Dogs, Hunting, and Health: A Rustic Ramble (Hour 1)

Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim

Schmidt.

All right, it ain't nice.

Oh, but I get to kick today off because today is National Take Your Dog to Work Day.

I know.

I got to leave right away to a funeral or else he was so excited.

I told him yesterday and then this morning I'm like, oh, I can't take you because I don't have time to take you back home.

Oh, he would have been good.

With who?

Me?

He's getting better.

I mean, even, um, like when big mouth, when those guys came over, he's getting friendlier.

He's three now.

I was

going to

ask that because

when we were

walking

up growing for your Christmas party, yes, he was not happy.

He was not like a welcoming dog.

Well, he.

If

he was a guy, he'd

be like, if he was a person, he'd be like, why

are they here?

What

do you do?

What do you want?

Why?

Exactly.

Just keep

going.

This is my goal.

Exactly.

But I tell you, we had, I told you, a Tuesday night little party, and he's better.

Even the people who came, actually Johnny to that Christmas party said, man, he's getting better.

He's going up to people.

He's starting to say, look, this is not just the three of us.

There's more people who come to this house.

Trusting people more so anyway, but yeah today is national take your dog to work day.

It's neat.

It is I wonder just Trump have a dog I was like somebody's president brings the dog and you know They kind of show that off a little bit on a national because this is not just you know, Wisconsin or Green Bay thing.

This is the national day.

So I was Anyway, that's why I Appreciate you.

Let me kind

of I

hope Dennis brings

his he will he's got a great

all

beautiful dog

and

for a rescue dog.

Yeah

You know, because sometimes you wonder, like, you know, that was an eye-opener that day we did that, that dog thing.

Right.

Yeah, that was fun.

And

the trauma these things have gone through and what it means when these people take them in and I don't want to sound cheesy, but show them some love for probably the first time in their lives.

It is, because boy, they, yeah, they had a tough time.

No, you don't have a dog anymore.

No.

But

You know when you're living in an apartment, but and it you got two places, but are you gonna get do you think you'll never know?

No,

yeah,

yeah, if somebody else would take care of it You know what I mean?

I don't know what I mean by that is because you're so busy.

Well not even that It's

tough to do stuff at night though you do Yeah, that's I mean, but if they get trained those dogs can stay in the house for hours like seven eight hours, so

we feel like Todd

I mean, there's a lot of times where

it's like, you know,

instead of staying here, it's, no, I gotta run home and take care of, you know, the dog type.

I mean, it's, it's such a response to build it.

So I mean, if I had somebody else here, you know what I mean?

That would take care of just the, you know, it's, but

yeah.

Well, I think, I think we'll always have a dog.

You know that?

Oh yeah.

I don't blame you.

But yeah, and they're just cool that round.

Okay.

I'm surprised because you had dogs as a kid and I didn't.

Yeah.

You know, that's like,

oh my God, we never not had a dog.

Right.

We never, I don't think my family.

ever not had a

dog.

Wow.

Isn't that something?

Yeah, that is.

We never did not.

I don't know why I guess we had too many kids or whatever.

But

for us, what

a great thing.

Rabbit

hunting was a really big thing.

Right.

Okay.

And I've said this a million times about living in the UP.

You have to have something that gets you out of the house between November and April.

Right.

And for us, it was rabbit hunting.

Yeah.

And so we had rabbit, you know, we had hunting dogs, we had beagles.

And

they

chase them

up for you.

Yeah.

Oh, that was, that was one of the most fun things in the world is rabbit hunting.

I'd come home from school and I'd grab my shotgun and I would take my dog and we would just walk.

I mean, we live so far.

I mean, not desolate, but we lived with the woods across the street and there would be woods there for the next 30 miles

of woods.

Hey, kind of what do you think of that?

Come up from school, grab the gun, ma, pa.

I mean, doesn't it sound like way back?

No, I have friends that, you know, we'll go out right after school for deer hunting.

I

remember my high school year,

my senior year in

high school, we won this first game of the year.

We, the year before we had an unbelievable football team.

We're a team of the year for the UP and everything.

We're like nine and one or whatever.

And the only team that beat us, Sue St.

Marie, four times bigger than us.

Okay.

And they're the only team that beat us.

They had 22 returning Letterman.

We, I don't think we had 22 guys on our team.

And we beat them in the first game.

Oh, so they came back with a chip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But anyway, so you think, you know, people are like, you know, oh man, I'll bet you really celebrated that one.

I'm like, no, I had to get up so early Saturday.

Like what?

We don't rabbit hunting in partridge hunting.

So I'd get up at five.

I mean, that was just such a big part of our lives was hunting.

Cool.

But everybody does something.

But that but that was that era, though, Jim, where my family, much like yours probably was, you know, wild game wasn't just fun.

It wasn't like American sportsmen.

And we didn't.

I mean, you know, my dad always called somebody that had all the perfect gear, called them a drugstore cowboy, called them a drugstore hunter, drugstore fisherman.

You know, we just were old clothes that

Whatever and but but we did it for food and not like we're you know Indigent or whatever we need it, but

we love it.

They were there

were great meals Yeah, I mean though you you call that one thing that you're we're frats and over here

hasn't happened.

Oh my god Yeah, I mean that was that wasn't

that was like a big Sunday.

Hey, yeah

thing.

Yep

Partridge I still have you ever had partridge.

I don't you know what?

Have you ever had pheasant?

Yes, it's better than pheasant,

okay?

It is the, I think it's the best tasting.

Somebody out there can argue with me.

I think partridge, wild partridge is the best tasting, um, foul that there is.

Huh.

And we have a lot of that here.

No, there are, no, they're hard to find now.

Oh, there used to be lots of them.

We get pictures of, we'd have the back pickup truck and there'd be like 20 of them, you know, on there.

Now you get two and it's like, whoa.

Oh, are they, um, like.

We're talking about, are they like bag limit?

Like whatever, can you get like six and that's it?

Yeah, it's really, it's not a lot at all, maybe three, but they're just not out there

anymore.

Yeah, I know, yeah.

They're

just, I don't

know what happened.

That makes me think of Christmas, I wouldn't shoot one, because don't you think of partridge in a pear tree when you do that?

I think of a partridge in a pot.

Okay, okay.

With a really nice white cream mushroom sauce.

I don't think, I'm not kidding, I don't think I've had that.

Okay, it's a

real tender white meat.

It's all white.

It's all tender and it's got real nice flavor to it

Yeah, I like duck.

I love that see it.

I don't I

just think duck tastes gamey,

but again, I don't think

I've had it Prepared I mean I've talked to people it's like they let it soak like eight hours Oh, yeah, I thought I was gonna say is

duck takes a while, but you put that orange marmalade and that's duck is good and it

sounds so good.

I just never had it

I had it

bad

and then right and it's hard for

that in your mind

to Yeah,

have it good.

No, I don't know.

Did

you

trade?

I don't like lamb.

Yeah, I know Con lamb.

I like it.

Yeah, man.

That's it.

That is and that's that's not cheap Con

turn your mic up another word for the rest of the day

Lamb is great.

You do.

Let's do it lamb.

That's it.

Yeah, I really.

Oh, yeah.

It is.

It's just and it's it's a little bit.

I'll just say this though.

If you had lamb, you didn't like because you had my lamb.

It's a little bit of how the way you cook it.

I think mine is you didn't like it though.

So.

But like I said, I don't like heroes either.

Yeah.

So you don't like

the whole lamb for some reason.

It and lamb has a unique taste.

I'm gonna give you that it's not like that tastes like chicken I mean lamb tastes like lamb that is I think it's great

every episode of the Brady Bunch Alice was going to buy lamb chops And it's like do you little kids know?

That little lamb you nice little lamb at the petting so that's what you're eating

Well, she took it to market.

That's why she

was just going to receive big Ed or whatever his name was

Hey, you're dogs.

I swear cuz my neighbors, you know that you know my neighbors that that

Dogs hunting they spend a fortune getting them trained.

They send them to those like camps Did you do that with your dog or is that like how do you

ask certain questions

because

my family taken a dog to a camp?

Well, how does a dog know?

You know what they always used to say they always used to call it papers they buy dogs that

What they would do, there were a lot of dog trainers, like Beagle, that's, it's a big competition up there.

There's Beagle training.

Yes.

Really big.

And a lot of people do, you know, send their dogs to those things, but it's almost like horse breeding.

You would, a lot of times you'd buy a dog based

on papers.

That's already there.

And yeah.

That family instinct kind of.

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

Because

their dogs

are.

That was the big thing, doesn't have papers.

Okay.

Because even the dog like they just freeze like there's a squirrel that runs up the tree, you know, yeah, and he's just until Brian releases them.

He's Yeah, I don't know a lot of pheasant and duck though.

I a lot of pheasant because I

even know this happened There's I watch the show and I get I want to get that news news director on from a W you see in Marquette They have this wonderful show once a week

called

discovery and it's all outdoor

type stories,

which is something we got to get him and Britney hooked up.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

But they, there's a squirrel hunting competition up there and it's dogs and the dogs chase the squirrels up the tree.

Yeah.

I don't like shooting something that's, you know, that seems a little too easy.

And

it treats like in a corner.

Yeah.

I don't

like that to be honest with you.

But, but part of you are in the tree, aren't they?

I mean, really, I'm serious.

Not just not because it's a song.

When you shoot a partridge, isn't it usually not in a paratree, but in a tree?

They're not like geese that are flying over when you shoot them.

We do it in a very sportsman way.

If we see them, we make sure they fly before we take a shot.

Are you just saying that to kind of win over some of our listeners?

Maybe.

Every time watching American sports with my dad, you're like, holy cow, that's gotta be hard.

Shooting when they're flying?

Yeah, okay, dad.

Okay, John, there you go.

Yeah.

Anyway, yeah, that, but that's a great sport.

And like you said, we talked, and you just not, not just Negani, but you got to get outside in the winter here.

And that's a cool thing to do because you're walking, you're outside fresher, but there's a lot of other things to do too.

But you talk about, you know, my dad was so healthy.

Well, you know what?

We used to, sometimes when

My dad, we didn't, there was no such thing as cross-country skiing.

Back there wasn't invented, but we kind of did it.

We would take our skis.

Skiing was big for us.

I mean, not going to the rich people hills, but because we had huge hills around us, we would ski down snowmobile trails because they would be hard packed.

And what

we would

do is we would almost cross-country ski through the woods, just on the snowmobile trails.

On downhill skis?

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

But I would hunt that when I was a little kid.

That's how I used to hunt on skis.

Really,

that's why I think I would have been great if I trained as a bi at is it by athletes where they cross country skiing

then they have to

stop and

shoot That's an Olympic thing, you

know, I know I could have done that

I think

Yeah

missed out on that

one

could have been a contender

Yeah, boy, did you see what they're doing speaking of the up in Ironwood?

They're redoing that ski hill the ski jet.

It's not even ski jumping.

It's ski flying If you want to test a person's courage you go up that thing

Convoy if you get a chance just kind of look up and put a picture my brother-in-law does the jumping but what yeah, what's flying?

Is it the same?

It's hot.

It's just bigger Wow those that was big enough.

I think it's the biggest in the world now I think

that's the

biggest ski flying hill in the world and it's in ironwood, Michigan

boy would I Mark that's cool if you if you go as a spectator I'm saying I would if

you go do your fall type of thing you should go up that way

Just a beautiful drive up through

yeah, I'd like to do and they

got tours where you can go out I don't know if you can go all the way to the top But like halfway to the top and they say you can see like five states or whatever It's but

the

courage to say yep friends.

Let's go down this and let's go flying I just

I don't get it.

We gotta do that for a you need to try outs or something.

I mean

I wouldn't I don't think I would not I wouldn't do that But that would be that would be fun to watch and if it's really the biggest in the United States in the world Oh, wow.

Yeah, we're doing that put that one on our list.

That'd be a good road trip Yeah,

you need to do that.

All right, cool.

You

really truly do.

So you skied but yeah, okay Well, that's good,

but never had a lesson or anything would just aim at the aim the skis downhill and then you're pretty much following it's at the end

Was there a tow rope there to get up hard to get back up there

sites.

Oh, yeah,

that Oh, man.

No,

that was the worst thing.

Yes

That was the worst.

That was, it was so much fun going down the big long thing, but that sidestep to go back up.

You and I didn't have a chair lift.

We did not.

I'll tell you what, first time I went on a chair lift was in Idaho when I was working.

I was scared to death.

Those, you got to get those down.

I mean, once you get it down, but those are, they come around pretty.

Yeah.

I can see that.

Yeah.

You got to.

Yeah.

Our little kids are a little weak.

We got a full slate for you folks.

Stay

with us.

It's a fun day.

Fun day.

Little Warren Zeevon.

Do you remember Warren Zeevon, Conroy?

I do not.

You do not.

You do not.

I think I would have known the answer.

Convoy here, Phil, and then what you got today and then Monday, Tuesday?

Correct, yes.

Hey, we got some great guests lined up for next week,

by the way, huh?

Yeah.

I got your text last night, and I'm glad we didn't overlap on that.

But where it's for Tuesday is a great lineup.

And then I'm waiting to hear back.

I got the nicest response.

Even with the 4th of July coming up, we thought, well, let's get somebody in here from the fire department.

Can I talk about not just firework safety, but grass, all that stuff.

Is it dry?

What do we do?

How far?

Can I answer that one?

Yeah.

God, this weather, man.

But these.

Fire pits like how far yeah from your garage how far from totally agree.

So he's gonna come in

Well, you know what though?

One other thing I want to talk about with him and I we've talked about this every time is those lithium things again, right?

Cuz we get the lady that runs the coffee shop right next to us here Wonderful wonderful

young lady

and her husband her and her husband own that tire shop and they had a fire in their garage from a lithium battery type thing and I mean it's

people don't know what they've got in their garage

or their

basement.

And I just want them, anyway, I just, John, I don't have that confirmed.

That's why I sent you that.

I got that other kid coming in.

And they wrote the nicest letter back, oh, you know, and I'm like, okay, thanks for that.

But can you, can you come in at eight o'clock on, so we'll see error seven or six, 30, when I give him a few times, I know that we filled the couple yesterday, but, but next week, I mean, you've got a great guest coming in.

We've got a lot of them.

Yeah.

Although, I hate to promote

them

all, because if

something doesn't, you know what I mean, go

through.

That's a TV thing, a radio TV thing.

You

don't brag about your guests until they walk through the door sometimes.

But it's coming together really nice.

It is tough with Todd gone.

Like,

well, yeah, you know, yes and no, I mean, he makes it a lot easier for us

listening.

No, no, no, I don't mean it that way.

But it's good for us to not have that safety net,

right?

Because it's for us to scramble.

Exactly.

Maybe not scramble.

But the thing is, is, yeah, I'd like to, but getting the time confirmed, it's like, wait a minute.

And then, you know, you and I are both working on this and some and usually Todd.

So then if

And that's happened before we booked two people at the same time and that's just not respectful So we got a anyway, it's just all looking really good.

Yeah next week.

I think it's gonna be a lot of fun

So one of the guys that really I'm looking forward to is Tom.

I yellow he was a longtime sports editor of the Manitowoc Was that my talk Harold Harold?

Yeah, man talk Harold and you know, it's it's sad when your drive past that too and that building is closed or That was a great paper

It was.

It covered so much sports.

Of course, it was such a heyday for sports in Manitowoc County.

Dennis Arnett, right?

Was the editor there?

That I don't

know.

Tom was sports.

OK, I'll talk to him when he gets here.

But that was, and just, you know, I mean, we read that every day.

Lincoln football was

incredible.

I remember Valderz had really good basketball teams.

All those small schools had really good Mishakot and they were huge with the outdoor fishing.

And people liked that.

They enjoyed reading that.

That was a great paper.

I think even though it was competitive, you were interested in what was going on there.

Absolutely.

I thought that was a good paper.

That's a great county.

I'm not blowing smoke here.

And even when we have entertainers.

Come in here, musical guests.

They all talk about the venues.

Like they talk about one of the, like, who are we talking about?

Oh, was it Rick Pinebrook from Big Mouth the other day?

No, Kevin Van Ass talking about, um, you know, shutting down during bad weather

type

things.

And it's like, there was one in Mantua County where it's like, oh my God, we got like 5,000 people here.

You know, then the, one of his guys touched the keyboard and got

shocked.

But I think that's that Newton or Newton picnic, right?

Uh, well, I thought he was talking about the county fair.

Was it,

but, but people have talked about that Newton picnic.

Even Dennis from the glam band talks about it's one of the big venues for such a small area.

People really enjoy getting out

and

embracing

those kind of things.

Everybody goes and it's, yeah, those, a lot of volunteers.

It's just, it's a good, checks a lot of boxes.

There's those huge neighbors, small city, Michigan to some great events.

That little town, I don't know, I mean, to live there a couple thousand, but.

They put out some great events there.

So anyway, that thing that you and I went to that baseball, that's, um, the guy who, who died, the teacher, uh, veteran is they put that baseball thing on for them.

Um, oh, they're

pitchers.

Oh, in

Luxembourg, Casco, but those are just people come out, they come out to support the event and, but boy, they come out for the, just the camaraderie and.

seen people catching up and those are you know what

I had never heard of before I moved to the state of Wisconsin and it sounds funny because it's like this seems like such a Americana thing church picnics

oh man are those those are so big and they're they're packed in there it's you can't sometimes get to the bar I mean you're always got those

Stick those and you always buy those and win and you only have about seven or eight of them So your chances are pretty good.

Um, those are great and those are great fundraisers The reason they're great fundraisers is so much of that is donated and all the labor is donated.

Oh my gosh, you're huge.

Yep, they I'm sure you've spent some time in dunk tanks there, but it's those those are fun events.

Um, yeah Don't tanks are not fun events.

No, they're not.

No, but we do it because we support the picnic.

Yeah, that was our

You're right.

And then did you, when you were a kid, did you have block parties?

No.

We did you con did you have block parties?

I did yes those were always just that's a neighbor thing where they did city was great block off the street then a lot of corn roasts hot dogs and people just neighbors We'd have to

block off the county road

Highway close the truck traffic down.

We're out the sticks a little bit

You're right.

Okay.

Yeah

easier when you're in the hood But anyway, it is not a beautiful morning out there.

It's gonna get there

though.

It's gonna get there

64 66 66 pretty much Green Bay out in Oshkosh light rain this morning.

It's a little heavier than light Then remaining cloudy high in the 70s boy Dom stop by my apartment last night to hook up

Prime Amazon for me to watch a basketball game, which was so terrible.

So here I was bragging about Caitlyn Clark.

Yeah, I'm phenomenal.

I'm fanatical about watching her.

She was so bad last night.

It was mind-boggling.

Oh, she was all seven from threes three of 15 six turnovers Really they led by 13 and I believe it ended up getting beat by 13 Hmm.

Oh, it's interesting.

I wonder why she was so odd.

I

don't know

I think she's just worn out.

We gotta send her a break.

Back of his.

But did you see 90s?

Like in Mississippi and Louisiana, would that be like that?

Like all the time,

all the time,

all the

time.

Pete indices are really close to 104 most of the time in Louisiana and Mississippi

in the summer,

of course.

It's it's bad and it's constant.

I remember I was in New Orleans at one time.

We went down to see the debut of the Veterans Museum, the D-Day Museum.

Oh, yeah, that's

great.

And I remember that morning getting up and going to go for a walk.

And thinking to myself, how could you play sports?

Do they not play sports?

And then you walk by this soccer field or this field or this or it's like you just again, it must be like up here when it's how can you play football when the wind chill is right below.

But do you get used to it?

Because I was I was breathing like that, like I was breathing through a sponge.

Yeah.

It's it's bad.

And that's part of the reason why you'll find

football practices and band practices and all that, that stuff done early, early in the morning and then later in the evening, although it really doesn't make that much of

a

difference.

I can remember what it was.

It was early April.

I went to New Orleans for Moody Blues concert and we're walking

the French

Quarter at 11 30 at night and I am just sweating because it's so hot and humid in April.

Yeah.

Wow.

That is though there's something about it being like it's like when it's here in Green Bay when it's like 77 at 10 at night.

Like

it's like

that's pretty cool.

That's cool.

That doesn't happen a lot up

here.

So

but yeah, that you know, we were talking though yesterday that my wife and I were about it's going to be 90 91.

It almost is like what are we going to do because you

can't

like do

right.

Regular stuff.

I don't think your dog is going to enjoy

this.

He's getting his one all.

He's getting his haircut Monday, darn.

Yeah, I don't know what we're going to do.

We have to figure that out because this is going to be hot.

This is going to be

hot.

My, that two rivers is calling.

Yeah.

Boy

that.

You know what you do?

You know what you do?

Honestly, you live your life and drink lots of water.

I know it's uncomfortable,

but

it's just, you know, it's just the heat.

Just make sure you drink water.

It's only, you know, I will say that you almost need to keep a scale and not need.

But if you really appreciate how much water evaporates from you and it's not, you know, what you really want to lose fat wise and whatever, whatever.

But if you want to realize how much just gets sucked out of you, it's it's amazing, isn't it?

Lisa, without even knowing it, if you don't drink water.

Oh, yeah.

And you've got to stay hydrated.

I mean, heat stress, especially for somebody who is not used to it.

Heat stress is bad.

So

I'm.

Yeah, I'm always online, like looking for ways to be healthier, which and once you punch something in, it's constant, right?

I think I'm going to get those little packets that they say, look, you've been told to drink water, you could do much better.

And that's by putting it's like a

dollar.

Yeah, I gave you one, remember?

Yes.

They're pretty good

tasting.

Yes.

Not a big lemon guy, but they have so many different flavors.

So I think.

I

know it's electrolytes.

Electrolytes.

Electrolytes.

All right.

So we're kind of both there.

Anyway.

No, you were both

there.

One more began with an E. We both had the E down.

An electric in him somehow.

We knew it was energy.

What's going on with New Whisker weekend, Lisa Hale?

Well, you know, our fearless producer is on vacation this week.

So yeah, I saw some pictures of you and him.

Really?

Where?

Wow.

At Pete's Garage.

Here's Todd about his big plans for vacation, traveling all over.

Where is he?

Pete's Garage.

One

of those guys who stays leave in town

so that

nobody calls him in town?

He looked

like he was having a good time,

Lisa.

So nobody calls him?

Jim?

No, no.

They better not.

He's on vacation.

We had strict orders.

No, we would never.

Oh, yeah.

I've

seen the texts, Jim.

I've seen the receipts.

Oh, text.

Okay, you said call.

You texted

him?

I'm not even texting him.

Okay, but just let me ask you this.

The way this place is structured, if you had an issue, who would you go to if it was timely?

Not if I look, I am all about waiting.

Don't bother me on my vacation.

However.

Come to me.

The voice of reason.

All right, Convoy.

I do would have been the wrong guy to go to because...

Anyway.

Usually just

where...

Okay, I just want to say one thing and I respect that, that is navigation.

When I ran a couple places and I left, I would always send out an email that so-and-so is in charge.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The lawyer...

or finance depends who's really not the chief that often once in a while, but, and that's good for them to be in charge too.

You know what

I mean?

It's like,

wow.

But if they would call, and I wouldn't ever say don't ever call me on earnings because if somebody dies, I mean, I want to know, right?

But this thing probably wasn't that important, but like, I didn't know where to go.

And so I called him, I text him and I'm like, Hey, did you read the text?

What was my first few sentences?

Sorry to bother you.

I know you're on vacation.

However.

You know what?

He was disgusted at, however.

I had until then.

Speaking of him being on vacation, I went ahead and put together new WISCO weekend early so he could take care of it and get it off his plate and not have to worry about it at all this weekend.

So this week's new WISCO weekend is something, you know, we kind of took things from other

episodes that we've had and put it all together to make a new episode.

So we're talking about virtual vacations for our cover story, but we also have stories about men's health month, which is June, by the way.

We have stories about kayaking.

We have stories about craft fairs and, you know, going on vacation and the music is from Gentleman Grifters and we've got a story about junk fees.

that come on tickets so you know lots of little things like that from other episodes that we've put together

go back to the junk fees thing mm-hmm what about say that again

junk fees okay so you know when you would buy some something a ticket online for something whether it's a sporting event okay or

something like that I think you meant actual junk

No,

the

other fees that are put onto the tickets or whatnot and

handling these type things, but there's a joke.

Yeah, no question.

It's legalized.

It

and

how much they are now some are seven dollars and it's like hotels when you check out now.

Yeah.

And they got the environmental.

I mean,

come on, you guys, just

keep the place clean.

That's your job, not mine, but.

They have taxes they have to put on, right?

Like even here in Green Bay, right?

You've got the convention tax and of course you've got, you know, the city tax, county tax.

But when they start adding on the, yeah, and I don't

know.

Excise taxes.

And then

they do something like a COVID tax.

It's like,

give me a break, you guys.

Okay, what?

Okay, Lisa, can I give you something along those lines to investigate?

Well, I'll put it on my list, but yeah, what?

So many places now.

Um, I think Walmart does it.

I know CVS does it.

Um, I don't know if all these does, but when you're checking out with your card, they always put, would you like to round it up to going towards yada, yada?

Right.

Can you investigate, like do one of those and call the actual charity or whatever and say, how much of this do you really get?

I do know that, for example, at pick and save, they do.

Give that it's the you're rounding up for say the Oshkosh area community pantry or whatever

It

does go to that I absolutely know that because we've talked about it the organization

I Often would but sometimes it's like you want to donate one dollar two dollars three

dollars to

that It's the roundup.

I always say yes, right?

I

mean unless right?

It's just the it's not the most it could be is 99 cents,

right?

But I'm just saying one two three dollars, and

you're like so there's two things that a question

Most charities I buy into.

So but I'm with you.

Is that going there?

Are you guys just taking another three bucks?

And that's fine.

I just I wish they would have proof of that.

But maybe we don't need it.

Maybe we're skeptical, John.

I know.

But you know, but it's almost like you're saying Lisa with these other fees.

Where does that really go?

Well, the fees she's talking about go to the bottom line of the.

Well, that's what I

mean.

There's no

hotels to they don't put any money towards the environment.

That's what I'm saying.

They

don't put any money towards COVID research.

They just pocket that.

Yeah.

I think.

What do I know?

Capitalists are

evil.

Is that what you're telling

me?

No.

Capitalists make this country work.

No, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no.

But just the little ways they get you.

I like, I think that's awesome what you're doing on that, Lisa.

I really want to listen to that.

That's a great topic for you guys to go after.

That's a story that Joanne Kruletz, Civic Media's Joanne Kruletz did.

And we've got that in there as well.

So, yeah.

You should check it out on Saturday.

That's

Saturday at eight, Sunday at 11 on WSS and WGBW.

And you can also check it out on the civic media app or at civicmedia.us.

What

are some of the men's health issues you guys talk about?

Well, again, that's a Joanne.

OK, it's men's health month in June.

So basically she talked with with some doctors and.

basically put together, you know, the things that men need to think about.

Men need to think about prostates.

They also need to think about their urinary tract health.

It's an important thing.

And another thing that men need to pay attention to, both of you need to think about this, is your mental health.

You may think that, you know, it's

We're guys we don't have to worry about that but mental health for men is very very important.

Well Lisa following up with that that we had somebody on yesterday Pam Yankee and She hit on a topic that was so I hate to say interesting But eye-opening that we asked her to come back for a special segment next week Just to talk about mental health in the egg industry with the pressures facing farmers these days

Absolutely the isolation that farmers feed

face, not only that, but the pressures of having to run these huge businesses.

Farms are big businesses, and they require a lot.

So

I think- And you're at the

whim of the weather!

The whim of the weather, the whim of

the pests, the whim of the market,

you

know, the

whim of tariffs.

You're at the whim of everything when you're

a farmer

because

of the things that you're producing, a lot of it is exported.

Good.

It's like being a concert promoter.

It's too risky for me.

I just, you know, God bless him.

I can't.

That's right.

I couldn't.

A

couple of bad years,

man.

Yeah.

So my show, we focus our whole hour on men's mental health.

Excellent.

I tell you what, and I know a little bit about that, because I've had some friends in there.

We all have had friends that have struggled.

It's not these kids.

It's people our age.

It's people in their 60s that take their own life.

And you said it earlier, it's isolation that starts the whole thing.

And they have got to get out.

And so there's two, it's called Brothers Helping Brothers.

They have meetings on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Yeah,

we've met

them.

Great guys.

But there's other, like you socialize pretty much, I do.

But that's really, really important for...

for the soul.

You really got to do that.

But I was just amazed at some of the statistics they brought in, and it's a scary thing.

And prostate 2, I don't want to take away from that or colonoscopies.

We need to do all that physical stuff.

But boy, the mental side, we just don't talk about it.

Totally agree.

Because we're guys.

That's right.

Tough

guy.

That's just it.

And not only are we guys, but you mentioned the 60 year olds, those of us who are from the Gen X or the baby boomers, the silent generation and Gen X have been so taught all of our lives, push it down, right?

Don't mess with it, you know, rub some dirt on it

and get on

with things.

And that's part of the problem as well.

Well, give us a plug for your show one more time, please, Lisa, because it's a phenomenal endeavor you guys put together every week.

Thank you.

New Isco weekend Saturdays at eight Sundays at eleven on W. I. S. S. W. G. B. W. Check it out at civic media dot U.

S. Lisa and

also make sure you check out lean local.

Yeah.

Right.

She gets the lead, but we follow up and it's great.

She gets everybody listening.

Have a great weekend.

You're awesome.

Thanks

for being here.

Enjoy the weather.

Hey, welcome back.

Can you go back down on our thinking here a little bit?

Just want to talk about the birthdays today.

Scroll.

That's me.

I

can do this.

You guys,

look, watch this.

No,

OK.

Here.

I did it.

See what we're

doing just for our listeners.

It's just high tech.

We'll try to convey to you what we're doing.

We have a like agenda in front of us and I just scrolled it up so we could read it

I remember bus loads of partridge and what's funny?

I know what he's doing.

Go ahead.