Dreams, Diets, and Digital Futures (Hour 1)

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Dreams, Diets, and Digital Futures (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Fri Jun 27, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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John Maino

Good morning.

Happy Friday to you.

Happy for our last Friday in the month of June.

I'm sorry.

I love June.

Everybody loves June.

Has this been a

crappy?

Absolutely.

I was thinking that on the way in this morning because they hit a little rain, you know?

Yeah.

Tots.

It was gone last week.

It goes, man, Michael, that's Friday.

I'm like, dude, this is your first week back.

Is it?

Is it?

We're on like

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a speed cycle of how quickly we get worn out through the course of a week.

We're on fast forward.

You don't get fast forward through a movie.

But next week's going to be short week.

Yeah.

Four days.

You know, it's fun.

And this would be like an old lazy guy thing.

Great.

All right.

Tell us, John, how you're looking at life.

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When you find a new.

Cable channel type thing and there's like old TV shows and stuff on you hadn't seen on other Channels like I just got prime because I wanted to watch some basketball games Caitlin Clark basketball games.

So You know the show I watched from start to finish now better call Saul Yeah, just yeah, I It's

a

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takeoff from Breaking Bad.

Yeah, Breaking Bad.

Yeah, I have never seen that

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but that's what I'd like to sit and watch sometime when

you got it, but

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just

But I couldn't

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sleep last night till so I think it was 321 this morning.

Oh, what I turned just guy you got like told you I got so much going on in my head and I'm trying to sort out with different things and I got up at 110.

Yeah, and

after

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the

show,

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huh?

Were you up ever since?

Yeah, yeah,

but I had to get some stuff done.

I sent Anyway, yeah

Get some other stuff done and some of the stuff had to be done by the end of the month and some real estate stuff So I got done

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anyway,

I didn't sleep

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favorite listener one of our favorites says let's go

Yes,

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Vinny says good morning fellas.

All right.

Who else we got there morning guys?

Jason hello Jason.

Well, we're gonna give you our money's worth.

I guarantee that We're gonna give you our money's worth

Like so

I go to uh

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volunteers I go to festival yesterday just to get a salad just wanted a salad and It's a good start.

Yeah,

like salad bar or a pre-packaged

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or what?

They don't really have a salad bar anymore, right?

Or you can make your own.

Oh, I thought since COVID that's all been shut down But they don't sell the Chilean stuff anymore.

Do they they have soup?

I don't do they yeah, I thought you couldn't do that Yeah, okay.

We should have done that because salad in the plastic thing isn't cheap

I was gonna

say, when you said salad, I'm

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thinking this is gonna be expensive.

However, that salad bar, you know, it's done by weight, so I guess that kind of cheese is not cheap either.

But

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anyway, so I was just, I could buy the salad, and then there's a big thing of tuna salad with the noodles, you know, the big seashells.

Yeah.

Oh,

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that you should make.

I think

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I'll buy one

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of those.

And then there's the coleslaw, and it's like, ooh, that looks good too.

So I thought, I'm gonna be so good, I'm having a salad.

I ate all three of them for lunch, one after another.

Yeah, how much did you spend?

It was over 20 bucks.

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It was like 26 bucks or something.

Yeah, I know.

But you say, I'm so good.

I'm

so

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healthy.

I'm just going to spend three of them.

But the funny thing is, I said, oh, I'm good almost through the weekend.

By nine o'clock last night, three empty containers sitting next to my couch.

That's my problem.

If I've got food in the house,

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I got to eat it.

Yeah, I've

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got to eat it.

Same with me.

Last night.

I don't know if it's not a disease, but it's not.

It's from growing up and you had to eat everything on your plate.

And you didn't waste anything.

So if it's sitting in the fridge.

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I don't ever, the only leftovers I ever remember in my life was meatloaf.

Cause we loved day old meatloaf sandwiches.

Everybody wanted those for their lunch.

I was grilling last night and it all of a sudden, I didn't know it was going to rain.

It poured.

Oh my God.

Lighting and thunder and crazy.

But it didn't, it didn't start.

It just came down at once.

I actually got up,

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watched TV or whatever, and I got up and looked out my door.

Is that crazy?

I had to grab a plate for my umbrella to put over my head.

Didn't really work.

That was so bad.

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Can I just say something?

I don't mean this personal.

Well, the size of your head, that had to be a big plate.

Is that like the one you put the

hand on?

And it's pretty good, ladies and gentlemen.

She said I grabbed a platter.

Not a worthy Easter platter.

Turkey

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just throwing that out there.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anyway, yeah, I couldn't believe how much it was.

I mean pouring.

Oh, man.

Didn't last all that long, but long enough to take the

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food.

Yeah.

Boy, you know, it's so dangerous that people don't.

Although I will remember last week, Jim, I walked down to like quick trip here, you know, cross.

Well, not just to get a little whatever.

And I was walking there and it was really hot and humid and all these nice boats were on the water right down the thing.

By the time I got done it quicker as walking back, something had just changed like nothing.

And you want to see people hurrying off the water.

But then there was a thing in, was it Texas, Todd or Illinois, 10 kids in a lake, all got electric or they didn't all die.

But two of them are still really hospitalized.

But just, and you forget about that sometimes, even though your parents always told you if it's lightning, get out of the water.

Oh

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yeah.

But I mean,

they were just

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like.

by the water and it like skipped and hit them or something.

But that's the only time they do golf, they packer games, they go to football games, they clean it out.

Lightning is unbelievably dangerous.

It really is.

That's, yeah, you don't, marathons, you know, lightning, they're like, you know, they delay it.

That's, yeah, we haven't figured that out.

Well, high school football.

Same thing.

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They had those meters.

How far away it is.

Do they have that Georgia two time

when you do games?

Yeah,

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they take that real serious.

They should.

Yeah.

Yeah, they do.

You don't.

Okay.

Can I. Okay.

When I go to hell or not a hell.

Purgatory.

Purgatory though.

But if you go to purgatory, you.

Okay, now back to more Catholic

information.

This is Catholic guilt.

Some people don't.

If there is a purgatory and I can't believe you need people on earth praying for you to get one way or the other.

Goodness.

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No.

I'm living that to you.

Or, John, I think we all know where you're going.

God, it's gotten hot.

Anyway, so, yeah,

and

I think there's a, I don't know you all that well, but I think there's a chance that you could.

I did something bad.

Me too.

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So, remember you do live shots in TV or radio, and that was always a big concern too, because we put those big antennas.

Yeah.

Oh, man, I got stories.

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Oh, that's what I mean.

I mean, people have died in the business.

There's a whole thing about that.

I mean, it's like putting up a lightning rod and an electrical cord that you're holding coming from it.

I mean,

that's crazy that

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I know, but it's so anyway.

So I'm doing I've got a live shot set up at Timberattler's game with Jose Conceco's brother Ozzie Conceco and I had my photographer wonderful.

What are the nicest guys who passed away so young?

Jerry Van Handel and Jerry was setting up.

I was in Green Bay.

Because in case that went down, I would be in the studio because of the weather, okay?

So Jerry calls it, he goes, hey, it's looking really nice.

He's one of those huge guys, but really, hey, John, it's looking kind of nasty, really dark, and the sky's a little concerned.

It's everything okay.

So I go to Chad and go, hey, John, just tell me, I got my, I got a live shot.

I really need this live shot, nothing else, blah, blah, blah.

He goes, oh, there's some stuff moving in.

What time you on?

I go about 20 after he goes,

A few minutes later, I would break it down.

John said, you're fine.

Listen, anything for the broadcast.

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Because you know what?

You want to know a panicky feeling that I still get dreams of that I had this week.

You got to go do your show and you get nothing prepared.

And it's like, go do a test or do whatever.

I still have those nightmares.

You're only a true, I think you're only a true broadcaster.

If

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you have those.

If you

have those.

Isn't that something?

And my dreams.

I have those, okay.

It's a Gono studio.

It's a studio I've never really been in before.

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I

can't find the right CD.

I forgot my glasses, so I can't.

It's always at one radio station.

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Really?

And it's right down the way here.

W-Y-X-X.

In the B-A-Y building or the other building?

Well, it's in the B-A-Y

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building because

that's where I worked.

Wow.

But every time I have that panic dream,

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it's there.

It's true.

People don't realize that about that business how you're flying without a safety net and you have however many people out there that want to be your critics or whatever and It's not just even out

there even in the building

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even

in the building.

Yeah, right?

Maybe more so in the building.

Yeah, if you're dreaming that today, you know Read those books on what it means.

That means you're you're not prepared for something or there's something that you need to do something.

Yeah, there could be like a

You know, I'm saying that it could be.

Yeah, I don't know.

But they say we're the same

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ones if it's sorry for a test, if they didn't study, you

know, I

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get that dream.

And yeah, sure enough, I've got something I'm behind on at work or something I got to do.

You know what I mean?

And I get that.

That is a scary dream, though.

And

it's a

scary, scary

dream.

Because you don't.

I don't.

And it's

like, wait a minute, we're having a test today.

And you could.

You can give every detail.

Oh, my God.

I can see the test detail.

Looking around, it's like, everybody knows except me.

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So I was back.

So in that dream, I'm going, I'm on the set.

And I think it's J. Johnson.

I mean, it's so vivid turns to me.

What's in sports?

And I make up the whole thing.

I make the whole man.

But you know what?

I could probably do that in a certain way.

You could.

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But it's still that thing of not being prepared, not having that thing.

Who else has those?

Let us know off their texts.

If

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anybody else, what you do for a living,

and if you have those dreams.

It's just the total unknown.

It's not like, oh, that's right.

There's a test I'm not prepared.

It's like, I had no idea.

There's gonna be a test.

So yeah, that's a weird dream.

I haven't had that in a while.

Thank God.

I had to adjust

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the other night.

Wow.

Let's see what else we got going first day of blue ox blue grass festival in Eau Claire in the books thunderstorms mud everywhere Reminded me of Woodstock Well, that's worth saying at the old country fest in Oshkosh that parking lot used to get did you ever have to go down there Todd?

Oh, yeah,

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that parking lot was brutal wasn't it?

Yeah when they get rain Terry says nice Friday.

Let's go

Texas let us know people what what kind of dreams you have or it's like really I'm still dreaming about this stuff

Yeah,

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yeah, yeah, but it is a common thing dreams.

I don't know.

I don't think we have dreams figured out yet No, I don't either I I don't either I don't either subconscious it but you never it but everybody you see in your dream But there's nobody there's nobody in your dream that you've seen that you haven't seen in real life.

Yeah

No, it's true John you don't there you don't there's not a character in your dream that you haven't seen before

Hmm.

Yeah, that's really I mean that's been like proven sort of yes, I don't I told you I once saw that shrink because I was dreaming a lot and it was right after it's like 30 years ago and Don's like you gotta go see somebody someone saw dr. Butler.

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You still got his

number.

He died.

That's too bad for you.

I'll live the doc

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Okay, let's see.

Okay.

Oh, this is okay.

This is not going to end well.

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I have had dreams.

Our people

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are so snarky.

Okay.

It's mind boggling.

Go ahead and read it,

Jim.

Let's see.

I've had dreams.

Bad

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dreams.

I had.

That's what

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I

said.

No, you didn't.

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You just said I had dreams.

It's bad dreams.

Oh, okay.

All right.

I

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have bad dreams that

we hired Mino and we find him sleeping in some of our home's beds, Michael.

There you go.

And you're the guy that

wants to hire him?

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That is, that's not one of those things.

This is so crazy.

Okay, Michael.

Thank you.

Could happen.

Could happen.

Could happen.

Today is free ticket Friday once again, which is

awesome.

We'll talk more about that coming

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up.

Great.

We got a great lineup for you, folks.

Fantastic lineup.

Great guests.

Mind on the mirror.

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John Maino

honest with you and you you won't be offended or whatever like that because you've always been in you know where you're your job dependent on your public appeal and people go into the things and you know okay if there was like a vote you know if I remember what was the the island thing the old island with Richard whatever

job the island

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yeah survivor

survivor

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yeah Todd would be the last one standing if we had a vote amongst our listeners

oh yeah

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I don't.

Yeah.

If it's

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like

voting

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off people, you and I get voted off.

Todd would be the one that

they even with our wives voting.

Yes.

Yeah.

I know.

Yes.

Yeah.

I know.

Not even a question.

My mom.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Every one of our

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people.

I love you, Jimmy.

Yeah, I know.

But

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Todd.

I can't

vote off Todd.

Yeah.

Right.

No.

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There's only one Todd.

I've got 10 kids.

We're here on a Friday morning.

This forecast, it's for the month of June, pretty much.

64, 68, 69, clouds and sunny, high in the mid-70s.

Then it's supposed to get like crazy hot for a day, right?

But I don't think June was as bad as... Really?

It

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just seems great and rainy all the time.

It was very

cold.

It was very cold earlier this month.

But man, we have some good days.

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But it's June, you're supposed to have like all good days.

No, I know.

You

should have like 15 to 20 good days.

I think we maybe had five,

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right?

Yeah, yeah.

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Because then it was so hot for a couple of days, too, that it's like...

Too hot, you mean?

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Yeah.

Didn't you think that one day was the last

Sunday?

Yeah, that was hot.

Whoo!

That was hot.

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Because I'll tell you what, even downtown, where I live up during the week upstairs there, you get that heat coming right off the pavement.

And

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you just feel it, like, comes up in waves.

That was the day I spent at Spectrum, right, which was nice with the air conditioning they're getting.

Hey, did I tell you about that McDonald's?

Do we talk about that?

I was, like, shocked.

I went to McDonald's to get a nice tea, because I was hot, right?

They don't have any people there.

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Yeah, you did tell

us that.

Oh, man.

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Those that don't nighter, right?

Yeah, I just, I'm not used to that.

I didn't know that happened.

Customer service.

Welcome to the world, 2025.

You know what's funny?

I talked to somebody else about that, and they're like,

yeah.

You know what's

bizarre?

And I didn't have a credit card either.

Because I was, when I

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was a

kid, and I'd see these movies.

Back in the kitchen, I'm like, hey!

I don't make credit cards.

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I thought the coolest thing in the world back then was to go to one.

What are those?

Was it called a luncheonette?

Yeah, like New York Yep, where you see all that you and get what you get stuff that way and it's and then that went away And it's almost like that's the way it's getting back to

oh, yeah

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Where you don't have the personal contact of somebody giving

that to you or back in the day They'd have all of the vending machines.

You could get sandwiches and coffee and all that kind of stuff yeah salads

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Oh, I've always been a back in the 60s remember was it?

The Jetsons are lost in space.

One of those where that's how they got all their food to

it.

It was

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like that was space age.

Then it went away.

Now it's going back to that with fewer people.

Is that because of the

labor

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price or late?

You just can't get the labor labor is tough labor.

You wait.

You're going to look in that kitchen and there's going to be machines making this stuff too.

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Oh, I believe it.

I believe it.

I think they have that.

And Jim will still be back

there.

Hey, where's my catch?

I need catch up for my eggs.

Well, I.

does not

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compute

at least at

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least they have um he taught if that wasn't assigned to walk away walk away walk away i wish we

had gotten that on video

maybe it is at least yeah that could have been that that leaves them very very nice to me um but they should have always take both like like a pick and save right you can put in

20s or you can give them a credit card.

I don't like that when you

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know what there was just a story yesterday though What did you see that one of the store?

Is it Walmart is really cutting back on that

and

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what for some of the self-checkouts?

Oh, yeah, that's great.

Well, they're doing it because they're getting ripped off.

Yeah,

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that's right Yeah, I mean people always find a way to

I don't you I think about that.

I've never done it, but I don't think it'd be that hard

I've

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never thought about doing it, but

it's like sometimes

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you wonder, ooh, did I scan that?

Am I gonna get busted when you get to the door?

There's no chips

in the food.

Maybe there's

chips in the packaging.

Well, inventory.

That's how they know, right?

I mean, their inventories are way off.

Yeah, I'm

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trying to

encourage somebody to

not pay for their bananas.

But what I'm saying is, I don't think it would be that hard, because if there's somebody watching you, right, that's labor, but...

You know what I'm saying is that you almost get a checkout person who's going to be cheaper than a security guard.

But what I'm saying is a lot of times they catch you like in stores because of the- You're right, right, right, right.

But like a monarch

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or something, it'll beep if

you're going out.

Because we got chips, but they don't know chips and vegetables.

Food, that's a good point.

We

just, we got a ton of texts here, but we got another one that said, oh my god, did he just say that being a Walmart cashier isn't hard?

They're being challenged.

So which one of you said that?

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Not

me.

Not me.

Okay.

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No, that they're getting rid of them.

I mean, they're bringing them back.

They're getting rid of the self-checkouts.

Okay, somebody

was just asking if one

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of you said- Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

No.

Because we'll put you behind a register.

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No, I don't want that.

I would do that.

I would do that.

No.

I don't want that.

I would not do that.

I do not want that.

No.

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Let's turn around and throw a bunch of these here.

And they complain about this.

Hey, I can't find anyone on my phone.

This tornado one interests me.

Okay.

Because that person has that repeating dream of being chased by a tornado.

That is not...

An uncommon dream.

That has to mean something.

This is Sheila.

Since I was a kid, I've had

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dreams where I'm getting chased by tornadoes and lightning.

I wonder if she's current with her taxes.

Oh, God.

I have the same dream.

I am current with my taxes.

Tornadoes are a big thing for me.

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I have a dream.

I have to sit with him for three hours.

I think that's a great new bed.

People tell us their

dreams.

Jim

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gives

us what they want.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He analyzes them.

Pray to the IRS.

Catch her, so.

Oh, good news gracious.

Good news gracious.

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All right.

I got this one.

I wake up and think that I didn't deliver my newspapers and people still owe me for my route.

And I was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Carrier of the Year in 1993.

Brian.

Wow.

I was a teacher for 35 years.

I have dreams of not finding my classroom and wandering the halls.

Terry.

Sheila again.

Oh.

I

could comment on all these

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problems.

Okay, Sheila.

Sheila,

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you said something here that we would be thinking here.

Oh, I'm also afraid of alien abductions.

I must be a very nervous person.

Gee, Sheila, you think?

Rock and roll, heaven, god rest, Bobby Sherman.

When I was like 13 in those formative years, every girl had Bobby Sherman.

Oh, yeah.

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From the magazines, post it all.

He was the hunk for them.

Like, he was that, yeah.

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Then he was in the TV show, Seven Brides or Seven Brothers.

Right?

I don't know.

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Yeah, I know

these things.

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There was a play.

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John Maino

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So we're talking a little bit about the different oh wait at first of all we gotta talk about ice cream today today is national ice cream cake day.

Ice cream cake day.

The best.

That's the best thing you can bring in to work for somebody's birthday or they're

leaving.

I agree.

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Is ice cream cake day.

Yeah, but it melts.

That's a problem.

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Not as fast as other stuff.

Yeah, that's true.

You know what I mean?

I just,

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whoever came up with ice cream cake, they

had

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it right.

I don't like cake, right?

I don't like angel food cake.

Come on, my mom.

You like strawberry sundaes?

Don't, no.

Oh man.

Well, that's, I could, I don't like cake.

My mom never made birthday cake.

Ice cream cake, though.

That's the bomb.

I like that

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Todd a lot cake my favorite cookouts my every Sunday was a big meal for us That's a that's kind of a small town thing.

I think that those that's Sunday dinner You know when you get a big film that was when your brothers were married would come over with their whatever and my dad would always cook a big meal huge meal the greatest one in the world was Just chicken on the grill really you know well seasoned kind of whatever whatever and a strawberry

with real strawberries and whipped cream.

Good whipped cream.

Frozen stuff.

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That is like, I was on death row and I could have that meal.

That's one thing I think

of all the time.

What would I have?

I know.

You could put three, four meals on death row for you.

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You

gotta fight the menu.

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But that would be my thing.

And they're cut back on that.

That

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barbecue chicken and strawberries, with real strawberries that are picked from like a local farm,

you

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know, like the day before, there's such a difference in taste

with those.

You don't want frozen ones.

Now's the time to pick strawberries, you know?

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Is it already?

Really?

Oh wow.

Wow.

Because we get that stuff delivered.

I thought

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everything was really late so far this

year.

No,

strawberries are right now.

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I don't have any of

my plans, but maybe I'm just behind.

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You get strawberry plants?

A few.

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So you eat fresh strawberries.

You could take a strawberry off the bottom.

That is like candy, I think.

Yeah, it is.

Then they're good.

That is so good.

But they're hard to grow, aren't they?

I didn't have a lot of problem.

This is the my first year that I had a couple of plants.

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Okay.

Remember it's raspberry.

There's raspberries

are tough because you got to get him going.

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Yeah.

For quite a while.

Like, yeah, really get anything.

No, they had it.

It was in the last week in papers.

It was a strawberry picking at, you know, a couple of places.

But, um, you know, you can remember that guy that we talked to, he was, they give you that box every week.

Yeah.

Of what's current.

Yeah.

So, you know, we get that.

And yeah, this, there was a bunch of strawberries in there this week.

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Okay.

Uh, it's pineapple day.

Big fan?

Yeah.

Big fan of the pineapple?

Little work, little work though.

Little work.

You know, you gotta...

Cutting all that stuff not

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as much work.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

I don't mean to sound whatever It's a

lot

that's more work that it looks like you know, it's a lot of work You got to cut all those little things off me get it the first time so

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because I was actually think when I was at festival yesterday It's like oh, I wonder if I should buy a container of these things, but they were like eight dollars and fifty cents and it's cut a piece of cantaloupe I love cantaloupe, but that's a pain trying to

cut cantaloupe and get the

skin

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off in the whatever

it's a lot easier and pineapple yeah

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well i know but i'm just saying it's like they

got that

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they need to make they used to remember you know my mom was handicapped okay for almost all my life so we were always trying to find her

Gadgets

like a potato peeler pineapple

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exactly

for

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fruit type things like

that

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You just stick it on almost like a nail a spike and you just put the thing So they've got him in the

grocery business, right?

You put it on the stand you go boom and it's it's completely cord and it's

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yeah

That's what they do at grocery stores, but that thing stands, you know like

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all

four feet

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tall industrial.

Yep.

Yep Okay, but they need to make boy.

That's why I could make some money designing something like that, but put my Masabi education good use

Yeah, why don't you agree?

I sometimes I don't buy fruit just because it's such a pain to prepare my am I lazy am I?

Yeah, the best though is tangerines for me man.

I love there's so easy.

It's so easy.

I can eat 10 tangerines Exactly.

We only got them

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on that's

you know what those tangerines are awesome That is so easy and you can I can take it all off with just one the whole thing It still looks like a tangerine.

I could put it back in there and somebody thinks it's a tangerine Did

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you get about that because you know that the one of the things that

Did you

get what

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I just said?

I can peel that thing.

Like a lot of people can't do that.

I do it, they're all one.

You put it back in and people are like, wow, look at all the tangerines on the shelf.

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Okay, that's like my dad was always so

proud because

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he would peel an apple in one thing and it wouldn't

break.

It wouldn't break with his little pocket knife.

With

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his little pocket

knife.

I could do that too.

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My dad had a pocket knife, a comb, fingernail clippers, and the coin

case, the

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little plastic rubbery coin case and money in his wallet.

I'm a hundred years old.

I've been working since 1947, it seems like, right?

I don't have a dime in my wallet.

I got a credit card, but you'd open up his wallet and there would be, there'd be a 20, there'd be a couple of 10s, there'd be a five and three ones.

And then you have a coin purse with whatever denomination you needed.

They were well prepared.

Yeah.

And a little notebook.

Yeah.

Today

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is also bingo day.

I still say I'd be the best bingo caller anybody's ever heard.

Well you must have

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called bingo a million times.

I have but I could I should go back into that business.

Calling bingo at those nursing homes and then sometimes it was pajama day so I'd have to wear my pajamas and go and call bingo.

Did you do that?

Say that again?

Sometimes they it was they would play bingo and it would be like pajama day so you go and call bingo and you do that.

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Sounds a little weird.

Do anything for a vote.

So yes.

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It's also sunglasses day.

And Food Truck Day, fan of the Food Trucks.

Oh man.

Big fan of the Food Trucks.

Give your guy a plug.

Yep, Area 509, today starting at five o'clock.

They've got Food Truck Friday, so they'll be out there, but there'll be other food trucks at the location too, in Appleton.

Awesome.

And live music, all at once.

The mother-son duo that we had on a couple

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of weeks ago.

We'll be performing this evening.

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Oh, they're awesome.

Yeah,

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so that'll be a lot of fun.

You are gonna like them, people.

Terry just texted that in.

That is an apple, a pineapple.

core and slicer tool that you can buy for seven bucks on Amazon.

But looking at it, it almost looks like it wastes a lot of the pineapple.

If you look

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at it, it does, huh?

But it's seven bucks.

I'm going to get one.

I'm going to get one because pineapple is really good for you.

Do you have an Amazon account?

I do.

There you go, Jim.

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You explained that to me.

The dual.

Oh.

Um, we got this one, uh, Khloe Kardashian, 41, Toby McGuire, 50, Lori Morgan, 66.

Did she perform in Green Bay?

I think she's been up here.

But I thought she had to cancel because her husband was really sick or something.

Oh yeah, he

did pass away,

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right?

Oh, he did pass away.

Her boyfriend, you know, used to be Troy Aikman.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Julia Duffy.

I loved her.

I loved that show.

New Heart?

New Heart Show.

Oh yeah.

The second one.

Oh, yeah.

The second one where they ran the lodge.

And what's your name?

Had the and I was one of the tight sweaters.

Yeah.

Joanna.

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Yeah.

Um, that was a great show.

Oh, man.

Pretty quick.

He doesn't mess around.

No,

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he doesn't mess around.

Remember how that show ended?

Yeah.

That I'm sorry.

There's no better.

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Never, never.

Everybody

tries hard.

Seinfeld

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was terrible.

Oh my gosh.

It was bad.

Mash

was

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terrible.

And that one was just because he's so dry.

He pulled that off.

Nobody else could have pulled off that line like Bob Newhart.

Well, but also the original wife, Suzanne

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Pushette.

She pulled that off too,

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right?

Oh yeah, yeah.

No question about it.

You should think about wearing tight sweaters.

That was so good.

That was so good.

As we mentioned, Rocky's at the Brewers tonight.

635 on WISS.

Other texts we have are talking about what kind of dreams do you still have?

And it's like, what?

Brian says, I have a dream that I'm helping Terry find his classroom.

My recurring dream is being chased and I can't run fast enough so I'm crawling on the ground.

Pulling the grass trying to

go

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faster.

So that is another interesting dream.

This whole running thing.

Can you run in your dream?

No.

Right.

So this guy pulling grass, he's scared and he something's chasing him.

I still think it's the other.

Why

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can't you run in your dream?

I still think it's the IRS.

But, um,

you, you want to open up here and tell us

about what you got going on.

No, I'm current.

I'm, I'm just talking about IRS.

Please check into Jim Schmidt.

No, something is, yeah, there's something there.

But that running is weird, isn't it?

Yeah.

But how about the dream?

I'm surprised no one has done the falling.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Is that crashing

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in

an airplane?

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I

really think that's how I'm going to go.

It is so real, like that feeling.

And I don't know, it must be from Carney or something.

Do you feel like they're dropping?

Because I've done that on rides, and I love rides.

But that feeling is so real.

And you wake up, it's like, I can't believe I'm alive.

It is so great to wake up, but I'm sure somebody hasn't texted in that falling dream because I think that's pretty common I don't know what the cause of that

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yet another one I have dreams that I'm on the first t-box of a really busy golf course and can't get my ball to stay on the tee and Everybody is shouting at me to hurry up no matter what I do the ball keeps falling off the tee Dave Okay, I'm gonna tell you one that's bizarre and it's weird that we're even talking about this I used to have a dream in fact I still do that I show up for a game and I forgot my uniform

I open up my thing and I don't have my uniform, okay?

Hmm, so I would okay.

I had okay.

This is bizarre This is gonna be a weird thing here.

All right.

This is true story.

I can I'll prove it to I'll show you I used to have that dream all the time.

It happened to me one time Okay, I forgot my shoes.

I didn't have my shoes for the game

That's that happened in real

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life.

It happened in real life Okay, I had to borrow a kid on the JV teams shoes

which were a different color than everybody else had.

A guy's been posting a great, great friend of mine.

He was a photographer for the school and the, you know, the yearbook and he, he posts a whole bunch of old pictures.

There's one picture in there of me.

I'm wearing those other car shoes.

Oh

my gosh.

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That one time.

The one time.

And that's the one picture.

How bizarre is that?

And that's one of the big scary dreams I have is forgetting my uniforms.

You know what?

I think that has something to do with the IRS.

I don't think you ever filed your taxes with that train.

At least we filed them and we just they may not we got I don't I don't know that you were ready to play.

You know what I mean?

Like

oh, is that really?

Let me I'm gonna find some music.

Okay a

little bit of that this morning.

Yeah

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And now, Jim analyzes your dreams.

I can't think about that.

I did go see a shrink though, you guys.

I did this 35 years ago, but

I just want to say I did.

We just got

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this should be a good

one.

Maybe you can see the picture there.

They're log ruling.

Oh, yeah.

And we just got a text in that said Jim and John can be guest rollers at this event.

It is coming up.

Um, the 17th annual three rivers, Rolio log rolling tournament, July 12th, duck Creek quarry beach in the village of Howard.

How deep is the water?

It's not very

deep.

Okay.

Look at that.

All right.

I would do that.

You want me to look

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at

it?

It is July 17.

Nah, I can't.

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I'm

sorry, Saturday.

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It's actually July 12th.

I know.

I just, still they told me to stay out of the sun because of my face.

Oh.

Seriously, they said like at least 60 days.

Yeah.

Otherwise, I'd do it.

Well, we could patch that up.

I'd be good.

We could patch that up.

Could you?

Sure.

Some

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super glue, glue something

over?

No, we could do the family opera thing.

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Go with that.

Look away.

I'm hideous.

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She gave me water.

Yeah.

So we got Mark Houston coming up, right?

Implified by Bell and Health Sports Medicine.

T.J.

Bulls and Jose Valentine.

No, it's Josie.

Josie.

Yeah.

T.J.

Bulls and Josie.

Female wrestler this morning.

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I

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like it.

Those, all my mom's sister's called her Josie.

I like that.

She was Josephine.

HWE wrestling, those people are great, man.

Katie Compton, Malva Center for the Arts, big things coming up.

And the exclusive, exclusive innate with Daddy D Productions, our live music series.

That's gonna be good.

I saw some great things

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about him.

Great,

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great lineup.

This is great.

It's Friday.

You've been with us this long.

Stay with us.

Thursday

Kathryn Lake

I don't care about you, it's Friday, I'm

in love.

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97.9 FM WGPW 98.3 96.5 FM WSS of course the civic media app Got another Texer.

I ran a big paper machine and when they would jam up you'd shut it down I have dreams of not being able to stop the machine Chuck I'm always that one for us

This is what I'm gonna do I you can you I think you can buy a dream analysis like

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AI type thing these days probably

huh, right?

I'm gonna do that then I would guess on that but I don't want to do that because I don't want to hurt his feelings so okay this is yeah okay

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all right but you've got a beat on it

you think you know what this is is that

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and now ladies and gentlemen dream analysis with jim schmidt

i was gonna make a joke i'm not going to

okay

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there jim i ran a big paper machine and when they were jam up yet shut it out

I have dreams of not being able to stop the bleepin' machine.

Chuck.

Chuck.

Did you jam the machine?

I don't know.

Are you not happy at work?

I don't know.

So you caused the machine to jam.

Are you seeking attention?

Maybe.

You want attention and then you're going to... ...unjam the machine and be the hero?

I

didn't think of that.

Do you want your pants?

Have you paid your IRS taxes?

Did you guys even notice I played tax man from the

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Beatles?

Come on, come on.

He has outstanding.

Chuck, I hope that one

helped you out.

Chuck, this is my thing,

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so.

All right.

You got another one here.

I have this dream that I'm going into a local radio

show

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with a couple

of

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Nimrods who try to tell me when I try to give them medical advice, they tell me I'm wrong

and I should

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do it.

Mark

Houston.

Thank

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God.

I wonder what that means.

I got these two guys who try to give me health advice.

Yeah,

I want to talk to So amplify belling.

I mean they they got it going on on so many levels that new children's Hospital on Ashland.

Yeah, you see that's coming together man Yeah, I just drove by that the other day.

Yes.

Yeah, because I go to Western and I'm going again Todd I am okay when I believe you but when did this start mm-hmm what that that's

Don't

know what

we're talking about.

But I'm just, I'm going again.

And the reason I know that.

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Mark here, I think we need to, this is a public service.

We lost one of our better employees to amplify, who was the nutritionist who's been on our show.

He went over to amplify because he is going to work with the youth on nutrition.

And he is, was a

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great

employee.

I'm just

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asking this, of all your several endeavors to, let's say, reduce yourself.

Which

has been the most

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successful and least successful.

Oh God, least John.

I've been trying to, I don't know.

I have to think about that least.

I mean, I was in Weight Watchers.

I was in every, just those gummies.

Just you name it, man.

I've been on all that stuff.

Well, I would have thought that gummies would have put on weight for you.

No, no, the diet.

Oh, the other gummies.

Never mind.

Yeah.

the fasting where you do the hours thing, you know?

But I didn't need that much sleep.

Just, then they, where you just eat protein, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Been on it.

Sure.

Then the keto.

Yeah.

That keto actually worked for a while.

Keto will work.

It did.

That's how you get off it.

If you cheat the littlest bit, it's like your body is

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just waiting to like explode

again.

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Right.

And once you get off it,

It's hard to get back

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on it, I thought.

Chuck

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says, I may or may not have been sleeping next to the machine and not to watch it very closely.

Okay,

Chuck.

We're

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onto something.

Why

don't you come back?

I don't know.

Those are Atkins you

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were

thinking of before.

Atkins.

And then he died from his

head.

Um, he did.

I do, but I don't know if there's a correlation.

Another new show.

Something

you didn't know.

How

did celebrities die?

That

would be an interesting, yeah, and they all do.

I agree.

Let's see.

What other diet?

There's just, could I see that?

And I'm like, hey, that, that makes sense to me.

I mean, I've been on a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot of diets.

And yeah, anyway, the, um, was it epic?

yeah um what else

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anyway so physical trainer personal trainer oh my god that didn't

have hasn't done anything for you has it

or has a personal trainer

yeah

so a couple things first of all um a diet any diet that works you have to write down what you eat and i'm not good at that so

That's anything that hasn't worked.

It's been my own fault.

I believe

the question was

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Let's go back to the

original question mr. Politician.

Yeah, um has did did working out.

Did your routine help you lose weight?

I Lost the most weight working out when I trained for the marathon.

Okay.

Okay, cuz there's a but I put it back on when I stop

But when my daughter and I, she ran the marathon, I will say I only ran the half.

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Was that when you had the really short shorts

on?

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I'd lose a bunch of weight before I wore those on public too.

I

gotta see if I still have that in the system.

That was the bell.

I

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think that should be our whole

Facebook

page.

That, no, that was the bell.

And I ran the bell in, I don't know, six years in a row probably, because

I lived

in Roosevelt, which ran right by my house.

I could just walk to the park where it started.

Running I think you can lose weight running.

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Oh, you can no question But you know what my problem was with running.

Well, it was like, okay, so I was didn't hurt I used to run like like six miles some days.

That's perfect.

Yeah, five is yeah three is where I lived in three three It was a

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straight flat type thing, right?

But then I would think I ran six miles I can eat as much as I want

but did you but did you see like you can say that but you're gonna eat

Too big max after you run six miles.

I did I'm

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serious wasn't but that's I didn't realize how few calories you really burn.

I know

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I just wasn't When

I ran I did crossfit

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when I did cross just

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for

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like two months I think it was that's serious

I

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lost 11 pounds just from doing that that's so that one was whatever that does

I think exercise does more than

Exercise, it puts your mind in a state like, I don't want that

junk food.

It's good for your heart, right?

Your

core

muscles, all that.

I mean, it's good.

I was wondering about the weight, thank you.

The running did the best for

me.

Yeah,

I agree.

And

the shot.

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And the gummies.

And the personal

Kathryn Lake

trainer.

And the fetamines.

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