Valley Focus: Jennifer Skolaski & Maddie Breager

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Valley Focus: Jennifer Skolaski & Maddie Breager

Maino and the Mayor · Mon Jun 30, 2025

Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.

And

here

are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.

Good!

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.

Stay with us.

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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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Hey, thank you very much.

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.

Oh, you love

me.

Kristen Ambos, tell everybody where they can find you and about your podcast.

Because you bring

it strong.

No lie, we love

having you

on.

It's an important investment.

Thank you.

It is.

And you want to get it right the first time.

920-606-1156.

And my podcast always on point with Kristen Ambos is on all your podcast stations, Apple Play, Spotify.

All the, all of them, I don't know.

We're there.

All the ones we got.

All the podcasting.

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.

If I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well I'd buy you a house I would buy you a house And if I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Buy you ver-

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.

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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.

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John Maino

Smith What a beautiful morning out there today

on the weekend nice, it's awesome

John Maino

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 I Said a record personal best

Personal worst.

I was just gonna

John Maino

say not you're

talking about before we came on.

Yes, that is not I would not call that a personal best

John Maino

personal

worst personal worst.

Yes, pw 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

Hi guys, I can hear I got it someplace.

Where is it?

I gotta get the timpani roll

going.

This is and I want to

John Maino

I know, ladies and gentlemen.

On Friday, John Minow stood at his scale, naked.

Ugh, that's- And right.

What, you say it's not like a clothes thing, Jim?

Yeah, but I think that's the

John Maino

worst.

No, but it's like boxing.

It's like in wrestling you couldn't have anything on.

Trunks.

Whatever.

Okay, so whatever.

210 pounds.

That is actually

commendable.

John Maino

This morning, on Monday,

Same scale.

Same whatever, whatever.

Two hundred and twenty-one pounds.

Wow.

How does a person put on eleven bleeping pounds in one weekend?

And the heat and the, like I was telling you, the, what you eat, like this time of year is not like... It's good stuff.

Right, cause we...

John Maino

I ate, you know what I ate?

I ate nothing but strawberries all weekend.

Well, I don't believe that.

John Maino

I'll remember a few other things

too.

That's it.

But we

John Maino

had, we had like.

Had broccoli and sauerkraut yesterday.

Ooh.

John Maino

No, that's.

Can't beat that.

No.

And a summer shandy type thing.

Yeah.

You just, you

got it.

But you don't eat it all, eat it all day.

That's the

John Maino

problem.

Yeah.

We had.

The bruschetta.

You're right out of the

John Maino

garden.

Nice.

Nice.

Nothing better.

Nothing better.

That's really good.

Vicki says good morning, fellas.

Hi, Vicki.

Michael says good morning, gents.

I'm having dinner with Michael tomorrow.

Oh, yeah?

Yep.

Oh, nice.

John Maino

Nice.

Seen him in a

while.

Michael just texted, OK, I just threw up in my mouth after I heard John was naked.

John Maino

See?

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.

15 pounds away from my goal.

I'm going

John Maino

to

hit that.

I want to do it by my wife's birthday will not happen.

My doctor said that because that will not happen.

John Maino

So you're looking to put on 15 more pounds?

No, no,

John Maino

no, no.

Oh.

If I wanted to do that, I would call you.

And almost in a weekend, it'd be

taken care of.

John Maino

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.

I put on 11 pounds.

Medically, I don't know if anybody can do better than that.

Wow.

Yeah.

Would you drink?

John Maino

Hardly

anything.

Just water?

John Maino

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.

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.

We have like a raised garden, we grow mint, throw a few leaves of mint in there.

John Maino

Not bad.

It's good.

Yeah, not bad.

Yeah, and that's like great for you to drink.

Although I bought, what's that called, those little packets you

John Maino

put in?

Yeah, that I buy, yeah.

Yeah.

John Maino

Oh yeah, you're the one that turned me on to that.

Yeah, I did.

Well, Mark told us about it.

Mark Houston told us about those.

So that's where we got

those from.

I was getting tired.

John Maino

Yeah.

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.

Yeah.

I went to a party and people said to say hello to you.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Every day.

Every single day.

Usually people knock off on Monday or, you

John Maino

know, Monday to day.

Does he live upstairs or anything type of

thing?

No,

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he didn't

say that.

No, but, and he has just a very, very loyal Green Bay.

Right.

Green Bay crowd.

John Maino

That's old school.

You don't, that's, okay, when they talk about running a bar, that's a little neighborhood type of bar.

Yeah.

Oh, that's a neighborhood bar.

That's,

yeah.

That's a neighborhood bar.

And a little touristy because.

John Maino

Now, yeah.

Yeah, it's a

pub.

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.

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That's cool.

And

he just won a 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.

We're doing.

That's

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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

two because the neighbors are like, yeah,

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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

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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, that was it's great to have him as a neighbor because we're right down the block from him.

John Maino

That's awesome.

Yeah, he's just a great business guy.

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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.

You know, his kids were all just great.

Nick wasn't Nick's wife was there.

But Nick was fishing.

Oh,

John Maino

okay.

Oh,

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that's cool.

So then I met his nephew was there and some other people.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Yeah.

Yeah.

So anyway, whatever 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.

John Maino

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

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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.

Yeah,

John Maino

that was never my car.

My neighbor crossed

the street.

Really?

Neighbor crossed the street, who was like my idol.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He had Corvettes.

And I just, yeah, I just loved what, yeah.

Kathryn Lake

Really?

Okay.

Absolutely.

I was a

Corvette kid.

Yeah.

They changed a little bit, a little too much.

Kathryn Lake

A

lot.

Kathryn Lake

Too much, I

think.

We were a marketing major at St.

Norbert.

And Bill Dargan was, there's a scholarship named after him now, because he was there forever.

I just remembered him talking about it.

Well, we all know Corbett's nothing more than a penis on wheels.

John Maino

Okay.

That's what he said.

All right.

I didn't know that.

But happy Corbett thing or happy believe on wheels.

And it was

just like everybody knows that's like what we went

John Maino

on like a

status.

Kathryn Lake

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.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

He almost seems like one of those guys where it's like, you just, hey, you're about Mike Tyson.

But

he was up there though,

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wasn't

he?

John Maino

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.

John Maino

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,

Kathryn Lake

I

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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, 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

do you mean choose them up?

I think that's sustainable.

John Maino

You think well, it's a steeper 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

John Maino

right those two not

straight

But, but they can't even get records

John Maino

out anymore.

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.

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 the music knows a lot more about that than I do.

I just I just I don't know.

I don't know.

John Maino

You do cut.

Is that once this you're doing Georgia country?

Yeah.

Okay.

John Maino

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

John Maino

know, I can

play Breba and Johnny and I can play Hank Williams

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Who would you think should do that show, me or Todd?

Yeah, that's

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actually that's a good

one.

Todd.

Quick pull.

I like that.

My phone's

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blowing up.

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John Maino

Wow, yes, we come in we side hustle I'm starting to

think we're the side house Wow, that's a good name too.

All

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right.

Love it.

I'd go for two hours

John Maino

We're gonna change the name of the show Breakfast with the boys.

Yeah, I got a great lineup stay with us

Kathryn Lake

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John Maino

beautiful morning here in 97.9 FM, WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM, W ISS and of course the Civic Media app.

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 an event in Oshkosh that W ISS was at.

So Lisa Hale, myself, Tammy, Peter were down there.

John Maino

Cool.

Yeah.

That's nice.

That was have good events on there, don't they though?

I mean, they just, they just do.

Yeah.

Was it one of those like kind of a neighborhood type thing?

It was at

the arena.

John Maino

Oh, yeah.

Oh, okay.

Well,

that's cool.

Standing on my feet for eight hours.

Those floors are so soft.

John Maino

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.

Um, 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,

John Maino

that's what 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, that's yeah Make me right now needles epic anymore.

Yeah, so um, yeah, I Okay, well you gotta get back at that.

I know what?

And tomorrow tomorrow, I'm

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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

John Maino

know what

you're eating?

No.

John Maino

I will say this.

Took cold.

Just this one time.

John Maino

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?

John Maino

Are

you you're not backed up or anything?

No, a couple weeks during all that in there 624.

John Maino

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

John Maino

I did I

did I still am that's why you haven't heard from me I but you will

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because that picture this Todd could we please get a new picture?

Yes behind 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.

My doctor.

John Maino

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, 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.

John Maino

Oh, you're much thinner than that.

No,

no.

But no, the one

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I

don't like was our promo picture.

John Maino

The one by the big the monument back.

We love Green Bay thing.

Yeah.

Well, that.

John Maino

We come on.

That's a bad one.

This is not good.

Do you do that on purpose?

No,

of course not.

There's there's a good one

John Maino

then.

You're a little.

That was 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 like addicted to.

If you want to call it that those when they do the things of the little people like.

It's like these, oh my God.

I, John,

I,

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I'm more addicted than you.

My,

when I look at how much time I spent on

John Maino

the

phone, it's over 50% is watching those little people.

So is this, it's people's

voices, but they make

it a baby talking.

Yeah.

That's what you guys are

John Maino

addicted to.

Yeah.

Whoever did that.

Whoever did that.

There's one doing my cousin Vinny, they're like, the youths and it's this little baby kid.

Oh my God.

Is that funny?

All AI.

Is that what that is?

Yes.

John Maino

All AI.

How does he or she that company making money?

I or is it I think that's hilarious like I would if you to subscribe to that for X amount I would I think that is hilarious because when they use

Kathryn Lake

those voices

man something is really His eyes that little baby little mannerism I know look 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

John Maino

is really funny stuff.

And then they do Obama and just everybody.

It is really, really funny.

The judge.

That, yeah, that's, that is, like, what are you looking at?

John Maino

I know, I know.

I

love comedians, right?

I mean, I'll watch comedians for...

Right.

Sometime.

And that is right up to a

John Maino

three.

You know what's weird though?

I'm gonna tell you something.

I was actually thinking of you last night watching this.

There's one in the morning and you can't see.

And I was watching Jim Gaffigan thing.

Oh, man.

Not as funny as it used to be.

I agree.

I, you know, neither is Bill Burr.

John Maino

Right.

I mean, he's throttled it down a little bit.

A little too much political, too much about his kids.

But he's still, yeah, I agree.

I won't listen to him for...

an hour

John Maino

no I watched like for 10 minutes like yeah right okay switching this yep yep yeah isn't that weird that at a certain time some guys seem so funny and then it's like

I will tell you and I you know I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings I thought Nate Borgessi was okay you know what I

John Maino

thought I talked to other people that's exact how was it okay that's what I got for everybody I thought the

Guys

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that you got

me tickets

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met a

scalco

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was

better.

John Maino

Yeah.

Yeah, that's why I've heard to

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.

I just thought it was it was funny, but it was okay So but you know

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Right,

exactly.

So they want you to tell those same stories, but enough to deliver was slow.

I just wasn't into it like I thought it would be and I don't know, whatever.

It was, but I love comedians.

John Maino

Todd, will you let us know where that way?

Thank you.

Last year.

John Maino

Vinny says, Minos manual labor Monday.

Damn right, Vinnie.

Damn right.

Yeah, they love hiring people that gain 11 pounds

John Maino

on a

weekend.

Wow.

My head even looks big.

Look

John Maino

at my head.

I'm worried about

you, John.

He looks swollen.

John Maino

I do.

I look swollen.

That's a great guy.

My head is swollen.

The best word is swollen.

Wow.

How do you get rid of a swollen head?

Brots.

Oh my god.

Lots of them.

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John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back and a beautiful Monday.

This might be the nicest morning we've had all summer.

That is the time.

Beautiful.

John Maino

Would say so.

Oh, how does it in Georgia right now when you do your stations in there?

Um Upper 80s lower 90s.

John Maino

Do you have to put in a little bit of a little?

No, I don't know.

Okay.

No,

all right

John Maino

Well, you know what I mean if you're doing a country station in Georgia

like yeah country, but their news is not

right,

but I mean

just kind of like Our news guy down there is pretty southern

really.

John Maino

Oh, yeah.

Is it really

a little bit?

John Maino

Yeah, I'd like to hear that kind

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

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a

part time.

Murphy did.

Murphy did.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

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

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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 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 there 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

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don't think I ever did.

Oh, that's pretty.

John Maino

Yeah.

I'm impressed.

I am too.

Yeah.

I am too.

Oh yeah.

Here's another one.

Todd say sherbet, please.

Cause it is sherbet.

It's not sherbet.

It's sherbet.

Or

sherbet.

There's no,

there's

no second arm sherbet.

I

don't know

that

either.

I didn't know that either.

Yeah.

I would have.

Thanks, Brian for

reminding me.

Okay.

Hey,

Kathryn Lake

I

was gonna call you Brian I was to get his contact info that pasty that he gave us was

Kathryn Lake

all 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 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

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a little bit to it.

So

Kathryn Lake

I, it was

probably half and half.

John Maino

That

was really, really good, Brian.

Thank you

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for that.

Brian

is awesome.

Yes, that was good.

John Maino

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

that's weird because they look like they're glasses for far away I

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know and they're not but you know I feel like what's your name from the Matt was in the match game

Brett

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summer what's it Rodney say

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

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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.

John Maino

Oh God, I don't love that

era of shows.

John Maino

Oh

my gosh, that's my favorite

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me to watch them.

I want to get I know there's a network to quiz Irving the

buzzer network has him.

Okay.

Yeah,

John Maino

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.

John Maino

I would be Gene Rayburn.

Was it Gene Rayburn?

Gene Rayburn.

Gene Rayburn.

We'd have to get you the microphone.

Oh,

John Maino

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.

John Maino

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.

He's funny.

John Maino

Good guy.

Yeah, great guy.

All right.

Yeah Well, give me okay.

Give me your top three not nice people of the big names.

You're loose

Jerry Lewis, okay.

I

can see

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that.

Me too.

I've had people that have worked the telethon with him and he's, yeah.

Dionne Warwick.

Yep.

Dionne Warwick.

Take a letter to Michael.

Take a letter to Michael.

Here I am in green base.

John Maino

Really?

Move the stool.

Easiest lighting show I ever did.

John Maino

Really?

Wow.

All

right.

Didn't work the

John Maino

crowd.

Who's your third?

So Jerry Lewis, Dionne Warwick.

Probably Lou Rawls.

Really?

Yeah, he was.

John Maino

That's

disappointing.

Yeah.

John Maino

Seems like such a cool laid-back guy.

No, he didn't rehearsal.

He wasn't very nice.

Wow.

You know that?

OK.

Can

John Maino

I be honest?

Yeah, I

have to think about it.

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.

John Maino

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

John Maino

stage.

Frank Gifford and Frank Gorshwin, 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

there.

I would say the only one that really stands out to me was Eminem.

Really just because he was like four hours late to come.

John Maino

Oh,

yeah.

John Maino

Yeah You said Madonna was nice, right?

Very nice.

Didn't 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,

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Oh really?

I believe that too.

I believe that.

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.

He came down and said, I'm going to bring back, I met your mom upstairs.

John Maino

No kidding.

That's cool.

And

then met him in the White House.

I was wearing this tie that said 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.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

What?

What?

Okay.

You know the code word though, right?

Regarding ties and politics.

Yeah.

You told me that.

John Maino

If somebody compliments your tie, it means bleeds ugly.

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.

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

John Maino

nice.

He

was here the day

John Maino

before 9-11

Wow, okay Wouldn't sign anything.

I was like give me a break really that important, you know, I met him

John Maino

when he came into town one time.

He was here a

number of times, right?

You remember that doctor's house?

John Maino

Yes.

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.

He always came across as like a college bro,

John Maino

didn't he?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Just Marva.

Yeah.

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

John Maino

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?

People have the wrong impression

on me.

No, I think that's in sales.

That's in everything, man.

Yeah,

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Every time.

This is me you're talking to, I'm not like a normal.

Cause I

may have done the same thing

John Maino

a couple of times.

Oh yeah.

Well, let

John Maino

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.

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And

I was like, come on, come

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on.

Especially when

there's kids involved, right?

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, I don't know.

I still

John Maino

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,

John Maino

little Lurals here.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

This is a make-up song.

I think it was there for 8 days, 16 shows, so I just... Back

John Maino

before the days where I put out 11

pounds

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in a weekend.

Nice guy, not a good rehearsal.

If you see me walkin' down the

street, and I got you cry.

I have a good mood.

Woke up this morning.

The weather's perfect.

It's the 4th of July, short week.

Talkin' about the three people that aren't my favorites.

Thank you, Todd.

Boy, what a voice she has, though.

Oh, she's great.

She is.

John Maino

Welcome back.

The legend.

Todd, give me a good name.

She did not want a good name

John Maino

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.

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

John Maino

name.

There's

no

John Maino

TV names anymore, radio names

anymore.

It's almost like a plus if you have an ethnic sounding name.

Right.

Right.

Cause you stand out.

I

John Maino

hurt.

No, no, no.

I went, I talked to Crute two and a half years ago about this.

He said, look, whatever you're going to do, put your own name because 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.

Devil's Advocates.

John Maino

He

said, I wish I would have put my own name in there because you should just, and I didn't, you did.

John Maino

But that was, why was that time?

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

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either.

Well, maybe

they

wanted to sell the brand.

John Maino

Well, I mean, what is the show?

I would say Country is more of that, like, you know, Shotgun or Charlie 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

John Maino

Todd You go way back in this business.

Yeah, too 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 it's branding right

spray.

Yeah What's recognizable exactly exactly and I think they're finding out that the now

John Maino

They're going back the other

are because that stands out right right.

They're going back.

What other way?

to back to their name.

I would use my name because then if you guys switch stations too, then your name carries the value.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

Really?

Right.

John Maino

Whose name is not Stone.

Right.

Exactly.

But he said, you know

what?

Your name is blah,

John Maino

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,

John Maino

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?

John Maino

Is it going to be rock?

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

like

John Maino

drop the team.

Yeah.

Okay.

Sorry, John.

Didn't even think about that.

You got

John Maino

to be early for that, Jim.

It's not even 7 o'clock.

Hey, Jim, you know what?

You know, you don't have a you don't have a staff anymore, Jim.

Somebody vet that.

Yeah.

Okay.

If you were a fighter, I'd say Johnny Turnbuckle or something

John Maino

like that.

Like that'd be my wrestling name.

Yeah.

Yeah.

John Maino

How did that go did you hear I did I did not did isn't that something that picture that guy played high school football against?

That was scary.

Yeah, I

load that

John Maino

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 a

John Maino

safe order Jim the guy behind him

74

John Maino

right

and here's what he looked like as a wrestler Yeah

Oh, this is a good one.

Brian is right on.

Dr. Johnny fever.

John Maino

Oh, 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.

I don't think so.

It's all streaming services and

John Maino

stuff like

that.

I think, I don't know.

I haven't watched a network show in

John Maino

that's what I mean.

The American idols of the world or whatever, whatever.

I hate

that stuff.

Yeah.

John Maino

No, 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

John Maino

do.

I did.

I did that.

I love that.

Oh, absolutely.

Really?

That is my son.

John Maino

Just get old.

No, no, it doesn't.

No others.

And they could know.

Mm-hmm.

No, I just I'd love the cabinet.

I like

I love the

John Maino

cabinet.

We're just so different.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

I do.

John Maino

I do.

Okay.

John Maino

Yeah.

That's what I did yesterday.

John Maino

Okay.

We believe you.

Okay.

So we got Kimberly coming up.

Hey,

John Maino

but 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.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

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.

Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't.

I don't know.

I'm going to read up on that before.

For

John Maino

like the Navy trip thing?

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Hey,

John Maino

thank you very much.

Welcome back.

I'm the mayor here now.

Beautiful, beautiful Monday morning, 97.9 FM WGBW, 98.3, 96.5 FM WIS.

And of course, the Civic Media app joining us right now.

Kimberly Asoyer.

Hello, Kimberly.

Hello, gentlemen.

It's always good to see

you.

It's

John Maino

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?

He'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 do that 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 have parents who try to teach your daughters who are going to be babysitters and 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.

Do you

have built-in babysitters now?

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.

Thank you.

So, cell com,

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.

I've been there for just over a year now, so.

And how many employees do cell com?

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 segment it a little bit.

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.

That happens all the time.

I don't

know to mention the companies,

but

that's happened in food, it's happened in healthcare.

John Maino

It's not with this one, it's just because

everybody.

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

John Maino

to use the word how easily, but how quickly

you

John Maino

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

John Maino

ever.

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

John Maino

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

John Maino

not have that.

You were telling me about when you were in Wisconsin.

You had to go

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to

John Maino

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 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 to say, 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, 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,

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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

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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

John Maino

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, but they always made sure I had somebody with me.

So that was good.

John Maino

I mean, people don't see that side of being Miss Wisconsin.

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.

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.

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Right.

So if somebody else

read it, I'm

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just

surprised.

The reason that surprises me, doesn't surprise me that you would do that.

Surprised 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

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you're actually a total complete.

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

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not catch her in Fastpitch Softball?

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

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

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quite a status thing to have Miss Wisconsin come

to your

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event.

I'm really

surprised

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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.

All right.

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 up to Door County.

And the people

are invited through...

Venues like this, but you also send postcards, right?

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

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my

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,

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I need to okay

This might be out of your technical.

All right.

Well, that's okay.

I'll let you know.

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What I would love to have.

I got a buddy.

He can look at his, his, uh, his food plot.

Yes.

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Where he has the deer cam.

You have that.

That is the coolest thing.

Yeah, the Spartan Trailcams.

Is that

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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 that one has 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

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loves showing

that surprises

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me because you wouldn't think the guy that has a license plate says 12 point buck.

Right.

Right.

Right.

His deer.

We

love inside.

Well, I was 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, 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.

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Remember how disappointed I was when we went to that event and they had vegetarian.

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

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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.

They are

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so

customer friendly.

They'll help you with

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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,

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yeah.

All right.

I would be, I'm serious about this.

That's

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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, 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

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again.

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

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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

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the time.

Wow.

Hey, does your sister still have that cool place?

Yes.

Yeah, the farm.

Wedding reception thing.

I just got married there in September.

They

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took their barn.

And a working bar where the cows are still walking in and out of it.

Yeah.

And turn it into such a cool place.

You bet.

Oh man.

That's awesome.

We're the Kimberly Sawyer, Inside, back

after this.

Kathryn Lake

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started.

Just a few things.

Three other kiddos are in travel forts.

And

17 of your events.

Yeah, we're busy.

What are you here?

Like, when are you in Oshkosh, Green Bay,

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

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.

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Yeah.

So,

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Kimberly, let me ask you one quick thing about about the technology right now in phones.

Yeah.

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I mean, it's it's is this is it?

I mean, it's still mine.

But

I mean, I can't.

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I can't do that.

But it's

still my like my plan.

You're like it's still improving.

My

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granddaughters who's like seven will grab my phone and

do

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like.

How did you, what do you,

I mean?

They're just swiping like nobody's business as well, isn't it?

You

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know what I mean?

I mean, God bless us old type guys who we try hard.

We do.

But you talk about a whole line of technology that these kids, you know, they're born with.

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.

for sure.

That is like the biggest thing.

Three kids

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

have to worry about your one granddaughter.

She's, she's, she just, she's, she needs, she belongs in theater.

Are you having fun in grandpa land?

Oh yeah.

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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, good.

There's always one.

She's got energy.

She's got

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energy.

She'll rule the world someday.

Get a call from

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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

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like people don't realize that sometimes until you

look

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back 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 Nokia phone where you could literally only call people.

So it's just so different now.

Yeah, it really is.

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, this is how I 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,

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I

wrote it, it's like, no, you didn't.

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Can I tell you what Jim and I spent hours and hours doing?

Asking chat GPT, they have fun things.

Besides

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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.

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Yes,

we

do.

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Does

that make

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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

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a texture.

Kimberly is amazing.

She is from Sarah.

Thank you, Sarah.

That's so sweet.

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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, 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

products, 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.

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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.

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I've never seen you stressed

in all the

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situations I've seen you

in.

Let me know in a few months.

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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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John Maino

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 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

knowledge about the

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industry.

Yeah, and I

wish she was so

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wishy-washy about

everything.

Try and back it

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all down.

Yeah.

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Good morning.

Good morning.

Nice to see you.

Good to see you guys too.

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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,

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

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neither one wants to

give.

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

it?

And then if you do a price reduction, what's really wrong?

Yeah.

So right now

pricing it right in this market is huge.

And for sure the seller is going to 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 going to need you because, well,

some don't,

but

some pay cash, but

not, not, not a lot, a lot.

And, um, 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 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

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I think, I think it kind of has a little bit of a bad rap.

Cause

I remember when I first heard it's

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like, oh, if there's paint peeling, you won't get your loan.

If

that step is in purpose, I never found that to be.

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.

I know people like that.

I'm not, I'm just, yeah, I meet to the house.

You know, I sleep better when I don't have debt,

but

some people, they leverage

it different ways.

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 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.

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Well, you know, I think too that we talk during the election, 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,

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what do you think?

I think that's-

I mean,

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politically, what's going-

Yeah, right.

Right.

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.

But the

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people that have been holding off,

wait for a bit.

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.

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.

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.

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,

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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.

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

gosh, my husband and I did five years ago.

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

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room.

Yeah.

You know, I dream of my home being paid off.

Oh, hey, I dream of that as well.

Um, because just be really nice, not having a house painted 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 going to be the last thing I pay off.

It really is.

You probably have 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 who's got plenty of money, he still has them.

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

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

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ultimate goal.

And

some-

will leverage and finance everything and stick more money away in investments.

So it's personal.

I

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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.

That is a true

state.

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.

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But I've seen some like over $2,000 a month rent.

Yes.

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

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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.

You know why

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those things

are so high

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because of him Thanks, man

Okay

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John Maino

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

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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 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.

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,

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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.

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, 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

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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?

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And

it will.

And you know, that's just it,

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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

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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

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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

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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 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, six and

a half.

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.

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I can

picture this right now.

Oh,

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you

love

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me.

Kristen Ambos, I love everybody where they can find you and about your podcast.

Because you bring it

John Maino

strong.

No lie, we love

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having you

on.

It's an important investment.

Thank you.

It is.

And you want to get it right the first time.

920-606-1156.

And my podcast always on point with Kristen Ambos is on all your podcast stations, Apple Play, Spotify.

All the, all of them, I don't know.

We're there.

All the ones we got.

All the podcasting.

Thank you guys so much.

John Maino

Like, like you even said, get three people.

Talk to three.

Yeah.

Make sure she's one of

them.

Absolutely.

Make me one.

All right.

Thanks for being here.

John Maino

Quick break.

Back after this.

If I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars Well I'd buy you a house I would buy you a house And if I had a million dollars If I had a million dollars

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And here are

John Maino

your hosts, John Minow and Jim Schmidt.

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?

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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 Marianne, and that's, that interacts with the city band concert is on Wednesday as well.

Okay.

So, and that's, we need a good Wednesday, but this is it.

I think

so.

Can I knock

on this desk

right now?

Knock it for Micah.

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,

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like lightning

type

stuff.

Yeah.

Yes.

Cause it's not safe for anyone to be there, vendors or the community.

So we will, 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 excuse me.

So.

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

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week 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.

John Maino

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?

John Maino

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 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

people are seeing me.

The east side of the bridge, right out from the Hampton Inn.

So kind of that intersection of Main Street

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and the

KI Convention Center.

Yeah, literally

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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

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hitting that stage.

That's

fantastic.

John Maino

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.

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Absolutely, exactly.

It's fun music.

Back

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in the

day, I did Zumba,

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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.

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I will pay you for video of that that we can put on our Facebook.

Not creepy at

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all,

Joe.

I think

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that a

West Side Y doesn't have that anymore.

John Maino

Oh, the West Side Y.

Yeah, was that the West Side Y?

John Maino

That's the old Lady of Charity place, right?

Cross from Southwest High School?

No.

Cardinal, Lane.

John Maino

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.

John Maino

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

John Maino

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

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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

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have

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,

he's a huge supportive downtown too.

That guy, he, all you wait till he talks.

Yeah.

He's, he's one of my

favorites.

I'm usually slinging beers in a beer

tent when he's on

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,

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the

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.

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 kids 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.

John Maino

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

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distance.

That's a big green space for a downtown.

four acres.

Yeah.

And the other thing is you can see the water

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right

on the water.

It's pretty incredible.

It's tough to compete with, you know, title towns sometimes, but we've got water.

Right.

And I think water is 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.

John Maino

Are they on a barge when they shoot them off?

They were for Draft City Music Fest.

That

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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 Gremant?

The

Gremant building.

OK, I should walk around and see those things.

Oh, I know.

I

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know.

I would like to

John Maino

have that job.

I would

John Maino

not want

you

to have that job.

Okay.

I

wouldn't want your company to have the insurance policy.

Okay,

John Maino

all right.

I can handle the whole thing myself.

Do you have enough?

Do you

Kathryn Lake

have

enough?

Do you have enough yellow bags from festival?

I mean, are they promote?

That's what stamped on all the bags now is the fire.

Oh, I got you.

But you

John Maino

know, it's one of those things though, too.

You got to see it.

I don't know.

Does anybody televised it anymore?

Channel 5.

John Maino

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.

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But I mean, you have to see it in person.

I

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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

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is stellar to

sit and watch those, but certainly there's a ton of vantage points throughout downtown that you can see those.

John Maino

I'm going to ask her if I can get on the roof here.

Sure.

John Maino

Wouldn't that be awesome?

Why couldn't you?

Well, I don't know where you find

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the access to get it, but I mean, I just want

to live here.

John Maino

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.

You take a lot of time to get out.

Does it?

OK.

Park where

John Maino

you want.

Yes, but there is plenty of parking for people.

John Maino

I don't need to worry about that.

Mary Roddy on Broadway, festival foods, fire over the fox, got some great things coming up there.

We're going to keep you around.

Is that all

right?

That's

John Maino

OK.

Anything else going on over there that's pressing more than

this?

John Maino

You don't think so, right?

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

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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 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.

John Maino

Must feel good to point out the shortcomings

of others, Jim.

Wow.

I've always wanted to do that, though.

John Maino

Yeah, I always wanted to do that.

Mary.

Maybe

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try

rock climbing first

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indoors where

you're stressed

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in.

OK, OK.

Mary Rode is a very special guest here.

I'll tell you what, you know who never complains about the weather coming to your place?

She's Kurt Nick.

He's just there.

She's Kurt Nick.

Do you know she's Kurt

Nick?

I don't know if I know she's Kurt Nick.

He's on the corner of, yeah, he's on the corner.

He's, obviously, she's Kurt Nick.

And we're all going to be

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like, oh, bad weather.

Ah,

all

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right.

We're good.

He is while you're all the fried cheese curds and the big hot dogs.

Oh, okay.

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Yeah, okay.

You got to eat more of your food there Mary Come on, somebody

has to

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serve your beer can sometime.

I mean,

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I could do that.

What

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do you want me this week?

I'm off.

I'm volunteering.

I just we have

amazing volunteers.

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You do

just tips

If

you

would donate those tips to a non-profit, we can maybe talk.

I'm non-profit.

Nick donates his 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.

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Nice.

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started.

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?

Cause I remember it was basically just the fireworks

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and

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there was a big thing.

Guys, I channel five at the time and it's like, ooh, we're televising fireworks.

And it's, that was like the big thing.

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.

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

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and

the judge would come down and that was quite a nice ceremony.

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I

want to say 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

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now,

but it was hard because the vendors are down there and six, eight people would come and buy something.

But every hour you could just tell more and more and then at six o'clock it was like, awesome.

But okay, what happened?

The first five hours we're here setting up our tent.

We

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would be set up, me and

Murph, we'd be set up and given up.

So, given

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up the fourth

of July, you know, to serve your family and

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nobody, just have people coming up and ask you for CDs.

But, right.

But then I just want to say that on the seat.

I dated myself.

No, that's okay.

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

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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.

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.

It's

a free community event.

Right.

This is like a parade.

And 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 is 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

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logistics to it.

And you know, we tell you're too young, Mary, but we talk about like when I first came to Green Bay, nobody went on Broadway.

Well, some people tell you, you didn't want to go and hang out with those

people.

Correct.

On

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Broadway.

Correct.

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... 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

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.

Oh, I know.

And 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

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great.

But

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anyway,

but

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that adds to a neighborhood.

That kind of gives a

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neighborhood a certain, what was the word you used earlier, a vibe.

You know, it gives a neighborhood a certain vibe.

But

for them, it's also nostalgia

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and what

people love that because it helps them remember maybe

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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.

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I mean, it's a walk back in time when you just walk in.

I mean, which is so cool that, you know, it's not a sports bar that was thrown up in

three weeks.

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

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place to be.

I like to think of the fact that my dad, when he had come for packer games, would go there.

And I could go in the, maybe the same perhaps blue ribbon glass that, 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 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

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.

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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.

Love it.

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Yeah.

Murray Rodney, great having you here on Broadway Festival.

Thanks, Mary, for all you're doing.

This is

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the event of Northeast Wisconsin.

It

is.

Come see us.

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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 Alton, 65 in Oshkosh, high in the mid-80s later today, possible thunderstorms.

Yeah, but I'm not seeing that.

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No?

No, I

got... Chris, I used the phone.

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You know,

I'm gonna put

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all my faith in you finding

that on

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your phone, Jim.

100% faith in that.

It's a little bit more accurate.

I don't know, whatever.

I'm just

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saying.

So are you bringing the crew here for the fourth?

What are you doing?

Are you going up to your brothers?

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I still don't know, to be honest with you.

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 Nagani or even what?

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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

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to

miss just either.

I don't get it.

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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.

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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

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see the colors

and those

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little towns.

You know, I would do that.

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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 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...

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Can you?

Okay, the fireworks at Walsh Field, can you sit in the stands there to watch them?

That's gotta 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 word.

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

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I love that baseball stadium

built

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into that hill.

It is.

Yeah.

No, you're right there.

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What was 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.

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.

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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,

it's couple

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things.

How much money out there, just for your own personal parties, what's the most somebody that's listening has spent on fireworks?

There's people who spend a lot, like a lot, because they wanna show off and yeah, there's people who have spent a lot.

And you gotta show the guy the cash and then he'll start working a deal.

I've done that, but I just wanna say for people in Green Bay, I'm shocked.

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Hey, if you're negotiating where the guy worked on your chimney, well, he

was on the roof and

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you're on the ground.

I'm shocked that you were negotiating

a

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tent with a guy.

Like what?

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 Ashwama because they're better.

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Why do you say

that?

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Because they allow.

Better in which way?

More bang for your buck?

No.

In Green Bay, you can't shoot off fireworks that they can't leave the ground.

So you want to buy it?

I never

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knew that.

Yeah.

Well, that's what it was.

I don't know.

I'm not.

Do they, you know, actually, we had the chief on here, right?

No, but his advice.

Go watch him.

I want to get a

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police officer on.

Okay.

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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.

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I think it's officer Craig out there.

600

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Oscar Craig.

Are you out there?

I think it's a lot.

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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

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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.

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Okay, but here you are.

Which hat are you wearing?

What do you mean?

The Green Bay, no fireworks thing?

Or are you talking about what you're doing here?

Yeah, 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,

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yeah.

I am okay,

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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

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Ashwabana

Okay

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So when I lived in Ledgeview

don't know about Ledgeview

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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

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here

But has anybody really been busted?

Yes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

We had all the plans here.

We had we had music, you know, not

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synchronized.

No, but we even we.

Yeah, it was, it was great.

Patriotic music and yeah, it was, 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.

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What, you're a mayor of Green Bay?

Yes.

It was a pool party.

Todd.

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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 the but Randomly at two in the morning, right?

Can we stop it at like 10?

Yeah, I agree with that.

Yeah, I totally agree with that and Dogs are afraid of them too.

Oh my god.

I hate

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them.

I'll bet.

Yeah, I'll bet so I mean it's

I know so many veterans that deal with that.

I got a buddy.

We talked about that.

Sure.

He

goes up to his cabin

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to get away from it.

He lives in Dykesville.

He has to leave.

Okay, we got this answer.

Ashwabana is similar to Green Bay.

They cannot leave the ground.

Jim?

Huh?

Shoot off the kind that left the ground you did to Check

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the

tape That may have changed,

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okay

I Think that I'm not kidding.

I have to look into this.

I'm over my skis on

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this.

Can the sheriff's department show up any place?

All right, we're gonna get it.

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We're gonna get a cop on tomorrow

Todd

You guys if you want to do that.

I think there's an opening Seven I think but we wait.

We're seven 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.

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.

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

Hales 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

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ahead.

Go ahead and embarrass me some more.

No, I thought you were from Puerto Rico.

Nope.

Nope.

Okay.

Cause then I said, look.

But it doesn't

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matter where he's from the point of your story is the same so go ahead

No, it's not because if it's for 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

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He's not from for he's from

I know

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he's from Panama the whole time.

Yeah, but that doesn't make sense because Puerto Rico is part of us and celebrate the 4th of July Todd

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you're

following this

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All I know is

he was trying to make you look bad and now I'm thinking I'm just at the opposite.

I gave him

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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.

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So I wanted people that haven't tried pasties before to try that because 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.

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What?

No, I'm not going to tell you, man, because then you're gonna not.

No, I won't.

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

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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

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hot food.

I'm like,

yes, you're cooking it there.

I'm cooking it there

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Is it something unique

something different?

Yeah.

Yeah.

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Have you ever talked about 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

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Is it a meat?

No You're not gonna let us know

why

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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, 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

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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

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at one time?

That was when noriega was still around I think

no no didn't trump with the canal and everything aren't we gonna

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I don't know

You're more up in there.

What is your cab?

That's gotta

be at a t-shirt.

No, that's got a bingo card.

No, I that's got a bingo card.

He blew it last time and this time he's He brought in the A team.

I I don't

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know.

Oh good Lord.

We're not going there.

No, don't I just that's personal opinion.

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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 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.

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She's awesome.

We did that video with her over at Crown.

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, I've

got a great one.

I'll bring it

tomorrow.

Kathryn Lake

Hold that.

I'll bring it tomorrow.

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Can't beat the stones

We got to get them here

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Actually, you know what

they probably

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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

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I think everybody would like to play at Lambo here I'm not just throwing that out there because it's our thing I can't think of a band that wouldn't say how much like to play at Lambo Field,

right?

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Yeah, I mean they would never did never nobody would turn it down.

That's I would like to think you're right.

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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.

Suddenly we had 200,000 people to draft one night.

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Well, how many of Brian wants to know how many the stones you think they could open for the Pope?

Well, the Pope can't charge for Catholic.

You know

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what?

I've had numerous people say, okay, I wanted to laugh at Jim.

And then I thought to myself, I could see it happening.

It could

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happen then.

I could see it happen.

I could see the pope coming to Green Bay to

Lambo.

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.

The Pope for sure.

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 what a car What's what's what are those called container

storage

container a container

a

container car John?

I'm gonna have

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the upstairs

We're doing a side-by-side.

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No

one's gonna go upstairs.

Oh my

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god.

That's part of the coolness.

I ain't gonna happen

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It's going to be look overlooking the water from my balcony.

All right, I'll go alone on that one then.

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Oh, that's fine.

But if you're my tenant, keep it down.

In Europe, because you know what?

You're not going to get any customers.

You're going to get people that'll go there one time.

It's like, let's

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go try

this.

John, who's

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OK.

And they'll try it once.

It's like,

OK, you know, it's going to be cool.

Like I because I'm going to be so marketing.

I'm going to have people from that area dressed up.

But we have the music.

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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 buy that.

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.

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

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on the Brian's sending me Jim's list and homelessness Stones Pope linen museum Liberace museum.

Oh, yeah,

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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 Dolphins fan, but likes the Packers, okay?

I

just don't know what to believe.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I just like letting him go.

No, I, cause I want to invite him up for a game.

Maybe it was a, okay.

Let's take Chuck Todd off the list.

I'm not going to mess with that one.

Oh, it's, it's off.

I want to share a photo.

I'm going to, it's going to take me a moment to do this, but I want to share a photo of, um, of when I think of Jim and all the stuff he wants to do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to, I'm going to throw it up on our, uh, our stream.

Okay.

Anyway, it ties all of that in okay.

All right.

I just and I have work to do I mean I'm not a

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lot of work to do yeah, but you have a staff that's Something you're working on

that's put together a staff.

All right.

That would be that would keep me busy, but I gotta have a project

So when we think Liberace in a museum and we think of the 4th of July.

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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.

Yeah.

All right.

So what are your, what are your goal?

What are you going to do, John?

None

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of what you're going to

do.

I would have a good click.

Absolutely.

That's about it.

But I'm

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serious.

I'm going to see if I can get upstairs here on the roof to watch the fireworks.

I would do that.

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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.

OK.

Can I get those boards?

Yes.

You know, yes.

I'm going to

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see if I can do that.

Yeah.

Wouldn't that

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be fun?

That'd be awesome.

I know.

That would be great.

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.

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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funny.

That was

a while ago.

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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

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work, as

usual.

All right,

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Johnny, we will see you

tomorrow.

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Absolutely.

Thanks for being here, everybody.

Man of the Bear.

See ya.

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