
And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Welcome back.
Good-bye to the mayor here and a good-looking Monday morning.
We'll get a little bit nasty according to Brittany Merleau later today.
High in the high 80s.
and potential heavy rain, heavy hail, all those kinds of things.
We're being joined by a man that is just fascinating, Dave Deppre, who works for NASCAR on a regular basis, but also a veteran yourself, your uncle was killed in New Guinea.
A horrible place.
New Guinea was as bad as anywhere our troops have ever fought with the 32nd Division, which right now is being deployed to the Middle East.
But but but either way, just a great legacy.
But Dave, let's talk a little bit about something else you're very passionate about as far as honoring our fallen military personnel,
please.
Yeah, just acknowledging them.
And if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't be talking today or saying what we want to say today.
So, you know, I hear horror stories.
of everybody else who's gotten wounded, lost their lives.
And with racing, I mean, they, the military guys every day that are there every weekend, there's flyovers.
People wonder why we wasted money doing that.
I caught the sound of freedom and like we had a C 17 to our flyover
Saturday.
It was awesome.
Came right down, right down pit road.
And so I mean,
Shake hands with the veterans.
We have veterans.
We have truck drivers that I had a guy that pits next to us every week that he was blown up Well, I guess he's the only one to survive in a vehicle.
He's a truck driver for the teams now and You know, I want to shake his hand.
I want to give him a hug.
Yeah, but I salute guys and it's really really neat how racing Embraces the military.
Yeah, I was lucky enough last year to
The Gold Star, Gold Star families, you've lost somebody in battle or even peacetime, they were standing behind me at the race.
And like I said, if it wasn't for DGM racing, Mario Goslin, Michelle Goslin, I wouldn't have been there to meet these people.
So I think everything happens for a reason.
They were there and I saw the Gold Star and I asked what's about and will we bring this family?
They lost a child to a sniper and another one in an accident and it's just like,
Yeah.
And I said, I couldn't talk.
I get teared up.
It's like, oh my God, I'm so sorry.
I don't thank you and their parents are my age.
And it's like, huh, so what is this all about?
Well, they tell me it's honor and remember they have a flag now, which went through Congress and being displayed.
It's called the honor and remember and there's different stages of the flag, the colors, what they mean.
And they make sure that you're not forgotten because a lot of people get forgotten and
So it all started then.
They gave me a card.
I called them.
I said, I want to donate money to it.
And they said, well, we don't we do this.
You don't have to give money.
So I want to give you some money and did that.
And then they went out of their way to come and present a flag to my father at the right place last last fall.
And they spent the night.
They came in, did it, read the whole battle.
of how my uncle was killed during that time.
And it was just, you could hear a pin drop and it was for my dad.
So it's called the name
It's called the honor and remember.
Honor and remember fallen heroes.
It's text the flag.
It's www.honorandremember.org.
And you talk about the four
And then Sargento cheese from Wisconsin is spearheading the Wisconsin portion of it.
They pay for the flag and they do these things and have people come and present it to them.
They can.
Yeah, they can.
They can contact that on or remember that.
And they can direct you for that.
I don't know.
I'm not close.
W W
Correct.
it's pretty cool.
What they did was that was amazing.
I mean, for.
the next step in our lives before closures.
And it was like saying, my dad was being the last living member of his family.
So when we had, I think like 50 cousins, we have a big family.
How many
My dad had 13.
Yeah.
And well, they originally 15, they lost two during throughout.
And, but every, every boy served.
And there was others that were injured.
And yeah, I have cousins, a young lady, she lives down by Madison.
She drove a big truck.
Gulf War.
She was a, you know, truck hauler, dangerous, dangerous stuff.
they did.
I mean, it's amazing.
And then they're, they're associated with NASCAR too.
They had a flag, like you, you see the American flag on the football fields for national anthem when you got a hundred people, they had one out there, at least that big.
doing that before one of the races this year.
And it's like, wow, not enough people know about know about it and they need to.
So
Yeah.
And that's it.
You can watch the social media people busting it down.
Askers dying.
This is that.
Everything stinks.
Athletes stink.
You know, they're no good.
But there's a lot of good stuff that really does come out of everything.
Just the generosity.
from the big teams, the Joe Gibbs owns a team, you know, the, right.
The Hendrick Motorsports to our team.
It's David versus Goliath every week.
But how's Michael Jordan doing with his team?
We see him occasionally and then.
When we have, when our, like our schedules combined, cause I'm on the Xfinity series.
So they have the big fancier garages.
We're down in the old garages, but you see, am I passing enough?
Yeah, you'll see them there.
If I stayed for race day, a lot of days I'm home on Sundays to watch the cup race on my couch if I can.
So you'll see them.
You'll see my passing.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of royalty that you do see and people are like, Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God.
So like Dale Hart Jr.
or the other guy was on pit road right next to us and he was crew chief in his car.
So
There's a thousand cameras.
I
Was he was he doing the promotional at WIR that night, too?
Yes.
Because I was there.
I was working there.
OK.
And.
You know his PR people they got to be places and he's driving a car and you know, there's that road that goes right along the track I turned three four and by turn four and there's fans chasing him and he couldn't stop to sign it and people MF dumb and I'm like
you can't say this
You know, yeah, I don't consider it, but I mean, he's he's a
or something.
Yeah, I've seen pictures.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
But you know, another guy who I'll tell you another sad story, because I used to follow racing a bunch.
I used to cover it a lot when I was in TV.
Remember when Bobby Allison came to town to WIR again, did a thing.
And his I think it was a week later, his son was killed in that helicopter accident.
And another one was
uh, Earnhardt's grandson who raced at WIR and was killed a couple weeks later.
Do you remember that?
Oh, that was no, petty.
Petty.
I'm sorry.
Yes.
Adam Petty.
Yeah.
Adam Petty.
And we were close to that deal and we had him racing with ASA and whatnot.
Yeah.
Remember at
we did a young kid.
He was like 18, 19.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He was gonna, he was good.
Yeah.
Um, it's, it's unfortunate that that does happen, but, and when the Allison deal happened, we were racing in Madison.
And they had, uh, like the Wisconsin challenge here as well.
Right.
Michael Walter was down there and, and Dale Jarrett was down there.
And that happened down there.
And that was pretty humbling.
Cause those guys are so close.
And, you know, it's, it stinks.
But, but we brought,
wise.
One gentleman that's from up in your port neck of the woods.
Greg eyes.
Absolutely.
And when I mentioned about the Hendrick motorsports in the garage 56, right?
They went to Le Mans.
Yeah.
Greg eyes was a huge part of that.
techs of
right.
Like I've had opportunities.
I was encouraged to take a next step up to go help a team.
And I'm like, what do I have to offer?
He goes, you hustle.
you outrun the big guys and put in an application, go do it.
You can make some real money.
I'm like, I'm retired.
I don't know if I want it, but then I have to be there all the time and it's tough.
or whatever
it crazy?
Oh yeah, those guys come in, there's four guys on, there's an engineer for each corner of the car on the cup side and they come in and they got computers plugged in right away.
You make a good point because some of us have been through that same thought process, but when you retire,
And there's another big time job with the pressure, with accountability.
It's like, really?
Do I want to do this?
I mean, if you don't need, need the money.
I mean, you know, everybody likes money.
I need money.
But like, you're almost better off on us, almost on a side hustle where the pressure is not there.
You could walk away if you want to.
Like you said, there you're punching, not punching the clock, but you got to be there, you got to be there, you got to be there.
And I went through that.
And I don't know, maybe I went.
too far the other way, ending up here with John, but I just... Wait, wait too far.
Well, we've got a lawnmower for you.
I work part time for leisure lawn care too.
Oh, we love John, he's been on here.
So, okay, I would have just go back to, I don't know if we're wrapping up or not, but I'm gonna go back to your flag thing.
That is to me, there's two things I like about your industry.
One is, I think owning a race team is kind of akin to owning a sports franchise.
Yeah, oh
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Well, he's he's the that's the mecca there.
there's teams coming that building up.
There's a Derek Cope.
I don't remember that.
Well, he has a team now in the XVD series, very professionally run and they build up.
And, but what's the saying Joe said?
You know, how do you make a million in a race and start with four?
I don't know how they do it.
I really don't.
Oh, but you have to have sponsorship, sponsorship money.
Drivers bring money.
So there's
Right.
is so important.
There's some, there's some good.
Good kids out there coming up that are talented.
There's a lot of talent that's not going to be able to do it because of that, though.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, there's some good, good drivers out there.
that they have to
for the thing.
You want to be the bearded guy.
person.
He drove like a Camaro to every race.
He drove to every race.
Well, yeah.
And then teams have their PR.
NASCAR has their PR people.
Actually, they come around before we even go through tech inspections to make sure your stickers are in the right spot.
Really?
Or ones missing.
Yeah, they have to prove everything.
Even if you have a sticker in the back of your car, we had that a couple weeks ago.
It was a quarter inch too low over the body frame.
Come on.
Yeah.
So fix it for next week.
OK, we will.
But yeah.
Sure, you gotta volunteer.
This has just
I'm gonna try to keep doing it.
Please do.
I'm gonna win the game.
I hope.
I think you're winning.
I think you're winning.
Your disposition is great on life.
And
gonna put that on our Facebook.
That's cool.
I could do what I do without the generosity of a lot of people.
But if you're a turd, you're not gonna come along.
Okay, be
this.
You know is there anything you don't want two things that people used to be at you about that have turned out so good one is the Rush Center here in Green Bay and the other one is getting rid of County Stadium and building the the new although I still call it Miller Park
It's American Family
Okay, so probably buy a cheap sport coat, let's say I spend 150 bucks.
For a sport coat?
No, no, for your day.
The book, the horse juice, okay, a hundred bucks.
Yeah, you and maybe 18 people would do that.
John, it just, it just wasn't there.
It was a gathering place, that big flop.
It was a gathering place for?
Yeah, I'll tell you what it was a gathering place for.
No, they weren't spending money.
I noticed that was a prison, right?
It was a not a prison, but a um, oh, I don't know, you know Hubert thing.
Oh, okay.
I don't know Hey, there's something we're gonna do.
You know you
Something you're high about is the whole ship.
I've been high in a lot of years.
It's the shipyard district.
They have a park there and it's sign park.
It's what?
It's sign.
It's just got all the signs from different, like, I'm going to show you a picture at the break.
It's very cool.
And that would be fitting with the shipyards because you want, shipyards got to have something different.
It can't be completely
hope to own I told you what I went around with because I'm still researching I'm I'm I'm making I made you know what I made last night I Made a blueberry peanut butter shake with Greek yogurt that was mind-boggling You know they hand the other night that was mind-boggling I'm gonna I almost hate to say this because people are still my ideas So as Greek yogurt it was frozen bananas frozen strawberries or excuse me frozen raspberries 100% natural
um peanut butter heated up so it was like a hot fudge peanut butter sundae mind boggling and it was so healthy it's unbelievable i feel healthier as a human being from eating that which you would normally think was was was bad for you like eating a banana split i feel so much healthier just eating that and was so delicious it's unbelievable so i want to get one of those storage containers and open up a place in the shipyard district
Okay, what's your account?
I don't have no account.
So then he goes to the car and says, how did it go?
They wouldn't give me the money.
He goes, why do you have a computer?
He goes, they gave it to me.
They thought it was technical support.
So funny, we guys had a break back at
this.
Yeah Yeah, I
So
is my mom is good memory
My dad's from ish for me.
Yeah, it's those champion people.
You're right.
My god.
She died at 85 two years ago,
I can't do that.
I can't
anyway, here's
the canister like the
Oh my god.
but I mean- But my mom?
And we have a family reunion coming up in a couple weeks and it's the relative strum champion.
Oh my gosh.
So that'd be cool.
you.
Okay.
Okay.
That's
was
Oh, my mom was a cheerleader.
There
Oh, that's so fun.
OK, Eddie.
Hey, Laura, why don't you introduce yourself?
Tell everybody who you are.
I am Laura Wiegert, a proud Yuper from Ishperming, Michigan.
no, I'm a hematite.
OK, all
Well, just sitting here is an upgrade in my life, guys.
But I also work at the Fox City's Chamber,
nation.
National
I'm trying to pay my parking passport and the app isn't working.
Yeah, so it's not the usual numbers, how it used to be.
Oh.
Yeah, so they changed all these numbers on Washington.
Okay.
And City Deck Court.
I could give you
you have any
Your quotasics.
Well.
I just took the number off the post.
Is that the right one?
Yeah, the one, two, six.
Yeah.
And I noticed that was different.
It's like, what the heck is this?
Yeah.
And you can go longer than two hours now.
Oh,
really?
Yeah, you can go up to like 10, I think now.
But you're
kidding.
It goes up.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
They increase the prices it looks like.
Bay causing
That riff-raff.
That's
just got it.
I went through.
I appreciate that, though.
And a good example of that is the AI business of it that I wanted to mention
And that's what, you know, at the chamber, it's the same thing.
It's like, you know, AI is everywhere.
as we like to convene and bring people and ideas together, we can't not do something about AI.
And that's where, so I'm championing that effort at the chamber.
And that's where our business summit came into play.
And we could talk about that, but I wanted to do a fun activity with
you.
I don't know if the producer shared or not, but I need, I'm gonna do mad libs.
So I used AI and I asked it to write a mad lib specific to Mino and the Mayor.
You never did mad lib as a kid as a kid Jim
no Convoy
well, yeah,
I did mad libs all the time.
I had those I had those little
books in the cars and I do them on road trips and stuff
We call
it something else
it was no it's been mad libs forever It's a little tablet and they all have stories in them with blanks and then like say my brother and I would do it and I say okay I need a noun an adjective a verb blah blah blah
And then when you're done, you fill it in, and it's a funny story.
Yep.
Just top of that.
I have a list of them.
About you guys.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So adjective.
Big.
Okay.
Another adjective.
Okay.
Is that an adjective?
A public runny you would have to be to be an adjective.
Runny.
I changed it to runny.
Already yeah, running.
description.
public place
Okay,
Think I just need one fine.
okay a holiday or event
okay a verb action word
running yeah, okay another verb
Okay, a food item
animal
llama Okay, just a couple more a plural noun a plural noun
Keep
it clean, John.
God, boy.
Like houses, dogs, cats, trophies, packers.
OK.
An exclamation.
Just anything like, wow.
Bleep?
Yeah.
Do that.
He just does that all the time.
Just a random object?
Yeah.
A random object.
A random object.
A boomerang.
Okay.
An adjective.
A description.
A word description.
Like funny, stupid, smart, cute, sexy.
OK, last one.
One more noun, person, place, or thing.
OK, now I read you a story.
OK, OK, OK.
I'm here with the legendary duo, Minor and the Mayor.
No.
Broadcasting live from the big headquarters of WGBW radio.
Now, if you've ever wondered what Mino and the mayor are like off the air, I've got the runny inside scoop for you.
I recently saw them at City Hall and let me tell you, they were both wearing socks and running like it was St.
Patrick's Day.
Mino was sneezing.
Funny.
Mino was busy sneezing a taco while the mayor was passionately arguing with a llama about the best type of trophies there are.
know, I know, I know.
When I asked them for a selfie, they shouted in unison, bleep, then handed me a boomerang instead.
It's moments like these that remind us no matter how sexy the world gets.
We can onies count on Mino and the mayor to bring the White House.
Wow,
that's funny.
So Convoy, you
Yeah, yeah, they'd have booklets of full stories.
which
That's not us.
Appleton does.
Yes, we got a lot going on.
You do.
Yes.
OK.
I mean, we've got a great, you know, the chamber focuses on B2B.
Yeah.
But we partner with the downtown Appleton, ADI, downtown Nina, Future Nina, et cetera, and the Visitors and Convention Bureau.
And those those groups just are amazing, just amazing.
Absolutely.
Non-profits, you need to operate as a business when you're a non-profit.
I think
It is it is but we need them.
imagine if you had to pay taxes They're there go your profits that you need to reinvest back into the company and the organization,
Yeah, so it makes sense.
businesses who qualify.
mentoring, networking, learning, all kinds of opportunities.
OK.
Never tried it.
Really?
You make them, right?
Bring me in one.
English!
this.
If you uh...
and program it.
You're right.
So first of all, to answer your question, when we applied for the award, you had to spotlight two of your key programs.
And that was our connect free membership for free membership for small businesses and our October fest event, which
I know
you guys.
Love
that,
too.
The third factor, I think, is the fact that myself and our CEO are both from the UP.
She's the only
I know.
Why?
But we always like to be proactive.
and stay on top of what's new.
And that's why I wanted to mention our AI Business Summit coming up on.
It's November 5th.
It's a day-long summit.
We've got amazing speakers.
We have a keynote and a closer.
And then in between we have breakouts.
So our breakouts are three different sessions you can choose from.
We have three of them.
So we have 11 speakers throughout the day.
It's just amazing.
And that's gonna be great, but there's so much to learn I always have a tough time picking which seminar I'm gonna go to you know when they have them and Sometimes rather just sit there, but you don't want a large group either because you want to get up and move around and network in these smaller groups But yeah, so and that but that's not the least expensive program you've ever offered either.
I mean, right
I mean, the price of that's, what, $2.45 or something?
No, $1.75.
$1.75.
I mean, that's fine.
It's worth it.
AI is so, and you have 12 different speaker programs.
It's a
high caliber program.
It includes breakfast and lunch and reception afterwards.
Because we're a non-profit too, by the way.
And we still have to make money.
Well, first of all, Rebecca Ryan is our our opener keynote.
She is a nationally known futurist and she'll talk about AI and the trends in the future.
So she's our keynote and then the rest are Wisconsin based speakers.
We have several case studies like Plexus.
Jewelers Mutual, Galloway are talking about how they're using AI in their businesses.
And then we have other, we have some marketing topics like AI in social media, AI in your sales funnel.
We have some lawyers coming on to talk about the legal implications of AI.
yeah, it's 20 bucks a month now I put on my meta AI glasses That's why I put my sunglasses on so all I have to do is push this button.
I Just took a picture of you both or I could say hey meta take a picture Holy crap.
Yep, or I could say hey meta.
Who are these two gentlemen sitting in front of me?
And it'll, you won't hear it, but in my ear, it will give me the answers.
From those sunglasses.
That's amazing.
You're gonna be in a radio studio.
What the bleep?
Yeah.
So, I mean, again, to show you what AI, these are amazing.
They're Meta AI glasses.
from?
These are Ray-Bans.
I got them from actually the Meta site.
They can translate.
If you're talking to someone in another language, they will translate it for you.
You could say, hey, Meta, what's, who is, what car is that?
Where am I?
What's the temperature?
That's right.
What
sure
break them.
They're
No, you can
prescription.
These are sunglasses.
You can get them clear.
Whatever.
They had a sale.
These were $360.
$360.
There's a case.
It's all short chargeable.
But I just want to give you an example of look what AI can do like you guys don't know a lot about it.
So this we don't
incredible.
Convoy, get a
these so I can borrow them.
I got them at a VR headset at home.
What's that?
Is that the thing on the side?
Virtual reality.
Oh, OK.
What are
Oh, does he?
I think you get expenses, by the way.
Todd said it's OK.
in here.
It is chamber of commerce.
We're on the cutting edge.
We give you what you need.
You guys gotta go.
It's
November 5th.
I'm sorry.
At the Paper Valley.
Downtown, we have a block of rooms reserved if you want to stay overnight.
Early Bird ends September 1st, so sign up now.
Oh, and if you sign up for Early Bird, you are eligible to win prizes.
Like, you can win the creation of a free AI avatar.
You probably don't know what that is
oh gosh yeah um I
thank you for your parents yeah wonderful we're both dead but I can still share with my brother and sister
Jim, what else do you want to know?
I mean, we
go all the
Membership is growing.
Our leadership training programs continue to expand.
We just offered a new one.
Our newest one is called Immersion Fox Cities.
And that is where, if you're new to the community, we will take two half days and show you around.
It's an organized program with your spouses, so it's wonderful.
All kinds of... And
Oh, yeah.
coming down,
came down.
We turned him around.
getting to know the Fox City.
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