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This is gonna be awesome.
be awesome.
What's some phenomenal guests John Kramer our man headlines for the press times ever since they gave him an actual job Yeah, so
is intern.
Yeah, he's just doing great things for
Yeah, goodness.
Oh, hi John
What are you gonna do that to me?
How you doing buddy?
I'm all right.
Thank you.
We never know which John's gonna show up last because it is full regalia as Admiral in the Coast Guard Now he's like the the media guy here.
I'm not an admiral.
I'm just
you
will be I'm not no desire to You don't
see I've talked to have that position.
We're moving you up.
Yeah,
you know people
Hey, tell everybody who we have here because this is really a truly exciting
Well, we have the Power Tool horns from Big Mouth and the Power Tool horns that are going to be playing a little Star Spangled Banner for us.
And then we have
the infamous...
Introduce everybody.
Yeah, introduce everybody.
Woody Mankowski is going to give us a little rendition of America the Beautiful.
So we got Bill Denny, Fluffy.
Right.
He's the band leader and everyone's favorite trombone player.
We have Mark over there, Trump.
What do you play, Mark?
Elto?
Well, we should have Fluffy introduce him.
They're his
boys.
Not me.
John's struggling a little bit.
Go
ahead, Fluffy.
So Mark Jimmus is playing Elto saxophone.
And Steve Johnson is playing baritone saxophone.
And today we have Kevin Short playing trumpet with us.
So I'm supposed to know the different kinds of saxophones.
I apologize.
That's on me.
Everybody knows that.
Jim
actually would have.
He would have known every
single
He would have claimed any.
But for our listeners, and I think our listeners are here in Green Bay, Appleton, and Oshkosh, and I think everyone knows this group and these people.
But if they don't, this is talent personified.
Been playing together what, 30 years?
Yeah, 30 plus.
30 plus.
Okay, 30 plus.
And you brought so much just...
Happiness to this community, and I've seen you many many times and really thank you for being here and to kick off the 4th of July with you guys
and giving him a special deal for his daughter's wedding reception
great.
We had your new female singer on yes.
weeks.
Yeah, she was great and Rick.
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah
How busy are you
guys?
This week we have five gigs left this week so we have three private parties tonight up in Fish Creek and then tomorrow actually the next three nights are in Door County and then our next public gig is on Saturday at the Alpine and Egg Harbor.
And then on Sunday afternoon at the Petskull brewery in Manitowoc.
If you notice one thing
like
cheese
curd, Nick, all of our people that come in here, where are you going?
I'm in Dork County this week.
Oh, yeah, I can't do I'm in Dork County this week.
And did you it's a lot of
parties.
It's not that far.
It's just up the road.
Yeah, but I can take you up there.
Yeah, I'm just saying I'm just saying, you know what?
It's one of those things, though, too.
Once you get like even even the cheese curd, Nick.
He said, once you get your niche in a certain place, a certain area, and you get your return customers, so to speak, that's a pretty cool
thing.
We've been very lucky to be up in Door County all the time.
The original group with Jay and Paul and Pat and Woody started up in Door County at John's Bar was the very first.
Seriously?
You want a bar?
Yeah.
What bar?
The Nautical Inn in Sturgeon Bay.
The Naughty Nautical Inn.
I've been there.
Yeah, I own that for time.
I did not know that.
Yeah.
Wow.
Luckily, I got out of it without completely losing my... I guess.
And
that's where you guys
started?
That's where the four piece, the original.
Yeah.
The
original.
So what year was
that then?
That I owned it?
Yeah.
1990 something to 1990 something.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah,
before
active duty.
Yeah.
Like most bar
owners.
listeners.
Don't buy a bar.
Yeah.
You're not going to partners by the little neighborhood kind of tavern.
I'm not partnering.
Remember, we talked about that.
No, I'm not doing
that.
All right.
So that's
where I met these guys originally.
It was at the Nautical Inn when I owned it.
I had partners.
It wasn't just me.
And yeah, that's where I got to.
to meet Fluffy and the boys and got to know them and obviously a lasting friendship.
You know what I think is really cool?
How many people here?
Well, we got two that are both teachers.
Three.
Three.
Three
Three.
Who else do we have in here?
Oh, the glam band.
One of their guys.
Teacher.
You know what music teacher?
I just think that's so cool that these young kids can walk into class.
And here's a guy who's been very, very, very successful or guys have been very, very successful.
So.
They know what it's all about.
You know what I mean?
Everybody can learn how to be a music instructor.
But you guys go out there and bury your souls to people and audiences and stuff.
And I just think that's because I remember when I was a kid and my history teacher played for the Market Iron Rangers hockey player.
And that was like, cool.
You know, you'd read about him in the paper and go watch him play and everything like that.
So that's got to be fun for some of these kids.
Did
he body check you into lockers
ever?
He was a real little guy.
He was a center.
He was the smallest hockey.
He was like five, five little, one of those quick little conuxes they used to say.
I don't know if we're allowed to use that term anymore.
All right?
I don't know.
You don't know the term?
Well, I know the term.
I don't know if we're allowed to use that anymore.
OK, I've taken that back.
I just think it's great how we got to hear.
So OK, let's give us some enough of me talking.
We want to hear you guys play.
All right.
I was
we're gonna get out of your way here I just I want to just pick up on what Johnny said I just think it's great how you share your talent with the community but you also with these students because they They're the future of our Music here in the community, and I know they really look up to you because we had some of the students in here too, and they love you guys teaching All right
Somebody wanted to know what do you want to talk a little bit about the song or?
Well, I'm pretty sure this is an arrangement by Terry winch of our national anthem which is The Star Spangled Banner
Way to put Woody on
the
spot
That was great.
That was unbelievable.
That was unbelievable.
You guys do that at Lambo?
Wow.
Wow.
How great was that?
Todd, how did it sound coming through there?
Excellent.
Nice job.
Because it sure sounded great in here.
Man.
Do you guys do like feature like a patriotic show this time of year at all?
Or do you just kind of toss some of those things in and
we've done the
Celebrate to peer we've helped okay, and assisted during their program a little bit.
Okay We always play the Star Spangled Banner this week and then you kick off the show or end of show with that?
Usually in the middle
in the
middle.
Yep, and then we've also We've done you know sometimes some bets I'll ask if we could just you know add something to our program right have something patriotic we could do
together Terry winch Terry
is a friend of ours and all of us, all of us sitting here and Terry went to UWGB together, went through that music program.
No
kidding.
We're always all thankful for the teachers that we had at that time.
Jump in on this.
Terry's I think down in South Carolina right now, but Terry's actually written music for like the Super Bowl halftime show before He's done a lot of like religious writing and stuff like that for really big churches around the country and stuff like that But it's lived in the area has played with the band before so he wrote that arrangement Before us and we we've just been doing it for a long time, but we've done a lot of different patriotic things I think with the band and in our schools and stuff as well too back and forth.
Did everybody show up this year
What is that?
Wow.
Look at the timing.
I remember this
event in
my life.
That's right.
One event in my life.
go.
What
life?
I've been saving this in my pocket for a long time.
Good job.
Way to pull it out.
Oh my god.
The
MC did the
show.
I forgot about that.
Fluffy
soon.
It's
that around man.
Here's the opportunity I don't know why
I have the
patience that
you do to carry that around
I know and pull it out right here I bragged about that program so many times the Denmark Middle School Veterans Day I said I'm proud to be there I've been doing it for 20 years when it's the greatest thing when I came over to visit you guys John the school that gave the most amount of stuff was Whatever they ask I'll be there
So maybe a little background on this.
Yeah, just quickly.
I
was supposed to MC a thing at Denmark Middle School for Bill and a wonderful, the amazingly wonderful Veterans Day program they put on for the community.
They do.
And I.
Forget what happened and I missed it.
You had the date confused
Veterans days and I was on the 11th or something I don't ever and
I happen to be there covering it for the press times and I lined up the the guests that you were supposed to interview
Life I've done so many things
My
life would
be the same if I haven't met you there you go, but it's not the other way around
Okay, whatever.
Hey guys introduce yourselves again.
We got what we got one minute
Oh, okay?
Okay, cool from there.
Yep.
All right
We'll take a break.
Quick break.
This is so phenomenal.
Headlines for the press times.
John Krimmer brings some of his friends along just to, you know, have some phenomenal live music getting into
me some crap.
And I am literally sweating big mouth of Power Shull Hearts.
Wow.
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Hey, welcome back.
Mine on the Mayor here on a beautiful Wednesday morning and you can't get much better than having these people in here.
We got some big time stars.
They got groupies outside the window waving at them, giving them a heart.
They're from the
Philippines.
Oh, nice.
Awesome.
So is it like that for you all with the ladies?
I
set that up.
We're gonna
Hang
on
check
check.
Oh, there it is.
There it is.
Perfect.
I'm loving it.
All right was that was that 1973 Todd Ruddard
Hello, it's
oh no
Everybody introduce themselves one more time here if you don't mind Bill.
Um, I'm Bill Denny.
Yep, Bill Denny
Woody Mankowski is me Mark Jimis
Steve Johnson Steve Johnson
All right, there you go Kevin short the Trump is all right fluff Tell me a little bit about what we're gonna be doing here and what this guy's been doing lately
next is Woody is gonna be singing America the beautiful
And Woody, could you tell us about your U.S.
tour that you just finished?
Yeah.
We just did a tour with Todd Rungren, and it was all Bert Backrack music, and we put together a really great group of people from the internet, you know, people with really huge followings, and it was a really interesting, diverse group, and awesome.
How did you hook up with Todd
Rungren?
He's done work with my the producer of the Bert backer act show before
okay
They did a David Bowie tribute called celebrating David Bowie.
and that tour did really well, so
go?
What'd you do tell him about the tour?
We started it in Los Angeles and we kind of made our way across the country and ended up in in St.
Petersburg and Florida and then and then Fort Lauderdale, but yeah, we played in New York and Dallas and
like everything in between but we didn't come up north which for me was very sad
I guess that would have been awesome okay ready to do it give him a nice introduction they're real
so what he's gonna be singing the Ray Charles version of America the beautiful wow
phenomenal
that
oh beautiful for heroes
proved in liberating strife who more than self their country loved
Mercy more than life America, hmm America Make up that gold we find Till all success
And we used to sing it like this in school.
Oh, beautiful.
For spacious skies.
Man.
and brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
Everybody sing now.
with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
Oh, shining sea.
Unbelievable.
That's great.
Unbelievable.
I hope it sounded as good out in the airways as it sounded in this video because that was absolutely incredible.
What are you just incredible?
that is goosebumps.
That was great.
That was unbelievable.
We can't thank you guys enough for being here.
Once again, tell everybody where you're going to be this week.
Saturday will be at the Alpine and Egg Harbor.
Nice place.
From six o'clock to nine o'clock.
And on Sunday afternoon, we'll be at the Petsco Brewing Company from two to five thirty.
In two rivers?
Man,
that's a great place.
That's a funny place.
Get their boil shrimp.
Oh, it's really good.
You guys are phenomenal.
Thank you guys.
We can't thank you guys for doing this.
Thanks for
having us in.
Jim's great.
Not that check for three grand.
Yeah.
Thank you guys so much.
Have
great, have a great, safe weekend.
Whole
going to start a quick break.
Terry Barr Slice Wisconsin coming up next.
Thank you very much.
That was maybe the greatest segment we've had in the two years we've been doing this show.
Big mouth.
Big mouth and the power tool horns in our studio with a couple of patriotic songs hanging into
Fourth of July, literally good.
We got texts here.
Uh, first one from Mark, the absolute best band for a wedding reception, big mouth of power, two horns.
Thank you, Bill in the band.
15 years ago at Heritage Hill, who played all night long.
Got one here from Tina.
Wow.
Wow.
Exclamation points.
Thank you.
Got one here from cowboy Dave.
I got goosebumps from that.
Thank you.
Nancy.
Wow.
With applause, after applause, after applause.
That was incredible.
John Kramer set that up for us.
John Kramer, press times, thank you so much.
That was,
I don't know how long the, uh, America Beautiful went, but I'd be told if
want it for our last segment, if
this one for the last segment, just play that song, go into it and go tomorrow
We were almost thinking heading into it with an ad with the start of ankle banner and ending it with America, the beautiful.
Yeah.
Cause that was just.
Spine tingling.
Yeah,
really really good
and they've been playing for but and another thing don't you want to So many of them are educators.
Oh, that's what I mean.
I just think that's so cool.
I'll tell you what, at Denmark Middle School, that band, when they do their patriotic theme for Veterans Day,
really
I
there,
no question
you know, it's still,
gets in the mood.
Yeah.
But you know what I still like to watch?
I think it's an
Fourth of July night is the Boston Pops.
they do it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Stars
man.
No question about it.
This is good stuff.
And I'll tell you another thing though, too.
Locally, I know, well, every community around here has, you know, Fourth of July events and everything like that.
But we were talking that when I was a kid, and maybe, maybe you had more, you were in more of a city area here, you know, whatever.
But, you know,
There was like, I think the Gwyn picnic might have been the fourth of July and that would be like, you know, you know what I mean?
Right.
And now, my goodness, what we're doing down here in Green Bay is unbelievable if they're doing apt in Oshkosh, all the different areas around your door county.
I mean, it's become, I guess what I'm saying is, you know, we always say that our area patriotism was so big.
Man, it's, it's so much bigger now in a lot of ways.
that.
Celebrate it more.
Well okay but you know what though sometimes that's partly because they didn't see the movie dazed and confused.
John, I didn't see it either.
Yeah, I was based in 1976 at high school, and they're all leaving for summer vacation, 76.
Just one thing to remember during your summer vacation, our independence is for a bunch of rich old white guys who own slaves and they don't want to pay taxes.
So they thought they'd get confused.
Then they would know.
don't have to dress
It's
Yeah, me too.
I mean, this is a great week, great week for, for these kind of things.
And, uh, that forecast, which has been a little bit on and off.
So
because what we had early was mostly sunny isolated thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight high in the mid 80s and we're just talking about the farmers market in downtown Green Bay five out of seven nights.
They've had heavy rain So it's like are they gonna get one good one here tonight?
about the fourth being like 90, right?
88, yeah, 90.
Okay.
Okay, where you go in Green Lake area, or Elkhart Lake area, is it any cooler there because that lake or is it not big enough?
Try to work on that tan a little bit, would you?
Yeah, I will.
I haven't gotten enough sun yet this summer.
pretty quiet.
If you're on a boat at night, you just put your face in front there, and there'd be this glow just
around the lake.
going to drive it?
get some video.
Is Craver still here?
I'm
people ones or?
no, it's
Yeah.
I was actually asked John about this now that you bring that up But I don't know if with the auxiliary Coast Guard if they deal with like inland lakes as much as like the big lakes Yeah, I guess they do because when a bagel they do but anyway, it's a big controversy It's happening in Wisconsin at some of these lakes kind of like the one you're probably going to people buy these Expensive boats so that their wake is like five times higher than a different wake or something for like wakeboarding
Have
Absolutely.
not fun for like kayakers and stuff.
Something like, I'm throwing out five times.
But it's a lot
I know if you're the one using it.
and not as much fun if you're not the one.
That's just what I'm reading.
I've never seen them, never whatever, don't experience it.
This is just what I write about.
Excellent.
Yeah, excellent.
Excellent.
Very cool.
Let's get his opinion.
Well, that's what I mean.
Well, that's what I mean, though.
It would be good to talk to somebody like that and see if they've been, uh, you know, yeah, contacted
about something like that, because that's the type of thing they do the auxiliary.
I think that those are kind of things they really look into.
yeah, I just want I don't we've had such a wonderful day and not to make some but terrible tragedy up in the UK Three people in a canoe in Lake Superior two of them drowned and like I was telling our guy Brian here from the Brown County Sheriff's Department Who was on the the dive team and everything I can't even imagine a harder job the dive team members called out at four in the morning To go and try to find the bodies right because in Lake Superior if you don't find them right away
You'll never find them.
It's, it's a bizarre thing.
Like the Edmund Fitzgerald, they've never found a single person or a single body.
I mean, it's like Gordon Lightfoot says, uh, Lake Superior never gives up.
It's dead.
Yeah.
And that's true.
they get, the water is so cold that they don't decay.
Right.
And then they like get heavy and sink to the bottom, which in Lake Superior
be 500 feet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think
Yeah.
They've never found anyone off that.
Like if they get there right away.
Okay.
If they get there right away and it's not that deep.
Well, it's kind of cool.
If they do
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Isn't that something?
know why that's a good thing.
out there randomly.
like in a cabin or something
they left it there.
Didn't they I think so Yeah, undisturbed.
Yeah undisturbed.
Yeah, cuz it's a national
speak now.
Yeah Yeah, you didn't know that no
I didn't.
Did you ever go to the museum in two rivers?
You lived like across the street from it.
good place.
You would love that.
That's
You know what, Ted?
I was just reading
something else about somebody here, and they said it was the most haunted.
Oh, no.
No.
You know where it was?
Where?
Gettysburg.
Yeah, it talked to a store that's like consider the most haunted places in the country and one of the things that happened is they found a guy, okay, so this one unit Union army guy was trying to get away got shot as he was dying He took out a picture of his family of his three kids and his wife, okay Days later when medical people were going through the bodies the guy had it in his hand All right, they
What the guys gave it is from Philadelphia gave it to a guy the newspaper whatever and they didn't have the technology to put in pictures yet in newspapers So he just described the whole thing people went so big into that they found out who the actual guy was and his contacts his family
and everything like that.
They're from New York, because the guy was so, I think it was a Confederate doctor, but when he found that, it's like, it was so heartbreaking that the guy was just holding it.
So last thing he looked at, well, he died.
So anyway, but that's the spot, Todd, that they say is one of the most haunted places in the country, where
going.
Okay, here it is.
Okay.
A couple of things.
I'll tell you one thing.
I will be downloading this episode of the podcast and saving it, listening to it on repeat.
That music was off the charts.
Awesome.
From Nancy.
Thanks.
Here's the other thing from Jim.
Six foot waves at three miles per hour.
Kids driving their dad's boats rips apart the Fox River shore too.
miles.
I guess.
But I'm just, wow.
Yeah.
You've never heard of this.
No,
that's just happening this year, I believe.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're going to, you know,
think there isn't a state thing.
I think, you know, all the different lake associations
yeah.
Well, I'll
Monday,
asking if they have those in the lake, you're going
know, he's going to be doing
Renting
six foot?
Kids, kids.
Kids, come here.
You're not complete this.
Grandpa's got something really fun for you this time.
Right.
Let's flip you guys over on your six
this.
You watch.
Grandpa, if you ever driven on these four, it doesn't matter.
Don't worry about it.
out.
I
figure
this out.
Yes.
All right.
Hey, wait.
Well, we guys said our quick break.
I don't know if our girl Terry is going to join us.
I'm trying.
I think she's not.
I think she's got something against us.
Terry
We're going to send her a break.
Back up.
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We got
sunny Iceland shower and storms this afternoon high in the mid 80s today so
Yeah.
Thank you.
We got a text Oh by the way the Brewers at the Mets 1135 today wrapping it up and then 535 on W ISS and I got a text we're talking about those boats with amazing wake Jim will never have one.
They are too slow for him
Three miles an hour, that's a
slow
Okay.
It's
all over the place this year though.
How do I know what app this is?
asking me, did you actually ask me a question with the word app?
could pick any person off the street and ask them that question.
I don't know.
Anyway, I don't know.
All right, we'll go with yours, Todd.
All right.
So Todd, tell us again about tomorrow with these, with the, if people heard that and would like to hear it again.
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Tomorrow morning in our Daddy D Productions live music series, we're going to basically replay what we just heard on the show.
That
sounds great.
That sounds great.
I interviewed for my show on Sunday, the Bayshore Bicycle Club.
They've been around since 1981.
Everybody's heard about them.
I wasn't sure what they did.
Do you know that they do three rides a week?
They have 120 members.
You'll like this.
On Wednesdays, they ride to a supper club.
Oh, really?
I've never heard of that.
No, I thought that sounds really cool.
That's what I said.
I mean, I asked about favorites.
He goes, well, yeah, I'm really going to mention favorites.
Triomphal.
Triomphal.
That's cool.
I think that's awesome.
And then Sundays, they do a ride and one other day of the week.
And you know, they probably 12 miles an hour, maybe 14.
It's not like they're speedsters, but because Sundays, it's a little bit better.
It's a great way to see, you
know, we were talking about one of the best ways to see a community is from on the water.
The other way is
bike.
Yeah.
Not
No one ever gets left behind, right?
I mean, if he was a little slower, he goes, we would never leave anybody behind.
But just a cool organization.
And I said, so what's the mission?
What's the most important thing you think?
Well, it's health and really appreciating biking.
He goes, really, it's the social aspect.
Exactly what we talked about today, again, is that how important, even with the realtor, how important socialization is.
And if you don't socialize, it can be not good.
So I said, well, what about the winter?
Oh, he goes, you know, we do snowshoeing and other things.
So that I said, well, have you get some out of the house?
I said, have you considered a name change?
You know, he said, no, we talked about it, but no, we're going
to
firm believer in that, especially for people getting up there a little bit if they're retired or anything that give them a good reason to get out of the house.
That's
That's what they do.
I thought it was just a really.
I think it's awesome.
I really do.
We had a nice visit.
You should join them.
You got a bike.
And he said that I asked him about.
average age and yeah, it it would be like probably 10 years younger than us, but it's not it's not a budget like 18 19 year olds, right?
It's it's more adults that so yeah, I just it's 25 bucks a year 30 bucks a year.
So I think that's great That guy it was it was a really interesting for me and and then I talked to him a little bit more Actually, the reason I know those guys is they'd come to meetings because when we built the new street They always want a bike lane.
Oh when you were mayor.
Yeah.
Yeah, I might not be here though
Because I might be accepted a new job.
What's that?
I just got it.
Good morning.
I mean, Lena, customer service representative from Best Buy.
Your resume has been recommended by multiple online recruitment platforms.
No experience required
retraining.
Monthly salary, $6,000 to $10,000.
OK.
Okay,
were in that cap.
You were in the Army?
What branch?
That's
So when were
were we Army?
so
got there
one too yeah this thing no i gotta be honest with you
I can't figure out, I'll tell you, let me just show you something.
you know how to get, look at this.
I don't, oh wait, no.
Well, I dropped it and I don't know if I need a new one.
So, okay, I'm sorry, what'd you
Yeah, don't believe that.
Don't believe that stuff.
This is
would go.
Edward, you think you've got problems with your phone?
The guy I work with, you can't believe
the service I receive here.
Well, you know what?
We're not happy with you.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
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