.
We are getting our mobile labs out.
as fast as we can get them scheduled.
So we got two different kinds of programs.
One we call our sandbox program where it gets out.
It's very, I would say, you know, broad but shallow where it's really kind of interest building and just kind of getting an experience in building excitement.
Then we have our design lab, which is a 28 foot trailer with 3D printers and laser cutters on it.
And that's kind of our narrow and deep.
program where it's multiple sessions.
It's scheduled.
It's more rigorous.
So we have.
But
you're bringing it to them.
Yeah.
You're bringing it to them, which is so cool.
Which is so cool.
Yes.
Our shop is located.
We're bringing our shop out to you, which is great.
Yeah.
I mean, we do not feel limited by that at all.
I mean, well, you can only fit so many kids in a 28-foot trailer.
It was funny because when we met there, like, where do you guys want to go?
And we're like.
where what's your region is that we don't care we'll go wherever you guys want whatever we think in so many smaller
communities don't have access to something like
this yes and that is something that like one of our big things is like the inclusion aspect of like
the idea of a stem desert, you know, when people look at investment, they always focus on the larger towns.
And for us, it's, there is still value going into these small towns.
You know, that's one of the reasons why we chose Kiwani was it's a great small town.
It's a great community.
And we thought, you know, this is a good spot for us to go and say, Hey,
Let's try to prevent that summer slide.
Most people don't realize this, that when your child is not in school for those summer months, their education actually slides and they go, they kind of regress.
And so- Oh, I believe it.
Anything we can do to like stop that and kind of encourage them to learn and grow is incredibly valuable and something that we really do want to make sure we kind of provide that opportunity for everybody.
And go ahead, talk a little bit more, Dennis, about the Einstein project.
The whole goal of that, how it all began and where you're at right now, because it just keeps growing.
Yeah, the Einstein project is 30 plus years.
We've been supplying science kits and curriculum to schools and for teachers to utilize.
Up until we started the makerspace in the Einstein project, we trained teachers and we supplied the materials.
We never dealt directly with any of the students.
So when the makerspace was launched, we were bringing the students in.
to the shop and, you know, having camps and workshops and field trips and stuff.
And it even made some of our Einstein personnel like, you know, all these kids are going to be running around their building.
You know, now it's it's, you know, when the place is empty, everybody's a little nervous, like, hey, where is everybody?
Where are the kids?
So, you know, and.
That's been great.
We have a really robust summer camp program going on in the shop.
As far as our design lab is concerned, it's kind of like a perennial.
When you plant it, first here it sleeps, then it creeps, then it leaps, we're in our creepier.
So now we're starting to schedule it and get out.
Get the
momentum going, huh?
Yeah, that's right.
In the design lab, like I said, it's a little more rigorous, a little more planned.
So we want to make sure that when we're scheduling with them, we want the kids to know to be there at a certain time.
We want to have them for not just a couple of hours, but we want to have them for a couple of hours, a few sessions, so that we can really dive deeper and really get them interested in what
we're doing.
And that's a cool thought.
Part of that, be able to do it during the summer like this.
history and geography and whatever whatever whatever else to do that night they can really focus on something like this which is really cool.
You know and I work with a team of teachers who've been in the classroom and and our focus on this is it's this we we use the phrase we can't make it too schooly we have you know they're not here to go to school they're here to dive into something they're really really interested in so you know we kind of sneak the education in underneath a little bit but you know it's all about you know kind of
jabbing at their interests and having a lot of.
And the potential for lifetime work after going through something like that.
I mean,
it's unlimited as there's no ceiling.
There is no ceiling.
And for us, that that is the angle for us.
It is, you know, it's not just our industry.
It's industries across Wisconsin have this growing need of STEM.
If you talk about the growth of AI, the need of, you know, people in the STEM field for us, it's the ultimate success as one of these students being like, Hey, I want to go into a STEM field.
Like that's, that is the end goal for us.
And that's what we love.
And so anything we can do to provide that opportunity for a child to say, this is something I enjoy.
This is something that I want.
That's, that's the end goal for us.
And that's what we love.
And that's why we partnered with project Einstein is just to make sure that we give kids this opportunity to learn and grow and feel.
And the thing I love about it is, again, I have two children is if I give my son a book.
Go
on
you're not
you're not
gonna get you're not gonna have any focus on but it's a hands-on right It's something for them tangible that they can play with and work with and it captures their imagination And
you're not just memorizing something.
Yes.
It's not unlike a video game So when they start with a video game, right there, they're not afraid to fail.
Yeah, they'll They'll die the fun part spawned again, you know and
You know, working on a lot of the projects that we do with them, you know, it's about knowing that it's not failure.
Okay, well, that didn't work.
Let's try this.
Let's try this.
It's a lot of the iteration that kind of builds the resilience as well as their problem-solving abilities without the thought that I'd keep failing and I'm going to succeed.
They're like, no, I'm just figuring it out.
Failure is failure is nothing but an opportunity absolutely like that's what we love about this and like we could not be more excited And that's why you know, we're gonna start rolling out more of these over the summer I know our next one that's coming up is actually on June 24th in Wright's Town
Okay,
and then we're actually gonna be going back to Kiwani in August see that's great getting up to these you know more outlying areas in the cities That's great.
Yeah, and that was that was kind of our goal when we talked to iron project I was like let's go where people aren't let's go where you know, there's an opportunity
for us because that city is gonna come out and say oh my god we have a resource let's do this because this is something that's different than you know your normal your kid goes to summer camp right comes home at the end of the day how was it y'all you learn about the local drama with your kids and like that's fine but like we want to make sure that we're providing an opportunity for them to learn and grow and
And kind of what
what type of young person when they walk through the door you do an interview with them or whatever What kind of with you say to yourselves, okay?
I'm gonna keep my on this kid.
He's or she's really she's got this certain spark certain something What do you see?
What are some of your telltale signs?
You know the cool thing about it is is we don't okay
It's hard to tell they come out of nowhere, right?
So it could be, you know, a very shy girl that comes in is very quiet, but everything she does is just spot on perfect.
That's beautiful.
All she wants is a higher and harder challenge.
Wow.
We have lots of kids that come in that, you know, are, you know, on the spectrum, something like that.
And you can just kind of get a vibe off of them and understand that.
But they're rock stars when they're working, you know.
And their parents just, you know, they love to see them just soaking up whatever we're offering because it gives them something to kind of work their brain on.
That's tremendous.
What about.
You didn't have anything like this when you were young, did you?
I mean,
that's
what I mean.
You guys are so big
advocate, but
you
guys didn't get a chance to benefit from what
you guys do now, did you?
No, no, and it was funny.
We were talking about this when we were waiting.
It's just sort of like none of this was ever available.
And like I can see that is my father was actually and you're young.
I mean, my father was a sixth, seventh, eighth grade science teacher.
So like I had some sure some kind of view into it, but like not to the level that this is now.
And like that again goes back to the point of like just how much of a need it is regionally.
and statewide that this is their good paying jobs, their good futures here.
The future's unlimited for anybody that trying to jump into this field.
That's why we do this.
That's why we want this to succeed.
That's why we want as many students.
I know Project Einstein, what was it last year you guys ended up having about 3,000 kids that went through the program?
It was something like that
and like we are, we're looking to grow that and make it bigger and make it larger and get more kids involved because that's the impact that's getting that kid, that opportunity and that's what's most important.
In how big of a region would that be, Dennis?
Well,
the 3,000.
We're focusing on like greater northeastern Wisconsin.
I mean, that's a bunch.
Yeah, but I mean, we're doing a lot of work even down in the Milwaukee and Racine area over in Wausau.
We go up to Ashland once in a while.
Did you go to the UP?
What's that?
Did you go up to the UP?
You know, we haven't been in the UP.
Well, you need to.
It's been an active discussion with us as
well.
We actually have an office up in the UP, and so that's something we've looked at as
well.
Oh, where at?
What
town?
Kingsford.
Oh,
the flippers.
Yep.
So we have a, we
actually
have offices.
We have an office in Kingsford.
We have one in Depeer.
We also have an office in Milwaukee and then also one out near Madison and Cottage Grove.
Very cool.
And one of the great things is like, when we were like, Hey, what about an area like right now?
Like no problem.
That's awesome.
And that's, and that's why we thought this was such a great project and why we got so involved was, you know, their flexibility, their willing to be, Hey, we'll go to that town.
No problem.
was incredible.
And that's something that like we truly value this partnership.
And that's, you know, why we're here today.
All
right.
Can you guys stick around?
Absolutely.
Got some more interesting questions for you guys.
I think this is a fascinating thing.
And I think for the parents out there might not know much about this, whose kids have a little bit of that aptitude, at least that interest in something like this.
I would think if you asked for an erector set in my area, those would be the kind of kids you would you'd want.
I was never going to be building
an erector.
Sex
Lincoln Lincoln locks
are the greatest thing ever
invented.
Same thing.
It's engineering or just take apart.
Oh, I took apart a lot of my dad's things that could not put them back together.
We got a quick break back after this
Hello, did you kick convoy up?
Uh, no, he had to go to a doctor's appointment.
I'm just
helping.
All right.
It's good to have you.
How you guys doing?
Good.
How's your drive up for Manitowoc today?
You know, it wasn't too bad.
It was sunny in Manitowoc and then as I came up, there's like some dark clouds and now it's sunny again.
So the weather is it's one of those days.
Yeah, partly mostly cloudy scattered showers throughout the day high in the low 80s.
Man, it was humid yesterday.
Wasn't it crazy humid?
was back to that wow it's starting all right all right we're talking here with Alex and Dennis talking about the Einstein project talking about stem programs once again you guys are bringing this in this from the eye on the community
brought to you by Insight Eye Care.
But one of the very cool things that you guys do as I mentioned is you bring this to these small towns.
And you know, I know of so many coaches and teachers in smaller areas.
And man, they, you know, some of those schools, they're rubbing two nickels together, you know, to get a dime and they just don't have a lot of extra.
And for you guys to bring this, can you describe that just the physical aspect of what you do when you go to where you're Keewanee and then Wrightstown?
Just describe the whole thing when you bring the circus to town.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
So, I mean, a lot of things have to come together for that.
You know, there's simply the facilitators who know what they're doing.
Right.
They're just planning the projects or the activities that we're going to be doing.
What kind of equipment or tools do we need to bring?
Then there's packing it all up and towing it out there, you know.
All
that.
I mean, it's a mobile laboratory,
right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that all costs a lot of time and energy and stuff like this.
And to be able to bring that to a smaller community, they're not going to be able to pay you for it.
Right.
So what's what's excellent about what ATC is doing is it's empowering us to go to them and say, hey, we got this for you.
It's free.
Yeah.
I think that's fantastic.
Yeah.
It's free.
It's show up.
Come on out.
bring your kids, bring your kids friends, learn about this, take a day out and have some fun.
But
you do make them sign a waiver there if they're really good at this stuff, they have to work for you for three years.
I mean, IP, intellectual property, right?
We make an
intern
for
Einstein.
It's
a pathway.
Recruiting, you know, nothing wrong with that.
It's all about opportunity.
One more thing, though, about the STEM program.
Again, it hasn't been around that long.
UWGB has a great program.
Now, talk a little bit about the advancement that that has made.
Both of you guys have been involved with that.
Just the advancement and the whole STEM program, what that's done for a whole group of young people.
STEM is kind of that new frontier of jobs.
Let's really talk about it.
The fact is, is like science, technology, engineering, and math.
If you think about everything that we use nowadays, you're involved in that somehow, whether it's using AI for your work or learning, you know, going to chat GPT and being like, how do I do this?
Well, that's science and math and engineering and all of that.
And then you also talk about, you know, the growth of industry in this area, the growth of industry across the state.
It's all becoming more and more technology.
It's becoming more and more science and math based.
So like, that's why this is so important.
It's because it's kind of that new frontier.
talking about this earlier is when I was a kid, video games were, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, you don't play video games.
That's going to ruin your education.
You're not going to do that.
What a waste of time.
What a little thing you got there, that joystick or
whatever.
What is that?
I mean, I was born in the 80s.
So like my entire childhood was like, I want to go play video games.
My parents being like, why would you do that?
Why would you do that?
And the reality is now we're talking about it.
Like, these are the people that are flying drones.
They're designing things.
They're growing things.
And like, that's really what this is about is.
the amount of industries that are touched by STEM is so much bigger than it was ever.
And it's growing faster and faster and faster and exponentially growing.
And so
you would be shocked at how many military helicopter pilots or just big advocates of video games early on.
It's video games, but it's not just that.
It's also you think about the fact that like all of our kids are now on technology.
My son, you know, he's on it.
He organizes my phone.
Like he takes my phone.
It's like, I'm going to organize your apps and like.
Okay, go have that again like that's really what we're talking about here is like this is opportunities for every child and it's You don't have to go to college to go into STEM You can go and be you know working a union or a tradesman Or you can go into different or you can even start your own industry if you want to
and I gotta say the paychecks in those fields
right
now
It's they're growing.
It's it's it's so incredible and it's so broad.
And that's why we love doing this and why we love working with Project Einstein is it gives every kid the equal opportunity to see if this is something that's for them
at a young age,
at a young age.
Absolutely.
We do not discriminate when it comes to age.
If you bring a four year old, we'll we'll figure out a way to bring them in.
If you bring a high schooler, we'll make it work for you guys because like this is so vitally important to the success and the success of.
our generation and generations moving forward, that anything we can do to invest in that is such a worthwhile experience.
Phenomenal.
Dennis,
right
up your alley, you guys are preaching from the same chapter
here.
Absolutely, that's why it's a great partnership.
You know, what we find valuable and from what we've seen is we are no longer pushing careers, the careers are pulling them.
Oh, it's great.
We're putting at the ATCs of the world are starting to say, hey, we need this and we're we're willing to put some skin in the game to help make it happen.
That goes down to the universities and the tech schools, which are putting in the programs that are training them for the careers and that then goes down to programs like the Einstein project and then schools.
to prepare them for that, you know?
So it's now being pulled rather than
pushed.
Well, I think it's really cool.
Neither one of you guys would have to do what you're doing.
You guys have great careers or do have great careers, could be whatever.
But you guys are really investing pretty much everything you've gotten, energy, into the youth.
I think that's extremely admirable.
Yeah, it's the youth's future.
But yeah, that's the reality.
And like, to kind of go forward, Dennis was saying was I went to Ripon College.
And Ripon College, when I went there, was a liberal arts school.
It was.
top two programs or political science and English.
And now I went there a couple of weeks ago and it's like they have now a computer programming and they have STEM and they have like it's all growing and it's all you're seeing it across academia right now where it's STEM is such a vital cog of our future that everybody's making that move.
And so like any opportunity you can get to like give a kid a child exposure to this is going to be incredibly valuable for them.
Did they ever get a new football field?
That was a.
I
have I believe
the thrown that out there.
I think no they have a soccer field last I
am okay.
All right Just throwing out there Dennis Rock you'll thanks so very much.
I project
is Tremendous, whatever we do to back you guys Alco and Axel Owen manager corporate affairs ATC man our youth
And especially in these small towns around the summer and really great hands with you two leading the way.
Thank you.
Thank you guys for what you do.
We're out
of
time.
Thanks everybody.
Back in tomorrow morning.
I know the mayor.
See ya.
