Yogurt Mishaps, Golf Tales, and Wild Animal Encounters(Hour 1)

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Here are your hosts John Minow and Jim

Smith Happy Tuesday to ya good-looking Tuesday out there 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 got sick and I was cooking, so it's a good thing we didn't call each other.

But

I'm just doing this as a public service,

you know.

Yeah, I don't love that.

So I

try to help people health-wise.

It's pretty much the, it's really out of PSA because I think everybody knows what you're gonna say.

I mean,

maybe not.

Don't eat spoiled Greek yogurt.

Breaking news, okay.

John, everybody knows that.

You should have done

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?

When you wouldn't think so, because basically yogurt is a bacterial type of thing.

It's made up of spores.

And, um, you know, normally that's, it's called gut health.

Yeah, that's sports.

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, cantaloupe.

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 $9 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, it's a 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 and everything would be okay.

That just gives me a stomach.

He's just thinking about it.

I know.

Don't do it, people.

Tell you that right now.

Don't do it.

No.

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 got a little.

He's been working.

Well, he works all the time.

All the time.

All the time.

All the time.

This is nothing.

It is.

This

job is this is just.

at the

table for the rest

of his day.

Right.

Oh man, and he does despite leaving

at 430, getting up at 330 and driving 430.

Yeah.

The side hustles.

Yeah.

And just then, you know, 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, I'm too busy.

He handles all that for us.

So he's got that pressure too.

But.

Well,

okay, but.

It's corporate.

I

know I but Remember the time we were sitting at the corporate table and they got up and left us.

Yes.

It's

all right.

They

so I'm not so sure they want to hang with us That's okay though.

I mean I at

our age and just

I just don't

I could do care.

I was to make money and be a 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.

Today is Apple strudel day.

Got to love the Apple

strudel.

Not today though, right?

Andy day.

No, no, really.

And then it's 90 out or 80.

I can take.

Cherry tart day.

I hate it.

I hate cherry.

I 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 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 are some things that come back.

Yeah.

Oh 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?

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.

It's a young guy.

It's a young fella.

He's

a

young man.

He's a kid.

The hell is he doing out there alone?

Did you guys see that?

He was in Africa on a safari and had a great experience, but he had to go to the bathroom.

So he went, just y'all climbed down.

You know, whatever, two, three in the morning,

you know, whatever time they

get.

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 because 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.

This gorilla people, that happens to that one lady in New York.

Let me show that orangutan.

Yeah.

Interface.

Yep.

He, 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 and 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,

you know, 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?

Did 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 elegant do something.

Come on.

But now you see what they're doing.

They're going after those pythons Yeah, I wouldn't that

yeah, I in those are

her

I love that one guy with the real Cajun accent.

Woo dear boy look at that big boy.

Woo look at that John don't that boy.

I want to hold him

down.

I know.

Yeah.

No teeth.

His brother's the same thing and his dad.

Absolutely.

Love

those guys.

I hope those guys are getting paid.

But those pythons are amazing.

And that's a problem.

It's

taking over the Everglades.

Right.

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 there's edible?

I don't

know.

I don't know what you'd like to 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 snakes,

but you said you had some right.

Did you rattlesnake or something one time that 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 main 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, I just 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 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, um, 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, 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.

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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 Wow 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 was 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 Royds.

Just like bizarre into steroids.

And then he 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.

Both those guys are 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 the spot north of Havana Yeah,

I know that song but I know it from friends cuz they played it

Yeah, well, you know what?

You're gonna play it right

now

today.

Okay.

Yes.

All right, guys.

Techs here from Sarah.

She says, hey, Jim, will you be at the city concert tomorrow night?

I am volunteering for it.

Oh, yes, I will.

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 his

bathroom?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Whatever you need, sir.

Tell

all

your friends.

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, 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 that bad they get paid, but they're very good.

They Yeah, we enjoyed that for 15 20 years.

That's cool.

Yeah, and we that band shoulder was donated by him.

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 uh both went to east and um and i met him he's he's dead uh but i met him i don't know whatever he donated that probably i don't know as long as charlton hesson no no that's too rivers guy um 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.

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 is 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 going to 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're having all of

them over your house afterwards?

Wow, cool.

When I talk to them, I'm like, do 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.

And to a man, none of them wanted any.

They were still setting up for that, but

no, we don't need anything for a 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

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 welcome, but yeah, it's just it's simple I'm not having as big like Christmas party thing is just simple hot dogs.

I made baked beans They tasted great made them last night and you know just so party

at your

house with big most

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.

Nice, that's good.

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.

The

woods is great.

The woods have 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, Hillie Haven was always popular.

You know, kind of little places.

Yeah.

In Luxembourg, they have a decent course, too.

That's a

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 weren't, you know, they're kids, right?

And, 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 in six holes.

But you know what?

That's the best way to do it.

They needed to just get comfortable because I don't want anybody yelling at them.

But the woods is great.

And that wasn't that expensive.

No, that was a

while

ago

to have me there.

I mean, 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,

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.

Yeah, 27

holes and they're gonna add nine more.

Do you hear that?

I didn't know they're

gonna add more.

Wow.

That's like I said who took me out 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 on 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, um,

Women's golf.

Yeah, do you know that it's incredible how that's grown?

I

mean having the women's open this

year,

I mean 34 Wisconsin has become a golf mecca 34%

of the golfers are women Yeah, 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 I

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're in high school Okay, I didn't know a single girl like off.

No,

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.

Yeah, 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 every 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.

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Yeah.

Oh, that'll worry out.

Yeah, that's I That's not a great golf.

I'm

not a good golfer

And

you have the worst part about that courses What people can sit on the in the bar and watch you tee off and watch you as you come up on your 18th wall And they're all sitting there.

Yeah,

she's so in watching you finish up.

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