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And
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are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Good!
What a beautiful morning out there today.
What, the weekend?
Nice.
It's awesome.
Nice, nice,
nice.
Thank God the 4th of July.
I think we're in
for a good week.
I mean, it's hard when you it's it's it's not a good year when you say, oh, thank God, we're through with June.
Yeah, no, it wasn't this weekend.
I set a record.
Personal best.
Personal worst.
I was just going
to say that.
You're
talking about before we came on.
Yes, that is not.
I would not call that a personal best.
Personal
worst.
Personal worst.
Yes.
And there's no reason to do that in the summer.
That's a winter record.
No question.
That's
a, that's a Christmas record.
Ladies and
gentlemen.
Okay.
Let's hear
it.
I got a second here.
I got it someplace.
Where is it?
I got to get the timpani roll going.
This is, and I want to,
I
know, ladies and gentlemen, on Friday, John Minow stood on his scale naked.
Ugh, that's- That's- Well, just so you know, it's not like a closed thing, Jim.
Yeah, but I think that's the
worst thing.
Well, no, but it's like boxing.
It's like in wrestling you couldn't have anything on.
Trunks.
Whatever.
Okay, so whatever.
Two hundred and ten pounds.
That is actually
commendable.
This morning, on Monday, same scale.
Same whatever, whatever.
Two hundred and twenty-one Wow, how does the person put on eleven bleeping pounds in one weekend
and the heat and the Like I was telling you the yep what you eat like this time of year is not like it's good
stuff Right cuz we ate you know I ate nothing but strawberries all weekend.
Well, I don't believe that
all maybe a few other things
We had like Brass and sauerkraut yesterday.
Oh,
yeah, that's can't beat that.
No and a summer shandy type thing.
Yeah, you just you got
this but you don't eat it all eat it all day.
That's the problem.
Yeah We had
the bruschetta, you know, right out
of the garden.
Nice.
Nice.
Nothing better.
Nothing better.
Vicki says good morning, fellas.
Michael says good morning, gents.
I'm having dinner with Michael tomorrow.
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
nice.
Nice.
I've seen him in a
while.
Michael just texted, okay, I just threw up in my mouth after I heard John was naked.
That was worse than the 11 pounds.
I just said that because it's like, well, you were wearing heavy jeans.
Oh, you must have had your shoes on.
You must have.
I am 15.
Pounds away from my goal.
I want to do it by my wife's birthday will not happen.
My doctor said that because that will not happen So
you're looking to put on 15 more pounds.
No, no, no If I want to do that, I would call you And almost
in a
weekend I can't believe that's unbelievable.
I laughed I literally laughed I burst out laughing because I was thinking I bet I put on a couple of pounds about 11 pounds Medically, I don't know if anybody can do better than that
Yeah, would you drink
anything just water?
No, you did not Actually, I will say this the best water I've ever tasted is from Manitowoc.
I was in Manitowoc all weekend go to that artesian well, and you put it in a big old like a Lamers chocolate milk bottle was big thick heavy bottles And you put it there.
It's so do I mean it's it's crazy to say Whoever said oh that water tastes good.
This water is so good from that well
We have like a raised garden, we grow mint, throw a few leaves of mint in there.
No bet.
It's
good.
Yeah, I'll bet.
Yeah, and that's like great for you to drink.
Although I bought, what's that called, those little packets you
put in?
Yeah, that I buy,
yeah.
Oh yeah, you're the one that turned me on to that.
Yeah, I
did.
Well, Mark told us about, Mark Houston told us about those, that's where we
got those from.
I was getting tired.
Yeah.
Yeah, those are great.
Yeah.
Got it done.
Text after Terry.
Good morning, gentlemen.
Had a blast at the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire this past weekend.
Except for the damn rain.
I kept having the Woodstock chant in my head.
No rain, no rain, no rain, Terry.
How bad was it, Terry?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I went to a party and people said to say hello to you.
Lenny's,
huh?
Yeah, Lenny's tap.
That's awesome.
So that place is on Broadway and Broadway in the last, what, 30 years has gone through renovation?
25, probably 30.
And he has stayed the course.
And interesting guy who runs that place.
One of the quiet guy, but one of the most generous people in Green Bay.
And he is celebrating, obviously, 50 years in business.
His first 45 years, get this tied.
He was open every day.
It's amazing.
Every day.
Every single day.
Usually people knock off on Monday or
Monday to day.
Does he live upstairs or anything type of thing?
No,
he
didn't say that.
No.
But he has just a very, very loyal.
Green Bay, right?
Green Bay crowd.
That's old school.
You don't know that's okay.
We talked about running a bar.
That's a little neighborhood bar.
Oh, that's a neighborhood bar.
That's
yeah, that's a neighborhood bar and a little touristy because now.
Yeah.
Yeah, right.
But and he did the 50-50 raffle his kids was kids.
I mean, his kids are, you know, probably 28 or 25 years old.
We're working the 50-50 raffle and then you could bring canned goods or non-perishable goods for Salvation Army in the 50-50 raffle.
you know, the winter 150, the other 51 to the new community shelter.
And so generous.
He did the 50 50 raffle every hour.
So it was from one to six great band.
And then he had his friends do the pig.
What's it?
What's it called?
Sparkle.
Yeah.
Two of those one.
Wow.
Right.
That sounds good.
And
it was
and then, you know, baked beans and some other things.
And there were a lot of people there.
I was just telling you.
And it was just free.
That's cool.
And he
just.
Well, party.
So he's a great guy.
I just want to thank in London.
And I don't think the listeners too.
That was awesome when they come up to you.
It's like, I voted for you, but it's like, I listened to you.
It's like, thank you.
That's
cool.
And that's why Todd, the other day or the other day week.
Yeah.
But when we were going, when we went to, uh, pickle some bags and we're driving down that street.
And again, I always get a mix of, was that Congress street or Oregon street or another one of the two Oregon, Oregon.
And it's like those neighborhood bars are still there in Oshkosh.
Yeah.
I just think that's so cool.
It's tough to preserve
those two because the neighbors are like,
yeah, it's absolutely too loud at night.
People leave it.
So I mean, but for him for 45 years to never take a day off is that'll never, that's like one of those records that'll never be
beaten.
And it was only
because of COVID
that he would have stayed the
course.
Yeah.
Wow.
But I said to him, I just don't know.
I don't think people know how generous you are and he goes, I like it that way.
You know,
it's
perfect.
He's just low keyed and but boy does he do a lot.
So anyway, I was, it's great to have him as a neighbor because we're right down the block from him.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
He's just a great business guy.
And you'll tell you what that business, that's chewed some people up the bar business for a couple or one is it's too easy to start, you know, drinking your own stuff all day.
His kids were all just great.
Nick wasn't Nick's wife was there.
But Nick was fishing.
Oh,
geez.
Oh, geez.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, OK.
Oh, that's cool.
So then I met his nephew was there and some other people.
That's cool.
Yeah, it was just
a great time.
Anyway, that was speaking.
I got onto that because of the weather.
It was perfect on Saturday afternoon.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So.
So anyway, what have you got going here?
71 in Green Bay, 72 in Athens, 72 in Oshkosh, clouds and possible thunderstorms high in the mid 80s.
That's pretty much been the
forecast.
Like
Jude, hasn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, every day chance of thunderstorms.
Yeah, we have that this week, but I do think, yeah, there's a chance of it.
But when you look at, then they have the, when it's going to happen, it seems like it happens like really early in the morning.
I think the days look pretty good.
I mean, I was kind of
feels great out there right now.
A little bit of wind, just perfect, beautiful day.
If you get out there, it is social media day, um, asteroid day, Corvette day.
I was never a vet guy.
Were you?
Oh yeah.
Were you?
I was a kid, a little kid.
That
was never my car
really neighbor across the street who was like my idol Yeah, yeah, he had Corbett's and I just yeah, I just loved what yeah,
okay.
Absolutely
as
Corbett kid.
Yeah They changed a little bit a little too much
a lot too much.
I
think we're marketing major at St.
Norbert and Bill Dargan was there's a scholarship named after him now because he was there forever, but
I just remembered him talking about it.
Well, we all know Corbett's nothing more than a penis on wheels.
Okay.
That's what he said.
All right.
I didn't know that.
I was
just like everybody knows that's like what we
went
on.
Okay.
All right,
but that's not why I like them.
I just I could have left a little bit more space between
those two things.
Happy
Monday.
It's all in the timing.
It's all in the timing.
Here we go.
Alright, Mike Tyson is 59?
He seems like he should be older, doesn't he?
Doesn't he?
He does.
He does.
He almost seems like one of those guys where it's like, he just, hey, do you hear about Mike Tyson?
But he was up there though,
wasn't
he?
And I don't mean that in a bad way, but he's been through so much.
And he's
been to media a lot.
And he looks old too.
I still say when they ask him at times, Mike, what are you going to do now that you like him?
I think I might just fade away into Bolivia.
He meant to say,
I
might just fade away to Bolivia.
Yeah, Michael Phelps is 40, Cole Swindell is 42, David Allen Greer is 69.
Boy, I'll tell you, a type of music that chews people up real quick is country.
I was watching a thing the other night.
These kids now, they're so young, and it's amazing how the older people, you know, they have their, their reign, their kind of, and then these, just move aside, move aside.
We got these young people coming in, move aside.
What do you mean
choose them up?
I think that's sustainable.
You
think well, it's a state But what I'm saying is you know, it's like okay back in the day.
I mean I'll throw up some old country like Conway
20
right forever, you know
Well, but you look at like Reba and Garth Brooks right that right
those two
not straight
But but they can't even get records.
You know, I
remember Johnny
I see Johnny Cash has a
famous thing for billboard magazine footbird Just like no radio stations would play his music Yeah, and it seems like it's getting that way now with these these kids were so young watching this special the other night.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, they're but the whole
Delivery is so much different, right?
It's not radio.
Isn't it all how many hits they get on YouTube and that's how they deliver
I guess
knows
a lot
more
about that than I do.
I I just I just yeah, I don't know.
I don't
know.
Do you do
cut
is that once this you're doing Georgia country?
Yeah,
okay.
That's got to be huge down there, huh?
I mean absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely, but I get to do I do a program called lunch with the legends So it's all old stuff so I can go, you know, I can play Breba and Johnny and I can play Hank Williams and all that stuff.
I want
That's
a pretty good one.
That's a pretty good
name.
Lunch with the legends.
I would listen to that.
So it's on for what, two hours, 11 to one or something?
Just noon to one.
Noon to one.
Yep.
I like that.
You can't
do that.
Why?
It's mine.
That's a good one.
Give it to me.
And every day I do a legends jukebox where we drop a quarter in and it's tied into today in history.
Quick pull people.
Who
would you think should do that show, me or Todd?
Yeah, that's
actually that's a good
one.
Todd.
Quick pull.
I like that.
My phone's
blowing up.
Mine.
I'm gonna turn it
off.
Maybe that
battery's dead or something.
Why aren't you doing that here?
I think that's
a
really
good title.
I don't want you to
take it
away
from Alabama.
We don't play music, right?
But could we for one hour?
I don't know if they'd want to.
Really?
Yeah.
I don't know about that.
I
would love to host a show like that.
Oh, it's my favorite part of the day.
Wow,
yes, we come in.
We side hustle.
I'm starting to
think we're the side hustle.
I
know, right?
Wow.
That hurt.
That's a good name too.
Love
it.
I'd love it.
I'd go for two hours.
We're going to change the name of the show.
Breakfast with the boys.
Yeah, something like
that.
Quick break, great lineup.
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Todd, what did you do this weekend?
You always get out and about.
Uh, so, uh, Saturday worked, right?
Got to get some work done.
And then yesterday we had a event in Oshkosh that W ISS was at.
So Lisa Hale, myself, Tammy, Peter were down there.
Cool.
Yeah.
That's nice.
That was have good events on there, don't
they though?
I mean,
just
They just do.
Yeah.
Was it one of those like kind of a neighborhood type thing?
It was at
the
arena.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's cool.
Standing on my feet for eight hours.
Those floors are so soft.
Yeah.
Wow.
I still can't, is that hard to believe?
And I know you can say it's water weight and too much salt or whatever, whatever, whatever.
But 11 pounds is, that's pretty, that's quite the, that's amazing.
Wouldn't you say?
Yeah, John, I think that's a lot and the same scale though.
Yeah,
that's why I mean that's why I mean it grows people out that I was I had okay I could put that image anybody's
head.
No, yeah Make me right now needles mpick anymore.
Yeah, so um, yeah, I Okay, well you gotta get back at that.
I know what?
And tomorrow tomorrow, I'm
gonna get for the entire weekend.
I cleaned the garage
So it's not like I did, you know, weird things, but just like cleaned the garage.
Oh, yeah.
You, I think you're missing something.
Do you take like ambient at night and then you get up and eat, you
know what
you're eating?
No.
I will
say this.
Took cold.
Just this one time.
Yeah.
Go ahead.
Took cold, some cold brats.
And at about one this morning, I was hitting those.
How many did you have?
Three, six.
Three, okay, and just the broader.
Did you have buns and stuff?
I never used buns.
Yeah But there's a lot of fat Not 11 pounds.
I mean, no, that's true.
That's unbelievable.
When's the last time you use the bathroom?
Are you you're not backed up or anything?
No, a couple weeks doing all that in there.
Well, six twenty-four.
He's ready
to leave.
You need to get back in the gym.
I know I agree.
I mean, look, I'm not
Luxuring I'm not you're gonna hear from me, but I'm fighting my tongue for that.
Yep.
Yeah, it's coming
I did I
did I still am that's why you haven't heard from me I but you will
because that picture this Todd could we please get a new picture?
Yes, I
agree.
I
would like a new picture not I definitely gonna take a new picture.
He told me, you know
He told me the holidays.
I'm like, I ain't waiting that long.
He's my doctor.
Oh,
OK.
I said, look, I want to be at my goal weight by August 1st.
He goes, that ain't going to happen.
OK.
When will it happen?
I'm
honest.
Yeah.
And it was he didn't like pause.
Look it.
We don't that we're thinner than that.
Yes.
Oh, you're
much thinner than
that.
No,
no.
But no, the one I don't like was our promo picture.
The
one
by
the
big the monument back.
We love Green Bay thing.
Yeah.
Well, that.
Come on, Todd.
That's a bad
one.
This is not good.
Did you do that on purpose?
No, of course not.
There's a good one then.
That one's actually not bad.
Yeah.
That one's not bad.
It's because it's not us.
Right.
Okay, you know what?
Okay, I hate to say this.
You know what I'm addicted to, if you want to call it that, when they do the things,
Of the little people like it's like these.
Oh my
god.
Hi John.
I
I'm more addicted
than you
my
but I look at how much time I spent on
the
phone.
It's Over 50% is watching those little people
So is this is people's voices, but they make it a baby.
Yeah, that's what you guys are addicted to that There's water
doing my cousin Vinnie.
They're the youths.
It's this little baby kid.
Oh my god.
Is that funny all AI?
Is that what that
is?
So
how does he or she, that company making money?
Or is it, I think that's hilarious.
Like I would, if you had to subscribe to that for X amount, I would, I think that is hilarious.
Cause when they
use those voices,
the Trump thing is really
good.
Cause
his
eyes, that little basic
little
mannerisms
and stuff.
I know.
Looking right into the camera.
I know, I know.
I'll see if somebody can make one of you guys.
Okay.
And that is,
that is really
funny.
and that
is really funny and then they
do uh obama and just everybody it is really really funny the judge um that yeah that's yeah that is
Like, what are you looking at?
I
know,
I
know.
I
love comedians, right?
I mean, I'll watch comedians for some time, and that is right up to a three.
You know what's weird, though?
I'm going to tell you something.
I was actually thinking of you last night watching this.
There's one in the morning, and you can't see it.
And I was watching Jim Gaffigan thing.
Yeah.
Not as funny as it used to be.
I agree.
You know, neither is Bill Burr.
I
mean, he's throttled it down a little bit.
Too much political, too much about his kids, but he's still, yeah, I agree.
I won't listen to him for an hour
or two.
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Okay, that's what I got for everybody.
I thought the Guy that you got me tickets menace
galco was better.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right for her, too
And that was right.
Yo, I mean What Nate was a hundred bucks that ticket was a little bit 80 bucks or something but of course Todd gave me the ticket But I thought that and we it was Donna
too.
Yeah, just thought it was it was funny, but it was okay
So
but you
know
these guys get so big and you can you can look them up anytime and watch his entire routine
But what they say is it's like I've heard that before but if you went to a concert and didn't hear the oldies You wouldn't like that
right
exactly.
They want you to tell those same stories, but right after delivery was slow I did I just wasn't into it like I thought it would be and
I don't know, whatever.
It was... But I love comedians.
That's...
Todd, will you let us know where that way?
Alright.
Thank you, Todd.
Last year...
Vinny says, Minos manual labor Monday.
Damn right, Vinny.
Damn right.
Yeah, they love hiring people that gain 11 pounds
on
a weekend.
Wow.
My head even looks
big in my head.
I'm worried about you.
You look swollen.
I do
I do My head is swollen Monday is swollen
Wow, how do you get rid of a swollen head brats?
Oh my god, lots of them.
Oh, I guess in a quick break back after this
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Walkin' back and have beautiful Monday.
This might be the nicest morning we've had all summer.
That is hot.
Beautiful.
Would say so.
How hot is it in Georgia right now when you do your stations in there?
Um Upper 80s lower 90s.
Do you
have to put in a little bit of a little?
No, I don't know.
Okay.
No, all
right
Well, you know, I mean if you're doing a country station in Georgia,
yeah country, but their news is not
right, but I mean just kind of like Our news guy down there is pretty southern really.
Oh,
yeah.
Is it really
a little bit?
Yeah,
I'd like to hear
that kind of
Because otherwise, remember in radio, well, you got, did you guys both go?
No, you didn't.
You and, Todd, you and Dennis, didn't you both go to Brown Institute?
I did not go to school
for radio.
Oh, you did go to, I thought you did.
I just
got a part 10.
Murphy did.
Murphy did.
Murphy went to Brown Institute and Dennis did.
Right.
Okay.
And with those kind of things, it's like, oh man, you had to be so, you know, perfect with your.
Hello.
Yeah, exactly.
Like you're
not
from any other area.
One of the first things they teach you is it's not W, it's W.
It's not news.
It's news.
Wow.
Yeah.
I remember one of mine was just what I went to that broadcasting class
by,
you know, a little station up WJP D lane Dawson WJP to get your little licensing and I remember the word diamond.
Okay.
It's anybody like it's diamond.
Correct.
Yep.
Diamond.
No, diamond.
Exactly.
Rush Limbo used to say with the February because notice the
But
that was that kid that but that was the thing and remember there's a big thing about don't ever use you must sign this right now that you'll never use profanity ever in your life
because it could slip out if it's part of your overly dialect.
Wow.
Yeah.
That was a big thing.
Wow.
Why be screwed?
I think every radio announcer
I
know would
be.
Absolutely.
But that was one of them.
Did you ever make a mistake on the air and say something?
No, not one of the bad ones.
I said the SH word one time.
Okay.
I had a comedian on who wasn't doing much.
Right.
And I said, so what's up with this bleep bleep?
Wow.
I don't think I ever
did.
Oh, that's pretty.
Yeah.
I'm impressed.
I am too.
Yeah.
I am too.
Oh yeah.
Here's another one.
Todd say sherbet please because it is sherbet.
It's not sherbet.
It's sherbet.
Or sherbet.
sherbet.
There's no there's no second arm sherbet sherbet.
I don't know
that either.
I didn't know that either.
Yeah, I would
have.
Thanks, Brian for reminding me.
Okay.
Hey, I
was gonna call you Brian I was to get his contact info that pasty that he gave yeah
I
put it in the fridge.
I had it Saturday for lunch.
Yeah, did you put ketchup on yours?
Yes, so did I yeah,
I
did not I just ate it
It
was I ate
and those were hearty those were good.
There's a
lot in there and I was I do
I was gonna text you and I didn't but I ate part of it and I thought ooh I think some ketchup would really add a
little bit to it.
So I was probably half and half.
That
was really really good, Brian.
Thank you
for that.
Brian is awesome.
Yes,
that was
good.
When Mino puts those glasses on I feel he should have a chain on him playing Mahjong or Canasta.
these are my you know what these are Todd I see what are those I they're here I don't know who's they are and I can't see like anything whatever it's like it's like like Vaseline over it but I can read really good with them
but weird because they look like they're glasses for far away I
know and they're not but you know I feel like what's your name from the Matt was in the match game Brett summer
That's what I feel.
Did you watch that show?
Oh
my
gosh.
Everybody watch that show.
Come on.
That was like water cooler show.
Absolutely.
That was come home from school and sit right down in front of the TV and watch that whole thing.
Can you
believe what's his name?
Who's the one guy?
Charles Nelson Riley.
All right,
Richard Dawson.
Oh my god, and Betty
white.
Yeah
Oh God,
I don't love that era of shows.
Oh my gosh, that's my favorite me to watch them I want to
get I know there's a network to quiz Irving the
buzzer network has him, okay?
Yeah,
I want to watch those old shows and they all dressed really cool That was back today's that have a big white tie that was striped in a plaid jacket.
Yeah.
Yeah
We talked about doing that one time.
I think that match game, if we got like some celebrities would be a fund fundraiser.
I would be Gene Rayburn.
Was it Gene Rayburn?
Gene Rayburn.
Gene Rayburn.
Gene Rayburn.
We'd have to get you the
microphone.
Yeah,
the
big lawn thing.
Oh, I think
those
things.
Oh, I
think we
should do that.
That's coming back to the ABC again this summer, of course.
Right.
Who's the guy that did it just recently?
One of the Baldwin brothers, right?
Alec Baldwin was the host for a couple of seasons.
He got canned.
Now the guy...
He was on Saturday night live.
I can't remember his name.
Uh, he's doing that TV show with Steve Martin Now they kind of go, um Martin shorts.
He's gonna host those commercials home depot or whoever.
Yeah, so he's gonna host it now.
Okay,
cool.
All right Martin short was at the wide nerve.
I'll see good guy.
Yeah, great guy.
All right.
Yeah.
Well, give me okay.
Give me your top three not nice people
Of the big names Jerry Lewis Jerry Lewis.
Okay.
I
can see that
me too I've had people that have worked the telethon with him and he's yeah, Deon work.
Yep Deon work take a letter to Michael Take letter to Michael.
She's
looking at here.
I am in green base.
That's
really
the stool easiest lighting show ever did
really get in Wow, all
right move didn't work the
crowd was your third So Jerry Lewis Deon Warwick
Probably Lou Rawls
Really?
That's disappointing.
Yeah.
Seems like such a cool laid back guy.
No, he didn't rehearsal.
He wasn't very nice.
Wow.
You know that?
Okay.
Can I be honest?
I
have to think about it, but I don't like that.
The nicest people, you know, Uncle Milti.
You'll never find.
But then he teed.
Another one like me.
He was, his show was good.
Just the rehearsal he wasn't.
Whereas DMO, I didn't think it was very nice to the crowd.
Wow.
Todd, who are yours?
My number one is Frank Gorshwin.
I love him.
Frank Gifford.
Oh, he was a jerk.
Oh my God.
Don't tell me that.
Don't
tell me I got this impression that he's like one of the nicest guys off
stage.
Frank Gifford and Frank Gorshwin are two of
my worst.
Frank Gifford, I
can see.
I hate to say this, but Paul Horning might even be on that list.
I think he was, yeah.
Yeah.
Not nice.
Did not want to be here.
I would say the only one that really stands out to me was Eminem.
Really just cuz he was like four hours late to come on.
Yeah.
Yeah You
said Madonna was nice, right?
Very nice.
Did you get it out of her a little
bit?
There was a party or something like that for one of her albums and there was some stuff going on,
but okay.
No, no something something something for the effort Yeah, I heard she's a lot littler than you would think.
Oh, yeah,
they all
are though.
Yeah, that's true.
Absolutely
Absolutely in politicians the nicest
Hands down Barack Obama
Hands
down met my mom and then I met him at a different time because I was in like this VIP thing and she was upstairs Came down something for the mirror green bagos.
I met your mom upstairs.
No kidding.
That's cool.
I met him in the White House I was wearing this tie that said a Barack Barack Obama and he this is when he took out
Uh, we're, we're at war.
He goes, you guys, we lost that game.
He goes, you guys sat Rogers too long.
Wow.
Okay.
We're at war.
Wow.
And he goes, where'd you get that tie?
I said, I bought it for you.
And he goes, I said, would you sign it?
And he signed my tie.
So I still got that in the closet.
Like this guy was like, okay.
What?
What?
Okay.
You know the code word though, right?
Regarding ties and politics.
Yeah.
You told me that.
If somebody compliments your tie, it means bleeds ugly.
They're saying, because David Marinus from the, you know, Washington Post.
Oh yeah.
He told me that story one time.
He wrote the book on Bill Clinton.
What is it?
Is it a biography when you don't have the person's permission?
Correct.
So he wrote the biography on Bill Clinton.
Okay.
I think that might have been what he won the Pulitzer honor, but it wasn't favorable.
To say that.
So David's dad, who's a longtime newspaper guy in Madison.
He invited him to the correspondence dinner.
And they're talking.
He goes, hi, David.
How you doing?
That's my dad.
Or this is my dad.
Oh, how you doing, man?
Hey, David, one quick thing.
He goes, yeah.
Nice tie.
Which is him saying bleep you.
Exactly.
Yeah.
I'll show you a picture.
Bill Clinton.
Super nice.
George Bush.
Could have been nicer.
He was here the day before 9-11 remember that.
Oh
was I didn't know that senior or junior junior
all senior was awesome
Yeah,
yeah, he was
nice.
He was here the day before 9-11 Wow,
okay Wouldn't sign anything.
I was like give me a break really that important, you know, I met him
when
he came into town one
time.
He was here a
number of times, right?
You remember that doctor's house?
Yes.
Yeah, that was, that was, yeah, it was
kind of a fun party, but
yeah, he, but he tried being funny.
He was not funny.
He was not funny.
He said, you know, Laura told me not to say that.
You know, I'm here at the home.
I appreciate doctors.
So he's a, he's a brain surgeon.
I guess we don't have too much in common, huh?
It's just kind of like a plate.
Laura told me not to say that.
He always came across as like a college bro, didn't he?
Yeah, yeah, just Marva.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then he was at a place right across from Bay Beach.
It made those like, what's the guy's name?
It made those like cartons.
Anyway, I took my daughter, Laura, because Laura Bush was there.
He was there with Laura.
And then she signed a card to Laura, you know, to Laura from Laura Bush.
And I said, well, maybe you can take that to like Chantel.
And she's like, it's not even a toy.
She did not think it was that
funny though.
And you think about it, it's kind of like in our line of work or two, you might have one interaction with a person.
and that will form their opinion on you for their entirety of their life.
That one interaction.
First impressions are lasting.
But not just in this business, I think in life in general, if you meet somebody and you're like, right.
Oh yeah.
But it's, yeah.
Is that what you're blaming your situation on, John?
Which one?
People have the wrong impression on me.
No, I
think that's in sales.
That's in everything, man.
Yeah, I
would agree
with that first impressions with that.
Yeah, you're exactly right But you know why it's one of those things too in in our business because we you know, we know who the Good people are and we know who the yeah, okay You just know because you work with them, you know, and you could put on such a persona You know in in this field.
All right, but How many times have you had to bite your teeth with somebody you know as a total home?
Yeah, whatever.
I think oh my god.
I love
Oh, I know.
Leap.
Oh, here's the nicest human being.
He's like, and you know, but you can't,
you
can't
say it.
Have you ever though?
Have you just like off to the side just once or twice gone?
Let me tell you some stories.
Every time.
This is me you're talking to, I'm not like a normal.
Cause I may have done the same thing a couple of times.
Oh
yeah.
Well, let
me tell you some stories about so and
so.
In the mayor's world, someone who I thought could have been nicer is Rom Manuel in Chicago.
I was talking to him and a lady came up to him with her son and obviously she wanted to meet him.
I wouldn't have bothered me a bit had he just was like...
really shoot her away and I was like, come on, come on.
Especially
when there's kids
involved,
right?
That's what I'd say.
If it would have been her, that
would have been fine.
But it means he's a 12-year-old, 10-year-old kid.
I was like, you know, and he's just like, and I don't know.
I still say the biggest blow off of all time, Frank Gifford to me.
Frank, can I bother you for one second?
You already have.
I love that line.
I want to use that sometimes.
Someday.
Ooh,
little Lurals here.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
This is a make-up, son.
I think it was there for eight days, 16 shows, so I just... Back before
the days where I put out 11 pounds in a weekend.
Nice guy, not a good rehearsal.
If you see me walking down
the street Oh My oh I have a good mood woke up this morning the weather's perfect It's the fourth of July short week talking about the three people that move Aren't my favorites.
Thank you Todd boy.
What a voice for hands.
Oh, she's great She's walking back
the legend
Todd give me a good name.
She did not want a good name for what
I just for my radio name radio name I'm the only person.
So I was just used my own name and radio Isn't that funny when you think about it a little bit, but it's very radio ask But I mean who think of who else was Alaska because it used to be
the old school was it shouldn't be any sort of
ethnicity yeah they did that for but now it's even big they want that
yeah
yeah like if you look at tv now
everybody has their own
yeah there's
no tv names anymore radio names anymore
it's almost like a plus if you have an ethnic sounding name
right
right because you stand out i heard
no no no i when i talk to croot
Two and a half years ago about this he said look I don't whatever you're going to do Put your own name because he didn't he thought he made a mistake with his show not putting his name in it I don't even know what the name of the show was Devils advocates, okay?
I wish I would have put my own name in there because you should just and I didn't you did
but that was out That was a why was that?
Nobody used their real names back in the day
Like in the 70s or whatever?
Yeah, I mean, it's just a show name.
A lot of actors and singers don't have their real name either.
Well, maybe they
wanted to sell the brand.
Well, I mean, I would say
country is more of that, like, you know, shotgun or, you know what
I
mean, buckshot.
Yeah.
You know, those kind of things.
Or it's almost like a character type
of
name.
Yeah, that makes
sense.
Yeah.
I was thinking maybe a talk show would be more like, what are we talking about?
Revolution.
You know devil's advocate obviously that's gonna be against but I think
Todd You go way back in this business.
Yeah, do you find that some people?
Do that almost for to get noticed a little bit like a name that really will stand like
oh sure I mean
you branding right
spray.
Yeah What's recognizable exactly exactly and I think they're finding out that the now more going back the other are because that stands out right right
They're going
back, what other way?
Back to their name?
I
would use my name because then if you guys switch stations too, then your name carries the value.
Yeah.
But I always thought it would have been cool to have kind of a cool radio name at one time.
But again, a lot of, like, I was given my name from Dan Stone.
Really?
Right.
Whose name is not Stone?
Right.
Exactly.
But he said, you know what?
Your name is blah, blah, blah, blah.
We're going to go with blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like Animal House.
Yeah, same thing.
Same thing.
Just got a text from Brian.
You mean John Minow is in a stage name?
Okay, somebody help me out
here.
Give me a date.
Give me a name I could use for radio in case I want to do a different
show.
So what kind of
radio?
So give us, that's like, is it country?
Is it going to be
rock?
Country.
Country.
Country or classic rock?
Those are my only two.
It can't be modern.
Either one of those.
So I think you've got a package.
Got to go with Johnny.
Johnny.
Okay.
It's got to be Johnny something.
I would
say truck and Johnny.
Trucking Johnny King.
I think people would throw no, no, I think they'd say leaping Johnny or something.
Oh, we'd like
Drop the team.
Yeah.
Okay.
Sorry, John.
Didn't even think about that.
You got a really nice 97 o'clock.
You know what,
you know, you don't have a you don't have a staff anymore, Jim
Somebody vet that.
Okay.
If you were a fighter, I'd say Johnny turnbuckle or something.
Oh,
I like that'd be my wrestling name.
Yeah.
Yeah
How did that go did you hear
I did I
did not did is that something that picture that guy played high school football against?
That was scary.
Yeah, I load that up anyway,
but how funny is it?
He loaned me is here's this 400 pound guy and he loaned me his Rod Stewart cassette,
so I loaded it up on our stream yard, okay on Facebook
for their gym the guy behind him
yeah, all right, and here's what he looked like as a wrestler
Yeah This is a good one Brian is right on dr. Johnny fever.
Oh, yeah Well, I mean I can't steal that though.
Wow, you know that show is still it popped up You know, that's a cool thing about TV these days Dom hooked me up to get like prime.
Yeah,
whatever and it had a thing on where it's all old TV shows and That's kind of cool when you can watch like WKRP.
I mean those were fun shows in that era
You know
what I mean?
They were just fun shows.
Clean shows, whatever shows.
It was
just, I used to, when I was doing sports, if I went home to eat in between the six and the 10, it's like one of those shows would always be on.
And it's like every night there was, there was that one and it was the, what was it?
The Alex P Keaton.
Oh
yeah, family
ties.
Family ties.
I mean, whenever you turned on the TV at night, there was like a really good show you could watch.
There's nothing anymore, is there?
Are there those kind of TV shows anymore?
I don't think so.
It's all streaming services and stuff like that.
I think, I don't know.
I haven't watched a network show in 10 years.
That's what I mean.
It's the
American idols of the world
or
whatever, whatever.
I hate
that stuff.
Yeah.
I
hate
that stuff.
I'd rather watch news PBS or something.
Yeah, me too.
Rather
sit out on the beach
and listen to meet the press.
I do.
I did that.
I love that.
Oh, absolutely.
Really?
That is my Sunday.
Doesn't that
just get old?
No, it doesn't.
No, others.
And they could, no.
No, I just, I love the cabinet.
I like.
I love the
cabinet.
We're just so different.
I do.
I do.
I do.
I think Jim says that nobody else will ever
say.
It's the same language, but nobody else will ever utter these
words.
I know and I love the cabinet too, but it's usually something that we found in an old house that we're going to redo, right?
Exactly.
Or it's got 11 pounds
of food in it.
Wow.
I love the cabinet.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's what I did yesterday.
Okay.
We believe you.
Okay.
So we
got Kimberly coming up.
This is what you know, it's
really good
lineup coming up starting now.
And I tell you that festival foods that fire over the fox that celebration.
Yep.
There's a lot more than fireworks to that.
That's going to be cool.
It's an all day thing.
I know that's going to be really cool.
I don't know, are we swearing in people that day at the Liberty Bill?
Yeah, I don't know.
What we've done, you've been there, we've done that before.
I don't know if we're doing that on another Fourth of July weekend.
Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't.
I don't know, I'm gonna read up on that before.
For
like the Navy trip thing?
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
was
enjoying a beat
the press podcast.
I was
too engaged with the cabinet.
Putting on those 11 pounds is what you're doing.
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.
Come on, mind on the mayor here.
Now, beautiful, beautiful Monday morning, 97.9 FM, WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 FM, WISS, of course, the Civic Media app.
Joining us right now, Kimberly Sawyer.
Hello, Kimberly.
Hello, gentlemen.
It's always good to see
you.
It's
always good to see you.
Congratulations on your...
Motherhood.
Oh my thank you.
Thank you.
Yes.
Number four.
It's kind of wild.
Yeah.
My youngest is seven.
So I'm kind of doing this all over again.
It feels like, but the kids are going to be great helpers.
I feel like it'll be different this time around where it won't be like chasing all the toddlers.
They'll be able to like take a shower and they can keep the kid alive for a little while,
right?
You'll be amazed how helpful they'll be.
I think so.
Yeah.
My oldest is 12.
She just took the babysitting course.
So she's very excited.
They love babies.
They'll be great.
They are.
And I just
remember hiring babysitters and you
could always
tell who took the
course, because I remember the first time we did that and this girl comes over and you know, show her in the house and everything.
Do you have any questions?
Is she allergic to anything?
That's a good question.
She told me she learned how to administer an EpiPen and do all the things.
It is amazing.
They did at the safety center here in Green Bay.
So God bless those people.
They do a really nice job.
That is
so worth it.
And you as parents, you try to teach your daughters who are going to be babysitters, everything.
But some of those questions are like, wow.
Yeah.
And they learn the business skills side of it too, which is really good.
Like how do you negotiate a rate and ask those questions.
So it's really good.
I think that's awesome.
Oh, that's cool.
So I'm busy.
But
you have built-in babysitters now, don't you?
I do.
You do at 12.
We have such a great neighborhood, you know, and all the, you know, like sports parents and all the people you get to hang out with as you raise kids.
Like the village is strong and we are very grateful.
Congrats to you.
Congrats.
That is great.
Thank you.
So, Selcom,
which is
your, what's your title over there?
I'm senior manager of external relations.
So kind of a fancy way of, you know, PR, communications.
I get to do fun things like this with you guys.
Nice.
So I've been there for just over a year now, so.
And
how many employees do Selcom?
They
must be close to a thousand or 600.
Just
for the record, I was their 19th employee.
You said that that's so cool.
You know that
perfect.
Well, yeah, 19, that's not too many.
Well, I say that a breakthrough when I used to work for Craig Dickman.
I was employee number eight.
When you're under 25, they tell you that when you
step in.
We
expect a lot out of you because it.
Your job is everybody's job.
When you're under 20, then they start to maybe not silo it, but you start to segmental it.
Anyway, so that's great.
And one of the things you do, we call them car care clinics.
You don't call them anymore.
What do you got going
on right now?
They started as that, yes.
And Bonnie was the one who ran those for many years, incredible lady.
And so I'm trying to fill her shoes a little bit and do some other things as well.
And so obviously we went through a pretty tough month this last month with the outage and with an ongoing FBI investigation.
there's only so much you can share.
Believe me, we would love to share all the way more things than we can.
And so it's really just our opportunity to say thank you to our customers for sticking with us.
It was obviously a rough road, not just for us, but for them.
We completely understand that and also for our community.
we're doing also by not sharing too much is because these cyber incidents happen all across the country every single day, which is unfortunate, but it's the world we live in.
And the more we say, the more susceptible people in and outside of our industry are too, because that's our goal, right?
Is to like get to us and then get to other people that are probably even bigger.
In other industries.
Remember
that happened, that happened in
this community.
Yeah, it happens all the time.
I don't
know to mention the companies,
but that's
happened in food, it's happened in healthcare.
It's
not with this one, it's just because
everybody.
And you use that every day, right?
Exactly.
It makes you really think about how often you use your technology.
And how I don't want
to use the word how easily, but how quickly
you can
just be
no
communication.
Yep.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So yeah.
That's why some of
us are a little cash conscious.
Right.
Do I worry about that?
But for sure.
I don't know.
You rebounded.
Yep, we're back now.
We're back and ready to get back to business as usual.
And again, just say thank you at these celebrations.
So we have 15 left.
There were 17 total.
And they're all across the region.
So we're in Ribb Mountain and Marshfield.
So Ribb Mountain tomorrow on my birthday.
Oh, hey, happy birthday.
Thank you.
And then July 2nd.
Oh, I got a bell.
Yeah.
Thank you.
That's
very special,
especially from him.
Also, I think that means Johnny's got to sing happy birthday later
on.
Absolutely.
OK.
Much later,
like next month.
Oh, I can do
it.
OK, sure.
Best birthday gift
ever.
Ever.
Yeah, but then we're in Marchfield on July 2nd.
I'll be at that one.
And we've been doing some radio remotes, and it's a lot of... Okay, I gotta talk
about something real quick here.
Go ahead.
Because Jim and I are at least favorite thing in the world, okay?
The
one thing that we will absolutely turn down no matter what is a dunk tank.
Oh, right.
We do
not have that.
You were telling me about when you were in Wisconsin.
You had to
go
to these little county fairs.
I can't believe you did that.
Tell us.
Yeah, I did a lot of dunk tanks.
Because
you're so, you know, your hair out.
We were I mean we look
terrible when we showed up right and I
just John told me that cuz I that's something we stopped doing I just let's
get off the cell company.
Just tell me about the dump.
Well, and they just had Mr. Wisconsin.
We just crowned Willow our brand of Wisconsin.
She's from Racine.
Very cool.
Yes.
So I did a lot of things.
I think when you become Mr. Wisconsin, and that's why honestly, like I am so grateful for that experience because I wouldn't be able to do all the things I do today without that experience.
So yay for scholarship money, paid for my MBA,
all
the good things.
But it also gave me the opportunity to learn that sometimes you show up to places and you just got to kind of figure things out.
And you don't know who you're going to meet, what you're going
I mean, I was prepped a lot of times before I went, but you just don't know.
And you show up and they're like, Hey, do you mind doing this?
Do you mind doing this?
And I was a singer.
So I sang a lot too.
And
you
speak to all different sorts of audiences.
So you kind of have to roll with the punches on that too.
But yeah, dunk tanks, parades, all the things.
And yep, there were definitely times.
I mean, I definitely wore a T-shirt over my swimsuit just to make sure there were no wardrobe malfunctions as they call it nowadays.
But didn't you say you'd
see certain guys at the same places?
Oh God, yeah.
Oh yeah.
I mean, you have to worry about those kinds of things.
Right.
tighter on security nowadays, I would say.
They always made sure I had somebody with me, so that was good.
Wow.
I mean, people don't see that side of being Miss Wisconsin.
Well, you'd get a lot of letters and things.
And after a while, I just asked my business manager to just not share those anymore.
I was like, unless it's dangerous, I just don't want it.
Right.
Wow.
And that's good, because they
feel good they wrote it.
Right.
You don't have to read it unless it's a threat.
Right.
So if somebody else
read it, I'm
just
surprised.
The reason that surprises me, doesn't surprise me that you would do that.
It surprises me because you're kind of, you're the kind of, you are, you're a beauty queen in that.
You would let your hair and makeup get wet.
Yeah, whatever, you know.
I play sports my whole life.
I think that's great, you did that.
I was gonna say, they don't know that
you're actually a total complete.
Yes, I'm a country gal.
So I was muddin' and, you know, pickin' rocks and doin' all sorts of things up there.
Dude, did you not
catch her in fast pitch stuff?
I played outfield at Norbert's, which was really cool.
I had never played that until I got there.
And they were like, well, the only position we have open is left field.
So if you want to play, that's what you're going to do.
And I was like, all right, well, I'll give it a shot.
And I loved it.
It was so much fun.
Kimberly, did you have to do that or did you say I'll do
it?
Well, it was a paid appearance.
So yes, it was expected to do that.
I mean, I'm sure if I was uncomfortable with something, we would have worked for it.
I mean, that's not
quite a status thing to have Miss Wisconsin come
to your
event.
I'm
really surprised
she did that.
I was like, wow.
So back
to the
cellcom and you're the, I forgot we said the external
VP or whatever.
I was the ambassador in a lot of ways too, for sure.
So
the 17 markets that year, is that all Wisconsin or are you guys in Iowa?
Yep, nope, just Wisconsin.
So we go all the way, you know, west to the Red Mountain area like this week and then we'll go south to Manitowoc and Uptador County.
And the people
are invited through...
venues like this, but you also send postcards, right?
Yeah, and the deals that we have going on, it's basically like Black Friday in June.
So like if there's a time you want to stock up on something like for the hunters right now, we've got crazy deals like the more you buy, the more you save.
So we had somebody come in and get five trail camps for the price of two, which I know
my
husband, big hunter is thinking about stocking up on stuff.
Or if you've been thinking about getting that phone for that kid that you're like right on the fence, so we can get him the phone or a watch or something.
Okay,
I need to, okay.
This might be out of your technical expertise.
All right, well, that's okay.
I'll let you know.
What I would love to have, I got a buddy, he can look at his food plot.
Yes.
Where he has the deer cam.
We have that.
You have that.
That is the coolest thing.
Yeah, the Spartan Trailcams.
Is that what
it's called?
Yep.
So how does that hook up?
And we have our low cams that are more like for your house, which I just bought a house actually in August.
So we're gonna get some of those too.
Okay.
Um, but yes, absolutely.
Yeah, it's an app and then it runs right through your phone.
My husband has something very similar right now.
So I get to see all the deer all the time.
All the time just pops right up as a notification anytime movement comes.
So I've seen I always got that
is our buddy at over at camera corner.
He showed me that all the time Rick.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah
Yeah, and then you don't have to go and like change the SD card out.
It just comes right here Wow, and he loves
showing
that surprises
me because you wouldn't think the guy that has a license plate says 12 point buck
right, right?
Insight go hunting with him is like hunting a zoo.
Hey, would you?
Do you have the home security systems?
I'm going to in
my new house.
Oh, we do.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Yep.
I didn't either.
Yeah.
That is much done our less.
People don't think we have, but yes.
Tell me about these.
I know.
What are they called again?
Not
Parker
Clinics.
These.
Oh, celebrations.
And we're calling them cell ubrations.
Cell ubrations.
We're rebranding a little bit because again, it's a big thank you to all the customers that stuck with us and hopefully some new ones will come too.
So when
we go to that.
These are available.
We can take a look at your home security
systems.
Yeah, everything.
It's literally like you're walking into a retail store underneath an outdoor tent.
And then we have our care team and our tech team for like any technical question that you have.
You can get all these great deals.
And actually, if you sign up for home internet, which we also have, you can get six months for free.
So that's a pretty good deal.
So do
you have hot dogs still?
We have.
Actually, we do.
different in each location, but a lot of times it's like subs, chips, we have root beer floats, always love that.
Some, it's depending on where you are, like Appleton North, for instance, our store is right next to Tom's Drive-In, so they're gonna do like burgers and hot dogs and stuff.
So, I mean, it just depends on where you are, but check out our website.
Remember how disappointing I was when we went to that event and they had vegetarian
stuff?
I'm looking for the salami.
It's all vegetarian.
And we do giveaways too, so if you want to come win something, and actually if you pre-register or you get a chance to win a cool Packers package.
For the record, John wasn't.
that upset because we stopped at Burger King on the way
home.
I'm sure he
figured it out.
He always figures it out.
So tell me again, so I could come there and buy the camera.
And then all you need to do is get in.
I don't know exactly how apps work,
but then somebody would install it.
They are
so
customer friendly.
They'll
help
you with
it.
Yeah, for sure.
And it could be.
I mean, I could have that in the U.P.
and I could watch it here.
You bet.
Okay.
How about just ballpark wise?
I actually do.
That's a good question.
I don't want to say.
Yeah, yeah,
yeah.
All right.
I would be, I'm serious about this.
That's
good.
That's a cool thing.
You let me know when you're going in.
I'll give them a heads up you're coming.
You can actually make an appointment online too.
So we have a new appointment system so that you don't have to wait when you go in.
Like you could be like, I have an appointment and then you get first.
And then I wanted to retail folks cause they're amazing.
And then I want it on my house.
Do you come over and assess my house?
Like
in terms of question, I don't know if they do that part of it.
But I just know there's
another company and they look at, well, you really need one here cause
of your
basement.
You need this in your,
and
they tell you how many.
cameras
you
obviously need the front door, but they may be two others.
I just don't I wouldn't know where to put the camera.
Right.
Our team is pretty awesome.
If you told them a little bit more about your home, they'd probably let you know about how many you would want to have.
Because
I think, I don't know, but I live kind of close to.
a homeless shelter that shuts down for
six
months.
And it's just
nice to have issues
in the garage.
So
yeah, everybody should have really have one nowadays.
I feel like, you know,
gotta protect those linens.
Can't really introduce yourself
again.
Who you are, what you do.
I gosh, what do I do?
Senior manager of external relations at Selcom and site is our parent company, but people are really more affiliated or, you know, know our brand well of Selcom.
So excited to share about the celebrations today, of course.
But we also have things going on and we're you know still growing as a business and it's been really cool to be a part of something that's been around for 115 years made start in Pulaski, Wisconsin with the Riordan family and it's still part of the Riordan family now and you know, it's a very Wisconsin business, right?
So
first job pardon me.
That wasn't your first job was it?
Oh, that's right
But you're I think that's interesting how they talk about learning
a changing industry.
These guys were landline people forever.
Plastic, telephone.
The year I was born was when Cellcom was created in 1987.
You're
making me feel really old.
And
then they were
born and it went
here.
1987.
88.
My kids literally say you were born in the 1900s.
They'll ask me that
all the time.
Wow.
Hey, does your sister still have that cool place?
Yes.
Yeah, the farm.
Wedding reception thing.
Yes, I just got married there in September.
They
took their barn.
And a working bar where the cows are still walking in and out of it and turn it into such a cool place.
Oh man.
That's awesome.
We're at Kimberly Sawyer, inside, back after this.
Hey,
welcome back!
Might own the mayor and a beautiful Monday morning with Kimberley Sawyer.
Insight, cell cam.
You don't have much going on this summer.
I mean, having a baby and the whole... Three other kiddos are in travel forts.
And
17 of your...
Yeah,
we're busy.
It's good though.
What are you
here?
Like, what are you in Oshkosh, Green Bay,
Appleton?
Oh, I have it all up on my phone, actually.
So, celebrations.
Or what website?
Yeah, sellcom.com slash celebrate.
And it has all of them.
And like I said, if you pre-register, you can win a really cool VIP Packers.
Package and then every day we have giveaways, but yeah, we're out in Shawno on the 8th and 9th of July Then we're in Weston East to peer the week after that.
So and then in the lots in Green Bay Luxembourg Pulaski, of course, which is where we were born Manitouac Appleton and then all the way up Sturgeon Bay and then we finish up in Annago on August 6th
Sad news out of Annago on that horse trainer died.
He was friends with my father-in-law.
Oh, really?
Yeah
Lucas.
Yeah that guy
Anyway, that's legendary.
He was legendary.
Legendary.
But yeah.
Yeah.
So,
Kimberly, let me ask you one quick thing about the technology right now in phones.
Yeah.
I mean, is this it?
I mean, it's still my...
I
mean, I can't do that, but it's
still my... You're like, it's still improving?
My
granddaughters, who's like seven, will grab my phone and
do
like...
How did you what do you
I mean?
They're just swiping like nobody's business.
You
know what I mean?
I mean God bless us all type guys who we try hard but
You talk about a whole line of technology that these kids, you know, they're born with and
what
a what a generation of future.
It's wild, isn't it?
And as a parent, it's hard, right?
You want to try to protect them also as much as you can and have them be educated about those things, too.
And yeah, it's not easy road.
Kids to look people in the eye and communicate, too.
Oh, God, for sure.
That is like the biggest thing.
Three kids
under seven.
Yes.
And I worked in town acquisition for a long time before this or recruiting.
And you can tell, you know, when you're recruiting interns, like the kids who.
We've had parents who have taught them those things, right?
So yeah, we work on those things too.
And you just have to set boundaries with it.
It depends on each kid.
Each kid has different responsibility levels and maturity levels.
And I think there's certain things you just have to monitor.
And my little guy, he's seven, but there's times where, man, I'd love to have one of those kids watches on him where I can still see where he's going.
If we're at a baseball tournament and he's around the corner doing something, it'd be nice to have.
I mean, I've seen him still watching him like a hawk, but there's really great things about it too.
for sure you don't
have to worry about your one granddaughter she's she's she just she's she needs she belongs in
theater you haven't fun in grandpa land oh yeah
yeah okay you forget that it's like okay so the last time they were here I can tell this story my youngest one who's a little bit out of control
okay
okay
good there's always one she's got energy she's got
energy she's got energy
she'll rule the world someday get a call from
my daughter ask if I could meet here at 10 35 at night at the emergency room
Which is always a nice call.
She had stuffed a marble or something up her nose.
You know, one of those kind of things.
Oh, no.
Sir, I thought, doctor could not get it out, could not get it out.
The next day, take him out for lunch before we go to Bay Beach.
And of course, it comes out as we're sitting at the restaurant table.
And you forget.
As a grandpa, you forget how much stress there is in being a parent.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, a lot?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, it's
like people don't realize that sometimes until you
look back.
Yes.
And it's like,
holy crap.
I feel like we know too much nowadays, too.
Like there's way too much information being shoved at us all the time as parents.
And so you feel a lot more pressure than maybe like my parents did.
I know my mom's like, I'm so glad I don't have to parent through all this technology.
Because I started, I got a phone when I was like just finishing high school and it was like the big block no key for me.
only call people, you know, so it's just so different now.
Yeah.
Like you said, there's so many advantages too.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, honestly, being able to like communicate with my kids and yeah, and just like they're busy kids.
So it's just nice to know what's going on.
And yeah, nowadays there's crazy things going on.
So it is nice to know where they are.
And
it's pretty cool as these kids get even older school that, you know, people can argue AI, but it's so nice that
You don't have to, remember, no, you're young, Johnny.
Remember when we had to do research, go to the library
and get that stuff up and now it's just- I still have some days of that too for sure.
I mean, we still wrote papers in high school, like on paper.
I was telling my kids that.
They were like, what?
Well, Jim being a teacher, though, this whole AI thing.
Thank God.
Well, yeah, now you gotta be careful.
I'm sure they give you some tools to hopefully work around that.
Well, this is how you catch kids.
And I'm not a big AI guy
at
all.
When they're-
write things for seven weeks, and then their final paper is this unbelievable piece.
It's like,
you
did write that, and then
you fail them on that, and they're like, I wrote it, it's like, no, you didn't.
Can I tell you what Jim and I spent hours and hours doing?
Asking chat GPT, they have fun things.
Besides
that.
Watching these little kids from movies, the little kids with the fat heads,
and they're like, oh god.
Oh god, we watch it all the time.
Yes,
we do.
Does
that make
us hip or old?
We're kind of hip, aren't we?
Todd, please, the fifth.
Oh, God, it's so funny.
Oh, man.
Anyway, yes.
And Todd's like, that's AI stuff.
We're like, I'll invest.
That is so funny.
Isn't it?
I know.
There is some pretty cool stuff.
Like the other day, I saw this on TikTok, and I was like, I have to try it.
It was, you can ask, like, take this.
cute photo of my nephew and turn it into a coloring book page and then add like farm animals around him.
And it like, it turned out so cute.
I was like, this is cool.
Got
a texture.
Kimberly is amazing.
She is from Sarah.
Thank you, Sarah.
So
we had two minutes left.
Wrap it up one more time.
Everything you got going on.
Yes.
So celebrations.
We started last week.
This week we're in Ribb Mountain and we're in Marshfield tomorrow and Wednesday.
So come out again.
Tented events.
Selcom.com slash celebrate has all the details on all the really cool deals.
like we were just talking about, and what happens at those.
But again, it's free food, free dessert, all the fun things and giveaways.
New products,
new promotions.
Yeah, and you can test it all out.
Do you have to be a customer?
You do not, absolutely not.
Anyone can come.
Anyone can come, and you can come to all of them if you want.
Take all the free food.
So I could actually talk to a guy about what can I put on those cameras.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
They have all their computers all set up and they're doing sales as we speak in the tent.
I love
that.
Me too.
Yeah,
that's gonna be awesome.
Thank you for doing that.
And look, we're sorry you went through that, but every company
does and
people handle it differently.
And
for sure.
We appreciate the support.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This is
great.
All right.
Well, good.
We'll have a fun summer.
We'll see you at one of your
celebrations.
I
was going to call
it.
I've never seen you
stressed.
Well, in all the
situations I've seen you.
Let me know in a few months.
August, they got a great spokesperson.
Person right there with you.
I'll
tell you what no
lie Kimberly Sawyer.
She's awesome.
You said a quick break Kristen Embo's point mortgage joins us
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Great having Kimberly Sawyer on from N-Site and Cellcom with some fantastic things they've got going on.
Joining us now, Kristen Ann.
Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation, of course, her podcast, Always On Point.
I just wish she would bring a little bit more energy to the table.
And a little bit more
knowledge
about the industry.
Yeah, and I
wish she was
so wishy-washy about everything.
Try and back
it all down.
Yeah.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Nice to see you.
Good to see you guys too.
Yeah.
So we were talking, OK, the area I drive in Green Bay.
Yep.
I'm surprised I've mentioned this to Jim a couple of times.
Nice little neighborhoods.
You have nothing wrong with them or
anything.
The houses look nice.
I don't know if they're flips or anything.
But for the first time in a very long time, I saw price reduction on a house that's available.
Yeah.
It's happening.
It's happening.
There's like a little bit of a tug of war out there right now between buyers and sellers.
And buyers are kind of putting their hands up saying, I'm not paying it anymore.
and sellers are still trying to list and get prices in last year's market.
Two years ago.
And
neither one wants to
give yet.
Neither one wants to give yet.
So it's not a buyer's market, it's not a seller's market.
There are still a few pockets.
But here's the deal and I can't say it enough right now.
When you hire a realtor and they bring you all the evidence of all the comparables in the last six months that sold and they give you advice on how to price it, if you go
$10, $20, $30,000 over that, you're going to be doing a price reduction.
That's almost exactly what we're seeing right now.
And agents don't want to undercut it because they want you to make less money.
They want to make more money too.
However, they want to move it.
They want to sell it for you.
They don't want to sit on it forever.
And then that's what's happening.
And then what happens is if it's sitting on the market for a week, two weeks, what's wrong with that house?
What's wrong with it?
And then if you do a price reduction, what's really wrong?
Yeah, so yeah, so right now pricing
it right and this market is huge and For sure the seller is gonna say wait a minute.
Why would I go lower than my neighbors?
My neighbor next door I got a buddy my buddy at the bar said
but no matter what they do they're gonna need you cuz well
Some don't
but some
most cash, but
yeah, not not not a lot a lot and I'm
And you're seeing some stability in your business.
Are you not?
I am.
Yes.
Business is very good.
And I'll tell you what, I'm doing more VA loans right now, which I love to see.
Right.
Because a couple of years ago, sellers quote unquote, didn't want anyone with a VA loan.
Got a lot of spin on that.
But
I think, I think.
It kind of has a little bit of a bad rap.
Because
I remember when I first heard, it's
like, oh, if there's paint peeling, you won't get your loan if
the step is imperfect.
I never found that to be.
No, it's not.
If you understand lending on the VA side, you know, I try to let people know to my husband's veteran, our loan is a VA.
We've bought, we've sold, we've refinanced, we've bought again, you know, everything VA.
But working with somebody who really understands VA is where it lands.
I just had two people I closed last month in VA where their other lender wasn't, like they didn't have even the...
the common knowledge of VA, but then promoting themselves as a VA expert.
And so it can go awry when you're working with somebody who doesn't know how to do VA or the quirks of it.
And VA is a super great opportunity for people.
And when they have that benefit to be able to use that, it's huge.
I'm working with one right now who, you know, they're selling their house from out of town coming in.
They have about $300,000 to put down, but they only really, you know, 20% and they don't even have to have 20% on VA.
They could do no money down.
But we had the conversation as we were running different price points and different down payments for them because right now what they're doing is, am I going to make more money in the market or am I going to pay more money in interest?
And so they're doing their due diligence to say, yeah, we could put $300,000 down on this, but maybe it's only really worth putting 50 and putting 250 in the market.
and making more money towards retirement.
So a lot of times they have the money, they're just choosing to put it elsewhere because they don't have to put it into their loan.
I know people like that.
I'm not, I'm just, I mean, to the house, you know, I sleep better when I don't have debt,
but
some people, they leverage
it for ways and
those are pretty smart people.
They do it in a way where they could pull, if they ever got in a pinch, they could pull out of that investment and pay their house off.
So it's not a total roll of the dice
story.
So you're not, and you would encourage that.
I mean, you're not saying, look, put as much down as you can.
Hey, look, if you want to put down 5% and put the rest in the market, God bless you.
Right,
100%.
That's pretty good
that you're, because I think a bank would try to get as much as they can to lower their risk.
Oh, 100%.
Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
I like to look at all the numbers with clients.
What's the best situation for you?
What is your comfortable zone in a payment?
What do you need and where are your goals?
Because if this is like the house that they're looking at buying and they put an offer in on this weekend, I was talking to them yesterday and they were like, can you run this?
Can you run this?
We're gonna make about X, Y, and Z.
this amount, this amount, this amount in their investments.
So we talked about, okay, you're gonna pay this, this or this.
So which one is better for you?
And again, that was what was gonna be because they're buying their forever home.
So like now we're in it to figure out what we can do to best utilize our money for our future, whether it be pay the house off later,
make more here, invest, don't invest those types of things.
It's more than just a house and it's your overall financial plan and goal that I want to help you meet.
Well, you don't have to think too that we talk during the election or whatever, whatever.
I think it's past the point of anybody thinking interest rates are going to go much lower, don't you?
Yeah.
I mean, listen.
I mean, what
do you think?
I think that's...
I mean,
politically, what's going... Yeah,
right.
Right.
I think we're... It's still so volatile.
We did get a little bit of a glimpse.
The 10-year treasury dropped a little bit on...
Friday okay Thursday Friday Friday the days are running together
people have been holding
on but the people that are holding off right and When I say that it dropped it dropped rates didn't remember mortgage rates are not directly tied right to the Federal Reserve rate We're tied to the Treasury.
So the fact that the Treasury started to move was a big deal So that's really exciting as far as that part is concerned, but listen, we're talking two more price drops this year We don't know if they're an eighth.
We don't know if it's a quarter.
We don't know what it is But the main thing is is that?
If you can buy a home for a payment you want, then it's the right time for you.
If it's not, don't rush into it.
I always, there's a reason that there's rent.
And a lot of times it's better for people to rent quite, until they're totally prepared.
But if you're looking to buy, look to buy and get in, but make sure you're working with a loan officer that understands all the different aspects.
of the loan process because man-o-man right now, the slop I'm seeing out there in the predatory lending is at a max.
Talk about that a little bit.
Yeah.
So it's really easy to say, oh, I'm going to go to this lender because they have a better interest rate.
I probably hear that once a week and I check my rates against everybody's super competitive.
And almost every time I say, give me your loan estimate from that other lender.
Yeah, the rates lower, but they're also charging $7,000, $10,000.
One was $30,000 in points and fees.
I can give, my rate sheet is anywhere from four and a half to eight right now.
What rate do you want?
So when you call and say, what's your rate today?
Well, I have anywhere from four and a half to eight.
It all depends on, do you want to credit back at closing to pay your costs and a higher interest rate or do you want the lowest rate possible and pay as many fees as, you know, in points as you want to pay.
Everybody's different, but the thing about it is, is a lot of lenders aren't talking about that.
They're just like, oh, here you go, sign here.
And I'm telling you what the actual fees are and people are like, whoa, wait a minute.
Why are my clothes and costs $20,000?
Like, well, they don't have to be in Wisconsin with your escrow setup.
They're probably around five or six.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they, they, they had to disclose that, but they
don't have to talk about it.
They have to disclose it, but they don't have to, they don't have to put a
highlighter on it.
Or they put, they, they roll those fees in and you're paying
interest
on those fees
and
it's, yeah.
Okay.
Well, that's great that you're so upfront, so honest about that.
Um, what is the,
biggest piece of advice.
And you know, when people come in, I mean, and I think some people try to buy too much house, but then you just said these people are buying the house, they're going to be in the rest of their life.
Yeah.
That's, I don't know that do people really buy the house, they're going to be in the rest of their life.
And we thought we did.
And now we're kind of thinking, well,
Oh my gosh,
my
husband and I
did five years ago, and now
we're
like, well, maybe we should go.
You know, there's
different places,
there's
water, and I don't know.
Well, and as you grow as a human being.
And your kids move out.
Yeah, your kids move out, things change.
Like we've got two big living rooms that we never sit in.
When we entertain, it's in our kitchen.
I'd love my kitchen to be twice the size it is now in no living room.
Yeah, I dream of my home being paid off.
Oh, hey, I dream of that as well Be really nice not having a house payment and I'm always cheering and rooting for the people that can can do that and that's part of theirs personally, you know My house is gonna be the last thing I pay off It really is a
really good interest rate.
My interest rate is great.
I mean, I think we're at two and a quarter percent, you
know, my brother
got plenty of money, he still has them.
I'm like, what are you doing with a mortgage?
Are you kidding me?
And he takes his money and invests
it
and makes six and seven and eight.
Some of that stuff, he's probably making 10.
I'm like, you know what?
And that happened to me a little bit.
Even my guy said, he'd look, man, that interest rate, you better off investing it.
You know what I did?
Paid off my house.
I'm like, I don't want.
I just, he goes,
that's not a good financial
move for you.
I'm like, you know what?
I don't really care.
I just- Right.
Some of it, you know, honestly, Mayor, it's some of it, it's all personal preference.
It really is.
To some people, they would rather have a loan on everything else and no house payment.
And other people would rather have no loans at all.
Well, that's
the ultimate goal.
And
some-
will leverage and finance everything and stick more money away in investments.
So it's personal.
I
just got a text here from Kathy that's apropos.
I want to throw this at you.
What's worse is that my husband and I don't want to own a home anymore.
But there are no condos or apartments that are affordable.
Right.
That is a true state.
That is.
That is.
So there are a couple.
They're they're they're peeking through.
different, a lot of them on the waterfront, but there are a couple of 55 plus communities.
And Kathy, I'm not saying you're 55 or plus.
I don't know how old you are, but there are a lot of people who are getting either near retirement or in retirement that no longer want the upkeep.
And so a condo is perfect for them.
But I've seen some like over $2,000 a month rent.
Yes, it's crazy.
So, so buying, I know
that actually Ben and Deanna are listing some over by the river over by the OC that are going to be in new development.
So there are more coming because Cathy, you're not alone in that.
A lot of people want less is more for them.
And so that's where they're going with that.
And if you want to rent great, but you can still buy those types of properties and not have to feel like all your money is just going
and giving it away to rent, you can also still own those.
So there's more pockets of that coming around.
Okay, let me just throw one other thing though that I would, I still think property tax, I don't, until you own a home and you get that tax bill every year, you don't realize what an, that's like paying college tuition every year.
Thank you for bringing this up because that is something that people aren't paying attention to as much as they should.
So,
Wisconsin's the eighth highest property tax state in the country.
So we have some high taxes.
You're probably, it's 1.578% of the purchase price is the estimate in our area.
So just even 1.5% of the purchase price, okay?
That's what you're probably paying in taxes.
The other thing is insurance.
Insurance, we used to quote an average on insurance around like,
80 bucks a month.
Right now, the average I'm seeing is typically between 120 and 150 a month for people.
So that's doubling their insurance payment per month, too.
So that's a big piece of their
payment.
You know why those
things are so high?
Because of him.
Thanks, Mayor.
I was on point.
I'm going to come back
and defend that.
OK.
Let me come back and rebuttal.
Sounds
good.
Thank you.
Hey, welcome back.
We're with one of our favorite weekly guests, Kristen Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation.
Her podcast is always on point.
I struck a little bit of a nerve when I started bringing up the property tax type thing.
Yeah.
But
how much people will pay during the course of a lifetime.
And for some of these young home buyers, they really need to factor that in, don't they?
It does.
Yes.
Anybody, though.
Yeah.
And here's why.
Like, this is what we were just talking about.
So in our Green Bay Market, you could go
I'll use my example.
My husband and I lived in Bellevue.
We lived in the last subdivision in Bellevue before it hit Ledgevue.
Because our taxes in Bellevue were $2,800 a year, and if we took our house and moved it a block over on the other side of Highway 172, they were more than double.
So it depends on where you live.
And the reason why I bring that up, especially in pre-qualifying, is I'm the lender who's going to always say,
get me the house you're interested in, I wanna run the payment.
And the reason why is because I wanna know what those taxes are.
Those taxes might increase your payment two, three, four, $500 a month depending on where they're at.
So some pockets of this city where taxes, it's not shocking to see taxes of $7,000, $8,000, $9,000, $10,000.
So you've gotta be prepared for that.
And we were saying even in my house now, when we moved in five years ago, the taxes were $4,500.
Now they're $7,000.
So I've, you know, my husband and I have had to make up the difference in that monthly payment year over year over year.
And we have to be prepared for that.
Cause they don't give you, that tax bill shows up on December 10th surprise and it's doing 20 days and you just have to figure it out and get used to it.
It's, it's not your principal and interest.
changing, it's the taxes and insurance right now.
And I think sometimes,
especially, they're excited to buy their house, right?
Yes, absolutely.
I mean, they just are.
And they
hear, this is your house payment, and it's locked in for 15 years or whatever you recommend.
Good to go.
And then they hear, and your taxes are gonna be $250.
And I think they hear it's locked in for
15
years.
And it's not, like
you
said.
I mean, they go up 50% hours, they went up 50% in the last four or five years.
and you just got a budget, you have to get on that, but they don't hear that.
Your
insurance is going to be $80 a month.
And I think they think, and again, first time buyers, but you don't want to learn the hard way.
And you really need to, and you're good about cautioning them about that.
Say, look, this is this month.
I'm telling you, I don't know what's going to be next year.
So, you know, yeah.
A hundred percent.
And with the pre-approval and what lender you choose to work with, you'd be surprised at the amount of loan estimates I still see.
Cause they're like, well, Kristen, their payments less.
Okay, let me look at it, right?
And it says $350 for taxes on a $500,000 house.
That's wrong.
And then $80 for insurance, I'm thinking.
This payment is probably $300 late because they're baiting and switching you because then it's easy to go.
Well, that was just a number I put in the house you decided.
So it's your fault, not me setting.
It's me, not me setting you up to fail.
I don't
need to put down your
industry,
but
it's brutal.
It is so brutal.
And right now it's, it's, it's beyond the snakiness and brutal.
It's, it really is.
And that's why I can't say it enough for people to make sure you're getting.
a first, second, or a third opinion.
If you're getting more than three, you're going to confuse yourself.
I will tell you that.
I've seen clients go, okay, now it's too much information, but definitely shop.
I would agree as long as you're one of them.
I agree with that.
But
really, I just think it's good because you're, you're not a community bank.
You're not a bank.
You're not a savings and loan, but
I mean, you really know this industry.
So I would just, I would encourage people to do that, to get a second opinion.
I don't have to get three, but as long as you're one of them, because I think what I like about you is you tell them more than you have to.
And I always think, I tell people too, when you're buying it, you had your home inspection, but the furnace goes off.
Do you really have that?
Right?
Right.
Cause that, you know, that's just it,
you
know?
And I mean, the roof is inspected, right?
It's good for another five, six, 10 years.
But I just remember our house, you know, like, I don't know, the chimney, that was expensive.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
And I was seeing seller credits coming back, you know, where sellers are willing to help the buyer pay some of their costs.
So that's really nice.
But those things aren't discussed as much as they should be.
And I am seeing inspections come back.
I think inspections are up about 30% year over year from last year.
That's stuff that makes me excited, because I work with buyers, right?
So that's something that makes me really excited is because buyers are able to get an inspection on the house they're buying versus being
surprised.
How did you frame it when you'd have a couple, especially, I hate to keep saying young couples, but I think of my daughter and whatever.
And if they said, oh, we want this house so bad, this is our dream house, we're not gonna do an inspection.
How did you
respond?
If you can't negotiate it with the seller, I'd love for you to be able to.
But if for whatever reason you need this house and you can't.
There's two ways to go about it.
You can still get an inspection.
You just can't go back to the seller and ask him for anything.
So just wave the contingency, but still get this inspection so you know what you're in for.
You can do that during the process.
You can do that right after you buy it, but that way you know, going into it right away.
Cause now you're setting yourself up for, okay, the furnace is okay, but in a, I probably have one to two years on it.
So I better start saving that $6,000 up for shopping for it now.
So it's not on a day.
where I need an emergency fix, and then they're charging me more.
You know, set yourself up and prepare for all
that.
Right, save some
time.
That chimney I had to get?
Yeah.
I was negotiating with the guy.
I'm the grass, he's up there.
Because I wanted a different design on top.
He goes, what?
I want four debris sticking out.
I can
picture this right now.
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me.
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Because you bring
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No lie, we love
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It's an important investment.
Thank you.
It is.
And you want to get it right the first time.
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And my podcast always on point with Kristen Ambos is on all your podcast stations, Apple Play, Spotify.
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We're there.
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Thank you guys so
much.
Like, like you even said, get three people.
Talk to three.
Make sure she's one of
them.
Absolutely.
Make sure three make me one.
All right.
Thanks for being here.
Quick break.
Back after this.
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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 Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Welcome back to Mino and the Mayor.
And a good look in Monday morning.
67 Green Bay, 66 and out, 1065 in Oshkosh.
Chance of thunderstorms high in the mid eighties later today.
Kristen Ambos 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 great stuff.
Oh, I have to say I feel bad for you guys.
Why is that?
You have you had a nice Wednesday?
You know what?
If anyone has any powers with.
the rain or the weather.
I mean, I've talked to weathermen.
It's like bizarre.
Every Wednesday.
But
Mary, and that's that that interacts with the city band concerts on Wednesday as well.
OK.
So and that's it.
We need a good Wednesday.
We do.
This
is it.
I think so.
This is it.
Can I nap on this
desk right now?
Not for
Micah.
Yeah.
It's just been tough, but you
are
rain or shine.
We are rain or shine.
Johnny
said we must cancel it last night.
I'm
like, nope.
No, the only reason we will cancel is severe weather.
Like lightning
type stuff.
Yes, because it's not safe for anyone to be there, vendors or the community.
But
you also, that's a, is that a three or four hour thing?
The market goes from three o'clock to five or to eight o'clock.
Five hours.
Sell them, does it rain that long in Green
Bay?
Correct.
Whereas the band concert is one hour.
Oh.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
So sometimes it rains pretty heavy at four or three or four.
Yeah.
By seven o'clock it's nicer.
Or there's breaks.
And it's sunny because all of a sudden then we'll see the people.
We'll see the Panchos and the umbrellas.
People have their weekly
routine.
Well, it's not like you're out at a fairground.
It's true.
People could always duck into the bars and
the different things around there.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
There's stores to go into and that kind of thing.
And there's not a lot of mud.
You're in the middle of the street.
You do
a good job.
That's a very, very successful market.
It is, 22 years and running.
Wow, that's awesome.
Well,
what do you want to talk about today, Mary?
The biggest event of the year, right?
Absolutely.
Would you say this is kind of a little thing going on Friday?
This is
the biggest event of the year, isn't it, downtown?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
With 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, but it's the largest fireworks show in Northeast Wisconsin.
So we're really proud of that.
Challenge is always getting people to come before the fireworks.
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?
Well, are you closing or is it just broke
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 gonna have great food we're gonna have live music we're gonna have fireworks but we have a couple of really cool new things this year and Jim alluded to it we have the Santa Max Latin stage so this is year three for that stage and we're so grateful the 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
people are seeing
me.
The east side of the bridge, right out from the Hampton Inn.
So kind of that intersection of Main Street and
the
KI Convention Center.
Yeah, literally right behind
us.
So that stage will have plenty of space, an amazing lineup there, starting at 3.30, going until 9.30, really awesome Latin bands hitting that stage.
That's fantastic.
We had a Latin singer in here on Friday, it was just cool.
It was
just fun,
it was really great.
The music always makes you smile.
Absolutely,
exactly.
It's fun music.
Back in the day, I did Zumba, which was very 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.
I will pay you for video of that that we can put on our Facebook.
Not
creepy at
all,
Joe.
Oh,
creepy at all.
I think the West Side Y doesn't have that anymore.
Oh, the West Side Y. Yeah, that's the West Side Y.
That's the old Lady of Charity place, right?
Cross from Southwest High School?
No, Cardinal Lane.
Oh, okay, way over there.
Oh, okay.
But I used to play basketball at the other one.
And every Saturday morning, we'd have to go knock on a nun's house to give us the basketball and the
keys.
Terrifying, I'm sure.
It was crazy.
Fun times.
But, Mary,
what a huge event this is.
And you were talking about
the biggest
one in Northeast Wisconsin.
Talk about the magnitude of this for downtown Green Bay.
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 show.
It used to
be there was like one area.
It's like, here's a rugby.
Now,
I mean, this is just like,
it's, it's
incredible.
Me and Murph and Katie here, we'd be down on, you know, fourth of July morning downtown Green Bay.
There'd be a few people walking in later, get a few more people,
but
now it's like.
Big time from early on, isn't it?
Absolutely.
Yeah, the Santa Max stage is one of five music stages that we'll have for this event.
So we have the Festival Foods main stage, which is right in Light Park.
People know and love Johnny Wad, who usually closes out.
That always brings a big crowd out.
He's
a huge supporter of downtown, too.
That guy.
Oh, awesome.
All you wait till he talks.
Yeah, he's
one of my favorites.
I'm usually slinging beers in a beer tent when he's on stage.
He's good.
I'm glad to hear that he loves being here.
We also, on Broadway, is bringing one of our Levit stages.
We usually do the Sunday Concert Series,
the
Levit 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.
So that's a kid's kind of
focus.
It is, absolutely.
I think
parents need to know that this, I mean,
what kid doesn't like fireworks, what parent doesn't like fireworks.
But to come down there and enjoy that kid's stage, that's a really, really good time.
Absolutely.
And now we have the added amenities from the Green Bay Parks Department that are 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 within walking distance.
That's a big green space for a downtown.
four acres.
Yeah.
And the other thing is you can see the water,
right?
It's tough to compete with, you know, title towns sometimes, but we've got water, right?
And I think
water's cool.
Absolutely.
And now as we start to see the next phases of shipyard as well as the light to have another water, water, waterfront park that has amazing green space is going to be
cool.
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.
Are they on a
barge when they shoot them off?
They were for Draft City Music Fest.
That was the 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 side again down by, is it Greenmont?
The Greenmont
building.
Okay, I should walk around and see those things.
Oh, I
know.
I know.
I would like to have that job.
I would not want you to have
that job.
Okay.
I wouldn't want your company to have the insurance policy.
Okay.
I can
handle the whole thing myself.
Do you have enough?
Do you have enough?
Do you
have
enough yellow bags from festival?
I
mean, they promote, that's what stamped on all the bags now is the fire
festival.
But you know what's one of those things though too?
You got to see it.
I don't know.
Does anybody televised it anymore?
Channel 5.
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.
But they carry the Green Bay Ones live.
OK.
But they're at like three or four different communities.
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.
But I mean, you have to see it in person.
I mean, at least one
time in your life, you have to come to downtown Green Bay and find a good spot early on or whatever and really sit back and watch
that.
It's really
something.
The bridge is stellar to sit and watch those, but certainly there's a ton of vantage points throughout downtown that you can see those.
I'm going
to ask her if I can get on the roof here.
Sure.
Wouldn't that be awesome?
Why couldn't you?
Well,
I don't know where you find the access to get it, but I mean, I just want to live here.
Well, I know, but I don't want to be like climbing up the wall like Spider-Man or
something.
And then people are going to wonder where to park and there's plenty of parking and it's free.
Park where you want.
I would not park on the top floor in the
ramp.
Take a long time
to get out.
Does it?
Okay.
Park where you want.
Yes, but there's plenty of parking for people.
I don't need to worry about
that.
Mary Roddy on Broadway.
Festival food.
Spire over the box.
Got some great things coming up there.
We're going to keep you around.
Is that
all right?
That's okay.
Anything else going on over there that's pressing more than
this?
No,
no.
This is it this week, you
guys.
I just had to play the Spider-Man theme
because
I was thinking about you crawling up the building like Spider-Man.
You know who I could be like?
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 then 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 getting out.
I could do this.
Todd, did you see him go from his chair to that chair?
Oh, but my hip.
That's my hip.
My hip.
I mean, Jim does have a point,
John.
There is a point there.
Must feel good to point out the shortcomings of others, Jim.
Wow.
I've always wanted to do that, though.
Yeah, I always wanted to do that.
Mary.
Maybe try rock climbing first indoors
Okay, okay, Mary Rode is a very special guest here.
I'll tell you what you know who never complains about the weather coming your place cheese curd Nick He's just there.
Do you know cheese curd?
Yeah, he's on the corner.
He's
He is well you're all the right cheese curds and the big hot dogs.
No
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
You gotta
eat more of your food there, Mary.
Come on.
Somebody has to serve you.
You want me to work in your beer tent
sometime?
I mean, I could do that.
That'd be fun.
What do you want
me?
This week?
I'll be drinking up the profits.
On the fourth?
Shaking his head over there.
She's a little twitched.
She's a little
twitched.
I'm volunteering.
I just,
I work for tips.
We have amazing volunteers.
I work for
tips.
Just tips.
If you would donate those tips to a non-profit, we can maybe talk.
I'm non-profit based tips.
What's that?
Nick donates his tips.
Oh, awesome.
Yeah, he does.
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.
Nice.
Very roady on Broadway.
Stick around.
Back after
this.
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.
Well, I come from
The
Wayland
Jennings!
Nice!
God, I love Wayland.
Mary Rowdy on Broadway, Festival of Foods, Fire Over the Fox, and a whole bunch of other things.
When did this really, were you in office when this really started gaining traction?
Because I remember it was basically...
just the fireworks
and
there was a big thing guys like channel five at the time and it's like oh we're televising fireworks and it's that was like the big thing okay then when how did this thing just keep getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger what
was it i would like to think the city deck had something to do with that okay we built that that's when zulaski moved him and erin yeah came down and they set up their
tent and
they did their headquarters
okay
and i and um
I don't know what happened.
We also did, we wanted to get people down here earlier too.
So we rang the Liberty Bell and we swore in some new citizens
and
the judge would come down and that was quite a nice ceremony.
I didn't
want to say it was, it was kind of emotional too.
And they would speak after the ceremony.
And I think that was at one o'clock because we went, you know, like three o'clock it starts
now,
but it was hard because the vendors are down there and.
Six eight people would come and
buy
something and
but every hour you could just tell more and more than a six o'clock It was like awesome, but yeah, okay.
What happened the first five hours?
We're here setting
up So given up the 4th of July, you know Nobody just have people coming up and ask you for CDs, but right, but then I just want to say that I'm gonna say it
myself
But Light Park didn't really kick into it later.
So then on the city deck, we had the bounce house, some of
the things
she's talking about.
So that got people down here, too.
And it was just easier to watch, too, instead of standing behind those bars.
But it's amazing how it's grown.
And I do want to say that I think festival was up to game
big time.
Oh my gosh, having festival step up.
Is that what shop
go remember, John?
Yeah.
Oh, sure.
Oh my gosh, I remember that back in the day.
Yeah, we have so many amazing sponsors that help us.
I think we mentioned it previously.
This is a heavy lift.
This is a big, big event, and we couldn't do it without such amazing sponsors and
partners.
We talk about the heavy lift.
I mean, you got to pay the bans, but there's added security.
You've got police and fire.
There's a lot
of cost to this thing.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, the event logistics, the...
DPW.
Yeah, the security meetings that happen and just making sure everything runs smoothly is huge.
And the reason it's such a heavy lift is we don't charge people.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
You don't charge people.
It's a free community event.
Right.
This is like a parade.
That's why...
not a lot of people have a lot, a lot of praise.
They're expensive to put on.
They just
are.
And this
even probably a little bit more so because it's in the evening and there's not that there's more risk, but there's just more logistics to it.
And you know, we taught, you're too young Mary, but we talked about like when I first came to Green Bay, nobody went on Broadway.
I'm well, some people did, but you didn't want to go and hang out with those people on Broadway.
And now for what it is.
I mean, you have to have been here for a while to see the transformation.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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... A neighborhood tabard.
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 they're celebrating 50 years of business.
50 years is a long time to be in business.
That is a long time.
But it still has that same amazing vibe that it did.
That is one of the reasons
he's been so successful is he hasn't changed a whole lot.
Right.
Even when you go inside.
People love
that.
That was, and when we went to this party, I was just saying to some people, it was Green Bay.
I mean,
he
does some tourism there and has some people, but it was just a lot of people who, there's a couple of people I think that have been there all 50 years.
It's just great.
But anyway, but that adds to a neighborhood.
That kind of gives a neighborhood a certain, what was the word you used earlier, a vibe.
It gives a neighborhood a
certain vibe.
But
for them, it's also nostalgia.
And people love that because it helps them remember maybe some of the good 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.
But I mean, it's a walk back in time and just walk in.
I mean, which is so cool that, you know, it's not a sports bar that was thrown up.
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 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.
There's something about the atmosphere and the area of downtown.
And especially on that day, it's just really a special place to be.
I like to
think of the fact that my dad, when he had come for Packard games, would go there.
And then he could go in the, maybe the same papsable ribbon glass that, you know, I mean, how often can you find that anymore?
Yeah.
And I don't know who you bring in if you still do that, but we always brought in, you know, 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 us on 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.
Keen printing will do them for free.
Kevin, please.
You did them for me free
for me.
And then you just give them out at hotels and people send them say, oh, it was in Green Bay.
So anyway,
that's awesome.
Love it.
He should be.
He should have a different job than this because he has so many ideas.
It's just like we have to deal with them all the time.
I love
it.
Mary Rodney, great having
you here on Broadway Festival.
Thanks, Mary for all the box.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Man, you know what?
When we walked in this morning, it was like the most beautiful blue skies.
Nice, nice, nice.
Now it's getting dark and cloudy.
67 in Green Bay, 66 in Appleton, 65 in Oshkosh.
High in the mid-80s later today.
Possible thunderstorms.
Yeah, but I'm not seeing that.
Nope.
No, I
got...
Chris, I used the phone.
Yeah, go on.
I'm gonna put all my faith in you finding that on your phone, Chip.
100% faith in that.
It's a little bit more accurate.
Whatever.
I
understand.
So, are you bringing the crew...
Here for the fourth or what are you doing?
I
don't see your brothers.
I still don't know to be honest with I really don't Either way, it's gonna be pretty low-key.
I will say that
but you know what's cool about like even if you go up to Nogani or even what
hey by the way Mary was saying she she's north of Antigo She was at their cabin.
Yeah, she said that deer flies and horse flies were terrible out there this weekend
See, it's not fun
to miss just
either.
I don't get it.
Yeah, I'm more of a spring and fall kind of cabin guy.
I'm not a cabin
guy.
Why, you know, but there's something wrong with spring and fall too.
I know you I'm going to be honest.
No, you are missing the boat on something.
You always say you're going to do it going up to the U.P.
during the fall to see the colors and those little towns.
You know, I would do that.
Yeah, I'll do you're missing out on something there.
It's it's really spectacular a lot of those places
what I was going to say about these small towns It's amazing how they lean into the fireworks.
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're doing up there, but we went the fireworks were like awesome They were look look two rivers their fireworks in Walshfield.
They're
Yeah, I think that's great how everybody celebrates the birthday.
Can you?
OK, the fireworks at Walsh Field.
Can you sit in the stands there to watch them?
That's got to be the greatest seat you could
have.
You can go on the field.
Wow.
Now, I don't know.
I shouldn't say that.
That was Bob's.
We're kids.
So I don't know if they changed that because of insurance or something.
But yes, you are right.
That's cool.
Because I love that baseball stadium built into that hill.
It is.
Yeah.
No, you're right there.
What's that called picnic hill?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
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.
Um, yeah.
So I, and you know, I don't know, you don't have to be like right there to see them.
You know what I mean?
Like some people are like, Oh, it's too crowded.
Well then.
Yeah.
Go have six blocks away.
You can still see them.
But you know, another thing too with the fireworks is, I mean, even when you're stopping a roadside stand, what should happen 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 gonna go have a bunch of people.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna spend a hundred dollars and, and it's like, that bag, that's, that's it.
I mean, it's expensive.
Yeah.
Okay.
It's couple things.
How much, I want to know how much money out there just for your own personal parties.
What's the most somebody that's listening has spent on fireworks?
Oh, there's people who spend a lot, like a lot because they want to, they want to show off.
And yeah, there's people who have spent a lot and you got to show the guy.
The cash and then he'll start working a deal.
I've done that, but I just want to say for people in Green Bay shocked
Hey, if you're negotiating where the guy work on your chimney.
Well, he was on the roof and you're on the ground I'm shocked that you were negotiating a tent with a
guy But again, I not that anyone would ever do this but You may want to buy if you live in the municipality of Green Bay you might might might want to buy your fireworks
in like Howard or Ashwabana because they're better.
Why do you say that?
Because they allow... Better in which way?
More bang for your buck?
No.
Okay.
They allow... In Green Bay, you can't shoot off fireworks that they can't leave the ground.
So, and in... Really?
Yeah.
And then in Howard or Ashwabana, they have fireworks that can leave the ground.
So you want to buy your
first?
I never knew that.
Yeah.
Well, that's what it was.
I don't know.
I'm not.
I'm good.
Do they, you know,
actually,
we had the chief on here, right?
I know.
What is
this advice?
Go watch him.
I want to get a police officer on.
Okay.
Fine.
Oh, do they actually go out on calls?
Like if a neighbor calls and says there's really, they do.
And I think it's, I think it's, I think it's like, I don't know.
I don't want to quote.
I think it's.
Is Officer Craig out there?
Six hundred.
Oscar Craig, are you out there?
I think it's a lot.
That's what I mean.
What what is the safety?
OK, I have spent nothing on fireworks, John.
They're illegal in Green Bay.
I listen to the show.
Shocked, I say, shocked, Brian.
I like to know what is
the fine if you go out because those the snow cone.
That is a good firework, but it doesn't leave the ground.
But you put the snow cone down and it is amazing.
It's like a lava thing, isn't it?
No, no,
it shoots up.
It just, yeah, that's a good firework.
It's like 30 bucks.
So I got a few of those.
Okay.
Sometimes I use those just people come over.
Well, that's a good firework.
Which hat are you wearing?
The Green Bay, no fireworks thing?
Or are you talking about what you're doing?
I
don't know, John.
I'm confused.
What I've learned is... I have some inventory.
If the law, whether it's speeding or fireworks, doesn't... He doesn't want it to pertain to him?
He doesn't.
However!
However!
He wants people with loud mufflers to be stopped.
However!
I am okay,
but are they okay?
So is it illegal in Green Bay to have what do you call them the kind of rockets?
Well that but you know the bigger ones that yes, it is illegal in Green, but I did not know
that I don't think they're
illegal in a Schwabbanon
Okay
So when I lived in Ledgeview
don't know about Ledgeview
would that have its own sir or is that considered part of Green Bay?
That would
be a pure ordinance.
Yes.
Okay.
I don't know what the rules are here
But has anybody really been busted?
Yes.
Really?
Yes.
OK.
And we have to call, like you said, I do think they called the police.
I don't know who issues the citation, but I think it's expensive, like really expensive.
Well, if they go through the effort of reporting on a call and going someplace.
I know in Oshkosh this year, you used to get a warning from the cops.
OK.
No longer.
This year, if they get called out and they stop by, boom, ticket.
Really?
Yep.
Do you know how much it is?
I don't offhand.
Wow.
Yeah.
What if you shot everything off before they got there?
And see, it's the guy next door.
Yeah.
And take the bucket of water, which we'll do because
it
said put it in the button and just drag it over.
Absolutely.
Your neighbors.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, we
had all the
plans here.
We had we had music, you know, not synchronized.
No, but we even, you know, it was.
It was great patriotic music and yeah, it was fun.
And it was
right here.
No, we did it.
We I will say this in my defense.
We shot him off in Ashwabadan.
While you're a mayor of Green Bay.
Yes.
It was a pool party.
Todd.
Ethical yes or no.
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.
But randomly at two in the morning, right?
That guy, can we stop it at like 10?
I agree with
that.
Yes.
I totally agree with that.
And dogs are afraid of them too.
Oh my God.
I
hate
them.
I'll bet.
Yeah.
I'll bet.
So I mean, it's I know so many veterans.
Deal with that.
I got a buddy.
We're right.
We talked about that.
Sure that he goes up to his cabin to get away from it Yeah, he lives in Dykesville.
He has to he has to leave.
Yeah Okay, we got this answer Ashwabana is similar to Green Bay.
They cannot leave the ground Jim Huh?
Yeah, we didn't
Shoot off the kind that left the ground you did to
Check the tape on the ground
that may have changed, okay I Think that I'm not kidding.
I have to look into this.
I'm over my skis on
this.
Can the sheriff's department shop any place?
All right, we're gonna
get it.
We're
gonna get a cop on tomorrow
time
Um, you guys, if you want to do that, I think there's an opening.
Seven, I think, but we wait.
We're trying.
I've got Seven's book now.
Okay.
Do we have any time?
Is
that a chef at Seven?
I've got a chef at
seven.
Okay, good.
Because there's some, I was telling you that
this morning,
there's some great, fourth of July recipes that are healthy.
Hey, oh, hey.
Just so you know, they're going to talk about, unless you've got somebody else, I've got somebody that, but they're going to talk about grilling and all that kind of stuff.
Okay, that's fantastic.
I
just want to say that, uh, John tried to embarrass me and I thought I was right, but I didn't want to embarrass you, but I will, I'll take this opportunity now.
Um, we have a, a intern, not an intern, he's actually a paid employee, Jesse.
And who's hails from Puerto Rico?
Nope.
Nope.
Panama.
He's from Panama.
Okay.
Yes.
He's, he's, he is actually not, uh, intern.
He is the marketing coordinator.
Right.
Right.
But I just want to clarify that.
Panama.
His family's from Panama.
So go ahead.
Go ahead and embarrass me some more.
No, I thought you were from Puerto Rico.
Nope.
Nope.
Okay.
Cause then I said, look.
Did your
mom?
It doesn't matter where he's from.
The point of your story is the same.
So go ahead.
No, it's not.
Cause
if he's
from Puerto Rico and then you said, why would his mom make a red, white and blue 4th of July cake, cake, right?
If he's from Puerto Rico,
he's not from Puerto Rico.
He's from Panama the whole time.
Yep.
That doesn't make sense.
Cause Puerto Rico is part of us and they celebrate the 4th of July.
Todd, are you following this?
All I know is he was trying to make you look bad.
And now I'm, I think, I
gave him one of the pasties.
I'm waiting
for, he's not here, right?
Yeah.
He'll be, I think he's in on Wednesday.
Okay.
So I wanted people that haven't tried pasties before to try that.
Cause you guys loved them, right?
Oh yeah.
Fantastic.
So snarky Brian.
Thank you for doing it.
I wonder if that, I wonder if that's what I could open up in the shipyard district.
We've talked about that a little bit.
I know what I'm
making.
What?
No, I'm not going to tell you, man.
Cause then you're going to not,
Yeah, I make it I'm and this is gonna be I'm gonna have a line and they're gonna you're lucky You're gonna be next to me because then they may go over to whatever you're making.
Well, I still gonna do my Johnny juice
Yeah, I'm telling you John.
I'm gonna do that.
I'm going to have a something that people are going to buy a food item and then You
can like a hot food.
I'm like, yes, you're cooking it there.
I'm cooking it there
Is it something unique something different?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you ever talked to it on the show before?
No
And I tell you where I were and it was a long line and I had it.
It's from Africa Okay, that's not expensive.
All right, I'm very profitable
Is it a meat?
No
You're not gonna let us know
why
what good nobody's gonna steal that idea.
Trust me.
Yeah, they will really yeah I'm doing that with you.
I thought about doing that when we talked about the shipyard.
I thought about doing that when I was mayor
But I you know, so 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 all right 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
by the way the Panamanian flag is red white and blue.
Okay.
Wow.
I did not know that
do they Okay
So the like Puerto Rico they they're part of us, right?
Yeah, okay.
Is Panama part of us?
No, but aren't we gonna buy them or
something something at one time?
That was when New Yorker was still around I think
no didn't Trump put the canal and everything aren't we gonna
I don't know
You're more up in there.
What is your I'm
just gonna say the
same
thing.
You're the one who loves
a cabinet That's got to be a t-shirt.
No,
that's
got to be a bingo
card.
No, I that's
got to be a bingo card.
He blew it last time and this time he's He brought in the A team.
I don't know.
Oh
good lord.
We're not going there.
No, don't
I just that's personal opinion.
Okay, so all right.
All right
Todd, who do we got coming up next?
Nobody coming in this morning.
I will tell you, tomorrow morning, we will be talking about recipes.
Marla Kopecki-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.
She's awesome.
We did that video with her over at Brown.
She's got a phenomenal personality.
She's great at what she does.
Okay.
And if any of our listeners want to text in their favorite Fourth of July recipe.
Ten seconds.
Okay.
I mean, that's,
I've got a great one.
I'll bring it tomorrow.
Hold that.
I'll
bring it tomorrow.
Can't beat the stones
We got to get them here Actually,
you know what they probably would they played it solar field.
Yeah, they probably would they played it Miller Park back in was first open.
Yeah
Yeah, yep.
Yep.
Yep.
I mean And I think they would probably like to play at Lambo.
Don't
I think everybody would like to play at Lambo I'm not just throwing that out there cuz it's our thing I can't think of a band that wouldn't say how much like to play at Lambo field,
right?
Yeah, I mean they would never did never nobody would turn it down.
That's I would like to think you're right.
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.
Yeah, I really do.
Yeah.
But you know, the cap is 80,000.
Right.
So anyway, 200,000 people to draft
one night.
Well, how many of Brian wants to how many the stones you think they could open for the Pope?
Well, the Pope can't charge for Catholic.
You know what?
I've had numerous people say, OK, I wanted to laugh at Jim.
And then I thought to myself, I could see it happening.
It could happen.
I could see it happen.
I could see the pope coming to Green Bay to land though
that.
I'm telling you, I think that's gonna be, I got a couple other things I wanna get done, but that's gonna really move up my list.
I think I wanna do that.
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.
You also did say,
The stones you said the stone I can get that done.
You said that
stones at Lambo.
Yep
stones.
Okay.
That would be all right What else is your restaurant or whatever you're gonna do?
But I want to share a trailer a car What's what's what are those called container
storage container a container a
container car at John?
I'm
gonna be upstairs.
No, we're not doing we're doing a side by side
No one's gonna
go upstairs.
Oh my god.
That's part of the coolness.
I ain't gonna happen.
It's gonna be overlooking the water from my balcony.
All right, I'll go alone on that one then.
Oh, that's fine.
But if you're my tenant, keep it down.
In Europe.
Because you know what?
You're not gonna get any customers.
You're gonna get people that'll go there one time.
It's like, let's go try this food.
John, who's... Okay.
And they'll try it once.
It's like,
mm.
Uh-uh.
Okay.
You know what?
It's gonna be cool.
Like, I... Because I'm gonna be...
So marketing, I'm going to have people from that area dressed up.
I'm going to have the music.
Yeah, it'll be like a festival.
Nobody's going to go there on a Tuesday night.
You want to bet?
Yes.
Yes.
And then I just want to make sure buying Panama.
Is that on your list?
No, I'm not
going to do that.
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.
come over to my house, all that China is from thrift stores and the 13 different sets of China I have there.
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, 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, the profits
of that.
Brian, put it on the Brian's sending me Jim's list.
And homelessness, stones, pulp, linen museum, Liberace museum, meet the press podcast live.
Yeah, I did meet the press.
Chuck Todd is a huge Packer fan.
Okay.
Wait, he's a Dolphins fan.
But he likes the Packers.
That's what it is.
He's a Dolphin's fan, but likes the Packers.
I just
don't know what to believe.
No, no, no, no.
I just
like
letting him
go.
No, because I want to invite him up for a game.
Okay, let's take Chuck Todd off the list.
I'm not going to mess with that one.
Oh, it's off.
I want to share a photo.
It's going to take me a moment to do this, but I want to share a photo of when I think of Jim and all the stuff he wants to do.
Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna throw it up on our, uh, our stream.
Okay.
Anyway,
cause it ties all of that in.
Okay.
All right.
I just, and I have work to do.
I mean, I'm not,
I have a lot of work to do.
Yeah.
But do you have a staff?
That's something you're working on.
Okay.
Put together a staff.
All right.
That
would be, that would keep me busy, but
I
kind of have a project.
I cannot.
So when we think Liberace and a museum and we think of the fourth of July.
Yes.
You guys all combined into one.
That's it.
I like those knee socks.
I'll tell you that right now and the fringe and the fringe and the baton and the whole thing.
That's it.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
So what are your, what are your goal?
What are you going to do, John?
None of what you're going to do.
Absolutely.
That's about it.
I'm going to see if I can get upstairs here on the roof to watch the fireworks.
I would do that.
I think that'd be
awesome.
That would be fun.
That.
That there's probably not a better view.
No, because some of the displays are on the ground, right?
Okay.
Yeah.
Those boards.
Yes.
You know, yes.
I'm gonna see
if
I can do that.
Yeah.
Wouldn't that be fun?
That'd be awesome.
That would be great.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I
know.
See if you can get a couple other chairs up there for
Todd.
Where are you watching the fireworks?
I'm going to be watching an Oshkosh on the fourth.
Sure.
You want me 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 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?
That was
funny.
Oh
That was
a while
ago.
That was one of the funniest things of
all time.
Yeah, that was a
good one.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right, Todd.
Great work, buddy.
Let's wrap it up.
Thank you, Todd.
Great work, as usual.
All right, Johnny, we will see you
tomorrow.
Absolutely.
Thanks for being here, everybody.
Man of the Bear.
See ya.
Actually, I will say this.
The best water I've ever tasted is from Manitowoc.
I was in Manitowoc all weekend.
They have good water.
We go to that artesian well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you put it in a big old, like a Lamers chocolate milk bottle with those big, thick, heavy bottles.
And you put it there, it's so, I mean, it's crazy to say, whoever said, oh, that water tastes good.
This water is so good from that well.
Yeah, those are great.
Yeah.
Got a text there from Terry.
Good morning, gentlemen.
Had a blast at the Blue Ox Music Festival in Eau Claire this past weekend.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Except for the damn rain.
I kept having the Woodstock chant in my head.
No rain, no rain, no rain.
Terry, how bad was it, Terry?
Yeah, Lenny's tap.
That's awesome.
So that place is on Broadway and Broadway in the last, what, 30 years has gone through renovation, 25 probably, 30.
And he has stayed the course.
And interesting guy who runs that place.
One of the, quiet guy, but one of the most generous people in Green Bay.
And he is celebrating obviously 50 years in business.
His first 45 years, get this tied, he was open every day.
It's amazing.
Yeah.
Right.
But, and he did the 50-50 raffle, his kids.
It was kids.
I mean, these kids are probably 28, 25 years old.
We're working the 50-50 raffle, and then you could bring canned goods or non-perishable goods for Salvation Army.
And the 50-50 raffle, the winner won 50.
The other 50 went to the new community shelter.
Oh, that's cool.
So generous.
He did the 50-50 raffle every hour.
So it was from one to six.
Great band.
And then he had his friends do the pig.
What's it called?
Sparkle.
Two of those.
Wow.
Right?
That sounds good.
And then, you know, baked beans and some other things.
And there were a lot of people there, I was just telling you.
And it was just free.
cool, and that's why Todd the other day or the other day we got a little week Yeah, but we were going when we went to pickle some bags.
Yeah, and we're driving down that street And again, I always get a mix of was that Congress Street or Oregon Street or not?
Oregon Oregon
And it's like those neighborhood bars are still there in Oshkosh.
Yeah.
I just think that's so cool.
It's tough to preserve those
Yeah.
Wow.
But I said to him, I just don't know.
I don't think people know how generous you are and he goes, I like it that way.
You know, it's perfect.
He's just low keyed and but boy does he do a lot.
So anyway, that was it's great to have him as a neighbor because we're right down the block from him.
Yeah, Michael Phelps is 40, Cole Swindell is 42, David Allen Greer is 69.
Boy, I'll tell you, a type of music that chews people up real quick is country.
I was watching a thing the other night.
These kids now, they're so young, and it's amazing how the older people, you know, they have, they have their, their reign, their kind of, and then these young, just move aside, move aside.
We got these young people coming in, move aside.
What
You can't, well no, I remember Johnny Cash.
I see.
Johnny Cash had the famous thing, or Billboard magazine, Foot with the Bird.
Just like no radio stations would play his music.
Yeah.
And it seems like it's getting that way now with these, these kids were so young watching this special the other night.
Mine.
Mine.
Beautiful.
I had it Saturday for lunch.
Yeah, did you put ketchup on yours?
Yes, so did I yeah, I did not I just ate it It was I ate and those were hearty those were good.
There's a lot in there and I was I do
I was going to text you and I didn't, but I ate part of it and I thought, ooh, I think some ketchup would really add
When Mino puts those glasses on, I feel he should have a chain on that and be playing Mahjong or Canasta.
can ask these are my you know what these are Todd I see what are those I they're here I don't know who's they are and I can't see like anything whatever it's like it's like it's like Vaseline over but I can read really good with them
Right.
Who's the guy that did it just recently?
One of the Baldwin brothers, right?
Alec Baldwin was the host for a couple of seasons.
He got canned.
Now the guy...
He was on Saturday night live.
I can't remember his name.
Uh, he's doing that TV show with Steve Martin Now they kind of go.
Um, Martin shorts.
But I don't like the nicest people.
You know, Uncle Miltie.
You'll never find.
But then he teed.
Another one like me.
He was, his show was good.
Just the rehearsal, he wasn't.
Whereas DMO, I didn't think it was very nice to the crowd.
Well.
Todd, who are yours?
My number one is Frank Gorshwin.
They're saying, because David Marinus from the, you know, Washington Post, he wrote the book on Bill Clinton.
The, what is it?
The, is it a biography when you don't have the person's permission?
So he wrote the biography on Bill Clinton.
Okay.
I think that might have been what he won.
The Pulitzer honors, but it wasn't favorable to say that.
Yeah.
So David's dad, who's a longtime newspaper guy in Madison.
He invited him to the correspondence dinner.
And they were talking and he goes, hi, David, how are you?
This is my dad.
Or this is my dad.
Oh, how you doing, man?
Hey, David, one quick thing.
And he goes, yeah.
Nice tie.
Which is him saying bleep you.
Exactly.
Yeah, that was, that was kind of a fun party, but yeah, he, but he tried being funny.
He was not funny.
He was not funny.
He said, you know, Laura told me not to say that.
You know, I'm here at the home.
I appreciate doctors.
So he's a, he's a brain surgeon.
I guess we don't have too much in common, huh?
It's just kind of like a plate.
Laura told me not to say that.
Yeah.
And then he was at, um, a place right across from Bay Beach.
It made those like, uh, what's the guy's name?
Made those like cartons.
Anyway, I took my daughter, Laura, cause, uh, Laura Bush was there.
He was there with Laura.
He was, um,
And then she signed a card to Laura, you know, to Laura from Laura Bush.
And I said, well, maybe you can take that to like, she won't tell.
And she's like, it's not even a toy.
She did not think it was that
Yeah, you're exactly right But you know why it's one of those things too in in our business because we you know, we know who the Good people are and we know who the yeah, okay You just know because you work with them, you know, and you could put on such a persona You know in in this field.
All right, but How many times have you had to bite your teeth with somebody you know as a total home?
Yeah, whatever.
I think oh my god.
I love
Oh, I know.
Leap.
Oh, here's the nicest human being.
He's like, and you know, but you can't, you can't say
for what I just for my radio name radio name I'm the only person so I was just used my own name and radio Isn't that funny when you think about it a little bit, but it's very radio ask But I mean who think of who else was the last key because it used to be
The old school was, it shouldn't be any sort of ethnicity.
Country.
Country.
Country or classic rock?
Those might only two.
It can't be modern.
Either one of those.
So I think you've got to go with Johnny.
Johnny.
Okay.
It's got to be Johnny something.
I would say truck and Johnny.
Trucking Johnny King.
I think people would throw no, no, I think they'd say leaping Johnny or something.
Oh, we'd
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I can't steal that though.
Well, you know, that show is still, it popped up.
You know, that's a cool thing about TV these days.
Dom hooked me up to get like prime, whatever.
And it had a thing on where it's all old TV shows.
And that's kind of cool when you can watch like WKRP.
I mean, those were fun shows in that era.
You know what I mean?
They were just fun shows.
Clean shows, whatever shows, it was just, I used to, when I was doing sports, if I went home to eat in between the six and the 10, it's like one of those shows would always be on.
And it's like every night there was, there was that one and it was the, what was it?
The Alex P Keaton.
Oh yeah, family ties.
Family ties.
I mean, whenever you turned on the TV at night, there was like a really good show you could watch.
There's nothing anymore.
Is there?
Are there?
Those kind of TV shows anymore.
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you.
It's
Oh my thank you.
Thank you.
Yes.
Number four.
It's kind of wild.
Yeah.
My youngest is seven.
So I'm kind of doing this all over again.
It feels like, but the kids are going to be great helpers.
I feel like it'll be different this time around where it won't be like chasing all the toddlers.
They'll be able to like take a shower and they can keep the kid alive for a little while,
I think so.
Yeah.
My oldest is 12.
She just took the babysitting course.
So she's very excited.
They love babies.
They'll be great.
They are.
And I just
could always
That's a good question.
She told me she learned how to administer an EpiPen and do all the things.
It is amazing.
They do that at the safety center here in Green Bay.
So God bless those people.
They do a really nice job.
That
Yeah.
And they learn the business skills side of it too, which is really good.
Like how do you negotiate a rate and ask those questions.
So it's really good.
I think that's awesome.
Oh, that's cool.
So I'm busy.
Do you
Don't you?
I do.
Yeah, well, we have such a great neighborhood, you know, and all the, you know, like sports parents and all the people you get to hang out with as you raise kids.
Like the village is strong and we are very grateful.
Congrats to you.
Congrats.
That is great.
which is
I'm senior manager of external relations.
So kind of a fancy way of, you know, PR, communications.
I get to do fun things like this with you guys.
Nice.
I've been there for just over a year now, so.
must be close to a thousand or 600.
Just
You said that that's so cool.
You know that
Well, I say that a breakthrough when I used to work for Craig Dickman.
I was employee number eight.
step in.
because
on right now?
They started as that, yes.
And Bonnie was the one who ran those for many years, incredible lady.
And so I'm trying to fill her shoes a little bit and do some other things as well.
And so obviously we went through a pretty tough month this last month with the outage and with an ongoing FBI investigation.
there's only so much you can share.
Believe me, we would love to share all the way more things than we can.
And so it's really just our opportunity to say thank you to our customers for sticking with us.
It was obviously a rough road, not just for us, but for them.
We completely understand that and also for our community.
we're doing also by not sharing too much is because these cyber incidents happen all across the country every single day, which is unfortunate, but it's the world we live in.
And the more we say, the more susceptible people in and outside of our industry are too, because that's our goal, right?
Is to like get to us and then get to other people that are probably even bigger.
In other industries.
Remember
this community.
That happens all the time.
I don't
but
And you use that every day.
Exactly.
It makes you really think about how often you use your technology.
And how I don't want
you
communication.
Yep.
Yep.
Absolutely.
So yeah.
That's why some of
Right.
Do I worry about that?
But for sure.
Yep, we're back now.
We're back and ready to get back to business as usual.
And again, just say thank you at these celebrations.
So we have 15 left.
There were 17 total.
And they're all across the region.
So we're in Ribb Mountain and Marshfield.
So Ribb Mountain tomorrow on my birthday.
Oh, hey, happy birthday.
Thank you.
And then July 2nd.
Oh, I got a bell.
next
Oh, I
Best birthday gift
Ever.
Yeah, but then we're at Marshfield on July 2nd.
I'll be at that one.
And we've been doing some radio remotes, and it's a lot of... Okay, I gotta talk
Oh, right.
We do
I can't believe you did that.
Tell us.
Yeah, I did a lot of dunk tanks.
Because
terrible when we showed up right and I
just to say, tell me
dump.
Well, and they just had Mr. Wisconsin.
We just crowned Willow our brand of Wisconsin.
She's from Racine.
Very cool.
Yes.
So I did a lot of things.
I think when you become Mr. Wisconsin, and that's why honestly, like I, I am so grateful for that experience because I wouldn't be able to do all the things I do today without that experience.
So yay for scholarship money, paid for my MBA,
the good things, but it also gave me the opportunity to learn that sometimes you show up to places and you just got to kind of figure things out.
And you don't know who you're going to meet, what you're going
I mean, I was prepped a lot of times before I went, but you just don't know.
And you show up and they're like, Hey, do you mind doing this?
Do you mind doing this?
And I was a singer.
So I sang a lot too.
And
speak to all different sorts of audiences.
So you kind of have to roll with the punches on that too.
But yeah, dunk tanks, parades, all the things.
And yep, there were definitely times.
I mean, I definitely wore a T-shirt over my swimsuit just to make sure there were no wardrobe malfunctions as they call it nowadays.
But didn't you say you'd
Oh God, yeah.
Oh yeah.
I mean, you have to worry about those kinds of things.
Right.
tighter on security nowadays, I would say, but they always made sure I had somebody with me.
So that was good.
You'd get a lot of letters and things.
And after a while, I just asked my business manager to just not share those anymore.
I was like, you know, unless it's dangerous, like, I just don't want it.
And that's good because they
Yeah, whatever, you know.
I play sports my whole life.
I think that's great, you did that.
I was gonna say, they don't know that
Yes, I'm a country gal.
That's right.
You know, so I was muddin' and, you know, pickin' rocks and doin' all sorts of things up there.
Dude, did you
Yeah, I played outfield at Norbert's, which was really cool.
Like, I had never played that until I got there.
And they were like, well, the only position we have open is left field.
So if you want to play, that's what you're gonna do.
And I was like, all right, well, I'll give it a shot.
And I loved it.
It was so much
Well, it was a paid appearance.
So yes, it was expected to do that.
I mean, I'm sure if I was uncomfortable with something, we would have worked for it.
I mean, that's not
to your
surprised
to the
VP or whatever.
I was the ambassador in a lot of ways too, for sure.
All right.
So
Yep, nope, just Wisconsin.
So we go all the way, you know, west to the Red Mountain area like this week and then we'll go south to Manitowoc and up to Door County.
And the people
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah, and the deals that we have going on It's basically like black Friday in June So like if there's a time you want to stock up on something like for the hunters right now We've got crazy deals like the more you buy the more you save so we had somebody come in and get five trail cams for the price of two Which I know
husband big hunter is thinking about Or if you've been thinking about getting that phone for that kid that you're like right on the fence so we can get him the phone or the watch or something Okay,
All right.
Well, that's okay.
I'll let you know.
Yes.
You have that.
That is the coolest thing.
Yeah, the Spartan Trailcams.
Is that
And we have our low cams that are more like for your house, which I just bought a house actually in August.
So we're gonna get some of those too.
Okay.
Um, but yes, absolutely.
Yeah, it's an app and then it runs right through your phone.
My husband has something very similar right now.
So I get to see all the deer all the time.
All the time just pops right up as a notification anytime movement comes.
So I've seen that one has got that
Yeah.
And then you don't have to go and like change the SD card out.
It just comes right here.
Wow.
And he
that surprises
my new house.
Oh, we do.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Yep.
I didn't either.
Yeah.
That is much done our less.
People don't think we have, but yes.
Tell me about these.
Oh, Celebrations.
And we're calling them cell ubrations.
Cell ubrations.
We're rebranding a little bit.
Because again, it's a big thank you to all the customers that stuck with us.
And hopefully some new ones will come too.
So when
Yeah, everything.
It's literally like you're walking into a retail store underneath an outdoor tent.
And then we have our care team and our tech team for like any technical question that you have.
You can get all these great deals.
And actually, if you sign up for home internet, which we also have, you can get six months for free.
So that's a pretty good deal.
So
We have.
Actually, we do.
different in each location, but a lot of times it's like subs, chips, we have root beer floats, always love that.
Some, depending on where you are, like Appleton North, for instance, our store is right next to Tom's Drive-In, so they're going to do like burgers and hot dogs and stuff.
So, I mean, it just depends on where you are, but check out our website.
And we do giveaways too, so if you want to come win something, and actually if you pre-register or you get a chance to win a cool Packers package.
home.
I'm sure he figured it
but then somebody would install.
They are
customer friendly.
They'll help you with
I actually do.
That's a good question.
I don't want to say.
Yeah, yeah,
That's
You let me know when you're going in.
I'll give them a heads up you're coming.
You can actually make an appointment online too.
So we have a new appointment system so that you don't have to wait when you go in.
Like you could be like, I have an appointment and then you get first.
And then I wanted to retail folks cause they're amazing.
in terms of question, I don't know if they do that part of it.
But I just know there's
of your
you
Right.
Our team is pretty awesome.
If you told them a little bit more about your home, they'd probably let you know about how many you would want to have.
Because
six
nice to have issues
yeah, everybody should have really have one nowadays.
I feel like, you know,
really introduce yourself
Tell me who you are and what you do.
I gosh, what do I do?
Senior manager of external relations at Selcom and site is our parent company, but people are really more affiliated or, you know, know our brand well of Selcom.
So excited to share about the celebrations today, of course.
But we also have things going on and we're you know still growing as a business and it's been really cool to be a part of something that's been around for 115 years made start in Pulaski, Wisconsin with the Riordan family and it's still part of the Riordan family now and you know, it's a very Wisconsin business, right?
So
Plastic, telephone.
The year I was born was when Cellcom was created in 1987.
You're
then they
here.
1987.
88.
My kids literally say you were born in the 1900s.
They'll ask me that all
Yeah, the farm.
Wedding reception thing.
I just got married there in September.
They
after this.
Yeah, we're busy.
What are you here?
Appleton?
Yeah, I have it all up on my phone, actually.
So, celebrations.
Yeah, sellcom.com slash celebrate.
And it has all of them.
And like I said, if you pre-register, you can win a really cool VIP Packers.
Package and then every day we have giveaways, but yeah, we're out in Shawno on the 8th and 9th of July Then we're in Weston East to peer the week after that And then in the lots in Green Bay Luxembourg Pulaski, of course, which is where we were born Manitouac Appleton and then all the way up Sturgeon Bay and then we finish up in Annago on August 6th
Oh, really?
Yeah
So,
Yeah.
I mean, I can't.
still my like my plan.
You're like it's still improving.
My
do
I mean?
They're just swiping like nobody's business as well, isn't it?
You
It's wild, isn't it?
And as a parent, it's hard, right?
You want to try to protect them also as much as you can and have them be educated about those things too.
And yeah, it's not easy
for sure.
That is like the biggest thing.
under seven.
Yes, and I worked in talent acquisition for a long time before this or recruiting.
And you can tell, you know, when you're recruiting interns, like the kids who've had parents who have taught them those things, right?
So yeah, we work on, we work on those things too.
And you just have to set boundaries with it.
You know, it's, it depends on each kid.
Each kid is, has different responsibility levels, maturity levels.
And I think there's certain things you just have to monitor.
And like my little guy, he's seven, but there's times where, man, I'd love to have one of those kids watches on him where I can
you'll see where he's going.
Like if we're at a baseball tournament and he's like around the corner doing something, it'd be nice to have.
I mean, I've seen him still watch him like a hawk, but it's like, there's really great things about it too, for sure.
You don't
Are you having fun in grandpa land?
Oh yeah.
Okay, good.
There's always one.
She's got energy.
She's got
She'll rule the world someday.
Get a call from
my daughter, ask her if I could meet here at 1035 at night at the emergency room, which is always a nice call for me.
Oh, shoot.
She had stuffed a marble or something up her nose.
You know, one of those kind of things.
Oh, no.
Sir, I thought doctor could not get it out, could not get it out.
The next day, take them out for lunch before we go to Bay Beach.
And of course, it comes out as we're sitting at the restaurant table.
And you forget as a grandpa.
You forget how much stress there is in being a parent.
Oh,
yeah.
Oh, a lot.
You know?
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, it's
look
crap.
I feel like we know too much nowadays, too.
Like there's way too much information being shoved at us all the time as parents.
And so you feel a lot more pressure than maybe like my parents did.
I know my mom's like, I'm so glad I don't have to parent through all this technology.
Because I started, I got a phone when I was like just finishing high school and it was like the big block Nokia phone where you could literally only call people.
So it's just so different now.
Yeah, it really is.
Yeah, for sure.
I mean, honestly being able to like communicate with my kids and yeah, and just like they're busy kids.
So it's just nice to know what's going on.
And yeah, nowadays there's crazy things going on.
So it is nice to know where they are.
And it's
and get that stuff up and now it's just- I still have some days of that too for sure.
I mean, we still wrote papers in high school, like on paper.
I was telling my kids that.
They were like, what?
Well, Jim being a teacher though, this whole AI thing.
Thank God.
Well, yeah, now you gotta be careful.
I'm sure they give you some tools to hopefully work around that.
at
It's like, you did write that, and then you
Asking chat GPT, they have fun things.
Besides
and they're like, oh god.
Oh god, we watch it all the time.
we
that make
Todd, please, the fifth.
Isn't it?
I know.
There is some pretty cool stuff.
Like the other day, I saw this on TikTok and I was like, I have to try it.
It was, you can ask, like, take this.
cute photo of my nephew and turn it into a coloring book page and then add like farm animals around him.
And it like, it turned out so cute.
I was like, this is cool.
Got
She is from Sarah.
Thank you, Sarah.
That's so sweet.
Yes.
So celebrations.
We started last week.
This week we're in Ribb Mountain and we're in Marshfield tomorrow and Wednesday.
So come out again.
Tented events, sellcom.com slash celebrate has all the details on all the really cool deals.
like we were just talking about and what happens at those.
But again, it's free food, free dessert, all the fun things and giveaways.
New
promotions.
Yeah, and you can test it all out.
Do you have to be a customer?
You do not, absolutely not.
Yep.
Anyone can come.
Anyone can come.
And you can come to all of them if you want.
Take all the free food.
cameras.
Oh yeah, absolutely.
They have all their computers all set up and they're doing sales as we speak in the tent.
I love
Yeah,
company does and
for sure.
We appreciate the support.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
This is
celebrations.
I
in all the
in.
Let me know in a few months.
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Here's John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Welcome back.
Great having Kimberly Sawyer on from N-Site and Cellcom with some fantastic things they've got going on.
Joining us now, Kristen Ambo's Point Mortgage Corporation, and of course her podcast, Always On Point.
I just wish she would bring a little bit more energy to the table.
And a little bit more
So we were talking, okay, the area I drive in Green Bay, I'm surprised, I've mentioned this to Jim a couple of times, nice little neighborhoods, nothing wrong with them or anything, the houses look nice, I don't know if they're flips or anything, but for the first time in a very long time, I saw price reduction on a house that's available.
It's happening,
Neither one wants to give yet.
So it's not a buyer's market.
It's not a seller's market.
There are still a few pockets.
But here's the deal.
And I can't say it enough right now.
When you hire a realtor.
and they bring you all the evidence of all the comparables in the last six months that's sold.
And they give you advice on how to price it.
If you go $10,000, $20,000, $30,000 over that, you're going to be doing a price reduction.
That's almost exactly what we're seeing right now.
And agents don't want to undercut it because they want you to make less money.
They want to make more money too.
However, they want to move it.
they want to sell it for you.
They don't want to sit on it forever.
And then that's what's happening.
And then what happens is, is if it's sitting on the market for a week, two weeks, what's wrong with that house?
What's wrong with
No, it's not.
If you understand lending on the VA side, you know, um, I try to let people know to my husband's veteran, our loan is a VA.
We've bought, we've sold, we've refinanced, we've bought again, you know, everything VA.
But working with somebody who really understands VA is where it lands.
I just had two people I closed last month in VA where their other lender wasn't, like they didn't have even the common knowledge of VA, but then promoting themselves as a VA expert.
And so,
It can go awry when you're working with somebody who doesn't know how to do VA or the quirks of it.
And VA is a super great opportunity for people.
And when they have that benefit to be able to use that, it's huge.
I'm working with one right now who, you know, they're selling their house from out of town coming in.
They have about $300,000 to put down, but they only really, you know, 20% and they don't even have to have 20% on VA.
They could do no money down.
But we had the conversation as we were running different price points and different down payments for them because right now what they're doing is, am I going to make more money in the market or am I going to pay more money in interest?
And so they're doing their due diligence to say, yeah, we could put $300,000 down on this, but maybe it's only really worth putting 50 and putting 250 in the market.
and making more money towards retirement.
So a lot of times they have the money, they're just choosing to put it elsewhere because they don't have to put it into their loan.
but
Yes, absolutely, absolutely.
I like to look at all the numbers with clients.
What's the best situation for you?
What is your comfortable zone in a payment?
What do you need and where are your goals?
Because if this is like the house that they're looking at buying and they put an offer in on this weekend, I was talking to them yesterday and they were like, can you run this?
Can you run this?
We're gonna make about X, Y, and Z this amount, this amount in their investments.
So we talked about, okay, you're gonna pay this, this or this.
So which one is better for you?
And again, that was what was gonna be because they're buying their forever home.
So like now we're in it to figure out what we can do to best utilize our money for our future, whether it be pay the house off later, make more here.
Don't invest those types of things.
It's more than just a house and it's your overall financial plan and goal that I want to help you meet.
But the people that are holding off, right.
And when I say that it dropped, it dropped, rates didn't, remember mortgage rates are not directly tied to the Federal Reserve rate.
We're tied to the Treasury.
So the fact that the Treasury started to move was a big deal.
So that's really exciting as far as that part is concerned.
But listen, we're talking two more price drops this year.
We don't know if they're an eighth.
We don't know if it's a quarter.
We don't know what it is.
But the main thing is, is that
If you can buy a home for a payment you want, then it's the right time for you.
If it's not, don't rush into it.
I always, there's a reason that there's rent and a lot of times it's better for people to rent quite, until they're totally prepared.
But if you're looking to buy, look to buy and get in, but make sure you're working with a loan officer that understands all the different aspects.
of the loan process because man-o-man right now, the slop I'm seeing out there in the predatory lending is at a max.
So it's really easy to say, oh, I'm going to go to this lender because they have a better interest rate.
I probably hear that once a week.
And I check my rates against everybody.
It's super competitive.
And almost every time I say, give me your loan estimate from that other lender.
Yeah, the rates lower, but they're also charging $7,000, $10,000.
One was $30,000 in points and fees.
I can give, my rate sheet is anywhere from four and a half to eight right now.
What rate do you want?
So when you call and say, what's your rate today?
Well, I have anywhere from four and a half to eight.
It all depends on, do you want to credit back at closing to pay your costs and a higher interest rate or do you want the lowest rate possible and pay as many fees as, you know, in points as you want to pay.
Everybody's different, but the thing about it is, is a lot of lenders aren't talking about that.
They're just like, oh, here you go, sign here.
And I'm telling you what the actual fees are and people are like, Whoa, wait a minute.
Why are my clothes and costs $20,000?
Well, they don't have to be in Wisconsin with your escrow set up.
They're probably around five or six.
mean, and I think some people try to buy too much house, but then you just said these people are buying the house, they're going to be in the rest of their life.
I don't know that.
Do people really buy the house they're going to be in the rest of their life?
And we thought we did.
And now we're kind of thinking, well, I don't know.
Oh my
And now we're like, well, maybe we should build more.
Same thing.
You know, there's different places, there's water, and I don't know.
Well, and as you grow as a human being.
And your kids move out.
Yeah, your kids move out, things change.
Right.
Like we've got two big living rooms that we never sit in.
Right.
When we entertain, it's in our kitchen.
I like I'd love my kitchen to be twice the size it is now in no living
I'm like, what are you doing with a mortgage?
He goes, are you kidding me?
And he takes his money and invests it and makes six and seven and eight.
Some of that stuff, he's probably making 10.
I'm like, you know what?
And that happened to me a little bit.
Even my guy said, he'd look, man, that interest rate,
You better off investing it.
You know what I did?
Paid off my house.
I'm
That is.
So there are a couple, they're peaking through different, a lot of them on the waterfront.
but there are a couple of 55 plus communities.
And Kathy, I'm not saying you're 55 or plus.
I don't know how old you are, but there are a lot of people who are getting either near retirement or in retirement that no longer want the upkeep.
And so a condo is perfect for them.
It's crazy.
So, so buying, um, I know that actually Ben and Deanna are listing some over by the river over by the OC that are going to be in new development.
Yes.
So there are more coming because Cathy, you're not alone in that.
A lot of people want less is more for them.
And so that's where they're going with that.
And if you want to rent, great, but you can still buy those types of properties and not have to feel like all your money is just going and giving it away to rent.
You can also still own those.
So there's more pockets of that coming
Thank you for bringing this up because that is something that people aren't paying attention to as much as they should so, Wisconsin's the eighth highest property tax state in the country so
We have some high taxes.
You're probably, it's 1.578% of the purchase price is the estimate in our area.
So just even 1.5% of the purchase price, okay?
That's what you're probably paying in taxes.
The other thing is insurance.
Insurance, we used to quote an average on insurance around like,
80 bucks a month right now the average I'm seeing is typically between 120 and 150 a month for people So that's doubling their insurance payment per month.
You know why
Okay
You're
Yes.
Anybody, though.
Yeah.
And here's why.
Like, this is what we were just talking about.
So in our Green Bay Market, you could go...
I'll use my example.
My husband and I lived in Bellevue.
We lived in the last subdivision in Bellevue before it hit Ledgevue.
Because our taxes in Bellevue were $2,800 a year, and if we took our house and moved it a block over on the other side of Highway 172, they were more than double.
So it depends on where you live.
And the reason why I bring that up, especially in pre-qualifying, is I'm the lender who's going to always say,
get me the house you're interested in, I wanna run the payment.
And the reason why is because I wanna know what those taxes are.
Those taxes might increase your payment two, three, four, $500 a month depending on where they're at.
So some pockets of this city where taxes, it's not shocking to see taxes of $7,000, $8,000, $9,000, $10,000.
So you've gotta be prepared for that.
And we were saying even in my house now, when we moved in five years ago, the taxes were $4,500.
Now they're $7,000.
So I've, you know, my husband and I have had to make up the difference in that monthly payment year over year over year.
And we have to be prepared for that.
Cause they don't give you, that tax bill shows up on December 10th surprise and it's doing 20 days and you just have to figure it out and get used to it.
It's not your principal and interest.
changing, it's the taxes and insurance right now.
And I think sometimes, especially,
Good
Your
And I think they think, and again, first time buyers, but you don't want to learn the hard way.
And you really need to, and you're good about cautioning them about that.
This is this month.
I'm telling you, I don't know what's going to be next year.
So, you know, yeah.
And with the pre-approval and what lender you choose to work with, you'd be surprised at the amount of loan estimates I still see.
Cause they're like, well, Kristin, their payments less.
Okay, let me look at it, right?
And it says $350 for taxes on a $500,000 house.
Well, that's wrong.
And then $80 for insurance, I'm thinking.
This payment is probably $300 late because they're baiting and switching you because then it's easy to go.
Well, that was just a number I put in the house you decided.
So it's your fault, not me setting.
It's me, not me setting you up to fail.
I don't
It is so brutal.
And right now it's, it's, it's beyond the snakiness and brutal.
It's, it really is.
And that's why I can't say it enough for people to make sure you're getting.
a first, second, or a third opinion.
If you're getting more than three, you're going to confuse yourself.
I will tell you that.
I've seen clients go, okay, now it's too much information, but definitely shop.
I would agree as long as you're one of them.
I agree with that.
But
You're not a bank.
You're not a savings and loan, but
I mean, you really know this industry.
So I would just, I would encourage people to do that, to get a second opinion.
I don't have to get three, but as long as you're one of them, because I think what I like about you is you tell them more than you have to.
And I always think, I tell people too, when you're buying it, you had your home inspection, but the furnace goes off.
Do you really have that?
And I was seeing seller credits coming back, you know, where sellers are willing to help the buyer pay some of their costs.
So that's really nice.
But those things aren't discussed as much as they should be.
And I am seeing inspections come back.
I think inspections are up about 30% year over year from
So just wave the contingency, but still get this inspection so you know what you're in for.
You can do that during the process.
You can do that right after you buy it, but that way you know, going into it right away.
Cause now you're setting yourself up for, okay, the furnace is okay, but I probably have one to two years on it.
So I better start saving that $6,000 up for shopping for it now.
So it's not on a day,
where I need an emergency fix, and then they're charging me more.
You know, set yourself up and prepare for all
It's an important investment.
Thank you.
It is.
And you want to get it right the first time.
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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?
That was
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