Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Mino
and Jim Schmidt.
Good morning.
Happy beautiful Thursday to you.
62.
And windy.
And
what?
Last night.
Band concert, everybody's wearing jackets, hats.
It's like, what is this, March?
And then New York.
But the concert was great.
104 in New York yesterday.
I know, yeah.
Yeah, I
talked to my kids, yeah.
And then there's supposed to be, well, we're gonna have Brittany on Monday, right Todd?
Yeah.
Have you seen that potential thing?
It's coming up from like, Illinois, that would go right through central Wisconsin.
No, that's next week.
Yeah.
That's good.
No, like tornadoes.
Oh, I didn't see that.
Heavy
thunderstorms.
I thought we were into the
low 80s.
But what?
I will say this once again.
We, we're not.
Oh, we're in that bubble.
We've been a bubble.
I love it.
This year, but that part of the state just seems to be getting pummeled.
Right.
We gotta do the, we gotta start marketing the Wisconsin bubble.
I know.
That's what it is, the Lake Michigan bubble.
Right.
I think there's something to it.
I mean, gotta put up like, you know, I will say this.
Go daddy and
let's buy
it right now.
Let's buy it this morning.
Did you see oh my god with tragic accident?
Did you see the owner of door dash and his parents?
Boat capped up capsized in Lake Tahoe.
Yeah started up door dash the whole thing and you know
sometimes people on
there Yeah, I mean sometimes you just think when you a multi-millionaire you have no problems your boat's gonna be phenomenal You're gonna have a captain.
That's right, and it's just like wow.
Yeah
Trucker Thursday to you.
Thank you.
Vicky Vicky's all hours.
He's all
the truckers.
Yeah, the Wisconsin bubble dot-com is still available Todd you jump on this
looking at it those dot-coms and that's good what it's gonna be if you buy it they could be like like $7 for this year and then like 20 bucks for the next two years it that's so inexpensive to buy that stuff like You're like that Pope de Green Bay.
I mean how long have I owned that and the just that's still there.
Yeah, and then cuz he's coming
I really he's I talked to a really pretty good friend of mine The pope is gonna come to Green Bay.
No, okay, just so we try to get the pope here
In
your lifetime, let me rephrase that Todd in
your
lifetime I was out he's pope for life.
He's got connections with the Norbertine order
Okay, he does right with brownie.
I guess I don't know.
He really does.
Okay.
Obviously a Chicago guy the shrine we are the only Shrine certified shrine in in the state of in the United States
right
here in champion.
Okay We tried to get the The last pope to come here did a pretty big campaign didn't happen But this guy because of his connections if he's going to see his brother, you know, it's like come on
It's
I agree.
I
mean, it's not like just come here.
But and then, you know, I mean, the the the the Packers are if you not that they're a religion, some people they are.
But if they were religion, what would you label them as?
If the Packer, would you say they were Catholic, like in terms of Lombardi?
And so you have mass.
I got it.
OK.
But no, I'm
not
the
whole
thing.
OK.
Got it.
Got it.
So you have
mass at.
Lambo field.
Okay, you know take him out there have some event.
I think a day here.
I Yeah, that would put that draft thing.
We just did that would be
big It would be very very big talk about getting some revenue outside and the best part he's got the t-shirt commission
I You know and it's not gonna happen this year, but I did talk to someone I want to tell you who he is, but he's pretty well connected goes
That will happen in your lifetime.
Wow.
So, and I, I don't know how much, I'm on the clock, I know that, but I would say, I don't know, four, five, six, seven
years.
So should we start already working on our game plan to make money on it?
No, no, yeah, we can start making money.
No, no, you guys remember?
I got you per village truck.
Right.
There you go.
All that stuff we've been talking about, it's all going to come
together.
I got it right here.
It's all pasties with the pope.
I love it.
I love
it.
This is going to work.
All right.
But that will bring people in and we can that's
Well, it's going to be, you know, a one and a half day event or something like that.
We're going to stretch that thing out.
I mean, we're going to sell the city.
We've never sold it before.
Anybody have any suggestions for us?
Please let us know as
well.
It's going to be great.
We're
going to line the streets when he comes down and 57.
So you, okay.
So you,
but I got, I would, we're not doing this until we get the green light from the Bishop because man, I got Chris Ryan and I got hauled in his office big time.
So, and I.
I just thought it
was
bad.
I
have
to be a fly in the hole.
I know, right?
I know.
I agree.
Wow.
Chris Rand goes in and has genuine flags.
Is your excellence?
Yeah, I know.
That was not my favorite meeting in 16 years.
So,
okay, what other one, because I'll tell you what, I used to think that was a joke when people would do that, but John Calipari, I think it is the basketball coach, got the trademark for three Pete.
You know, when you win three.
Oh,
yeah.
And
he got I think he's made he's given it all to charity or he says he has
of course.
I would too.
Yeah me too But where does that begin at home?
Um, but yeah, that's legit sometimes with those phrases and that
Yeah, just read that text that came in the Saints.
Okay.
All right read Nancy's text
Better get the request in to close off the street now.
You're right Nancy.
That's gonna be although
that's get County I gotta get that
gonna
get Troy on my side on this one He'll he he'll be on board
the other one was look Schmidt the most Catholic team in the NFL is the Saints.
I mean the Saints
But true to
I just I don't know that could be remember we had Billy Graham here his kid Yep at Lake Park.
No, that was awesome.
Okay
I mean, that was... Okay, can I just say something?
I'll bring some pictures.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no,
He talked our language.
He was in over our head.
That's what I liked about him.
I consulted how many presidents.
I know, but when you're a little kid, you want to watch Gunsmoke.
Oh,
well, Gunsmoke, Batman.
But you're right.
But when he had that rally come here, and they know what they're doing, but it was at Light Park.
And I'm going to show you a picture of that.
because get it to break.
It was,
it was good.
But I think if we do this, cause they had, you remember the Pope came to Philly, big, big deal there.
So of course he'd been to St.
Louis and a couple other played Denver and they filled up the stadiums.
So
we'll do that here.
So that'd be a, that's going to be fun.
I mean, we're going to head the committee, but
first,
but no, but first I'm not, I'm not getting in, I'm not getting in front of this one again.
I got in trouble last time.
So I'm going to do this, this protocol.
What's his name?
Yeah, it's his name.
Well, no, the pope's name.
Um, it's front.
It's first name Leo.
Leo.
Okay.
Um, but no, no, no, no, the annuncio is not a name.
It's a title.
So in
my, I think I got uncle denuncio.
Okay.
I can show you that family tree thing.
His name is annuncio.
Denuncio.
Okay.
I didn't say that.
It starts in E. Anyway, let me finish this.
So the, the protocol is, and this is why I got,
no, no, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
It's my uncle, my uncle Nacho.
Ignacio.
Ignacio.
Ignacio.
Really?
Yes.
Well, the annuncio is a title, okay?
But Ignacio means something too, in religion-wise.
Okay, let me finish.
So the protocol, right?
There's a bishop, cardinal, you know, there's a... I mean, obviously, the Catholic Church is kind of top-down, right?
A little bit.
Just a
little bit.
I mean, it's not like we vote on who our priest is going to be, right?
I mean, the congregation, you get a sign.
Everything's a sign from top
down.
Anyway, so this is my understanding.
And I look, there's a jazillion people out there, smarter than I am about this, but it's my understanding.
So the bishop's appointed by the pope, right?
He called the bishop.
He was in Wyoming.
He goes, hey, you're going to Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Oh, okay, great.
Yeah, thank you.
So you start with him and I like to do this he contacts the annuncio who is a Title it's a guy in DC who kind of takes care of the oh somebody's helping
me with what me Ignacio
oh
Spanish name means fiery or ardent.
It's my understanding that this guy takes care of the United States Popes like he'd be his chief of staff for the United States the annuncio So it's got to go to him and then he's the one who goes into contacts the Pope not Jim Schmitt
Let me tell you something.
The Pope will give you five minutes.
I would take it.
There's a newspaper on
this desk.
Under the business
sanctions.
When you leave, he's going to pick up the newspaper to read it.
If there's an envelope underneath, you get your wish.
If not.
Yeah.
I think in Green Bay, we could get a pretty big envelope.
I just think people, I just, just the notoriety, you still go to those places and.
You walk into some of these cathedrals and there's a huge plaque that Pope John Paul was here in whatever, you know, it's, it's bigger than the president.
I think.
Well, I mean,
people.
Well, more, I mean, it's worldwide.
Right.
Yeah.
So I mean, the coverage would get.
I agree.
I'm telling you, I
know.
I think we've been sitting here at this,
you know, can we make a buck this time?
Yes.
This, this is going to be easy pick inside.
All right.
But
again,
pasties for the pope.
Pasties with the Pope.
Yeah, no with the Pope.
Yeah, we could we could play like the paddles Everybody buy a paddle will spin the wheel and whoever gets it actually gets to have lunch with
them But I you know and I'll
just Steve here and he pierces I remember Billy Graham coming to Green Bay.
I think he's wrestled the crusher
We're star Billy
Graham.
Anyway, no, that was so I do, you know, we're getting a little bit older and we don't need big jobs, big money anymore.
We need projects to do things.
So thank
God we
don't.
But this could be fun.
I agree.
I'm with you.
And I would the connections that the few that I've made in my life, I would leverage those big time, you know, Packers government.
I would.
I would come out of retirement to be his altar boy.
You know what?
Wouldn't that be fun to work that mass?
I'll come out.
Vince from Barty was an altar boy.
Big time.
He was
like, died.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is so weird because I'm sitting here going, what are they talking about?
No
way.
Oh man, to just, and just think of the
priests
that are just going to, you know, yes.
I don't wanna tell him a joke and that'd be it.
I don't know.
Did you hear what I'm all about?
Where the bears
suck?
Leo, Leo.
Be honest with me.
Be honest with me.
Yeah, but I
don't know.
All
right, I'm all with you on this one.
Even if it
would be like a...
Cos this is, you know what?
This could work.
Cos this is something you're passionate about.
Oh, yeah.
You know, like we always say when somebody comes in here and they're an artist or whatever, it's like, where's the passion?
Oh,
yeah.
I'd be all in on this.
I would, I would, yeah.
do a lot for this.
Yeah.
And it would be, just think of, you know, this, people would remember this
and this
is a Super Bowl bigger than that.
We're going to start putting together a committee of our people.
No, no, no.
First things first.
We have to get to
a Pope.
Sharturi, charcuterie, charcuterie board with that.
I just think
they will have all those.
for your parties, you know, the pope party.
They'll have those cheese, you know, like sculptures of the
pope, you know.
Maybe Spencer can do a painting, but he can't use cleats.
What could Spencer use?
To paint it.
Oh,
yeah.
You know, the
thing that he blesses it with, he can use one of those.
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm in.
I'm in.
Spencer could make some
cats.
He could make it.
Spencer could do some great stuff.
Even when you go to Rome in the pubs, there's all these tables around.
Be honest too,
merch is big with the Pope.
Oh man, are you kidding me?
And then you want it blessed by the Pope.
So everybody thinks this is blessed by the Pope.
I have a rosary blessed by the Pope, but you know what?
I
had
one.
My brother got it for me.
But you go, okay, but okay, what he said was blessed by the Pope.
I believe it, but how did it get blessed?
All the Pope does is you go there and there's like.
What?
50,000 people?
You hold up your rosary?
Exactly.
Any pluses, then.
But it's blessed by the poll.
So anyway,
that's going to be fun.
Is this Marty Stewart?
Yes.
Terry requested Marty Stewart.
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Back at this.
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Happy Thursday everybody.
62 degrees in Green Bay, 61 in Ampton, 64 in Oshkosh, mostly cloudy scattered thunderstorms.
I have 70 today.
Just let's get through June, maybe July will be nicer.
Today is canoe day.
I haven't gone canoeing in a long time, have you?
Yeah, it's like, no one can lose.
Kayaks have taken over.
Kayaks have
taken over.
Do that next week.
Today is handshake day, all right?
You know what?
That kind of, you know, it's so funny.
The fist bump through COVID type, fist bump kind of took over.
I mean, you'd be surprised sometimes, even like, I mean, these, I don't know, how do I call them, not high society people, but more when you go to a banquet type things, you get some, they'll.
This bump is a lot more common.
Oh, I handshake.
Oh, yeah,
absolutely.
These guys over yesterday just did deliver a custom.
I don't
Here's what I got.
But you know, they came to the door and I just, yeah, it's knowing shakes hands anymore.
Yeah, I think that, you know, it's more sanitary and it's respectful.
I was hoping when COVID came around, we weren't going to get into that bowing.
I did not like that.
Remember they talked about,
I remember
when I was going to be our way of saying hello.
I'm like, there
was
a real bad flu thing, probably 10 years ago or something.
It was really infectious.
And I remember I went to a couple of things and people did like the elbow thing.
It's like,
no, that's too much.
Fist bumps are great.
Fist bumps are perfect.
And it's quick.
And it's not... Handshakes can be awkward if you don't get the hand in the right
socket.
Oh, I know.
You know what I mean?
I do.
And then sometimes hands... Sometimes you shake someone's hand and I probably got a little firmer handshake and some people look at you like... I know.
Are you like hurting?
It's like what?
I just...
Anyway.
Or sometimes they're doing it just to show how strong they are.
Right.
But fist bumps... It's hard
looking
at you.
But fist bumps are a little awkward with women.
I
know
no, you know, you know, I do a
fist month a woman.
They always get a kickers.
I
always blow it up.
Oh, you know fireworks.
That's so weird.
No, it's not
they like that 10
11 Right, right gonna be 11.
Wow my
granddaughter's taught me that
one.
Yeah,
I'm sure they did and how
old are they?
Whatever uh chocolate pudding day can't screw up chocolate pudding.
That was always fun in the cafeteria bomb pop
day.
I don't know what
that is.
Yeah,
you do.
They're popsicles
popsicles.
Oh,
okay.
They popped.
They were they wanted to carve out their own day.
All right.
Coconut day.
I could live on coconut.
And you don't like no, I could live on it.
I mean,
I'll scrape it off.
I could live on coconut.
I say coconut oil is like the, you know, the beat all end all of health.
Look at me.
Different, right?
I mean,
your scar,
they
put that on your scars, your skin.
You know, I was gonna try to find some vitamin E or C for it.
I can't find it.
I went to Walgreens.
I went to CVS.
Where do you buy that?
Do you have to get that over?
Because I did get my new bee pollen tarot.
Is it tarot or talon?
Talon.
Talon.
No, tal-talo.
Talo.
That's what it
is, Talo.
Terror or Talo?
Talo.
Talo.
Talo.
Okay.
So I can measure people driving to work like Jesus.
Because I went through a full
container already.
No, what you need to do.
I
look so much younger when I see myself.
Yeah.
Those leaves that you break and those, that's what you should put on there.
Aloe?
Yeah.
I don't know where you find those either.
Yeah.
I think you just grow it at home.
I think
oh, yeah, yeah, yeah from the yeah in Arizona.
They used to have you just
snap off the sunburn Yeah, but not more than that.
It's like it's more than sunburn.
It's
yeah, you know, but that's what we'd use it for I mean people have those grown in their yards
and you
could break off a piece
and that's so natural I don't know why you want to get all that chemical stuff from the vitamin
E or C is chemical I don't know and be pollen certainly isn't
I
don't you see that story ABC News last night killer bees
are making such an unbelievable comeback and they're coming north.
They say it'll be really bad in like Kentucky, Ohio, place like that and they might just keep coming.
There's some kind of a weird atmospheric type of thing going on with the planet or something and they're just swarming.
You should see these
things.
This goes right into our previous conversation with Talotel with the planet or something.
It is.
Looks like you get a little bit more specific.
Okay, so what?
The bees are coming because of the planet.
Yeah.
Wow.
It's unbelievable.
I guess you should see these swarms.
Okay.
What do we they'll kill you?
Okay.
So this was on national news.
Nate David Murr.
Okay.
What do you just do to scare us?
Or was there
there was a was there a scientific reporter?
It's unbelievable.
Where do you see these things?
Okay,
you're
saying now about 72 people die a year from bees.
And
in Mississippi, they've had several already from these killer bees that
No disrespect Todd, but even I was watching news last night and said the heat index in Jackson, Mississippi was like 108 I thought I can't think of any place I'd rather be less than Jackson, Mississippi I know Wow and just humid Vicki says I'd love to fist bump and blow it up with mine.
Oh, okay.
Thank
you.
Thank you Vicki next time we see
you Yeah, but you know how can you not like coconut cream pie on my deathbed?
I want a piece of coconut cream pie,
you know mine.
All right
Ariana Grande is 32 Michael Vick 45 Derek Jeter 51 Gretchen Wilson 52 Todd you remember when she was gonna be the next biggest thing.
Yeah, and she just kind of faded away.
Yeah.
Well, yeah Crystal Donald 55.
Okay, Crystal Donald.
Mm-hmm The office.
No, no Parks and Rec.
Nope Young guy
Has done like
Superhero.
Is he like the kid in Stand By Me?
Uh, no.
No.
No.
I'm getting this one really wrong.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, one of my favorite people in the world who had one of the greatest lines in TV history, Nick Offerman, is 55.
I thought he'd be older.
So he was in Batman and Robin in 97, Batman Forever, NCIS, Los Angeles.
Oh, right.
That's
what Chris O'Donnell is.
Don't
know him.
Yeah.
Nick Offerman in Perfect.
Oh, he's funny.
Funny.
You know, you've got to start eating better.
What was his name again?
Oh, you can't think of it, but you have to start eating better because you're cholesterol.
Hmm.
What is cholesterol?
He says, tonight, I'm going home.
I'm having a couple glasses of straight whiskey, and I'm going to use power tools and build a nice dinette set
tonight.
I know who he is.
Yeah.
Ron, Ron Swanson.
Yes, Ron.
That
guy is calling again.
How did you handle it?
I put him on hold for 42 minutes.
Good job.
Good job.
Quick break.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Once again, happy Trucker Thursday to you.
Not real nice outside.
62 in Green Bay, windy, Alpine 61, Oshkosh 64.
You want to know a job I could not have?
Yeah, well a lot of them,
but what I mean nobody mean that I couldn't I would not they'd say hey We're gonna pay you 500 grand a year, but here's what you gotta do name one
What is that
the guy in the crane out here?
Oh?
Huh, right?
How does he even get up there?
Is there an elevator?
I couldn't see like an elevator, but there must be Can
you imagine we get everybody has a bad day right something happens?
Yeah, you drop a jar of
Jalapeno jalapenos and step on them right clean it up, right?
Can you imagine having a bad day at that job?
No, no Yeah, yeah, it's
nice to see that coming out of the ground though.
Yeah, I mean, they're really making progress that guy
though who That
company is just we're talking about the apartment complex right next to the Where the packer stuff used to be
and next to where that building that should have been torn down into a park
is been renovated to a low income housing.
So that's the building is great.
The building is great.
So.
But my God, I'd love to talk to that guy sometime.
Just get him on.
We
should wander down there one morning and see if we can get him on.
Yeah.
I think they would be
happy to
do that.
You have some connections, Jim?
I do.
Let's get that
lined
up.
I do.
Or
you gotta
get
the Pope here.
You gotta get this guy.
No, I do have a connection with this guy because he is really good friends with Quick Trip.
Oh, OK.
Yeah, they
golfed
there.
Great.
All
right, that's great.
I drink with them at the Northland.
OK.
So, yes.
Well, that would be the owner.
So I don't know about the construction work.
We probably have to go through the owner and say, look, can we get 15 minutes of this guy's time to come down to the studio and talk to us?
Yeah,
all
right.
That would be cool.
You want the crane guy?
Yeah.
Yeah, it'd be fun.
And it sits up in that little thing.
Yeah.
I mean, can you imagine that on a windy day?
Like, even today, that thing would probably be rocky.
Remember that thing in Milwaukee?
Absolutely.
What was it?
Big blue or whatever
it was and that thing?
Yeah.
Wow.
Again, all the credit in the world for that job.
I'll work on that.
So Pope Crane.
All right.
Yeah, it's only 637.
I
know.
Michael says, I feel bad for Conn Knippel, drafted by one of the worst professionally managed sports franchises.
It is.
It's actually been, I think, named that.
They just can't get it going.
They put a lot of stock into, is it LeVar?
No.
Whatever one of the ball brothers is.
the youngest one or middle one whatever and he's been hurt all the time and they get these high hopes and they just can't win and they're not drawing a lot but with that being said he will get instant playing time he will be a starter i bet or six man from day one
well that's cool yeah um what okay so the two owns the team is it the owner
what's the problem with that team
oh
That's not always
the
best thing.
Yeah, so they have good morning fellas Vinnie Tori says go to the black market get yourself some breast milk to cure your skin Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be doing that Tori, but thank you Going on actually talk to Todd Todd here's what you got to
do John doesn't gotta go in the
black market for me go in
the dark web
Then I get a call from HR.
Hey, Todd, we were checking your web browser.
Yeah, what's the start web breast milk?
Yeah, I'm doing it for mino.
Oh, okay.
Makes total sense.
Yeah, got it.
Yeah, no problem.
All
right.
Keep them
happy.
Yes.
But that was an amazing day for sports yesterday.
And I watched the NFL or the NBA draft.
And it's really cool because they it's really a family thing there.
I mean, they have
Lamello ball.
Thank you, Michael.
They have I mean all the moms are there all the whatever's and the one guy from Puerto Rico was there's amazing number of people from Puerto Rico and they talked about he didn't have a thing they were like So poor it was incredible.
So then when he got his NIL money, okay?
He gave it to the school he had gone to down there for I think eight scholarships for kids to be able to get out of the
The ghetto I mean they called it there in the ghetto and he said they he paid for those kids to go to this like private school Now those are the people you really pull for oh, yeah, those are the people you pull for
you got to break that poverty That's hard to get out.
Yes, that's yeah.
Well, you've been I've never been to Puerto Rico.
I heard it's rough,
huh?
Was I in Puerto Rico?
I
thought you were
no you went to Haiti, right?
Oh, hey,
that's right.
That's
right.
That's right
Yeah,
I
know
That's poverty corrupt government.
Yeah, it's just it getting that thing turned around ain't gonna happen.
You don't hear much about that anymore.
Yeah.
No, there's other stuff going on.
Wow.
All right.
Okay, how much is this kid gonna make?
I don't know you can you can look it up because it's you don't even like negotiate anymore It's locked in like whatever position you're drafted in that's so much that is slotted for if your rookie contract
for
a year
Um, I think it's three year
contracts, but it's over a million dollars, isn't it?
Oh, yeah, but you could you could look it up.
Okay.
What is the fourth player in the NBA draft make?
It's just really there that
yeah, that's kind of cool really because it I don't know and they have to play they can't like hold on
the can and go to France or someplace and play but
huh.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, congrats to him, right?
I mean his parents got to be
what's kind but think about this too.
So two people from the state of Wisconsin
in the same family drafted in the NBA.
I mean, Jeff Nordgaard, his uncle, and him.
That's pretty amazing.
That's pretty cool.
Yup.
That's four year deal worth 45 mil.
Okay.
Is it more than a million dollars?
Wow.
Yeah.
That is serious, serious money.
Isn't that incredible?
That's incredible.
And he's what he's all of what?
21, 22,
19.
Oh, he's that young?
Well, he played in the state high school championship game last not this past March obviously a year ago March Wow, okay, so 19 Then he's got three or four brothers that are all coming up right about his size right
19 is right 19 20 in August isn't that something 45 million 19 he'll do all right
and his dad played for me in Nagani
And we're sitting on the air talking about trying to get the Pope in town and getting the crane
operator
on the radio station.
Although
this kid, are they Catholics?
No, they're very religious.
Well, we can convert them by that.
That's all right,
because everybody, even though Christians, they like the Pope.
You
know what I mean?
Like, he's
kind of... I don't know.
Welcome to Are They Catholic?
I'm just looking for some money.
That is such a my mom thing.
That is such a
my mom thing.
If you're going out with any of my mothers or sisters, not me so much at that point, but the
first... Mine too.
Mine too?
Hey, look, I... That was so important.
It was, wasn't it?
That's funny when I said that I thought, I've heard that before.
Yes.
So here I am.
I'm coming up with a whole game show in my mind, right?
Yeah.
We've got a little sister nun on the side.
She's the announcer.
Yeah.
She's got a little podium, right?
Yeah.
And then instead of like light bulbs, it's all candelabras.
There you go.
Like,
okay.
I love it.
Love it.
Yes.
Yeah.
Oh, God, that's funny.
But your mom too, then.
Oh, man.
I remember my mom.
Or they're not
Catholic.
Oh, she'll tell you they're not Catholics.
Okay, move on.
Joey.
Joey.
Joey.
Emma.
That's funny sometimes if they knew already it was game over.
She's not Catholic
Nancy just text us in and if you get an answer wrong somebody slaps your knuckles with a ruler
Catholics are coming out I was gonna talk to him about funding the promotional for that
with this part of his $45 million, because you're supposed
to
tithe 10%.
That'd be 4.5 million.
Don't need all that, but that would be...
Catholics don't do that.
No, they're
supposed to.
They really don't.
No, no, that, you're thinking of, you're thinking of the
Mormons.
No, no, John.
Okay, you're right.
We got away from that, but you should tithe 10%.
Really?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Yeah.
Boy, am I
in trouble.
That's funny, actually.
I'll do the I remember
one time
my sister was dating a guy who was a religion my family did not get along with and That was not good.
He was different religion.
Yeah, I bet you did was your dad around then?
Yeah, they didn't like
that didn't like that.
No my dad Yeah, he was there were it's rigid religion used to be so much more it was more than anything cut throat almost yeah, what religion you were was really important back
then
Yeah, but they didn't they only yeah, it's not like that anymore.
But yes, it was
I remember one time my brother who was this really great athlete Okay, he had a scholarship to Western Michigan for baseball and then he got hurt and whatever whatever But the football coach really wanted him to go to the public school Okay, all the coaches that they really want he was a phenom almost okay and My mom said no
God will get you for that or something.
Leave the Catholic school.
That's how serious it was.
That something would happen if you left the Catholic school and went to the public school.
And
they believed it.
I mean, they weren't just whatever.
Yeah.
I'm glad that come around a little bit on that.
Well, I think so.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, anyway, I want to get I want that kid's number because I think even though he's Lutheran, we can he can throw in a little one.
This is just Michael here in my family since I grew up Jewish.
I was guilty today One
of our contacts back this you know, we'll wrap up this poop thing but Mayor Nutter who was the mayor of Philadelphia when the Pope came was Involved in that so we'll get him on the phone on this show to say look What did what was the involvement?
How'd you do how much money do you have to raise and he'll help us with that?
No guys is Pope John, but
You lead the way I will but
I
will be another contact.
I'm thinking of the contacts to get this guy here But I'm not doing anything and put money on this
a year from now.
We still won't have Okay,
I
will
we will okay.
I don't you guys make all you wait
How's it look from that angle Johnny up there?
Alright, I'm gonna
be the altibar, remember?
I love projects like
I got energy right now.
I love projects.
So that's excellent.
Sometimes they'll save that down.
I'll just do you
know any own I love
watching you try to do projects.
So it's entertainment for the entire family.
I don't know that there's a morning show out there anywhere that has as many laps as we
do in the first hour.
We got a great lineup.
Tell us about this lineup you got coming up today.
I tell you
this seven o'clock hour.
Go ahead dad.
No seven o'clock hour is going to be great.
We are so
It is going to get warm out, and we're concerned about fires dry, but also the fireworks.
And there's also things that we talked about that we need to talk about again, lithium batteries, a number of things that cause fires.
And obviously kitchen fires are the biggest thing.
So we've got Matthew Knott's coming in.
He's the fire chief of Green Bay.
He's probably been with us about three years, two years, three.
Anyway, he's coming in, talking about firework safety, which is really weird.
He's going to talk about how you can buy them.
but you can't shoot them
off.
I mean, our state laws are kind of a little- And depending on sometimes what count, like if you're in Bellevue versus Ledgeview versus whatever.
We, I am, well, yeah, in a different municipality because they're better, you know?
And they, I don't know, but of course we would never shoot them off.
We just looked at them.
They're on the shelf.
And look at these, lovely.
Yeah,
look at this, but I don't know, fireworks are awesome, but he's going to talk about that and
Then there's permits if you're gonna, some people like shows.
And you can get a permit.
Some of these people out on the...
I almost accidentally caused a guy to die because of fireworks.
I believe that.
But he was this old guy, really old.
Yeah.
No one even says his name.
Old Italian guy.
He used to go apple picking all the time up in the woods where I lived.
And I was throwing cherry bombs into the mine pit.
He thought somebody was shooting at me and he went home and called the police and the police came to my house.
Oh That did not go over.
Well, I bet not so we got Michael not scream a fire chief.
We got the only nose.
She's gonna be great amazing amazing artist Mike Steve pack Fox Sports
Ashley from downtown Green Bay who's lasting my kid not pronounced We'll be back
Well,
it's Monday morning.
Hey, welcome back.
Mine on the mayor here on Truck Earth Thursday.
Talk about something that's really important right now.
Then, of course, is fireworks, fireworks safety, all those kinds of things.
Got Matthew Nats and Nick Craig from the Green Bay Fire Department in here.
Chief,
good to have you.
Yeah, great to be here.
Thank you very much.
My
Nagani minor friend, good to have you.
Great to be here.
Where do you like your kudugis from the best up there?
Tino's.
Yeah, thank you.
Home to pizza.
Congress.
You're a congressman, not a congressman.
Okay,
good.
I told
you chief, we won't be in this conversation
for a while.
That's funny.
We'll have to check out good pizza, so yeah.
Absolutely.
So I know...
Chief, you've been here, what, a little over two years?
Yeah, a little over two years, about two and a half.
You're doing a great job.
I wanna,
before we get into fire safety, and you know, Johnson, this is the time, but it's always time for fire safety.
There's kitchen fires that happen all year, but we've got fireworks coming up, lithium
batteries.
And as we're talking about those batteries that become an issue.
But for first, I wanna start with the story that I wanna just thank you.
I will say that if there's an umbrella of fire, and even when I was working with you guys,
Your customer service is second to none.
The comments we get was, they are the nicest guys.
My trainer, believe it or not, I go to an athletic trainer.
You can't tell, but it's... Don't say
her name, poor
thing.
We're stuck in an elevator.
Saturday.
At that cheap elevator, that city never put any money into.
Is this legit?
You should see the picture.
And these guys came in, I said, were they in eight minutes?
He goes less than eight, like four minutes.
And they, they got in the elevator and it got stuck between two floors.
They were in there for over an hour.
And they're just their clothes were just
drenched because it's hotter than hell on Saturday.
Missed the show at the Meyer Theater.
It was date night.
They have a 10 month old kid.
First time they
got out.
Yeah, no, it's not quite the experience.
It was,
I said, I said, hey, you're gonna,
File a complaint who's on I'm not that kind of guy.
I said I am 25% But you just I just want to pass that on to you.
I told him yesterday that I was gonna pass that show and but because those guys were so nice and calm cuz his wife got a little anxious So anyway, and I he called the maintenance guy the elevator and of course he didn't know what the hell he was doing and anyway, it was an hour
And his shirt, he said, let me show you some pictures.
And he just drenched
because it was hot.
It was really
hot.
I would have been like die hard and take out the towel and crawl through the duct.
Anything to get
out
of there.
But I just want to say, Chief, when he told me that, I'm like, that the customers, those guys were so calm and so friendly and so nice.
And I just, that didn't surprise me at all.
I'm just telling you that.
And I think everybody knows that.
I just want to
thank you.
Yeah.
It's something really pride ourselves and our people are just.
Awesome.
Yeah, just great and do such great work every day.
And yeah, it's always nice to hear that though.
And we'll make sure we pass it on.
I want to buy the
old firehouse down here.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's for sale.
Sure.
It's like a block, right?
Yeah, we're looking for some really exciting things going in there.
So that's such a cool building right in that spot here, storage spot.
it is great potential does
coffee shop bike rentals there's a lot of cool
stuff yeah we really want to see like that really public facing yeah you know and you know your restaurants or something I mean something really cool there really pay homage
when you come
in from
you know absolutely and
I think the look love Broadway and everything that's going on but
The income is a little bit higher over there.
I just think if you get the support from the Astro neighborhood, and I just think people will support that.
I think people are looking forward to that.
That has been talked about for many, many, many years.
And even after we close that thing down, which was a while ago, the potential there is great.
So I
hope it doesn't become an office.
I hope it becomes
something that we want to see is that really public facing.
building there, you know, it's such a great location.
It's such a really, you know, pay honor to the fire department is really a big thing.
Well, and we like museums, right?
I mean, and
John's, I like the autumn museum.
I think that's
awesome.
Johnny's really wants to lean into like a veterans museum
somewhere.
And he's looking at a couple properties.
I want to do a music hall of fame
museum because I love music.
this big history of music in town.
There is.
It's amazing.
And when you really look into it,
it's even stronger than I think people think.
I mean, we've written some great music here.
And I think to honor the fire department, you could do a museum there too.
I know you talked about that at one time.
Sam talked about that.
But I don't know, I just think it's cool to celebrate history.
Yeah.
And we're certainly looking at like our new fire station, which is also the part of the master plan on Broadway is have
the space there for a museum.
Really have some of this memorabilia, but we have a great exhibit encourage everybody.
Okay, we've got one
of our good sponsors in Oshkosh.
He's an attorney.
All right.
Okay.
And there should see that office is in the fire station built.
Todd, do you know the year?
I don't.
We were using horses.
100 years.
I was
all horse drawn.
Oh, and their whole offices in there.
And they found some old stuff that were just left.
It's like a museum in itself right downtown Oshkosh.
It is so cool.
Very nice.
Any
honors the fire department with
He fixed the stuff up and
that's just a very place at all really cool.
Sure.
Yeah, that's important to us too and that that building we really want to see that you know some fire department theme or something that really exactly you know honors what we
think about the fire department and It's changed, but it really hasn't I mean you put out fires and you got really nice people You don't slide down the pole anymore.
There's technology, but it's still putting out fires
Right
leaving your place and going to their place,
you know that those traditions still stay and
you know, we do, we do a lot of the same things, obviously.
And, but we just keep picking up more and more.
And that's the, that's what we do is we just help people and solve problems.
And
I think that's one of the reasons your retention is pretty good, your department.
And I think because of the traditions, even that ringing of the bell, some of the things that you do to honor people.
And yeah, that's, that's, I want to talk about.
the industry.
We're gonna get a lot to talk about.
You
can stick around though, right?
I
mean, we
kind
of had you in here just to kind of say hi and talk a little bit about Nagani.
I had to get that out of
the way.
All right, we're gonna send her a quick break.
We come back.
Chief Matthew Knotts, Nick Craig, Green Bay Fire Department.
We got a lot of things to talk about including firework safety coming up right now on Trucker Thursday on Mine on the
Mirror.
Sure, for sure.
By golly, it's clean.
Clear to flag down.
Come on.
Yeah, we definitely got the front door good, buddy.
Mercy thinks alive.
Looks like we've got us a convoy.
was the dark of the moon on the 6th of June in a Kenworth pulling logs.
Cab over Pete with a reefer on and a Jimmy hauling hugs.
We is heading for Bear on I-10 about a mile out of Shaggy Town.
I says, pick pen, this here's a rubber duck and I'm about to put the hammer down.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back, our number two of Mino and the Mayor here on a blustery Thursday morning on Trucker Thursday.
Matthew Knott, Nick Craig, Green Bay Fire Chief, and what would your, what would your official title be?
I'm a captain.
Okay.
We'll give you that.
I'm helping out in fire prevention right now.
Nice.
We got a lot of that to talk about right now in firework safety and everything, Jim.
It is.
And this is so important.
We're going to talk about it today because the fourth is coming up.
But this is important every day.
I mean, we had a lot of kitchen fires and I don't know how many you respond to every month, every year.
But I want to talk about fireworks because we all love them, right?
We kind of do some of us buy them and maybe even a different municipality.
What is, what is the rule abuse?
Can we shoot them off?
Can we buy them here in Green Bay at these stands for spend a hundred bucks and have the kids?
Well, what we really encourage is everybody to enjoy the professional shows, right?
We understand and Nick's going to talk about a little bit too about, you know, we really were concerned about the injury.
Right.
You know, fires and injury and really like these things are just best left for professionals.
Just go enjoy these professional shows.
Yeah.
You know, there are sales.
You can buy them.
There's some real restrictions of them.
Like I said, Nick can join in.
But just reading the rappers, they try to get more lethal and explosive
over here.
Oh, I know.
Megatron.
The names are always entertaining.
Exactly.
That's what I mean.
I know.
I
thought there's a marketing job.
That'd be fun.
But Nick,
what do
you suggest?
I agree with the chief that, look, we got fires on Fridays.
Fire Over the Fox,
that's sponsored,
which is a great,
great
show.
And
there's a lot of these smaller communities that I think do a really good job.
Two rivers, Kiwani, some of these places up north, those are Tomah, there's a great fireworks show.
However, there aren't these dads, I don't know who they are, but they like to just show off.
Everybody look at Jim.
All right, Nick, tell us what do you suggest?
So with consumer fireworks, excuse me, the latest.
info that we have is from 2022.
Average of 31,000 fires started across the U.S.
3,500 structure fires, 26,000 outside fires.
And a side note with that is wildfires started by fireworks are doubled on the 4th of July.
Even
some of the California ones they think were
fireworks.
An estimated six civilian deaths were caused by fireworks in 2022.
And every year in Green Bay, we see several incidents caused by fireworks improperly disposed of fireworks.
You know, people don't soak them in a, you know, right?
Because they stay hot for a long time.
They do, right?
Yep.
Fireworks that are landing on roughs of homes that has caused several fires across the last couple of years.
And then the biggest thing is the amount of injuries.
We're looking at over 10,000 injuries caused by consumer fireworks every year.
And the ones that are legal for consumers to buy are actually causing
the majority of those injuries, because they're the most accessible.
So really,
even though they're legal, the guy buys them legal, they're legal to shoot off, it's still high-prone
industry injury?
Yeah, just, for example, sparklers, they burn it over 1200 degrees.
That's super hot.
Obviously, the end of the metal rod on the sparkler is red hot when it's done burning.
Sparklers account for 29% of fireworks injuries for children under the age of five, treated in emergency rooms.
So the big thing is, if you're gonna let kids use sparklers and the safe and sane, so to speak, fireworks, which aren't really that safe or sane, you wanna have good adult supervision.
Sober adult supervision.
Yeah, have that bucket of water.
Yeah, that sober is a good, yeah, cause that's just true.
I didn't think of that, but that.
You know, I'm surprised somebody hasn't invented a sparkler with a handle.
Or maybe they have.
You know what
I'm saying?
You're right.
You're holding your
wire.
You're holding the wire.
Okay.
And sparklers though, they're a blast.
Write your name.
I mean,
okay.
All right.
I'll make a note of that sober.
You know, if your child is going to use it, you know, make sure you give them a little guidance before you light it.
You know, hold it away from your face.
Don't put it by anyone else.
Keep it away from people.
that that supervision is really key to to help and keep things safe.
Okay,
people don't know the force of a cherry bomb sometimes.
I mean,
that's
it's like a shotgun shell going off in your hand.
Isn't it though?
Yeah.
Okay, John, do you want to finish the story or you told it?
Yeah, John was throwing them.
Oh,
yeah, I told him story.
This
is Nagani,
though.
Okay, okay.
So it's one of the mind pits
of
the thing that's raised to play and handsome cherry bombs.
that I got from somebody, somebody, and I was only like eight or nine, which I should not have been doing.
But I was throwing
up.
He was sober.
I
was
throwing
him in the pit because that was so cool.
It'd be like a geyser.
Well, it's old Italian guy was out picking apples.
And he thought somebody was shooting at him.
Oh, my God.
He went to
the police, filed a report.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
They showed up at my door
and went over well with my dad.
I just came home from the Matherby iron ore mine.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
So with all right.
the fireworks.
So, um, is there a safe way to do it?
You get the bucket of water, right?
To put or is there,
I'm not
saying, I know you're not going to promote it because that's not your job.
But if someone's going
to do it, let's give them some safety tips.
You know, even the safe and sane ones, the spark fountains, the snakes, the sparklers, all those should be put into a bucket of water overnight away from a building.
That's the biggest thing is away from a structure.
Uh, when people dispose of them and put it in the garage, that's, that's not the best place for keep it outside away from things.
Hey, did you see that fire is on?
ABC News last night.
I can't think what where the whole thing exploded like the firefight three firefighters were injured It was just a house and the people don't know what they said It wasn't that the gas natural gas company said no it wasn't us someone but it it's people don't like I knew one guy who was a reloader and You don't think you know what I mean people have some things in their
house and you
never think there's gonna be a fire But man if there is and you guys have to go in you I mean that
can be lethal stuff
Sure.
You know, it's just like, you never know what hazards.
So that's why we're all the PPE, all our personal protective equipment and have, you know, always ready for whatever, all those inevitable things.
Summer is eventually going to get here.
Well, I was here for a couple of days.
But people like to have their little fire in the back yard.
How many feet is that legal?
Yeah, I can handle that.
For the city of Green Bay, it's 25 feet away from...
Oh, anything.
That's as far as I didn't realize that.
I'm glad you're using one of the portable Weber type above ground fire pits.
Those can be a little bit closer, 15 feet.
Bellevue and Allaway are 15 feet for anything.
OK.
But
that's the thing, because we lived in ledge view versus Green Bay.
It
was different from one to the other
type thing.
Yeah.
There's some basic standards that are the same, you know, with the international fire code.
And like I said, it is.
there could be some confusion and we're trying to work with all those different ages.
So Nick, those
the things that you buy that are above ground that had the seat the seat through what mesh cover on 15 feet from your garage or your house.
Correct or a fence.
Well, that that's doable.
You can sit around
with a chair and talk a little bit.
Yeah.
And those, you know, those numbers came about because of specific problems, right?
And it's not like just like most everything is there's reasons why.
It's not just an arbitrary number,
so how is the I remember after 9 11 of horrible horrible tragedy But boy it became cool to be a firefighter and you know EMT and everything like that And I know a lot of applications wasn't way up is it still like that because I mean it's it's still a very prestigious job
Oh, yeah, I think it is and you know
We just going through a hiring process now.
So we just start doing interviews and you know, the quality of the candidates we get is top notch.
Just absolutely stellar candidates and we always seem to get enough and you know, it's great.
It's not, and certainly just like most other jobs, it's not like it maybe used to be, right?
Where we'd have thousands and thousands of applicants and but actually, you know, we have really high standards and we have a lot of people that meter exceed those standards.
So it's really good.
Are the
Are you getting the youth to come in or is it transfers?
Who's who's coming into the fire department?
So our applicants have to have an associates degree.
So, you know, they're they've already been through some training had some and so that's our that's our applicant pool.
Okay.
And are they trained in EMT and fire?
They are.
Yeah, they will come with all their all their certifications.
That's nice.
Yep.
I mean
they have both of those things.
All right The other thing that we have is we have a cadet program and that is basically like boy scouts or girl scouts to try out See if the fire department is something for you.
So a lot of those Cadets that have gone through our cadet program in high school have actually been hired by us
When I was there and towards the end we weren't kidding enough women in
police and fire but actually fire was a weird little and went to a conference why can't we get more women in our fire department and they had told us that if a woman teaches them there's a better chance they're gonna be engaged I mean you guys are super nice guys but
How are we doing on attracting females to both, maybe you can't speak for police, but for fire?
Yeah, just on the fire side.
I mean, we really want our department to represent our community.
Right.
And all facets of it.
And really what we look for is, you know, where we're at is our applicant pool is the graduates of tech school.
So, you know, we're looking at our cadet program, which has a lot of good representation of our community in that.
but we're also looking at starting earlier because a lot of times when we see somebody that's bibby 21 they've already made their career choices and made decisions but you know if we could get to them earlier and show them the fire service and again have people that look similar to them it really works out well so.
And we do every year get a pretty good mixture of female to male deaths in our
program.
I just want to say one thing though, too, like with the military, you know, I'm so old that it's like, oh, females are the weaker sex.
They could never do anything except be secretaries in the me.
And that was that was the thing that people really thought not even
now.
You want to talk about some people that can kick your butt and do whatever.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, there's, you know, and, you know, again, my daughter's in the military and, you know, doing fantastic.
And, you know, there is this is a job for absolutely everyone there.
you know, there is, you take a scenario of, you know, one of us in a structure fire, for example, and we have to rescue them.
I can't do it myself.
And that's the beauty of the fire service.
It's a team effort.
And we all work together.
And it's like, you know, on medical calls, you know, some people have better skill sets than others and fires same thing.
It's like, but it's just the team and we all work together and solve those problems.
So chief, tell me about a junior in high school right now.
And, you know,
his parents, what are you going to do?
Everybody, what are you going to do?
And he's interested in fire.
What advice do you have?
And I teach at NWTC.
I think they've got great programs
out there.
The other thing they
have out there that I just encouraged a friend of mine, I was talking to her, just to go out for an assessment because she has no idea what she
wants
to do.
And I'm like, and she's super talented.
I don't know if it's dental hygienists.
She doesn't have the resources and she doesn't really want to go to college, nor should she.
She's just not.
But she wants to do something and she doesn't know what culinary.
And but anyway, a junior in high school, Preble, that if they want to explore public safety, explore fire, what would your advice be to them?
I would say the cadet program is a great start for that.
I mean, you can after they've completed a certain amount of training, they can actually do ride alongs with us.
Wow.
You know, that's cool.
Very cool.
And
tell me about Nick.
getting into the cadets.
Is it online or is it you?
Yeah, so it is on our website.
Our website's greenbayfd.com.
And then if you just do a search for cadets, you can sign up for the program.
It actually starts in September and runs through the fall meets, I believe, once a month.
Okay, great.
Give me your number one, I don't want to say criteria, but what do you guys look for?
Attitude.
Okay, there you go.
Yeah, it's, you know, we can do all the training for everything else, but it's the attitude.
And, you know, it's just nice to...
Like all the applicants we've had, we just did interviews, and that's what people say is they really like our culture, like what we're doing.
People are great.
All those things we talked about, and that really shows.
That's awesome.
And it doesn't.
I just really, again, I don't want to, but I really want to applaud you for that, because that is more important than I'm with you on that than anything.
The tactics you're teaching
oh, yeah, we can do that right all those skill sets we teach and they come to us really well prepared And then we do our own training to fine tune it a little bit.
Yep
You know I just want to say for parents and is that it's a prestigious job.
Oh, I
think it's a very respectable job
It
is and I think that's great.
Yeah, but thanks
for leading the department
and you
too, you know, I mean
you've
been at that
I told you guys I felt it for my brother twice up in the garden.
Yeah, but I got there later.
I'm a truck
is
on the way out the door now.
Total loss.
I still put on
the whole unit and they came
back
to get me.
I didn't go against the
wall.
It says you get run over.
You guys are awesome.
Thanks for coming, you guys.
Thank you.
Nick Craig, Green Bay Fire Chief, Green Bay Fire Department.
Thank you so much for everything
you guys
do.
Keep up
the
good work.
Thank you very much.
We appreciate it.
Thank
you.
Thanks for having us.
But the fourth of July is coming up and I just want to thank those guys for
those guys are busy
Appreciate
it very much
and the chief but we've tried to get him in before and he was Really looking forward to this and I think just a reminder look some of us are gonna shoot off fireworks But to have that bucket of water there
doesn't cost a lot and to throw everything in there right away instead of you throw it into the garbage can and it smolders and starts a garage fire and um so i and i'm not doing the sparklers i don't think
when then we didn't have time to talk about the we want to talk to the lithium batteries we'll do that next time i like to get them back as soon as possible because that's a real serious thing that's happening and
then he's got some videos he wants he's
right he's gonna send them to us yeah
that our listeners could just go and talk about you know how to handle
Lithium batteries properly, so that'll be good.
They have a lot of information they want to share with our
Yeah, no, they're great man.
I if it wasn't for Heights I would have been a firefighter.
I'm sure that if that's the only thing that would have kept you away I think so too.
I wouldn't go for you saw that picture that Nick showed us No things are just and you're just up I don't have that chromosome
no
Wow.
Like I said, I'd be great for like grass fires.
But why do we need that?
I mean, what's the tallest building?
Well, eight stories is 80 feet.
So it's Bellin.
That'd be the.
Yeah.
Bellin's the highest.
The high hospital.
Yeah.
I thought this one over here, the Bellin building, raised a block away.
Oh, here.
OK.
Well, that one's higher.
It thinks it's on the hill, sort of.
Yeah.
Well, I guess you want to shoot down 20 feet.
Yeah.
Well, I guess so.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's high.
Anyway, that's
high.
That's high.
Yeah.
I just, you know.
The hose is like 70 feet.
What am I doing up here?
No, I mean, I'm sure they got that all squared away.
Well, it's pretty cool though with some of the new things they've got.
No, I know
there's it.
We didn't even get to the
that was to Todd Todd next time schedule them for like an hour.
Yeah.
No.
Well, you could have kept him around for this.
So they had to go.
They had to go.
They had to go.
I scheduled them and they said 722 when I saw that they have something at 730.
All right.
We'll
get them on soon.
We'll get them.
And they said they'd like to come back.
Well, I want to talk to those guys.
about a little bit more was the uh the water you know they they have their own boat oh do
they
yeah they do i
don't think i've ever
seen
it yeah it's not
there
with the big water cannons yeah
they they've got to fight
wow
so they've got to rescue from the water we should talk about if they
now that i could do
i
was just gonna say you don't like heights but maybe you could do that but you
don't swim swim
world's big like a PT 109 Jimmy
can't go up
high Japanese.
Got the bad hip.
Yeah, just report on it the next day.
But those are always cool in New York.
We were actually in New York one time when I don't know is when an ocean liner comes in or something and they salute it or and they fired off all those.
Yeah, that's yes.
That was cool.
You can do that with that's not why you get a fireboat.
But yes, that that's
still looks cool.
It
looks cool to welcome the ship.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But I don't know how many, I don't really use that a lot.
I don't know if we have a lot of, if we've ever fought a fire from the water.
I got the question asked out.
Maybe a grass fire, I don't know.
I don't
think
so.
I don't know, maybe that'd be interesting though.
We'll
talk to them about next, that lithium batteries.
We'll
make
a list and then we'll
forget where we put it when we're in next time.
Not even a
question.
They do have the boat, I know that.
Wow, that would be so much fun to go on.
That would be fun, yeah.
I'll tell you what, the boat you want to go on is that police boat.
Yeah,
I
see
that would go up and down here.
And that
thing is good.
I don't know what, two, I don't know what, there's a Mercury's on the back, but that's fast.
Yeah.
I can't do that.
Gizmo says happy anniversary, guys.
Thank you, Gizmo.
Is it officially our anniversary today?
Yesterday.
Yesterday
was okay.
Kind of came and went
though.
Yeah, I thought he was going to walk over us.
We talked about that last
night.
She
said that, you know.
That he's going to bring us
stuff.
But it was nice though, Sage called.
Make
a nice
little
quiche.
Yeah, Sage
called though and that was nice.
Did he call you?
You know, I think he did add my phone up.
I don't think we want to hear from him right now.
He
did call,
man.
I'm just kidding.
But that was a quick two years, I mean.
Yeah,
it's true.
Time goes faster, right?
It's true
percent of your.
But we get is Naomi here, Todd?
Awesome.
We got Naomi Mose, who was just an unbelievable artist.
And she runs the art garage.
Yeah.
Really, really good at everything she does for that.
Got this thing.
Remember on emergency at Johnny Gage?
They always had guys cooking.
Jim, could you you could be doing that?
That's right, you could be the cook.
You could be the cook.
I'd like to do that.
Mino, you could tidy up.
Really?
Take, sample, sample.
You
think I'd be the guy to tidy up,
Todd?
No.
What do you tell me almost every day?
I know exactly where you've been.
I
literally on my vacation got a note.
I walked in and there was cream around the blah, blah, blah.
There was open packets of sugar and Jim left his coffee mug out.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I
know.
That's why we love
you.
But we got this great segment coming up.
It's called I am the Community.
It's brought to you by Insight Eye Care.
Sawyer Street in Oshkosh and Chain Drive in Ampton and Naomi, who is just an incredible artist.
She'll tell us about her later project, but she does so much good for the art garage here in Green Bay, which is such a great area.
And it's on that part of the town that was kind of neglected.
After a while I mean industry was there and then that kind of went away and Be at the buildings and good bones, but the buildings are awesome and she's taken over a couple for her art garage And I just think it's amazing what she has done to bring
Local art and let people have a chance of venue and there's more than just
art in there I mean they and we're gonna talk about that but people need to support those things and you know It's what a difference it can make if another 20 30 people show up for some of these events That's what we need to a little bit more and then the city needs to put a little bit more infrastructure in there to call attention to it when you drive by it looks nice, but different lighting some different yeah curb appeal
Then we got Mike Steepak from Park Sports coming up today and Ashley from Downtown Green Bay.
That's an interesting thing.
They want everybody to sing.
You see that?
This is gonna be good.
Yes.
No audience.
We want everybody to attend to participate.
Yeah.
I like that.
That's a welcoming thing.
I think that's
cool.
Bring your
earplugs.
Wow.
Wow.
Happy anniversary to
you.
Back after this.
the desert's a bad man.
I breathed a mountain airman.
I've traveled life ahead my share man.
I've been everywhere.
From local stories to local voices, we're shining a spotlight on what matters right here in northeast Wisconsin.
It's more than just talk.
It's about connecting with the community.
This is Mino and the Mayor.
Now, here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
We are very proud and honored for I on the community brought to by inside I care Sawyer Street, Nash gosh and chain drive and Ampton improving lines by improving site and we have an awesome person on right now Naomi mose from the art garage Gallery in Green Bay, but you're doing stuff all over and you're just showing us this Titan missile that you're building right now
I'm a nuclear physicist That's
incredible what you're doing.
It's 10 feet
She's gonna be 10 feet tall.
The diameter and that's not that wide.
No, no,
she's
not a big fat
lady.
It's not a totem pole, but it's like it's 10 feet tall and you're honoring.
Well, it's part of a big project part of that Depeer is doing.
Actually definitely Depeer is funding it.
And it's part of that whole development behind Stellas.
chop house, pages and pours, uh, bona fide juicery and, uh, uh, shanta colesa studio.
They're putting in benches, planters, gonna have mirror.
They have the mural already from Andrew Linskins and my 10 foot tall, uh, woman of mother of the earth is going to be there.
She's going to be holding a fawn and she's, I want her to be a little bit more ethnic.
So I think she's going to be very nice.
You can capture it.
You can
capture it.
You can shoot some pictures here.
I don't
know if Todd can get that.
The guy's got to see some pictures, everybody.
Are you showing that
picture?
I mean, because we'll put it on our website.
That's up to you.
Sure.
I can't get it to you.
I'd love to.
This, I mean, that's really cool that DPR, and we love any place that listens to us.
But no, DPR is to honor the...
the history here, the
heritage and
get back to that.
And I think that's really cool that you, it's your design, but that you have this mother earth holding a fawn.
I mean, that really kind of does the whole circle.
Thanks.
Well, it kind of, the whole theme of that, that back area is called the urban forest.
So I'm also working, there's another artist, Shanna Colts, one of my good friends who I've did the art alley with over by Nicky's power and grill.
I was talking about that earlier.
She and I did the collaboration there.
She has her own commission, but she's doing her own digital photography, kind of artistic photography.
So it's going to be there too.
Isn't
that great when a community steps up?
on the art, like definitely to Pierre, of course, get quickly doing that and
anything she touches.
That little town has getting a lot of awards for what they do.
As it should.
And you have a lot of eye candy driving around when you go through
that.
But even when I looked or when I did that book signing behind bosses, which I still think was a horrible mistake Green Bay did by letting them go.
That's an iconic.
But anyway, they had a book signing and it was the same night as their
Like their farmers market type
thing
and just sit in the back.
It would have been just parking lots.
They turned into this really cool thing.
Yeah, they really do.
They're just high charged.
They understand the value of art.
And
they're not alone.
Green Bay's coming along too.
We were getting there.
Green Bay's coming along.
Oshkosh has done a really good
job.
And some of these smaller communities, I don't want to discount smaller, 10, 12,000, but Nina Monashia, they get people like you that are like, hey, look, this.
This is not only great, as you said, eye candy, but it reduces crime.
It brings in a better clientele in terms of
creative people.
There's that personal neighborhood pride.
People want to take care of the sculptures and the murals.
They don't want to do vandalism.
They don't want to do things like that.
And don't you, if you're living in a community where everybody keeps their homes nicer, it makes you feel like I need to keep up with everything else too.
and I see that happening in Green Bay as well.
So
the art garage is where you're headquartered?
Well, no, I'm not
headquartered.
I said she
was the owner and she's
golden.
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm not the owner.
Yeah, the Wendy Wimmer shimmer.
I said, if I had to start being
specific on this show now, I might as well give up my career.
And Lizzie Olsen's our executive director.
She's the one that has got to get the credit for all the things that are happening right now.
I'm just a simple board member.
Well,
we could do it without a good board.
Artist of the board member.
Yeah.
Your art displays you have there, but it's more than just the visual art.
I mean, you can.
Oh yeah.
We have the spoken word with music and right now saw is going on.
And John, you've talked about your support for that saw summer art workshops.
If you have children that are just sitting around all summer twiddling their thumbs, please check us out.
We do have a few openings yet.
It's very successful for us, but.
the more we want to get art to all the children.
Art is so good for everybody.
We just talk about the cities and how when we have art in our cities, how it creates an energy.
Absolutely.
A good energy.
Absolutely.
It's like putting on a little nicer pair of clothes when you go out instead of just looking like a slob or something.
Which I do.
I think
sometimes art, if the parents weren't in art,
They don't think their kid can be, and their kid can be super talented in art.
Oh gosh, I've seen that a
lot.
I can see it in my house.
But it's amazing, and if they can just get that exposure once to the art garage, or to someone like you, and that can open up.
A whole world for them.
And it's not if I just want to say this because Jim and I came to one of your events.
And it
wasn't because I've done other art things at certain places.
There's a little bit of a, what are you doing here?
Kind of nose in the air sort of thing thing.
Okay.
You guys were just the opposite.
Exactly the opposite, which was so cool.
We just want to get everybody involved with us.
And you appreciate people
being there.
We really do.
Because that's the essence of what we are is about
making other people happy and feel good.
Yes, we want to make a low income with it, but I'll tell you what.
We're fine with that.
We get the good endorphins from it.
Absolutely.
And we don't have enough time to go through everything, but the website, people just, this art garage, where do we go just to see what's going on this week?
Not the website, but the reason I'm really here is I have a couple of big things I want to talk about events that I'm affiliated with.
Number one is the art garage has their annual board meeting.
And you came to it last year.
I appreciate that.
It's this Saturday from four to six.
And we'll talk about what we accomplished this last year.
We're having big things happening there.
We're really getting solvent and being healthy.
And with Lindsay as our leader.
I've seen such great growth.
We've created such a niche that hadn't been there that
people that are
really interested
in.
Well, people forgot about us for a while.
In the beginning, I think we had a big hoohaha and then it kind of went down.
It depends, I guess I'd have to say depends on the people that are involved with it too.
Sure.
People talk about nonprofits.
Well, they need money.
You
know,
I mean, people think I just, that just drives me crazy.
I think it's one of the worst.
names we have for an industry is non-profit.
You need to make money.
I mean, because you reinvest your money.
You don't pay dividends
like some
of us in private sector do.
So I just think it's, I think that's fine that you say you're solvent.
And because some of these non-profits are just struggling and struggling.
And if you're making money, people like to give you money if you're making money.
It's weird.
People are.
They want to bet on a winner.
They do.
And they do.
So if you can say, look, we've got.
X amount in the bank, they're like, okay, you guys are gonna be around.
I'm happy to donate.
But if you say, look, if we don't get some money, we
close our doors.
It's
the last cause.
And I think you're, I'm glad to hear you've turned the corner because that did get a little quiet or not dormant, but it got a little quiet.
But okay, well, that's great.
So this board, this four to six thing is for anyone to come and
listen to your successes.
Yeah, every year we need to have one public board meeting.
Yeah, you do.
And so Wendy's prepared a great presentation and Lindsay and Wendy's our president.
And Lindsay Olson is our executive director, as I said.
We're going to have a Shakuta Reboard, raffles and prizes and things.
We really enjoyed it there last year.
Oh yeah, it
was fun.
It was good energy, wasn't it?
Yeah, it was
great.
So four to six
right here
on Main Street.
Right on Main Street.
Yep, okay.
I know I've asked you this before.
What was that building?
Any idea what year it was built?
No, but...
It was a canning company.
Yeah.
Oh, and then Dean's ice cream was right next to it.
Okay.
Yeah, that's right.
That's
right.
That's right.
Okay.
I barely remember that because
I love that building.
Yeah, I do too.
The whole
neighborhood is
cool.
It is very cool.
And we have the compound, which is right next door now.
They bought the building and so we lease back.
So that's another reason why we're more solvent now.
Explain that please.
Well, when you have a big, huge building like that, you're not really utilizing the other side, the other space.
You're paying all that for all that infrastructure and you don't need it.
But what is the compound?
What are they doing though?
I mean
they have event space right and they have been doing a lot of event spaces had one last weekend And they were here and they have a coffee shop in there too, right?
Yeah, the
two I love that little niche part of town
it is and Main Street is actually the arts district.
Did you know that
I did not
well that's it's actually labeled the arts district
Okay, but we have to put some infrastructure in there to call
people who drive by and walk by that
it is the
artistic, you know, like you go, there's arts districts everywhere in the
United
States.
But to call it is one thing.
And I think that's, I think you're right.
I mean, nobody's questioning that.
But I think there just has to be a little bit more infrastructure done, either lighting or landscaping or pavers, something
to
say, like, when you step into on that sidewalk, well, this is different.
Oh, that's in the arts district, you know, and that
doesn't
cause the fortune to.
change that white sidewalk into a red or blue sidewalk.
It doesn't.
I mean,
you can...
Tint it.
That's what they do, and that stuff lasts.
So you're right.
It is the arts district, but I think we just have to make a commitment to the infrastructure out there to make it more of an identity.
It's cool lighting like they did in Oshkosh.
You could do some really cool lighting over there.
And then you say, I'm in this district.
I get it.
You know what
I mean?
Well, there's some people involved with that district.
Hope they're listening.
What else are you going on?
Well, the other thing is, I am, as you know, John, I'm a member of the Green Bay Art Colony, the oldest women's art group.
And we have a wonderful exhibition.
People don't
realize how old this thing
is.
That's over a hundred years old.
That's something.
That's awesome.
Start out with a bunch of cultured ladies having tea parties and painting together.
So it's developed into many multimedia artists now.
We have 28 women artists.
It's all women.
Anyway, we were honored this year to be the first local group to show at the Mulva Center in Dupere.
That's
cool.
And we have our exhibit up.
It's called Art of the Aviary.
And at the exhibition dates are present, the present to August 13th.
Do we keep that here?
Yes.
We have got to get more people into the Mulva Center.
I
know.
That is a beautiful building, and it's for everyone.
And
I think, and look, I love the design, love everything about it, but I think it maybe is a little intimidating, it's not the right word, but I think it's ostentatious, it's a big building, and it's like, it's
not like- And ultra-modern too.
It is, but I think- Which is awesome.
It is, but I think they want it to be like a library.
Like, you don't have any issues walking into a library.
No.
Nobody does,
but that's what it really is.
It's a public-
not public because there's something's going to pay for it, but the food, everything about that is great.
And I just think we got to get more people in there.
So this will get draw some people
through
August 13.
Yeah,
correct.
We had a wonderful reception last Friday.
We had a very massive turnout.
We're very excited about
that.
And just to read an exhibition of artistic interpretations showcasing the Green Bay Art Colony.
Yes.
And that's awesome.
They're going to get some high school choirs in there.
They just, again, that's just a beautiful building and, you know, really privately funded.
And Art
of the Avery.
So it's all bird themes?
Yep.
Birds or flight or whatever.
You know, I used to mount.
I used to be
a... Wait a minute.
What?
Oh.
Careful what you say.
What was that now?
This
is Monchal.
Who did you?
I used to mount Blackbirds.
Oh.
Oh.
Why?
It just... Because I was a tax... I was trying to be a taxidermist.
Oh.
Okay.
So
Naomi
this is are you there explaining it or how do people learn about it or is it self-guided?
You're sticking around the right.
Okay.
All
right.
Sure.
Okay.
We'll hit on that Great having you here Naomi
mose
art garage.
I in the community back right after
this
And Charlie's got a good wife.
And after tonight, she'll no longer be helping the days.
Hey,
welcome back, man of the mayor here at Trekker Thursday with Naomi Mosom, the art garage who's doing great things.
Naomi, I'm just going to turn it back over to you one more time with all the goggles.
There
you go.
All right.
Just think you got so much
going on.
You just put them over your ears.
There
you go.
Okay guys.
The creative artist.
Go ahead
and
tell me what else is on
your summer schedule here.
Well, as the guys mentioned, I'm working on that large sculpture project for Depeer and that's going to be finished by the end of July.
This is going
to be a huge.
dedication
to that because that's so cool.
Tina Quigley, the doctor, definitely Dipir is
going to be.
Everybody knows her.
Yeah, she's a big name.
And she used to be, she
used to be downtown Green Bay.
Yeah, she did.
We miss her.
Yes.
Anyway,
that's great.
Well, good.
Well, you make sure you get back to us on that because that
whole concept is cool.
No,
but
I think that's, that's going to be great.
And I'm really looking forward to seeing that.
Now when you have these kind of projects like that, where is your your client base?
So to speak is it is it a wide-ranging area?
Or is it more Green Bay D. Peer, Ledgeview, Howard-ish?
Because you
guys bring something really unique to this area.
Thanks.
I think especially with the collaboration work I've been doing with my friend, Shanna Colts, you have a story behind the picture, the stories, a story behind the artwork and
I think it's more interesting when you have a sculpture with flat work or 2D work than just a sculpture or just 2D work.
And so it's really, I think, pretty cool.
Well, we had John McGivran come out and photograph and put us on the air for one of his...
He doesn't have too much energy.
No,
no, no, no.
That's bottle some of that.
That guy's awesome.
Yeah, he is awesome.
He just talks to you like he looks you in the eye and he's like, you're the most important thing that's on his mind.
For the
next half hour, there's nobody else in the world but you and he's a great, great interviewer.
And he makes you feel like he really builds you up.
Yeah, and he's...
funny and he's,
you
could do that, John.
He is, he's, he's a good guy.
Love
him.
So he was out there and he, is that aired?
Yes.
You can check it out.
The Dupir X episode is actually from, I think it aired last year, but I've, people have told me they've seen it rotating.
I've
seen it.
It's a great episode.
He goes to St.
Norbert.
He does all that kind of just, you know, I gotta see this.
I haven't seen it.
Oh, you didn't know that?
You can go on my website too, NaomiMoesArts.com, and you can see it there too.
I mean, he's done a few things in this community, Green Bay, and I'm sure Ashwabra and stuff, and
goes
with the truck drivers with the Schneider.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Well, he'll go, he'll do anything to bring out the unique best things in your community.
I just
love him.
I
think he's, he does a great,
great job.
He's been great for the Midwest, that's
for sure.
All
right, so you got this one.
One more
big
one here.
Well, and then, sorry, everybody.
I have also been honored to be part of the Summer, Art, Fall, Summer and Fall Sturgeon Bay Art Crawl.
So this is a little bit of the area, but I'm one of 38 artists that are showing in the Sturgeon Bay area.
That means it goes all the way from Sturgeon Bay to that, Sevastopol and all that, all of that.
That's awesome.
And it's a weekend, so.
For anybody thinking about popping up to Dore County, July 12th and 13th, you don't have to go too far from Green Bay because Sturgeon Bay is, you know, an hour away.
It's a nice little drive.
And the hours are from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
daily.
You know, there are maps all over.
If you go to Sturgeon Bay Art Crawl dot com.
And get 27 different topics
you can go
to.
Right.
Wow.
Now that's cool.
So there's
an art crawl like, okay, then you go place to place.
Is
it 27 different artists?
Yes.
Wow.
Now that's fun.
Yeah, we have 38 artists total, but some of them aren't doing the summer show.
So yeah, it's just, it's just great.
And they,
you talk about you, you're working in arts district at the Eric Raj, but if you look, Door County, Sturgeon Bay, that's kind of an art community.
I mean, they lean into
art.
There's some amazing artists there.
I'm little compared to those people.
I'm just looking at some of their stuff on their
little pictures.
This is really cool.
No, they're a glassblower.
And he's going to be having demonstrations.
Jeremy Papulco and his wife, Stephanie Trenchard.
All right, that's at 12th and 13th.
That's coming up.
Yep.
That's
not very far.
That's why I want to talk about it.
OK, yeah,
we'll get people up there for that.
But we have to get people.
A lot of people are going to go to that
thing.
It's got its own draw already.
But because I'm honored to be part of that, I really want to talk about it.
Where are you at?
I am in the Tambourine Lounge, number nine.
Okay.
And there's four other artists in that group.
All right.
In that, in that building.
But that's just got to be, you're not going to see all that in
one day.
So I just, we have to make sure we can see you.
All
right.
Well, I would appreciate it.
That would make my day.
This is cool, oh man.
I'm serious.
All right.
We can see that.
Would you say it is surgeonbaidartcrawl.com?
Yes.
Okay.
All right.
Let's.
website to pull it all up and there's pictures of all of our work.
And where I'm going to be is in a really nice nucleus of six artists.
There's other studios.
Hey,
we're so well known for packers and drinking beer and brats and whatever, whatever.
There's an art colony up here that's extraordinary, isn't there?
There is.
And not just the visual arts.
I mean, there's the music arts, there's dancing, there's performing, there's just...
Look, Johnny and I are just trying to elevate that a little bit more.
We'll take nothing away from sports.
We love sports.
We've had some great
athletes.
I love sports, too.
I know.
But there's
more to life than sports.
And I
think we just want to, especially for the youth that
I want
to play football.
Well, now there's art.
There's dancing.
There's
music.
Well, haven't I heard some football players took our dance class when they're younger and it's helping with balance.
Absolutely.
No question.
The executives that took music.
Doctors, this guy across the street who
runs this
$6 billion company,
he's an
unbelievable musician.
So yeah, and it all works together.
And
people like
you make people more aware of it.
And I think that's awesome.
Thank you.
So this weekend though, not July?
Yeah, is it?
No.
The open house is the fourth to the sixth to learn about what you're doing at the art garage.
And that's, no,
that is this Saturday, the 28th.
This Saturday.
Okay, this Saturday.
Okay, good.
And that's open to the public.
It's open to the public, the more the merrier.
And what you've done and where you're going.
Correct.
All right, cool.
All right.
Thank you, everybody.
Next year, can I bring some of my silo wood coffee tables?
Say yes,
just to get them off the air.
There you go.
I would love to see it.
Yes, sir.
Thank you.
Thank
you.
You're
the best.
It's great having you on here.
Check it out.
Thank you.
I'm honored that you asked.
Naomi Moe's
Art Garage.
It's fantastic.
Mike Steve Pack from Fox Sports will be joining us
next.
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Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts.
John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Special thanks to Naomi Mose from the Art Garage and a whole bunch of other things that she does.
Really great having her on here.
We want to promote a lot more about the great events she has coming up.
The community wouldn't happen with
all people like
her.
Absolutely.
Her team makes a better play.
There's just
so many people that.
Yep.
Another one that's like that.
Well, sort of.
Mike Steve.
Sort of.
Big Mike.
This is the guy.
Gentlemen, good morning.
Good morning,
sir.
How are you?
I am wonderful.
Thanks for asking.
So were
you at that game yesterday that was legendary?
I was.
Well, it was supposed to be legendary.
I don't know if it really was, but it was exciting to be there.
A lot of people with us.
And it was a good ball game.
And the Miz lived up to his reputation and pitched extremely well.
Scanes didn't have his best stuff at all from the get go.
So it was early on.
You knew it was not going to be this spectacular matchup of pitching performances, but at least the Brewers did win.
Pitt played well, didn't get a lot of hits, but had timely hits in the four run inning.
And it was a nice win.
But this guy, again, knock on wood and whatever, whatever.
I mean, it reminds me of like when Dwight Gooden first came into Major League Baseball or one of those guys where it's like, hey, we can't quite hit this guy.
Right.
I mean, he had his good stuff yesterday.
He was triple digits from the get-go, threw in some great off-speed stuff, and had eight strikeouts in his five innings.
And it was great to be able to see this young talent on the Milwaukee side.
Yeah, because we've seen her against them a lot.
Right.
Some of you against somebody.
Hey, Michael, how's it looking?
What are you doing this fall?
I'll be starting yet another season of working with the NFL on Fox in September, looking forward to the new challenges that the season will bring and just trying to prepare for that in the weeks prior and enjoying summer right now.
You got a pack of games?
Unknown.
We don't really know our schedule at all.
Oh, really?
No, it's just way too early.
There is a production seminar that is in California the first week of August, and that's where we will get our actual assignments for the first probably three to four weeks.
Things could slip out prior to then, and we may get an idea to where we are week one.
The consensus of our crew is going to be in Seattle, but don't know for sure, but it's always an exciting time to find out where you're going to be and the teams you're going to cover.
So don't know yet, but
It was coming down the pipe.
Did you, hey, you were here for the draft, right?
I was not.
Okay, well, you weren't here for the draft.
I was in Italy.
Oh, that's right.
Okay,
how's Pope Leo doing?
We talked about him earlier this morning.
Okay, so Jim wants to get the Pope to level.
Let me explain this.
Go
ahead.
All right, we'll make this quick, Mike.
But, Mike, we have the... He wants to know if you have any pull.
Well, a little bit.
He was just there.
The shrine,
we have... Did you ask if I have papal pull?
Yes.
Right.
So, we have the shrine here in Champion, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Which is sought after.
People come from all over the world to come to the shrine.
It's the only designated shrine in the United States, right?
Everybody goes to Fatima and down to Mexico.
And this is...
Something that we want to get really certified by by Rome by the Pope now that this guy's from Chicago Johnny and I and Todd's in now even though he's Lutheran is Joining the team and we want to bring
the convert for us.
Yeah, he is just for that week We want to get Pope the Green Bay to come to the shrine and have mass at Lambeau Field.
Are you in?
I come We're an altar boy,
of course
Okay, okay.
See we
have another altar boy because
John I volunteer to be one of his altar boys
Yeah, and I my brother's a priest so he's gonna come con celebrate with with the Pope So we're putting the team together, but we got one step first We have to get clearance from the bishop and the annuncio.
Yeah, and that's my job.
So just hang tight put that on your calendar Upcoming visit with the Pope and I'll give you the
day
time
That would be that would be awesome and stranger things have happened
I know.
Couldn't you see
a mass at Lambeau Field?
I could.
I mean, I'm envisioning right now.
Well, he did it at Den, not this poll, but they were there at Denver.
I think New England had one.
Did New England
do
it?
Yeah.
So this could, so Mike, we need your papal connection.
Because you were there last week, not last week, three weeks ago, because you missed the draft.
That must have been.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
We were there.
Turn the funeral the day that the the pope passed.
Yeah, it's surreal.
Oh, that's right.
You were there Wow Yeah, we did and you know, we just obviously as the world had seen a day and a half earlier He was he gave a blessing and he did in St.
Peter's Square and met with our vice president and then all of a sudden we're at this Wow vineyard retreat Having a cup of coffee.
We look up at the big screen and we saw it in in Italian that the
In the Pope had passed and there was it was surreal.
Yes, but while you were there lifelong That's
nothing to do with it Okay, but hey Mike my dream is to go to Italy you've been there Where do I stay off?
What's where should I go?
Cuz I want to go to northern Italy where my family's all from but I the Rome aspect of it doesn't do it for me.
Oh come on I
think I think a trip to Rome is
Necessary fundamental has to happen returning to Rome not necessarily because there's so many other Extraordinary places within the country, but no Rome Rome is impossible to beat because of the history and the culture and the sheer Magnificence of that city.
It's unbelievable and you go into this cathedral and you think oh my god There's nothing more beautiful than this and you go to the next one and it's it's just that there that's their industry and it's It's unbelievable there.
I just loved it
I use this phrase a lot and I'm going to stop using it, but jaw dropping is everywhere you look in that country and in Rome especially because of the beauty and the magnificence of the architecture and the streets and the sections of the city.
But that said, John, there are many other beautiful, remarkable jaw dropping portions of that country.
But back to Rome, and then the food is great.
the wine is awesome, and you walk everywhere, which is, it's a healthy community, I think.
I've been here a couple times.
I had those things you mentioned, the eating and the drinking, the pasta and the wine.
I had my full.
In fact, I think I was asked to leave a couple places, which is not unusual.
However, I lost three
pounds on the trip.
See, because of walking.
Exactly.
Yeah, that's
awesome, Mike.
All right.
All right, anyway, the draft, we'll talk about that.
Yeah, we know you got another Brewer's game today, or what do you got going on here?
No, no, they don't play today, John.
Oh, that's right.
Good day off.
Hey, Mike, are you into the afternoon games or do you like the night games?
I love
them.
I love afternoon games.
Man, me too.
Unless I have plans to stay the night, then it doesn't matter.
But no, no, no.
We, uh, we, uh, spent, and yesterday, uh, we, we bought the tickets, uh, plenty in advance.
Not knowing, of course, the, the matchup was going to be what it was.
But Wednesday is a half price tickets.
So I did have 48,000.
Did I read that right?
For about 42 42,000 for a midweek game.
I mean, that was yeah.
Wednesday afternoon game.
Yeah.
Don't you look around?
Don't you people work?
It was a lecture crowd.
Yeah.
I mean, that was one of the biggest games in major like regular season history.
I've seen in a while for two young phenoms to go head
to head.
Correct.
The headlines were there and.
As I said, both pitchers came out.
Skeens had issues early on, control problems through 51 pitches in his first two innings, and really never had his stuff.
But the Miz was strong from the get-go and five really great innings.
Oh, and by the way, the son of a legendary basketball player from Green Bay.
What's the fourth player taken in the NBA last night?
Right.
Nipple.
Isn't
that something?
Not only one young man two young men from Duke both went
back and just a little over a year ago.
He was playing against like Green Bay Preble Right
unreal it is a phenomenal Occurrence
right so Mike you got you know Fox Sports the leader in that what are you looking forward to this NFL season something that you're like I can't wait for this Some matchups
on the crew seeing the fellas being with them.
Yeah, because that is as important to me
as anything else, the camaraderie we have, the friendships that we have, the communal effort that we have putting on a broadcast and preparing and researching, and the laughs that are endless.
Certainly there are elements like that everywhere in this world, everywhere.
But when you travel from different cities all around the country to meet up in one central location and work from there,
and work on a network television and do professional sports it is never lost remarkable that is that i'm involved with that i'm i've never lost after the thought i've never lost my uh... enthusiasm for that and uh... that's what i look forward to the most senior players of course new offenses uh... the stadiums are always great to visit but truth be told it's the it's the crew
that puts the game on that makes it all worthwhile.
That says a lot about you too.
And we talk about people and I just want to leave this on a happy note, but we talk about people that maybe depression, frustration, but socialization, being with a team is so important in life, not just when you're a kid playing high school or it's when you get older too.
And I just, I think that's great.
I commend you.
I thought you were going to say, I can't wait for this matchup or this quarterback or this stadium, what they did.
But to talk about the team effort that you have with your friends, that's
That says a lot about you.
That's good to hear.
That's great to hear.
It's great to hear.
I hope everybody sees life like
that.
Having a purpose in life is the most important thing we have.
Because I think no matter what level of life you're in, what you do for a living, whether you're a student, whether you work in a factory, you work at the arts department, whatever it is, if you don't have a purpose in the morning to get up and do something,
And it doesn't have to be anything high-faluting or anything extreme.
Just a purpose is the most important thing we have in my opinion.
That's the whole thing
to
thrive.
Great advice.
A lot of wisdom.
Always a pleasure having you on, my friend.
Thank you, boys.
Have a great
weekend and enjoy the summer when it comes
back.
And we'll let you know when the pulp's here.
Alright, I'll probably know it, but
please
do give me a
clue.
Get
your
hassock ready to bring
it out of
retirement.
It's cassock.
Yeah, mine was retired
in
the Vatican.
It's called a hassock.
Yeah, and a scapular.
Alright, thank you, Mike.
See you buddy, you're the best.
I'm out.
Get rid of these guys.
Was it hassock or cassock?
Hassock.
Hassock is the
little ball.
I told you, I told that priest that mine was retired at the Vatican, right?
Yeah, he did.
That they don't even have a wall to blow up.
He didn't know that If they did I'd be
in it.
So yeah, I got my my scapula's retire to Yeah, John, it's like I didn't know they had something like that's like Did you when
you?
Communion you had that yeah that okay.
Those things are cool
too.
So
now that yeah, there's
something wait a minute There was some motioning
what when you
it was a brass
with
a wooden
handle
that you held when people-
For the host?
They used to take communion on the top.
So you would drop the host to the ground.
When we were kids.
And you had to- Did you ever catch one?
Because if they put it on
the top of
those old ladies would sometimes
write their thumbs and
shake and then you had the
piece of
droppin' and you're like- You jabber the jungler a little bit.
But you couldn't like to go, got it!
You couldn't do
that.
You had to just like give it back to the priest and- Oh yeah.
Oh, we got the Ultra Boy stories for you.
I was
an-
I was an- I was- I'm in the Ultra Boy Hall of Fame.
I would have- No.
If there
was one- My cast act's been retired.
I'm telling ya.
Back after this.
Sometimes,
because it worth a dime If you don't
pay your bills Sometimes the lights all shining on me Hey, welcome back, my name is the Mayor, here on Trucker Thursday
Todd, you said Mike Steepak called back to correct us on something.
Well, he wanted you to know that, that little thing you were talking about that you apparently, is that where you're carrying the host down then?
Is that what you do?
No, it
was there in case they dropped it,
in case it pulled out of their mouth, it was always dropped.
And Mike called it and said, tell Mino and the mayor it's called a pallet.
No, it's not.
But, okay, I'll, we'll get back to Mike.
He isn't, he's not, I don't think he's in the Ulterboy Hall of Fame.
I don't think he is.
So,
well,
okay.
Are you?
Yeah.
There isn't such a thing.
There is.
I told the priest that.
That's what we'll do with the fire station down here, right?
You'll get the fire station.
We'll do a Hall of Fame for... I
like this.
I like this a lot.
We get Ashley joining us, and I think Ashley's thinking, what in the heck did I just walk
into?
This is very out of context, so I don't know exactly what's going on here.
Midwest Music Connection.
I'm not even going to try your last name, and I know offense.
No, just Ashley from Midwest Music Connection.
I answered to that.
That's fine.
All
right.
Ashley K. One day quart this.
You were telling us during the break and I said, no, hold off.
This is too good to tell us to put it now.
Tell us about this event you're doing that's coming up.
Sure.
So this one day choir is organized by myself and my sister, Jennifer.
Okay.
And we basically get people together to sing for just a couple hours.
Okay, now let me just back up just for your short Midwest music connection.
Is that your company?
That is our organization.
Your organization, okay.
Yep.
And it's very low commitment because we're all busy adults, right?
Okay.
And
we send out practice videos ahead of time so people can practice and learn their parts.
And then we just get together for an afternoon and sing together.
So it's very community-based, you don't have to be a professional, and it's for connection and just for the joy of singing.
So when you get back together, it's four-part harmony
then?
Right now we're doing three-part harmony.
Yeah, we need some more guys.
Send some guys our way, then we can add a second guy
there.
Take these two with
you.
Don't expect
much.
You're welcome
to
come.
What what is the song that you're going to?
Sure sure so usually to pick two pieces to do one is more of a down tempo Ballad and then one is more of like a power anthem.
So this time we are singing titanium, but we arranged it ourselves.
So it's more of a down tempo soulful cool
A ballad and then we're doing from now on from The Greatest Showman, which is an uptempo, dancing
in the Isles
type thing.
Yeah, so we do have like... So it is, it's a contrast.
We
hear that.
So yeah, it's a contrast of...
one slow song, one fast song, and then we run the pieces, we run the parts, kind of have a practice run through, and then we sing.
And it's, there's no audience, that's the thing.
Everybody who shows up sings.
Yes, everybody who shows up sings, and a lot of these people don't know each other.
Right, do they?
Does anybody solo?
Like, never enough?
Right.
The greatest showman, never enough, which is like one of my favorites, but that whole movie where...
Play, I guess.
Always.
The soundtrack is on repeat at my house.
It is.
It's great.
Yes.
Does anybody solo or is it all?
It is.
OK.
That's a really good question.
And we actually just talked about this.
My sister and I.
Because I'll come,
but
I'm
just kidding.
Everybody that comes, everybody's so talented.
And some people have experience, right?
But we decided that there's not gonna be any solos because it goes away from the idea of being one voice, okay?
This is a community.
This is not for showing off really.
A lot of people come just to have this outlet to sing together.
And we don't want to highlight just one person.
So it is definitely a group intimate atmosphere.
Which is great.
And at the end
of the day, that's the best thing to do, although
our egos are gonna get hurt in the beginning.
But that's okay, I'll get through that.
The people who come though, you don't want shower singers in there.
I mean, you want people, you don't want tone deaf people.
I mean, you want
people who can sing.
Okay, well, here's the thing.
Oh, watch it.
Oh, watch it.
That's
what I was talking about.
Is he pointing at me
from behind?
I had to call out my name.
But talk about it.
Sure.
It's for everybody,
but is it?
It's for everyone, yes.
And I think our culture
has it a little backwards where you think you have to be good in order to do something, right?
And no, granted, if you're getting paid to do...
Singing or being an entertainer you have to be kind of good if you're getting paid for it But I think you know if people don't believe they're good at it They just don't do it and that's so sad to me that you lose a lot of the opportunity for the joy and connection the art of music so
really
What you said
is
beautiful.
So we want the people who have experience, that's great.
Yes, we need people to carry, but we also want the people who sing in their cars.
We want you, the people who just enjoy jamming out by themselves.
That's the energy we want, right?
Did you talk
about a guy you sat by in church who just thought he
was
belt and it was... That's kind of
loud.
You know, it's like, and I didn't, you know, it's church.
You really can't say anything.
No.
Yeah.
So, you know, we were Lutheran as we've pointed out this morning, but there's this one old lady, right?
Just, she would sing out and it was always off and...
It would crack my sisters and I am so hard.
My dad, my dad would like elbow us like to stop.
And then all of a sudden you'd look over and dad was bent over, you know, laughing.
Yeah,
totally.
How
was that person?
Oh, you think that I'm tone deaf?
Well, I don't think I know you.
Hey, what about the ages for your group?
Sure.
So we want ages 15 and up because we want adults.
Okay.
Um, and this was beautiful.
We had last time we had a.
daughter, a high school daughter, come with her dad.
So it's something they could do together.
We do have a family that comes, brother, sister, mother.
So it is for adults or- And do they
know the songs are going to be singing before
they come in?
Yes.
So we produce practice videos.
Okay.
So you kind of mentioned earlier, I wasn't sure, but that's okay, go ahead.
My sister's more of the public.
Okay, you're gonna have to hold that.
Hold on a second.
This is really interesting.
It's gonna
be a
fun, it's a cool event.
Midwest Music Connection.
I could see you and your daughter.
I think I could too.
Yeah, and me and my
daughter.
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Man, we've had some phenomenal guests today.
Just fantastic.
And Ashley Kay is cream of the crop, I think, with your energy.
Thank you.
Wow.
You have a little energy.
Naomi, I'm sorry, Naomi.
It's a tie.
It's a tie.
Even I thought the Fire
Chief came in
with some energy today.
The impact was awesome.
Yeah.
So we're talking, we'd love events, right?
And Johnny and I
really, Oshkosh, Appleton, Green Bay, we like to talk about what's great about, there's so many things great about.
this whole area, but unique events and you've got, yours is kind of different,
right?
There's nothing like this around the area.
So
let's talk about it again.
I think everyone likes to sing.
Some people can and some people can't.
Did he just do something?
I
can look
at
the recording.
We recorded the show.
It's in this video.
I'm not touching this with a 10 foot pole.
But
you have an event.
That allows people to sing and kind of a little bit professionally
together to bring it
together for three hours and put on a tremendous
Yeah, it's not even a show, because we'd have no audience.
That's the thing.
That's
just kind of keeping me away.
Yeah.
Oh, really?
You want to?
No, I just go ahead.
We do video record it, so we can share it.
Right, that's the audience.
You know?
But we did do, after our last one, we did a poll, and it was very split whether they wanted an audience or not, because it's singing is such a vulnerable thing for people to get up and sing, especially if you haven't done it in a long time.
So in this small group, you kind of have that safety net.
and it's very less intimidating when there isn't.
a bunch of people sitting there expecting.
And again, that's why I think our culture is kind of screwed up, is you have to do it to perform.
And we do it for joy.
I just want to
read your mission statement.
Right.
Not for performance.
No audience.
We encourage all attendees to participate in the music.
Let's make music together.
Yes.
And it's for connection, for meeting like-minded people who are there that enjoy music.
So it's really cool.
Yeah, there's a place on the East Coast that we kind of follow that we're like, oh, that's cool.
Can we bring it to
our area.
And we did.
And the feedback was just phenomenal from like, Oh, I forgot how much I love to sing to life changing.
And I just want to read your
press release here.
Whether you're a seasoned vocalist or just love to sing in the car.
This event is for you with practice videos provided ahead of time.
Participants will arrive ready to sing, connect and celebrate the power of community through music.
This event is all about the joy of singing together says Jennifer Schoeman of Midwest Music.
That's my sister.
Yeah.
Yeah.
She's the public outreach person.
She is even more energized than me.
I'm the behind the scenes person.
So I do all the, the graphics and the editing and the reels.
And I like doing the behind the scenes.
She is like, she's the one that finds our people.
She's the one who
comes out of her shell.
We wanted to create a fun, welcoming space where anyone can come meet new people, make something beautiful in just a few hours.
Don't miss this unique chance to be part of something inspiring and musical.
Bring your voice, bring a friend, and join us for an unforgettable afternoon of harmony and connection.
Find us on Facebook by searching One Day Choir Event Green Bay or email jennifer.shomin at gmail.com
for
more information.
This once again, it's Saturday, June 28th, from 11 to 2 at the Compound in Green Bay.
Right off Main Street.
It's a beautiful space.
It's a big open area with a lot of natural lights.
And the acoustics are awesome.
We love those buildings over there.
And we love that whole neighborhood.
That's the whole arts area, which
is, that's very cool.
It's very fitting.
Right, that you picked that.
Someone's going to, they're listening, like, I want to get the music.
How do they know if they want, you know,
lead tenor, whatever.
I don't know what the categories
are.
You have soprano, alto, and then the guys.
Again, we need more guys than maybe we can split that into two parts, too.
Okay, I got it.
The soprano's part is usually your melody.
It's a little higher, but if you're new to it, we usually suggest the soprano part.
The alto part's a little bit lower, and you're going to find a lot more of those harmonies in there.
So if you want something a little more challenging, one of those songs we're doing, the alto part has some of the melody as well.
I just, they pick one and kind of go with it.
And that's why you can listen ahead of time on the practice videos.
Oh, you send all
three?
We do send all three.
Oh, okay.
Well, that
answers my question.
Yeah.
All right.
Yep.
So it's a playlist on our YouTube page.
Okay.
And we just send you the link.
And then
one that you're comfortable with.
So
I have a
little idea, maybe.
if I can get that information from you.
Maybe
I'll have it here, and then tomorrow morning, you guys can practice
on here.
Oh, that'd be so cool.
Absolutely, I'm
in.
What a great idea.
That's why I'm
the producer
of the show.
We dedicate our last hour of our show on Fridays to music.
Oh, we have Dennis from
the Glam Band
hosted.
We'll
do this
very
bright and early when
nobody's listening.
We'll do it from,
maybe even before we go on the air.
5.50.
Wow.
Really cool that you're doing it.
You got the idea.
You and your sister obviously get along very
well.
Are you
both in
music?
I am.
So I teach.
I teach at Appleton Rock School.
They're actually one of our sponsors.
They also have a Green Bay location.
So check them out.
And we take all ages from preschool to retired folks.
That's what I was
talking to you about,
John.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful people.
I just drove
past them recently.
I saw their building.
OK.
Is it on Mason?
It's on.
This location's on Main Street.
Main Street, yes.
Yep.
So.
Because I've been
to Southern Billboard with the thing.
And it's like, hey, that sounds like
kind of
people we should get on our show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I teach there.
And I do therapeutic music for nursing homes and things like that.
So I'm around music all the time.
And my sister just loves music.
And music was our life when we were growing up.
We did choir.
We sang in church.
We did pep band, things like that.
And then after high school, you just kind of stop.
people do, like you kind of get out of it.
And we wanted to have the opportunity to come together to do it again.
People our age, right?
That, you know, may have been out of it for a while, but don't have a whole lot of time to
commit.
I
wish you had more enthusiasm for this.
Yeah, I want to
get up for this.
This
is awesome.
It sells itself.
It really does sell itself.
And you got to be there to, when you're there, it's magical.
Like it really does come together.
Even me and my sister, we just, whoa.
Is there a
cost to the, it's got to be a cost
to this.
We are off taking donations, give as you feel.
So if you go to our Eventbrite event, there's a link for that.
And our suggested donation is $20, because that will help pay for our space, because we are renting the space out.
But we also provide a couple treats.
We have a couple surprises coming in on Saturday.
So we do hope to
give
a little bit so that we can support this event.
The
$40 for date night?
That's a lot
of fun.
Father Daughter is what I was talking about
too.
That's what I was
talking about.
Two people.
Yeah, absolutely.
Because we do, we put a lot of time into this, but we love it.
Like you can just, we really get up.
The music that
you pick, which is, I think that's interesting.
We don't pick, we let the people vote on it.
So the people in our current one day choir, we send feedback forms and then we give them a list of songs and we vote on the next one.
Wow.
Very democratic.
It is.
But we want to serve the people.
Jim's against that.
No, I'm going to tell you what songs.
I'm going to tell you.
I would look at other options.
That's fine.
Wow, that's kind of cool that they picked.
Yeah, we gave them a list that they picked from, but we want to, we want the people to come back, right?
So we want to get- See, there would only be one on my list.
That's called
socialism.
This is the list, there's one.
Everybody
votes.
Right, but last time we did a greatest showman song, we did This Is Me, which is a very power ballad and a power anthem.
And then they wanted to do another greatest showman song because, right, it's so good.
So we're like, okay, I guess we're doing another greatest showman song, but it fits.
really the theme for our songs is kind of like self-empowerment, you know, strength and numbers, community.
I was just gonna say, it seems
like this is the kind of thing that everybody that comes to that and performs, they want that community support and want
to
be a
part
of
something.
The power of song, that's why I said, if you do never enough next year, I'm definitely gonna sing that.
Okay.
What's that by?
It's
great to show man, but it's a lady that sings it.
Hit those high notes.
I know, I'd be
tough.
We got you, we got
you.
But again, what did you say, 16 was the minimum age?
15 and up.
15 and up, okay.
Yep, yep, yep.
This is so cool.
I hope this
is, I mean, we're
glad you're on here.
We're glad to promote.
I hope more people pick up on this because I think there's a lot of people, if they knew about this, they'd be like, hey, let's
do this.
Right, and this is just our second event.
We got together in March to do one, mostly to get some old friends together.
We pulled in some people from the community.
Hey, you wanna join us?
And they're, everybody has such a good time.
They're like, oh.
When's the next one?
When are you doing it again?
I'm like, yes.
Well, what is
Midwest Music Connection that you're wearing on your shirt?
Yes.
That is our organization.
OK.
Because people are like, who are you doing this through?
We're like, well, it's just me and my sister doing this.
We have to name it something.
OK.
So we came up with Midwest Music Connection because we want to expand it to all over.
We want to pull people in.
We have some connections in Madison.
We would love to expand to doing it in another city.
Did you guys either
want to perform professionally at one time?
I mean, I play a lot of weddings, and I accompany people.
Oh, that's what you do?
You sing at weddings?
I mostly play piano.
Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
But I teach piano, I teach voice, I teach ukulele, and a little bit of drums, so.
Wow.
Yeah.
You're
pretty,
that's it.
So I guess I'm professional.
I don't know.
I teach really for self.
Betterment self care self, you know for wellness and outlet a creative outlet.
So that's how I teach What are you doing
next Thursday?
When I
when I sing I hear magic.
Oh, yeah,
I think my voice sounds like butter.
Oh, yes,
you know what I mean?
And
then I love that for you.
I love that other
don't
hear it.
It's lying
Wow, I know we got time.
I'm playing this for you John Mm-hmm to sir with love
I just want her to
okay, okay,
but how do I tell someone who is taking me from crayons to perfume?
Here's my view, okay?
Did he turn off the music or was that John?
I just can't tell.
Ashley's over here.
She's digging a huge smile on her face like
a
teacher would be.
Jim's over here is squinting and wincing at the whole
thing.
Like
the bully of the class.
Exactly.
Yeah.
My job is to encourage you to do what you've got.
We need
more
of you in
the
studio.
Can
you hear every morning?
Oh, thank you.
And it's really when you are...
performing or singing, if you don't have that.
Fun factor, it's no good.
Like you got to sell it, right?
Yeah, yeah when you're into it Other people feed off of that you can tell and that's what makes it good.
You know one reason though I I struggle a little bit sometimes with certain tunes There's time.
Oh, it's called tones.
It might just be out of your vocal range.
Yeah, but you know
what the nuns I had nuns So mean I mean they're like incredible.
You always hear those tourists, but I had the really old nuns with the big old habits Okay,
my dad had a piano teacher was a nun.
She whacked him with a
ruler
The one the one she gave me a D in music told my my mom I was terrible I should never open my mouth and for every class I washed the blackboards Well, the other kids were singing and I was like I was quietly tears my eyes
Washing the
blackboard
I think we've talked so much about religion today.
I
think
The Pope.
We're bringing the Pope.
We're bringing the Pope to Green Bay.
Great.
He can come sing with us.
There you go.
No,
you can say he's going to do Mass at Lambeau Field and you can help
lead one of the choirs.
Oh, yeah.
Let's do it.
We're trying
to
come up with slogans.
Yeah.
We're going to, we'll get you
guys.
You have nothing?
You have nothing?
I'm like, I'm sure you can come up with a couple things.
I
think the Bishop already called us to tell us to knock it off.
Ashley, can you stick around or do you got
to go?
No, I'm here.
You got me.
Yeah, thanks.
Stick around, please.
Coming up tomorrow morning on Mino and the Mayor.
Mark Houston's in from Implify by Bell and Health.
Talk a little bit of sports medicine.
Katie Compton's in from the Malva Center for the Arts.
Update us on that.
Got live music in the Daddy D live music series.
And also T.J.
Bolts in tomorrow morning.
Talking Rastlin'.
That's tomorrow morning with Mino and the Mayor six till nine on WGBW and WISS.
It's time for a church chat.
Well, we're great.
I make all the fun of me you want church lady and this is
church.
Yeah, we're going to look at the thing from Terry.
Make it stop for the love of God.
Make it stop.
We're going to have some Pope Leo chat pretty soon.
We're at Ashley.
Yes.
I'm
going to pronounce your last name.
You don't even have to, just don't even try.
Oh, hey, good job.
Pretty close.
Yeah, that's how I go with.
If you're doing the Polish version, it's klekiewicz.
Klekiewicz.
I like that
a lot.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
But
Midwest Music Connection, love your energy, love your passion, love what you do for so many kids.
Because, you know, that's one of those fun kind of classes if you're good at it.
It's not so much fun if you're not good at it.
And I could see you being a really good teacher.
It's high energy.
It's high energy and you have to go in with zero expectations.
See
what's beautiful about Ashley is she makes every kid feel like they're good at that's what I
mean She wouldn't be
like a
nun.
Yeah a friend of mine who is a priest great piano player He was a kid and then it nun said to him his hands because
Your hands are too big.
You'll never be a piano
player.
Like, shut him down right away, and he is a
really good piano player.
But, you know, I mean, come
on.
As a kid, that does damage to a person.
Yeah,
you'll never be a good piano
player.
Right.
Trust
me, you're preaching
to the choir
here.
Well, Ashley, one more time.
What else do you guys have going on with the Midwest music connection?
Sure.
So we are our big event right now is our one day choir.
That's the Saturday.
Right.
Okay.
We also have a karaoke night coming up in July at Annapy Brewery.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
We just we rented a room.
We're going to come do karaoke.
Very informal just for the fun of it.
So what
is your you're kind of like I always hear this term.
I don't really know what they are, but what is your mission statement?
to speak with Midwest Music, Ganesh, because you got day jobs, too.
Oh, yes, we do.
We do.
So it's to bring people together for the joy of singing and the joy of making music.
Right.
The mission statement is why we exist.
The vision statement is where we're going.
And you talked a little bit about where you're
going.
You want to
get this thing rolled out
to the rest of the state.
That would be so cool.
That's very cool.
Because every city you go to is going to have a different.
Every time we do this thing, it looks different.
It's never the same twice.
Tell me about that.
I just
want to say one thing about passion with people like that.
Jim's daughter is a big time doctor in New York City.
Okay.
I asked
her what
day she was here.
If you had your choice, would you still be a big time doctor in New York City?
Or would you be performing at the Weidner and sing?
She goes, are you kidding
me in
a
heartbeat?
She wants to perform.
Yeah.
There's a theater like you.
It's into their blood.
She reminds me a little bit
of you.
She's just
high energy, 30 years old, which I got.
I'll be 40, so.
OK, well,
just
West Side
Story.
Sure.
But all this growing up in theater,
music,
violin.
And when your kid sits down, Dad, I don't know if I want to.
going to, you know, music theater or medicine.
As a dad, it's like, let's
try the medicine.
That's a rough one.
Yep.
And a lot of times you, the culture is so, if you're not tip of the top good, you can't make it on just that.
She did go to
Interlochen, which kind of is like, that's where the best of the,
and Michigan,
right?
Yeah.
And they got kind of knocked down a little bit.
It's like, you're not, you're the lead in your high school.
We go there
and you're in the chorus, you
know?
What I want to say is that the, and I don't know what she's going to end up doing, but like you, you are passionate and you're going to stay probably in your career.
And
I
just hope she's really, really happy.
Oh, right.
Right.
And that's hard because you can have your job, but then you have to have something else to give you that joy because your job will suck the humanists right out of you.
Right.
She's
happy being.
Right.
I'm sure she's happy helping people.
My
point is that that theater can really, really, really get in your.
Right, right.
And for us, because we aren't professionals, right?
We don't do this as a paid job.
Our idea was create what you want to be in.
Like, so we're like, we want to sing.
We want to sing with other people.
Let's make this happen.
And we just, there it is.
I think that's awesome.
I think what you're doing is awesome.
And I get a feeling you guys are gonna get as big as you.
want to get.
Oh, thank you.
Because
what
you're doing is you're providing what they all say in business, provide a service they can't
get anywhere
else.
Right.
And that's what you're doing.
It's very unique.
Yeah.
So, and it takes both of our talents to make it work.
Right.
Because Jen is that outreach person that brings in the people.
I'm the behind the scenes.
I make the graphics.
I make the videos.
I do all the computer
stuff.
So, yeah, like, like, you're not a bad promoter.
Right.
Thank
you.
So, you're providing a need for where there's a want, but
for
us in the hood, we just say you're scratching.
in a niche.
Right.
It is great because people do want to sing.
People want to sing, people want to meet other people.
That are like.
That are like-minded, yep.
That's great.
I'm happy for
you.
I'm proud
of what you're doing.
Thank you.
We're so excited.
Tell
everybody where and when
one more kind of place.
Sure, sure.
So it's this Saturday and we're going to be at the compound in Green Bay.
That's off of Main Street.
Right by the art garage.
Right.
It's really connected to the art garage and there's coffee there too, Sifini coffee.
Nice little coffee shop.
It is.
It's
so cute there and they're so nice.
And so helpful it starts at 11 a.m.
And it goes to 2 p.m.
So it's three hours.
We're gonna perform our two songs And just have some some social time and it's just it's everybody's
they're gonna have the same passion.
They'd like make
music Yes, and Jen and I we get so jacked up on this we can't sleep for a couple weeks after just because we're so buzzin
I know.
I know.
So we're in
it.
Well, look into some doggy donors.
We are going to get you back here because you are fun.
You're
interesting.
And I think Dennis Peters from the Glam Band is going to.
He's
very passionate about you.
That would be cool.
Those guys are fantastic.
And
he's as good a guy as he is a musician and a performer.
That's cool.
Yeah.
The local music scene here is just phenomenal.
Like you don't have to go anywhere.
It's all there's a lot right here.
And you're right about that.
And the more we get.
people on here, the more it's like, wow, you're from here?
You know
what I mean?
They're that good.
Right, right.
And it's, and we've had people on from the mile of music and just all these other things that are going on.
And Oshkosh does a great job with music.
So yeah, thanks for doing this.
I mean, this is, and you're, you're, you talk about the youth, you know, I think sometimes we're, but you teach, sometimes
I think we're,
we're overshadowed a little bit with.
emphasis on sports, whereas you're bringing in the arts to
that.
And I
think to do both, I think is really
healthy.
I didn't
mention
something.
Oh, go ahead.
I was actor of the year at Masabi State Junior College.
Nine kids in his class.
I played George of Mysa Men.
George of the Jungle.
And I was in Huck Finn.
That's a big deal.
I played
Jim.
Yes.
That's awesome.
That's rain.
It's unbelievable.
Ashley K, you are awesome.
Midwest Music Connection.
We'll promote this again tomorrow.
You're coming
back.
Absolutely.
You're
coming back.
Thank you so much.
We'll bring her next time.
It'll be a party.
Oh, boy.
Thanks for having me.
Jim and
Elle, take that day off.
Perfect.
I love it.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Might of the
Mary, back in tomorrow morning.
See ya.
