
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Welcome to the mayor and a good-looking Monday morning.
67 Green Bay, 66 in Alton, 65 in Oshkosh.
Chance of thunderstorms high in the mid-80s later today.
What?
Kristen Ambles, always fun to have on.
Kimberly Sawyer, fun to have on.
And always fun to have Mary Rodion from on Broadway with a lot of greats.
Although I have to say, I feel bad for you guys.
Why is that?
has any powers with the rain or the weather, I mean, I've talked to weathermen.
It's like
I think
on this desk
We are rain or shine.
No, the only reason we will cancel is severe weather,
type
Yes.
Cause it's not safe for anyone to be there, vendors or the community.
The market goes from three o'clock to five or to eight o'clock excuse me.
So.
Five hours.
there's breaks.
And
because all of a sudden then we'll see the people.
We'll see the Panchos and the umbrellas.
People have their
stores to go into and that kind of thing.
the street.
is, 22 years and running.
this
kind of a little thing going on Friday?
Absolutely.
60,000?
Yeah, we get anywhere from 40 to 60, yep.
Wow.
Yeah.
And obviously peak of that attendance is the fireworks are leading up to the...
the fireworks,
it's the largest fireworks show in Northeast Wisconsin.
So we're really proud of that.
And you kick it off.
But they do.
They do.
And they do.
And we'll talk about some of the things.
I really like some of the things that you've moved because you've responded to the market, especially the Santa Max thing.
But why don't you tell our listeners?
Take it
away?
Yeah.
Fire over the Fox festival foods fire over the Fox happening this Friday, July 4th kicks off at 3 o'clock The street will be closed at 7 30 in the morning.
So this is the Dalsman Street Main Street Bridge, whatever you want to call it these days Braynitsky Bridge.
I think it has three names, right?
again?
It will be completely shut down beginning at 7 30 in the morning on Friday
July 4th.
So yeah, I mean, a lot of the things happening with this event kind of go without saying, right?
We're going to have great food.
We're going to have live music.
We're going to have fireworks.
But we have a couple of really cool new things this year.
And Jim alluded to it, we had the Santa Max Latin stage.
So this is year three for that stage.
And we're so grateful to Santa Max for stepping up to sponsor that again.
This stage has grown so much in popularity that it is it last year.
It kind of started to out out.
What's the word overflow?
It's space in Light Park.
And so this year our team really decided.
To give that stage a little more room, we moved it now to the east side of the bridge.
I'm pointing as if
The east side of the bridge, right out from the Hampton Inn.
So kind of that intersection of Main Street
KI Convention Center.
Yeah, literally
So that stage will have plenty of space, an amazing lineup there, starting at 3.30, going until 9.30, really awesome Latin bands
fantastic.
The music always makes you smile.
Back
day, I did Zumba,
Latin heavy, and it
I came out of that class with the biggest smile on my face all the time.
It was so much fun.
Joe.
I think
West Side Y doesn't have that anymore.
Yeah, was that the West Side Y?
No.
Cardinal, Lane.
keys.
Terrifying, I'm sure.
This is huge.
I mean, even for our team, this is a massive undertaking, obviously, a full year of planning.
But it takes up really both sides of the bridge here, a little bit of the Broadway district.
certainly Light Park, Donald Driver Way area, Neville Museum parking lot.
And then it goes all the way across the bridge to the east side of the river as well.
As we mentioned where the Santa Max Latin stage is, we also utilize city deck.
And honestly, we also utilize the river.
Waterboard Warriors, who will be back again this year, so popular for them to do their downtown
it's, it's
Absolutely.
Yeah.
The Santa max stage is one of five music stages that we'll
for this event.
So we have the festival foods main stage, which is right in light park.
Uh, people know and love Johnny wad who usually closes out that, uh, always brings a big crowd out.
Um,
favorites.
I'm usually slinging beers in a beer
stage.
So I'm glad to hear that he loves being here.
We also, we're on Broadway is bringing one of our Levitt stages.
We usually do the Sunday concert series,
Levitt Amp Music Series.
We're bringing one of those stages into this event as well.
That'll be in the Neville Public Museum's parking lot.
That'll be kicking off at four o'clock.
We have the family stage, which is also in Light Park.
So this is Mischief and Magic, Miller and Mike doing back to back shows the entire night.
Absolutely.
And now we have the added amenities from the Green Bay Parks Department
in Light Park as well with some of the cool kids stuff.
We will have an inflatable water slide there.
We have the bounce houses located there.
So this is...
as you can assume and imagine 100% kid friendly.
You know when people don't realize if they don't know downtown Green Bay though, and Lake Park, I mean you revitalized Lake Park, I mean that was like nothing, but I mean there aren't many places where you're so close to the hub of downtown for whatever that's worth or whatever, and you got this huge park
Absolutely.
And now as we start to see the next phases of shipyard as well
light to have another water, water, waterfront park that has amazing green space
Cool piles.
That's good.
We're out there a little bit, but that's going to be right.
That's going to be cool too.
So I mean, any, you look at
I mean, Chicago, but the lakefront, that's where everything is happening down there.
Absolutely.
And you look at the economic right across the way from there.
I mean, it's unbelievable what happened down there.
Downtown
Cream Bay is so truly special.
And then you add, obviously, the amazing elements of this event, but it ending with those awesome fireworks.
We have so many beautiful photos and videos of the fireworks being shot off right here in downtown.
They were for Draft City Music Fest.
That
first time ever thing.
We were super excited for that.
It turned out cool.
This time, however, for Fire Over the Fox, they will be Shoreline
again, down by, is it Gremant?
The
I would
you
wouldn't want your company to have the insurance policy.
Okay,
Channel 5.
Yeah, they do their live newscast.
They'll be right on CityDeck.
So you can come down and watch and hang out.
They'll do their live newscast.
And then they start their special fireworks show at eight o'clock.
they carry the Green Bay Ones live.
Yeah, they have cameras at a few different communities.
And they'll show them as they're going off.
I do believe the ones here in Green Bay are one of the later shows.
So they bring those live.
I
The bridge
sit and watch those, but certainly there's a ton of vantage points throughout downtown that you can see those.
Sure.
Does it?
Yes, but there is plenty of parking for people.
right?
That's
this?
This is it this week, you
Do you remember in the dirty dozen when they took the big rappel thing and they threw it up to get into the Nazi headquarters?
And remember then it caught on the thing and the guy climbs up that grappling hook grappling hook.
I could see me doing that.
I couldn't.
I could see me grappling, throwing that up there and climbing up and
Maybe
rock climbing first
you're stressed
Oh, okay.
has to
I mean,
What
amazing volunteers.
just tips
If
would donate those tips to a non-profit, we can maybe talk.
What's that?
Oh, awesome.
Yeah, we have, I know the tent, I'll be working.
We have community pause that volunteers with us.
So they bring a whole crew of people and they get to keep the tips from their working time.
Some have sang down through history, if you last.
It's a mystery, but I guess they don't know what they're talking about.
From the mountains down to the sea, you become such a habit with me.
America, America.
I would like to think the city deck had something to do with that.
Cause when we built that, that's when Zulaski moved.
him and Aaron came down and they set up their headcores.
And I don't know what happened.
We also did, we wanted to get people down earlier too.
So we rang the Liberty Bell and we swore in some new citizens
No, that's okay.
time.
Oh my gosh, having festival step up.
Is
Oh, sure.
Oh my gosh,
that back in the day.
We have so many amazing sponsors that help us.
I think we mentioned it previously.
This is a heavy lift.
This
big, big event,
we couldn't do it without such amazing sponsors and
absolutely.
Yeah, the event logistics, the...
Yeah, the security meetings that happen and just making sure everything runs smoothly is huge.
a free community event.
Talked about that quite a bit.
Saturday, because there was a party on Broadway at Lenny's Tap.
And again, I don't know how much time you spend there, but they've been there for 50 years.
They have, yeah.
And it's just a great, great establishment.
I'm glad they didn't go away.
I can be honest with you, as much as we... Old neighborhood tavern.
Right.
as much as a lot of the places did go away and they needed to go away, he needed to stay.
And he's so charitable to the New Community Shelter, Salvation Army, and had a great party there celebrating 50 years of business.
50 years is a long time to be in business.
That
still has that same amazing vibe that
did.
People love that.
for them, it's also nostalgia
people love that because it helps them remember maybe
parts of what Broadway used to be.
But now to have them still in a way kind of anchoring that north end of the district and to see how much has changed in between there and Shipyard is amazing.
That's what I'm saying.
He could have done that, but he stuck with his vision and it's obviously has worked.
I mean, that was just, it was just packed there.
That's so great to hear.
A lot of fun.
So, yeah, John makes a good point.
And I think it's cool to come, you know, go out to some field or something new, but the history and seeing the buildings and the bridges and the water, it's just, it's a cool place to be.
It has, you know, I try to take a couple moments here and there during this event because it's just such a long day and it's so busy.
But I try to take a couple of those moments to really take that in, right?
And try to see from one end to the other over the bridge because it's so packed with people and everyone's smiling and having a good time in their red, white, and blue.
And it's just, you're right, it's there's something about the atmosphere and the area of downtown and especially on that day.
It's just really a special
And I don't know who you bring in if you still do that, but we always brought in a professional photographer.
And those were, that's what we put on our postcards a lot.
And we, baby each, I mean, the city has a lot of, cause we said.
we're gonna do something, let's make it worthy to put on a postcard.
And some of those pictures are unbelievable that you captured that night.
And go up on top of the Bellen building and you can capture some really, really, really great pictures.
Absolutely.
I just had a chat with Chris Rogowski, a chicken or the egg photography who's gonna be taking photos for
July 4th.
And so we were just kind of checking out that shot list and what we might need this year and getting obviously a couple of great fire workshops.
awesome.
Love it.
Love it.
is.
Come see us.
far we've been traveling far
Yeah We went I don't know if we got lost or we're like in Tomah or something and I don't tell you doing up there, but we went the fireworks were like awesome Yeah, they were little two rivers their fireworks in Wallsfield their
Yeah, I think that's great how everybody celebrates the birthday of...
I haven't heard that term in a long.
That's what it's called.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So two rivers, man.
Everybody has great fireworks.
Now, so I, and you know, I don't know, you don't have to be like right there to see him.
You know what I mean?
Like some people are like, oh, it's too crowded.
Well, then go have six blocks away.
You can still see him.
But you know, another thing too with the fireworks is, I mean, even when you're stopping a roadside stand, which I haven't done in a lot of years, to be honest with you, I mean, you can't, you don't get a lot with a hundred dollars.
Like, you know, I remember one time I go, I'm going to have a bunch of people, I'm going to spend a hundred dollars and, and it's like.
That bag, that's it.
I mean, it's expensive.
Yeah, okay,
I think it's a lot.
Whatever.
Fireworks, kids love fireworks.
And I realized that but I'm just saying I've never known anybody that actually got busted And you know what I just you know what bugs me is the people that for the next two weeks It's like you know shoot them all off on the 4th of July get them all the but Randomly at two in the morning, right?
I thought about doing that when we talked about the shipyard.
I thought about doing that when I was mayor
But I you know, it's Tanzania food.
Yeah, and you can't really I didn't want to do that because of conflict of interest though I'm there's doing this making some side hustle So I didn't know I'm gonna do it though this shipyard thing really interests me me too And I think that would be legit and we could do it together But independent our name would be together, but our our costs are our profit
Nobody coming in this morning.
I will tell you, tomorrow morning, we will be talking about recipes.
Marla Kopecky-Penney, she's been on the show with us when we were in Oshkosh.
She's got a business called Empower Freedom.
She's going to tell us more about that tomorrow.
Our buddy, Sean Katz, backs in to talk about the logging and heritage festival up in Marinette.
And also tomorrow, Dana's coming in.
She's the brand ambassador for lacrosse distilling.
I still wonder like, you know, okay, that's such a phenomenal response to the draft and so many people that had never had a chance to see Lambeau Field and everything that that entails before.
Okay.
You know, from other place, I guarantee you they would bring and I don't know how many how many does that soccer bring in?
I don't I don't really know when they have the soccer teams there.
And in order, Dame will be huge or the whole different thing.
But I just think marketing wise for themselves, where Green Bay can almost be like a canton where it's like it's a destination, even though that's not your team.
I still think not that they need money, but I still think that having concerts and different things at Lambo on a fairly regular basis would be huge for the area.
Let me grab a pen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll start a little list.
Okay, so you want the Wisconsin Music Museum?
Yup.
Okay.
That's important.
Gonna write that down.
Yup.
You want the Pope?
Yup.
The Pope for sure.
You also did say,
The stones you said the stone I can get that done.
You said that
I ain't gonna happen
No.
But you know what?
In Europe, so I like thrift stores, right?
I mean, I do.
Yeah, I do.
I do.
And I got that.
That's come over to my hostel at China is from thrift stores and the 13 different sets of China I have there.
I.
When you go to Europe, the thrift stores are like subsets of the charity.
So like there's a thrift store for United Way, there's a thrift store for cancer, there's a thrift store for heart disease, there's a thrift store.
So I'm gonna open up a thrift store for a homeless shelter.
And it's gonna be called Nifty Thrifty.
And it's going to be...
Brian put it
I'm going to be watching an Oshkosh on the fourth.
You sure you want to be on my roof?
Yeah, I'll stay in Oshkosh.
Sure.
I'll have adult beverages.
What could go wrong?
Like he's not gonna have an Oshkosh.
I'm just saying.
William says, how about a fine linen shop?
Oh.
Yeah.
I don't... How about a fat farm?
Are you tired of squeezing into those jeans?
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