Off The Rails & Smokin’ Ribs (Hour 1)

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Off The Rails & Smokin’ Ribs (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Tue Jul 1, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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Here are your hosts John Minow and Jim Smith

John Maino

Happy Tuesday to you a nice morning.

This is one of those mornings man.

I would have got you I would have been like rocked like jogging Yeah, where I would have gotten up where it's still really early had a couple raw eggs Got my old sweats.

Yeah, have a towel or you know tug nobody does that anymore.

That's all I know they don't nobody wears those gray things anymore, right?

I

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got a

pair

They're

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comfortable though, man.

Oh, they're comfortable.

But that was a lost art in getting that towel right right in your shirt.

Just right to keep your neck warm and everything.

Is that what was the purpose of that?

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Just keep your yes.

You don't sweat down.

You know, when you're sweating, the cold doesn't go down.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

There was an art that is hard to put in just perfect.

Yeah.

But yeah, I mean, I went to Western yesterday.

I did.

Pick something up or what?

No, no, no, no.

I know it was.

I left something.

It was like I didn't see you there.

How's the crock center going, John?

Good.

OK, good.

You know, do you so yours that is paid for by the taxpayer through silver sneakers?

Oh, you knew that.

Do you have to go twice a week or so many times a month or else it gets

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they've never said anything.

Wonder how that works

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cuz but I'll tell you what my granddaughters like I said I just for the just

Just subscribe to

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that thing or whatever.

So if you get grandkids

or something around take that

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and again They've got every place there isn't the Dells or whatever.

They're like grandpa.

Can we come back here?

That

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is a good place.

They just thought that water park was unbelievable.

Yeah, just loved it.

Yeah

Loved it, loved it, loved it.

And they don't.

Western doesn't have a pool, so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But anyway, I was surprised how crowded it was yesterday.

And people probably getting ready for the fourth, right?

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Yeah, I would think so.

Maybe add 11 pounds or something.

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There's

no way you could add 11 pounds.

I dropped seven, by the way.

Ah, you need a new scale.

I think that's junk.

Is battery?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, no.

You need new batteries.

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Why can't you just give me, why can't you just give me a, hey, that's great.

Nice job.

Keep it going.

I just.

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That's that's significant.

What's it?

What is that called like with a parent almost where it's like no matter what dad dad Look, I got a E-minus on my project.

Hmm.

How come you didn't get an A?

I got an A. I would have gotten an A. Your sister would have gotten an

A. Hey, you guys have been super proud of me yesterday last night like 12 30.

I'll even show you on my phone So I go to Milwaukee pick up my my daughter and I don't listen to the radio I though they should but I just I like dead silence when I drive I was thinking about

But we talked about yesterday my goals.

Yeah, and I didn't say I was gonna buy the Panama Canal I said or help with that.

I said, but I did talk about the Pope.

Yeah And I think I want to do a little survey you like surveys.

This is so I got home last night cuz I was thinking on the way down there.

So we have the Pope to Green Bay comm.

Yeah for marketing Guess what I bought last night Pope.

It's it's it's Pope Leo, right?

Yeah Leo to Lambeau

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Oh.

Todd.

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You can have the Leo Leap.

This is

going to

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work.

You know you're onto something here.

I think I am.

You know what I was reading?

There was a pope over the last over many years.

He was at like Mile High Stadium, I think,

in Denver.

Well, yeah, it's a yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

OK.

Hey, did you see Campbell?

Handle

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by the way the other day.

The people there for that Morgan Wayland concert.

You know why?

Did you see their concert lineup?

Yeah.

You know why they're doing concerts again?

Why?

They got their alcohol license.

That's what it is, isn't

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it?

Uh-huh.

They jammed the people in there.

Yeah.

What did they see?

85, I believe, for

that.

They're

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very, very close to us.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And that's

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was anybody there is anybody out there?

Oh by the way, Michael.

Maybe Michael's there.

Hi guys I've been to the gym at 4 a.m.

And then 30 minutes of meditation my new routine swim Monday Wednesday and Friday gym Tuesday and Thursday Michael That's awesome.

Wow, you know they

offer meditation classes at Western How do you not fall asleep, you know, I know in the morning.

Yeah Close your eyes.

There'd be a good nap.

That would be nap time.

So I

I want to get into that because there's people who absolutely swear by that.

I

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would give any, if I could go back in time, if I could go back in time and you could like change something about yourself.

I swear to God, you know what mine would be?

You could change something about yourself?

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That's something that I would do.

I would learn how to do.

And now it's too late.

Swim.

Swim.

I don't know why.

It's not.

Hey, we had those people on here.

The

YMCA has said, come on down.

There's adult swim lessons.

Actually, and we had somebody, was that on our show or my show, but it was private?

Because you probably at your age don't want to be, that would be awful if they put you in there with a bunch of like that.

That's what I mean.

No, no, no, no.

It's an

adult swim class.

It's adult.

Yes, it's not like you would.

Adults that

never learn

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how to

swim.

Yeah.

Check it

out.

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YMCA.

friend

of mine.

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Even that show I was telling you about that I've been watching, he's in his pool and it's like, God, that looks so good to swim.

I would be like a seal.

I'd be like a Navy

seal.

That swimming's harder than it looks.

A friend of mine did that and like, because he was a great runner, great athlete, didn't know how to swim and really wanted to do those triathlons and you had to swim.

So he went to the Y, private lessons and learned how to swim and he's

You know, I don't I haven't talked about this if he swims recreationally, but you know, you know, yeah, but and that's tough swimming there.

You get kicked in the head and everything.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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That's they said that's unbelievable.

Right.

That's like every person for themselves.

So if you knew how to swim, what would you would you like out of the why?

Yeah, that's good for your knees.

It's

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good for because everything else I do, you know, you're asking with okay, well, you know, you guys have lived it.

I come limping in here or I'm on crutches or whatever.

And I always have great, you know,

I want to do it.

I'm gonna do.

Oh man.

I walked 8,000 miles or 8,000 steps today.

I did this.

I did that and every time what happens?

You hurt yourself.

I hurt myself.

Something in my ankles or my knees.

You know, you don't

really have to have to know how to swim to do water things because they have that, um, they have exercise in the water.

Yeah.

I mean, that's the other thing you

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could do.

Yeah.

Well, that's the big thing in rehab now for sports.

is that's the number one thing they found is having guys run in water and water has become so funny.

The thing we're most abundant with here in our world.

Okay, and there's almost like they're just finding out new uses for it.

But it's like, okay, the number one thing that has saved people from heat stroke now, hey, a big bucket of water to sit

in.

Imagine that.

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Michael says, your swimming has been amazing.

My body feels incredible.

Yeah.

And you know what's really good is those reverse wave pools.

And so I've heard, is that the Michael Phelps thing?

Yeah, I don't know.

You know Carl King had one in his house.

Oh, really?

Mm-hmm.

That guy's in great shape.

So yeah lived a long time Todd What?

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You're from a small town though.

Did you have swim lessons?

No, no,

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okay.

We did

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my

dad never knew how to So my dad didn't either.

My dad

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didn't know to swim.

No,

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nobody in my family knows how to swim

Yeah, he did you could jack knife off the he's a good diver.

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I did

really?

Oh, wow at one time we went to

No at your house.

No with this swim club a swim club, you know like you pay and then oh Tourist family swim club We didn't have a swim club.

It's the three pools.

I was your swim club.

I was a pond out back No, we went on like a little trip and he I remember that I'm actually I must have been a little little kid, but he dove off the board and You know touch his toes and wow.

No, he came up and he was bleeding

We all freaked out.

Hit the bottom?

Yep.

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You goodbye.

I still say one of the freakiest things ever was the Olympics in 88.

With that Luganis?

Oh,

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yeah.

Oh, that was good.

Was that 88?

I think so.

So do I. Wow.

Yeah.

That was just.

Did he, he hit his head though,

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right?

Yeah.

I remember the blood starting to come out as he's going down.

I remember that.

88 was right.

88.

That was nasty, man.

That was really nasty.

Some of those sports, they're, they're scary.

Do you see that new sport, the dumbest sport in the history of the world, not they started up?

What's that pillow fighting?

No,

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God, really?

I think ESPN even had a thing on it.

No.

Okay.

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Here's a

question.

Okay.

No.

Let me just ask this question.

Is it like, you know, like athletes doing this or is it kind of the, it's two

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people in a ring.

Is it bras and panties?

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No, yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, it's not.

It's like, yo, WWE thing where they get real skanky.

It's not that.

Do they have two pillows?

Is it like gloves?

Or is it gloves?

I think it's just like, if two people would have a pillow fight, that's how it would be.

I remember American Gladiators, and they had those poles with the pillows on the end.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

The

jousting kind of thing.

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Pungy

sticks.

Yeah.

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Yeah, I remember that.

I remember that.

Yeah.

Yeah, and then they're beyond the thing.

Remember trying to knock the other one off?

Oh, absolutely.

On the

pedestals,

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right?

I used to watch it all the

time.

So how do you, do they really knock people out?

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What is that supposed to mean?

Because we all know you are watching it.

Oh, God.

Because I appreciate athletic ability and competition.

That

is exactly why you watch that show.

God,

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Todd.

Remember

Dynamo?

She was awesome.

That show was a coming of age for a lot of young

men, I

think.

You didn't watch it?

No, I didn't.

The the pillow fight thought you win.

You just knock them down and you win.

You look that one up.

I'll look it up.

All right.

Yes

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So that's making

a comeback or it's

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it's brand

new.

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Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that's just something I was reading about it.

No, so but I was talking about it's it's fun when you find a new what you find something I did.

It's called the PFC pillow fight championship.

There you go.

Yeah

And I think the pillows may have a little bit more than just feathers in them.

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They look a little heavy, but

yeah, that's pretty much what you're doing.

It's, it's like MMA.

Yeah.

They're, you know, they got the gloves on, they

got the

shorts,

they're doing

that, but it's pillows.

Yeah.

No helmets.

No, no helmets.

Okay.

Yeah.

I'm sure the police and fire commission loves that

title.

I mean, there's some big sponsors on this thing.

Wow.

But didn't ESPN televised it?

The pillow guy.

It's possible.

Yeah, FC pillow fight championship

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There you go.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, I'm just saying but you know what so I found this new TV show What's the name of a time?

Oh, man, I'll have to relook it up Friends and neighbors neighbors and friends But anyway, it's John Hamm who I really like from Mad Men it's a

Roger's old girlfriend whose name I still can't remember your friends and neighbors your friends and neighbors.

Yeah, John Hamm.

What's her name?

They're Roger's old girlfriend.

Oh, yeah, Olivia.

I love your month.

Yep Amanda tween.

No, Amanda Pete Amanda Pete man to Pete Some other big name type people, but it's but it's about this guy multi-million dollar multi-million dollar hedge broker mm-hmm what there's and Lose this job

There's a little something something at work yet.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay So not to give away the whole thing, but he's almost like basically broke his wife leaves him for a former NBA player So he's just out in the you know, whatever nothing, okay?

So he starts he like his people.

Hey listen, we're going to Belize for the week just kind of keep and you'd go in and like steal their Rolexes And that's like supported himself from the none.

It's really good.

Has anybody seen that?

What's David Todd?

Friends and neighbors.

Yeah, something like that.

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Yeah, you got to watch this if you get a chance.

It is really really you know sometimes when You see stuff coming and it's like okay.

Oh those writers kind of phone this one in

but then it totally isn't just like You go

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the other way that's when you know you've got a good TV show that you want to keep

Breaking bad and suits did that to me.

I just like this is

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yeah

unbelievable.

Yeah, that's so it is it like

So you can binge watch it.

It's all done.

Yeah, so the series are done.

So it's been on for yes, I think

just I think it just got 20 25.

Yeah Yeah, it's been on so you can watch it till it's yes.

Okay.

I watch the whole thing It's tough when you get into that and

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then you forget for a week

Yeah, I know

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exactly Terry says if it's like the pillow fight an animal house, I mean

Hey, it's a beautiful morning out there.

61 in Green Bay, 63 in Aptin, 63 in Oshkosh, behind the mid 80s.

We got a perfect July first day.

June was not so good.

July is going to be phenomenal.

Back after this.

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started.

And this guy is still rocking

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today.

He's

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the best.

Isn't that amazing?

He's going blind.

He has something.

What year?

73.

73.

Congratulations.

Jim, that might be the first time you beat

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John.

I'm going to say crocodile rock was 72, though, because I think that was his first big one.

Man.

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Yeah.

But isn't that for longevity?

And he was performing back then.

That's what I mean.

I'm just bringing it.

Yeah, it's not

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like he was just Yeah,

right

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music.

I regret we're talking if

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I stop I mean oh Todd who are you okay?

I'm gonna give a top five list of that could be as okay Eagles I'm not spending a hundred bucks for a ticket Elton John Rod Stewart Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan I throw all five.

I had a chance to see I would say Fleetwood Mac would be in there for me too when they did their

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Well, I saw, what's her name, did her own thing here, Therash.

Stevie Nicks.

Yes.

Stevie Nicks.

Went to that.

That was cool.

Did you go to that?

Stevie Nicks thing, when she was in town.

She was Therash?

Yeah.

I don't think

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so.

So I was glad I saw her at least.

Bobby

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Vinton.

She wore a blue velvet.

I haven't seen that yet.

So much of the better songs.

I

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don't know

why you guys pick on that one.

I'm glad I saw Elton John.

Yeah, I wish I would have one Did see The one you want to see Bob not Rod Stewart.

Yes.

I'll rod Stewart No, the other guy I went with my Bob Dylan.

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Yeah How did I pass up the Eagles?

Oh, but you know what it seemed like, you know once they reunited

It's like they're gonna be together forever.

You know what I

mean?

Yeah, they're gonna he proved they performed here with the symphony, right?

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I don't know.

It was at the rash.

Yeah, okay But it's like

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oh man cuz then it wasn't long after wasn't that Glen for I got sick got some weird disease and then died I'm glad I saw Bob Seeger.

I've seen Springsteen twice I'm glad

I saw the drummer Don Henley

No.

No.

Phil

Collins.

Oh, Phil Collins.

And Donna wanted to see him, so

we saw him.

And she's

really glad.

Yeah.

And he was really, really good.

Like, sometimes... He's got issues too, though, doesn't he?

Yeah, he's not gonna play good.

You talk about, you know, we didn't call it foreign.

They just weren't into it, you know?

But he really worked hard.

He was, that was great.

And one of those artists back in the 80s...

I mean, hit after hit.

Yeah.

I mean,

just

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incredible together.

Just put it out with Genesis without.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Country wise as such night tween.

Glad I saw her back in her heyday.

Um, Toby Keith.

Uh, I don't, I didn't see Tim McGraw in Faith Hill, but you know, they.

They've brought some big-time people through here.

Although, you know what's funny?

When you go back and people put it on Facebook, like in the 70s, at the Brown County Arena, it'd be like Johnny Cash and George Jones, and it's like, stick it, front row, $6.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, they had some big names come through the old arena.

Yeah.

I wonder what those people thought of it back then.

Was it, I guess it was

okay, huh?

The arena?

Yeah.

I think so because a lot of a lot of the places they would play were like

that, right?

That's right.

They were

rodeo places and

it's amazing that Green Bay, I mean, I guess, but, you know, they picked up, you know, Chicago sticks.

There's a lot of, they had some decent entertainment here when we were in high school.

Yeah.

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Yeah.

But I remember down in

Tucson,

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you'd have, they'd have those things

and I went

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to them and you're, you're not, you're not joking though.

Places where they'd have the carton or the circuses and rodeos

and

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then a concert.

Yeah.

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And you just, when you walked away, you just had that certain smell

to you.

Yeah, well, it's weird that there's so much entertainment dollars now.

It's so competitive right now.

And it's, I don't know, is that, you know, what do you pick?

There's, you know, there's so many more venues right now.

There's the music.

Well, you can't go

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to a thing for less than $100 these days.

Can you between

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parking and buying a beer?

If people budget, if you would say, well,

Let's say you're going to do a family budget, $2,000 for entertainment, which is a lot.

You know, you throw a couple of packer games in there.

If you have a couple of kids, you know.

Some money.

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Okay, I was going to run this by you.

I saw a thing where it's like, okay, guy, maybe he made this up, but it's, I can see this being through.

He said, we had three kids in the family.

My dad was the only person that worked.

All three kids went to college.

No student debt, no whatever.

What happened?

at what point did some, cause when I went to Arizona State, it was dirt cheap.

You know what my tuition was at ASU like five grand a year, a year.

And we're not talking the dark ages here.

We're talking late 70s, early 80s.

So I mean, when did, when did that just go, you know, the cost of education goes so crazy.

And why?

Wouldn't you say that rose as high as anything else in the country?

Yeah, that's why I can't like listen to Charlie Kirkwood's a lot.

Is it, you know, is it worth it?

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I mean, it's like, my God, the price of education is mind boggling.

And is it, you gotta, is it worth it?

That's what I mean, is it?

I don't know.

And I think a lot of times, unless you're a doctor, right?

Right.

It's tough to pay off those loans.

Oh my God.

Because a lot of places want you to have a degree

But they want to pay you 16 bucks an hour.

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Exactly.

Absolutely.

No question about it.

But I will say one thing.

I am an advocate for community colleges.

Get those same things at a tenth of the price or whatever, the same classes.

There's a lady in town.

She used to work for the city, work for NWTC.

And her big thing is student debt.

And I went to one of those seminars.

It was at the Meyer Theater and some girls stood up.

She's a hundred thousand dollars in debt.

No, but get this John, two degrees and they're in art history.

Really?

And no disrespect, but how many jobs are there

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out

there?

And then she was she works for a downtown association.

Thirty thousand maybe?

Yeah.

I know.

Dad, sit down and talk to you about this.

But it's really easy to get that money.

You know what I mean?

It's easy to get that.

I just think there's got to be some kind

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of... I know.

I know.

I'm with you on that.

Because I don't

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think she's gonna... boy.

I mean, I didn't have a dime in debt.

I wouldn't even know how to do that if I was in college.

I worked for the mines in the summer and my dad helped out a little bit and boom.

That's all you needed.

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John Maino

Hey, thank you very much.

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63 in Green Bay, 64 in Ampton, 63 in Oshkosh.

Sunshine high in the mid 80s today.

Today is July 1st international reggae day.

All right I'll tell you what and everybody should do it one time Go to Jamaica.

Yeah, and sit on a beach and hear a reggae kind of entertainer It is really cool.

I mean, it's one of those things.

It's kind of like with bluegrass I like it but it kind of sounds the same after a while does but one night sitting in like a Jamaica on the beach that is quite the experience

There's a local band called well kind of local Luminati Okay, I think we've had them on the show possibly or members of the group But they do reggae and they'll take songs like Ring of Fire and

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turn it reggae

stuff like that.

So it's it's songs you kind of know Yeah,

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but you know where that might come from though, you know Johnny Cash Yeah, lived there and he used to bring those entertainers in all the time So I'll bet there was some kind of connection could be between Johnny Cash and the reggae scene

but

It's like happy music, right?

I mean, it kind of like makes you feel like chill.

Yeah.

You just feel good music.

Yes.

And Jim's favorite, maybe a little weed with that.

That's somebody else.

That is like, you know, yeah, don't

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worry, be happy

stuff.

It really is.

I

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mean, it's cool.

You got to experience that one time.

Just don't go off the resort.

Well, yeah, I did.

You know what?

I told you that.

country doesn't do much for me.

Because it's so sad getting to the resort and then it gets there.

It's literally sad.

Yeah.

Too much poverty there.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Although

I will say.

And then you go to this all inclusive, it's like.

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You want to know what the worst, like I've never been to Skid Row in Los Angeles.

I've seen, you know, video and whatever.

But the worst, the most sad thing that I've experienced over the last few years, going to Milwaukee Brewer Spring Training Site in Phoenix, Arizona.

That part of town is so it's all homeless It's all people living on the bridges with like a tarp with cardboard.

You wouldn't think one of our own cities

would be that way.

What?

All our

San Francisco, New Orleans, San Diego, they all are John.

But you think,

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oh, we're Scottsdale, Arizona, or beautiful, the resort, the PGA is here.

And it is blight for miles.

Miles.

But you want to stack to my buddy of mine, those houses are still like $350,000 houses.

Yeah.

Yeah.

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It's really something.

If anybody's been to spring train, I'm not trying to discourage anybody, but just that area getting to Mayville.

It's really something.

Nah.

Get arms around that.

I know.

Uh, it also chicken wing day.

I hate to say it.

In my opinion, a little overrated.

The amount of work for the amount of the reward.

Mm-mm.

Like crab legs.

Give me boneless chicken wings.

Give me thighs.

Give me a good thigh.

Yeah, no, that- I like it.

Dapples and oranges.

That's like fish fl- No, no.

Chicken wings are chicken wings.

So...

Why, okay, first of all, chicken wings, they're not a lot of work.

They're a lot of work.

Would you like, what do you like, Parmesan, garlic?

Those are the best.

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Doesn't matter.

They're a lot of work, Jim.

That's like stringy little pizza.

And the bones are kind of fun to eat.

The bones are like chicken nuggets that little kids eat though.

Overrated a

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little bit, overrated a little bit.

For

the

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amount

of work.

Put them in a grill, just no.

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I think they're there.

I think they're they used to be a waste.

Tom's playing the music.

I mean, Todd's playing the music.

Go

ahead, Todd.

Reason number 593 that Jim and John are not alike.

They're fun to have around.

I would.

That's not a meal or anything, but they're a

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mess and they're whatever.

I'll tell you what is under.

I'll tell you why.

If they're good,

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if

they're

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really

good, boy, they're

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worth

it.

If they're just kind of well, you know,

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but.

Cause I used to buy bags of them from, um, what was the place?

Do they still have that place over on West Mason Sam's club?

Do they stop at Sam's clubs?

Yeah.

Okay.

That's why those

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big bet you'd buy those big things of everything.

Remember?

Yeah.

Yeah.

They bulk.

John Maino

I gotta tell you something though

that they're overpriced though.

I mean, that used to be just to be a wasted product.

Somebody came up with it and it's like crazy now.

They're, they're way overpriced, but yeah, they're, I just, it's nice to have as something.

John Maino

So anyway, um,

I gotta tell you, Todd, you would have loved this.

You would have loved this.

And I felt back, I'm sitting there by myself.

Like who's the creepy guy sitting by himself with his face just covered in barbecue sauce and just eating and drinking beer and everything.

I went to that rib fest that our guy Cody Creplen was a part of up in Brussels a couple of weeks ago.

I had three platters of ribs.

I gotta be honest with you.

They were so different because everybody had their own different sauces and stuff.

And I buy one from one place, another one, another, another one.

Oh, when you get good barbecued ribs, that's got to be as good as anything you could taste, isn't it?

Ribs

are good, but that takes a long time to cook.

I know.

So that's patience.

John Maino

But you could almost like taste the

time and the effort.

Ribs are good.

That is great.

But that's ours.

I know, I know, but it's a cook and

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but I would rather go to that and just devour three platters of something over wings.

Absolutely.

Hands down.

John Maino

Yeah.

Today is also postage stamp day.

Where do you, where do you buy a stamp these days?

I

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don't

know, but I do whoever came up

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with Nick Barkatsy.

You gotta find an old person.

But the forever stamp was the best idea ever.

The U.S.

Post Office, I don't give them a lot of credit for business acumen.

That was a great idea.

What was it?

No, you buy a stamp, it's good forever.

You don't have to like, remember you had to look around for those two cent stamps to put on with it.

You buy a stamp, now it's good forever.

John Maino

I did not know that.

John's been around for like 15 years.

Are you serious?

Yeah, it's great.

So all you do is go buy a roll.

Now, if you bought them, 10 years would be cheaper than they are today.

I don't know how much stamps are, but if you buy it today, let's say they're...

I think they're 52 cents or 55 cents.

I don't know what you are, but you buy a roll of stamps, and if you mail it in 2032, that stamp is still good.

John Maino

Okay, that kind of takes away from the poor guys or the artists.

Remember in Fargo, which says, how did you do?

Oh, I only got the four-cent stamp.

See,

those days are over.

Well, that's good, though,

John Maino

because then when somebody, the price goes up, they need them.

You really think so, Margie?

Oh, you betcha.

Remember?

I do.

That was a weird movie.

John Maino

That was a great movie.

Oh my

God.

That was

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a great movie.

That was a COVID movie, right?

Huh?

No way before COVID.

Oh my God.

That was way before way, way, way, way before.

Yeah.

I watched it during COVID.

Yeah.

That's what I watched.

Oh my God.

I can

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recite

so many

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lines from that movie.

Do you

want

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me

to take some time?

No, thanks.

No, that lion thing I watched during COVID.

That was such a, ugh.

The what?

You watched the Lion

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King?

The Tiger King or something, right?

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Tiger

King, that Florida thing.

John Maino

Oh yeah, I didn't like that at all.

I didn't even see it once.

John Maino

Uh, it is international joke day.

All right.

Uh, ginger snap day.

Not a fan.

Not a fan.

I love them.

I love them.

All right.

Zip code day.

I don't know why zip code has a day.

Uh, Liv Tyler is 48.

Um, Melissa Peterman, who I'm trying to figure out.

Maybe this will help.

She

was Barbara Jean on the Reba show.

Okay, she still hangs out with Reba a lot.

I

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think she's at

Reba's new show that

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okay.

I know you mean

yep

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You know, it's good about like redhead like ginger type people

Stand by for some really smart talk now from John Minow from Bill Barr.

John Maino

They don't really age Like Reba McIntyre doesn't look any different than she looked 25 years ago

might be a little bit plastic surgery

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Maybe you know little but it seems like you know, that's how they come out They're stamped that way and they just stay that way

You ever noticed

that?

No?

I

would say no to

that.

Okay.

I mean, look at Lucille Ball.

And her hair was probably not red, but I don't know that Rebus is red.

John Maino

But it's like their hair doesn't get gray, it seems like.

Let's all die.

They don't get age.

It seems like they don't age.

They don't get wrinkles.

Lucille Ball at the end.

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We're okay.

I want to be in the show.

Pamela Anderson 58 boy Boy have you seen her lately?

Yeah, no disrespect, but she's let everything go completely natural Just completely natural you'd not know it was her I mean you realize how much people used to put into making themselves look like a character With all the injections all the different things and she's let it all go and I'm she's coming.

She's still great, but I mean not

What would be the word we used to use for her?

Um Not full up choice anymore.

Does anybody use the word voluptuous anywhere?

That's

what I would think.

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Yeah.

Yeah Just like looks like a mom looks like a mom taking her kids to school Carl Lewis 64.

Okay You guys have to admit worst rendition of the national anthem of all time Yeah, that was bad.

I think that was 88 too.

Is that 88 Olympics?

Do you remember that?

when he was singing the name.

We played it on the show one.

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Yeah.

Yeah.

Because he won like his four or five gold medals or whatever.

So then he was the big soul and he wanted to become a singer then.

He's gonna become a big

singer, soul singer.

Yeah.

John Maino

So I think it was a Dodgers game.

He was gonna sing the national anthem.

Oh.

Poor guy.

1993.

93.

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Oh, it was horrible.

Dan Ackroyd, 73.

Debra Harry is 80 from Blondie.

She's 80.

80.

And this was in 1980.

This song was from 1988.

78, 79.

77, 77.

She was great.

Jamie Farr, 91.

Clinger is 91 years old.

Good for him.

Brewers at the New York Mets tonight on WISS.

That's at 530.

What else we got going here?

All our techs go to the text line.

Zeppelin is touring first time since 2007.

October 28th, that's United Center in Chicago.

Let's all go.

Says Michael.

How old are those guys?

They got to be close to 80, don't they?

Such a nice area down there.

Where?

United Center?

Woo!

John Maino

I was there for spring scene.

You gotta be careful.

Some of those neighborhoods, uh, the one band I'm glad I got to see was a grateful dead one.

Jerry Garcia was still alive.

Chicago 1992 till 1995.

Boy, they had a follow.

Was that the most devoted following there was in the history of American

music?

I don't know.

It, it was up there.

I mean, I was unbelievable.

People just, I told you my brother was one of those guys.

John Maino

It's surprising who some of those people are.

Like, I forget, it wasn't like Dan Rather, but there was some news person who- Well, there's some professionals

that followed those

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guys.

Oh, yeah, absolutely.

And they were

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like passionate.

My top five would be the Flying Burrito Brothers, Buffalo Springfield.

I remember Buffalo Springfield albums when I was in high school.

Keith Whitley.

Linda Ronstadt.

I would love to see her in the 70s.

Rolling Stones.

Yeah, those are all good ones.

Got another text here.

Happy Tuesday from a tent at Highcliff State Park.

Had some fun with four raccoons in our screen tent last night.

Note to self, don't forget to put the dog food in the truck before you go to bed.

Good idea.

Mike, wow.

Been listening to you over 20 years, John, but you're on thin ice when you say chicken wings are overrated.

Todd and a peer.

Dentist school says Kyle, $130,000 tuition a year.

You know,

Kyle, when we got that, I don't know if that's that bad, because you what make, 160?

So paybacks, maybe you gotta live, but you get that paid off in five years, four years?

John Maino

No?

I don't know,

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man.

You get a lot of money there at 130 a year.

How

long you spent at school?

Four

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or five years?

What is it?

I don't know.

I don't know.

1988.

Be happy.

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Hey, welcome back,

John Maino

Man on the Mirror here, and a beautiful morning once again, and a great way to start the month of July.

63 in Green Bay, 64 in Apton, 63 in Oshkosh High in the mid-80s today.

Todd, you getting big vacation-type plans this year?

No.

John Maino

I know, you don't really, huh?

No.

I mean, you could.

You're, you know, you're...

Tell you what I did do yesterday, though.

I pulled some beats out of my garden.

Okay, and cook those up and had those.

John Maino

Okay.

They're okay.

You know, I'm big into health food.

Okay.

Natural.

Absolutely.

Yeah.

John Maino

And, um, beets are one of the most underrated nutritional things a person could possibly eat.

Yeah.

Isn't that something?

I'm like in every way.

It's less than me at a beach on Tuesday.

Okay.

So, no way, Jim.

Why do you have to do that?

Why can't I just come out with some of

my knowledge?

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Okay, go ahead.

I would agree though that beets are very healthy.

And they're really good, right?

They are.

I gotta be honest with you.

I have not, I had a beet salad at a restaurant one time, which is really, really good.

Cut up in those little cubes and stuff, that was good.

But I don't think, I don't know unless you grow them, I guess they're in stores.

I just haven't had them.

How do you cook them?

I just, I boiled them for a little

bit.

John Maino

That's some butter and salt and pepper.

Just slice them up like that.

That was, yeah.

But a salad bar at like a supper club and you get the beat,

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the pickle beats.

You always have to do that.

And I pulled a couple of potato plants and they were

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like

smaller potatoes, but I made a little bit of that too last night.

John Maino

Okay, so I was going to go back.

The other one that is underrated is sweet potatoes.

Yeah.

First, how good they are for

John Maino

you.

Yeah.

But I think I told you that my go-to snack when we're at our place this week, because my kids, oh, don't do that.

I don't bring all that food.

is gonna be that bruschetta.

And we cut the, I cut the mint for, I'm just gonna throw that in the water, ice water, you know, cause that's always good.

So I do too.

But then I, yeah.

And then we- Where do you get mint?

Do you grow some?

Yeah.

All the stuff is out of the, we have just that, you've been at my house, we just had six foot flower bed.

It's amazing what you can pull out of there.

Yeah, absolutely.

And we got, but I really like the bruschetta.

Yeah.

Okay, people should.

I just cut that stuff out of that garden.

Parsley or do you use cilantro?

Yeah, cilantro.

And that's really good.

And then I put on the, you know, I don't put, I don't put it on olive oil, but I get that stuff from, it's not vinegar.

I get it over at my buddy owns the title town.

It's kind of like vinegar, but it's a little thicker than that.

Balsamic?

Yeah, it's balsamic.

It's even a little, it's not really called balsamic.

So it's more restaurant stuff, but man, is that good with the mozzarella?

John Maino

I mean, you know what, everything, everything I eat, you know, is like really spicy.

Like when I make my scrambled eggs, I put in garlic, that crushed garlic, and I put in jalapenos.

I bet that's good.

It's really good.

And then I even put cayenne pepper on it.

I try to make my, I try to make everything so spicy.

That's what I mean.

I want to make, I like to like sweat when I'm eating something.

You know what I mean?

We're literally like going for it a sweat pop.

So you go to the face by yourself

I got the table by myself napkins

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I was in the bar.

Yeah, it's

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really hot.

So I went in the bar

Tina and I was sitting at the end of the bar and I actually thought that

did you pat your forehead with I was sweating Oh,

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I

was sweating.

You're right for you guys.

I

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think I even took the beer bottle like rubber you guys like forehead a couple of times So was that really hot day?

Yeah,

John Maino

and I didn't want to sit outside because then you're just you know, you're drenched

But yeah, I was

funny.

Were the, were the ribs spicy or was it just the meat sweats because you were having so much of it?

John Maino

A little both cause, but the thing is, I wish they would have had it more where you knew exactly who or what type, you know, cause then you would know, it's like, Oh, if you ever see that guy sometime, I mean, Cody's are always good, but I mean, you know, to know somebody else and you see that pop up is, Oh, you gotta try that guys.

We're eating really fast.

Without question.

There's not even, I

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was, I was

like, and that would be torture for me to watch someone eat.

Yep.

Vinny just texted and he said, minor sweats, just eating popcorn.

John Maino

Much less the runs.

I just told Jim that this morning, I would, my t-shirt, when I woke up this morning, it was drenched, drenched.

I just sweat.

I don't know why.

Yeah.

John Maino

But that, the spicy stuff, the garlic and everything that, that's really good.

That's a good type of sweat.

I don't know about this text.

What?

Beets are full of sugar.

Are

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they?

Well, they're called sugar beets.

They do have a lot of sugars in them.

Yeah.

John Maino

But they also have some other vitamins that are phenomenal for you.

Yes.

But yeah, they're, I mean, they're called sugar beets, but that's true.

They are.

But I got to, okay.

The old fashioned buffets, you'll supper clubs like Mahoots.

Oh, that's all you need.

John Maino

Right, right, right, right.

Yeah.

Just go back.

We have somebody coming on though.

I want to, what's the best snack?

because in 80 degrees, the snacks aren't the same as football.

Right.

Right, right,

John Maino

right.

So those pickled beets, anything cold, that would be good.

Greek salads are good this time of year.

I love Greek

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salads,

you know?

John Maino

Love it.

But I want to learn how to cook ribs.

That's a long process.

John Maino

Well, I'm going to build my own smoker.

You're not going to cook them in the oven, right?

That's what I mean.

I'm

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going to build a smoker.

You can't have that.

On your deck.

John Maino

Oh, you can all right.

All right, cuz I found my welder that I bought from Harbor Freight.

I'm getting back into welding

Okay up your smoker Why don't you just put some wood chips in like a coffee can have that put that on the grill let that smoke and put them on and look at two and one

John Maino

I want to do this, right?

Yeah, that's then you have two smokers then you have a smoker and a grill on your deck that looks

Little junkie.

John Maino

No, I won't I'll camouflage it put stuff around it

Brian

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says good day

for Johnny

John Maino

for a DJ Johnny sweats.

It's a DJ name.

Oh,

yeah.

Yeah, they just roll a refrigerator out there.

John Maino

I just feel so healthy when I sweat

Who

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you

if you're if I'm in a gym not when I'm walking around the house or in bed.

Yeah,

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we're sitting with a plate of rib

and out of the bay.

Yeah,

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I don't know I just

He feels good.

But you're doing something good for your body.

Are you

really going to make a smoker or are you going to buy a smoker?

I'd like

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to make it because I did find my

welder.

If you, I might buy one from you because I

might.

Okay.

Think about it.

Got another tax.

Look up the three to one method to make great ribs.

That's

from Alex.

Three to one method.

Yep.

Okay.

All right.

I will look at that and look at that right

John Maino

now.

Thank you, Alex.

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