Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Good 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 staff.
This is, and the weather's perfect.
But it's perfect.
It is.
Okay,
I'm gonna make a wager.
All right.
Well, you're 40 behind just for the record.
But anyway, go ahead.
$5, $5 bet to the fund here.
Ready?
Okay.
65 at downtown Green Bay, 70 in Apton, 68 in Oshkosh, Winston 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.
Wheel taker.
That's a good start to the day.
Michael says good morning, gentlemen, beautiful day in Madison.
Michael, did you go out at four o'clock this morning and do whatever you do?
I've never done anything at four o'clock except
go to the bathroom,
drive home.
Good morning everybody says Vicki.
Hello everybody.
Who else is out there on this beautiful Wednesday heading into the fourth 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.
Yes.
Yeah, she went a little nuts.
What did I say?
You said Batman.
So close.
Yeah, so Michael says yes swimming this morning
Wow I'm gonna get one of those I'm gonna get like one of those those those things those Michael felt things
Yeah,
the reverse wave thing, so you're always going against the curtain like I'm gonna get one of those for my Navy SEAL training Today is UFO day Todd you a believer?
Uh, yeah, I am I'm I will say this
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.
No, it's not this one isn't They even think there's trout net
You know, it's funny John.
I'm kind of keep up with the news a little bit.
I have not
follow different
things.
I guess we do Okay, do you know how far a light year is?
Yeah, okay, and there's water.
Yeah Like
there's
other sons out there, right?
Yeah, I suppose the only son
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 out 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 to podcast.
I'm gonna read up on your okay.
Good.
I just saw this Yeah, G G J 12 14 B. It's located 40 light years away.
It's known as water world
with exotic forms of water like hot ice and superfluid water.
So it is a thing.
Can you give me a bell, please?
Can
you give it down
so we can hear the
bell?
Can we?
It's a too much ass
so we can hear
the bell.
T.O.I.
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 well,
the story about the, the 40 light years water came out in 2012.
So it's been known since 2012, Jim.
Hey, you know what else is cool?
You see what they're finding in that big cave in Kentucky?
Sharks.
Wow.
Prehistoric sharks.
Wow.
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?
It's like perfectly preserved.
My next career, I'm going into archeology like you can't even believe.
That
I am you're letting your next lifetime my next life.
Yeah, and that that is cool And then
when you find it
the value is unbelievable.
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
But she must look back when she sold it for $3 million.
Remember it, right?
Oh, I don't remember
this one.
I don't remember that one, but...
If you found a dinosaur, would you let it go for $3 million?
I don't know if I... I don't know what I'd do.
That'd be cool.
Yeah.
Anyway... I mean, you could probably live on $3 million for the rest of your life, right?
I think I'd live
well.
I'd be in the U.P.
paying 160 bucks a month rent.
You could probably live very well.
You could
live really well
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, you'd have
to still.
Depending where you are, downtown 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
for
two years or something because you got to find something.
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,
I could be a character actor.
Yeah.
And you know what you're going to make me a character actor?
You know, what is the
wage?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You get
your or even an extra.
What card is
that?
I would be a phenomenal extra.
Would do
something
standing line all day for six months
people show 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.
Let's
work up a
conversation
Sports journalist day.
Oh, that's very
cool.
It's cool.
It's you
disco day even better Okay, can I be honest me?
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
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 of
that It's that let's see that we you'll be playing that at your reunion Wednesday,
right?
Yeah
OK, we need video.
All right.
All right.
Yes, we do.
Me and the lunch lady.
Wow.
Sorry.
Yeah, no,
that's.
You can tell I said
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 Marinus, 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 A.J.
Hawks' wife and Aaron Cahn'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.
Really?
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 often, 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.
Yeah.
There's something about that.
That's what.
We kind of like to get that back a little bit, too.
That
is
where it was, it's not, it wasn't the sport, it was the character.
Yes, yes.
Or the person, I should say.
Yes.
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
I missed
that.
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.
Okay, I missed that.
All right.
This is true.
What Terry just said.
This is, do you remember this?
You must.
Of course you are
right in the middle of that.
I was in, I was doing my internship at KNBC TV, no KPNX TV in Phoenix, Arizona.
Big difference.
Big difference.
Big call letters.
Big difference.
And I remember that disco demolition that would have been the summer of 79.
Um, no.
Wasn't that 80?
I think it was 79.
Steve Dahl did that, right?
Yeah.
I think that
was
80.
I
don't know.
John Travolta Mino.
July 12th, 1979.
Wow.
So I have an idea.
The 12th is, well, it's a Saturday.
Maybe we do a special day.
Hey, I got to tell you
something.
Okay.
So you 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
when they started up W UPY radio.
Yep.
Okay.
Whoopee radio
in Ishperming.
And this is Antonagon.
Same thing.
Well, that might be where the license is.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
The studio was in Ishperming.
Okay.
That makes sense.
But anyway, um, one of their first people.
Became one of the biggest names at broadcasting.
His name was Jason Jennings
Okay,
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
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,
that was those days.
Yeah, right.
That's what I'm saying.
The news people try to do with the radio.
It's all about them.
Exactly.
Do something over the top.
So did he?
And 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 in the world could I keep my sheep?
Hey, welcome back!
Come
on in on the merry here in a beautiful Wednesday morning, once again, 65 in Green Bay, 70 in Alton, 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.
Back when DJs used to put up records.
Big hit for him.
Huge hit for him.
Huge hit for him.
It's phenomenal.
Um, so when we had Mike Steve Pack on, we talked about that.
Can't I'm trying to think the name was it Shabooms?
One of the point.
No, not Shabooms.
One of the places in Green
Bay that was the.
So we're like you people from two rivers.
Yes.
Do you guys have a disco?
Yeah, we're kind of like.
No, I think we just went to like bars.
I don't remember discos there.
You know what?
Okay, you
know, did you go to evil Iran's?
That was like, I've never heard of it.
Okay.
No, what was the place?
Okay.
There's there's there's places in Manitowoc that were 18 year old bars or something.
So what were those
bar?
They were just
could you get beer?
Yeah.
At that point you could have beer if you were 18, right?
Yeah.
Well, then why did they have beers or why did they have bars specifically?
for like 18 year olds.
No, I don't think so.
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, that's what I mean.
I've had people mention that.
It was an 18 year old bar.
And, but it seemed like it was only for like, it was almost like a NCO club, like 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.
Okay.
18 though, that's, what is it?
Is it 18 now?
No, it's 21.
That's what I
thought.
It was 18.
It turned 18 when I was in high school.
Right.
Yeah.
That's
young,
though.
That's young.
Can you imagine being that person whose birthday was just
one birthday off and you
could he had a way to whole year to go
out?
Yeah, because my first day, I went up to visit Masabi Community College on my 18th birthday and the coach took me out.
Really, the coach?
Yeah, that's great.
I know.
Oh, God, that's great.
And that's that's when I told I've told you this story.
I threw up green beer.
And I've never had a thing for green beer ever since.
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.
Does the initiation, did he do it all kids or did he just tell them for you?
I think pretty much everybody.
Wow.
Yeah.
He would take me on recruiting trips and we'd stop at like six bars on the way back.
Yeah.
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.
Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah.
Grooming.
Different story.
Hey, Brewers, you got a split double-header?
They do because they had a call last night.
I 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, well, Todd, we had a bunch of, we had some other people to say hello this morning.
I
think we got rid of
them.
No, that was okay.
That was it.
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
oh, I know what you did.
Uh-oh.
What'd you grab?
I did.
I went inside.
Yeah, I have not been in a quick trip.
It's got to be six weeks, but
I know made the mistake of going in well John you know what they have there?
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, that's how long it's been.
Yeah, 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,
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 felt bad.
I felt bad.
I felt bad.
I Did lose my way at circle K yesterday.
What did you do before I had a burger?
That they've got circle K's
good
stuff.
Those trucks
are good.
I know they have upgraded food so much I just wish they don't all have soup anymore
Oh, that's too hot.
Yeah, it's too hot for soup.
Why did you go in to get food?
See, I was
a soda.
I literally stopped him to get a soda.
I wasn't going to go in.
I mean, I
needed a soda and a loaf of bread.
Soon as I walked through the door, it was like.
the alcoholic walk into the bar.
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 the fresh vegetables and 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.
I'm never doing that again.
I could not do it.
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
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
happening.
That was a happening thing back in those days.
That was that was belt belt items.
Oh,
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.
What are 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 and 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 leeway.
Oh, man, I can't believe it.
So this is what Terry said is true, too.
Quick trip.
Yeah, they put the donuts, the sweet rolls right near the cash register, so it's easy to grab.
Yeah, and the food that you should eat, that's like the welcome mat.
And they sell those 40 ounces.
Oh yeah, right there, right there.
Unreal.
That's how they
get you.
How dear are they?
I know, right?
Capitalism.
Good thing we got discipline.
We
don't have a chance.
Discipline.
Oh my God.
We'll be back after
this.
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Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
We're at the guy that's probably spending less time in his house than anybody I know, cheese curd Nick.
Well, if he wasn't growing up cheese curds is on the water.
Yes, sir.
I've been on the water.
I had, uh, what five, six days off and I fished every single one of them.
Had a couple 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.
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
but if it rained and they couldn't go out
Well rain is rain is lightning or what?
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 8 30.
Okay, I'm 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 him, it's like, you know, you got some of the best fishing.
What are
you doing
here?
I was like, 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.
Yes.
And okay, I'm going to be honest with it.
They said they've seen John Gillespie show.
And that's why they want
to come there.
Yeah.
So John, so John Gillespie had a show on this past week in O'Connell for perch and a fish after fish after fish.
And, uh, this was sat, it 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.
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.
Because again, I made a living with nightcrawlers.
Right.
So but what happened was just because of the thing being on the radio or on the TV, right?
There's a huge rush.
There was a there was like, hey, we got to get there.
And then he gets wiped out.
So yeah, 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.
Up in that area around Dorr County, though, I mean, there's a little bit of everything.
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 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 or snacks or if you want a soda, you know, I don't
want.
So they catch fish.
Then what happens?
They
do.
I mean, do you clean them?
Do
you offer cleaning services?
But I charge for it because it's, you know, it's time consuming.
I 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.
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 I had 15 perched on in 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.
You know, I 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.
You got to clean them all.
Do
most people, they 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's just, if I get 10 clients the whole year, so be it, you know, whatever, but it's something different to do.
Well, actually he has another job with, with that Schwaben on, he was telling us about, but
Because 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 why those are the
guys you'll see at the fishing shows like at the whatever
they have to do that Yeah, but
I think
that guy's son though is in he's in it too, but so so is he
Okay, but that's what a fun thing to do because you're probably like gonna 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.
Yeah.
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, 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.
I
remember the first fishing story I did with Big L. Sampson out of two rivers.
And I go to L. I said, what is it?
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, it looked like a castle.
It's like, this is Manitowoc with this castle?
But 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?
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,
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,
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 of it.
I was just reading this thing this morning about the Hamptons, you know, of 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 at it was working on his property next door.
I didn't take his shoes off.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
But we have been there.
Oh, yes.
Oh,
yeah.
My daughter, you know,
she works up.
Yeah, she works.
Yeah.
But she's still far out
there.
It's so.
It
is.
I mean, I would want to write in
two places.
She said that
a
terrible Cape Cod in the Hamptons.
Yeah.
Look,
the keys have horrible traffic, too.
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 on takeover.
That's... Their destination.
Yeah.
So, got a big gigs coming
up.
I know you've
had some rough weather.
Yeah, the... So, if it's... Was
junior worst month ever for...
This year's been the worst month.
And Wednesdays, they've been picking on you.
So here's the thing, it's gonna rain today.
It's gonna rain today, believe it or not.
So today, if it rains today at the farmer's market, that means it's five for seven on rain.
We're talking about that.
Five for seven.
Five for seven.
Well, we had
Mary Rode on here from Broadway and she says, 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, you know?
Whereas you
guys- Do the crowds still come out for you?
Well, I think they do because it
doesn't
rain for four hours.
But does it?
It doesn't.
Well, it has.
Yeah, the one I sold 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'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.
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 rain.
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 other
state.
Hey, what's that song from?
Is it the Pretenders?
Here comes the rain again.
Oh, from the Eurythmics.
Eurythmics.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Hi, we're here at Quick Break.
She's Kurt Nick in the house.
What do you see the people you got coming on at 7.06?
We got a great lineup, including Big Mouth and the Power Tool.
Horns will be here at 8.
Back
after this.
Hey, welcome back.
Mine on the Mary here in a beautiful Wednesday morning.
She's Kurt Nick in the house.
Got Brian Slinger and Christy Sickle coming in talking about their 24 hour ultra relay coming up on Washington Island.
We didn't
get in.
I tried.
They shut it
down.
I read that.
Sold out so
we got patty coming in for moving with the Malchors John Kramer headlines of the press times including big mouth and the power to horns Terry bar We got a full slate, but she's curtain it gotta ask you heading into the fourth like this We 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 throwing this big bash in the fourth?
I want you what kind of a menu could you give me?
Yeah, ever happen it does but You know take them up on it.
We can't
leave Dorkoni.
We honestly can't.
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.
And the other thing, well, like for, for example, I got 1200 pounds of cheese curds for three events in Dorkoni.
I got stupid amount of brats.
I think I got, I don't know, 25 cases of burger.
We're rolling, you know, it just,
wait, when we talk to her and people try different stuff, but I mean, what you just said is the staple.
Yeah burgers brats.
Well, I saw I have satellite radio, so I listen to satellite radio and I think yesterday before they said You know how many hot dogs are gonna be eat in the month of july alone.
Yeah nationwide eight million Hot dogs,
but you know what nobody's had to improve on the hot dog Nobody says they can talk about different, but it's
and when they try it's
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.
No, no, no.
My point is that when they try to put stuff in, I can
put stuff on.
I dig through till I find
that.
Well, just like you didn't like the strip?
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, yeah.
Hawaiian burger.
Yeah.
I honestly, 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.
I mean, I'm not even joking about that.
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.
Thank
you.
Keep us fresh.
No, we
had a bad night.
But next time I come in.
So 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 on it.
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 toasted bun.
Okay,
I add, I add two things, I do two things so that most people probably don't.
I only use mayonnaise on my cheeseburgers.
That's all
right.
And I love putting green olives on there.
Sliced green olives.
I mean,
I can understand that.
That adds a little salt.
You
know what I,
I have gone, 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.
You
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, when I, when I vent, I'm totally with you.
Am I a snob or what?
Yeah.
What, what, 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?
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.
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.
Wow, is that good?
That is good.
Whole
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.
I'm Nick, I'm just telling you that.
So I would do something, hamburgers, whatever, $5, cheeseburgers, $5 or something.
You know I hate those places.
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
just telling you.
But I do have cheeseburgers.
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 cheese burger?
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
it the drive lines are too long So anybody nobody goes they're here because it's
like that the cheese is in the cooler.
Yeah, I want
to move the line along
with
him on this one Nick
Nick will get you some tea as some t-shirts
Okay,
that's our idea But here's the other thing Jim 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
She's
Kurt Nick.
Where are you going to be this weekend, buddy?
So tonight in the rain, bring your poncho.
Broadway and Green Bay.
Broadway and Green Bay.
84 and sunny.
Uh, 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 eight AM until four PM, just with Kurds.
And then, uh, the fourth at night, Sturgeon Bay.
Four till
fireworks.
Those are good communities,
man.
Wow.
Four till ten.
Full menu there.
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Coming to Northeast Wisconsin, live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John Mino
and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Special thanks to Cheese Curt, Nick, being in the house.
And now we're going to switch from deep fried cheese
to people that eat really, really good, and they do it for a great cause.
Brian Slinger and Christy Sickle, 24-hour ultra relay on Washington Island, going for the Willow Creek Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center.
Welcome, both of you.
Who has the harder job here?
Think it probably depends on the day.
Okay.
I will give that to Christy.
I just want to say this ultra marathon that you're doing He does sit in here Johnny though.
Finally.
We bring some fresh brick oven pizza.
I saw that's not all bad.
Yes, you got a car below.
Yes Tell us about the
event.
It's unbelievable.
It is so this will be my fourth year doing this
introduce yourself Brian.
Oh, yeah, so I am a lieutenant Brian slinger I'm a detective supervisor with the sheriff's office here in Brown County
I've been with them for 25 years.
I've been in the investigative division for 10 Which I've been working with Christie here for those years through my time doing crimes against children and Thank you for doing that.
I realize how important that work is and especially what they do for us And I want to draw attention to what they do for the community,
but
so this event Basically, it is either 24 hour or 36 hour event that each participant can choose which they want to do or actually even 12 This year I'm doing it by myself
for the 24 hours.
In the past year, my team, who I started to give a shout out to organized chaos, we've done the 24 hour and the 36 hour.
But this year, I decided I'm going to do by myself, see what I can do to raise money for the Willow Tree.
How
do people donate?
So I've got a flyer that I'm trying to pass around as much as I can through social medias.
And we probably can get you guys a link as well, where
you can
scan in.
Hey, John.
Yeah, you can scan in the code.
You can either
pledge per triathlon completed, or you can just do a general donation amount if you're more comfortable with that.
All right, so the Willow Tree, I think a lot of people know where it is.
I'm not sure they all know what goes on behind those walls.
So let's talk a little bit about the Willow Tree.
I mean, a lot of effort to get that thing built and just the comfort it
gives kids.
The purpose
and tell us a little bit about the Willow Tree.
And welcome, Christy.
Yeah.
Well, thank you.
So first of all, my name is Christy Sickle.
I am the program manager and one of the child forensic interviewers at the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center.
So we're located in right in downtown Green Bay.
We've been open since January of 2011, but despite Willow Tree's longevity, we're not readily known so much in the community.
At Willow Tree, we assist with
providing services to investigative parties when they are conducting an act of investigation of child abuse and neglect.
So we do this by providing a specific service to assist with the investigation while at the same time, we're providing supportive resources to the child and their family to help them move forward from the traumatic situation that the child may have experienced.
And that was so needed here.
The judges were like, we gotta do this.
And the committee really stepped up on that.
I thought that was a great.
fundraiser when cornerstone and everybody step up.
It
also brings it to the light.
Right.
That's true.
It's a
good, you know.
Yeah.
And before I've been at Willow Tree for nine years, I don't want to date myself, but prior to working at Willow Tree, I also worked at Brown County Child Protective Services.
So before Willow Tree opened its doors, there wasn't
There wasn't a community protocol or an interagency agreement about how we are going to investigate these types of crimes.
At Willow Tree, we work together as a multidisciplinary team.
When a child is navigating through a child abuse investigation, oftentimes it involves more than law enforcement.
We have law enforcement who is investigating if a crime has been committed.
We have child protective services assuring the safety of the child in the home.
We have advocates who provides supportive services to the child and the family.
We have forensic interviewers like myself who are specifically trained in eliciting sensitive information from children.
in a way that is developmentally sensitive and legally sound.
We also have medical providers, we have therapists, we have prosecutors who may be trying the case.
So really the concept behind Willow Tree is to really minimize the amount of time a child has to continuously share about their experience and also minimizes the amount of places that they have to go from the start of the investigation to the
end.
flipping, but like one stop shopping type of thing where, you know, which dramatically that can make, you know, I mean, you get a little bit more comfortable possibly being in one place and getting it all done.
Wouldn't you agree?
Exactly.
So a child can come to Willow Tree instead of like meeting with their investigative team.
at their police department or going to human services or to the district attorney's office.
A child can come to Willow Tree and all those entities
can
come to them.
They can receive help from the very beginning of the interview.
I mean, excuse me, the very beginning of the investigation through a child forensic interview, child maltreatment medical evaluation, supportive victim advocacy.
and then a child can continue coming to Willow Tree to see one of our counselors to help them move
forward.
and now 10 bucks an hour and you can do this thing for 20, you may do 20 hours, 23 hours.
The teams, tell me how this thing works again, because I think I'd like to sponsor somebody on this event.
Yeah, so this is, I'm the only one that I know of that's doing it for a charitable cause.
Normally it's just, normally just guys are out there just doing it as a team and then it's a competition so you can get the most done.
So I'm doing it.
Oh, thanks for doing that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, so I took it upon myself just to last year when I was biking in the middle of the night at like, I think it was like three in the morning going down one of the,
County roads on Washington Island.
I'm like, you know, this is cool and all like doing this for the team, but I should probably do this for a cause.
So.
pledging is going to be like per triathlon completed.
So
a
triathlon up there is considered one loop of the swim course, which is a quarter mile, one run, which is two miles, and then one bike, which is approximately 10 miles.
So my goal is, had some numbers written down, is to do probably in the 15 triathlon range, which would put me at about four miles of swimming.
150 miles of biking and then 30 miles of running.
I got a coach.
Is
that a year?
I have a coach down in Madison.
I go back to 2014.
No, I have a coach down in Madison that I'm working with because I'm doing the Ironman in September again.
So I have to talk with him about how much I'm actually going to do.
But right around the 15 mark is probably going to be my goal.
We can always swim during the day.
15 hours.
No, 15 triathlon loops.
Yeah.
So there's only, obviously you can only swim and run and bike so fast and I have 24 hours to do
it.
Don't you have to recover from the swim?
That seems like that would be the... I'm a high school swimmer
and I swim a little bit after that.
So I'm swimming is my easy part.
It just depends on the wind up there.
Right.
The lake or the bay
is... You have spotters with you.
So you can only swim during the day from 8 a.m.
till 6 p.m.
They do have some people on shore, but I mean, typically you're wearing a wetsuit and there's a lot of other people out there.
So you're good to go.
And the
loop
is... Yeah, and it's unlike a traditional triathlon, you can do like all your swims right away if you want to.
So I could swim 15 loops right away, which is probably what I'll do.
And then get out of the water.
I like to get that out of the way too.
Take a little break and then hit the bike and
then
run.
People like you similar to you and you're this is really something but they talk about swimming sometimes being the most difficult Not because of the length but because there's so many people and you know, they practice
swimming your face and people kicking in the
head and as you stick it's The that's sometimes what they say is the most difficult what you're doing I think is really smart and that you can't swim alone and you can get it all done in one section
Yeah, and honestly This course is set up really nice.
It's really safe and there's not as many people
out there, they limit the amount because it's Washington Island, so the amount of people that they can have on the island at a time is limited.
This is such a popular event.
They have a wait list for it.
I was gonna
say, people want, this is one of those ones, they have more people that want to get in that they can allow
in.
Yeah, and some of the money from our registration fees actually goes back to the island as well, so that's another thing for people to think
about.
Yeah, I'm gonna ask you a little bit about your job.
You know, 25 years with the Sheriff's Department, 10 years in this, you must,
I don't know, sleepless nights, maybe that's the right word, but you just want to like kill people at times, right?
I mean, how frustrating that is to see some innocent
little kids.
First of all, he's going to deny that.
My client denies that accusation.
Honestly, no one I've seen about the frustration.
I know.
It can be frustrating.
I will say that up until about 10 years ago, I was like trying to find my like what and why, like what I'm going to focus on.
And then when I got in the investigative division, I began doing juvenile cases because the way that our assignments work out, I mean, I was able to pick that.
And once I found that and found that
Nitch niche or like started working with Christie at the CAC and started working with child protective services and all these other entities I really found what I was passionate about and I don't have children of my own But I do have a niece and nephew and I couldn't imagine if they
were
victims of a crime
and trying to get them the best possible services and making it so that we're all together, looking out for their betterment.
No matter what the outcome is on the criminal side of it, they're the number one priority.
Chris, where's your passion?
We always ask that.
There's got to be something inside where it's not just a job.
What's your passion?
My passion, I often get asked that question, how do you sleep at night?
How do you hear these bad things over and over again?
And I think there's a lot of like preconceived notions that kids are coming into these interviews or they're walking into Willow Tree and they're very upset, they're crying.
But Willow Tree is designed to be trauma-informed.
We provide a child-friendly, home-like environment for kids.
So what I'm really passionate about is providing children with that kind of that first step forward to their healing process.
I think it's a privilege to be able to help a child and to kind of be that person that kind of helps them move forward.
You're putting them in a safe place
with nothing else to
begin with, right?
Yes.
A forensic interview is not necessarily, it's not a therapy session or a counseling session, it's part of an investigation, but oftentimes it can be therapeutic for a child.
Sharing something that they maybe have kept a secret for years because someone has told them not to tell or they were scared to share.
And I'm really passionate to be able to provide that space to a child to help them move forward.
So I'll talk to both of you about careers, because we have people that, and I also, I'm an instructor,
Tell me about your career path and you lieutenant.
Yes, sir.
Okay.
Good You're with the department for 25 years.
Tell me just about how you got into that high school or what was your dad?
No, so I Wasn't really sure what I wanted to do coming out of high school.
There's a few people like that.
Yeah, so I went to the
Fox Valley Technical College started out for something else and realized pretty quick that I was not smart enough to do that.
I was like computer robotics and all this kind of stuff.
I think you're saying radio.
Well, he was smarter than that.
You're smarter than that.
But then I started thinking back to some people that, you know, affected me when I was growing up and I had a school resource officer at Madison Junior High School in Appleton that
I really looked up to and I thought, you know, I should go look into that.
So I went to the police academy two-year degree down there and got hired with Brown County back in 2000.
Worked as a patrol, mostly on night shift for 12 years.
And then I spent some time in the drug task force.
before being moved to investigative
division.
See those SROs, they really could influence a kid, and I don't know if they really see that, and how.
We talk about teachers, I think they realize that more, because we get people in here all the time, and who is your biggest, nine out of 10 times, well, I mean, not 10, but eight out of 10 times, it's a teacher, you know, that or someone in school.
All right, we can come back.
I want to hear about your career path.
That's a very interesting field you're in.
We're gonna go to a quick break here, I think.
Are we?
No?
Yes, quick break.
All right, we'll be right back.
Right after this was Brian and Christie Sickle.
I can easily feel myself slipping more and more away.
That super world of mine.
Nobody but you.
Hey, welcome back.
My name is the Mayor of the beautiful Wednesday morning, Brian Slinger, Brown County Sheriff's Department, Christie Sickle from the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center.
We're talking about what Brian's doing with the 24-hour ultra relay on Washington Island.
What's that coming up, Ryan?
What is that?
July 25th and 26th.
Okay.
And he's doing it to raise proceeds for Willow Creek Cornerstone Child Advocacy
Center.
Willow Creek.
What did I say?
Willow Creek.
Oh, I'm sorry.
And there is actually a Willow Creek in town, but we are Willow Tree.
Okay.
Is that a bowling alley or something?
It is actually.
There's a few different willow creeks.
That's a
place I got
in trouble with the
sheriff's department.
That makes sense.
Because we did that bowling benefit and I walked out with the bowling shoes on and didn't realize for a couple of days.
That's a felony, I think.
I
think it might have been Bill Morgan that chased me down.
Well, tell us a little bit more about what you do.
But even aside from this, we want to get you on again and devote an entire
Segment to what you people do because I think it's so important and unfortunately it's not going away You'd think maybe said some point.
It's just it's more prominent.
Maybe would you say Brian?
You know what I mean?
It's like you hear about it a little bit more than years ago It seems like people used to try to keep it under the covers more and yeah, I think
just more attention is being drawn to it which is
good It
gets people empowered to talk about it.
It makes them
Have the ability to come forward
right
and especially with like social media and all these Different platforms that we're seeing now.
Yeah, unfortunately the ability to abuse a kid is also easier Because of the digital world that we partners exactly well Christy go ahead
and tell us everything we can do to help you guys
Well, I think just kind of being here today and sharing that willow tree does exist and How we assist the community so the brunt of our
investigative cases or children or families that we serve are from Brown County.
However, we service all of Northeast Wisconsin.
So we are getting families traveling down as far as Marinette, the northern tip of Wisconsin, Door County, Kiwani County to utilize our services.
So kind of like Brian had mentioned, like it's not readily talked about.
So that prevention and outreach and just bringing the community
or making the community aware that we exist and the importance of reaching out to a child and family in need can really go a long way.
So
all good things cost money, or most good things.
Tell me about your funding.
I was under the assumption, I was wrong, that it was...
100% funded by the county, and that's not the case.
Yeah, I think that's a common misconception.
So Willow Tree is an umbrella program within Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin, which is a larger nonprofit that provides an array of supportive services.
Our funding is...
We get some county and state funding.
We also receive some grants.
But 33% of our budget is coming from fundraising events.
So community outreach.
Things like he's doing.
Exactly what Brian is doing.
We have a large fundraiser that we host every year at St.
Norbert's College that is also coming up on August 6th.
Let us promote that.
That's a little far out, but we would like
to do that.
One event at a time, how about, right?
Yeah,
exactly.
We enjoy doing that.
And people, I think people want to help, and sometimes they just don't know.
We want to give the awareness.
We're not bringing
out $10,000 checks, but we just want to make it really aware.
Yeah.
OK, all right.
So 33% comes from just the public.
Exactly, yes.
OK, well, that's cool.
Brian, once again, how can we donate?
Because I want to donate to this,
too.
So I'll definitely get you guys my flyer my link and then I think
Facebook and stuff yeah
family services Also had the link available to do that Otherwise just reach out to me at the sheriff's office.
I can put you in contact all the money goes directly into Willow tree none of it comes to me
Um, it all goes to the willow tree.
It's all through the links that they provide.
It's a hundred percent.
The money goes there.
It says nothing to do with raising money for myself or for anything else.
It's just completely for, um, the willow tree.
I have had some really good sponsors already step up for me.
The Green Bay Fraternal Order of Police, the Brown County Sheriff's Benevolent, the Green Bay Police Benevolent, Hobart Lawrence Police Department, pooled a bunch of money together for me.
Um, I am, uh, I don't know if you guys have paid advertisements or anything, so I don't want to be
given anyone to do that.
I'm a
team rider for Pete's Garage by Skull Shop down on Broadway, and they're kind of helping me out with some things for this.
So there's a lot of different people that are helping me out.
You know, you guys know Dan Van Landen Chopper from Holbert.
He's the one that got me on the show here today.
He's not know
him.
I will know what you're probably.
Yeah, you're probably.
I may or may not owe him a few dollars for a bet I made that did not turn out right.
I'm not saying
anything.
But just
guys like that with a lot of connections in the community are
able to help me out.
Hey, tell me, Brian, how how is Brown County Greater Green Bay doing when it comes to this?
This issue, I mean,
I think we're doing great.
I mean, I travel around the state and I've actually been around the country to different trainings and things on how this MDT process It's a team thing works multi-disciplinary team and other states and other agencies are behind us actually They always talk about how we're on the cutting edge of coming up with things and Christie to her credit is like One of the most best Interviewers in the state Wow
So that so if we're doing it right, we got to do more of it.
You know what I mean?
Like don't throttle back.
Let's let's raise some more money.
Let's really Yeah, we need to keep it.
We need to keep that
service going because people don't understand how crucial that is and how vital it is to not just not just the law enforcement side of it It's the bigger picture of
this child needs to have the support and needs to be able to recover.
And we need to provide those services and their ability for them so that they can grow and move on from
it.
Yeah, addressing a child's trauma and helping them and providing them with support really helps them turn into healthy, productive adults in the future.
That's fantastic.
That's good stuff.
Todd, we gotta get them back.
You got it.
Absolutely.
Well, best of luck to you.
Better start working out.
Looks like you're a little in shape.
Yeah, I know.
I
know.
I'll head out for a job.
Were you a Navy SEAL?
Is that a Navy
SEAL?
From the Brown
Corny dive
team.
Oh, okay.
This guy, 23 and a half hours, he's gonna drop dead.
I can just see him.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Man.
Brian Slanger, Christie Sickle, 24-hour ultra relay coming up on Washington Island proceeds going to the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center.
And Todd, we're gonna have that on our Facebook, right?
Yep, we'll have it.
How people can donate.
Yep.
All the friends of the program, come on, rally around this one.
This is a fantastic one.
Thank you both so much for being here.
Yes, and I'm
halfway to my goal.
So the more people you can give me, the better.
All right, we'll do it.
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Here's John Minow and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Man, those were two impressive guests.
Brian Slinger, Brown County Sheriff's Department.
Christy Sickle from the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center.
They were great.
He's, of course, doing the 24-hour ultra relay on Washington Island to raise funds.
Todd's going to put some stuff on our Facebook down the road here, and we'll get the flyer and everything.
He said he's halfway there.
We'd love to help him get to his final goal.
You see that text that just came in?
OK.
The felony wasn't John stealing the bowling shoes.
It was living behind his shoes, the stench rating for them, because multiple manslaughter charges.
That is from deep here.
That is a true story though.
I walked out with the bowling shoes on and they could and I realized that night when I took him off at home, but first thing the next morning they called Mr. Amino.
Do you walk with the bowling shoes?
Yeah.
How you doing?
We got a very special guest, Patty Hendrickson, and moving with the mouth course.
How are you?
We're good,
and
you?
Good.
First of all, congratulations on your anniversary.
Is your husband listening?
Yes.
OK, wish him happy
anniversary.
Happy anniversary, honey.
Nice.
Going to sing for him,
John.
Pardon?
Going to sing for him?
Happy anniversary, dear Patty.
Yeah.
Wow.
Wow.
Thank you.
So how many years have you been married?
33.
Isn't
that nice?
Yeah.
So yes.
All right.
And John just, you know, his, you know, you remember things, certain things that happened, you know, his was, gee, that was the year the...
Pink Flamingo tournament.
Eventually, the Pink Flamingo.
Everything
is forced later on.
My
memory just works around that.
Patty, moving with the Mall Coors, tell us a little bit of how's it going out there?
What's the market look like?
Not bad.
It's starting to come back into central, which is nice.
There's more on the
market,
right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And pricing isn't crazy.
No, it's not.
It's starting to be actually where people can't afford certain homes in certain situations, certain areas.
It's getting better.
I think, okay, I'm not blaming us, but I think the media, in some cases, built like even with the Packard Draft, it was kind of like built up to media story after media story.
$5,000 a night for a house.
John, that don't feel bad.
The media did build this thing
up.
Oh, a lot.
A
lot, a lot.
And with people listening to House Now, it's like, I got a friend who said, actually, I mean, 350 instead of 175.
And it's coming back to real life.
Yeah, it's not going to go back where it was, because there is a supply and demand problem.
COVID did play into that.
But I mean, I was feeling so sorry for some of these kids,
not
only kids.
I
can
say that because I'm
young.
Yes.
Oh,
yeah.
And it's like, I can't believe you spent that money.
And I know what you make.
And it.
That's just, that's just a lot of house for what you make.
You can afford it, but you're married to that house now too.
You are.
You better plan on staying there for a long, long time.
Right.
So I'm glad that it's getting, yeah, everybody's entitled to make a profit, but I mean, come
on.
Sure.
Absolutely.
Okay, well,
that's good to hear.
Let's talk a little bit about, okay, renting or buying.
Okay, we've talked about that.
And
you know what you're gonna think, but some people do get trapped in a little bit of a corner.
And this is something we talked about the other day that I still, sticks in my crotch is the,
the unbelievable prices for property taxes.
And some of these elderly people, maybe their mortgages paid off, but they still have $7,000 or $8,000 to come up with every year for property
taxes.
Right, right.
And Wisconsin is one of the worst states.
Absolutely.
I believe, right?
Don't you?
Kristen Ambrose we had on?
Why are we in the top 10?
I don't understand that.
I know, tell me what.
We tried one time.
Remember, I think California, that was a long time ago, but they just froze them.
And if you're 60...
but I don't know for some reason we can't do that here, but wouldn't that be nice if once you're
65, you
know, you kick in Social Security if you want 62, whatever, and your property taxes are frozen, you sell your house, it's gone.
But you know, they've worked their whole lives, they paid taxes their whole lives.
Actually, you're gonna use less services because you're probably not gonna have kids when you're 65 to send them into the schools, which is the largest part of your property taxes.
So it's like, yeah, you know, and you're probably not, it's like,
Maybe you don't drive as much.
We don't use the streets as much.
But still, we want you to live here.
You've lived here your whole life.
You've contributed to our community.
We're going to freeze it at, whatever, $3,500.
Right.
And they just won't.
They keep raising it.
And like
you said, $6,000 is a lot of money.
Oh, it is?
Yeah, we live in West Apir.
And the kids are gone.
I'm exactly what you're talking about.
Exactly.
So are we.
So we pay $7,000 in property taxes.
That's what I paid in
Wedgeview.
And you know what's kind of funny, though, where that lost off in Roe it is?
The people on the river
don't pay that because they are not the city of Dupir.
They are actually the town of Lawrence.
The doctors, lawyers, Indian chiefs figured that out.
So they pay less than we do across the street.
Wow.
You know what, and people, there's a lot of that.
Yeah.
I mean, that's a good example.
There's other good examples too where, and I'm talking to you the same house.
See, they even look the same.
Yeah.
Right across the street from each other.
Now there are, that happens in municipalities and it's just crazy.
Right,
right.
And they always say that taxes are fair and they're
not.
No, they're not, not at all.
I mean, we don't have kids going to schools anymore.
But where we are, we're at the beautiful streets, the beautiful parks, but our interest rate is so low, there's no way we're moving.
Right.
But every time that tax bill rolls around, I'm like, this is what I'm paying for.
Stuff I'm never, I'm not using anymore.
Where I was, they had garbage pickup once a week.
Nothing else.
You know what I mean?
That's what you're paying for.
Nothing else.
I will say we lived before we moved into Green Bay and our taxes were really low, but we didn't have anything.
We moved to Green Bay and we really liked the park system.
We
liked the garbage.
We liked that, you know, something bad happened, you know, something's going to be there right away.
But then we got used to that at, like I said, X a thousand and then
That keeps going up, but nothing changed.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
That's that's that's my
point.
And that's what you're saying too.
And we had
crazy.
Yeah.
How often do you have to deal with it?
Because, you know, the one thing when I took my or studied for my real estate exam really opened my eyes to a lot of things that more people should kind of know about.
Exactly.
That's kind of our job.
Like
assessment fees and all these different things, even easements and all those kind of things.
But they're, I mean, as a realtor.
something like you was been in for a while and you know like ins and outs.
I bet there's times where you have to sit people down like first time homebuyers or whatever and say okay.
We need to talk about everything that comes into this
play.
It seems a
little too easy on these, sell my house real estate shows and everything.
You have to really take these people that haven't gone through the trenches of this before and educate them a little bit, don't you?
You do.
You absolutely do.
I'm dealing with a couple of first time home buyers and not understanding so many things about their mortgage loan itself.
Why am I putting earnest money down?
All the things that we as real estate agents
have to be very clear with these first time home buyers.
But when they have a HUD financing and these houses are going like that so fast, they don't have a chance.
It's so sad to watch this transpire.
Like I said before, it's getting better.
But the people in the $253.25 range, and that's all they can afford, they go so fast.
And it's just heartening.
And then we talked about whether you should rent or own.
And my thing is never rent because I like to build equity.
But to overpay $100,000, maybe you want to rent and wait till it cools down.
You know what I mean?
I mean, you're the
realtor.
Yeah.
I 100% agree with you.
And with the senior market as well, sometimes that renting is a better option.
It's like, we don't have to worry about anything.
We don't have to lawn care, all that other stuff.
It's a smaller place now.
That's key.
But yeah, it depends financially where you're at, where you are location-wise.
We're just talking about living in a metro area versus rural.
All those things play into it.
And the thing is, we're talking about too, like if I had stayed up where I'm from, I would have started working in the iron ore mines the day after I graduated from high school.
Right.
Made a great paycheck up there for a lot of years.
Sure.
Probably would have bought a house for about
$22,000 a year, you know,
right?
Right.
And that's
the way that's the way our, my parents did it and their parents and then the world just changed a little bit.
And it's just, it's a different era out there as a realtor.
What do you try to get across to people when somebody says, Hey, would you be my buyer's agent or things like that?
What do you really try to get across to them?
Again, there are so many different avenues that you can take.
What's your budget?
What can you actually seriously, honestly afford?
Yes, they're gonna lend you X dollars.
Be sure you can afford that.
I'm very clear with my young buyers, especially.
Don't see the, oh.
So that's very important for me to get across to them.
You want an inspection, I get it, but understand you're not gonna get this house.
It's, you know.
Isn't that
amazing when you think about that?
Yeah.
Would
you allow your child to
buy a house with
an inspection?
No.
but they're not gonna they're gonna be living with me because you're right because they won't get it
because somebody else will say no i don't need an inspection yeah yeah
too much emotion in buying a house but very much very and and they need you know the parents but sometimes we gotta step away too you
know yeah because
they're so like i just remember my daughter buying a house and i just like that was crazy i was more than i spent on
our house and we are way, we're, I think we had it in my 30 years and I'm like, Hannah, I just, I'm not going to weigh in on this.
Cause it's, I can't, I can't get my arms around that dollar pound.
They got to figure it out, but then they do and they did, but then he found out what she was making your year.
Okay, go ahead.
Why don't you buy me a house
too?
That
is true.
The world's different on a couple of things, right?
I mean, and Kim's are a little bit higher than the other.
Patty Hendrickson, Moving with the Malchorz.
Yes, love it.
Patty, let's talk a little bit, just if you don't mind, real estate is an industry.
Yes.
You've obviously been successful in it.
Would you encourage that to?
Not for the faint of heart, I wouldn't.
And I say that because there is so much emotion that goes into being a real estate agent.
And if you don't have that empathy, you really shouldn't be in this industry.
If you're in it just for the money, it's a shame because these are huge decisions people are making.
This is a home that you're buying or you are selling.
It's not just a house.
If you don't have that empathy for people,
I tell you, it's not a good profession for you to be in.
Well, you don't know the predators
that
are out there.
And Kristen talked about that last week, the predatory lending and all these different things where, you know, the bait and switch type things.
There's so much that, and you're locked in.
I mean, this is one of those things where it's like, ah, that car didn't work out.
I'm selling it.
I put it in eBay.
You're locked in.
You've invested.
And another thing, it
They make it look so easy when we were talking about you can look on your phone, mortgage, blah, blah, blah.
Oh, we can afford that.
But it doesn't give you a hint of all the other things.
No.
Isn't that true?
Absolutely true.
And you have to spend that time.
You have to say, I don't care if it's a first time home buyer or a mom and dad, dad died.
What's mom going to do?
That's kind of my world more so than anything.
I'm a senior real estate specialist.
So I deal with the elders and I make sure that they understand what.
to them, what is it you want?
Do you want to stay here or now that dad's gone, daughter is in Arizona, she wants you out there, but you're giving up your church, your community, you're letting that go to live with your daughter.
Have a
support system, your neighbors maybe?
Sometimes you don't think about that, A, because the emotion's so high, because dad just died.
And the kids just kind of, oh, here they come, they all have opinions on how mom should live her life.
But if she's of a good sound mind or he's of good sound mind, listen to them.
Understand what they want.
That's my biggest thing with being with this market, the senior market.
Tell me all you can about yourself, where you're at, where you want to be.
You hear so much more when you take the real estate out of it for a minute and then you can go.
I mean, if I sell their house, great.
If I don't, it's okay.
I know in my heart of hearts that I've helped him or her figure out how to move forward in
life.
That's
a lot more than a piece of property.
I think that's great
that you're doing that.
We have many, many guests come on at different times and that socialization is so critical.
in light to be, you know, that if it's not at least a depression, it can actually lead to something even worse.
Absolutely.
I would just
say there are studies that could lower your
life
expectancy.
I mean,
that's such a big thing.
You're thriving aspect of it.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to center a quick break.
This is really fascinating stuff, Patty.
That's cool.
Patty Hendrickson, moving with the male cores, specializing in senior... Real estate specialists.
Real estate
specialists.
Good stuff.
Back after this.
Mother's tired, she needs a rest.
The kids are playing upstairs.
Sisters sighing in her sleep.
Brother's got a night to keep, he can't
hang around.
Welcome back, man.
We've had a phenomenal lineup, starting with Cheese Curd, Nick Wright from the get-go, and then Brian Slinger and Christie Sickle.
24-hour ultra relay on Washington Island.
Proceeds going to the Willow Tree Cornerstone Child Advocacy Center, which is phenomenal.
And Patty Hendrickson, and you know what, sometimes they do.
I'm glad we talked during the breaks because you just sometimes you get more things that open your eyes and you don't want to talk about outside but that it is a tough world out there in the real estate business.
You've been doing it now and you said you're okay with just the commission thing because you've
done
successful and you're used to it but it could be tougher young people getting
in
on that but you're talking about an aspect that no one really talks about before with the senior real estate being a senior real estate specialist.
Tell everybody what that involves and why if somebody's
Mom or dad or many times, unfortunately, it's just the mom or the dad has to make a big decision.
Tell them what you can offer them.
What we what we as specialists in the senior market do is we sit down with the mom or the dad and their family members But primarily we want to sit down with with the seniors and really get to the heart of what they what they're looking for Listen to them.
See where they're at what there's so much emotion in it But just you know get down to the core of it.
Where do you want to live?
Have you thought about these things if you move to Arizona?
Do you realize that now you lose your church connection your your your friends your
understand that.
When Magnum PI comes on and talks about reverse mortgages,
is
that do you address that or do you send them to the bank or?
That's where I send them to the specialists.
I don't address that at all because I don't I seriously honestly I don't know enough about reverse mortgages.
They're
convincing.
Yeah, they
are almost commercials
off events and you
study those things till hell won't have it, but I
Yeah,
okay, because boy do they mislead people on some of these
funeral things are about the predatory type,
right?
Yes.
Yes, it's terrible and they're again You know, they're gonna get advice from their kids.
They're friends.
They're yeah, it's like their friends friends go to the expert.
Yeah, I bet there's times you like to say um
Would you kids step out of the room?
Oh, I have.
I have.
Let's go get coffee, Sarah, and you know, just you and me.
Yeah, absolutely.
Senior law too, Dan Walsh.
He is the guy for senior law.
I love having sessions with him.
I do a lot of that where I go to places and let's have Dan talk about what you need to have.
And it is a different, I don't know, niche is the right word, but it's, things are different at...
for that group, but I think that's great that you specialized
in that.
It's my heart, it really is.
I find great joy.
My mother, she lived with me for a year and a half, and then now it's with another sister, but I really learned a lot about the market.
I sold her home, and just going through that whole process, that is a very sad thing to go through.
But it also can be very enlightening, and now they know they're moving to the next
journey.
No, tomorrow after this, I'm picking up my mom's 93 and we're going for the 4th of July.
And what a process that was after my dad died.
But I think, you know,
to have
someone come in, sell the house, not sell the house.
And then one of the greedy kids want to buy the house at this
price.
It's like,
they ain't going to happen.
But anyway, that's cool
that
you did that, that you have all that experience and you seem like pretty forward.
So if somebody's listening out there and their parent or parents, you know, it's like, oh, mom, dad, you know, maybe it's too much for
you, maybe
whatever.
Give them some advice
and
how to get a hold of you.
Absolutely.
Right, definitely, definitely.
Talk to your parents, to our mom or dad, whatever the situation is.
See what they want and then contact me and let me guide you to the different avenues of help.
Sometimes we've got a dementia situation that is very, very typical.
ADRC is the source to go to and I can direct them to that and a lot of times I go with them to the Mug Club on a Wednesday night and we talk with other people that have these situations.
It's just that connecting them to the right people.
That's so important.
And getting it from professionals
who are passionate
about this.
That's the thing.
Not
their nieces, cousins, brother, who's
right.
Right, right.
And again, with siblings, you've got, you've got.
coloring different ideas, and that's hard on the parent.
Especially our generation moving forward.
We're pleasers.
We want to make sure our kids are okay.
We give them everything that they want.
We gotta really set her in on what is it you
want.
If anybody was watching the stream, Jim and John just kind of gave each other the side eyes.
So what
kind of communication was that from you guys?
We have no
comments.
Got some text here.
Say hi to Patty for me.
She's been to my house for Halloween party.
She's a great friend of my wife, Brenda.
That's from Gizmo.
Another one here.
It's from my good friend, Kathy, who I'm doing projects with.
Our reverse mortgage is really bad.
I'm so happy you care about seniors.
I do.
I do.
Thank you for that.
Yeah.
And the thing is, ironically, we're talking during the break.
We both graduated in the same year, high school, so we're not seniors ourselves, but we care for them.
Absolutely.
100%.
So there you
go.
What'd you say?
Of course not.
OK.
Yeah,
that's what I'm
saying.
I
think this is great that you're, I mean, and you're, look.
It shows too.
I mean, you're not doing this for the money,
but
you didn't have to say that.
Thanks for doing this.
And we're in a market where we have seniors.
I mean, you look
at
places and...
We live long here.
I'm just saying that you
look... But the average age like in this community, we're just looking in Utah, it was like...
28.
It's a little older here.
Oh, Ted.
Yeah.
But I think that's great that you're addressing that.
I
can't, I, moving with the Malachorist, Patty Hendrickson, please give her a call, please contact her.
I can't think of you, and I mean this sincerely, okay?
Some people bring their mom or dad in or whatever that you're going to treat those people exactly the way you've treated your mom.
100%.
That's what I mean.
Cool.
You can see it.
How do people get a hold of you?
They can contact me.
I am online.
You can visit my website or I'm at 920-264-3015.
Give me a call.
That's probably the best way to get a hold of me or text me and I'll get back to you right away.
And what was your website again?
My website is Patty H. Real Estate at...
gmail.com.
That's good that you can pull it off like that.
High tech on top of
that.
This has been great having you here and again this is such a great service for our community because you know we both had our toes in the water with real estate and we've seen good
and bad and
whatever whatever so you're one of the really good people.
Thanks.
Thank you.
All right.
Have a
great fourth.
You too.
Thanks for being here.
When we come back we've got headlines of the press times and he brought all his friends.
He bought five guys with big old instruments.
The power.
Oh, what?
Big old instrument.
OK, Todd.
Really?
Jim looked at me too.
Big mouth of power tool hordes.
Back at this.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And
here are your hosts, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Mino and the Mayor, a beautiful, fun Wednesday here.
This is going
to be awesome.
What's some phenomenal guest John Kramer our man headlines for the press times ever since they gave him an actual job?
Yeah, so
that's why
it's intern.
Yeah, he's just doing great things for
us brought it home today
boy.
Yeah, goodness.
Oh, hi John
What are you gonna do that to me?
How you doing buddy?
I'm
all right.
Thanks.
We never know which John's gonna show up last because it is full regalia is Admiral in the Coast Guard
Now he's like 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 some people.
We're moving you up.
Yeah, you know people now.
Hey, tell everybody who we have here, because this is really 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...
The infamous introduce everybody's Woody Mankowski is gonna give us a little rendition of America the beautiful So we got Bill Denny fluffy, right?
Yeah, he's the band leader and everyone's favorite trombone player
We have Mark over there, Trump.
What do you play, Mark?
Elton.
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 Elton 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 day.
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 We just we still talk about it.
That was 10 years ago.
It was
great.
We had your new Female singer on yes.
Oh, that's right a couple weeks.
Yeah,
she was great and
Rick.
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 Manitowice.
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 times it's followed by private party.
It's not that far.
It's just up the road.
Yeah, 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.
So what year was
that
then?
That I owned it?
Yeah.
1990-something to 1990-something.
Okay.
Alright.
Yeah, before
I went active
duty.
It was
kind of a blur.
Yeah.
Like most bar
owners.
No,
to the 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 educators.
Yep.
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.
Yeah, so go ahead and set up and Jim if you want to finish your comments I just
I was
gonna say
people can
stand up if they need
to 30 seconds 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.
That was great.
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
cool, so who put that arrangement
together Terry winch Terry
is a friend of ours and, 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 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?
Wow
Wow
I've
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 Because yeah
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 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
We come back what he's gonna actually sing for us.
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
the- Give you some crap.
It's always good.
Give
me some crap.
And I am literally sweating big mouth of Power Shull Hearts.
Wow.
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?
We've only been doing the show for two years.
That's the first
time we
had a
hot lady come in here with a love
sign.
I set that up.
I just want to check Woody's microphone.
You want to give it a try there and just hang on a sec.
Keep keep going for me.
Hello, hello, hello, hello.
Hang on.
Check.
Oh, there it is.
There it is.
Perfect.
I'm loving it.
All right.
Was that was that 1973?
Todd Ruddard.
Oh,
hello.
It's oh no.
I watched that this
morning.
Everybody introduce themselves one more time here if you don't mind Bill.
I'm
Bill Denny.
Yep.
Bill Denny.
Woody Mankowski is me.
Mark Chimis.
Steve Johnson.
Steve Johnson.
All right.
There you go.
Kevin Short.
the Trumpist.
All right, Fluff, tell me a little bit about what we're going to be doing here and what this guy's been doing lately.
Next is Woody is going to 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 Redgren?
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.
Oh, and that tour did really well, so so where'd you 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, 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
Oh beautiful, four heroes proved,
in liberating strife, who more than self, their country loved.
America, hmm America, make up thy gold we find till all success be nobleness and every gain
Sing it like this in school.
Oh, beautiful.
For spacious skies.
For amber raves of grain.
For purple mountains.
Did his grace on thee?
He crowned thy good.
Yes, he did.
Yes, and brotherhood from sea to shining sea.
Everybody sing now.
He told me he would, yes with brotherhood from sea.
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?
Wow, 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 in 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?
In Manitou.
That's
a great place.
That's a fun
place.
Get their boiled shrimp.
Oh, it's really good.
You guys are phenomenal.
We can't thank you guys enough for doing this.
Thanks for having us.
Jim's
great enough to check for three grand.
Double it.
Thank you guys so much.
Have a great weekend.
Thank you guys.
Appreciate it, guys.
Yeah, you talk
about Christmas songs put in your spirit.
Those songs, we got to put you in the spirit for the fourth.
That's great.
No question about it.
Thank you guys.
All right.
We're going to start a quick break.
Terry Barr Slice in Wisconsin coming up next.
Welcome back to Mino and the Mayor.
Join the conversation now by calling 920-264-0606.
920-264-06006.
Now, once again, John Mino and Jim Schmidt.
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
the fourth of July.
Literally, we got texts here.
First one from Mark, the absolute best band for a wedding reception, Big Mouth of Power Toolhorns.
Thank you, Bill, and 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.
And
Woody Mankowski on those vocals, America the
Beautiful.
We both saw Ray Charles when he was in Green Bay and that's perfect.
That
was incredible.
John Kramer set that up for us.
John Kramer, press times, thank you so much.
That was, that took a lot.
I mean, that's a lot of talent in this room.
I don't know how long the, uh, America Beautiful went, but I'd be told if you want it for our last segment, if we're talking about this one for the last segment, just play that song, we'll intro it and go tomorrow for sure.
The recording will not be ready till
the end of the hour, but
we will play it tomorrow on the show, probably both songs
tomorrow on the show.
We were almost thinking heading into it with an ad with the start, some angle banner and ending it with America, the beautiful because that was just.
Spine tingling.
Yeah,
that was good.
It's
really really good
Wow interesting that we're talking about what they got five shows this week and three of them are private parties and That's quite a cool to get this guy because that's Yeah, I think that's that's great that they're that sought after
and they've been playing for but and another thing don't you want to So many of them are educators.
I know that's sharing that talent not just on stage They're sharing it in the classroom.
Yeah, and those kids must really look up to them
Oh, that's what I mean.
I just think that's so cool.
You know, and I'll tell you what, at Denmark Middle School, they're that bad when they do their patriotic theme for Veterans Day.
It's
really impressive.
Well, and then, you know, Ashwabenan, they just bring it in.
theater program you know theater but their music program is just great and that's because I had some great instructors out there many kids are the kids but anyway yeah that was what that was that was a lot of fun I hope we can do that again sometime yeah absolutely
no question
about it I was I was serious about that when we were wrapping up um you know sometimes it's like uh I'm just not feeling it and then you go to an unbelievable Christmas show it's like I got I feel it that the if that didn't um
you know it's still
I
get 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.
Oh,
they do it.
Oh,
yeah.
Yeah.
Stars
and Stars Forever.
Oh,
man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We're celebrating all right.
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're 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.
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.
We're talking about that.
Celebrate it more.
Right.
We're talking about that.
yesterday in school and I said so what are we celebrating and oh in her defense she wasn't from the United States but you know I'm like how many years and you know you know who you know who'd we get our independence from and not so sure they were
all up
to
speed.
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.
You know, it was based in 1976, a 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 as they saw
day, they confused.
Then they would know.
Yeah.
But I think the other reason people like this day, maybe selfishly, as I mentioned yesterday is,
You know, there's, there's no gifts, no pressure, no pressure.
And the food is easy.
You don't have to dress up.
It's like, this is pretty cool.
So, uh, yeah, everybody can celebrate.
So I'm really looking forward to it.
I can't
wait.
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
right now we've got back, we're back.
I was looking.
It's what we're good
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 going to get one good one here tonight?
No, I have no rain tomorrow.
But I don't maybe I don't have the right thing.
But then Nick did throw Pete under the bus.
So I don't.
Okay, that's awesome.
But they're talking
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?
No, it's maybe one or two degrees, no.
No, it's, but we're in the water.
Yeah, you're on the water.
Yeah, it's really, I mean, it's a beach, so you get in the water and it's very shallow to, yeah, so.
Try to work on that tan a little bit, would you?
Yeah, I will.
I haven't gotten enough sun yet this summer.
No, it's been pretty
cold.
All right, Todd.
If you're on a boat at night, you just put your face in front there, and there'd be this glow just going around the lake.
Jim's sitting in a room all by himself.
You open
the
door, and all you hear is.
No, I did rent the pontoon boat, though, so.
Are
you going to
drive it?
Yeah.
Oh.
Oh, I've got to get some video of that.
No, you don't have to.
You've got to get some video.
Is Craver still here?
I'm not sure.
And then didn't reserve kayaks, but they have a ton of them out there.
So we'll do that too.
But those are people or people ones or no, just, no, it's the regular ones with one of my kids and regular ones and probably on Sunday because there's no motorized boats on Sunday.
Yeah.
So it's very quiet.
That's the best time to go.
And then.
They have some sunset cruises and I will see I just it's very chill.
It's just very very relaxed 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 I guess they do because when a bagel they do but anyway So a big controversy is 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
you heard about that?
Oh, really?
So they throw off a better weight.
Yeah.
More fun for the kids.
Absolutely.
But then it's
not fun for like kayakers and stuff.
Right.
Or pontoon boats.
Or pontoon boats.
Really?
So they finally had change in boating.
Yeah.
Something new with the wakes.
Anybody know about that?
Five times?
Well, that would be
something like I'm throwing out five times.
But it was it's a lot
more.
Well, that would be a lot more fun for that.
For
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 read about.
Can see people sitting around saying, what can we do to improve this motor?
Faster, faster.
Nah, it goes fast enough.
Let's change the wake.
Yeah.
That's what they've done.
That's like a really good idea.
Huh.
Speaking of all this, John Kramer and Kevin will be in tomorrow to talk a little bit about boating safety for the fourth.
Oh, great.
Excellent.
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, you know, contacted.
Right.
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.
But the bottom line and all that stuff is throw a life preserver preferably on, but if not on, throw it in.
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 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.
Because in Lake Superior, if you don't find them right away, you'll never find them.
It's a bizarre thing.
Like the Edmund Fitzgerald, they've never found a single person.
There are 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.
Do they get, do I want to be, do we get eaten?
What do you mean?
No,
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
could be.
That's gotta
be awfully.
500 feet.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I
don't think I knew that.
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 what's kind of cool if
they do find them.
They'll be
preserved absolutely Yeah Isn't that something
yeah, I
know why that's a good thing.
I don't know.
I'm not sure either there was a kid about odd just do that out there randomly well
Okay, whatever.
Okay.
All right.
Just saying so I just looked that up about the admin Fitzgerald Yeah, nobody's recovered.
There was one body discovered back in 1994
during an exhibit
like in a cabin or something
expedition or something
like that
but that was it that's
all and I think they left it there
didn't
they I think so
yeah undisturbed
yeah undisturbed yeah because it's a national graveyard so to speak now yeah and you didn't know that no I didn't did you ever go to the museum in two rivers you lived like like across the street from it
Oh,
you gotta go Jim.
That's actually a good place.
You would love that.
It is a good
maritime museum.
And it's haunted.
That's all I'll say about
that.
You know what, Ted?
I was just reading about something else about somebody here, and they said it's the most haunted.
Oh, no.
No!
You know where it was?
Where?
Gettysburg.
Oh, yeah.
It talked to a store that's like considered 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, one of the guys gave it, he's from Philadelphia, gave it to a guy in the newspaper or 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 Confederate doctor, but he found that it's like, it was so heartbreaking that the guy was just holding it.
So last thing you 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 you talk about going.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That would be worth going.
Yeah, if they say look at this six foot waves 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 to
It's gotta be fast in three
miles.
I guess but I'm just wow.
Yeah, you've never heard of this.
No, it's
a big
thing.
That's just happening this year.
I believe yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're gonna you know
Association's gonna get together.
I
think each there isn't a state thing.
I think you know all the different Lake Associations
or even call it you know some of them are trying
to
okay
Huh,
well,
yeah,
I'll give you a report
on Monday,
but that's what I was
asking if they have those in the lake You're going
to be I don't know.
Let you know Monday.
Okay.
Anyway, yeah, you know, he's gonna be doing Todd renting one of those
books
Kids, come here.
You're not gonna believe this.
Grandpa's got something really fun for you this time.
Well, I want to be that grandpa.
Before I
take you to the orchard,
let's go on a boat ride.
Right, let's flip you guys over on your six foot wave.
You're gonna love this.
You watch.
Grandpa, have you ever driven on these four?
It
doesn't
matter.
Don't
worry
about
it.
I can figure this out.
I can figure
this out.
Well,
we guys set her a 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 very far.
Mapping is what she's doing.
We'll be right back after this.
Wrapping up here on a beautiful Wednesday morning right now downtown Appleton downtown I mean Are we downtown in Appleton?
I was gonna say after
no, we're not okay.
We're green baby.
We got two downtown green
mate Yep, sunny Iceland shower and storms this afternoon high in the mid 80s
today.
I
don't think
so.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
It is Jim.
Yeah, thank you We got a texture 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 were talking about those boats with amazing wake Jim will never have one.
They are too slow for him
So
we do have a chance for some showers and storms the chance is dropping, but it's still there for this afternoon
Okay, it's
been
all over the place this year though
Hasn't it though what what app are you using and what's the city that you have there Jim?
It's his chance of
participation or
participation
or precipitation
precipitation
and it has it goes maybe 5% Okay, mine says and I'm checking right apps right now 45% okay Where
how do I know what app this is?
I don't know
how you're
asking me.
Did you actually ask me a question with the word app?
I don't know you
could pick any person off the street and ask them that question
Yeah, I don't know it
So it looks like 40% chance of rain after 5 p.m.
It's a I'm using the 10-day forecast app
Does that help?
I don't know.
I don't know either.
Okay.
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.
So two things.
Number one, you can download your podcast every day.
Nancy actually said, if you see there on your screen, Nancy actually said she's going to download this podcast and keep it on her phone or her computer so she can listen to it anytime.
You can do that as well.
You can listen to the podcast on Spotify, on Apple Podcast.
You can get it on the Civic Media app, civicmedia.us.
Click on shows, click on Mino and the Mayor.
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.
Is Terry coming on?
Terry is not.
All right, so
she was going to talk about what she has going on on Sunday.
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, that sounds really cool.
That's what I said.
I'm in.
I asked about favorites because, well, yeah, I'm really good.
mentioned favorite triangle.
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, you know,
we were talking about one of the best ways to see a community is from on the water.
The other way is
on a
bike.
Not
even a question.
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, because, 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
stay with you.
But I'm a
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
what he said.
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 and 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, Lane, a customer service representative from Best Buy, your resume has been recommended by multiple online recruitment platforms.
Oh my gosh, John.
Really?
You think that could come through?
Yeah.
Being a guy in a blue shirt.
Yeah.
Welcome to Best Buy?
Yeah.
I don't know.
No experience required retraining
right right right
monthly salary six thousand to ten thousand dollars
and somebody annual so somebody comes into the store John let's let's a role play just briefly I come in a high-tech I'm gonna be in I will say like an older gentleman okay
Hi, I'm John.
Can I help you?
Well, John, my name is Edward.
Edward?
Good to see you.
I got a phone here about six years ago.
Okay,
you
were in that cap.
You were in the army?
What branch?
That's exactly.
Army?
So when were
you in?
Yeah, I was back in 48.
No, you were in 48.
Come on.
At any rate, John, I'm having problems with... But
were we army?
Yeah, absolutely.
Army?
Yeah.
What division?
Fourth of it.
Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
Okay.
So
what do you
got there?
I got a phone.
Oh, yeah, I got
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.
Do you know how to get, look at this.
I don't, oh wait, no.
Hang on a second.
Are you having some problems?
I might be able to help you.
Well,
I dropped it and I don't know if I need a new one.
So, okay, I'm sorry, what'd
you say?
Can't make a phone call.
For some reason it's just giving you the wrong forecast.
It's saying that it's going to be nice today, but I think it's going to rain.
Yeah, don't believe that.
Don't believe that stuff.
This is
exactly how it would go.
Right?
No, it would.
Edward, you think you've got problems with your phone?
The guy I work with, you can't believe
this.
Or somebody would walk in and they would say to you, hey, could you help me with this app?
And it's like, the applications are over there if you want a job.
I'm looking for some Bluetooth
headphones.
What can I do?
No, we don't sell toothbrushes here, so.
Sir, I'm not happy
with the service I received here.
Well, you know what?
We're not happy with you.
How's that?
No?
No,
I
pass on that.
Stay with the radio.
Stick with radio.
You belong here.
Just another addition of Mino and the mayor of theater.
Yeah,
that's right.
You
belong right here.
Todd, you did a phenomenal job.
That
was great today.
Put everything together together.
That was a great day.
Thanks, Kramer.
Phenomenal job.
Thank you, everybody.
We're going to be playing those back again tomorrow.
That was just awe-inspiring.
Gotta be in the spirit
now.
See
you tomorrow,
everybody!
