Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino
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And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
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You know what's disappointing?
You know this, I hate to say this.
It's nice to have Todd back.
It is.
But you know what's kind of disappointing?
What's that?
Is that Convoy played better music than Todd?
Oh, I don't think so.
Don't you?
Really?
I mean,
Sly and the family stole.
He played his own
music.
Lauren Zevon.
That's all stuff that I have.
I played that all the time.
I told you.
Listen,
I've made a decision.
I'm good with you guys taking Con.
I'm good with that.
Yeah.
Well, then we... Weren't you impressed with Con's musical tastes?
Hmm, I don't I don't even a lot of
thought
really yeah,
I thought his musical tastes were exceptional Now you got your intern there and he's just he doesn't know music He's just
look
at him He's just he's got nothing going musically Like a text already hey
Yes, I agree.
Great music last week.
Let me see that.
Who's that by?
It's not your business life.
You know what?
It's you know what?
It's from your girlfriend.
Yeah.
At least a hail.
Boy, hey, okay.
Happy vacation, Todd.
Yeah.
Tell me you didn't do some day drinking.
A little bit.
A little bit you and Lisa.
Oh, what is it?
Oh, we went to
Pete's garage
boy.
Does that look cool?
I gotta stop there.
What are we doing our show in Oshkosh again?
I'm not sure gotta line that up.
We that place just looks cool.
Yeah,
does that?
Yeah,
there's a
lot of cool stuff about Oshkosh.
Yeah, we gotta go that we say that we're gonna do it.
Yeah, I don't know, but you know that that never happens here.
We get to know we get done at nine in the morning though.
It may be just a little
early
You know what Todd is so Wisconsin?
He's so, what are you German?
Yeah, of course.
Right?
So German, Wisconsin.
Why?
Why?
You guys are fine with drinking at any time.
Well, those guys, the Italians are just.
Let's know or not.
It was one
o'clock in the afternoon
on
vacation.
Yeah, that's come on in
that heat.
Yes.
Oh Got this happy anniversary guys.
I'm sorry John, but Todd has way better music Michael another one a happy anniversary guys Conrad did not play better music Vicki.
All right Wow Todd's got his so the anniversary my boss is I guess intern boy I'll put you haven't seen you in a long time.
What are you doing?
Still coaching baseball?
Oh, yeah, how's that going?
Pretty good.
Yeah.
Are you winning?
We won a couple of games so far.
That
means you're not winning.
You know.
Hey, we had a guy on yesterday.
You work on Wednesdays, but this Christian Collins, who is, Mr. Heard of him, right?
Plays for Notre Dame.
He's going to...
Rush for 408 yards
in the state championship game.
5th
highest.
408 yards.
5th highest rusher in Wisconsin's history.
We've been around for over 200 years.
God yeah, and he just why was he built?
Yeah, just a so that was that was fun and he's going to think I look like that when I was like 18 not at all that and nor not inside or outside I mean just a nicest kid and just like what do you what do you think when you get the ball and he's like I know what's gonna happen and His strength sense of balance.
He was I can get hit and I don't go down because you know I I run
over people.
It's kind of my thing.
You know what I told him?
And I thought off the air here.
I'm going to give you one word of advice.
Well, you read that.
I read that.
Be the baddest person in the cell block when you walk in.
That's
not that's no.
He's his idol is Walter Peyton.
No.
No.
Okay.
We got ticks here.
We the listeners are not happy when Todd is not at the wheel.
Yeah.
Another one here.
John is trying to stir the pot.
All right, no way.
My note, your disrespect of Todd is not cool.
I may have to rethink hiring you for simple life hospitality.
He's high Todd.
I'm not
even joking about he's hiring me as an inspector.
He not yet.
Not yet.
He
told us
yesterday.
Well, he said he didn't really offer you a job.
He said he would kind of kind of.
Yeah, I just he's got to do a little bit.
Okay.
So you and I had a conflict already.
Todd was a part of it This
morning
yeah, I you know if I had a bingo card if I had the mino and the mayor bingo card this morning I would have won before you even want on the air because the word altercation came
Okay, but how funny is it?
He had the exact same type of altercation as I did exactly the same Oh, they in the park
with the pack backing out of a yeah, and people and they
The reason we agreed on that same multiplication is we both apologized.
Yes.
And then they didn't accept it.
Yes.
They're like, you next time I'm going to take your head off.
It's like, what did you just say?
Yes.
So then I go over there and then that was like crazy.
I mean, it's she's like, Jim, you got you got to retire.
OK.
But the other thing, though, to the other thing, OK, Michael says the paperwork is in the mail.
But here's another thing, Jim.
And I know you take so much pride in your
food.
Sea cap.
Hey, Michael, just
check
that
first.
You take so much pride in your food.
I like cooking.
No, I don't.
Your buns weren't good.
No, OK.
So let's set this page.
OK.
Go ahead, Todd.
Welcome back, Rick.
Thank you.
By the way.
Big mouth was playing at St.
James Park, right across the street from my house.
And I thought I wanted to have a party, but I didn't want to have a high, high maintenance party.
So I just made.
Hot dog bar.
So I grilled the hot dog.
She said it
was great.
Hey, he did he came over he came over kind of early which I think
he kind of came to help I didn't really need help and I fell man said the same thing just so you know Like she was really impressed.
Oh, yeah,
she's great.
She's not the
right kind is awesome.
You didn't come over Anyway,
hey you guys should be proud of me No, this is this is one month today is one month since my surgery
Since the doctor who I think he's a doctor, he used a can opener on my face to get rid of the cancer instead of a scalpel.
Yeah.
It seems a lot longer than a month, doesn't it?
Cause we hear about it three or four times a day.
It's like about six months ago.
Okay.
So anyway, so what's your point?
So I'm not wearing a
bandage.
I see it.
It's a month off, no band-aid.
But he used a candle to ruin my face.
I'm no longer handsome.
I
was good looking.
You know, when Christian walked in yesterday, it's like, my God, this looks like looking in a mirror
when I was 18.
I don't know if he's delusional.
He's 67.
Did you know that?
Eight.
Eight.
This kid is...
put together and he's good looking too.
And the other thing that is opposite of you is I think he's a 4-0.
I do.
I talked to Don last night about that.
I think he is.
I think he's a 4-0.
How do you know
I wasn't?
Because you showed me your 2-7.
2-7 is not 4-0.
Anyway, I just think he's got a lot going for him.
Like I told you last night after I really...
Hope he does well.
He will.
He is.
Wow.
I think he will too.
So, anyway, that was fun.
And he said it was a nice thank you note last night.
I'm just
going back to your, okay, you brought in food.
After, because you didn't come to my party, so I brought you some.
Buns are so...
Buns make the
burger.
They
do.
Buns make the burger.
And no, I didn't.
And as a matter of fact, those buns were made that day at festival.
I looked at buns and I know, look, he knows his buns.
He knows buns, man.
I do.
He was
so disappointed.
No, you know what he's complaining about?
It's just, I had foot long hot dogs, right?
What's the last thing we saw, foot long bun?
Like never.
So they, he comes in, the buns were doughy.
They were perfect.
The last time I saw Costco.
Let me tell you about what people do.
You want the mistake with buns is too much bread and then you miss out on the burger those They were perfect.
They were baked.
I talked to the lady Anyway, they they were and John was complaining this morning because those buns were bad because they were too short like Okay, John was a foot long hot dog.
Yeah, maybe the hot dogs were too long You know for for that bun and I wasn't gonna get a foot long bun because it's too much bread
Those are perfect.
You know what I'm gonna do for you next time.
I'm gonna cut the hot dogs in half And just then you know how
many people texted me said your party was disappointing
a lot I got some pretty good compliments anyway All right, so next time you bring your own buns.
I will and I'll make the burgers Okay, those are good for brats though.
I brats too.
Yeah, they would have fit for that
Anyway,
I just
expected more
all right
Um,
well, you're
welcome.
Got texts here, uh, professional boxing coming to you, Oshka Arena.
Let's go.
That's from Skylar.
Let us know more about that.
Um, I was, I was, I was, okay, I never break.
I mean, not really.
Jackie, dude, you break every day.
Look at Todd.
He just looks away.
He didn't say anything.
He just looks away.
What I, you know, people can say what they want about me.
I,
Wait a minute
about what you're gonna say.
I'm gonna say I say what people are thinking.
Okay.
I do know I tell you I I could go I went to the church I went to the church talk to the priest.
I'm like hey like I don't go to
church and
talk to
priests
like I don't go to the church here.
No, no, no, no, just let me finish I tell the
priests a
lot and I know I nice to look your homilies are too long
You're a smart guy.
You've done a lot.
This is so
funny.
I gotta tell you something.
I gotta tell you
something.
That's true.
I did.
This is so funny.
And he's like, well, who are you to say that?
I said, everybody is telling me that and that's what everybody thinks out there.
So Father Baghetto, up in Espring, St.
John the Evangelistist or whatever.
Okay.
What is it?
It's St.
John the Evangelist.
Yes.
Do you know what the Evangelist is?
No, that's the name.
We have to believe it.
Evangelist is not a word.
Okay, go ahead.
St.
John's.
We'll just leave it there.
The Evangelist.
Yeah, the Evangelist.
He was evangelized.
Yes, he did.
That's why it's called the evangelist.
I
told you, I think I'm related to him.
Remember I showed you that?
Saint John?
The Baptist.
Remember?
Do you know he died?
No, I don't.
So anyway, so anyway, I told my brothers, Father Baghetto used to have the longest sermon.
I mean like 40 minutes.
Oh, that.
No,
I get up and I'll never forget my dad one time.
We're coming to go to go to a pet.
No, we were going rabbit hunting.
It was a Sunday morning priorities.
And yeah.
And after it was six o'clock mass, okay.
Remember six o'clock masses in the morning.
Yeah.
Sunday
Sunday morning.
Yeah.
And we go up and we go up in the priest, Father Brigadiel comes in and he goes, hey, how are you doing, Jimmy?
And my dad tore into him and put his finger to his... about how lying his sermon was, because we had to go rabbit hunting.
I'll never forget that.
He threw out the G.D.
word to the priest, but how lying his sermon was.
The pulp, the previous pulp.
um had you know the priest go out there and he lectured him one time and said you remember when you were a little boy sitting in church and he told them to hold the homilies to like what do you say 12 minutes 11 minutes or something like that so these guys who go 20 25 minutes they're kind of going a little bit against the boss a little bit absolutely
You know, I think people, you know, and you've taken some classes on giving talks, they kind of check out after 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Oh, oh my God.
I
wonder if that ever happens on the show.
People
just kind of check out.
We rotate listeners.
That's how we keep that's how we keep relevant.
But no, that I agree.
Cause I think people, especially.
Sunday,
okay, let's be honest your brother's a priest so I'm not putting down the whole priesthood Yeah, that's true.
He's probably listening.
Yeah, but sometimes they like hearing themselves talk
That's their it's a big production.
Yes, that's them on stage Yes, you're exactly correct.
I will say this about them.
I want to give some give them a little That's why I
didn't become a priest.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would give them a little bit credit because you're
not
a showboater Yeah, not not at all.
They I want to give them a little quick.
They work hard on those homilies
They do really they do they don't just wake up and no they do they do some research on it But they have I
heard they had like a thing a newsletter type thing that they could use they yeah, they have
You know points to discuss.
Yeah No, those guys some of those guys really
okay, I'm gonna be honest
work like I call them sometimes we do I'm working on my homily I would
have given
a stop
nominal homilies
No, yeah, you can't swear
from the altar.
I would have given unbelievable.
It's a homily the same as a sermon.
Yeah.
Okay.
I would have given great
ones.
Do you know that the in the old old days, the Catholic church, they didn't have homilies.
And I said to our priest, well, when I
was an altar boy, I learned in Latin.
Yeah.
We had Latin, but they didn't have homilies.
And I'm like, let's go back to that.
Yeah.
I think you would get more out of the mass.
I agree.
Just get
through it
as quick as you can.
Not through it, but just focus on the
sacrament.
Oh, I hate a church.
I'm sorry.
I didn't do
you.
I'm having computer issues in here.
We got about 15
seconds
going into
break, but I got no music.
So I think Khan did something on his last day
here.
C.E.P.
What
are they?
We got a texture from Donna.
I like Todd's
music.
Okay, start singing.
Todd got a lot of fans.
Wednesday is it Wednesday all day Wednesday morning 62 in Green Bay 64 napkins 66 in Lushkush high of 72 today is zero wind out there What a nice morning is that'd be a nice morning to go.
I bet you anything She's Kurt Nick.
She's Kurt Nick.
Are you listening?
I bet you're on the water
Yeah, but he is but he's got the farmers market tonight, and I think it's gonna rain.
Let me get
it
said I don't know
it is so nice out there right now
That's
right.
I don't know it's not
it's not gonna rain till eight.
Okay, cool good
It's gonna rain tonight.
Good.
That'd be
great.
Hey, you know what you should do you know what you should do to like Don't take this the wrong way
never
but to recoup your reputation I Don't know you should have cheese curd Nick give you some of his fresh perch and do a fish fry
Why do I need his fucking we mean I
Cause they're fresh.
I mean, he, I mean, he, he could, you could cook in the same day.
He catches up.
Um, a fish fry, like deep fried.
I don't think we're talking about that.
We're talking about that.
You missed this one time.
Yeah,
this is not
every time there's like every state.
What's the worst thing that kills people?
Yeah.
Every Wisconsin was fish fries.
Which is not really a staple.
The next is probably cheese curds.
And after that bronze, but, um, yeah, I don't know.
I've had fish fries.
I don't know.
Some other
texts are Jim only says what Jim thinks Vicki
Yes,
another one here from Donna.
I like Todd's music
as from mrs. Schmidt by the way another one I
wouldn't say you have skin cancer I just say you got cut in a bar fight.
That's why you have a scar Michael
Okay, there you
go another one cowboy days as I hear they're using electric canopers on faces these days.
Thank you cowboy
Yeah, so so okay
Donna likes Todd's music.
So I think I'm going.
Okay.
That's
fine.
Cause
when she texts me, she says differently, but whatever.
But that's, that's, that's at
night.
So Todd.
Yeah.
Today is our actual anniversary.
I guess so.
Can you believe that?
I was not two years today.
Are you
talking
to
him?
Yeah, I am.
I mean, you kind of knew that.
I
was, you know, I
didn't know him.
I didn't know you two years ago.
Okay.
Wow,
embarrassing.
Well, no, I don't know when these... We came on the air two years ago today.
And I remember that like yesterday.
There's a few things I remember.
I just remember
you having notebooks.
I had notebooks.
Of notes and whatever,
whatever.
Right.
And I had arrows.
Like, if this doesn't work, we'll go over here, you know?
Because we had a little bit of an outline.
And the guy was... I don't even know who was here.
The guy that didn't... Shannon?
Yeah.
Anyway, um, and he's like, okay, it's, we're going to go on in like three minutes and I'm going through this stuff and John's looking out the window and I'm like, dude, he said three minutes and then it was two minutes and then, but then it
was,
yeah.
So anyway, so anyway, it was, it was fine.
Chuck says happy anniversary guys.
Great show I'm planning my route for today is your street.
Is your street still open?
Pickin' on
us.
It's a regular.
Oh my
God,
that's funny.
We were gonna close
the street last year for a little party.
They did
close it.
They started
to.
Actually, no, we weren't.
You were going to.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean, the road people were there.
I know they were.
I mean, I was here for that.
Yeah, I'm just saying we had no plans to close the street.
Jim had to shut the shit
down.
But yeah, two years today, which is amazing.
Amazing.
Three hours, well, we went from two to three hours.
I don't wait three hours a year, two years?
No.
You started at two.
We started at two.
Anyway,
last
summer we went to three.
Okay.
Okay.
18 hours a week.
I know.
Anyway, so here we are.
But yes, I, it's, it's awesome.
I mean, right?
I mean, maybe you didn't chime in on that.
I said, it's awesome.
You're like quiet.
Carly Simon is 82.
How did Carly Simon get to be 82 years older?
God, I loved her.
Remember that album cover?
Of course I do.
Who doesn't?
Jimmy Walker is 78, who I've heard.
I remember Murphy told me this.
Of all the comedians we used to have at IXX, he was the biggest jerk.
I believe that.
Were you
there then?
No.
No.
But he was the biggest jerk to come through the doors at IXX back in the day.
Jimmy Walker.
What
was he playing?
I think your place.
What was it?
Carleton?
Well, he must have opened.
He was the main act.
Well,
he
was a big guy.
Oh, yeah.
He
was huge.
He wasn't, I didn't say
I did his show.
Good times.
Yeah, I know.
Oh my God.
He was huge.
But he, I think.
Really?
I just want to say he did not, I did not work that show if he worked.
I don't,
I'm sure that's why.
I mean, where else would they be?
Maybe one night?
I don't
know.
No, you're, well, yeah.
Huh.
I didn't know he was, I know he was on TV.
I didn't know he was Eddie Murphy guy.
Todd.
Todd.
Yep.
Cole Murphy.
No,
let's wake him up
Was he a guest speaker at the Northeastern Wisconsin High School Sports Awards in Green Bay Jimmy Walker took place at the Lambeau Field atrium on a
Sunday.
No, no, no way.
That's what this is saying
I
Don't know about that I can't okay.
I didn't know he was
that big.
Ricky, Ricky, is it Jervis?
Jervis.
Jervis.
Yep.
He's got to start at the office, correct?
He is.
Yeah.
Have you seen that?
But you know what?
I hate listening to British people talk.
They don't speak good English.
You know what I mean?
You can't understand that.
We
don't see the same thing about us.
OK.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I know they're saying funny stuff, but they're like hard to follow.
I don't think British.
Even people in the UK.
truly believed that the American version of the office was better than the UK version.
I agree.
And that one only lasted for like a season over there.
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Who is Sonya Sotomayor?
Don't, no, John.
I knew this was going to happen today.
Oh my God.
I have a mark on my Bingo card.
Oh my God.
I knew you were going to say who is it and I knew Jim was going to go.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you, did you ever?
watch the news or Who's the president of what the country three branches of government the executive the legislative electoral Anyway
How
many
Supremes do we have in the United States
12?
No, we don't 13
One died
Well, and
they were replaced they were she remember her my god.
They wheeled her out and she was just
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I am loving this, Todd.
Our
people are
so
classic today.
This guy, all right, Todd.
Yeah.
You know, Todd, there's probably some sixth grader that said the exact same thing today.
You want to read that, Johnny?
No, you go ahead.
Did John really say that Electoral is one of the three branches of government and that we have 12 justices?
I'm sorry, isn't this civic media?
Get it?
Civic, John?
Civic, like civic lessons?
Perhaps civics class is in order for Johnny.
Yes!
I had the whooping cough, which made me miss a lot of school.
Alright, you missed that.
Okay, because that, you only learn it once.
I mean, it's irrelevant.
Wednesday to you today is Beatles as in the Beatles Todd
as in the group
yep okay there is nothing that will peel people more than if I say what I actually feel go for it overrated oh man
you said that before that's crazy
I don't I don't think they are but they're not my they're not my taste I like the later beat Beatles stuff
Me to 1970
on right, right,
right, right when they back in the USSR.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I left this home and no, when they came over here.
No, that you can't say something else.
I want to say, I
want to say hate.
Okay.
I had very curly hair.
Oh, I had uncut.
You know what?
One of my buddies actually texted me.
He said to me, okay, they got, okay, Todd.
Yeah.
I'm going to show you a picture.
I want to know if you're impressed.
I just want to say when I went to the Beatles tribute at the Waverly remember that guy sponsored he was on a show a couple times They came out the first day three sets, you know They have the the the original with the black tuxes and then they do that yellow submarine and they do I don't know what else the third I left The crowd was going crazy at that first part
Are you quarterback
yeah
You see a picture again
Jim was completely impressed with
that.
I was
cool.
Cool.
Let me see your pictures from yeah, Jim from wrestling.
Yeah Thank you, Todd Thank you.
I don't want to see your wrestling
pictures.
Yeah, I don't see this wrestling tights my onesie your onesies Today's also catfish day.
I gotta tell you something.
This is no lie, Jim
Catfish dinner I had at your homeless shelter that day was
incredible Yeah, I had a little bit to do with the catfish a lot to do with the chef
the seasoning
Yeah, that was so good Ezra did that right so maybe that's not catfish like like you old guys are thinking isn't catfish like a Computer thing where you scam people
I thought I thought that seasoning was phenomenal.
No, I don't think I don't think I wonder if the catfish is an honor of the fish with the whisker like you're talking about or Isn't that called
cat fishing
somebody?
Yeah, like you're cat fishing somebody's I think that's yeah, I think
it's the
fish
All right,
all
right, it's
goat cheese
love it not a fan
Serious Todd yeah, Todd will like it.
He's an old German guy.
No.
No, I
don't I don't like it How can you like goat cheese
because it tastes great and I don't like the sour meat, right?
But if you know I
almost didn't come in one day last week,
okay?
I was sick twice.
I was threw up all night
Okay, this is okay.
This is why I would even say this.
Okay, Ryan, of course, you don't eat, but he's allergic to everything.
But when you do eat, do you ever check the dates like on your milk or cottage cheese or what else, you know, anything?
You do.
Okay, so all right to that.
And John got sick like and
He threw up had to go get pep the Mismo like 11 o'clock at night drive around find a store and he cuz he ate Greek yogurt Greek yogurt if you had that Okay, it's got kind of a sour taste anyway But it's still dated bigger than life.
It says right on the side expiration date, you know, whatever 7-1 or But he ate it cuz he thought well it
It didn't taste a lot different.
And I'm not saying it didn't.
I was kind of to defend you a little bit in the beginning because they said it does have the sour taste.
I get vanilla yogurt.
I don't like just plain yogurt.
But anyway, so you ate it and it was like expired.
Well, right?
That's what got you sick John.
I know I did that and I told him I said John those dates that's they're on how it's how expired was it, but no, I just I Don't know the exact date.
Just wait.
Let me finish the reason you almost missed yesterday because he did it again Same thing didn't check the date
but I you wouldn't think yogurt would spoil because it's basically spoiled milk or something or
If it's gone by like a couple of days or a week, you're fine.
Yeah,
I'm sure that was a lot longer.
You know what I think I did wrong though too.
I'll be honest.
I didn't have the lid on.
I didn't have the lid on.
And I think
when it gets air
and it turns a little bit green and it's grown intelligent life.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The cap wasn't on.
I went and touched it.
Yeah.
It's probably the right date wrong year.
Okay.
All I'm saying is okay So back up on this whole thing.
So goat cheese day.
It tastes like bad cheese.
So why do people
enjoy it?
Put it tomatoes cilantro.
That's a very refreshing It's better than like if you put like a that yellow cheese on a salad or something you go cheese is better.
I used to like Velveeta
Well,
right
there
folks, there's the difference.
That is pretty cheap cheese.
But that would make good toasted cheese.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
It'd melt really nice.
Yeah,
I don't know
how.
And government cheese.
I don't know
how.
My mom and dad used to call it Reagan cheese because that's when Reagan was giving out free cheese.
That made a great...
Toasted cheese sandwich.
I think Reagan gave us.
Hey, dude.
No, it
was Reagan.
Really?
Who's I know my political.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
He was one of the Hey, today is also
Color TV day.
I okay Todd
Color TV
hold her you get color TV in your family's house
We had it.
We had a black and white and we had a color.
Oh, wow.
I was I came home from college and it's like
What in the world?
You got a color TV.
We got a color.
I was 19 years old, maybe 20 years old before we had a color TV.
How about you?
Yeah, I know before that.
It was so exciting.
It was
unbelievable.
I used to go over my anti-mimis to watch Bonanza because that was in color.
There was one of the first shows in color.
It was like, I would have the, you know, the mountains and everything.
I got to think about that.
I don't know if I remember blocking white that when the color TVs come out.
How old were we, 10?
60s, mid 60s.
So we're younger than that.
Yeah, I don't, I don't maybe.
I
bet there's a lot of people out there that did not get color TVs until the 70s.
So it's color TV day.
Color TV day.
Terry says the drug years are the Beatles best music.
That's kind of true.
You know what I mean?
When they started getting and that's
not, it
wasn't so pop and so yuppie yuppie little whatever, whatever.
I love you.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
That's like They were the Beatles were no different than Herman Hermits.
Yeah, I did
Clark five.
I agree.
I agree Tommy James and Chandel's Brian
says goat cheese is terrible.
No, he says no bad
Okay, I got it.
Okay, Brian.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Happy anniversary guys two years.
I know I fight my health issues.
Listen to you guys daily It puts a smile on my face Terry.
Well, hey, Terry.
Okay, Terry no disrespect.
Okay?
You think you got health issues?
Terry, I don't even talk about my health issues.
Oh, God.
OK.
I don't.
Yeah, I hope Terry's fine.
I don't I don't know that he had health issues.
Is this the guy?
Well, there's there's a lot of Terry's that may be listened, but that's not the Terry biking guy.
I don't know.
I don't
know.
All I'm saying is don't
bring your health issues to us because I can tell you about health issues.
That's all
I'm saying.
Lou, why don't we be more sensitive and say good, because laughter is the best medicine, so that's why we're trying to help a little bit with that.
All right, that's
fine.
Whatever.
Okay, so tell me again who Sonia Sotomayor is.
She was appointed by Clinton.
She is on the Supreme Court.
Y'all ready?
No.
No, no, no.
It's pretty good way to president, and then it's confirmed by the Senate.
Okay.
Okay, 4th of July is coming up.
Let's hey, I whoever said that civic media thing I kind of like that want to do a little civics every week like Oh, I'd kick your butt.
Okay Okay, I know that's Supreme Court.
Um Let's see here
Now I'm not going to ask anything about the Supreme Court.
Go ahead.
Ask me
any political question you
want.
Go ahead.
Go
ahead.
Supreme Court.
I guarantee I'll get it right.
OK.
What is the, OK.
Go ahead.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be nonpartisan.
Yes.
They're supposed to just look at the laws of the state.
It's taking a little different trend.
What, if you look at the Supreme Court, what is the makeup of the Supreme Court that comes to leaning left or right Republican Democrat?
What do you mean?
What do you mean and like what their personal feelings are or what it has to be or what do you mean?
I don't know what you mean.
Okay, uh liberal right now It's it's it's right wing ish, right?
Right.
All right.
You're right.
Okay,
five people Mm-hmm.
Yeah, it would be more to lean more to the right and sometimes it leans more to the life.
Okay.
Let's go.
Hey, that's good.
Hey, they hold
clearance Thomas
thing.
Well, is
he
a whack
job?
Wow
Um Yeah, there's some question about yeah
I told you, I met Justice Scalia.
Did I tell you that?
So did I. Did you when he's here?
He's been at Green Bay a couple of times.
He likes duck hunting day or not.
I went duck hunting with him.
And he knows you did not.
And then he... You didn't know that.
I know the people he went duck hunting with, and I never heard your name come up in that duck hunting group.
I didn't want the publicity.
Okay.
Anyway, Ryan, this guy's a Supreme Court Justice, very, very popular, young guy.
And I actually sat next to him on the plane, both up front.
But he did wear headsets.
He's like, is that the
worst thing sitting next to somebody in a plane when they want to talk?
Is there anything worse?
Well, there's no you cannot escape.
Yeah, I sat next to Larry Flint one time
From penthouse.
Yeah, I did.
Where?
He's going to Minneapolis to LA and he just came in.
He was the last guy in the plane.
I got
Kelly here says happy anniversary loyal listeners since the very beginning.
Thank you
Kelly
I got another one here.
I am the Terry with stage four cancer.
I coach basketball at West appear in Kimberly live in ash while
I know who you are Terry Yes, absolutely.
You are great.
All right.
Well, I hope you're doing Much better
before Jim gives John too much grief about his civics knowledge may I reference the great Wisconsin State tree fiasco a few weeks ago
Current and fourth-grade teachers everywhere shuddered when Jim Schmidt announced that the state tree was the white pine You weren't here for that.
No, I
believe Connie was sitting in that day Thank
You Nancy.
What is our state tree the maple?
I think is it the maple.
Yep.
Yeah, you said it was the white pine
Yeah, he was he was doing a little contest.
He
was a
little trivia
I did world's worst trivia.
Yeah was I have world's worst
trivia on your own
Is our bird the robin too?
Yes,
why is Michigan and Wisconsin have the same bird?
I think they
do you know, hey, can I be honest with you on something?
My
grandpa's dead for a hundred years.
He used to use to eat robins
can't do that
But
I can
say it now.
So my sister meet on a robin.
Oh, yeah, the breasts are fine
Wow with what a tweezers that's my
sister
was
visiting my Zia
which is a great aunt in Italian and Chicago, where they're from.
And they're in the back seat and she had a bag, just a bag.
And I said, why is that bag fluttering?
She had Robbins in there.
Why?
To eat.
Oh my God.
Isn't that crazy?
They used to eat Robbins.
I never, I'm not kidding.
I've never heard of that.
That's sad.
Anyway, let me tell you about Robbins.
as a little kid.
No, this is
cool.
No, this is it.
You can use this.
You can use this.
Pass this on to your kids and your grandkids.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to pass this on to my grandkids.
This is the version.
We, when we were kids, when you saw your first Robin of the Year, you make a wish.
For what?
What do you mean?
That's so cool, right?
You're looking for Robin.
You know, spring's coming.
You see it.
And you see your first Robin, you make a wish.
Did you ever kill a Robin?
No.
God, no.
Are you kidding?
That's it, that's against the law,
John.
Come on.
He'd never do anything against the law.
Come on, you're talking about.
Why we listen to this because of you and I
know because my computer is not working.
I'm just playing whatever I can find.
Oh
What's wrong with this music
nothing?
I just What what what is it?
What's the first line is it under my what
under my thumb?
That's like yeah, it's not like
you're like no cuz
I just can't believe Carly Simon is 82 years old I had such a crush on Carly Simon.
You can't believe it a 1972 remember you're so vain.
She's never
I
don't think she's ever
worn baby.
She's ever wasn't
wearing baby
I don't think so.
I don't think it was.
I don't
think
so.
That was kind of
like what she threw out there, but I don't really think it was.
I heard it was Mick Jagger.
Well, he sang on the song.
He sang back.
He sang back up.
So I don't think it's him.
Oh, I didn't know that.
OK.
All right.
But anyway, my sister got texted.
My sister used to eat squirrels.
And by the way, it's the sugar maple tree, not just the maple tree.
It says Michael.
OK.
Wow.
Okay.
That's
all right.
All right.
Now we know.
So I looked it up.
I looked it up.
Um, it says she said she was actually thinking, uh, singing about three men, one of whom she named publicly Warren Beatty.
So Jim was right.
I don't know who the other two are offhand.
Oh, so what?
Okay.
So he was one of the guys,
according to Wikipedia.
I always felt like she would have liked me.
Like if we'd gone to high school together or something, there's something about her cause she was a little off.
You know, she had kind of like the weird lips, everything, she's a little off, but I think she would have liked me.
What?
Yeah, I'm, I'm sure, John.
I'm serious.
I'm not, you know, sometimes you look at a woman, you think, Hey, who would you think would like to be all over me?
Yeah.
Hey, I was like, Harley-Simon was one of them.
I'm just throwing it out there.
You thought that
about a lot of women.
Nancy Sinatra.
Yep.
You've mentioned a few of them down the road that Daisy from Happy Days, not Happy
Days.
She's too young.
That car.
Yeah.
Daisy Duke.
I met her.
She was stoned.
I'm sorry.
She was at a car show.
Did I go with you to that Iola Lot car show?
Did you and I go there?
No.
Okay,
was
she
there?
Yes.
I did a car show with her in Flint and she had a handler.
And she was wearing big sunglasses and she was slurring really bad at like one o'clock.
Yes
in the afternoon.
Was she that way?
Yeah It was that there was at the car show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, this was in Flint.
Oh, I was in Flint.
All right.
Yeah, but it's like, oh, I could still picture I bet I still have the image like yeah She was talking like that.
It's like oh
lordy lordy lordy sometimes on I don't know
online you'll see where are they now or
you
know people who are like destitute they're probably are they gained so much weight
they
really and you know that's too bad because I think they get
They got back then they got stereotype and they couldn't find another job.
Yeah, I don't think she ever did anything after that right Dukes of hazard.
That was it.
That's what she was.
Yeah So you and I both had the same experience
Yeah, that was she
was lit.
She was slurring What else we got here?
She got a text here.
She was a little off quote.
I think she would like me Brian, okay?
Um Chuck says y'all know what's going on with Veterans Village on st.
Anthony Drive
I do not.
Wow.
We were talking about
that.
I don't know.
Yeah, we were just talking during the break here.
Chuck, let us know, please.
I got another one here.
I heard Carly was writing about James Taylor.
Yeah.
So, Mike, that's what I heard too.
He just, where did he, he
was just here.
James Taylor?
Well, not like here, like in Wisconsin here.
Okay.
Some
people went to see him and it was, he was awesome, like awesome.
Do you know what I just taught?
You didn't, did you go to Bob Dylan?
No.
Okay.
Did you, I mean, never heard much about that, do you?
When he was at the
whitener think Terry went so maybe Terry
but not I mean no rave reviews
You know a lot
of talk before he got yeah, cuz then the movie was did you see the movie Todd?
No
me neither
What okay, well good thing you brought that up what it was there's a movie about Bob don't he has a huge movie.
Did he sell all his stuff?
Was that him?
I don't I told you his uncle didn't give me a job.
No, he didn't give me a job Zimmerman's electronic
in Hibbing, Minnesota.
Brett,
come on in.
Brett, how are you, man?
It's nice to see you.
This guy that's coming on our show at 7B is here right now, so we're going to sit on over there.
Go on over
here, Brett.
So we talk about...
all the great things that are going on in northeast Wisconsin.
By the way, I just want to say one thing.
Nob just texted me.
Our first color TV was December 1979.
Exactly when we got ours.
Some of us weren't born with a silver spoon in their tongue, Jim.
Okay.
Well, Jim, I thought he was talking about
Ryan.
Okay.
Hi, Brad.
Hey, nobody.
We haven't seen you in a little while and
It was so fun to run into you at the Packer Foundation luncheon two days ago.
And your organization, it was, the way that works is the Packer Organization Foundation gives out probably a million dollars a year, right?
It's gotta be close to that.
Yeah, I think it's almost two.
Oh,
really?
Okay.
And so they, you apply and say, look, this is what we do in our community, this is what we do.
They had people from Madison, they had people from Milwaukee, and of course, Brent here from Green Bay, and he does the,
I had Scholarship Sync, but you've changed it.
It's called College Ready.
Yeah, we're college ready now.
It used to be Scholarship Sync, yeah.
And I
sent it to Todd.
I was like, Scholarship Sync?
Well, that's not really right.
You just thank you for what you're doing because it's...
How many kids have you guys helped?
Well, I just said, they
always say that education is your ticket out of anything, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
So we've been around since 1962 as Scholarship Sync.
Really, for the most part of our history, we're a scholarship-granting organization.
Still doing that actually over 7,000 scholarships over 14 million dollars during that period of time Right here right here in this community Brown County door County for the scholarships, but but recently we started the Program where we're trying to help students not only pay for college But really get enrolled in college and those students will be the first in their family to go to college there
from homes that are impoverished neither of their parents have gone to college and so that whole experience and I just want to say
something Jim and I actually were at an event last year last
summer with him yeah yeah
that's the day
our big
event that day you were sweating garlic
yes
we made
a
mistake we okay thanks
remember a break it was a great event
we'll get to the event but first I got
I
didn't smell them but
It was unbelievable.
But there was a reason because of where we went to dinner before.
And it was so
hot.
Yeah, it was hot.
Anyway, that's a great event.
We're going to get to that.
Thank you for being here.
This is really important
to our community and that's really what we're
talking about.
Brittlerable Scholarship Inc.
back after this.
No, it's college ready.
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.
Happy anniversary, John.
Hey, welcome back.
I'm sorry, Greg.
Sorry,
you had
to see this.
I had a he brings up stuff.
It's like, you know, okay, I spilt the milk.
I'll admit it, but let's get over it
Which is a very prestigious event that you were a part of
in 19
Okay,
no, and
that was 2004 five six and his Little wacky Chad so the mayor thinks he should host this instead of you.
Oh
really?
No,
I did.
That's not really how it happened.
That's how it happened, but that's not really.
That
is what happened.
Thank
you, Todd.
It became, it was like, oh, this isn't a big deal.
Mino can do it.
Well then.
after a couple weeks.
Then he saw
publicity.
The kidney
stations were coming
through him.
It became a big deal.
And we got caught on because it was military a little bit.
And I didn't do that.
I did not tell.
I just want to say, and I swear to God, I did not tell Chad to do that.
He called.
He goes, look, you need to do this event.
And I'm like,
Fine, I'm going to be there anyway.
But then he called John.
He calls
me
and says the mayor
thinks he should
handle this
instead of you.
Kind of threw me under the bus.
It's too big of an event for you.
But the ends justified the means, so it's we're there.
Anyway, we were both there, but I did more talking.
Brent Ruble, how are you doing, buddy?
Scholarship Incorporated, you've gotten so many kids.
College ready, college ready, college ready.
I that's my bet.
I'm sorry.
It's hard.
It's hard.
But what I'm saying is when we were at the at your event last summer great um Just seeing the the the families how excited how proud they were of their kids getting those scholarships That was really something special.
I'm not BS in here.
That was cool
Yeah, I know it's every year.
It's awesome to see the parents and how proud they are of their students and the students to walk across stage get their scholarship and you know We're talking about about a hundred students locally Brown County Dork County that get that and yeah, it's just always gratifying just to see how Excited you gotta feel good about that.
I mean you're changing people's life.
Oh, man.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's not me I mean, I just work in the back
So do the students who up they apply obviously
Do they have a college picked out?
Or is it, I'm gonna go to college.
You know
what?
Let's just back up though.
Say who you are and what we're doing here.
If you go from there, go ahead and say, I mean, people are listening.
They might say, hey,
yeah.
This is just one of the coolest programs we have in Brown County to our county.
And the executive director is here and tell us about and the name of the program now it's
used to
be Johnny keeps saying it's it's scholarships Inc.
But that's been changed like four or five years ago to college ready, which makes even more sense.
That's right.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we really changed that name to better describe who what we're doing in our mission because we're not just scholarships anymore.
It's still a big part of what we do like awarding almost half a million dollars a year to about 200 local students.
Where do you get the money from?
You know, it's all private donations.
It's all
private donations
and
endowments and you know the people that have left the legacy that have passed on before us that we're still awarding scholarships you know in their name and you
know it's disappointing though I just want to say one thing it's disappointing print um you and I worked in TV together okay you could have had a career making $23,000 a year for life
no the reason you talk about Johnny that's a good question where does the money come from but the reason he's here is we ran into each other at the
Packer Foundation
and
you were awarded a grant from the Green Bay Packers because they, that's an impact grant because they like to give money and they get, they must have a jazillion applications, right?
They only gave about 10 of them
or something with nine people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We were there with about 10 other nonprofits that, uh, you know, most of them, Brown County, some Madison, some Milwaukee, but you know, we were able to benefit from that for our college readiness programming.
So they gave us a grant to help us expand that programming.
We're working on expanding that, bringing that to more students right now.
We're serving just under 200.
students annually in that program from sixth grade through twelfth grade.
We help them for through college, them and their family for seven years.
Yeah, sixth grade.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we really focus on, you know, the academics.
Can I ask your question then?
What are the three branches of government?
Oh, Jim.
He just wants to make you look good.
He wants to make a donation.
Executive branch is one of them.
It is.
Electoral.
No, it's not.
Electoral.
See, he even knows that.
Congress, Senate, Legislative.
And then Todd, it's just, we gotta move
on.
I heard you guys are going to do civics
test.
The other third branch, Sonia Sotomayor is one of them.
Oh yeah, well the Supreme Court.
There you go.
See, he didn't know that.
Who the hell is she?
What does she do?
What
restaurants does she own?
So I'm like, no, John.
Anyway, this college ready.
So your money, that speaks a lot for the community.
You're funded.
This isn't government
money.
This is...
No, this is all private private contributions that we raise over the course of the year or again, like that have been given to us and endowed.
And, you know, we've got many community members that, you know, leave a legacy with us and they want to have a scholarship in their name or someone else's name.
You know, especially people that mean a lot to them in their lives.
We have a lot of service men and women that now have scholarships named after them that we're working with, working with the Lavalette Foundation and kind of transferring some of those over to us.
I know you guys were at our event last year.
I did the
Ben Ettinger.
Yeah, it was great great for it.
Well, you know Randy different answers steps on and Just a tragic story of how he died from Iraq, but we're carrying on his name at Green Bay West Yeah,
that's exactly right and and his rose is me his mom rose I mean what a wonderful lady in the world isn't she the nicest human being and I could you know, I could listen to her
talk forever about her son and the stories that she tells.
But that's the important thing is they want that legacy to live on.
They want to have people to know about Ben and especially those from West High that I still
think that whenever I drive past and I see what the sign that you know, because that's where he used to run to prepare for the Marines for boot camp.
And here's this young Green Bay kid who just wanted to serve his country.
And it's heartbreaking.
But with that being said, it's so great that young kids
are getting money for college through his name.
Exactly.
And that's
what you guys do.
Yeah.
And they learn about him, right?
Exactly.
The scholarship that I give out, you know, that Matt Atkinson thing, he thwarted off me, which could have been another Columbine here.
It's unbelievable that what was happening that day.
And this, you know, that takes guts to step forward in high school and pick down a little bit.
And he's like, look, man, there's something bad happening here.
And so I think that, and when kids get that scholarship, this is like, the kind of scholarships is do the right thing.
I think that's great when a kid gets it and I hope they look into that a little bit more.
Exactly.
You're right.
What's your passion?
We always like to ask, especially when I have musicians, where does a passion come from?
For your type of job,
this isn't just a punch the time
clock
thing.
No,
you're into it.
Yeah.
Well, no, you know, I just like to help people.
And how can I do that?
And I'm not someone that can provide direct service.
I've worked in non-profit my entire career, except, you know, for a few, a few months or a few years at the television.
And that was the non-profit.
What
was I like
back in those
days?
I was a little...
Oh my gosh, McCarran, yeah, he was a hoot.
Yeah, me and Larry, man.
We
were a wild bunch, weren't
we?
Man, yeah.
And as an intern college high school student in there, you just kind of sat there and you were afraid of him.
I was afraid of McCarran.
It's kind of like I do now.
Those are crazy
days.
Yeah, but then you came and you lightened it.
Well, you lightened the mood a little bit.
So you made McCarran a little more bearable.
But you guys, you always have been in fundraising, but always for really great causes.
You, you put on the John Minow classic golf tournament
back
in day for GB, but you've always had that passion.
We ask that, you know, with everybody, where does it come from?
You just want to, I don't mean to sound corny, but you just want to help people, don't you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just want to help others.
And like I said, you know, I can't be a counselor.
I can't be a direct service person.
So how can I help?
I can try to bring people together, try to fund things, try to, you know, continue to expand programs that are helping people in our community.
Let's
be honest Jim has probably paid how much money do you think you've paid skull?
It
is
and thank God their scholarships out there.
I mean it's because you know Some people need it more than others and especially when you talk about these first time students they write it off because of finances right off the bat.
It's like
Don't do that.
I mean, go find someone like you.
Yeah.
Well, and that's, that's what we're working on with those students in that after school program, that college readiness program, them and their families is the process and the path to get to college is not an easy one.
So you need help along the way, especially those that have never been there before or their parents or their parents.
And so, you know, so we've got that programming for the students and then we have a parent programming.
We're bringing the parents right along with us in that process because we know if we don't, the success rate's not going to be
right.
Well, when we set.
That night, we were sitting there when Jim was sweating on garlic.
And we had the fam, I mean, it was, I want to say it was, was it Vietnamese jam?
That we talked to
afterwards.
I got one of our tables.
Yeah.
Vietnamese and then another one was Somalia.
Yeah.
They were kids.
They were international kids, which I think, you know, and how nice for them to come here and get a scholarship and appreciate it.
Yeah, they were just, that was great.
Yeah, well, you're exactly right.
And our scholarships are need-based and merit-based.
And so we work to make sure that those are actually a financial need, that we're not overfunding some student and those types of things.
Because there are other options and other ways and other colleges that provide other financial aid.
So does
it make a difference
where they're going to school?
No, it doesn't.
It can be technical college, so two-year, four-year, as long as it's in the United States, and it's accredited.
It has to be accredited college, and so we have a list of those.
We're big advocates of
the two-year technical
community
colleges.
Big advocates, because the amount of money that you pay for the exact same classes that you would pay at a Marquette or Wisconsin is so much smaller.
Do
you know what I mean?
That is such a great option.
It is a great option.
And most of our students stay right here in the community.
They go to NWTC, UW Green Bay, Bellin College.
A lot of them do go to NWTC, and maybe they want that two-year degree, or maybe they want the four, but they're going to start in NWTC, and they're going to go to UW Green Bay.
And those two colleges work together so well.
We had a great partnership with them as well.
But we don't transfer Ds.
I teach at TC.
If you get a D, you don't transfer.
That's the incentive.
I just take a little issue with a couple of things.
Does anybody ever fail your glasses?
No,
he has it.
He's never failed anybody, right?
Or you've got
somebody cheating.
Well, yeah, I had to do that.
But this is the deal.
I know if they're going to pass or not.
four weeks into the program and so the letter goes I'll say drop the class because if you don't you're gonna and they drop
the class because it's if you
haven't if you haven't shown up and you haven't done any homework in four weeks you're not you're not into it this isn't for you and take it next semester and I'll help you then but so I they get a letter every week sure it but so no I haven't filled anybody but I've had people drop the class under my advice
I still think I
Dropped a class quicker than anybody in collegiate history at Arizona State.
Okay guys going through that just yeah, this is funny He's going through the syllabus.
He's halfway through the syllabus explaining the class
Physics.
Oh physics,
but it's like for people who are gonna be high school teachers.
You don't have to be a physics You're not gonna like split an atom or whatever whatever and he was halfway through the syllabus and I get up and walk down Four minutes into
the class and this is what we're gonna do and in week two John's like I'm out Well,
you
know
at least you knew yourself
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Great color TV day and reserve Todd.
What do you mean by army reserve?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yep.
Oh wow 432nd your buddy.
Absolutely.
God bless you folks out there.
That's phenomenal and my old girlfriend Carly Simon is 82 today.
Yeah, does she know that?
She only knew who's got the restraining
order lawyer lawyer knows
The song was about you.
That's
right.
Honestly, God, Brent, you knew me back the day when I was good-looking.
Remember?
I'm not
that old,
Joe.
Wow.
There you go.
Love it.
I was going to sing.
There's an answer to that.
I'm going to have you here, Brent.
Wow.
Yes, not that old.
That is funny.
Come on.
I'm trying to print, actually.
That's actually a good one.
That's
great.
Right, Rubal, who I...
Okay, so you and I I was at channel five when you were an intern you
said you're a
producer for some reason
you
seem like the 20 central Young reporter type that
we go
interview the mayor Why did you not pursue that?
Well, I really wanted to do that as a matter of fact you may not remember this but When I was in I think I was in eighth grade you were on channel 11.
You must have been just starting out
Okay.
Um, and I just had great hair.
Didn't I have phenomenal hair?
Oh, you had phenomenal hair.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And, uh, anyhow, I love sports.
I wanted to be in sports.
I watched all the time.
And back then it was just local TV.
That was all you had.
Um, and there was no ESPN.
No, no.
And somehow I found out it was your birthday and I must have said it on the air.
And, um, so I sent you a birthday card when I was in eighth grade and I called you the David Letterman of sports casters.
Wow.
Okay,
that is the ultimate suck-up.
Did you hire
the kid?
No.
That's awesome.
Thank you for that.
That is really nice of you to do.
I'm surprised I didn't know.
I did want to get into sports casting, but then I found out about the hours and the pay.
It was a little worse than
non-profit.
three weeks or so ago, and we talked about doing sports back because it was only a two person department.
Now they have like five people.
I mean, you know,
and it was, it was, I mean, it was 12 hours almost every single day.
You know, it really was.
I mean, that was, it was a grind, but, but there was a certain mist.
I don't want to say mystique, but it's like, I remember, um, oh, I can't think of his name.
The, the sports casters that came in.
Bob
Bob
Schultz Bob Schultz like when I was growing up and watching him It's like I looked at him the same way your kids now would look at you know, well not Chris Berman He's being up, but you know what I mean?
That was the local sports casters really held them in high esteem.
Oh, yeah, and there was a good guy Yeah, just
everything about him was great.
So But what the transition though?
Was it?
Yeah, the money thing or did you find non-profit or did somebody say to you?
Hey look man, it's cuz you
Well, I was gonna say you got the looks you got the vocabulary to do a TV thing.
Yeah, I would think I got the looks radio probably
but Anyway, hey, don't push it No, actually, so I entered at Channel 5 and then I stayed working there but only on the weekends and then my day job was at United Way Looking for a nonprofit and so I was working the week
Um, and the days at United Way, and I was working the nights and the weekends at channel five.
And, you know, you just got to make a decision at that point.
And so I decided that I, you know, a nonprofit was, was for me.
Um, and, you know, at that point, uh, you know, that was, that was kind of
what you've done for people is
incredible.
This is kind of a cool job though.
And the nonprofit, I mean, like United Way has a lane,
you know, I work in the homeless, we've got a
lane.
You kind of see it all though with, you know, I mean, different students, different areas.
I mean, do you read?
I mean, how many applications do you look at to give out 200 awards?
Yeah, well, we get about 300 applications a year and then we award.
Yeah.
I mean, the students that actually complete the whole process, you know, we've got a lot that started that don't finish it.
But, you know, that's part of that's part of the weeding out too, because we've got about 95% of our students that get a scholarship the first year, come back for their second year of funding.
So that's a pretty
good return rate.
We want to make sure those donors' dollars are best spent because we know about 72%, 74% of most college freshmen come back for their second year.
Well, who are our big sponsors right now?
You know, Schneider Nationals always been the Schneider Foundation has always been has always been there for us.
Packaging has
been good to you.
Yeah.
Green Bay Packaging, the Crest Foundation.
That's what we talked to at the party.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's
they do so much for the community.
But thank
God we have those businesses here.
Schneider, Schreiber, you know, you're Schreiber's on your list too.
Yeah, exactly.
And then a lot of private, you know, right, donors and individuals.
That's awesome.
Well,
Brent, I just
think it's so cool with what you do and you help so many young kids.
But like when Jim and I were at that thing, I mean, so many of these people, they weren't, you know, I give Todd a hard time.
He's like the most Wisconsin person ever, German beer drinking kind of, you know, in the
morning,
farm boy type thing.
And what you guys have done like that day, we were there.
So many of these people are new to Green Bay.
Like I said, they were from Somalia and Kenya.
and all these places, what you're doing for them to make them feel welcome in this community.
Right, confident you want them to stay.
I mean, you give out the money, like you said.
I mean, one of the, the over-driving, but you want them to stay here.
We want them to stay
here.
It's an investment in our community because most of these students are staying in this community going to school locally and they're going to be our future leaders, our future teachers.
This is great.
If somebody wants to just send a check to the College of Readiness.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, the easiest way is just to go to our website, collegereadywi.org.
Okay.
They can find out all the information they need right there.
All right.
And
you've obviously been around since 62, but you've also, I think the Packers picked the right organizations too.
So, I mean, that's really, that's a feather in your cap, a vetted thing that they, because they, how many applications do they get, right?
And they
only
pick
nine
or
10.
So,
yeah, that's congratulations again on that.
Thank you.
Brent Ruble, thank you for what you do, my friend.
Give yourself one more quick plug.
college ready.
All right.
Yep.
College ready.
Um, you know, if you're interested in donating, uh, supporting a scholarship, please join us.
You're the man.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Get a nice little comment here.
Great friend, Mark Hewson.
Happy birthday to the whole crew.
Today is our two-year anniversary.
You all deserve the accolades.
I see Todd had to come back from vacation just to make sure you got through this day.
That is true, Mark Hewson.
That is true.
Hey, you know what?
I will say this.
I will say this.
Our man, Convoy, you know what we did for him, Todd?
We bought him a free 18 holes of golf.
Did you really?
With a
cart.
With a cart.
Why?
Just for getting a burly.
and coming in.
He is not an early bird.
He's not an early
bird.
I heard he was eating eggs and watermelon.
Yeah, isn't
that bizarre?
We got here, and he wasn't here.
Eggs
and
watermelon.
Would you do
that?
We're calling him, and think out he ate it out there, not in here.
I mean, if you're that hungry,
sure.
We called him and said, hey, look, dude.
You know, the show goes on in 15 minutes.
He goes, I'm sitting on my car right in the front, eating
eggs and
watermelon.
We're like, okay, stay out there.
We're with Leigh
Ann and I'm from Hyde Music.
You got something you want to announce?
I just want to, you know, speaking of music, right?
We're, and these guys are big fans of Kevin Van As, who is
it,
right?
I love
it.
Right.
But he was playing a concert in Jackson Square, and he'd been on here talking about it, but just a, hi, Mayor, downtown.
They're rescheduling the lunchtime jazz in Jackson Square, which was going to...
happen for tomorrow, it's going to be happening on Tuesday, July 29th from 11 to 1.
That's a great place, right here on Monroe, Jackson Square, due to 95% chance of rain tomorrow.
So anyway, please mention this on your radio show.
Thanks for all you do.
So Kevin Vaness, talk of the town.
He's got to be one of the more talented musicians that I know personally.
Of course, you guys know everybody because you're with Hyde Music and you've been around since the 60s.
The 40s.
Oh, that's the 40s?
1948.
Really?
Wow, okay.
Wow.
77 years.
Yes.
Wow.
Four generations.
Now, I'm right on that.
Well, Todd is the third generation.
They have kids, so yes, fourth generation, technically.
And I just want to thank you before we get into what you're doing now.
We were invited to attend the symphony at the airport and song.
was on our show and we went out and played and I just thought that was the two hours before was kind of you can look at some airplanes you can do whatever you want there's some games there but Hyde had three or four tables set up just to let kids it was the day of music Saturday and I couldn't believe the number of kids that went and tried instruments and because you see the instruments and you know you might have a favorite but from violins to the sax to everything so that was cool that you guys do that you sure are into the community
We love it, and it's called an instrument petting zoo is what we call it.
Introduce
yourself and your guests, just so people know who you guys think.
I mean, you're so familiar for us,
but that's true.
Everybody knows who I am, right?
So my name is Leah Reed.
I am the director of marketing and e-commerce at High Music.
And with me today is Adam Ligre, who is the manager of Band Repair.
So he takes care of all of the repair techs at Hide Music and leads them and they do quite amazing things.
I
had no idea until you told us during the break
how many
instruments get damaged
or whatever.
Just gonna ask you, do you ever get
a damaged
instrument?
Every day, yeah.
And right now is our busiest time too.
So there's literally thousands in our queue right now to get
fixed.
And they're damaged by the kids I take it
yeah, I mean they don't know it sounds very nefarious But it's by accident or just wearing tear or they don't know what if I and I move this and it snaps off And it's I like to make it like the analogy of like an oil change in a car too things just get wore out You got to get it in for adjustments.
Yeah
Uh, to get fixed and things like that.
So, uh, bringing it in yearly, uh, your instruments, your trumpet, your clarinet, saxophone, all, all those things, just to get checked over by a professional is, is a really good thing to keep it going.
Because last thing I want as a tech, and I'm sure as a music company and any parent out there too, and just as a player is, especially for beginners is if they're trying to learn music and become a part of that, uh, family as a musician and they're fighting the instrument, that's the worst thing ever because they think it's them.
And we don't want that.
We want to remove any roadblock on their journey to becoming a musician.
Yes.
I have a story where it was the instrument.
It was a French horn that had a hole in it.
And the kid just thought they were... And the French horn is hard to play anyway.
And then to have a
faulty instrument, it's like they didn't have the confidence and they gave up and it's like really, you know what I mean?
So that's really nice.
So you encourage people to bring in their instrument like for an annual checkup like we do for our cars.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
At least once a year.
If you play more, you might need to bring it in more, because it's just, again, if you drive your car 1,000 miles a day or something, you got to bring it in more for a long time.
And
instruments aren't cheap.
No, absolutely
not.
What is the number one instrument that needs the most repairs?
Oh, boy.
That's a good question.
It depends on...
Who's the most clumsiest that year, I guess.
Yeah, it really depends.
The gamut.
I've got them all on my bench right now.
What is the most common instruments?
is that what most?
It's funny to say that because when we do like our, so hide music, rents out instruments too.
So we provide that service to our community.
And every year it shifts.
So our rental needs shifts where we might have a ton of flute players this year.
So we have to accommodate that.
And then all of a sudden we get a ton of trombone players.
So it's interesting to see that ebb and flow.
I wonder what that's tied to like Jethro Tall or there, you know what I mean?
Like if they,
someone big coming up, someone big or someone come in
and they see that.
Because that happens.
That happens in fashion a lot, right?
It's like so-and-so is wearing this or their hairstyle is this and that changes the industry.
What's the
cool factor?
I
wonder if that's what it is.
I don't know, but that surprises me a little bit.
I would think that you would say, oh my god, it's trumpet year after year after year, but it's not.
That's cool.
I
think that's good.
Yeah, it's great.
And it keeps the bands diverse too.
Right.
And we were talking with somebody in here from your organization.
It's not uncommon to switch an instrument either.
Mm-hmm.
You know, I mean like you may start at
the sacks and then move to Trump on but because I usually get on a percussion.
It's your fourth choice, but anyway
Hey, I'm a percussionist.
Come on.
Oh, okay.
I got put there just because I couldn't play anything
You always say that is that a drum when you say percussion is that mean drums?
Well, yeah, drums.
Yeah, it's because
Todd plays.
Yeah, there's something Todd.
What's the name of your see you go?
Did you even know this
When we had Shelly in here last week, two weeks when you were on vacation.
I was here
when
Shelly was
here.
But there's some no you weren't here for one of the days and I said man if we only had our
Vibra slap, yeah What
are musicians that like we've got one they're like no you don't think like yeah, we do
let's make a deal
You have a hard-boiled
egg.
Yeah
It was Vibra slap not vibrator.
Yeah, just
Because if you've got one of those here, we've got an HR problem.
Every
time over here.
All right.
There's a missed.
I had
never heard that term before in my life, and he brought that up, and then we're like, we do have one.
It's
like you do
not.
You're not going to believe this.
So you are the Mr. Repair.
You've got to have more than just you there.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
So we got a full team of repair techs.
We've both a band repair department and orchestra and a guitar luthier So on the band side is that's where my life is on the band side.
We have 12 other repair techs Yeah, and we have a bunch of different locations and we have techs in them So we're we have a lot of experience to provide the gamut of repairs that come in to our shop.
So you start your kid at
Really not the most expensive instrument.
Let's say a violin, but then you get up there and they're super expensive Do you have insurance for something like if they have kid would really drop
it out of just a violent?
Like
how long is a rope?
I mean those quarter violins aren't that expensive, but you have to those full-size violins that
That's the thousands.
I mean, it's expensive.
So if you rent with us, we do have an instrument replacement program.
That's only, I think it's $3 a month when you're doing the regular student rentals or beginner rentals.
That will help with that.
And we don't even have to go through your insurance company.
So all of the times
when
people are saying that they have insurance on your instrument, you have to go through the insurance company.
And then there's all of that, right?
So we just have the instrument replacement program that
takes care of any issues three dollars
so how much would a violent like a really high what's the one strata
we have one for like no the stratosphere one
yeah the stratosphere one
that's like so demyre the strativarius we don't i don't believe we have that one here i
don't
how much for that be though i mean i think it went at auction for like a ridiculous like a crazy amount of money but we've had some in our store for like 10 to 12 000
$12,000 that was a vintage one that was an impeccable condition.
So yeah, yeah Wow, yeah, but usually they're you know, it depends.
Okay, what's the
right?
Okay, so I never played an instrument.
Yeah, I always
want to
be a drum.
I know I know what I went to a little Satan song But what would be wouldn't you guys this is your lives if somebody a young kid?
What would you want them to start playing?
just to get that experience of playing an instrument.
I have my opinion.
Because I think
if they go
to something too hard, they lose interest, correct?
But, okay, I think we all have the same instrument that you would start with.
Why don't you tell me yours?
I say piano.
Me too.
Yeah, piano.
Totally.
Because
it's really everything and
when you think about it and
then you want to read bass, treble and all that and then you can get into your... But the coolest instrument
I think, I don't know, you have to ask a kid, but saxophone, but that's hard to play.
But when you really know it, that's an awesome, awesome instrument, I think.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it's a really cool instrument.
And on a repair side, it's a really cool instrument to fix, too.
And it looks really cool, too.
So I stream repairs, too, on the Hyde Music YouTube.
Oh, wow.
So every Thursday.
Good
segue.
Oh, thank you.
From 830 to 10, I stream.
live repairs what I'm working on the bench and usually my most active is the saxophone and usually I'm taking them completely apart so you can see a saxophone and I think man I'm gonna get this number wrong I'm gonna get raged by my team but I believe there's over 450 individual parts of a saxophone
Yeah.
That's why you don't fix it yourself.
No.
Please don't try to fix that yourself.
Or you put it back.
Imagine losing one of those.
You put it back together in the IKEA extra shoes.
How is that possible?
How is that 400 parts?
Every little button, every
little tab.
Absolutely.
All the screws
come off.
There's a lot of hard
screws.
I wouldn't have guessed that many.
OK, you need to tell us again where and when can we watch this thing.
This is so
pretty fascinating.
So it's over on the Hide Music YouTube, which is youtube.com slash hide music.
You bet.
Nice, I got it right.
You did it.
It's 8.30 to 10 a.m.
standard time every Thursday.
That's cool.
And
Adam is extremely entertaining.
I will tell you when he's like, yes, and
I giggled the whole time.
Like maybe sometimes you can hear me laughing from like upstairs in Green Bay, but he does make me laugh.
He's like to keep somebody's attention for 90 minutes repairing something.
He does it very well and really explains what he's doing.
How do you get
started in this?
How does a person become a
Aficionado on doing something like this.
There's a couple a couple different avenues.
There's a couple repair schools out there There's four I believe right now, but there's also different things that you can do like I do have an apprentice that does join me on the stream Molly We have the Molly minute where she just kind of explains what she's learning and things like that so she Just decided she wanted to start repair got in contact with us and she had an affinity for it So she joined up and she's been learning under me.
I had no
idea this even existed
Yeah, it's really interesting.
You know what
I mean?
I mean, you're interviewed, but it's like, wow.
It is.
It's great to
have.
And it can.
I didn't know they would break down that much.
Oh, it's true.
Some
of its
kids are breaking it.
They don't
really, instruments are pretty.
Yeah.
Like they wear, they wear down.
And like I said, the oil changed.
But also I love kids.
I have kids, but boy, do they find creative ways to break things.
And
a lot of them, you know what, they're 11, 12.
I mean, at first starting.
Curiosity, if nothing else, does this bend this far?
Yeah, you broke
it.
It doesn't bend that far, yeah.
Is
there value in old musical instruments?
There can be, absolutely.
Yeah, sometimes, sometimes not.
You know, and then that's the conversation where it's just, you know, we'll talk about that.
Alright, we'll get another segment.
This is cool.
Tons of musicians.
Yeah, I
play
the vibrato
slap.
Do you hear
it?
Quick break, back with more right after this.
No,
there's perfect music.
That's the difference between Todd and our intern.
That's the difference.
But remember, you said Conrad was better than me this morning.
I didn't say better.
He did.
He did.
Jim did.
Go to the tape.
Yep.
He has a problem with radio, Johnny.
We got
you.
What music did he play?
I heard that he didn't do Trucker Thursday.
Well, he didn't know who's flying the family stone were even though he played their music.
He said
it's Trucker Thursday, but then he didn't play Trucker music.
So he kind of like thought he was doing
his job.
He tried.
He tried.
Sometimes trying isn't a good idea.
We gave him a C minus forever.
and Adam Legreve from Hide Music.
This is fun stuff.
First of all, I'm shocked that there are 427 parts in a saxophone that you told me about.
But Leah, talk a little bit about, you know, we've talked so much about, you know, kids getting involved with music.
And you guys, since 1948, as I always said, have brought music to so many families.
It's incredible.
And you still do.
Can you explain that, that mission?
Right.
So that is our main goal is to get instruments into the hands of everybody, starting with kids.
So we really support musical education and teachers in all of our communities.
And we started in 1948.
Duke was the name of...
their grandpa that started it and he was actually in the army band.
Wow.
Yeah, so it started in the military and then he started with like renting instruments to people, bringing, you know, starting, actually starting music programs.
I just want to
say something.
That is so competitive.
What I've talked to guys like my World War II veterans and everything.
That was so competitive to get a part in those military bands.
That was a very prestigious thing.
Yes.
And then he came back to Wisconsin and started music programs all over the state.
Like he helped them start by getting them instruments and getting it into the hands of kids.
And so that is our legacy as a company is school music.
So we are so supportive of that with our rentals, again, making sure that we have enough text to get our instruments to the place where kids can play them efficiently, fluently, and then there's no problems with them.
And they can just practice and get into it.
What
about
someone who maybe has worked their whole life and they're 55, 60 and wants to pick up an instrument?
Is that...
Something that happens is that
it is a truck.
Okay, let's
go.
Yeah, we see that a lot.
So especially with like a saxophone jet So New Horizons is a band in Appleton where you can start on an instrument as an adult and they will help you with that you play shows and It's an it's an amazing program and we actually partnered with them quite a bit.
So look up their information online
So yeah, it's a good way to start with band and orchestra or going to Ukejam, something like that.
Just put yourself out there.
And
like we mentioned during the break, I know a lot of guitar for heroes
has
become a huge thing for men and women dealing with post-traumatic stress, where that's a great therapy for them.
Music is a great therapy for everybody.
You don't have to be a professional musician to play an instrument.
You don't have to make it your job.
You don't have to make it your livelihood.
You can just enjoy playing music.
And I think people think of music and, you know, we talked about saxophone trumpet, but I mean, there's some other cool like harmonica.
I mean, that's that's cool instrument and things that you can learn.
They teach it over at ADRC, which is the Aging Disability Resource Center and they have a harmonica class and it's just very cool.
to go to that and listen to them.
And they're very, they're pretty accomplished after six, seven weeks of lessons.
So
I want to play the blues with them.
Wouldn't that be fun?
I
would love to have learned how to play the pedal steel guitar.
Does anybody in Green Bay teach that instrument?
So I would recommend going to hidemusic.com and looking under Lessons in Green Bay.
Okay.
We have a lot of teachers, so it's kind of hard for us to keep up with who does what.
I know we do have guitar teachers.
Several.
Several guitar teachers in Green Bay, so.
But
steel guitar, yeah, that's Ricky Nelson, right?
Stone Canyon Band, didn't they have big on that?
I may have wrong on that.
I thought that guy played it.
I thought he was pretty good, maybe not.
Anyway.
Trying to think of steel guitar.
Person that I
know
like Conway like I said, I'm just a I'm just a drummer
But I give the website again because I think you have everything I know I don't think you do I know you do
hide music comm is a great resource for all musicians in the state of Wisconsin and beyond
Yeah, you have locations.
We have five locations Stevens Point Madison Green Bay Oshkosh and Appleton
Tell me more about the founder who came back from the war
Is
that
right?
Yeah.
So Duke Hyde.
We do have that in our About Us section.
I probably have to update it.
That's my job.
Whoops.
But I didn't just tell everybody that on the radio, did I?
But no, so it's Duke Hyde.
He was in the military and he came back and brought music to all of Wisconsin.
So it's such an amazing legacy.
And I'm proud to be a part of this company.
And so I've got a, actually one of my books.
um gentleman is a hundred and four hundred and first airborne on d-day parachuted into normandy the whole thing and he was so then he became a music teacher in the area and he was so proud of being in the hundred and first air but i mean it's like oh my god that's amazing you're a paratrooper he goes but i'm so proud of being in that band
he said we
took so much pride in that
and competition between the other military branches was incredible.
Music's a great doorway to so many different opportunities for kids and adults, so yeah.
But I would say our repair stream, I'm gonna go back to that a little bit.
I wanna watch this.
You should, on Thursday mornings between 8 and 10, 8.30 and 10, sorry, on our YouTube channel.
YouTube slash high music.
Todd, you got to remind us of this.
I will.
And sometimes music, we think of guitars, but we've had a big mouth on here.
And, you know, they've
got that brass that they play there.
And a couple of those guys are music teachers, too.
And they
just talk about love for music.
And they, you know, they have full time jobs, right?
But boy, when they're on stage,
they love
it.
I mean, those guys, that's high energy.
And yeah, it's just, it's more than guitars.
I feel like you enjoy your job more than anybody I know.
I love my job.
I love working for Hyde Music.
We're actually hiring in Green Bay.
It's a band and orchestra sales specialist, so if you play any band and... But I think... What?
You
don't want to?
No, no,
I'd love to.
I don't think we're skilled.
But
if you need it delivered.
Yeah!
And it's a flute.
Right.
My
back, my back, my back.
Anyway,
noted.
Let me get the hell out of here.
But back to Duke's mission, really bringing music to the youth and to the community is
awesome.
That's great.
Love it.
Thanks for repairing those instruments so we have to
spend a fortune.
Thank you guys so much.
Animal Grave, hide music.
You guys are so much fun just to have on our show.
We really
appreciate it.
We'll
see you next week.
Quick break.
Back in.
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.
I'm sorry.
I
said the clock's back up.
Yeah, I thought thank you for
doing that
I said this is like such a typical radio TV type thing where you start yelling at your engineers It comes in he does like literally of the flick of a finger and it's like
we're very high tech on this side of the glass just so that you know
I was looking at my phone and I see that and that's why I didn't mean it.
So thank you.
You're welcome.
It's a
great time to have Todd
back.
It is.
It is because with Khan, we wouldn't have known.
We didn't know
what day it was with him.
So anyway, this is one of our favorite times of the week when we have the great folks from the headlines of the press times, Tori Wittenbrock.
Tori, introduce yourself and your very special guest, please.
Yes.
Hello.
Hello.
I'm the sports editor at the press time.
And
you do a fantastic job.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And then we have Haley here today with
the Packers fan engagement?
Hi Haley!
Hi guys.
How's everyone?
We
are good.
We would be better if we had your job.
Your
job sounds a lot cooler than
ours.
We could
trade for a couple of days if you'd like.
We're going to talk about your career path, but let's tell people first what you do.
And John and I have been attendees at your events.
Yeah.
So I'm the fan engagement manager for the Green Bay Packers.
So I fall within our brand and marketing department.
I oversee really three main areas.
Packers everywhere, which is the events that you're talking about.
We do away game pep rallies.
We do sweepstakes.
Contest.
We have a website dedicated to Packers bars around the world.
Um, and then I oversee Packers perks, which is our loyalty platform.
And then the junior power pack, which is the Green Bay Packers official kids club.
I just have to say one thing.
One of the biggest shocks I had was walking through Prague in the Czech Republic and there's a Packer bar.
Yeah, we love to hear that.
Oh yeah.
They're everywhere.
They are in Prague.
They are.
Yes.
Yeah, it places very, well, yeah, prod.
But I mean, you're talking like in the Holy Land.
It's just crazy.
It's like, you know, they almost, not that they trumped that, but it's just crazy that you go to those stands and there's packer stuff.
It's very cool.
And if you...
You know, back in the day when I was involved with the city, you show up someplace and you just, people just instantly like you because
of the
Packers.
For sure.
Yeah.
I was, it's funny.
Actually, I was at a bachelorette party this weekend and one of the women there had to run up to me and show me a photo because her son is on his honeymoon.
And they went to a Packers bar and like the Virgin Islands or something.
So she was so that's the first thing that she said to me was, I got to show you this photo.
So like we, I love to hear that.
It never gets old to me.
Um, but it's Packers fans are special.
That's for sure.
Well, we've got Tory here from south central LA.
Did
you
guys have that in the?
in Los Angeles?
Packers?
Oh, yeah.
Really?
My boyfriend in high school, his brother had a tattoo of the Packers logo on his leg.
In Los Angeles.
Wow.
That was before I even knew I was coming here.
Yeah.
So these Packer bars, and they used to come in and visit.
This guy from France was big time.
He used to come, I think, every year.
Sure.
So it's on your website.
There's a packet bar here in Paris, in Prague, wherever.
Do you
send them things?
Do you have a relationship with them in terms of here's a, I don't know, football or a pennant?
Yeah, no, great question.
So what we do, you can submit a form to become an official Packers Everywhere bar, and we do a little vetting.
We make sure that it's kind of on brand, that they are an actual package bar.
Would somebody really try to
just get Packers stuff?
Some people will put in like their neighbor's house, who's like a Bears fan.
Oh, that's hilarious.
And we do our research.
We don't want to send anyone to anybody's homes or anything like that.
What we do, though, is send an official Packers Everywhere certificate and a flag.
stay in communication with the bars too as much as we can if they ever need to make an edit on our website or anything like that.
We're more than happy to do that.
But otherwise, I think it would be great that we go and visit all of these bars, but I'm not quite sure that we can hit thousands of them.
John,
your liver wouldn't handle
it.
Yeah, and I'm pregnant right now, so maybe like in a couple years.
Are
you, is there anything close?
to anyone else.
I know Yankees or something.
Who would be like second most worldwide popular?
Well,
I guess Dallas has to have
a lot.
Well, nobody itself.
We actually do a lot of research on what other teams in the league are doing to see it's your.
very competitive on the field.
But on the front office side, we work together with a lot of the other teams in the league to help each other out.
I just had a call yesterday.
My last meeting was a call with the Buffalo Bills because they're looking to do something similar with away game pep rallies.
So other platforms reach out or other organizations are often reaching out to us about our bar network and what we do.
But there are other teams that
do something similar.
I would like to think, though, that we really set the bar and everyone's trying to get outside.
Well, I can't imagine a
Dallas Cowboy Bar in Green Bay.
Right, Tori.
I mean, you've covered this area well enough.
That's true.
You
know what I mean?
Is that
crazy?
Yeah.
That wouldn't work.
But yet in Los Angeles, where you're from, there would be a Packer Bar.
Oh, for sure.
Multiple.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's cool.
Yeah, that's interesting.
Do you work with other?
I know you work with the other 31 NFL teams because you guys are all about the industry.
I mean, you've got a president that
or what's his title?
Commissioner?
Commissioner.
That wants to elevate the industry.
I mean, worldwide, right?
I mean, I don't think it's any secret.
Do you work with other front basketball, baseball?
Cause you guys are all in the kind of the same industry, but maybe not the same lane.
Yeah, not too often.
I did.
Actually, they'll have a call with.
one of the schools in the SEC this year just talking about our kids club this year because they have questions on that.
But I wouldn't say it's too often.
However, we do, we research, we're always trying to learn.
We're never ones.
I'll speak for myself.
I'm never one to see something that another team is doing.
be like, Oh, no, we're not going to do something like that.
If they're doing something cool, I have no problem reaching out to be like, Hey, how are you doing this?
Um, how can we do something similar?
Um, it's a competitive landscape.
But like I said, like off the field, we're all about helping each other and growing our organizations and our platforms and giving fans the best experience.
I know it's
funny when Christian yesterday, Jim, your Christian Collins was after, after you left and I said, well, he's going to Northern Iowa to play football.
And well, you know all about him.
Um,
But I said where would you like if you could have picked a school he said somewhere in the SEC just for the Atmosphere and I talked about this story.
It's like I'm gonna tell you and I told him this on the area yesterday if I ever retire Okay, I'm way too young now, but if I ever retire I'm gonna spend one year of going to a different college football game Every week I'm gonna drive.
I'm gonna start I want to start at West Point and then go down the route and go to Alabama.
I just think there's something about the college
Atmosphere that's so much better than the NFL atmosphere outside of Green Bay and and that's what I'm saying like New England
was
just hardcore rough kind of you know what I mean?
Yes, sorry.
It's people don't they have to come here to a game
to appreciate the almost college football type of
atmosphere.
I can totally speak to that.
I mean, my sister goes to University of Tennessee and I grew up a huge... That's where he
said that he wanted to go to Tennessee.
Yeah.
That's exactly where he wanted to go.
I grew up a huge college football fan.
So there's just something, and like, I think a lot of it's changed now with NIL and all this stuff that's going on with paying players, essentially, but there's just something about college football and the fan experience.
And I really think that the only NFL team that can rival that is the...
Totally agree 100% and we're talking with Haley Becker and so you're the Packer fan engagement coordinator Not so sure they had that title back in the 60s.
I mean, it's just isn't it just totally amazing how football has changed to marketing is because marketing and non non football events Yeah, I mean it was the game.
I mean you do a lot more events than you do football games.
You're just everything that they happen in and I
Tell me about how that's got to be growing every year.
Yeah, I think our organization is extremely special and our our leadership does a wonderful job where we are looking to plan events that will
be well received by our fans.
So a couple of weeks ago, unrelated to the pep rallies, but a couple of weeks ago, we hosted our Junior Power Pat Kids Clinic.
We have over 1,200 kids attend that event, and we had kids from 28 different states to spend an hour and a half inside the Doc Hudson Center.
So I think it just, we're building the next generation of fans.
Typically, if you're a Packers fan, if your grandparents were a fan, then they're kids.
are a fan, then the grandkids are a fan, and we want to connect with kids to build up their fandom, but it's through events that we're able to connect with them.
And every organization should look at that.
I went to mayor school ten years ago about events.
There was a whole conference on that.
Is that at
Harvard?
Hey,
you want to know?
Can I
just say one thing?
The only time I've ever seen tears in his eyes was the day he dropped his Harvard coffee mug and broke it.
He's broke, too.
It
did.
It broke.
I think, did I drop it or do not get off the table?
You don't drop it.
You're crying.
Todd will admit that.
But I just want to say what I want to pick up on what Haley was saying.
It's really important that you are starting another generation.
Back then, they said, if you don't have millennials in your audience, you better take a good look at what you're doing.
Again, 10 years ago, now it's a younger group, but that's really, I got the NFL, just a lot of credit, because there's a lot of organizations that haven't done that, and they're hurting right now, and they may not make it.
But to get these youth kids, and then of course their parents are gonna be with them, and especially if you've got generational stuff, and my dad was a big Packer fan, so of course, we kind of grew up with that, but I just give you a lot of credit for looking,
20 years down the road.
Yeah, thank you.
No, our kids program is exceptional.
That's one that too, like a lot of teams in the NFL will contact us about because of how high our numbers are compared to theirs and what we're doing to continue to grow the platform.
And every year our numbers are getting bigger and we're trying to do more every year too.
We're doing new contests and sweepstakes.
We do a junior reporter contest every year.
Um, we will fly in the winner and he'll get to do interviews at training camp and he got to do interviews at our clinic with players.
So it's just, it's, um, very unique experiences that essentially you cannot buy.
Give us your background, Hailey.
Um, my background.
So I grew up, um,
like John said, I think a lot of people would like your job.
Um, I grew up about 20 minutes north of Green Bay and little Swamco.
Um,
Bayport.
I did not, I went to O'Connell Falls, so even further north.
Zero falls.
Zero falls.
Go Panthers.
That is correct.
Did you have El Peruco for a teacher?
No.
Did you know El?
No.
Okay,
he's from my hometown,
but go ahead.
She's in her
20s.
Okay,
Jim, stop embarrassing me.
I'm actually in my 30s, but thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
Well, you're not 68,
so anyway.
No, but I grew up, um, I grew up playing sports and my parents coached, um, the sports that I
was a better soccer player.
You were Tori.
Oh, well, her for sure.
I didn't play soccer.
So even if I did you, um, I'm not pretending I was a great athlete.
I tried really hard.
Um, but I love sports and in high school, my parents were like, it's time to get a job.
And I was, I wanted to work somewhere fun.
So, um, I,
Applied to work at the Packers pro shop and that was the first job.
I got in high school and then throughout college I continued working there I came home for home game weekends, and I love the game day in my college UW Oshkosh, okay, Osh Vegas Yeah, I loved it there got a degree in journalism and the public Relations and then in college I got to offer
for an internship with the Packers that grew into a full-time job role and then it grew into the management role that I'm currently in.
So.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
What kind of career with the Packers?
Yeah, I've grown up there.
It's probably like the, I graduated high school there.
I graduated college there.
I got married last year and half of the people at my wedding were Packers employees.
So that was funny.
What a great place for a kid to work though,
like the
pro shop.
They did a good job of training you.
You guys and just great employees.
They're great customer service.
They just learned a lot there just as a as a student.
We got sent
a quick break.
Tori Winbrock, headlines of the press times.
Haley Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator.
It's great having you guys on.
This is fun.
Stick
around.
OK.
Who own motivation, she comes round and she goes down to meet And I'll make you smile like a dog for you Do whatever what you wanna do, coming over you Keep on smiling what we go through
This is a fun topic right here.
And Haley Becker, Packer fan, engagement coordinator.
As soon as you quit your job, I want your job.
And Tori Wittenbrock.
Sports editor for the press times, who does a fantastic job covering local sports.
I got to say to our boy, our baseball teams and our track teams locally had a heck of a spring.
Once you're agreeing, you did a great job of covering them.
Thank you.
Yeah.
High school sports are, I love that.
That's, I mean, the heart and soul of the paper.
I try to cover a little bit of everything, but, um, and it's tough right now with it just being.
rockers in glory pretty much, which I love covering them, but high school sports is definitely the best.
But how is it fun watching
Seymour and everybody
that's
here in the state and the great track kids from Depeer
are just
incredible.
Sports is like quiet now, but what about following these kids?
Like we talked about Christian at a little bit at length, but there's some other kids that you must have your eye on, right, that are going from high school to college.
Yeah.
And you're
Do you keep in contact with them?
Do you go see their games or how does that all work?
Cause you're so busy right here.
Yeah.
Well, it's, it's kind of hard when some of them go off in a way to college.
Cause I mean, I, I'm not going to go see them, but, um, I do keep in contact with some of them and it's nice to follow, um, follow along with their careers and stuff, especially through like social media and stuff, like seeing Gracie Gracie Grash come back to drink.
I was just, I was going
to just jump in on that.
Yeah.
I think the UW Green Bay Women's Program is on the verge of something huge.
Would you agree?
I would completely agree.
And it's so cool to see too, because I saw it from beginning to now.
Being there and playing there from 2020 to now, it's really exciting to see what they've been able to build.
And what a
great hire.
And usually, yeah, usually when you lose a coach like Kevin Borseth, it's like, OK, this program's going to go one of two ways.
More often than not, there's a dip before they come up.
And I think Kayla's an amazing job.
OK, I'm going to ask
it before Jill does the man.
I
said don't
tell us
I mean it's it's been a rough patch no doubt but I I think that hearing those kids I mean when you're that age and you're at that level and you're exposed to that I think a lot of times the you know the kids can get kind of cocky and be like I'm transferring I'm doing this but I think that a lot of those kids on that team have remained humble obviously
okay sorry I was telling Jim
The University of Michigan, I'm from Michigan originally, they just signed a quarterback.
This is his fifth college.
His fifth college.
What's going on with that sport?
Yeah, I mean, I think every sport right now, I think the transfer portal is just wreaking havoc on the NCAA.
I mean, it's just ruining it for coaches, for other players.
There's no way.
That's what I feel bad for.
And I mean, like we were just talking about the NFL.
For example, is elite of the elite.
Like if you make it to the NFL, great.
There's a very, there's an even lower chance you're going to stay in the NFL beyond two years.
So, I mean, I think that a lot of these kids are now, especially with NIL too, are losing sight of that.
And they're just worried about the money.
playing for the biggest school that they can and who's going to offer them the best.
And they're not focused anymore on what school is right for me, what school offers the classes that I need, what school is going to give me the degree, the experience that I want.
OK, you're a division one scholarship athlete,
which
is elite of the elite.
What made you choose Green Bay?
I had a couple of different offers at the time.
And I mean, even in the recruiting process now, a lot of stuff has changed.
But back when I was in high school, it was kind of like.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
I hadn't had any offers from any schools.
And then it was spring of my junior year in high school and I had, I was talking to like three different coaches at the same time
who wanted me
to go out for school visits.
So I had one lined up in the future and then I had two the same weekend and it was like one in North Carolina and I went directly from there to Green Bay to visit the school.
And there's kind of, once a coach makes you an official offer, there's a clock.
Like you have to decide within two weeks if you're outside.
I told
Christian yesterday, I said, you know,
not that I'm the guru of this, but almost every minute of your life.
Because he's going there in 10 days, he said.
every minute of your life is going to be kind of controlled.
Isn't that the truth?
100%.
So when I, when I was choosing, I was kind of like, okay, you have to take into consideration the school, the atmosphere, the classes that they offer, the soccer program, like what kind of facilities, what's your standard?
What are you going to, you know what I mean?
So I mean, there's a lot to take into consideration, but that was the number one thing for me was like, I want to pick somewhere where I know I'm going to be happy outside of the soccer because everything is going to be soccer.
But I mean,
I mean, you're gonna be living here for potentially four years.
But
Christian said something, and I know you know him as do I, but just the first 10 minutes of the interview, it was really about his family, it was about the environment, and they didn't get the football till, like he said, seven, eight minutes into it, and he really, that meant a lot to him,
because
he, I don't think he's in for a surprise.
I think he's a very trusting soul, and I think that they trust him, and I'm really happy that he is,
I just think he's gonna do fine.
And he's gonna do fine as a person.
I sometimes, like, look at these athletes that are changing, doing this and not respecting the coach and leaving right away.
Were they like that before?
You know, I just think some people in this community here, I can only speak for this community, but they grew up in a
pretty... I hate to say it, covered sports all my life.
Sometimes parents are the biggest problem of somebody's... That's kind of what I'm... Sugar Sanders?
I got a text here.
Haley is one of the most brilliant employees of the Green Bay Packers organization.
Wow.
And it's your dad.
It says
I think it's everybody.
Mark
Houston.
Or is it Mark Murphy?
Or Mark Murphy?
One of the two.
One of the Marks.
They're both great.
It's Mark.
He was in, um, he's, I worked with him for a number of years for our kids clinic.
Yeah.
Okay.
No, he's disappointed me time after time with
my
ailments.
He has not cured my hip.
He has not cured my back problem.
It's cause he's not a psychiatrist.
He has not cured my gout.
He's gotta get it together.
He's gotta
get it together.
This is so great having you guys both.
Can you guys stick around?
Yeah.
Okay.
This is really fun.
Tori Wintonbrock, phenomenal sports editor for the press times.
Healy Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator, back right after this.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, welcome back under the mayor here and a good-looking Wednesday morning Tori Wittenbrock Sports editor with the press times and Haley Becker Green Bay Packer fan engagement coordinator I gotta be honest with you Tori And like we had Christian here yesterday.
I didn't know he wasn't on scholarship Jim by the way
I Know
that I know
that either
Iowa, but you are a scholarship athlete people have no idea How hard it is to be a scholarship athlete?
Yes
It really is and I mean it's scarcer and scarcer because the more competitive it gets the more money they're gonna want to offer players so then it's like for the ones that are kind of on the bubble it's like okay you might get something you might not because they're gonna use it for as much as
for your folks and Jim and I always talk about how much money we've shelled out for our kids in colleges and whatever whatever for your folks to get that letter saying hey your daughter we're gonna
Pretty much pay her to come and play sports for us in Green Bay.
Yeah, that'd be quite the moment
It is it's awesome.
And that's why I mean I
know what you bring that you bring that Enthusiasm to your writing and I really mean that.
Thank you.
Thank you Yeah, I mean I played college sports, so I feel like I can speak on this but I
personally and against everything going on with NIL right now and paying players because to me, I was just honored to have scholarship money and
be like,
they're going to pay for my college degree to have me come play for them.
Like that in and of itself was, I was like thrilled with.
So it's like for these kids to be like, I want more money.
I need, I deserve to get paid.
And it's like they are paying, you know, getting your degree, giving you an opportunity to play for their school and represent their school and get a degree possibly for free.
is, I mean, I think that's...
You know how Jim made his pocket money when he was in college?
He put a sign in his door, do you want to get high on Saturday?
True or false?
True.
But,
finish your story.
Well, it was for skydiving.
I did.
We did, when skydiving in an arm roll that they used to have called the drop zone.
Is it?
Yeah.
Oh, that's where they're having the free fall.
Oh, that's right.
That's right.
And you have to get like, I think it was 18 or 20 people to get a good rate.
If you went with like four of your friends, it was like, I don't know, back then this is forever ago, but it was like half the price if you get 20 people.
So I just put a, in St.
Norbert, yet there's a line to get into the cafeteria and you could put up signs about different events.
I was like, you want to get high call room two, two, three, which is the room I lived in and a bunch of people called and most of them thought.
you know, to get high.
But then when I talked to him, I turned him around and they came.
We, we had our great, our 20 people in no time.
So anyway, um, yes, that's how I didn't make money on that.
We
had John Kramer here from the press times.
He'll leave.
But, uh, I noticed I never, I've known John for ever.
I was in Afghanistan with him, but I didn't know he had his wings.
He
Five times.
Oh, so he got his thing, but he said his eyes were closed every time.
That was a good time.
And yeah, Haley, this is so great having you here and what you do for the Packers.
I just, I mean, you know, you talk about a small town girl doing good type thing, coming from O'Connell Falls and having the job you have for the Packers.
That's really cool.
But Haley, I'm talking a little
bit more about this whole fan engagement.
You have three.
Tell us the programs that you really run, and I'm gonna talk about what your future is of that program.
Yeah, so I run our junior power pack, our official kids club, our Packers Everywhere platform, and then Packers Perks, which is our loyalty platform, and then some different one-off things that the NFL will send our way.
So for example, every year I go to the NFL Draft and manage our inner circle.
So that's the fans that are sitting by.
right by the stage.
This year for the NFL Draft, I was in charge of our Packers Everywhere activation, which was the dive bar, the Packers Everywhere Draft House.
So there's a lot of different things that fan engagement
entails.
I want to talk about the NFL Draft.
So that was you that I was fortunate because you guys did a great thing with the new community shelter.
People
off Mark Houston and I to go into the front row, just so you know.
I did.
The
fans that are there from other teams.
Yeah,
that's you.
Yes.
Okay.
That's
cool.
Yeah.
So like, um, I'm in charge of my myself and my coworker Hannah every year when the draft is not in Green Bay.
Um, we are in charge of getting Packers fans to that inner circle.
All right.
So you like what six, eight tickets or something?
Um, it changes every year this year.
I think there's like 14,
but that's where you bring in these people that, um,
Vincent, all that?
So it's very dependent on who we're bringing in.
Our ticket office gets some of the ticket allotment, and they give them away.
And then myself and Hannah work with fans that might be in the city that we're traveling to, fans that are influencers and have a high following on social.
But we try to mix it up.
I want to give you credit for vetting those people,
because they are
some of the nicest people.
They're dressed up,
right?
Yeah,
for sure.
not the crazy fans, but they're the, the ice guy, you know what, he's a friend of ours, but they go to that and then you ask to get their picture taken and everyone, they can't wait to get their picture taken with you.
So I just thought that was a really cool environment.
I'd never been up there.
That was, I didn't know that you did that.
That's like a really cool thing.
Yeah.
And those tickets are cool because it's, it's not something that you can purchase.
We, we try to mix it up how, how we're giving those away.
And like this year we had,
Dan and Lauren, they are Packers fans from the UK, and they traveled to the NFL Draft this year, and Dan was our international fan of the year last year.
But just incredible people, and we've now essentially formed a friendship with them.
We do that with a lot of fans.
We know they're actually expecting a baby.
They have a huge following on social media.
Let me guess, Vince?
What
are they gonna name the
kid?
I don't know.
Dan is really I have heard him my
brother named his two sons Bart and Vince that That happens more.
I think we think anyway.
Yes.
That's cool.
All right, so then I felt drafting I guess they want thing though.
You know what else is funny about names I can tell you okay high school football so many times you see these same names like
of a TV show.
Remember Sex in the City?
Yes.
Remember Aiden?
Yes.
Every high school football team has an Aiden.
They need a kid after Aiden.
And
I swear that is true.
Women have a certain allegiance to certain guys.
Yeah, for sure.
Yes.
Ted, tell me about the youth programs.
Because I think that's important.
And you can tell me what you're doing.
But I think other people who are listening might think maybe we should lean into that a
little bit more.
Yeah.
So that's our Kids Club.
It's a $25 annual membership that we do.
The biggest thing that people will say to us is, well, we don't live in the state.
Most of our members don't.
We do so many mailings.
Kids love getting mail.
It's fun to get mail until you're an adult.
mail becomes bills.
But kids love getting mail.
So we mail a membership kit, a back to school kit, a birthday card, a holiday card.
They get, when they do come to Green Bay, they get free admission to the Hall of Fame, a discount at the pro shop.
Well, there's your 25 bucks.
Yeah, we do an essay contest every year where they can win game tickets.
We do a holiday contest where we have parents write in and tell us what their child's wish list is.
And we fulfill that and send those gifts.
to the parents for a select amount.
See, now
that's engagement.
Yeah.
I mean,
that is like, and those kids will be fans the rest of their lives.
They're gonna be season ticket holders someday.
For sure.
And it's just, that's-
Tori, jump in on this.
You being from LA, where is this not?
I mean, what do you see when you're here?
You must just say to yourself, this is real.
Cause we, and please don't take this the wrong way here, but we just expect that now.
Do you know what I mean?
Maybe we take it for granted.
That's just the way everybody, but it's not is it?
Yeah, totally.
It is.
It's almost cultish up here.
I mean, you're in Southern California and you'd like see a Rams jersey and you're like, okay, whatever, because you also just saw a bunch of other jerseys and you're like, it's nothing because there's people from all over there that have all different allegiances.
And it's like, okay, just because you're in LA, you could still be an hour and a half away from the stadium.
So it's like there's really no like strong
passion to be a like sports fan in that area.
Whereas here it's like everyone is a die hard fan because it's like you grew up with that.
Right.
But what I think is cool about Green Bay, I just because we're not, even though when I went to automated garbage pickup, I had green and gold cans and took a little bit of heat from that from some people.
But what I think is good about the Green Bay School District is from Packard Day on Fridays, you know, before the game, it was just
NFL day and these kids that came in wearing their lion's jersey.
I'm like that's I say those kids that that's awesome.
You're doing that because their loyalty is just as deep as just not here,
you know, San
Francisco has good followings and you know, either they're maybe they grew up there like you did and moved here or they just fell in love with Joe Montana or somebody but I think it's great that kids have an allegiance to
an organization.
Okay, I will
say one thing though.
There were, I mean, they were such dark days here in the 80s.
That's true.
That a lot of kids, you know, and then that's when the ESPNs of the world became bigger.
And there were like a lot of Denver Bronco fans that, remember that
Jim?
Oh yeah, totally.
You would have all these other jerseys.
It wasn't ours.
We were.
I hate we just sucked.
I mean, it was
so bad.
It wasn't cool to be a Packer fan.
Remember?
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
Yeah, I just it wasn't as fun, but you never kids, but you never turn.
You never.
Turned your jersey No, but these kids it wasn't cool to be a
Packer fan versus a Dallas Cowboy fan
I think kids to fall in love with players.
Yes, right now there I have a nine-year-old nephew and every year his gift for his birthday from his godmother me is game tickets
So he's grown up going to Packers games and thinking that, yeah, yeah, for sure.
He's grown up thinking that's normal.
And last year, he asked me to buy him, or two years ago, he asked me to buy him a Devante Adams jersey that was no longer green and gold.
And I was like, hey, we draw the line.
No can do.
He fell in love with him as a Packers player and he's still
100% committed.
He's a huge Packers fan.
My dad and brother would never let you're not allowed to cheer for another team.
But you do as a child too, you become fans of players.
And that's why it's so important to have our players in the community.
And I won't, I won't speak on this because I'm not the expert, but our community outreach department led by Kathy Dwarak.
They do such an incredible job getting involved in the community and all of the different events too that I'm not planning.
There are so many different people in our organization that plan events out in the community.
But the amount of schools that Kathy and her team are going to and the Play 60 program and all of that.
And even that bus trip you guys do around the
state.
Yeah, the tailgate tour that's done by Kathy's team as well.
They do an incredible job, but it's also, you know, you're getting.
these young kids are getting to meet Packers players or alumni and see their personalities and fall in love with them and that really helps you become a fan and we have players at our annual kids clinic too that that we bring in and
It's the opportunity for kids to be able to interact with an NFL player
The cool thing about that is like that is something that's unique to Green Bay
too is
it's kind of like a coming-of-age thing to pick like who's gonna be your player and get their jersey and the odds that these kids have have of actually meeting that player are Significantly greater than any other city where it's like here you have a good chance that one day you'll be able to take a picture with that player and meet that player that you grew up
I've heard so many good things about this Matthew Golden about how humble he is and
how kids want to be around him and all that kind of stuff, it's incredible.
Yeah, I think anytime to when you have young players coming into the league and they're eager to be involved with the community, I think there's nothing better for an organization and for the community.
So we love that and any opportunity that we have to be able to work with our players and work with the community and get kids, you know, able to meet
meet players is great.
At our clinic this year, we had two young boys walked in and I said to my coworker, I'm like, they look so familiar.
And she's like, they're here every year for training camp.
I recognize them from Dream Drive.
So it's just, our fan base is just
incredible.
We
are currently
planning our 2025 regular season pep rally.
So we haven't announced those cities yet.
We will announce probably in mid-July.
So we're working on all the logistics for those events.
So we're gonna go, a lot of people go to one away game a year.
A lot of people go to all the away games, but some of us who, and that information is, how do we get to know?
like where the pep rally is, what time it is, how much it costs, all that.
Yeah, so all the information will be on Packers.com and then PackersEverywhere.com as well.
You can also follow the Packers Everywhere social channels on Instagram, Facebook, and X. Okay.
But we release all the information on Packers.com too.
Yep.
And you put that all on there, you coordinate it.
Are people receptive to, I'm not saying the enemy, but.
Yeah.
for you coming in and taking over their bar?
Oh, for sure.
Because you take it over.
Hey,
does
Max McGee's daughter still run a Packer bar in Arizona?
I don't know.
No, I'll look into that for you.
I'll get back to
you.
There's quite a few Packer bars out there.
Right, but his daughter ran
one.
Oh, she did?
OK.
And Black Creek or Cave Creek are
one of those
places.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
But yeah, so the bars are extremely happy to have us.
I bet.
Yeah,
we're.
I
know my favorite.
Max McGee story.
Oh, yeah, hit me with it.
Remember the bar.
I can't think.
My mind's going.
It
used to be a pack of our years and years ago.
OK, so Max McGee was in there one night.
And you're here on Mason.
No.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We're the
McDonald's.
Yeah.
OK.
All
right.
So I got it.
OK.
So Max McGee was sitting there one night.
OK.
And this big biker guy was just doing shot after shot.
And Max says, hey, are you doing OK there, buddy?
He goes, no, I'm going to kill somebody tonight.
He's like, what?
He's like, I'm going to kill a guy.
His name is Max McGee.
He hooked up with my girlfriend.
Yada, yada.
I'm going to kill him.
I heard he comes in here every night.
So Max McGee is sitting there.
OK.
Paul Horney walks through the door.
He goes, hey, Max, this guy wants to talk to
you.
I got
to go.
So
I vivid Max
McGee story.
But you know what?
Covering the Packers.
And you do this now.
There's a lot of young.
Professional people that would give anything for your job covering the Green Bay Packers wouldn't
you agree?
Oh, yeah
For sure.
And that's why I feel especially grateful because it's like this wasn't even something that I was planning on.
It just kind of happened.
So I mean, I know that there's people that would like kill for my job to be on the sidelines shooting photos.
And I mean, sports photography even is just such an up and coming thing.
And that's something that was like secondary when I came in and had to learn that because I was a writer.
I was going to be in editing and publishing.
And then this is just something that happened.
And I was like, it's I mean, even better because I get to combine my passion for.
with like something that I have a talent and a passion for in my work life.
That's awesome.
I think Haley had something to do with these, the youth, just wanting to be that.
Todd and I went to a conference one time, it was at Lambeau Field, but it was broadcasters, one of the broadcasters, it was, I think it was mostly high school kids, some college kids.
All media, was it?
Todd?
Was it?
High school, some
college.
But they wanted to get
into the media.
It was a media conference of high school and college kids.
And you ask them, what do you want to do?
What Todd sport 70 80% were sports
which there's a
whole nother world out there But I mean they probably grew up because of you Haley and taking a love for stuff There's just they just weren't into the they didn't want to be on in the political scene You
gotta start somewhere
I was just amazed how many after another like wow there's a lot of people here who want to get into sports and it is in an interesting field
It just is.
It's
fun.
It's exciting.
I mean, you know better than
anybody.
It's like being an influencer where it's like there's everyone wants to do it.
Everyone wants to be it because it's like there's a there's just a strong demand for it because like you said, everybody grew up.
as kids being big fans and like having a passion for it.
So it's like, Hey, if I can do this for work, that's like everybody's dream job.
And I have a family friend that just got into some sports program at USC and he's like, Hey, can I come shadow you or can I like do an internship with you or something?
And I'm like, dude, we grew up together.
What are you talking about?
But it's like, it's so competitive, especially in other areas that that's what another thing that's special about Green Bay is you have the opportunity to get in and do that.
Whereas you're not
That's not going to happen.
I always
want to work in Green Bay.
I started in Twin Falls, Idaho, two center, Arizona, Flint, Michigan, and then finally Green Bay.
Okay.
And I'll never forget sitting in a news director's office and he had a stack and this, I'm, this old school of Todd, remember a resume tapes where he had a stack of resume tapes had to be 50, 70.
I don't, he goes, I got to be honest with you.
He goes, John, he said, I'll look at your tape.
But every one of those tapes is a sportscaster in the country that wants to come to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
And there is something special about being in Green Bay, Wisconsin, covering sports, isn't
there?
Oh, yeah.
And I mean, it's just it's super cool to be here and be like be able to be on the field and involved with the Packers as much as I am.
Whereas, like I said, you'd never get the chance to do that, Nellie, because it's so competitive.
Haley, next time you come out, you bring some swag.
We need some free stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah,
for sure.
Are they like doing discounts on the draft?
Because those hoodies were expensive.
They're like 100
bucks.
I know, I know.
People contacted me from the U.P.
where I'm from
say, hey, could you give
me.
a hoodie and I checked, I was like, no, I can't.
Or could we just call you godmother?
Yeah,
sure.
Yes.
Think about what's in it for us.
Okay.
I can't believe I came empty handed.
I
think a couple of things.
I just think it's great what you're doing.
I think it's.
great that you're both young females too.
I mean, I think that says a lot for the sport.
It says a lot about you, that you are not.
And what that does
for young, like my
three
granddaughters just see somebody like both of you
doing this.
So this is great.
You guys are good examples for the community.
And you give a lot to Green Bay.
And what I like about you, both of you is that you're kind of planting seeds too, because we, you know, we worry some of us worry about the future and, you know, you're taking care of it.
So I just appreciate what you're
doing.
You're putting a lot of pressure on us.
We do that.
This is great.
You guys have been fantastic.
Tori, we love having you come in.
Sports editor from the press times.
You're awesome.
Hailey Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator.
Thank you so much for both coming.
This has really been a joy and a pleasure having you guys in here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
You bet.
Back in tomorrow morning.
See ya.
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All right, I'm ready You know what's disappointing you know this I hate to say this I think I've tied back it is but you know it's kind of disappointing.
What's that?
Is that convoy play better music than Todd?
Oh, I don't
so don't you?
Slying the family stone music that's all
Yeah, don't you well then we weren't your press with cons and musical tastes
I
you a lot
thought
yeah, I thought his musical tastes were exceptional now You got your intern there and he's just he doesn't know music
He's just
at him.
He's just he's got nothing going musically Text already.
Hey.
Yes.
I agree great music last week.
that.
Who's that by?
It's not your
It's you know what?
your girlfriend, Julie.
Yeah, at least a hail Boy, hey, okay Happy vacation Todd.
Yeah, tell me you didn't do some day drinking
little bit.
You and Lisa,
gosh.
I gotta stop there.
What are we doing in our show in Oshkosh again?
I'm not sure.
Gotta line that up.
We, that place just looks cool.
Yeah.
There's a lot of cool
Todd You know who Todd is so Wisconsin.
He's so what are you German?
Yeah, of course,
German, Wisconsin.
you you guys are fine with drinking any time?
Italians are just
It
Oh Got this happy anniversary guys.
I'm sorry John, but Todd has way better music Michael another one happy anniversary guys Conrad did not play better music Vicki.
All right Wow Todd's got his so the anniversary my
I guess Intern boy What you haven't seen you in a long time what you doing still coaching baseball?
Oh, yeah, how's that going?
Pretty good.
Yeah.
Are
winning?
We won a couple of games so far.
That means
You're not.
Rush for 408 yards
408
And fifth highest rusher in Wisconsin's history.
We've been around for over 200 years.
God yeah, and he just why was he built?
Yeah, just a so that was that was fun and he's going to think I looked like that when I was like 18 not at all that and nor not inside or outside I mean just a nicest kid and just like what do you what do you think when you get the ball and he's like I know what's gonna happen and His strength sense of balance.
He was I can get hit and I don't go down because you know I I run
over people.
It's kind of my thing.
You know what I told him?
And I thought off the air here.
I'm going to give you one word of advice.
Well, you read that.
I read that.
Be the baddest person in the cell block when you walk in.
No.
Okay.
We got ticks here.
We the listeners are not happy when Todd is not at the wheel.
Another one here.
John is trying to stir the pot.
All right, no way.
My note, your disrespect of Todd is not cool.
I may have to rethink hiring you for simple life hospitality.
He's high Todd.
not even joking about he's hiring me as an inspector.
told us yesterday.
so you and I had a conflict already.
Todd was a part of this Yeah, I
Okay, but how funny is it he had the exact same type of altercation as I did exactly the same Oh, they in the park with the pack backing
The reason we agreed on that same multiplication is we both apologized.
Yes.
And then they didn't accept it.
Yes.
They're like, you next time I'm going to take your head off.
It's like, what did you just say?
Yes.
So then I go over there and then that was like crazy.
I mean, it's she's like, Jim, you got you got to retire.
OK.
But the other thing, though, to the other thing, OK, Michael says the paperwork is in the mail.
But here's another thing, Jim.
know you take so much pride in your food.
check
first.
I, you take so much pride in your food.
I don't like, I like cooking.
No, I don't.
Your buns weren't good.
was great.
hey you guys should be proud of me No, this is this is one month today is one month since my surgery
Since the doctor who, I think he's a doctor.
He used a can opener on my face to get rid of the cancer instead of a scalpel.
about six months
So I'm not wearing a bandage.
But he used a candle to ruin my face.
I'm no longer handsome.
was good looking.
You know when Christian walked in yesterday, it's like, my God, this looks like looking in a mirror
I wasn't?
He is.
Wow.
going back to your, okay, you brought in food.
Buns are so...
burger.
They
so disappointed.
Let me tell you about what people do.
You want the mistake with buns is too much bread and then you miss out on the burger.
Those they were perfect.
They were baked.
I talked to the lady.
Anyway, they they were and John was complaining this morning because those buns were bad because they were too short.
Like, okay, John, I was a foot long hot dog.
Maybe the hot dogs were too long, you know, for that bun and I wasn't going to get a foot long bun because it's too much bread.
Those are perfect.
You know what I'm gonna do for you next time.
I'm gonna cut the hot dogs in half And just then you know how
many people texted me said your party was disappointing
anyway
Anyway,
expected more
welcome.
Got texts here, uh, professional boxing coming to you, Oshka Arena.
Let's go.
That's from Skylar.
Let us know more about that.
Um, I
I was, I was, okay, I never break.
I mean, not really.
Look at Todd.
He just looks away.
like I don't go to church and talk to priest
priests a
funny.
I gotta tell you something.
I
So Father Baghetto, up in Espring, St.
John the Evangelistist, whatever.
Okay.
What is it?
I told you, I think I'm related to him.
Remember I showed you that?
St.
John.
The Baptist.
Remember?
don't.
So anyway, I told my brothers, Father Baghetto used to have the longest sermon.
I mean, like 40 minutes.
I'd get up and I'll never forget my dad one time.
We're coming to go to go to a pet.
No, we were going rabbit hunting.
It was a Sunday morning priorities.
And yeah.
And after it was six o'clock mass, okay.
Remember six o'clock masses in the morning.
Yeah.
Sunday morning.
Yeah.
And we go up and we go up in the priest, Father Brigadiel comes in and he goes, hey, how are you doing, Jimmy?
And my dad tore into him and put his finger to his... about how lying his sermon was, because we had to go rabbit hunting.
I'll never forget that.
He threw out the G.D.
word to the priest, but how lying his sermon was.
um had you know the priest go out there and he lectured him one time and said you remember when you were a little boy sitting in church and he told them to hold the homilies to like what do you say 12 minutes 11 minutes or something like that so these guys who go 20 25 minutes they're kind of going a little bit against the boss a little bit absolutely
You know, I think people, you know, and you've taken some classes on giving talks, they kind of check out after 10 minutes.
Yeah.
But
I agree.
Cause I think people, especially.
Sunday, okay, let's
brother's a priest so I'm not putting down the whole priesthood
Yeah, but sometimes they like hearing themselves talk
didn't become a priest.
I heard they had like a thing a newsletter type thing that they could use.
Well, they yeah, they have um, you know
okay, I'm gonna be honest
would have given
nominal homilies
I would have given unbelievable it's a homily the same as a sermon
okay I would have given great
was an altar boy I learned in Latin
are they?
like Todd's music.
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Beautiful Wednesday.
Is it Wednesday all day Wednesday morning 62 in Green Bay 64 napton 66 to nashkush high up 72 today zero wind out there.
What a nice morning is
nice morning to go I bet you anything.
No, she's curtain neck.
She's curtain neck.
Are you listening?
is so nice out there right now That's
it's not gonna rain
Good.
That'd be great.
know what you should do to, like, don't take this the wrong way.
But to recoup your reputation.
don't know.
You should have cheese curd, Nick, give you some of his fresh perch and do a fish fry.
they're fresh.
I mean, he, I mean, he, he could, you could cook in the same day.
He catches up.
Um, a fish fry, like deep fried.
I don't think
that.
We're talking about that.
You
this is not
like every state.
What's the worst thing that kills people?
For Wisconsin was fish fries,
staple
some other Texer Jim only says what Jim thinks Vicky
another one here from Donna.
like Todd's music
wouldn't say you have skin cancer I just say you got cut in a bar fight.
That's why you have a scar Michael
cowboy days as I hear they're using electric canopers on faces these days.
Thank
texts me she'd says differently,
That's that's that's at
So Todd yeah today is our actual anniversary
Are you talking to him?
Yeah, I am are you kind of knew that?
I was you know, I know I didn't know you two years ago.
Did I?
Okay
Wow.
Well, no, I don't know when these... We came on the air two years ago today.
And I remember that like yesterday.
There's a few things I remember.
I just remember you having notebooks.
I had notebooks.
Of notes and whatever, whatever.
And I had arrows.
Like if this doesn't work, we'll go over here, you know, because we had a little bit of an outline.
And the guy was, I don't even know who was here.
The guy that didn't... Shannon?
Yeah, anyway And he's like, okay, it's we're gonna go on in like three minutes and I'm going through this stuff and John's looking out the window and I'm like, dude He said three minutes and then it was two minutes and then but then it was yeah,
yeah Anyway, so anyway, it was Chuck says happy anniversary guys great show.
I'm planning my route for today is your street
Is your street still
Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, but I mean, the road people were there.
Carly Simon is
Simon get to be 82 years older?
I loved her.
Remember that album
Jimmy Walker is 78 who I've heard.
I remember Murphy told me this.
Of all the comedians we used to have at IXX, he was the biggest jerk.
I believe that.
Were you
But he was the biggest jerk to come through the doors at IXX back in the day.
Jimmy Walker.
What
I think your place.
What was it?
Carleton?
I mean, where else would they be?
Maybe one night?
I
No, let's wake him up
Sunday.
No, no, no way.
I
Ricky, Ricky, is it Jervis?
Jervis.
Jervis.
Yep.
He's got to start at the office, correct?
He is.
Yeah.
Have you seen that?
But you know what?
I hate listening to British people talk.
They don't speak good English.
You know
Yeah.
I mean, I know they're saying funny stuff, but they're like hard to
Right, right, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Who is Sonya Sotomayor?
Don't, they're
Yeah, okay.
Do you, do you ever?
Watch the news or um, okay, what in the news for 40 years?
Who's the president of what the country?
Okay, what are three branches of government?
No, the executive the legislative electoral Anyway Judicial right judicial yeah, yeah, how many Supremes do we have in the United States
12?
One died.
just...
Yeah.
You know, Todd, there's probably some sixth grader that said the exact same thing today.
You want to read that, Johnny?
No, you go ahead.
Did John really say that Electoral is one of the three branches of government and that we have 12 justices?
I'm sorry, isn't this civic media?
Get it civic, John?
Civic, like civic lessons?
Perhaps civics class is in order for Johnny.
Yes!
I had the whooping cough.
Which made me miss a lot of school.
Alright, you missed that.
Okay, because that, you only learn it once.
I mean, it's irrelevant.
Happy Wednesday to you today is Beatles as in the Beatles Todd
Yep.
Okay.
There is nothing that will Peel people more than if I say what I actually feel
it overrated
want to say, hate.
OK, I had very curly hair.
Oh, I had.
You know what?
One of my buddies actually texted me, said to me, OK, OK, Todd, yeah, I'm going to show you a picture.
I want to know if you're impressed.
He was on a show a couple of times.
They came out the first day, three sets.
You know, they have the original with the black tuxes, and then they do the yellow submarine, and they do, I don't know what else, the third I left.
The crowd was going crazy at that first part.
Jim was completely impressed with
that.
cool.
Cool.
Let me see your pictures from.
Yeah, Jim.
wrestling.
Yeah.
Thank you, Todd.
Thank you.
pictures.
Yeah.
I don't want to see if it is wrestling tights.
My onesie.
Your onesie.
Today's also catfish day.
I got to tell you something.
This is no lie, Jim.
That catfish dinner I had at your homeless shelter that day.
was incredible
the seasoning
thought yeah I thought that seasoning was
called cat fishing somebody
oh this yeah
right um
goat cheese
fan oh god serious Todd yeah Todd will like it he's an old german guy
goat cheese?
like the sourness of it.
too.
But
almost didn't come in one day last
I was sick twice.
I threw up all night.
This is, okay.
This is so, why would he even say this?
Okay, Ryan, of course you don't eat, but he's allergic to everything.
But when you do eat, do you ever check the dates like on your milk or cottage cheese or what else?
You know, anything.
You do.
Okay, so, all right, so that, and John got sick, like, and he threw up, had to go get pepped up in his mouth like 11 o'clock at night, drive around, find a store.
And he, cause he ate Greek yogurt.
Greek yogurt, have you had that?
Okay, it's got kind of a sour taste anyway.
But it's still dated bigger than life.
It says right on the side expiration date, you know, whatever seven one or But he ate it because he thought well it It didn't taste a lot different and I'm not saying it didn't I was kind of to defend you a little bit in the beginning because they said it does have had the sour taste I get vanilla yogurt.
I don't I don't like just plain yogurt.
But anyway, so he ate it and it was like expired Well, right?
That's what got you sick John
No,
But I you wouldn't think yogurt would spoil because it's basically spoiled milk or something or
Yeah.
did wrong, though, too?
I'll
didn't have the lid on.
when it gets air.
Yeah.
It's probably the right date, wrong year.
OK.
All I'm saying is, OK, so back up on this whole thing.
So goat cheese day, it tastes like bad cheese.
it?
Right?
It's
pretty cheap
goat cheese no but that was yeah that that would make good toasted cheese oh yeah
It smelled really nice.
Yeah, I
how.
And government cheese.
family, my mom and dad used to call it Reagan cheese, because that's when Reagan was giving out free cheese.
That made a great
was Reagan.
Really?
I know my political.
Color TV day.
OK, Todd.
How old were you when you got Color TV in your family's house?
Oh, wow.
I was, I came home from college and it's like, what in the world?
You got a color TV.
We got a color.
I was 19 years old, maybe 20 years old before we had a color TV.
How about you?
Yeah, I know before that.
It was so exciting.
unbelievable.
I used to go over my anti-Mimi's to watch Bonanza because that was in color.
There was one of the first shows in color.
And it's like, I would have the, you know, the mountains and everything.
bet there's a lot of people out there that did not get color TVs until the 70s.
color TV day.
Terry says the drug years for the Beatles best music.
That's kind of true You know what I mean when they started getting in that's
wasn't so pop and so yuppie yuppie little whatever whatever I love you.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
That's like They were the Beatles were no different than Herman Hermits.
Clark five.
says goat cheese is terrible
it.
Okay, Brian.
Thank you.
Happy anniversary, guys.
Two years as I fight my health issues.
Listen to you guys daily.
It puts a smile on my face, Terry.
Well, hey, Terry.
Okay, Terry, no disrespect.
Okay.
You think you got health issues?
Terry, I don't even talk about my health issues.
I don't
bring your health issues to us because I can tell you about health issues.
Okay.
So tell me again who Sonya Sotomayor is.
She is a on the Supreme Court.
No.
No, no, no.
It's pretty good by the president.
And then it's confirmed by the Senate.
Okay.
Dude.
Okay.
Fourth of July is coming up.
Let's, hey, whoever said that civic media thing, I kind of like that.
Want to do a little civics every week?
Like, Oh, I'd
kick your
Go ahead, ask me
want.
Go ahead.
Go
Supreme Court.
I guarantee you I'll get it right.
Okay, what is the, okay.
Go ahead.
The Supreme Court is supposed to be nonpartisan.
Yes.
They're supposed to just look at the laws of the state.
It's taking a little different trend.
What, if you look at the Supreme Court, what is the makeup of Supreme Court that comes to leaning left or right Republican Democrat?
What do you mean?
What do you mean and like what their personal feelings are or what it has to be or what do you mean?
I don't know what you mean.
Okay, uh liberal right now It's it's it's right wing ish, right?
Right.
All right.
You're right.
Hey,
Clarence Thomas thing.
Well, is he a wack job?
Huh?
Wow
I told you, I met Justice Scalia.
Did I tell you that?
So did I. Did you when it's here?
He's been at Green Bay a couple of times.
He likes duck hunting day or not.
I went duck hunting with him.
And he knows you did not.
And then he- You didn't know that.
I know the people he went duck hunting with, and I never heard your name come up in that duck hunting group.
I didn't want publicity.
Okay.
Anyway, Ryan, this guy's a Supreme Court Justice, very, very popular, young guy.
And I actually sat next to him on the plane, both up front.
but he did wear headsets.
Is that the
worst thing sitting next to somebody in a plane when they want to talk?
Is there anything worse?
Well, there's no you cannot escape.
Yeah, I sat next to Larry Flint one time.
Kelly here says happy anniversary loyal listeners since the very beginning.
Kelly.
I got another one here.
I am the Terry with stage four cancer.
I coached basketball at Westip here in Kimberley.
I live in Ashwater.
before Jim gives John too much grief about his civics knowledge.
May I reference the great Wisconsin State Tree fiasco a few weeks ago?
Current and fourth grade teachers everywhere shuttered when Jim Schmidt announced that the state tree was the white pine.
Thank you, Nancy.
What is our state tree?
The maple?
I think it is.
Is it the maple?
Yep.
Yeah.
You said it was the white pine?
Is our bird the robin too?
Why is Michigan and Wisconsin have the same bird?
they do.
Hey, can I be honest with you on something?
dead for a hundred years.
He used to eat robins.
But
say it now.
So my sister.
There's no meat on a robin.
Oh yeah, the breasts are fine.
visiting my Zia, which is a great aunt in Italian in Chicago, where they're from.
And they're in the back seat, and she had a bag.
Just a bag.
And I said, why is that bag fluttering?
She had Robbins in there.
Why?
To eat.
Oh my god.
Isn't that crazy?
They used to eat Robbins.
this is cool.
You can use this.
You can use this.
Pass this on to your kids and your grandkids.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to pass this on to my grandkids.
This is the version.
We, when we were kids, when you saw your first Robin of the Year, you make a wish.
For what?
What do you mean?
That's really cool, right?
You're looking for Robin.
You know, spring's coming.
You see it.
And you see your first Robin.
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believe Carly Simon is 82 years old.
I had such a crush on Carly Simon.
You can't believe it.
A 1972, remember?
You're Sylvain.
She's never, I don't think she's ever
ever,
Warren Beatty?
I don't think so.
like what she threw out there, but I don't really think it was.
I heard as Mick Jagger.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Okay.
All right.
My sister, I got texted my sister used to eat squirrels.
And by the way, it's the sugar maple tree, not just the maple tree
Okay.
Oh, so it was okay, so he was one of the guys
I Always felt like she would have liked me like we got into high school together or something There's something about her because she was a little off You know she had kind of like the weird lips everything.
She's a lot, but I think she would have liked me
you think hey who would you
thought
I'm sorry.
She was at a car
a car show with her in Flint and she had a handler and she was wearing big sunglasses and she was slurring really bad at
one o'clock.
Yes.
In
Yeah.
It was that it was at the car show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, this was in Flint.
Oh, I was in Flint.
All
like, oh, I could still picture.
I bet I could still have the image like, yeah.
she was talking
you know
Yeah, I don't think she ever did anything after that, right?
That was it.
That's what she was.
Yeah.
So you and I both had the same experience.
Is that funny?
Yeah, that
was she was lit.
She was slurring.
What else we got here?
She got a text here.
She was a little off quote.
I think she would like me, Brian.
OK.
Chuck says, y'all know what's going on with Veterans Village on St.
Anthony Drive.
I do not.
talking during the break here.
Chuck, let us know, please.
I got another one here.
I heard Carly was writing about James Taylor.
Yeah.
So, Mike, that's what I heard too.
He just, where did he,
know what I just taught?
You didn't, did you go to Bob Dylan?
No.
Okay.
Did you, I mean, never heard much about that, do you?
When he was at the whitener think
but not I mean no rave reviews
of talk before he got
cuz in the movie was did you see the movie Todd?
me neither
I don't I told you his uncle
He didn't give me a job Zimmerman's electronic
in Hibbing, Minnesota.
Brett, come on in.
By the way, I just want to say one thing.
Nob just texted me.
Our first color TV was December, 1979.
Exactly when we got ours.
Some of us weren't born with a silver spoon in their tongue, Jim.
Okay.
Well, Jim, I thought he was talking about Ryan.
Hi, Brad.
How you doing, buddy?
I haven't seen you in a little while.
It was so fun to run into you at the Packer Foundation luncheon two days ago.
And your organization, it was, the way that works is the Packer Organization Foundation gives out probably a million dollars a year, right?
It's gotta be close to that.
Yeah, I think it's almost two.
Wow, okay.
And so they, you apply and say, look, this is what we do in our community, this is what we do.
They had people from Madison, they had people from Milwaukee, and of course, Brent here from Green Bay, and he does the,
I had Scholarship Sync, but you've changed it.
It's called College Ready.
Yeah, we're college ready now.
It used to be Scholarship Sync, yeah.
And I
many kids have you
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, exactly.
So we've been around since 1962 as Scholarship Sync.
Really, for the most part of our history, we're a scholarship-granting organization.
Still doing that actually over 7,000 scholarships over 14 million dollars during
that period
of time Right here right here in this community Brown County door County for the scholarships, but but recently we started the Program where we're trying to help students not only pay for college But really get enrolled in college and those students will be the first in their family to go to college there
from homes that are impoverished neither of their parents have gone to college and so that whole experience and I just want to say
something Jim and I actually were at an event last year last
summer with him yeah yeah
that's the day you were sweating garlic
yes
we
I
And it was so
to our community
Brittlerable Scholarship Inc.
back after this.
No, it's college ready.
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Happy anniversary, John.
Hey, welcome back.
I'm sorry, Brian.
I'm sorry you had to see
always brings up stuff.
It's
John, I was going to host an event one time, which is a very.
prestigious event that you were a part of in
no, I know it was 2004
and his little wacky Chad said all the mayor thinks he should host this instead of you Oh, really?
No, I
you Todd
Then he
The kidney stations were coming through him.
It came
And then he got caught on because it was military a little bit.
And I didn't do that.
I did not tell... I just want to say, and I swear to God, I did not tell Chad to do that.
He called, he goes, look, you need to do this event.
And I'm like...
Fine, I'm going to be there anyway.
But then he called John.
He
calls me and says the mayor thinks
should handle this instead of you.
Kind of threw me under the bus.
It's too big of an event
Brent Ruble, how are you doing, buddy?
Scholarship Incorporated, you've gotten so many kids.
College ready, college ready, college ready.
I that's my bet.
I'm sorry.
It's hard.
It's hard.
But what I'm saying is when we were at the at your event last summer great um just seeing the the the families
How excited, how proud they were of their kids getting those scholarships.
That was really something special.
I'm not BSing here.
That was cool.
Yeah, I know.
It's every year, it's awesome to see the parents and how proud they are of their students and the students to walk across stage, get their scholarship.
And, you know, we're talking about about 100 students locally, Brown County, Dore County, that get that.
And yeah, it's just always gratifying just to see.
How excited and happy they are.
You've got to feel good about that.
I mean, you're changing people's lives.
Oh, man.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's not me.
I mean, I just work in the background.
It's our donors, our supporters.
Yeah.
You know what?
Let's just back up, though.
Say who you are and what we're doing.
And if you go from there, go ahead and say, I mean, people are listening.
They might say, yeah.
This is just one
County to our
That's right.
Yeah, go ahead.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we really changed that name to better describe what we're doing in our mission because we're not just scholarships anymore.
It's still a big part of what we do like awarding almost half a million dollars a year to about 200 local students.
Where do you get the money from?
You know, it's all private donations.
It's all
private donations
endowments and you know the people that have left the legacy that have passed on before us that we're still awarding scholarships you know in their name and the reason you
know it's disappointing though I just want to say one thing it's disappointing print um you and I worked in TV together okay you could have had a career making $23,000 a year for life
and
or something with nine people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We were there with about 10 other nonprofits that, uh, you know, most of them, Brown County, some Madison, some Milwaukee, but, you know, we were able to benefit from that for our college readiness programming.
So they gave us a grant to help us expand that programming.
We're working on expanding that, bringing that to more students right now.
We're serving just under 200.
students annually in that program from sixth grade through twelfth grade.
We help them for through college, them and their family for seven years.
Yeah, sixth grade.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we really focus on, you know, the academics.
Can I ask your question?
What are the three branches of government?
He wants to make a
It
Electoral.
No,
it's not.
Electoral.
And then
gotta move on.
I heard you guys are gonna do civics test.
Who the hell is she?
What
she do?
What
isn't government money.
This is...
No, this is all private private contributions that we raise over the course of the year or again, like that have been given to us and endowed.
And, you know, we've got many community members that, you know, leave a legacy with us and they want to have a scholarship in their name or someone else's name.
You know, especially people that mean a lot to them in their
lives.
We have a lot of service men
and
women that now have scholarships named after them that we're working with, working with the Lavalette Foundation and kind of transferring some of those over to us.
I know you guys were at our event last year.
And
so
I did the
bed and eddinger.
Yeah, it was great great for it.
Well, you know Randy different answers steps on and Just a tragic story of how he died from Iraq, but we're carrying on his name at Green Bay West Yeah,
that's exactly right and and his rose is me his mom rose I mean what a wonderful lady in the world isn't she the nicest human being and I could you know, I could listen to her
talk forever about her son and the stories that she tells.
But that's the important thing is they want that legacy to live on.
They want to have people to know about Ben and especially those from West High that I still
think that whenever I drive past and I see what the sign that you know, because that's where he used to run to prepare for the Marines for boot camp.
And here's this young Green Bay kid who just wanted to serve his country.
And it's heartbreaking.
But with that being said, it's so great that young kids
are getting money for college through his name.
Exactly.
And that's what you guys do.
Yeah.
right?
Yeah, exactly.
The scholarship that I give out, you know, that Matt Atkinson thing, he thought it off me, which could have been another Columbine here.
It's unbelievable that what was happening that day.
And this, you know, that takes guts to step forward in high school and pick down a little bit.
And he's like, look, man, there's something bad happening here.
And so I think that, and when kids get that scholarship, this is like the scholarship is do the right thing.
I think that's great when a kid gets it and I hope they look into that a little bit
more.
Exactly.
Yeah,
you're
right.
What's your passion?
We always like to ask, especially when I have musicians, where does a passion come from?
For your type of job, this isn't just a punch the time clock
thing.
Yeah.
Well, no, I just like to help people.
And how can I do that?
And I'm not someone that can provide direct service.
I've worked in non-profit my entire career except
you know, for a few, few, uh, few months or a few years at the television.
And that was the nonprofit.
What
was I like back in those
days?
I was a little,
oh my gosh, McCarran.
Yeah.
He was a hoot.
Yeah.
Me and Larry, man.
We
were a wild bunch, weren't we?
Man.
Yeah.
And as an intern college, high school student in there, you just kind of sat there and you were afraid of him.
I was afraid of McCarran.
Kind of like I do now.
Those are crazy days.
Yeah.
But then you came and you lightened it.
Well, you lightened the mood a little bit.
So you made McCarran a little more bearable.
But you guys, you always have been in fundraising, but always for really great causes.
You put on the John Minow classic golf tournament back in day for GB, but you've always had that passion.
We ask, you know, with everybody, where does it come from?
You just want to, I don't mean to sound corny, but you just want to help people, don't you?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I just want to help others.
And like I said, you know, I can't be a counselor.
I can't be a direct service person.
So how can I help?
I can try to bring people together, try to fund things, try to, you know, continue to expand programs that are helping people in our community.
Let's
be honest Jim has probably paid how much money do you think you've paid skull?
It
is
Well, and that's, that's what we're working on with those students in that after school program, that college readiness program, them and their families is the process and the path to get to college is not an easy
So you need help along the way, especially those that have never been there before or their parents or their parents.
And so, you know, so we've got that programming for the students and then we have a parent programming.
We're bringing the parents right along with us in that process because we know if we don't, the success rate's not going to be
right.
Well, when we set.
That night, we were sitting there when Jim was sweating on garlic.
And we had the fam, I mean, it was, I want to say it was, was it Vietnamese jam?
That we talked to afterwards.
I got one of our tables.
Yeah.
Vietnamese and then another one was Somalia.
you know,
Yeah, well, you're exactly right.
And our scholarships are need-based and merit-based.
And so we work to make sure that those are actually a financial need, that we're not overfunding some student and those types of things.
Because there are other options and other ways and other colleges that provide other financial aid.
So
where they're going to school?
No, it doesn't.
It can be technical college, so two-year, four-year, as long as it's in the United States, and it's accredited.
It has to be accredited college, and so we have a list of those.
We're
big advocates of the
two-year
technical
community
colleges.
Big advocates, because the amount of money that you pay for the exact same classes that you would pay at a Marquette or Wisconsin is so much smaller.
Do
you know what I mean?
That is such a great option.
It is a great option.
And most of our students stay right here in the community.
They go to NWTC, UW Green Bay, Bellin College.
A lot of them do go to NWTC, and maybe they want that two-year degree, or maybe they want the four, but they're going to start in NWTC, and they're going to go to UW Green Bay.
And those two colleges work together so well.
We had a great partnership with them as well.
I just take a little
the company.
Does anybody ever fail your classes?
No, he has it.
He's never failed anybody, right?
Or you've got somebody
because
if you
haven't if you haven't shown up and you haven't done any homework in four weeks you're not you're not into it this isn't for you and take it next semester and I'll help you then but so I they get a letter every week sure it but so no I haven't filled anybody but I've had people drop the class under my advice
I still think I
Dropped a class quicker than anybody in collegiate history at Arizona State.
Okay guys going through that just yeah, this is funny He's going through the syllabus.
He's halfway through the syllabus explaining the class
Physics.
Oh physics,
but it's like for people who are gonna be high school teachers.
You don't have to be a physics You're not gonna like split an atom or whatever whatever and he was halfway through the syllabus and I get up and walk down Four minutes into the class and this is what we're gonna do and
week
know
at least you knew yourself
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There's other say potential scattered thunderstorms high of 73 it is Beatles date is catfish day.
It is goat cheese day, which is Great color TV day and Reeves Todd what do you mean by?
Army reserve.
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yep.
Oh, wow.
Wow.
432nd.
Your buddy.
Absolutely.
God bless you folks out there.
That's phenomenal.
And my old girlfriend, Carly Simon is 82
knows.
The song was about you, dude.
Honestly, God, Brent, you knew me back the day when I was good looking, remember?
I'm
not that
old,
Joe.
Wow.
There you go.
Love it.
I was
an answer to that.
I'm
That's actually a good one.
That's great.
I still came.
So you and I, I was at Channel 5 when you were an intern.
You said you're
a
producer for some reason.
You
seem like the quintessential young reporter type that
would
go interview the mayor.
Why did you not pursue that?
Well, I really wanted to do that.
As a matter of fact, you may not remember this, but when I was in, I think I was in eighth grade, you were on channel 11.
You must have been just starting out.
Okay.
And I just... I had great hair.
Didn't I have phenomenal hair?
Oh, you had phenomenal hair.
Yeah, yeah.
And anyhow, I love sports.
I wanted to be in sports.
I watched it all the time.
And back then it was just local TV.
That was all you had.
Yeah, there was no ESPN.
No, no.
And somehow I found out it was your birthday and I must have said it on the air.
And so I sent you a birthday card when I was in eighth grade and I called you the David Letterman of Sportscasters.
Wow!
I
don't know if your pants
are
huge.
is
the guy?
I got an idea.
Did you hire the kid?
No.
That's awesome.
Thank you for that.
That is really nice of you to do.
I'm surprised I didn't.
No, I did want to get into sports casting.
But then I found out about the hours and the pay.
It was a tough client back then.
It was a little worse than non-profit
pay.
Bill Jartz and I taught when we had Billy on here.
three weeks or so ago.
And we talked about doing sports back because it was only a two person department.
Now they have like five people.
I mean, you know,
and it was it's it was it.
I mean, it was 12 hours almost every single day.
Yeah,
you know, it really was.
I mean, that was it was a grind.
But but there was a certain mist.
I don't want to say mystique, but it's like, I remember.
Oh, I can't think of his name.
The sports casters that came in.
Bob Schultz?
Bob Schultz!
When I was going up and watching him, it's like, I looked at him the same way your kids now would look at, you know, well, not Chris Berman, he's being up, but you know what I mean?
That was the local sports casters.
You really held them in high esteem.
Oh, yeah.
And there was
Oh, that's Bob Schultz?
Yeah,
probably but
Hey, don't push it.
No, actually, so I entered at Channel 5 and then I stayed working there, but only on the weekends.
And then my day job was at United Way looking
for a
nonprofit.
And so I was working the week and the days at United Way.
And I was working the nights and the weekends at Channel 5.
And you just got to make a decision at that point.
And so I decided that.
nonprofit was was for me.
And, you know, at that point, you know, that was that was kind of
what you've done for people is
you know, I work in the homeless, we got a
Yeah, well, we get about 300 applications a year and then we award.
Yeah.
I mean, the students that actually complete the whole process, you know, we've got a lot that started that don't finish it.
But you know, that's part of that's part of the weeding out too, because we've got about 95% of our students that get a scholarship the first year, come back for their second
year of
funding.
So that's a pretty
good return rate.
We want to make sure those donors' dollars are best spent because we know about 72%, 74% of most college freshmen come back for their second year.
Well, who are our big sponsors right now?
You know, Schneider Nationals has always been the Schneider Foundation has always been has always been there for us.
Packaging
Yeah.
Green Bay Packaging, the Crest Foundation.
That's what we talked to at the party.
Yeah.
Yeah,
But thank
Yeah, exactly.
And then a lot of private, you know, right donors and individuals.
That's awesome.
Well, Brent, I
just
think
it's
so cool with what you do and you help so many young kids.
like when Jim and I were at that thing.
I mean, so many of these people, they weren't, you know, I give Todd a hard time.
He's like the most Wisconsin person ever German beer drinking kind of, you know, in the
farm boy type thing.
And what you guys have done like that day, we were there.
So many of these people are new to Green Bay.
Like I said, they were from Somalia and Kenya.
And all these places, what you're doing for them to make them feel welcome in this community.
here.
It's an adjustment in our community because most of these students are staying in this community going to school locally and they're going to be our future leaders, our future teachers.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, the easiest way is just to go to our website, collegereadywi.org.
Okay.
They can find out all the information they need right there.
All right.
And
they only pick nine or
So
Brent Ruble, thank you for what you do, my friend.
Give yourself one more quick plug.
College ready.
All right.
Yep.
College ready.
You know, if you're interested in donating, uh, supporting a scholarship, please join us.
You're the man.
We're going to send her a quick break back at us.
Hey, thank you very much.
Get a nice little comment here.
Great friend, Mark Hewson.
Happy birthday to the whole crew.
Today is our two-year anniversary.
You all deserve the accolades.
I see Todd had to come back from vacation just to make sure you got through this day.
That is true, Mark Hewson.
That is true.
Hey, you know what?
I will say this.
I will say this.
Our man, Convoy, you know what we did for him, Todd?
We bought him a free 18 holes of golf.
Did you really?
cart.
With a cart.
Why?
Just for getting a burly.
and coming in.
He is not an early bird.
He's not an early
Eggs and watermelon.
Would you do that?
I mean, if you're that hungry,
eggs and
We're with Leigh Ann
it,
I love
Right.
But he was playing a concert in Jackson Square, and he'd been on here talking about it, but just a, hi, Mayor, downtown.
They're rescheduling the lunchtime jazz in Jackson Square, which was going to...
happen for tomorrow, it's gonna be happening on Tuesday, July 29th from 11 to one.
That's a great place, right here on Monroe, Jackson Square, due to 95% chance of rain tomorrow.
So anyway, please mention this on your radio show.
Thanks for all you do.
So Kevin Vaness, talk of the town.
He's gotta be one of the more talented musicians that I know personally.
Of course, you guys know everybody because you're with Hyde Music and you've been around since the 60s.
The 40s.
Oh, that's the 40s?
1948.
Wow, okay.
Wow.
77 years.
Yes.
Wow.
Well, Todd is the third generation.
They have kids, so yes, fourth generation, technically.
We were invited to attend the symphony at the airport and song.
was on our show and we went out and played and I just thought that was the two hours before was kind of you can look at some airplanes you can do whatever you want there's some games there but Hyde had three or four tables set up just to let kids it was the day of music Saturday and I couldn't believe the number of kids that went and tried instruments and because you see the instruments and you know you might have a favorite but from violins to the sax to everything so that was cool that you guys do that you sure are into the community
We love it.
And it's called an instrument petting zoo, is what we call it.
Introduce
yourself and your guests, just so people know who you guys are.
I mean, you're so familiar for us,
but that's true.
Everybody knows who I am, right?
So my name is Leah Reed.
I am the director of marketing and e-commerce at High Music.
And with me today is Adam Ligre, who is the manager of Band Repair.
So he takes care of all of the repair techs at Hide Music and leads them and they do quite amazing things.
I had
no idea until you told us during the break
how many
instruments get damaged
or whatever.
Just gonna ask you, do you ever get a
busiest time too.
So there's literally thousands in our queue right now to get
Yeah, I mean
sounds very various, but it's by accident
wear and tear
I
What
off?
And it's, I like to make it like the analogy of like an oil change in a car too.
Things just
get
wore out.
You got to get it in for adjustments and to get fixed and things like that.
So bringing it in yearly, your instruments, your trumpet, your clarinet, saxophone, all those things, just to get checked over by a professional is a really good thing to keep it going.
Because last thing I want as a tech, and I'm sure as a music company and any parent out there too, and just as a player, is especially for beginning,
is if they're trying to learn music and become a part of that family as a musician, and they're fighting the instrument, that's the worst thing ever, because they think it's them, and we don't want that.
We want to remove any roadblock on their journey to becoming a musician.
There's a French horn that had a hole in it, and the kid just thought they were, and then the French horn's hard to play anyway.
And then to have a faulty instrument, it's like,
They didn't have the confidence and they gave up and it's like, really, you know what I mean?
So that's really nice.
So you encourage people to bring in their instrument like for an annual checkup like we do for our cars.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
At least once a year.
If you play more, you might need to bring it in more because it's just, again, if you drive your car a thousand miles a day or something, you got to bring it in more.
No, no, absolutely not.
what
is the number one instrument that needs the most repairs?
Oh boy, that's a good question.
It depends on who's the most clumsiest that year, I guess.
Yeah, it really depends.
The gamut.
I've got them all on my bench
It's funny to say that because when we do like our, so hide music, rents out instruments too.
So we provide that service to our community.
And every year it shifts.
So our rental needs shifts where we might have a ton of flute players this year.
So we have to accommodate that.
And then all of a sudden we got a ton of trombone players.
So it's interesting
see that ebb and flow.
Like if they, someone big coming up, someone big or someone come in and they see that.
Because that happens.
That happens in fashion a lot, right?
It's like so-and-so is wearing this or their hairstyle is this and that changes the industry.
What's the
I
Yeah, it's great.
And it keeps the bands diverse too.
anyway, Hey, I'm a percussionist.
there just because I couldn't play
anything.
Okay.
You always say that.
Is that a drum?
When you say percussion, does that mean drums?
Well, yeah.
Drums.
Yeah.
It's because Todd plays
something.
Todd, what's the name of your?
So you
go.
He had it ready.
Hey, Todd, did you even know this?
when we had Shelly in here last week, two weeks when you were on vacation.
was here when Shelly was here.
But there's some no you weren't here for one of the days and I said man if we only had our
are musicians that like we've got one.
They're like, no, you don't think like yeah, we do
You have a hard-boiled
had never heard that term before in my life and he brought that up and then we're like we do have
You're not gonna believe this
Oh, yeah, for sure.
So we got a full team of repair techs.
We've both a band repair department and orchestra and a guitar luthier.
So on the
side is that's where my life is on the band side.
We have 12 other repair techs.
Yeah.
And we have a bunch of different locations and we have techs in them.
So we have a lot of experience to provide the gamut of repairs that come in to our shop.
it out of just a violent?
Well, it depends.
It's
So if you rent with us, we do have an instrument replacement program.
That's only, I think it's $3 a month when you're doing the regular student rentals or beginner rentals.
That will help with that.
And we don't even have to go through your insurance company.
So all of the times
when
people are saying that they have insurance on your instrument, you have to go through the insurance company.
And then there's all of that, right?
So we just have the instrument replacement program that
takes care of any issues.
Three dollars.
So how much would a violin, like a really high, what's the one, stratosphere?
We have one for like, the stratosphere one.
The stratosphere one.
That's like Sotomayor.
The strativarius.
We don't, I don't believe we have that one here.
I
How much would that be though?
I mean, I think it went at auction for like, like a crazy amount of money, but we've had some in our store for like 10 to 12,000.
$12,000 that was a vintage one that was an impeccable condition.
So yeah, yeah Wow, yeah, but usually they're you know, it depends.
Okay, what's the
right?
Okay, so I never played an instrument.
Yeah, I always
want to
be a drum.
I know I know what I went to a little Satan song But what would be wouldn't you guys this is your lives if somebody a young kid?
What would you want them to start playing?
just to get that experience of playing an instrument.
I have my opinion.
Because I think
if they go with something
I say piano.
Me too.
Yeah, piano.
Yeah, piano.
All day.
Because
when you think about it and then
Yeah, I mean, it's a really cool instrument.
And on a repair side, it's a really cool instrument to fix.
And it
looks really cool, too.
So I stream repairs, too, on the Hyde Music YouTube.
Oh, wow.
So
every Thursday.
Good segue.
Oh, thank you.
From 8.30 to 10, I stream.
live repairs what I'm working on the bench and usually my most active is the saxophone and usually I'm taking them completely apart so you can see a saxophone and I think man I'm gonna get this number wrong I'm gonna get raged by my team but I believe there's over 450 individual parts of a saxophone
That's why you don't fix it yourself.
No!
Please don't try to fix
Imagine losing one of those.
You put it back together and the IKEA
Absolutely.
come off.
There's a lot, a lot of hard
Okay, you need to tell us again where and when can we watch this thing.
This is so pretty fascinating.
So
it's over on the Hide Music YouTube, which is youtube.com slash hide music.
You bet.
Nice, I got it right.
You
did
it.
It's 8.30 to 10 a.m.
standard time every Thursday.
That's cool.
And Adam is extremely entertaining.
I will tell you when he's like, yes, and I giggled the whole time.
Like maybe sometimes you can hear me laughing from like upstairs in Green Bay, but he does make me laugh.
He's like to keep somebody's attention for 90 minutes repairing something.
He does it very well and really explains what he's doing.
How do you get
started in this?
How does a person become a aficionado on doing something like this?
There's a couple of different avenues.
There's a couple repair schools out there.
There's
four, I believe right now, but there's also different things that you can do.
Like I do have an apprentice that does join me on the stream, Molly.
We have
minute where she just kind of explains what she's learning and things like that.
So she just decided she wanted to start repair, got in contact with us and she had an affinity for it.
So she joined up and she's been learning under me.
I had no idea this even existed.
Yeah,
it's really interesting.
I mean, I mean, your interview, but it's like,
I didn't know they would break down that much.
Oh, it's true.
Some of its
Yeah.
Like they wear, they wear down.
And like I said, the oil changed.
But also love kids.
I have kids.
But boy, do they find creative ways to fix or break things.
it.
It does bend that far, yeah.
Is there value in
old musical instruments?
There can be, absolutely.
Yeah, sometimes, sometimes not.
You know, and then that's the conversation where it's just, you know, we'll talk about that.
Alright, we'll
get another
segment.
This is cool.
Todd's the
Yeah, I played in Vibrance Lab.
Do you hear it?
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That's the difference
you.
What music did he play?
did Conrad play?
flying the family stone were, even though he played their music.
He said
Right.
his job.
He tried.
one.
gave him a C minus forever.
Leo Reed and...
Adam Legrave from Hyde Music.
This is fun stuff.
First of all, I'm shocked that there are 427 parts in a saxophone that you told me about.
But Leah, talk a little bit about, you know, we've talked so much about, you know, kids getting involved with music.
And you guys, since 1948, as I always said, have brought music to so many families.
It's incredible.
And you still do.
Can you explain that, that mission?
Right.
So that is our main goal is to get instruments into the hands of everybody, starting with kids.
So we really support musical education and teachers in all of our communities.
And we started in 1948.
Duke was the name of...
their grandpa that started it and he was actually in the army band.
Yeah, so it started in the military and then he started with like renting instruments to people, bringing, you know, starting, actually starting music programs.
I just want to
say something.
That is so competitive.
What I've talked to guys like my World War II veterans and everything, that was so competitive to get a part in those military bands.
That was a very prestigious thing.
Yes, and then he came back to Wisconsin and started music programs all over the state.
Like
he
helped them start by getting them instruments and getting it into the hands of kids.
And so that is our legacy as a company is school music.
So we are so supportive of that with our rentals, again, making sure that we have enough text to get our instruments to the place where kids can play them efficiently, fluently, and then there's no problems with them.
And they can just practice and get into it.
it is a truck.
go.
Yeah, we see that a lot.
So especially with like, get a saxophone jet.
Yeah.
They both look right at me.
So New Horizons is a band in Appleton where you can start on an instrument as an adult and they will help you with that.
You play shows and it's an it's an amazing program and we actually partnered with them quite a bit.
So look up their information online.
So yeah, it's a good way to start with band and orchestra or going to Ukejam, something like that.
Just put yourself out there.
And
like we mentioned during the break, I know a lot of guitar for heroes
has
become a huge thing for men and women dealing with post-traumatic stress, where that's a great therapy for them.
Music is a great therapy for everybody.
You don't have to be a professional musician to play an instrument.
You don't have to make it your job.
You don't have to make it your livelihood.
You can just enjoy playing music.
And I think people think of music and, you know, we talked about saxophone trumpet, but I mean, there's some other cool like harmonica.
I mean, that's that's cool instrument and things that you can learn.
They teach it over at ADRC, which is the Aging Disability Resource Center and they have a harmonica class and it's just very cool.
to go to that and listen to them.
And they're very, they're pretty accomplished after six, seven weeks of lessons.
So
I want to play the blues with them.
Wouldn't that be fun?
I would
love to have learned how to play the pedal steel guitar.
Does anybody in Green Bay teach that instrument?
So, I would recommend going to hidemusic.com and looking under lessons in Green Bay.
Okay.
We have a lot of teachers, so it's kind of hard for us to keep up with who does what.
I know we do have guitar teachers.
Several.
Several guitar teachers in Green Bay, so.
But
I may have wrong on that.
Trying to think of steel guitar.
person that I
I said, I'm just a drummer.
Hydemusic.com is a great resource for all musicians in the state of Wisconsin and beyond.
all over.
We have five locations, Stevens Point, Madison, Green Bay, Oshkosh, and Appleton.
Tell me more about
the founder who came back from the war.
Is
that
right?
Yeah.
So Duke Hyde, we do have that in our about us section.
I probably have to update it.
That's my job.
Whoops.
I didn't just tell everybody that on the radio.
Did I?
Um, but no, so it's Duke Hyde.
He was in the military and he came back and brought music to all of Wisconsin.
So it's such an amazing legacy and I'm proud to be a part of this company.
So I've got a, um, actually one of my books.
Um, gentlemen, it's a hundred and four hundred and first airborne on D-Day parachuted into Normandy, the whole thing.
And he was so then he became a music teacher in the area.
And he was so proud of being in the hundred and first year.
I mean, it's like, oh, my God, that's amazing.
You're a parachuter.
He goes, but I'm so proud of being in that band.
He said, we
took so much pride in that.
And competition between the other military branches was incredible.
Music's a great doorway to so many different opportunities for kids and adults.
So, yeah.
But I would say our repair stream, I'm gonna go back to that a little bit.
I wanna watch this.
You should on Thursday mornings between 8 and 10, 8.30 and 10, sorry, on our YouTube channel.
YouTube slash high music
and you know They've
And
they love
I feel like you enjoy your job more than anybody I know.
I love my job.
I love working for Hyde Music.
We're actually hiring in Green Bay.
It's a band and orchestra sales specialist.
So if you play any band, but I think what
Yeah.
My back, my back, my back.
Wow.
Anyway, noted.
Let me get the hell out of
awesome.
to spend a fortune.
Thank you guys.
Adam LeGrave, Hyde Music.
You guys are so much fun just to have on our show.
We really appreciate
it.
We'll see you next week.
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Hey, thank you very much.
I'm sorry you're saying that.
I said the clock's back
up.
Yeah, Todd.
OK.
Thank you for doing that.
Yeah, I told Todd.
I said, this is like such a typical radio TV type thing where you start yelling at your engineers.
he comes in and he does like literally the flick of a finger.
And it's
mean it.
So thank you, Todd.
Okay, thank you, Todd.
You're welcome.
It's a great time to
Todd
we wouldn't know what time it was.
We didn't know what day it was with him.
So anyway, this is one of our favorite times of the week when we have the great folks from the headlines of the press times, Tori Wittenbrock.
Tori, introduce yourself and your very special guest, please.
Yes, hello, hello.
I'm the sports editor at the press time, so.
And
you do a fantastic job.
Thank you, thank you.
And then we have Hailey here today with
the Packers fan engagement?
Hi Haley!
Hi guys.
How's everyone?
We are
good.
We would be better if we had your job.
Your job sounds a lot cooler than ours.
We could
trade for a couple of days if you'd like.
Yeah.
So I'm the fan engagement manager for the Green Bay Packers.
So I fall within our brand and marketing department.
I oversee really three main areas.
Packers everywhere, which is the events that you're talking about.
We do away game pep rallies.
We do sweepstakes.
Contest.
We have a website dedicated to Packers bars around the world.
Um, and then I oversee Packers perks, which is our loyalty platform.
And then the junior power pack, which is the Green Bay Packers official kids club.
I just have to say one thing.
One of the biggest shocks I had was walking through Prague in the Czech Republic.
And there's a Packer bar.
Yeah, we love to hear that.
Oh yeah.
They're everywhere.
They are in Prague.
Yes.
crazy.
It's like, you
of the
For sure.
Yeah, I was, it's funny.
Actually, I was at a bachelorette party this weekend and one of the women there had to run up to me and show me a photo because her son is on his honeymoon.
And they went to a Packers bar and like the Virgin Islands
something.
So she was so that's the first thing that she said to me was, I got to show you this photo.
So like we, I love to hear that.
It never gets old to me.
Um, but it's Packers fans are special.
That's for sure.
Well, we've got Tori here from south central LA.
Did you guys have that in the?
in Los Angeles?
Packers?
Oh, yeah.
Really?
My boyfriend in high school, his brother had a tattoo of the Packers logo on his leg.
In Los Angeles.
Wow.
That was before I even knew I was coming here.
Yeah.
Do you
Yeah, no, great question.
So what we do, you can submit a form to become an official Packers Everywhere bar, and we do a little vetting.
We make sure that it's kind of on brand, that they are an actual package bar.
Would somebody really try to
Some people will put in like their neighbor's house, who's like a Bears fan.
Oh, that's hilarious.
And we do our research.
We don't want to send anyone to anybody's homes or anything like that.
What we do though is send an official Packers Everywhere certificate and a flag.
We try to
stay in communication with the bars too as much as we can if they ever need to make an edit on our website or anything like that.
We're
happy to do that.
But otherwise, I think it would be great that we, you know, go and visit all of these bars, but I'm not quite sure that we can hit thousands of them.
John, your liver wouldn't handle
it.
Yeah, and I'm pregnant right now, so maybe like in a couple, a couple years.
Are you, are
you, is there anything close?
to anyone else.
I know Yankees or something.
Who would be like second most worldwide popular?
Well, I guess Dallas has to have a lot.
Well, nobody itself.
We actually do a lot of research on what other teams in the league are doing to see it's your.
very competitive on the field.
But on the front office side, we work together with a lot of the other teams in the
to help each other out.
I just had a call yesterday.
My last meeting was a call with the Buffalo Bills because they're looking to do something similar with away game pep rallies.
So other platforms reach out or other organizations are often reaching out to us about our bar network and what we do.
But there are other teams that
do something similar.
I would like to think, though, that we really set the bar and everyone's trying to get outside.
Well, I can't
imagine
a
Dallas Cowboy Bar in Green Bay.
Right, Tori.
I mean, you've covered this area well enough.
That's true.
You
know what I mean?
Is that crazy?
Yeah.
That wouldn't work.
But yet in Los Angeles, where you're from, there would be a Packer Bar.
Oh, for sure.
Multiple.
Yeah.
Wow.
That's cool.
I
or what's his title?
Commissioner?
Commissioner.
That wants to elevate the industry.
I mean, worldwide, right?
I mean, I don't think it's any secret.
Do you work with other front basketball, baseball?
Cause you guys are all in the kind of the same industry, but maybe not the same lane.
Yeah, not too often.
I did.
Actually, they'll have a call with.
one of the schools in the SEC this year just talking about our kids club this year because they
questions on that.
But I wouldn't say it's too often.
However, we do, we research, we're always trying to learn.
We're never ones.
I'll speak for myself.
I'm never one to see something that another team is doing.
be like, Oh, no, we're not going to do something like that.
If they're doing something cool, I have no problem reaching out to be like, Hey, how are you doing this?
Um, how can we do something similar?
Um, it's a competitive landscape.
But like I said, like off the field, we're all about helping each other and growing our organizations and our platforms and giving fans the best experience.
I know it's
funny when Christian yesterday, Jim, your Christian Collins was after, after you left and I said, well, he's going to Northern Iowa to play football.
And well, you know all about
him.
Um,
But I said where would you like if you could have picked a school he said somewhere in the SEC just for the Atmosphere and I talked about this story.
It's like I'm gonna tell you and I told him this on the area yesterday if I ever retire Okay, I'm way too young now, but if I ever retire I'm gonna spend one year of going to a different college football game Every week I'm gonna drive.
I'm gonna start I want to start at West Point and then go down the route and go to Alabama.
I just think there's something about the college
Atmosphere that's so much better than the NFL atmosphere outside of Green Bay and and that's what I'm saying like New England
just hardcore rough kind of you know what I mean?
Yes, sorry.
It's people don't they have to come here to a game
to appreciate the almost college football type of
atmosphere.
I can totally speak to that.
I mean, my sister goes to University of Tennessee and I grew up a huge... That's where
he said that he wanted to go to Tennessee.
Yeah.
That's exactly where he wanted to go.
I grew up a huge college football fan.
So there's just something, and like, I think a lot of it's changed now with NIL and all this stuff that's going on with paying players, essentially, but there's just something about college football and the fan experience.
And I really think that the only NFL team that can rival that is the...
Totally
to marketing is
Yeah,
Yeah, I think our organization is extremely special and our our leadership does a wonderful job where we are looking to plan events that will Be well received by our fans.
So a couple weeks ago unrelated to the pep rallies, but a couple weeks ago
We hosted our Junior Power Pat Kids Clinic.
We have over 1,200 kids attend that event, and we had kids from 28 different states to spend an hour and a half inside the downtown center.
I think it just, we're building the next generation of fans.
Typically if you're a Packers fan, if your grandparents were a fan, then their kids are a fan, then the grandkids are a fan, and we wanna connect with kids to
and build up their fandom, but it's through events that we're able to connect with them.
Is that at Harvard?
Hey, you want to know?
Can I just say one thing?
The only time I've ever seen tears in his eyes was the day he dropped his Harvard coffee mug and broke it.
It's broke too.
It broke.
I
you not give up?
You don't drop it.
You're crying.
But I just want to say what I want to pick up on what Haley was saying.
It's really important that you are starting another generation.
Back then, they said, if you don't have millennials in your audience, you better take a good look at what you're doing.
Again, 10 years ago, now it's a younger group, but I got the NFL just a lot of credit, because there's a lot of organizations that haven't done that, and they're hurting right now, and they may not make it.
But to get these youth kids, and then, of course, their parents are gonna be with them, and especially if you've got generational stuff, and my dad was a big Packer fan, so of course, we kind of grew up with that, but I just give you a lot of credit for looking
20 years down the road.
Yeah, thank you.
No, our kids program is exceptional.
That's one that too, like a lot of teams in the NFL will contact us about because of how high our numbers are compared to theirs and what we're doing to continue to grow the platform.
And every year our numbers are getting bigger and we're trying to do more every year too.
We're doing new contests and sweepstakes.
We do a junior reporter contest every year.
Um, we will fly in the winner and he'll get to do interviews at training camp and he got to do interviews at our clinic with players.
So it's just, it's, um, very unique experiences that essentially you cannot buy.
Give us your background, Hailey.
Um, my background.
So I grew up, um,
Um, I grew up about 20 minutes north of Green Bay and little Swamco.
Um,
Bayport.
I did not, I went to O'Connell Falls, so even further north.
Zero falls.
Zero falls.
Go Panthers.
That is correct.
Did you have El Peruco for a teacher?
No.
Did you know El?
No.
Okay, he's from my hometown,
but go ahead.
She's in her 20s.
stop embarrassing me.
I'm actually in my 30s, but thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
so anyway.
No, but I grew up, um, I grew up playing sports and my parents coached, um, the sports that I
was a better soccer player.
You were Tori.
Oh, well, her for
didn't play soccer.
So even if I did you, um, I'm not pretending I was a great athlete.
I tried really hard.
Um, but I love sports and in high school, my parents were like, it's time to get a job.
And I was, I wanted to work somewhere fun.
So, um, I,
Applied to work at the Packers pro shop and that was the first job.
I got in high school and then throughout college.
I continued working there I came home for home game weekends, and I love the game day
UW Oshkosh,
Osh Vegas Yeah, I loved it there got a degree in journalism and the public Relations and then in college I got to offer
for an internship with the Packers that grew into a full-time job role and then it grew into the management role that I'm currently in.
So.
Yeah, I've grown up there.
It's probably like the, I graduated high school there.
I graduated college there.
I got married last year and half of the people at my wedding were Packers employees.
So that was funny.
like
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Haley Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator.
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Hayley Becker, Packer fan, engagement coordinator.
As soon as you quit your job, I want your job.
And Tori Wittenbrock, sports editor for the Press Times, who does a fantastic job covering local sports.
I got to say to her, boy, our baseball teams and our track teams locally had a heck of a spring.
Once you're a green, you did a great job of covering them.
Thank you.
Yeah.
High school sports are, I love that.
That's, I mean, the heart and soul of the paper.
I try to cover a little bit of everything, but, um, and it's tough right now with it just being.
rockers in glory pretty much, which I love covering them, but high school sports is definitely the best.
But how is it fun watching
Seymour and everybody
that's
here in the state and the great track kids from Depeer?
It's just incredible.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, it's, it's kind of hard when some of them go off in a way to college.
Cause I mean, I, I'm not going to go see them, but, um, I do keep in contact with some of them and it's nice to follow, um, follow along with their careers and stuff, especially through like social media and stuff, like seeing Gracie Gracie Grash come back to drink.
I was just, I was
going to just jump in on that.
I think the UW Green Bay women's program.
on the verge of something huge
Would you agree?
I would completely agree.
And it's so cool to see, too, because I saw it from beginning to now, like, you know, being there and playing there from 2020 to now, I just, it's really exciting to see what they've been able to build.
And what a
great hire.
And usually, yeah, usually when you lose a coach like Kevin Borseth, it's like, okay, that this program is going to go one of two ways.
More often than not, there's a dip before they come up.
And I think Kayla's going to
ask it before Jill does.
The man.
I said don't
tell us
I mean it's it's been a rough patch no doubt, but I I Think that hearing those kids I mean when you're that age and you're at that level and you're exposed to that I think a lot of times that you know the kids can get kind of cocky and be like I'm transferring I'm doing this but I think that a lot of those kids on that team have Remained humble obviously,
okay, sorry.
I was telling Jim
The University of Michigan, I'm from Michigan originally, they just signed a quarterback.
This is his fifth college.
His fifth college.
What's going on with that sport?
Yeah, I mean, I think every sport right now, I think the transfer portal is just wreaking havoc on the NCAA.
I mean, it's just ruining it for coaches, for other players.
There's
for.
I mean, like we were just talking about the NFL, for example, is elite of the elite.
Like if you make it to the NFL, great.
There's a very, there's an even lower chance you're going to stay in the NFL beyond two years.
So, I mean, I think that a lot of these kids are now, especially with NIL too, are losing sight of that and they're just worried about the money and.
playing for the biggest school that they can and who's going to offer them the best.
And they're not focused anymore on what school is right for me, what school offers the classes that I need, what school is going to give me the degree, the experience that I
want.
OK, you're a division one scholarship athlete,
which
is elite of the elite.
What made you choose Green Bay?
I had a couple of different offers at the time.
And I mean, even in the recruiting process now, a lot of stuff has changed.
But back when I was in high school, it was kind of like.
Nothing, nothing, nothing.
I hadn't had any offers from any schools.
And then it was spring of my junior year in high school and I had, I was talking to like three different coaches at the same time
to go out for school visits.
So I had one lined up in the future and then I had two the same weekend and it was like one in North Carolina and I went directly from there to Green Bay to visit the school.
And there's kind of, once a coach makes you an official offer, there's a clock.
Like you have to decide within two weeks if you're able to say yes or no.
I told
Christian yesterday, I said, you know,
Not that I'm the guru of this, but almost every minute of your life.
Because he's going there in 10 days, he said.
every minute of your life is going to be kind of controlled.
Isn't that the
truth?
100%.
So when I, when I was choosing, I was kind of like, okay, you have to take into consideration the school, the atmosphere, the classes that they offer, the soccer program, like what kind of facilities, what's your standard, what are you going to, you know what I mean?
So I mean, there's a lot to take into consideration, but that was the number one thing for me was like, I want to pick somewhere where I know I'm going to be happy outside of the soccer, because everything is going to be soccer, but I'm
I mean, you're going to be living here for potentially four years.
But
I think he's a very trusting soul.
And I think that they trust him.
And I'm really happy that he is
I just think he's gonna do fine and he's gonna be fine as a person.
Yeah, I sometimes I look at these athletes that are changing Doing this and not not respecting the coach and leaving right away Were they like that before you know, I just think some people in this community here I can only speak for this community, but they
grew up in a I hate to say covered sports on my life sometimes parents are the biggest
Haley is one of the most brilliant employees of the Green Bay Packers organization
says I think it's everybody Mark Houston
Or is it Mark Murphy?
Or Mark Murphy?
Hey, well, one of the two.
Whatever.
You're great.
You're great.
It's Mark.
He was in, um, he's, I worked with him for a number of years for our kids clinic.
Yeah.
Okay.
No, he's disappointed me time after time with
my
ailments.
He has not cured my hip.
He has not cured my back problem.
It's because he's not a psychiatrist.
He has not cured my gout.
He's got to get it together.
He's got to get it
together.
This is so great having you guys both.
Can you guys stick around?
Yeah.
Okay.
This is really fun.
Tory Wintonbrock, phenomenal sports editor for the press times.
Healy Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator, back right after this.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, welcome back.
Mino the Mayor here and a good looking Wednesday morning, Tori Wittenbrock.
Sports editor with the press times and Haley Becker Green Bay Packer fan engagement coordinator.
I gotta be honest with you Tori And like we had Christian here yesterday.
I didn't know he wasn't on scholarship Jim by the way But you're a scholarship athlete people have no idea how hard it is to be a scholarship athlete
Yes, it really is and I mean it's scarcer and scarcer because the more competitive it gets
the more money they're going to want to offer players so then it's like for the ones that are kind of on the bubble it's like okay you might get something you might not because they're going to use it for as much as for your
folks and Jim and I always talk about how much money we've shelled out for our kids in colleges
and whatever
whatever for your folks to get that letter saying hey your daughter we're going to pretty much pay her to come and play sports for us in Green Bay
yeah
that'd be quite the moment
it is it's awesome and that's why i mean and you know what you bring that you bring
that
enthusiasm to your writing
and I really mean that thank you thank you yeah I mean I played college sports so I feel like I can speak on this but I personally am against everything going on with NIL right now and paying players because to me I was just honored to have scholarship money and
they're gonna pay for my college degree to have me come play for them like that
in and of itself was I was like thrilled with.
So it's like for these kids to be like, I want more money.
I deserve to get paid.
And it's like they are paying, you know, getting your degree, giving you an opportunity to play for their school and represent their school and get a degree possibly for free is, I mean, I think that's-
You know how Jim made his pocket money when he was in college?
He put a sign in his door, do you want to get high on Saturday?
True or false?
True.
But
Well, it was for skydiving.
Is it?
Yeah.
Oh, that's where they're having the free fall.
That's right.
And you have to get like, I think it was 18 or 20 people to get a good rate.
If you went with like four of your friends, it was like, I don't know.
back then, this is forever ago, but it was like half the price if you get 20 people.
So I just put a, in St.
Norbert, there's a line to get into the cafeteria, and you could put up signs about different events.
I was like, you want to get high, call room 223, which is the room I lived in, and a bunch of people called.
And most of them thought, you know, to get high, but then when I talked to them,
I turned them around and they came.
We had our grid, our 20 people in no time.
So anyway, um, yes, that's how
I didn't make money on that.
We had John Kramer here from the press times.
He'd leave, but, uh, I noticed I never, I've known John for ever.
I was in Afghanistan with him, but I didn't know he had his wings.
He five times.
So he got his thing, but he said his eyes were closed every time.
That was a good time.
And yeah, Haley, this is so great having you here and what you do for the Packers.
I just, I mean, you know, you talk about a small town girl doing good type thing, coming from old County Falls and having the job you have for the Packers.
That's really cool.
But Haley, I'm
Yeah, so I run our junior power pack, our official kids club, our Packers Everywhere platform, and then Packers Perks, which is our loyalty platform.
And then some different one-off things that the NFL will send our way.
So for example, every year I go to the NFL Draft and manage our inner circle.
So that's the fans that are sitting by.
right by the stage.
This year for the NFL Draft, I was in charge of our Packers Everywhere activation, which was the dive bar, the Packers Everywhere draft house.
So there's a lot of different things that pan engagement
People
I did.
The
Yeah,
Yes.
Okay.
That's
Yeah.
So like, um, I'm in charge of my myself and my coworker Hannah every year when the draft is not in Green Bay.
Um, we are in charge of getting Packers fans to that inner circle.
All right.
Um, it changes every year this year.
I think there's like 14,
So it's very dependent on who we're bringing in.
Our ticket office gets some of the ticket allotment, and they give them away.
And then myself and Hannah work with fans that might be in the city that we're traveling to, fans that are influencers and have a high following on social.
But we try to mix it up.
because they are
right?
Yeah,
not the crazy fans, but they're the, the ice guy, you know what, he's a friend of ours, but they go to that and then you ask to get the picture taken and everyone, they can't wait to get their picture taken with you.
So I just thought that was a really cool environment.
I'd never been up there.
That was, I didn't know that you did that.
That's like a really cool thing.
Yeah.
And those tickets are cool because it's, it's not something that you can purchase.
We, we try to mix it up how, how we're giving those away.
And like this year we had,
Dan and Lauren, they are Packers fans from the UK, and they traveled to the NFL Draft this year, and Dan was our international fan of the year last year.
But just incredible people, and we've now essentially formed a friendship with them.
We do that with a lot of fans.
We know they're actually expecting a baby.
They have a huge following on social media.
I don't
know.
Dan is really I have heard him my
brother named his two sons Bart and Vince that That
think we think anyway.
Yes.
That's
All right, so then I felt drafting I guess they want thing though.
You know what else is funny about names I can tell you okay high school football so many times you see these same names like of a TV show remember Sex in the City.
Yeah,
remember Aiden.
Yes
Every high school football team has an Aiden.
They need a kid after Aiden.
And
I swear that is true.
Women have a certain allegiance to certain guys.
Yeah, for sure.
Yes.
little bit more.
Yeah.
So that's our Kids Club.
It's a $25 annual membership that we do.
The biggest thing that people will say to us is, well, we don't live in the state.
Most of our members don't.
We do so many mailings.
Kids love getting mail.
It's fun to get mail until you're an adult.
mail becomes bills.
But kids love getting mail.
So we mail a membership kit, a back to school kit, a birthday card, a holiday card.
They get, when they do come to Green Bay, they get free admission to the Hall of Fame, a discount at the pro shop.
Yeah, we do an essay contest every year where they can win game tickets.
We do a holiday contest where we have parents write in and tell us what their child's wish list is.
And we fulfill that and send those gifts.
to the parents for a select amount.
See, now
Yeah.
I mean,
it's just, that's- Tori, jump in on this.
You being from LA, where is this not?
I mean, what do you see when you're here?
You must just say to yourself, this is real.
Cause we, and please don't take this the wrong way here, but we just expect that now.
You
know what I mean?
Maybe
we take it for granted.
That's
just the
way everybody but it's not is it?
Oh, yeah, totally.
It is it's almost cultish up here I mean you're in Southern California and you'd like see a Rams Jersey and you're like, okay, whatever because you also just saw a bunch of other jerseys and you're like it's nothing because there's people from all over there that have all different allegiances and it's like Okay, just because you're in LA you could still be an hour and a half away from the stadium, right?
So it's like there's really no like strong
passion to be a like sports fan in that area.
Whereas here it's like everyone is a die hard fan because it's like you grew up with that.
Right.
and took a
But what I think is good about the Green Bay School District is from Packard Day on Fridays, you know, before the game, it was just
NFL day.
And these kids that came in wearing their lion's jersey, I'm like, that's, I say to those kids that that's awesome.
You're doing that because their loyalty is just as deep.
It's just not here.
organization.
Okay, I will say one thing though.
There were, I mean, they were such dark days here in the 80s.
That's true.
That a lot of kids, you know, and then that's when the ESPNs of the world became bigger.
And there were like a lot of Denver Bronco fans that, remember that Jim?
You would have all these other jerseys.
It wasn't ours.
I hate we just sucked.
I mean, it was so bad.
It wasn't cool to be a packer fan.
Remember?
for
No, but these kids it wasn't cool to be a Packer fan versus a Dallas Cowboy fan
I think kids too fall in love with players.
Yes, right now there I have a nine-year-old nephew and every year his gift for his birthday from his godmother me is game tickets
So he's grown up going to Packers games and thinking that, yeah, yeah, for sure.
He's grown up thinking that's normal.
And last year, he asked me to buy him, or two years ago, he asked me to buy him a Devontae Adams jersey that
no longer green and gold.
And I was like, maybe draw the line.
He fell in love with him as a Packers player.
And he's still 100% committed.
He's a huge Packers fan.
My dad and brother would never let, you're not.
allowed to cheer for another team, but you do as a child too.
You become fans of players and that's why it's
important to have our players in the community.
And I won't, I won't speak on this because I'm not the expert, but our community outreach department led by Kathy Dwarak, they do such an incredible job getting involved in the community and all of the different events too that I'm not planning.
There are so many different.
people in our organization that plan events out in the community.
But the amount of schools that Kathy and her team are going to and the Play 60 program and all of that.
And
even that bus trip you guys do around the
state.
Yeah, the tailgate tour, that's done by Kathy's team as well.
They do an incredible job, but it's also, you know, you're getting, these young kids are getting to meet Packers players or alumni and see their personalities and fall in love with them.
And that really helps you become a fan.
And we have
players at our annual kids clinic too that we bring in.
It's the opportunity for kids to be able to interact with an NFL player.
The
cool thing about that is like that is something that's unique to Green Bay
too.
It's kind of like a coming of age thing to pick like who's gonna be your player and get their jersey and the odds that these kids have have of actually meeting that player are significantly greater than any other city where it's like here you have a good chance that one day you'll be able to take a picture with that player and meet that player that you grew up loving.
I've heard
how
Yeah, I think anytime to when you have young players coming into the league and they're eager to be involved with the community, I think there's nothing better for an organization and for the community.
So we love that and any opportunity that we have to be able to work with our players and work with the community and get kids, you know,
able to meet, meet players is great.
At our clinic this year, we had two young boys walked in and I said to my coworker, I'm like, they look so familiar.
And she's like, they're here every year for training camp.
I recognize them from Dream Drive.
So it's just, our fan base is just
incredible.
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Hey, welcome
back.
Michael Amir here with Tori Wittenbrock, headlines of the press time sports editor and Hayley Becker, Green Bay Packer.
Then engagement coordinator Jim was just asking you during the break there.
What's coming up next for you guys?
We are currently planning our 2025 regular season pep rally.
So we haven't announced those cities yet.
We will announce probably in mid-July.
So we're working on all the logistics for those events.
Yeah, so all the information will be on Packers.com and then PackersEverywhere.com as well.
You can also follow the Packers Everywhere social channels on Instagram, Facebook, and X. Okay.
But we release all the information on Packers.com too.
Yep.
Yeah.
Oh, for sure.
Because you take it over.
Hey,
Max McGee's daughter still run a Packer bar in Arizona?
Do you
know about that?
I don't know.
No, I'll look into that for you.
I'll get back to you.
I
think there's quite a few Packer bars out there.
Right, but I know his daughter read one.
Oh, she did?
OK.
Yeah.
And Black Creek or Cave Creek are
one of those
places.
Yeah, I'm not sure.
But yeah, so the bars are extremely happy to have us.
I bet.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're...
I know my favorite
Max McGee story.
Oh, yeah, hit me with it.
Remember the bar.
I can't think.
My mind's going.
It used to be a pack of our years and years ago.
OK, so Max McGee was in there one night.
And
No.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
We're
right.
So I got it.
OK.
So Max McGee was sitting there one night.
OK.
And this big biker guy was just doing shot after shot.
And Max says, hey, are you doing OK there, buddy?
He goes, no, I'm going to kill somebody tonight.
He's like, what?
He's like, I'm going to kill guys.
My name is Max McGee.
He hooked up with my girlfriend.
Yada, yada.
I'm going to kill him.
I heard he comes in here every night.
So Max McGee is sitting there.
OK.
Paul Horney walks through the door.
He goes, hey, Max, this guy wants to talk
got to go.
Max McGee story.
But you know what?
Covering the Packers.
And you do this now.
There's a lot of young.
Professional people that would give anything for your job covering the Green Bay Packers wouldn't
you agree?
Oh, yeah
For sure.
And that's why I feel especially grateful because it's like this wasn't even something that I was planning on.
It just kind of happened.
So I mean, I know that there's people that would like kill for my
to be on the sidelines shooting photos.
And I mean, sports photography even is just such an up and coming thing.
And that's something that was like secondary when I came in and had to learn that because I was a writer.
I was
editing and publishing.
And then this is just something that happened.
And I was like, it's I mean, even better because I get to combine my passion for.
with like something that I have a talent and a passion for in my work life.
some college
high school, some college.
But they wanted to get into
and
You got to start somewhere.
And it's
anybody.
It's like being an influencer where it's like, there's, everyone wants to do it.
Everyone wants to be it because it's like, there's a, there's just a strong demand for it because like you said, everybody grew up.
as kids being big fans and like having a passion for it.
So it's like, Hey, if I can do this for work, that's like everybody's dream job.
And I have a family friend that just got into some sports program at USC and he's like, Hey, can I come shadow you or can I like do an internship with you or something?
And I'm like, dude, we grew up together.
What are you talking about?
But it's like, it's so competitive, especially in other areas that that's what another thing that's special about Green Bay is you have the opportunity to get in and do that.
Whereas you're not
That's not going to happen.
I always
want to work in Green Bay.
I started in Twin Falls, Idaho, two center, Arizona, Flint, Michigan, and then finally Green Bay.
Okay.
And I'll never forget sitting in a news director's office and he had a stack and this, I'm this old school of time.
Remember a resume tapes where he had a stack of resume tapes had to be 50, 70.
I don't, he goes, I got to be honest with you.
He goes, John, he said, I'll look at your tape.
But every one of those tapes is a sportscaster in the country that wants to come to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
And there is something special about being in Green Bay, Wisconsin, covering sports, isn't
there?
Oh, yeah.
And I mean, it's just it's super cool to be here and be like be able to be on the field and involved with the Packers as much as I am.
Whereas, like I said, you'd never get the chance to do that in LA because it's so competitive.
Haley, next time you come out, you bring some swag.
We need some free stuff.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Are they like doing discounts on the draft?
Because those hoodies were expensive.
They're like a hundred
blocks.
I know, I know.
People contacted me from the U.P.
where I'm from
say, hey, could you get
me?
a hoodie and I checked, I was like, no, I can't.
Or could we just call you godmother?
Yeah, sure.
Yeah.
Think about what's in it for us.
Okay.
I can't believe I came empty handed.
I'm embarrassed.
I
not.
And what that does for young, like my three granddaughters just see somebody like both of you
So this is great.
You guys are good examples for the community and you give a lot to Green Bay.
And what I like about you, both of you, is that you're kind of planting seeds, too, because we, you know, we worry, some of us worry about the future and, you know, you're taking care of it.
So I just appreciate what you're
doing.
You're putting a lot of pressure on us.
We do that.
great.
You guys have been fantastic.
Tori, we love having you come in.
Sports editor from the press times.
You're awesome.
Hailey Becker, Green Bay Packer, fan engagement coordinator.
Thank you so much for both coming in.
This has really been a joy and a pleasure having you guys in here.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
You bet.
Back in tomorrow morning.
See ya.
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