Disco & Curds (Hour 1)

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Disco & Curds (Hour 1)

Maino and the Mayor · Wed Jul 2, 2025

Kathryn Lake

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

And here are your hosts, John Minow and Jim Smith.

Good

John Maino

morning.

Happy Wednesday to you.

Isn't this a great time of year though?

I mean, this is summer.

You know why we feel so good because we're one day away from a three-day weekend.

Well, that too.

You know what?

I mean, you really have an extra bounce in the step.

And the weather's perfect.

But it's perfect.

It is.

OK.

John Maino

I'm going to make a wager.

All right.

Well, you're 40 behind just for the record.

But anyway, go ahead.

John Maino

$5, $5 bet to the fund here.

Ready?

Okay.

65 at downtown Green Bay, 70 in Appton, 68 in Oshkosh, wins in Green Bay from the South, Southwest at five to seven miles an hour.

South, Southwest at what again?

Five to seven.

This says from the West at six.

So you're right in there.

That's right in

there.

John Maino

We'll take her.

That's a good start to the day.

Michael says good morning, gentlemen, beautiful day in Madison.

Michael, did you go to four o'clock this morning and do whatever you do?

I've never done anything at four o'clock, except...

Go to the bathroom.

John Maino

Drive home?

Wow.

Good morning, everybody.

Says Vicki.

Hello, everybody.

Who else is out there on this beautiful Wednesday heading into the 4th of July?

This is just awesome.

This is a good time to do whatever.

Happy birthday, Margot Robbie.

No, that can't be.

Oh yeah, Margot Robbie.

I was thinking, who is the one in Batman that went little...

You're talking about Superman, Margot Kidder.

John Maino

Yes.

Yeah, she went a little nuts.

What did I say?

You said Batman.

So close.

Yeah, so close.

Michael says, yes, swimming this morning.

Wow.

John Maino

I'm gonna get one of those, I'm gonna get like one of those things, those Michael Phelps things.

What's that?

Yeah, the reverse wave thing.

So you're always going against the current like I'm gonna get one of those for my Navy SEAL training.

Um, today is UFO day.

Todd, you a believer?

Uh, yeah, I am.

I'm, I will say this.

I still think, did you see this most recent thing?

It's like somewhere, and I don't even know how they judge this.

The people, some people are so smart.

There's this thing like, like 50 billion light years away from us.

They found this planet.

That's a huge lake.

No.

Yeah.

It's all frozen out there.

John Maino

No, it's not.

This one isn't.

They even think there's trout in

it.

You know, it's funny, John.

Kind of keep up with the news a little bit.

I have not

John Maino

seen that story.

We follow

different things.

I guess we do.

OK.

Do you know how far a light year is?

Yeah.

OK.

And there's water.

Yeah.

Like

John Maino

there's other sons out there, right?

Yeah, I suppose the only son

John Maino

there's more water in that lake Okay, then all of our oceans put together and everything

Interesting.

Yeah,

very very very I got some time this holiday.

I'll look it up.

I'm going to I got said at the beach.

I won't listen to Yeah, you know my podcast.

No, I won't listen podcast.

I read up on your okay.

Good.

I just saw this Yeah

GJ-1214B, it's located 40 light years away.

It's known as Waterworld, with exotic forms of water like hot ice and super fluid water.

So it is a thing.

John Maino

Can you give me a bell, please?

Can

John Maino

you give it down so we can hear the bell?

Can we, is it too much to ask so

we can hear the

John Maino

bell?

There's also, TOI-1452,

100 light years away, it's considered a strong candidate to be an ocean planet.

They've actually seen dolphins.

What's the source on that, Todd?

That would be your scientists.

That is a Smithsonian.

Um, and here's the thing.

I'm way

out.

The story about the, the 40 light years water came out in 2012.

So it's been known since 2012, Jim.

John Maino

Hey, you know what else is cool?

You see if they're finding that big cave in Kentucky.

Sharks.

Wow.

Prehistoric sharks.

Wow.

In this big cave in Kentucky.

They were here.

John Maino

Isn't that cool?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there's another guy in where was it with a metal detector somewhere in England found all kinds of Roman.

He found a Roman slipper when the Romans overtook England and they marched all the way through.

They found a Roman slipper on the trail.

Is that amazing?

Yeah.

Like

John Maino

perfectly preserved

well

John Maino

my next career.

I'm going into archaeology like you can't even believe

That

I am

John Maino

you're letting your

next

John Maino

lifetime my next life.

Yeah, and that that is cool And then

John Maino

when you find it

the value is unbelievable.

John Maino

Well, yes and no It's like if you fight if you were off the coast if you were scuba diving or snorkeling off the coast of Florida And you stumbled upon a chest with gold balloons the state takes that

They won't let you have it.

Well, that's international waters though, right?

But I'm talking about like that Sue right that lady in South Dakota the dinosaur She but that she only got she must look backing like when I she's sold up for three million dollars.

Remember it, right?

Oh, I don't remember

John Maino

this.

I don't remember that one,

but If you bought a dinosaur would you let it go for three million?

John Maino

I don't know if I I don't know what I do.

That'd be cool

Yeah Anyway, I mean you could probably live on three million for the rest of your life.

I think I'd

John Maino

live well

I'd be in the U.P.

paying 160 bucks a month rent.

You could probably live very well.

There's a trailer and a

trinary.

John Maino

You could

live really well

John Maino

on that.

Absolutely.

That's what you're saying.

That's my U.S.

truck.

You could.

One door would be a different color than the others.

You,

yeah.

You could.

Yeah.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be, but three million, yeah.

Yeah, you'd have

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to still.

Depending where you are,

downtown

John Maino

Chicago, the Gold Coast, not so

much.

Yeah.

But anyway, that would be a cool thing, but I wonder how long you would do that.

until it's like, ah, I'm just like trying to be an actor.

You don't say it.

Look, I'm, I'm giving it up

John Maino

for

two years or something.

Cause you got to find something.

John Maino

I'm going to be honest with you.

Another thing I'm thinking about doing when I retire is moving to Hollywood.

Are we spending some time in Hollywood and trying to get bit parts?

Oh, John, you know how many, no,

John Maino

I could be a character actor.

Yeah.

And you know how much you're going to make being a character actor?

You know, what is the

John Maino

minute wage?

Yeah.

John Maino

Or even an extra.

What card is

John Maino

that?

I would be a phenomenal extra.

Would do

John Maino

something

in line all day for six months people show

John Maino

up takes is one shot one shot One shot today is also made in the u.s.

And you're so

patient to stand around and have nothing happen.

Mm-hmm.

John Maino

Let's work up a

conversation

John Maino

Sports journalist day.

Oh, that's very

cool.

It's you

John Maino

disco day even better Okay, can I be honest with you?

That's the only type of dancing I've ever done

I and I could see that me too.

It's funny.

I just yeah, I that could have gone right by and we all kind of like oh, he did do that

John Maino

cuz you didn't you know why Cuz you know why cuz you'd like to close you didn't have to move your feet.

You could just dance around just gonna

yeah, I Don't need to see this more

John Maino

of

that It's that let's see that we you'll be playing that at your reunion Wednesday,

John Maino

right?

Yeah

OK, we need video.

John Maino

All right.

All right.

Yes, we do.

Me and the lunch lady.

Wow.

Sorry.

Yeah, no, that's.

You can tell I said

John Maino

that.

Jose Canseco, 61.

Jerry Hull, 69.

Brett the Hitman Hart, 68.

Brett the Hitman Hart came with us to Walter Reed Hospital.

Nice.

And we brought a bunch of Packard jerseys and David Marinist, of course, from the Washington Post was there and he was good friends with the hitman.

I think he was doing a book with him or something, whatever, whatever.

And I thought, OK, well, that's fine.

No, fine, too.

You know, but look at us.

We got Packard jerseys with AJ Hawks' wife and Aaron Cannon's wife.

When these guys, and I know I've told this story, when they saw Bret the Hitman heart walk in, they would start screaming like,

really?

John Maino

It was like a teenage girl.

They couldn't believe it.

Pro wrestling, whatever you want to say about it or, you know, with that look, the people that are fanatical about that sport are so, I don't know of sports fans that are more loyal to their people than pro wrestling fans.

That's the, I mean, to the point where nurses had to come in and tell the guys to calm down.

They were so excited about meeting him.

That's cool.

John Maino

Yeah.

There's something about that.

That's what.

No, we kind of like to get that back a little bit too.

That

John Maino

is where

it was.

It's not wasn't the sport.

It was the character.

John Maino

Yes.

Yes.

Or the person I should say.

Yes.

John Maino

What else you got here?

Good morning.

Says Luann Luann.

Meet the press podcast.

Does not cover UFOs and aliens.

That's that's Brian.

Okay.

He's kind of defending me a little bit.

That's why

John Maino

I missed

that.

John Maino

You don't think he is?

What?

He's asking a question, you mean?

You can't follow UFOs and aliens on your Meet the Press podcast on Sunday Morning

Stream.

OK, I missed that.

All right.

This is true, what Terry just said.

This is, do you remember this?

You must.

John Maino

Of course, you are

right in the middle of that.

John Maino

I was in, I was doing my internship at KNBC TV, no, KPNX TV in Phoenix, Arizona.

Big difference.

Big difference.

Big

John Maino

difference.

Big difference.

Big difference.

And I remember that disco demolition that would have been the summer of 79.

No.

Yeah, 80 mmm.

I think it was 79 Steve doll did that right?

Yeah, I think that was 80 I

don't

John Maino

John Travolta mino

July 12th 1979 so I have an idea the 12th is well, it's a Saturday.

Maybe we do a special day Okay, so you

John Maino

mentioned Steve, okay, so civic just bought

A bunch of radio stations in the UP.

Correct.

Five stations.

I think one's in Wisconsin.

The rest are in, uh, yeah.

One's in Iron River.

One of them

John Maino

when they started up W UPY radio.

Yep.

John Maino

Okay.

Whoopee radio

in Ishperming.

And this is Antonagon.

Same thing.

John Maino

Well, that might be where the license is.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

The studio was in Ishperming.

Okay.

That makes sense.

John Maino

But anyway, um, one of their first people.

Became one of the biggest names at broadcasting.

His name was Jason Jennings

Okay,

John Maino

and he became huge with corporate radio and sales and how to make a billion dollars and everything like that and he started as like

Weekend disc jockey.

Wow at that station, but I'll never forget this He wanted to be one of those guys and he recently passed away or last few years But you like Duke right you mentioned the name Jason Jennings and it was Unbelievable how big it was and he started up there.

He started up there, but here's the story my brother when George Wallace came to town campaigning in what it's 74 72 73 that

was yeah, 70

John Maino

okay Well, my brother was a deputy sheriff and he had to be like one of his bodyguards

Okay, it was like the next week Wallace got shot by that guy But one of my brothers other things he had to leave the governor to go take this guy this reporter who was climbing over the fence to get to You know one of the things and it was Jay Jennings my brother had to pull it out from the fence But anyway, just so when I hear whoopie radio That's what I think of and he became a huge thing you should look him up to Jason Jennings all right in radio So biggest names in the country

to get big he did that

For self-promotion climbing over the fence.

Yeah.

Yeah,

John Maino

that was those days.

Yeah, right.

That's what I'm saying.

The news people try to do with the radio.

Exactly.

Do something over the top.

So did he by the way, Brian says, Jim, no, I wasn't defending you.

Make no mistake.

I wasn't defending you.

Yeah.

Also, Richard Petty, 88 today, old school, good guy.

One of those guys was never too big for the.

because he started out, one of my favorite Richard Petty stories is his dad was a big racer, okay?

And those were in those days where they used to have these unbelievable fights like in the pits.

And I think it was Kale Yarborough, who was one of my, I used to be a huge NASCAR fan back in the day, Kale Yarborough and Richard Petty's dad got in a fight, okay?

Richard Petty's mom,

Hit the guy across the head and knocked him out.

With her purse.

Okay?

True story.

It's a true story.

With her purse.

They said to her, Ms.

Penny, we gotta be honest with you.

We heard rumors you had a bottle of whiskey in your purse and that's what knocked him out.

And she said, young man, I am a Southern Baptist.

I have never touched a lick of liquor in my entire life.

That is so insulting.

And to me, I'm gonna sue you for that.

Then somebody else said,

Miss Penny, I also heard a report it may have been a handgun.

She said, I have no comment on that.

Now that's old school racing.

All right, we guys set a quick break.

We had a great lineup for you, man, including a guy that's going to do what I'm planning on doing 24 hour ultra marathon on Washington Island.

We got a lot of good stuff coming up.

Stay with us.

All

the ladies were treating me right.

Moving my feet to the disco.

How

Kathryn Lake

in the world could I keep my seat?

John Maino

Wednesday morning, once again, 65 in, frame base, 70 now, 10, 68 in Oshkosh.

National disco day.

Let us know what your best disco memories are back today.

And by the way, that's on Rick D's.

Yeah.

John Maino

Back when DJs used to put up records.

Big hit for him.

Huge hit for him.

Huge hit for him.

It's phenomenal.

So when we had Mike Steve Pack on, we talked about that.

Kent, I'm trying to think the name, was it Shabooms?

One of the point, no, not

Shabooms.

John Maino

One of the places in Green Bay that was the, so we're like you people from two rivers.

Do you guys have a disco?

You know, we're kind of like, no, I think we just went to like bars.

I don't remember discos there.

John Maino

You know what?

Okay, you know

what?

Did you go to Evil Onerans?

That was like, I've never heard of it.

Okay.

John Maino

No, what was the place?

Okay, there's places in Manitowoc that were.

18-year-old bars or something.

So what were those?

They were just,

John Maino

could you get beer?

Yeah.

At that point, you could have beer if you were 18, right?

Yeah.

Well,

John Maino

then why did they have beers, or why did they have bars specifically for like 18-year-olds?

No, I don't think so.

John Maino

Okay,

I think, was it?

I could be wrong, but I think this is more in my time.

When they changed the law from 18 to 19, they were still 18-year-old bars or something.

That's what I mean,

John Maino

that's what I mean.

I've had people mention that.

It was an 18-year-old bar.

But it seemed like it was almost like a NCO club in the military where it's like, no officers, no people below, just this one certain age bracket.

No,

that wasn't me.

When I was 18, you could drink.

And then it went to 21, I don't know, eight years later or something like that.

Went to 19 first in Wisconsin and then switched to 20.

But you probably maybe weren't living here at the time,

right?

Nope, wasn't here.

Nope.

OK.

18

though, that's what is it?

Is it 18 now?

John Maino

No, it's 21.

That's what I thought.

John Maino

It was 18.

It turned 18 when I was in high school.

Right.

Yeah.

That's

John Maino

young

though.

That's young.

Can you imagine being that person whose birthday was just one birthday off and you could, you had a way to whole year to go out?

Yeah.

Because

John Maino

my first

day, I

John Maino

went up to visit Masabi Community College on my 18th birthday and the coach took me out.

Did you really the coach?

Yeah,

that's

John Maino

great.

I know.

Oh God, that's great And that's that's when I told I've told you a story I threw up green beer and I've never had a thing for green beer ever since yeah Yeah, my 18th birthday coach got me hammered true story and anybody else that's ever attended Masabi State Junior College They will know the coach I'm talking about pepper.

Yeah, that's the initiation to do they do it all kids.

She just doesn't feel

John Maino

I think pretty much everybody Yeah, he would take men recruiting trips

And we'd stop at like six bars on the way back.

Yeah.

John Maino

Isn't that crazy when you think about that?

Yeah.

Did it end there, John?

I worry about people who we were just talking about.

Well, whatever.

Yeah.

John Maino

Oh, yeah, yeah,

yeah.

Grooming.

John Maino

Different story.

No.

Hey, Brewers, you got a split double header

today?

They do because they had a call last night.

I

John Maino

didn't know they were going to play that one today.

That's awesome.

Cool.

1135 and 535 on WISS.

That's very cool.

Fun, I love it.

I love it a lot.

Hey, we had a bunch of do it some other people to say hello this morning

No, that was okay,

John Maino

that was it.

Yeah, I was

gonna tell you I Cardinal sin last night So I was at Elkhart Lake right now.

I was driving home and I had to get gas a quick trip, you know, and

John Maino

oh, I know what you did.

Oh, what'd you grab?

I did I went inside.

Yeah, I have not been in a quick trip.

It's gotta be six weeks but

I know made the mistake of going in well John you know what they have there?

John Maino

I've been in there.

I can tell you the whole menu I can tell you which days they're half price.

No, I even said to the lady This is a nice store.

You know,

John Maino

that's how

long it's been.

Yeah,

John Maino

I

haven't done anything to it.

They have it was 449 is on special a Double chicken breast sandwich.

Yeah Do you have that?

I feel like I'm eating more healthy than the Angus burger.

I know I passed on that

Okay,

John Maino

I'm gonna tell you I got more willpower than you because I haven't done that a quick trip for quite some time I

know we talked about that and I

John Maino

felt bad.

I

felt bad.

I felt bad.

John Maino

I Did lose my way at circle K yesterday.

What did you do before I had a burger?

That they've got circle K is

good

John Maino

stuff feels

truck stops are good.

John Maino

I know They have upgraded food so much.

I just wish they don't all have soup anymore

Oh,

John Maino

that's too

hot.

Yeah, it's too hot for soup.

Why did you go in to get food?

See, I was a

John Maino

soda.

I literally stopped him to get a soda.

I wasn't going to go in.

I mean, I

John Maino

needed a soda and a loaf of bread.

Soon as I walked through the door, it was like.

the alcoholic walk into the bar.

John Maino

I knew I was gonna buy, I knew I was gonna buy.

I wish I could say no.

I will

say this, I did walk, you know how you go behind there's

John Maino

the

fresh vegetables and

John Maino

a hard boiled egg.

Which grab?

No, I did nothing.

I just walked by.

Walk around.

Every intention though of not buying that food.

Me too.

I could not do it.

Yeah.

I could not do it.

I'm never doing that again.

I could not do it.

John Maino

New movie idea.

Indiana John and the inevitable doom Indiana John and earth the disco ball and a pristine leisure suit with bell bottoms and then proceeds to spill his coffee all over the leisure suit

Maybe he used chat GP

John Maino

saved up I saved up all my money working at the holiday gas station up in Minnesota one time so I could buy a

Levi a jean leisure suit.

That was

John Maino

happening.

That was a happening thing back in those days.

That was that was belt belt items.

Oh,

John Maino

yeah, they didn't make any other kind did they any other pants?

No, no does that's you know, don't never forget first day of high school one of my first days of high school and I'm coming over from the Catholic school where you had to wear dress pants every day and you know leather and I go to the public school for the first time there were a lot to wear jeans

And everybody, I'll never forget the standing in the lunch line and every other guy is wearing bell-bottom jeans and kind of whatever, whatever.

And I'm still wearing my dress shoes from the Catholic school.

And it's like, oh, did I feel a lot of sink here?

Yeah,

that's good through public schools.

They did a lot of

John Maino

leeway.

Oh, man, I couldn't believe

it.

So this is what Terry said is true, too.

John Maino

Yeah, they put the donuts, the sweet rolls right near the cash register, so it's easy to grab.

Yeah, and that food that you should eat, that's like the welcome mat.

John Maino

And they sell those

Oh, yeah,

right there.

Right there.

John Maino

Unreal.

That's all they get you.

How dare they?

I know guys, right?

Capitalism.

Good thing you got discipline.

John Maino

We don't have a

chance.

Discipline.

Oh, my God.

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John Maino

Jim Schmidt.

Growing up cheese curds is on the water.

Yes, sir.

I've been on the water.

I had, uh, put five, six days off and I fished every single one of them.

Had a couple of charters this weekend.

Yep.

Nice.

And

where and what,

what do you catch?

Perch and, uh, up in Sturgeon Bay.

Nice.

Yeah.

So it was Saturday.

I had a charter on Sunday.

Well, I actually had a double, but the afternoon one canceled because of the rain.

So I wake up Sunday morning, packing everything up.

I looked to the north and I'm like,

It looks a little dark.

Yeah.

And, uh, look at the radar and it's all red and lightning bolts on it.

And I'm like, Pete Petoniak yesterday said no rain until the afternoon.

And, uh, you know, we had to, we had to postpone that one for a couple of hours, but.

John Maino

So do you pay the people, what happens?

How does that work?

Like if they come over from Minnesota and they go one weekend and it rains.

Yeah.

Well, this was well.

The thing with that is, is they came from Platteville.

They've seen me and they've seen my advertisement on Facebook.

Hey, we're visiting, we've never been to Door County.

So we want to go, we like perch.

So we want to go perch fishing.

I said, okay.

And I gave them, you know, the time and you know, I said, it's normally seven o'clock start.

Okay.

And then, so anyway, you just meet them at the boat launch and you took, you know, like I offer everything you got to bring, you know, if you want snacks or if you want something other than water,

I provide everything else and then we go fishing for five to six hours and

John Maino

but if it rained and they couldn't go out

well rain is rain is well rain is yes you still go out and rain but lightning I postponed it you know it was a seven o'clock start we started at 830 okay

John Maino

bad that you know it's kind of funny though because I've done I remember doing a walleye story with these people up in Sturgeon Bay right out of the yacht area shipping channel shipping channel and where the guy even said

Where are you guys from in Minnesota?

And they told them, it's like, you know, you got some of the best fishing.

What are you doing here?

Yeah, but you know what?

We saw this TV show about here.

So we wanted to try

something else.

See, that's a big thing.

So Larry, or not Larry Smith, Larry Smith does a lot of things, but I got a mind black now.

Oh, Gillespie, John Gillespie.

John Maino

Yes.

And okay, I'm gonna be honest with it.

They said they've seen John Gillespie show.

And that's why they wanted to come there.

Yeah.

So John, so John Gillespie had a show on this past week in O'Connell for perch and fish after fish, after fish.

And, uh, this was set.

They had aired on Saturday and my buddy Paul at North Shore bait that he sold, um, over $1,200 in minnows Saturday and Sunday.

He ran out of minnows heat and his bait guy, the bait truck that comes around.

He wasn't on the route for Monday.

So he actually had to go and get minnows for because he ran out.

John Maino

Well, that's, that's a common thing with live bait these days.

Well, but it's not like it used to be where, you know, people, that was their profession was live bait.

Cause again, I made a living with nightcrawlers.

Right.

So, but what happened was just because of the thing being on the radio or in a TV,

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right?

Huge rush.

Yeah.

There was a, it was like, Hey, we got to get there.

And then he gets wiped out.

So yeah, it's social media and the right social media and the right.

you know, YouTube stuff catches like wildfire, you know, and then everybody wants to do it.

John Maino

Up in that area around Dorr County, though, I mean, there's a little bit of everything, right?

Cause I know guys by the quarries there for bass fishing, they'll say that's some of the best bass fishing in the country.

Perch now are back.

They're, they're just slim.

We have the charter guy here out of Kiwani.

He said they were just slamming.

And that's a

cool thing to do with the father son or just

John Maino

it's,

it's, it's different.

I mean, you can golf.

a lot.

You can sit at the beach forever.

But yeah, I have, you know, a charter.

How much is like, my

charter is $425 for a half a day, two people.

And then it's $75 a person after the two people.

So

what?

I mean, that's great.

You provide everything.

Yep.

I provide.

Well, other than, you know,

like I

said, snacks are snacks are if you want a soda, you know,

I don't want so they catch fish.

Then what happens?

They

do you do I mean, do you clean them?

Do I

offer cleaning services?

But I charge for it because it's

it's

time.

I

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hate cleaning fish so much.

It's unbelievable.

So

yesterday I went, so this was yesterday.

Yesterday I went on my own, a friend of mine, um, needed and wants some fish.

He's not in the best of shape.

So he wanted some fish.

So I kept some fish yesterday.

I caught 15.

I had to take the cat to the vet.

We went to TJ Highlands and Oshkosh because they have a tenderloin and lobster special.

It's phenomenal.

It's an hour drive, but I'll tell you what, if anybody likes high-end food.

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What is it, Todd?

You know this?

Oh yeah, definitely.

Yeah, TJ Highlands.

Yep.

They're running a special this week, a surf and turf.

I don't have any skin in the game with them, but surf and turf for $59.

You get a lobster tail and you get your choice of a four or...

I'm sorry, six or eight ounce full A or a New York strip for $59.

That's great.

All I saw in your picture was that the tail had been eaten.

Yeah.

That's why I asked

my wife.

I asked my wife, where

did the tail go?

But anyway, so I went down there, came back and then I'm cleaning fish at eight o'clock at night and my, I had 15 perched on and a half an hour.

And my wife is like, what?

You're pretty, uh, you're getting very efficient.

I'm like, yeah, tell me about it.

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You know what I made the mistake of doing what I went white bass fishing and came home with a bucket of white.

Oh yeah.

It's like, it's a great, it's like, Hey, look at all that.

Then you got to clean them

all.

They

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ended up in a garden.

Do most

people keep the fish?

Yeah.

Almost everybody keeps up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, I, I've, I just started chartering this year.

So I've only had three charters.

I'm

not.

I'm not using the charter fishing as my main source of income.

So it's just like, if I get clients, I get clients.

If I don't get clients, I don't, it's not going to hurt my feelings, none.

It's not like the guy that you guys had from Kiwani, where that's his living.

Right.

You know, so it just, if I get 10 clients the whole year, so be it.

You know, whatever.

Fun.

But it's something different to do.

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Well, actually he has another job with, with Ash Wabanan.

He was telling us about, but.

Cause the days I think of people putting all their eggs in that basket of having a good season, I don't know if those guys are around as much anymore.

There's not as many, but there are still guys that that's their living.

And that's why they have to promote and that's why they have to spend.

And that's

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why those are the guys you'll see at the fishing shows, like whatever, they have to do that.

But I think that guy's son though is in.

He's in it too.

But so,

so is he.

Okay.

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He also has a regular

jet.

But that's what a fun thing to do because you're probably like going to do it anyway.

Absolutely.

Like those people from plant building.

He was a farmer.

He's never been to Door County.

Yeah.

And then we go in and then we were in a channel, which is a channel is a channel.

You got Marina boats, all that stuff.

And then we went up the Pottawatomie park and he's like, this is, this is amazing.

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Yeah.

Well, Jim and I talked about something though.

people have to see places, even Green Bay, they need to see it from a different perspective, which the water gives you.

It

does.

I just, and Door County is so well-branded, you know,

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and I

don't know how it, but it, people just, it's so, and then you get there and there's so many other things that you can do when you're there.

Like you said, there's a lot of great things, but then the fishing is just a whole nother lane that you can see.

I just, Johnny's, to see a community from

the air from the water is just two views that people sometimes don't get to enjoy.

All right.

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I remember the first fishing story I did with Big L. Sampson out of two rivers.

And we're, and I go to L. I said, what is it?

Is that a, is that a prison?

Is it a whatever it goes?

That's the high school.

I said, my God, that looks the size of a, and it just looked just on that hill kind of just incredible.

It looked like a castle.

Right.

Right.

It's like, this is Manitowoc with this castle.

Right.

Well, you never would have seen that

perspective.

hot air balloon or hang gliding or something just really to get low, not flying over, you know, 30,000.

Well, like, see, my wife loves Potawatomi Park.

Well, she's a fall person.

Her birthday is in October.

She's a very, you know, fall colors and all that stuff.

And I'll tell you what, another thing like she loves, have you guys driven through Potawatomi Park?

I have.

Okay.

Have you driven all the way down to the boat launch?

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I don't know.

Okay.

Well, it's all twisty tourney.

And then there's a section of road where there's trees in the middle and all that stuff.

And that's all, you know, when

if you're into that, that's a huge, like, oh my God, this is beautiful.

And then even when you look at Pottawatomie Park from the water, you have all those leaves changing on that ledge because all those trees are up on that ledge.

And it's, as a nature thing, it's great.

That's why everybody was so excited that the new tower,

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that tower got replaced,

reopened because you can look over, you can look over Sherwood Point on that tower, you can out into the bay, out to the north, out to the quarry, all that stuff.

So it's, you know,

So we just have, I love Wisconsin for, you know, the beauty there.

I was just reading this thing this morning about the Hamptons, you know, of

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course,

out in New York.

And they were just talking about how hoity-toity the people are out there and the cops, just some of the weird complaints they got.

A guy called and he's just like, I'm just hearing this, because there are very stuffy people out there.

I'm hearing this noise, this constant like humming noise and guys like,

That's the ocean.

Another lady called the complaint because the construction worker that was working on his property next door didn't take his shoes off.

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Oh, my

God.

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But we have been there.

Oh, yes.

Oh,

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yeah.

My daughter, you know, she works.

She works.

Yeah.

She's still far out there.

It's so.

It is.

I mean, I would want to.

Two places.

Everybody goes terrible Cape Cod and the Hamptons.

Yeah.

Look, the keys have horrible traffic, too.

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I

haven't

been down there,

but

the

oh, yeah.

Two at one lane each way, and you're going 15 miles an hour for

the

next two hours.

But

they're both worth it.

I don't know if worth it is the right word, but keep caught in the takeover.

That's their destination.

Yeah.

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So got a big gigs coming up.

Oh, I know you've had some rough

weather.

Yeah.

So if

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it was June, your worst month ever for

this year's been the worst month

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on Wednesdays, they've been picking on you.

So.

So here's the thing, it's gonna rain today.

It's gonna rain today, believe it

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or

not.

So today, if it rains today at the farmer's market, that means it's five for seven

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on rain.

We're talking about

that.

Five for seven.

Five for

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seven.

Well, we had Mary Rode on here from Broadway and she said, she had a smile on her face, but he just tells like, we've had

enough.

Some of us complain, you know, we pay the city band concert to $3,000 to

play for one hour at St.

James Park and they sometimes play and there's 40 people there.

It's like, can't you guys like cancel and play the next day or play a different day?

Because nobody's going to come in the rain,

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you know?

Whereas you guys- Do the crowds still come out for

you?

Well, I think they do because it

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doesn't rain

for four hours.

Here.

But does it?

It doesn't.

Well, it has.

Really?

Yeah, the one I saw two weeks ago.

I think it, yeah, they said 40% chance of rain and it rained from three 30 until eight.

Yeah.

Well,

okay.

That's a long time,

but it's not, it's the, the, the problem is, is it's the area that we're in.

So like in Green Bay, if you're going to the farmer's market, right?

Like you guys, let's say you guys like going to the farmer's market every week, right?

Well, it's raining.

So what do you think you're going to say when it's raining?

Right?

I'm, I'll go next week.

Next week, right?

If I have an event in Door Coney where you have

All outsiders coming in, they're going to go and they're going to say, we're here.

We're spending a lot of money to be here.

We're going to go by God.

We're going to

go.

We're going to

go.

Right.

So that's the, that's how it's different.

So like if you have a local, every week farmers marker, every week event and it rains, we'll just get it next time.

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That's a good

point.

But the problem is, is the next time has been rain and rain and rain.

So this year I've had

I've had, I believe, 10 events either canceled or affected by race.

Wow.

Nick, my phone says 84 and sunny.

Not this one in here.

Nope.

No, I don't know.

Are

you sure where you're getting your stuff from there?

So Fox 11 this morning, it's 60% from three to

six.

I don't even know

what this is.

Wow.

You're looking at some other town and some others.

Hey, what's that

song from, uh, is it the Pretender's?

Here comes the rain again.

Oh, from the Eurythmics.

Eurythmics.

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Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

John Maino

We're going to start a quick break.

Cheese curd, Nick in the house.

What do you see the people you got coming on at 706?

We got a great lineup, including big mouth of the power tool.

Horns will be here at eight.

Back up

this.

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John Maino

Hey, welcome back.

Mine on the Mary here on a beautiful Wednesday morning.

She's Kurt Nick in the house.

Got Brian Slinger and Christie Sickle coming in, talking about their 24 hour ultra relay coming up on Washington Island.

We

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didn't get in.

I tried.

They shut it

down.

I read that, that they're sold out.

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We got Patty coming in from moving with the Malchors.

John Kramer headlines for the press times, including Big Mouth and the Power Two Horns.

Terry Barr, we got a full slate, but she's curtain it.

Got to ask you heading into the fourth like this.

We had a lady on yesterday that was a lot of fun.

talked about different things she tries to do for the fourth.

Do people come to you ever and say, Hey, throw in this big bash in the fourth.

I want you.

What kind of a menu could you give me?

Does that ever

happen?

It does, but, uh,

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you know, take them up on it.

We

can't leave door Coney.

We honestly can't.

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Oh, you got your gig there now.

Huh?

Well, it's just, there's a lot of money there.

Okay.

Right.

Let's be honest.

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And the other thing

is, well, like for, for example, I got 1200 pounds of cheese curds for three events in door Coney.

I got

stupid amount of brats.

I think I got, I don't know, 25 cases of burger.

We're rolling up, you know, it just-

And when we talk to her and people try different stuff, but I mean, what you just said is the staple.

Yeah.

Burger's brats.

Well, I saw, I have satellite radio, so I listened to satellite radio and I think yesterday before they said, you know how many hot dogs are going to be eat in the month of July alone?

Yeah.

Nationwide.

Eight.

million

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hot

dog

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but you know what nobody's had to improve on the hot dog nobody says they can talk about different

but it's yeah and when they try it's yeah they sell some of them you see that stuff with hot pep

stuff built into it, you know, but I mean, like

you're like your thing, you know, you had a whole bunch of stuff there, you

know, but that was at no, they weren't, but those are really good hot dogs.

But I'm, no, no, what my point is that when they try to put stuff in, I can

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put stuff on.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I

dig through

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till I find that.

I didn't like the

strip,

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not strip.

No, I like the trait.

The trait.

I don't like when they put stuff in.

I'll make that decision.

Just give me.

You know, so, so here's the thing with that, you know, there's, there's an art, you know, how everybody's got all these, remember like 10 years ago, how all these different burgers were coming, you know, the guacamole burger and this burger and a Western burger and you know,

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yeah.

Hawaiian burger.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I honestly,

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you give me

a, you give me a juicy burger with some fried onions and cheese.

Totally agree.

Yeah.

Juicy, a lightly toasted buttered bun.

Totally agree.

You know.

That trumps

anything.

I don't care what you're putting on it.

My mouth is literally salivating.

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I mean, I'm not even joking about that.

See, I

was gonna bring in food today.

I was gonna bring in food

today,

but you just had the hot dog thing, and then it's the 4th of July, so I didn't want to wear you guys out for like 4th

of

July.

Well, I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Keep us fresh.

We're trying.

No, we had a bad

night last night.

But next time I come in.

So

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you're right about that.

I'll take just a good cheeseburger and I'd like the onions on it and whatever, and I don't need a lot else.

But I'm not gonna turn it away if it's got a little pineapple and teriyaki.

But I'm saying,

right, right.

But if, overall, for just

like

a, you want a juicy burger done medium, medium well, so it's got some, you know, it's juicy yet.

Onions, and you know what, I get it, people don't want, but a nice slice of American cheese to have it melt all in there.

A

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toasted

bun.

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Okay, I add, I add two, I do two things so that most people probably don't.

I only use mayonnaise on my cheeseburgers.

That's all right.

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And I love putting green olives on there.

Sliced green olives.

I mean, I can understand that.

Yeah,

you know what I,

I have

gone.

Oh yeah, we had just a luncheon at work and the burgers and you add the stuff.

They didn't have cheese.

I didn't eat the burger.

I'm not kidding, John.

I did not eat it.

I just

like, you know what?

I gotta have a

cheeseburger.

Me

too.

Well,

you know what's, what's funny is, so we ever, on our menu.

If

they're out of them at Quick Trip, I don't even buy it.

Right.

So like,

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when I,

when I vent, I'm totally with you.

Am

I a snob

or what?

Yeah.

When I'm venting- Oh, Wisconsin people.

You know

what?

I bet you 30% of the people that like want a burger, cause I just have burgers, brats, hot dogs on the menu, right?

You don't have cheeseburgers?

No, cheese is in the cooler and they're like, what?

I'm like,

I don't charge for cheese.

You can, you can make a cheese sandwich if you want on top of your burger.

Like if you want to pile a lot of cheese, you can.

You know what I put in a hamburger?

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So I don't

charge, I don't charge for cheese.

So it's funny when, when we're talking about how you don't want to eat a cheese, if a burger, if there's no cheese on it.

Oh, I don't, I don't want a burger because I want cheese.

No, cheese is in the cooler.

And then their eyes light up and they're like, what?

And I'm like, yeah, I don't charge for cheese.

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I told you about this, that like, what?

I would buy it.

Pimento cheese spread on a burger was phenomenal.

Have you ever had pimento

cheese?

Yes.

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Wow, is that good?

That is good.

Whole

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different flavor.

Jimmy, you were kind of staring off into space imagining something.

So can you fill us in on what you were thinking

about?

If you're busy, there's a line of people and I saw the sign.

hamburgers, brats, and cheeseburgers, I'd go to the next guy who had cheeseburgers.

Nick, I'm just telling you that.

So I would do something, hamburgers, whatever, $5, cheeseburgers, $5 or something.

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You know what I hate about those places?

I just say, I

don't want you to lose any business, because if you don't have cheeseburgers, I'm going to the next line.

I'm

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just telling you.

I know you do, but it's in the cooler.

How the hell do I know it's in the cooler?

Tell me about this, though.

Don't you hate it when you buy a hamburger at a place like that, and they just take the piece of cold cheese and put it on it and call

that a cheeseburger?

I offer shredded cheese, so it actually does melt.

It'll melt because

the burger's still hot.

What are we, mind readers at these things?

Nick, you gotta put that on the poster.

Hey, Jim.

Jim, so

here's the thing, because you very, you don't frequent me hardly at all.

Did

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it the drive lines are too long?

Nobody goes there.

He's

playing

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that the cheese is in the cooler.

Yeah, I want to

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move the line along

with

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him on this one Nick

Nick Nick will get you some tea as some t-shirts

Even if I didn't have cheese in the cooler I got cheese curds so you can when you get your cheese curds good point you can throw the curds on the burger

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She's Kurt Nick where you're gonna be this weekend buddy.

So tonight in the rain bring your poncho

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Broadway and Green Bay

Broadway and Green Bay 84 and sunny Thursday egg Harbor for their fourth of July event I know it's on the third, but it's on the fourth there from four till fireworks

The fourth, we will be in Bailey's Harbor from 8 a.m.

until 4 p.m.

just with Kurds and then the fourth at night Sturgeon Bay, four

till fireworks.

Those are good communities, man.

Wow, beautiful.

Four

till 10, full menu there.

Can you say

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