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.
What's the laughter for already?
Well, first of all, I will no longer during any breaks for anything like that.
Yeah.
I will no longer be sitting in this chair.
OK.
This camera makes us look really wide.
And
I've had
people say that.
Oh, I'm
sure.
They're happy with
you.
They
think you do that on purpose.
I saw you fiddling around here with the camera before we went on.
I know what you're doing.
You're doing that wide angle thing.
Right.
They only make it.
Yes.
I mean, I'm not going to lie.
Neither does the
camera.
Exactly.
Wow.
So remember when I said I put 11 pounds over a week.
Oh, yeah, did you lose that?
No, I'm still up.
Wow.
I went from 210 to 214 in a weekend that has stayed now.
But that class reunion is like what eight
days?
Not in Wednesday.
Oh, you
got
to
hit eight pounds in four days, five days.
Don't they have those like fat suits?
Yeah, whatever
else.
I'm gonna do it.
What'd you do in wrestling?
Didn't you do like?
Oh, yeah, X lax.
Biggies.
Rubber
suits.
Rubber
suits, right?
Yeah, I don't think we had the budget for the rubber suits.
Oh, and then you just take the last.
Sweep would just pour off.
Yeah, I know.
So I got to try something, man.
Oh, boy.
Yes.
How you doing, Todd?
I'm good.
What were you guys doing this morning early?
Oh my god.
OK, so go ahead.
I didn't do anything.
I just woke up really, fell asleep really early, woke up really early, did nothing but red type thing.
But so you go ahead and tell everybody, because you came, okay, you came in looking like you just got done working at the afternoon shift at the mill.
And one of the paper machines went down and you had to exchange parts and you're sweaty and you're all whatever.
Change shirts because it got dirty
because man.
So, okay.
So I didn't sleep as well as I wanted to.
So I'm leaving right after the show going to a resort, right?
And we're, the restaurants, the lines are too, you had to wait too long.
I don't like eating at restaurants at this time of year, because you have to wait.
So we're going to cook food, grill food.
The problem at the resort, there's, you have balconies, but you can't have grills on the balcony,
like
your
place,
right?
So you have to
use like,
all places are like that.
So you have to use like a community grill.
And I talked to Donna, she goes, you know, there's a lot of people that are grilling out and.
I don't want to wait, right?
And I can just see, I'll get behind the guy that is like really slow, doesn't know how to grill.
And so I thought, you know what, um, heck with it, I'm going to grill the food.
Back up just one second, though.
Are you saying you would use a grill immediately after some other guy used that grill?
I would
clean it, but he would that
surprised me, Todd.
What are you going to do?
I don't know.
I
well, I know one thing.
I know one
thing.
I know what.
You're not doing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's come you know, girls and
I've never done that because remember
we mentioned that about parks, going to city parks and growing.
He says, I would never do that.
But I never,
I never have done that.
And I'm thinking, because, you know, we're going to be there for, you know, five days.
I got my son lost coming.
There's, you know, nine of us.
And I thought.
Wait a minute.
I don't think I like that.
It's kind of my idea.
And this isn't going to work.
And so anyway, the more I thought about it, the less I slept.
And I thought, you know what?
So what is it?
So what would you do?
I would start to read, you know, something that kind of loves you to sleep, something that's not, you know, whatever, spying tingler, maybe watching old movie, trying to find something like that.
Skrull social media.
I came up with two ideas.
One was to go and buy a grill, my own.
Okay, get the charcoal three in the morning.
Well, no, it's just I would
like right after the
show, okay?
Drive some place to Menards by a grill by the charcoal, but have my own so I don't have to deal with people which Which I'm shocked that you haven't done that before right?
Okay.
Go ahead.
That is a strategy, right?
The other thing I thought well anyway, but you would buy the charcoal instead of the gas, huh?
If I said I don't need a grill John,
so I
would buy it.
Okay.
Got it.
Get the charcoal use it and leave it for
got it.
Okay.
All right The other thing I thought you know what?
The chickens there, the brats are there.
I'm just gonna get up and cook this stuff right now.
At what time?
Probably 10 to three.
So
you're outside in your backyard?
At three
o'clock.
Grilling at three o'clock.
Turn the light on.
I was like, it might have been a little bright for my neighbor, but he didn't call.
So I, yeah, that's what I did.
Milton comes down.
He's like, what are you doing?
I'm like, just go to sleep.
So I did that.
So now we're gonna have to heat it up, but it's gonna work better.
It looks great.
barbecue sauce is on there.
So that's what I did.
I did that.
And I feel really, really good that I did that.
That was a good decision.
So just from three to one.
Well, I did different things.
I did even cook some vegetables on there too.
So yeah, I was done at, I don't know, four to five probably worked out great.
And then I made some pasta salads.
I was gonna do that anyway.
So you boiled some noodles and put shrimp in there.
You
know,
typical stuff.
I am not joking about this.
You should.
Think about being a, not a huge, but almost like a party caterer, where you would cook this stuff for the people, you would grill it, you're doing your own kitchen, your own utensils, your own pots and pans, whatever, and then get those big things, you know, it keeps, and bring it right to the place.
No?
I'd rather have people over, like, but this
pasta salad, you would like that pasta salad I made today, that was good.
I think you could make some serious money doing that.
Yeah, I'd rather.
Have runs over
now.
I don't know you just told me a story this morning about how much you love cash Anyway,
so that's yeah, that's
what I did and I feel really good
because I would be here this morning thinking like I had to go buy this grill or I'd be even more stressed out thinking I'm gonna get there and I'm gonna and everybody's gonna be around the grill and I'm gonna want to Cook it like you know for and I'm not gonna get on the grill till six.
You
know, I mean like that
and it's gonna stress me out so
It's done, I'm in control, and I happen to like being in control.
Can't picture you stressed out with the family on a vacation.
Needing to be in control?
No, neither one of those.
So it's done.
It's
done.
I feel really good.
Good.
Good, good, good.
And my mom's coming today too, and I don't
want to make her wait.
That's special.
You bet.
That's awesome.
That's great.
It's done.
And how about you, John?
What did you, same thing, or what?
I read.
I just picked
up a, at least, the good.
We neither of us slept though.
Why is it though?
And then I don't just literally the alarm went off it like I'm just starting to like dream a little bit and boom though, you know Why is is there something psychological about a person that?
Right before they have to get up all of a sudden They can sleep.
I know is that crazy?
It's like unbelievable, but anyway, you know what it is a beautiful
beautiful morning out there the day before what what more can you ask for than to be in state of Wisconsin the UP wherever wherever right now
and at this time like I was talking to some friends over last night the this I'm really in we talked about the spirit I don't know if you call it like it's more the Christmas spirit but yesterday our show was like I like you said that I think was one of the best shows we had in terms of the and we've had some great guests I'm not taking anything away from any of our guests but
Big Mouth, Woody, that was just-
I got so many comments from people, you can't believe
it.
I'll say it was even, say it was topped off, it was equal.
Last night, the Green Bay City Band concert played their patriotic set, and it was unbelievable.
Perfect night last night.
Beautiful night.
I actually went, you know what?
The first time I've gone out a little bit, went set by the water a little bit last night.
Yeah.
Since, yeah.
This is great, man.
And then, you know, we're talking about favorite holidays, and everybody probably has one.
I think this is it for me, because...
Me too.
Well, mine's Thanksgiving.
Mine is Thanksgiving.
I really love Thanksgiving.
That's a good one.
That's a good one.
But, yeah, I don't know.
That would be close.
But,
you know, it... I think it goes back to my college days, because the night before Thanksgiving was so much fun.
Yeah, that's a good
one.
And then we're, you know...
both like you too, Alter Boys.
It's kind of nice you don't have the math.
Oh
man, Easter was the worst.
Three times.
I hate the month.
I'm sorry.
I know one of your priest friends listens.
And I don't mean anything.
No, I beg in religion a little bit sometimes.
I don't mean to.
But it's just when I we go back to that era of I mean, I got when I learned how to be an altar boy, it was in Latin.
Yeah, so I mean we go back to the hardcore three hours and when you had your schedule to I mean we'd be scheduled to Do 530 mass all week long
in the incense
and then go to school all day and then every first Friday every every holiday or mean every?
Saints birthday, you know what I mean?
I mean it was it was such a big part of your life Yeah, it was very that's almost like the Amish sometimes the kids get a chance to leave.
It's like well, I'm just gonna step back a little bit
Very but ironically I might step into being Amish.
That's right.
I could see that but I even though um There was very meaningful to go to those masses.
It was that meant a lot to me but I this I still this this is fun because There's just no pressure.
Yeah, somebody else does the fireworks.
Somebody.
Yeah, you
know the cooking.
I love doing the cooking.
I just this is great I mean, I'm all into this holiday.
So
I do
it's a little extended to it's like
Three
days of
nothing.
Tell us your favorite text ourselves.
We got it.
We got it.
Good morning, everybody from Vicky.
Hi, Vicky.
She's awesome.
I figured Jim would be calmly folding his linens and brushing Milton when he can't sleep, right?
Yeah.
My feelings are hurt about your quote best show ever, Michael.
I'm sorry, Michael.
Sorry, buddy.
Michael's been
on our show many
times.
Well, not that, Michael.
We've done it at his places.
I know.
I don't think that what we did.
I take that back.
The two we did for Michael.
We're two of our all-time best shows.
The all-time locations.
Don't you agree, Todd?
Yeah, maybe.
Oh, yeah.
They were phenomenal.
I didn't mean to best show.
I meant the most emotional show.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what I meant.
But you cried, remember, on your birthday or something when you got your dog picture?
That's right.
That was good.
That's right.
That's right.
That's right.
I mean, don't forget the anniversary show that was.
That was emotional.
That
was great.
The day the ping-pong balls drop,
that's
right.
Kids running around trying to get their sandwich.
From the helicopter?
Yeah.
All right, all right, all right.
Let's move on.
That would have been fun if we would have dropped actual sandwiches.
Oh, that would have been awesome.
Oh, that would have been really great.
You know what somebody texted me, Todd?
This was a few weeks back.
We're talking about that.
But they said, you know, you can probably get drones these days that could do something like that.
Probably.
Yeah.
Oh, God, did you have to?
I'm
sorry.
I'm just throwing it out
there.
know a couple drone people that okay
yeah
let me look into that all right
got this one that dedication gets you into the altar boy hall of fame John thank you Brian
all right see
yeah today is stay out of the Sunday huh okay yeah I got the eye I mean I'm telling you well why would they have that on the 3rd of July I know but it's it's
It's funny when you do step outside when you're not supposed to be in the Sun.
Yeah, like I'm not supposed to be in the Sun That's not as warm as you know, I haven't been like almost sequestered Wait for this thing to heal and it's like when you go out in that it's like whoa, but so you haven't done a sun for what three weeks Since the 27th of May
so they talk about you know, you're
I have with a band-aid on and
stuff.
Oh Talk about vitamin D. Do you feel less energy?
I mean the Sun is not
Bad.
The sun's good for you.
Sometimes,
right?
Yeah, I fight him in D. I haven't noticed anything, to be honest with you.
Plastic bag, free day.
That'll never take.
You know what?
You remember it used to be paper or plastic?
Nobody ever took the paper.
Everybody takes plastic because you use them in garbage bags.
Air conditioning appreciation day.
We didn't have air.
We only needed it three days a year growing up.
We didn't have air conditioning.
Did you?
Yeah, you'd never.
But fried clam day like that.
Do you?
I don't know if I would.
Oh, really?
Did you then you put bread?
I don't
think that's real healthy.
That's the only way I like clams.
You eat them where they're just like, oh, no, I'm thinking of oysters.
Never mind.
Never mind.
I'm thinking of oysters.
Olivia Munn 44 today.
She's why I was thinking of that was in that
show.
I
really like her.
Really like Tom Cruise is 62.
Aaron Tippin 66.
Montell William 68.
Jan Smithers.
I knew you would like that one.
My goodness gracious.
I'm not even joking about this.
She's like my all time cute girl who I would have wanted as a girlfriend.
Yeah.
In the day.
You know, it's not like the whole voluptuous yada, yada, yada, which is, you know, unreachable anyway.
But the Jan Smithers, the cute Jan Smithers, when she wears a little sweater over the tight t-shirt and the tight jeans, not to even pay attention to that.
But she, I still love Jan
Smithers.
She was Bailey on WKRP in Cincinnati.
Oh, all right.
I know
who
she is.
Yeah, okay,
I can see that.
Sure.
Yeah.
Cute personality.
Yeah, that'd be fun.
Betty Buckley is 77.
She was the mom and it's eight and enough.
It is eight
is enough.
That's right.
It wasn't
she John Travolta's girlfriend at
one time.
She may have been but she was also in Carrie.
She was the teacher.
She was
the gym teacher.
Gym teacher.
Good call.
Yeah.
Wow.
By the way, folks, later on, you're going to hear once again Woody Mankowski with a rendition of God was America.
America, America, the beautiful.
That's mind boggling.
Quick break back after
this.
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habit
with me
Hey,
welcome back.
Great song.
Yes.
Great song.
I know it's
supposed to be a trucker Thursday, but it's going to be patriotic music.
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What a perfect, perfect day to head into the holiday weekend.
This is phenomenal, really is.
I wish that, you know, I know when they messed around with it.
Okay.
I love it that the 4th of July is on a Friday.
Okay.
It should always be on a Friday, so you can have that long weekend.
So when it's like a Tuesday and you want to go to fireworks, if it's not, you know, if you have a party.
Everybody has to go.
I have to work tomorrow.
I have to get up early.
I think it should always be.
Don't you?
No.
Okay.
No way.
As a matter of fact, we changed that when I got elected.
I know you did.
Fourth is on the fourth.
That's why I didn't vote for
you that second time.
Well, I'll take that as a reason.
Yeah.
We were nothing to do with it.
Now, fourth's on the fourth.
Well, okay.
Yeah.
No, I that that's like.
not really honoring, honoring it.
No, I know.
People say that.
But then you don't really, you can't really have a real, true party celebration, whatever, because you said it's on a
Wednesday.
Right.
You
know, it's kind of tough.
Exactly.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I have to give the UK some credit because they do a lot of bank holidays over there.
There's at least
one.
But
what?
they call them bank holidays
bank
bank bank so basically it's kind of like our our president's day or our and they do them on Mondays or Fridays so people get three day we
perfect
thank you
well we do that with president's days yeah but nobody gets that
that's only if you're in government
Otherwise, you don't get it.
Yeah.
Well, we don't get enough to keep it.
I think we get plenty, but there's a compared to other countries.
Americans.
Oh, man, when you talk at any vacation, you know, when you talk from Germany down at a resort in Mexico, it's unbelievable.
But there's a couple of countries.
I want it's like Denmark or somebody where they're they're a four day week now.
It's like it's a four day work week.
What?
Those are economy, John.
Great.
It's phenomenal.
The grease grease.
Greasy, I don't know, but not everything's about the economy Think
about humans once in
a
while.
Yeah Yeah, the Danes are the healthiest people on the face of the earth.
They're the happiest people I'm just telling you that's what they are I Yeah,
okay,
that's when's the last time you saw an angry Dane John I wouldn't know if I saw yeah, oh, yeah, you don't want
Pea them off.
Trust me.
I've seen them.
I'm just saying I think it's a great thing.
I really do.
I do nothing like a great game.
I will say something else though that I know where you're going with that.
There is nothing like a day in the world or a dog.
Great.
Oh, great.
Great games.
But anyway, you know what I, you know what I. OK, let me just say something else that other countries do that everybody that has done it has said it's a really great thing.
some sort of service for a year like in Norway.
I'm all in on that.
They all
go through two years.
It's almost like being in the in the reserves.
You go through boot camp for like
two months or something
and you learn
all those Israel.
Then if they call you up.
Yeah.
Exactly.
We had a bunch of
young ladies
when we did the golf tournament on a night or at Thornberry a few years back and these girls I mean I shouldn't call them girls young 20s.
Okay.
They were selling and I actually bought one they were selling those things that a lot of golfers use where you put them in the little sticky pads, then they vibrate You know where they hit you in the Lord Lumber
ten tens unit.
Is that what it is?
Yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I loaned it to Duke right and I never got it back by the way I'll get her on the line, but
Okay, I was talking.
Hey, what are you guys?
Well, you know, we're we gotta go back for service next week.
Oh, yeah, I thought service.
I thought some, you know, religious.
She don't know where every couple of years or something we do a month or two of blah, blah, blah.
I said, oh, and they were sorry.
They sort of like very, very attractive young girls.
Okay.
And it's like, oh, we love it.
We absolutely that's we look forward to it.
We love it.
We had that other kid play basketball at Green Bay from Norway.
He said, oh my God, it's the best thing ever.
So everybody that I know that has done it, has really enjoyed
it.
You talk about that friend of yours that was here, her daughter came on here, went in for two years, thought it was the best thing she did right after high school.
Well,
it's not her, but
she loves it.
She thought it was the
best decision she ever made.
You just learn so much about people's skills, management skills, even though it's not specifically the career.
I think it's great.
Other countries do it.
That is something I wouldn't mind adapting.
some of the case there's there's things we can learn from other countries i think we do it better i think overall we do it better than anybody else
okay but let me do okay i'm not i'm not gonna argue with you about economy and things like that i'm not i'd be like you arguing about quarterbacks from the 60s okay okay so i'm giving you that fair but what i'm saying is
Okay, with the four-day workweek, is your economy?
Well, how about this?
They just hire more people then, so your economy is real good because you need more people to fill all those other days.
I'm not.
Thank you, Ty.
And
more time for leisure that you can actually go
do
something.
Absolutely.
I don't know.
When did I say I'm not opposed to the four-day workweek of 10 hours a
day?
Well, you said, you said, how's your
economy?
So that, yeah.
Yeah, if it's eight hours.
You ripped the date.
Yeah, I don't know the day's economy.
I know
I
do the problem is though, too We have a lot of people working five days a week, but they're working 50 hours They're working 10 hours
those days.
So it's
like, yeah, come on, right,
right?
It's almost like that.
I just read some of that stuff I know a lot of it's BS.
We just read some but it's like, you know, think about this
You work, you know, oh, yeah, how many hours a day for four hours off?
You work how many hours for and another thing, you know what they're talking about and I this hit me because I'm starting to get up there a little bit age wise.
I'll
be with you.
Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with I'm just laid out there.
I'm gonna be honest and
I know I don't look at it.
But anyway, um, at least you don't look like the lunch lady.
Come on.
Stop it.
I can say that.
I can
say that.
Turn his mic up.
Turn his mic up.
Turn his mic up.
No, no, no.
John, you're the one who showed me.
Turn his mic
up.
No, Todd, turn his mic up.
And
he showed me the planning committee.
And it was a picture of what, nine people?
Maybe it's more than that, 12 people.
And I'm like, John, what's the lunch lady doing in that picture?
One
person aged a little bit.
No, no, they're all.
No, they did.
It looked like that.
And then
I said, well,
was this guy your teacher?
And it wasn't just they looked old.
Their hairstyle was
old.
Quick
break back after this,
man.
Wow.
At least you look young.
Wow.
I did some disco, Mew.
I did some disco dancing here yesterday, Lisa.
A lot of people said, oh my God, that was
so hot.
Painful.
They said it was
hot.
Hey, Lisa.
Hi, Lisa.
Yes.
Hello.
How are you?
Big
plans.
We're good.
We are excited about the fourth.
You
have
plans.
We are the fun weekend coming up.
Yep.
Four day work week.
I actually have a four day weekend.
I'm going to be off Friday and Monday.
And you
know what I'm going to do?
It's
too
long.
I'm going to sleep.
Well.
If you get up at three o'clock, you go and grill like Jim does.
Sleep's overrated.
I still can't believe you're outside with the lights on, grilling at three in the morning.
You know your neighbors were hearing
that.
Nah, there's a little space
there.
I don't.
Yeah, well, I had to get that.
Whatever.
Hi, Lisa Hale.
If they weren't hearing the grilling, they were definitely smelling it.
Could
you imagine
waking up first thing in the morning and smelling burgers and everything
grilling?
Absolutely.
Chicken.
Yes, that's what happened.
It did smell good, I will say that.
How's the weather in beautiful downtown?
Oh, gosh, right now.
absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, it is sincerely gorgeous over here.
It is awesome.
The next four days, although I did see that might might rain Saturday tomorrow night.
Every forecast has a little bit of rain in it in every single one.
But anyway, what do you got going on, Lisa?
What's going on with your new Wisco?
Well, new Wisco weekend this weekend is really a great one.
We've got a kind of a
combined theme happening here.
We're talking a lot about the 4th of July because it is the 4th of July weekend.
And so we've got stories on PTSD and fireworks and fireworks safety and stuff like that.
But we also are our code theme is rock and roll because Monday, June 7th is National Rock and Roll Day.
I did not know that.
Yes, Terry Barr has a great feature story on that that we'll start the issue off with and we've got lots of little tidbits all the way through it.
Our musical guest is the Bodines.
Do you remember
the Bodines?
Absolutely.
I absolutely love
the entire 90s were the Bodines.
Absolutely.
I'm telling you, I'm telling you.
So yeah, we feature them and then our cover story.
this week is a little bit off topic, but it's something that's very important.
And it's an interview that our Melissa K did with Feeding America on just how those federal cuts are going to affect food insecurity here in Wisconsin.
So that's a very good interview with Melissa K as our cover story.
Okay, I've asked this before and I don't mean to be uncomfortable here, but how come you never asked me to do a story for New Whisker Weekend?
You were a cover story a couple of weeks ago.
You know that but
I was wasn't he also the centerfold that way?
Yeah, all right,
and
then we did
and
Did
writings went way right?
That's we didn't air either one.
No, I want to be a reporter I would be the person doing the the questioning type thing
You can do that if you if you want to put together an interview.
Yeah
needs to be 13 and a half seconds
13 and a half minutes is the length of the interview.
That's all you have for an interview or you can create a story for me.
That's about say three minutes, a three minute package.
Anytime you just create something and get it to me.
You got to do me one favor first though, because I'm not going to be the guy to try to do it.
What's that?
Make sure Todd will stick around long enough to
ride the
board.
You go have to talk to Todd about that.
That's the hard part.
I
cannot tell him to do
anything.
Join our club.
I think Lisa is the
only one who realizes in this whole mess of Northeast Wisconsin that I am the boss.
Thank
you,
Lisa.
Thank
you.
I was thinking of both of you guys the other day where they're doing the heat index thing and Jackson, Mississippi was like 107 because there's
like a hundred and then the humidity.
I thought that has to be just brutally miserable.
Jackson, Mississippi at that hot at that heat.
Jackson, Mississippi itself is brutally
when we were working at Y 101.
Lisa, I was my first gig down in the south, right?
I'd been in Toledo, Ohio and I moved down there and met Lisa, which is a whole.
We could do a whole show on Lisa's
show on
that.
But I got out of the car and I left my chapstick in the front.
Okay.
And I got in and I go, Oh, I better go get that.
Got out there.
The whole thing had melted
all
over everything.
Yeah.
Like, and I was literally in the building 30 seconds.
Oh, yeah.
In
Tucson, actually in Tucson and in Phoenix, um, I didn't have, you know, a lot of those people that, uh, you could buy these things, reflective things to
put in your windshield
so they didn't and
If you didn't, I mean, there were times I would have to have like paper towels or something holding the steering wheel
that
plastic would get so hot.
It was mind boggling.
And then the dashboard would like crack.
Oh, yeah, all the time.
That would happen.
I mean, we talk about crazy things, but that heat is inside of it.
And that's where they're saying, I hate to say this, but, you know, with people either tragically kids or animals or something.
No idea how hot a car can get with those windows.
Oh,
yeah.
Even if it's say 75 degrees out.
And that's, you know, a nice temperature when it's 75, I'm happy.
It will be 90 degrees in your car or hotter.
So that's something that people really need to remember just because the outside temperature is lovely.
The inside temperature of a car is brutal.
I also noticed Lisa living down there that everybody had just a little bit of twang to their smell all the time.
Well, yeah, because you sweat all
the time.
So it's not, you know, up here, people can smell fresh.
Maybe in a
hot day, you get a little bit of that with no everybody down there had
a
little bit of something.
Jim's got working today.
Well, he
smells like he's grill after
I grilled first.
I did not think yeah, whatever.
Maybe a little bit.
It's
OK.
It's not a bad smell.
Just
making me hungry.
It is.
It was a girl.
Smell coming out of there.
Milton didn't want to leave
today.
Oh, yeah.
What are you doing this weekend for the holiday, Lisa?
Besides, yeah.
But no, Friday, Friday, I'm going to go.
Here in Oshkosh, they've got at Menominee Park.
They're doing the fireworks celebration and
on the fourth.
Yep.
On the fourth.
Yes.
If it rains, it'll move to
Saturday.
Hey, Jim, just give me those.
I like
the fourth.
Damn
it.
But I'm going because of the food trucks.
Yeah.
Seriously, we're going to we're going to have about 20 food trucks
in Oshkosh
Ground Menominee Park.
on friday so i'm going to go and i'm going to sample me some yummy food
nice
you can tell i mean look at me
i
enjoy food well
you know what i'll do correct me if i'm wrong but it seems like
I mean, it's almost like showing up
and Jim, you kind of talked about this, like having an ethnic area where you can try a little bit of this track.
I mean, there's Indian food trucks.
There's Thai food trucks.
There's, you know,
Haitian food trucks.
Right.
Yeah.
And you
can still get the old Bratton burger if
you want to.
We had some.
politics with food truck rallies.
Maybe because we have more municipalities.
We just, I just remember struggling with the county to do, those are great.
Is the Tarleton trying to do that a little bit?
He is.
Okay.
He is, but there was some municipal things going on.
And it's kind of like, while in music, they just kind of got ahead of us.
We're all
trying to catch up.
Oshkosh has done some things and we're trying to catch up.
But yet we're the largest community, and I
don't know if
it's
more
political.
But food truck rallies, I mean, look at what Nashville does, my guy.
Ages get thousands
of people.
But I mean, you can just bounce from one to one.
And God bless the brick and mortars and how hard it is to struggle with.
Sure.
Nothing against them whatsoever.
But for festival type things like that, to be able to bounce from one to one and where you don't have to sit and wait or whatever.
And some people have both.
Yeah, exactly.
That sounds like fun.
Is it one theme or is it just...
Oh, no, it's not one theme.
There are so many different.
I mean, there's there's the agro food truck.
There's Caribbean taste.
There's busted spuds.
There's I believe the Indian food trucks going to be out there.
Polora Cafe is going to be out there.
I mean, so many food trucks.
Okay, we were talking about this yesterday, though.
So for burgers, Jim and I both agreed that
hamburgers are you got to have cheese and it's got to be melted on there and you don't need a whole bunch of other things and I that's the only thing he and I agree on what about yourself how do you like your burgers
okay when it comes to a hamburger I like it medium rare
And I do like lettuce, tomato, and onion.
If it does not have onion, it is not a good hamburger to me.
I agree with you on that.
I'll take the.
I like onion on mine.
I do too.
Fried or raw.
Raw.
Raw.
Raw.
Definitely raw.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I can take or leave cheese.
Oh, really?
Wow.
OK.
Sorry,
Lisa,
nice to know you.
Yeah, I went to a, I just told these guys yesterday that I went to it, it was kind of a buffet where you kind of get your hamburger or the bun and you go down and they didn't have cheese and I just kind of set it aside.
I mean, cheese is great.
It's great.
It
really is.
But if it's if it's an American cheese slice, it's like, OK, fine.
But I mean,
if it's because I I've sent back hamburgers at fast food places because because they take that.
You know where it was bad at
the
burger king in is it Mischekot?
You know that one if the gas station is attached to the gas station or Maribel, one of those twice that happened to me.
I get my cheeseburger.
And I go out to the car.
I want to see the
manager.
And the cheese is cold.
Yeah.
And
when you think of a Burger King attached to a gas station, you think that they would have better cheese choices than a cold slice of cheese, right?
Yeah.
Well,
I drive a little
further and find a better place.
You want to know the greatest combination when I lived in Flint, Michigan, the greatest combination of a place to go to there was a it was a laundry mat connected with a baby ribs joint.
And those baby you put your clothes in the thing and you go over and you have your baby ribs.
Oh, I love a good baby rib.
I mean, those combinations are, you know, you need to do
that.
Nancy, just text it in, by the
way.
Lisa Hale I am here for you.
I love love love cheese, but I prefer my hamburger without it
Thanks Nancy
Nancy.
It's just I love cheese, but it doesn't All it does is add a little bit of um
Greatness.
Greatness.
Right.
Right.
Richness.
Oh.
Okay, at
least I can taste it.
So today at 915, I'm going to be sitting at a great little breakfast place here called Delilah's.
And I'm going to have the same thing I've ordered ever since the first time I had it.
It's not the all the all pork thing.
My stomach got a little something from that all pork.
It was it was it was an all pork.
It was
I thought it was all pork.
Now it's like, now it's all protein, but it was just
fried pork.
It was, it was, I, you didn't like it, but
it
was.
Yeah.
So what are
you
going to get?
Pimento cheese omelet.
Yeah.
Pimento cheese.
I'd never tasted it before that.
Yeah, that's good.
Oh, have you ever had that?
Cause that's a
southern.
I've tasted Pimento cheese before.
No.
I've had everything on that
menu.
I lived in the South and Pimento cheese sandwiches are a staple in the
South.
Well, I know at the Masters, that's the big thing.
At Augusta, Georgia, Pimento cheese.
That's Georgia.
I don't think you can even buy it around here.
Sure you
can.
Pimento's cheese
bread stuff.
Julian Dunn bought some up in like, Dork County, but I don't know if they make it around here.
Kraft
actually makes them in little jars.
Do they
really?
Yeah, they do.
Yep.
What's a good cheese shop around here?
Is there one?
There's so many.
I mean, there's a good one.
There's simons and no and renards, I guess.
But
even at festival, they have a good cheese selection.
But yeah, you can't fight where like all the cheeses are.
You got to go find they have their own little.
Higher specialty.
Yeah, that's
what I'm
looking
for.
You know what I was just pointing out?
I went to the next time on a new diet.
OK, right?
That's not
working because you're
up
14 pounds.
But I'm up four pounds, Todd.
OK, 11 plus three.
OK, I'm on.
Listen to me.
Listen to me.
It's so healthy.
It's mind boggling.
Okay.
I got frozen strawberries, fresh frozen strawberries mixed with protein.
That doesn't make sense.
Fresh frozen.
Um, probably mixed with protein powder and tang and it's in a little bit of yogurt, Greek yogurt, unflavored.
It's phenomenal.
It's so healthy for you.
But my sandwiches, get this Lisa.
You love this.
It's, it's sliced, colorabi.
Okay.
That is good.
Yes.
Slice, colorabi with sliced onions.
Okay.
A piece of cheese.
light male in a lettuce wrap.
That's not bad.
All right, guys.
New Wiska weekend coming up this weekend, Saturday at 8 Sunday at 11 on WGV
double.
Have fun this weekend.
Have
a great, great week to celebrate.
You bet.
Lots to celebrate.
We guys are a great break back.
Hey,
welcome back!
Minor of the Mayor here, and a beautiful, beautiful July 3rd.
Got some texts here.
Another word for the bingo carton.
Mind boggling.
Yeah,
you like the word catch?
Yeah.
I got another one here, John.
That Burger King in Maribel is now a family restaurant and is very good food.
Like I was saying,
imagine
you screw up a Burger King.
And they did.
By the way, what comes to mind when you say picnic hamburgers, old fashioned Fireman's Park picnic burgers, Scotty.
You're right.
Old.
So is that the old Fireman's Park type of burger?
Oh, yeah.
It's like almost a
smash burger.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Because smash burgers Mark Houston imply.
Well, sports matters.
How you doing, buddy?
Good.
How
are you guys?
We're good.
Excellent.
Excited off tomorrow
weekend.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think that's
very funny what you brought in to show me.
Well, thank you.
Thank you to Charlie.
I love it.
I love it.
All right.
All right.
No, I was just saying, OK, we're going to talk about high school sports, physicals, right?
In our day, that's all you did was turn your head and coughed.
Yep.
I don't know anybody that ever flunked their high school physical.
Didn't matter.
That's all the doctors just next cough next cough.
cough, cough.
But I did have a serious sports injury that I told you about.
Yep.
And they had to use a hyperthermic hyperdermic needle like the size when they inject horses with steroids or whatever they do.
Okay.
That's what they used on me.
So I'm just saying that ended your career.
I stymied it didn't end but you know, it was a roadblock.
It was over before it began.
Right.
Who knows what I could have been, right?
I could have been a Heisman candidate.
You could have been a contender.
You could have been drafting the NFL draft.
Not even a question about that.
There's a lot of five, eight and a half
quarterbacks
up.
How
you doing,
Mark?
Great.
Great.
Are you
a big fourth of July like you camped you?
is it a thing for your family?
You had three of you, right?
Yeah, yeah.
There's three of us.
I heard you guys talking.
Yeah, we talked about going to, I'll say it, I think it's the dream beach of all of Wisconsin.
To the Nechotos.
Nechotos.
Absolutely.
I think it's one of them.
Get there early, get in the morning place.
Not around Green Bay or Dorkoni.
I'm just telling you that I have friends who told me about this beach.
Thank you, Terry and Sue Beck.
Many, oh.
You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know
Have a great day on the beach.
They do that.
You guys just talk about food trucks.
They got food trucks.
They got concessions They got bathrooms very reasonably priced.
Yeah,
everything,
you know, and there's music on some nights I
just and I again just put in a plug for another place that's one of my favorite places is Port Sandy Bay just down the road from there phenomenal pizza phenomenal fish
and it's that pizza's been the same since we've been in high school.
Yeah, they're consistent
That is great great pizza and you can get it you can eat there Which is great great service, but it's fun to take it to go to
and I'm not calling you guys old But if that's when that's how long it's gone it must say something about what it is absolutely I mean if they've held that tradition.
Yeah, man Why not go to it?
You know, I think so many times we go to the we have to so goes back to your question Jim It just break it out this weekend if you guys are listening on this radio Run down there for a day.
Yeah, I mean you got three days now.
That's what my wife just said this morning.
Oh
Maybe some rain, but every day is probably rain every
day.
Yeah.
Yeah,
but I'll tell you what two rivers has a couple of other places Waverly Beach Waverly's good.
Waverly's great pizza And then a place I've never gone and I can't believe I have it because you know why because we always eat and then you're so full You know, but that ice cream parlor in that building.
That's like 150 years
old at the museum.
Yeah, that's a great ice cream.
If their fireworks are good for a little 12,000.
Yeah municipality Yeah, two of us are fun back and I've only spent
that's that's just a great little community and I love it.
I mean, that's
and the greatest place for fireworks.
You ever find you sit in a baseball stadium that's built in like again, 1890 or something where the bleachers are built into the hill.
Yep.
I just had a friend from my home.
So I'm home.
My hometown is Janesville, Southern Wisconsin and a friend of mine.
I don't even know why he was up here a couple weeks ago and they pulled in at like 930 at night into two rivers and his family's big baseball fans and they're like.
What is going on here at 9 30 on a Friday night?
You know and they were he had a post
okay?
I'm gonna say one thing though within a three-hour Drive of right at three and a half hour drive of where we are right here right now there is one beach that I think is Literally does rival any of the beaches in the United States
and
that's it.
No, it's a train
By municing on Lake Superior.
Oh when we had Dom up there a couple of years like I can't believe this This is like unbelievable and how clear the water is now It's like superior so it's but you know he could handle it You can't believe how beautiful how big this beach is up by municing, Michigan Anybody has anybody been up there to a train?
Unbelievable beach.
I haven't heard of that one.
You
that would be a great road trip for
you guys But it you know again, it's like I said I think there's so many people who have lived in Green Bay or Oshkosh Appleton
And haven't made that our drive right in the shoulder.
So it's just I love the but you know what?
I think two rivers people like don't tell anybody It's
you know, and it's amazing.
I mean we I still remember we had friends It was back when it was like 98 one year.
We're all sitting here on July 3rd going What are we all gonna do?
And it's like a whole bunch just went over there and it was just you know three four hours Yeah, you know grab grab even if you want to grab a sub and eat I mean it just you do have to get there early.
Yeah, otherwise you'll be walking
But that's, you don't have to go on the 4th of July, but you just go during the summer and it's pretty quiet during the summer.
I mean, if you go on a Tuesday.
I'll tell you what
else, it's great though, in the fall when they have the big storms.
Wow, is that a great place to sit and watch those storms roll in?
I bet.
I mean, they come in there like you can't believe.
I think they used to do a kite festival there.
They did.
They did.
That was a lot of fun.
Yeah, that was the great thing.
They were almost known for that for a while.
Yeah, they were.
That was a big deal.
The other thing that I think, you know,
put on your list for a family thing with the three of you guys.
A lot of families is that Man Talk to Luddington.
That's a fun thing.
Oh, the Badger?
Yeah, the Badger.
Yeah, we've talked about it.
Okay,
that's the thing that's fun to just go by where they dock
and watch it.
That's fun to watch it.
But that is just a really cool thing.
And then, you know, being Mr. Dad, we did that when we were kids and we had a million of us.
But then my dad always said when you can't see land and you throw a penny over and make a wish.
So we got pennies in there.
We're gonna set
a
quick break.
Mark Houston, amplify by Fountain Health Sports Medicine.
Back after 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.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Just a beautiful morning out there.
63 in Green Bay, 66 in Alpton, 65 in Oshkosh, mostly sunny high in the lower 80s today.
I think we sent quite a few people going into two rivers
this weekend.
It's awesome.
I
mean, and why not?
It's cool.
It's a beautiful beach.
Get there early.
Yeah.
Check out it in two or get there later
and
We're there one day and this guy gets out with these little kids.
And I thought, what's wrong with this guy?
He digs this huge hole, then takes 20, 30, I don't know how many buckets of water from the lake and pours it in.
So it's like he made a beach swimming pool for the
kids.
I didn't quite get that.
Yeah.
Have you ever seen that before?
That's
a lot of work.
I know, right?
Yeah, that's.
I don't
know.
Can't you just keep them?
Can't they play in the beach and
put an eye on them?
I will also say that we used to do, I think we've probably done it five, six times.
We've rented an RV and the first RV trip we did was the campsite just north of Nishota Beach.
Is it Point Beach?
That's where it's Port Sandy Beach.
So we went there and
It was their beach was gone.
The water levels went up and on destroyed their dock.
Yeah, so we say let's go down back in the shoulder.
So we have an RV.
Oh, we parked it right along the road.
As I said, it's a
real narrow road.
They're going but parked got a got a got a spot and it was the best where you could go in the water, sand, come back.
Shower that's cool and head home.
That's bad.
Yeah, I was like man.
That was nice
You know, it's kind of cool because I I'm hoping to do a van life for a couple of years.
Okay, and Gas
station bathrooms and no, no,
no, no, no, no, here's
what
I'm
saying.
Okay, we're no driver on the toilet in the back one producer laughing one
host may I
finish may I finish
So you work your whole life to drive around.
Okay.
Well, okay.
John finished.
Yeah.
But I don't have confidence in myself that I wouldn't knock stuff over driving a big RV and I go back up good and I'll go corners.
Okay.
So
that's good.
I'm glad to hear that.
What I'm saying is they're making small ones now with all the amenities of the big ones.
Have you seen some of those small RVs now?
Half the size of a big RV?
If you get, if you got money, I think you can get what you want.
Are they expensive?
What
are they?
Okay.
But that's a tiny home, right?
No, yeah, but no, no, no, but you
can't stand
up and they got hydraulics in these things where The bedroom is up above now and everything that's awesome Or I'd like to get one of those things one of those vans we can drive and you can you can let you pitch a tent on top of the van
That's what I was thinking and you know, I don't
Right now, Todd's rolling his eyes.
This is what would
happen.
What's going to happen to that guy?
Remember that guy I told you about?
He slept on top, and then he came down to go to the bathroom.
What happened to him?
I
don't know.
What guy?
I told you that guy.
No, I
don't.
You never told me the guy.
Yeah, but this is what happened.
I'm trying to remember that.
You don't remember that?
No.
The tent would go up for John.
John would say, I'm going to go down the next destination.
He'd forget to bring that tent down.
That's possible.
But you know what my dream is?
I told you that.
Spent one year going from one college football game to the next.
just just all the way through
like start
off at University of Michigan, maybe then I really want to go to like West Point and then go down to go to like Alabama,
LSU, SC, SC, SC.
That's my
dream to spend
one, six months
just
traveling
from
high school from college football to college football.
That would be fun.
Yeah, I
can
see you doing that.
Yeah, your your Saturdays.
Well, your Sundays are going to be tough.
You'll be recovering on your son.
I'll just recover.
Yeah,
but but
even I'd like you know what I'd like to do I'd like to go to like the Todd Talks with high school football in Georgia They get
like a thousand people.
Correct.
I'd like to throw the Friday nights I'd love to go to a high school game
and some of those said if you could tie those things together on what you do on a Monday Tuesday and Yeah, you could really have a you could I think you can have an interest
right, you know You could probably be in subtle.
Okay.
Let's say Georgia Okay, I mean they said that's quite the experience at the University of Georgia Friday night at one of these unbelievable high school football places
Saturday University of Georgia Sunday at the Atlanta Falcons against somebody.
I'm with Vinnie.
What's Vinnie saying?
Johnny, just buy the damn plane tickets.
Sparky says, hi, I'm John Mino.
I live in a van down by the river, but it's a very cool van with a raised thing.
You know, I think that that
could be fun.
Johnny and hydraulics don't go together for me.
There'd be some sort of bad injury, John, but there's manuals.
Yeah.
Well, you know,
you'd
see the country and yeah, that
we did say we did say though John even said it himself What oh, you know driving larger vehicle?
No, no, that'd be changing lanes back enough.
No
freeway.
Yeah, the ones we would rented our 25 31 Well, we're a little big Johnny let's
go.
We'll take my 38
order.
Yeah, Torrey is he knows what he's doing.
You know what I thought about that because I actually sold when I was in real estate
uh, these people in in Manitowoc moved over from Minnesota here.
Okay.
And, um, they, I was waiting for them and they, they said, okay, we're, we got the big RV.
We're, we're in wherever we'll be there by such, such.
Come there and they, they pull in and stuff.
It's like, pardon.
I said, how did it go?
The guy goes, good.
The guy said, I gotta run to the men's room.
She goes, oh my god, we knocked over three mailboxes and a roadside.
But a
small little.
That would be fun.
Those are, those are hard to drive.
16 feet down.
Yeah.
12 feet.
That'd be nice.
Todd, the company should buy me one.
That
would be, that could be fun.
I
could see you
doing that.
Put that in the budget for 2026.
Yes.
But I think, is it, you can have the bathroom in there.
Yes.
See, you gotta clean that out though.
Well, they got those new ones though, where they're all organic.
All organic.
What does that mean?
I don't
even know what that means.
Cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching.
Okay.
Okay.
I'll be honest with you.
To pee.
I just pull over.
Yeah.
I've thought everybody's done that where you pretend like you're getting some out of the side of the car.
This is just getting
to some
guy did that.
He got eaten by a line.
Where?
He did.
He got he was up on top sleeping and he went
to
that.
I'm not going to do a safari.
Well, just don't get eaten by a line.
OK.
Yeah.
OK.
Well, when I go to Tams in the end, Jim, I'll sleep inside.
You could
get mugged.
You could get mugged.
I'm very dangerous.
I'm not going to get
mugged.
You're in a hotel.
You're not going to get mugged.
OK, trust me.
I would have my 38 with me.
Yeah, you would, though.
I
would.
Not that I want to interrupt too much, but you know the story John was talking about earlier, how the maintenance guy from the building went in his apartment and said, still thinking about getting a cleaning woman?
Can you imagine what his camper would be like?
Right.
There you go.
We have to call social service.
Now we need two vans though because we have one van that's going down the road with John.
Second van is going to follow John.
This could be like Big Ten
TV.
It would be
a whole new me.
I don't know that.
There's something about this that could work for you.
I know
because it's gonna check some pretty good box absolutely the games and
I bet you could find places to sleep in all those college towns You know college weekend type thing,
you know
parking
lots Walmart.
That's
what I mean.
Yeah Yeah, I could see you doing that me to writing the story.
Yeah, posting it doing podcasts from the road
Absolutely doing a blog the whole thing.
There'll probably be some incidents in butte modern channel.
Yeah
John how come you keep going back to you like Charles Croll?
Why do you keep going back to this place?
We're both talking about how Charles Croll was like we just loved his stories and he inspired me I mean I'm not even joking about this Charles Croll was part of my inspiration about doing really like normal people you know small town this guy who normally the networks would never do but you know this guy who's done whatever for 72 years in the back of his shop hand forging
Donkey shoes or you know something like that, okay?
My favorite place is a little cabin in the picturesque Rocky Mountains of Montana with a small stream cascading and I listen to the sound of the water
Fresh water that you can drink ready from the stream cascading over the rocks.
You go there all the time.
It's like, OK, OK, you've been there, but you keep going there.
It's like, the hell's up there?
Turns out he
had a little something, something on the side up there at the cabin.
Producer never caught on.
So he died.
She came out of the woodwork.
It's like, you know, half that is mine.
Yeah.
Royalties.
Charles got around.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That would be fun for you to do because you're not big flyer and you don't that's.
Yes.
That's something to think about.
You should like
I am.
It's not going to be that
expensive to do that either.
I used to OK.
I used to want to do something that's considered a little not cool anymore.
Converting a school bus.
That used to be the big thing.
You can drive that.
Convert.
No, I know.
But converting school buses were the big thing.
Remember that.
Yeah.
People would put in bunks and everything like that.
I think some people still do it.
They do.
Yeah.
A lot of social media people do the bus.
They rehab the whole thing.
They sell their house.
They live in the bus.
I think it I think that's kind of came out of code.
I can travel.
I can do things virtually.
So guess what?
Let's go.
Did you go to school in a long bus or a short bus?
Okay, I got a thing here, Todd.
Good morning.
On behalf of the power tool horns and Woody, thank you for having us on yesterday.
We had a great time.
A big thanks to Todd for all of his work to love you guys.
Fluff.
That's awesome.
Later this morning, we will feature the music that they brought to us yesterday
morning right here.
So I listen to I share they played at my wedding.
So I played it yesterday at the house.
So it's a yeah, I can't imagine.
I played it later on, but I heard it live.
So I can't imagine what it was.
It was unbelievable.
It was, I mean, Jim and I were both like, we're covered in goosebumps.
Yeah.
And you know, we've been doing this for two years.
You don't want to say it best because other people are like, oh, my show was good, too.
But it was, you got to say it was one of the best shows we ever had.
It was just so emotional and so like, and we were really surprised.
Like, we didn't know it was coming.
I mean, John Kramer hooked that up for us.
And we're both like.
We thought they were going to show you what Jim said though.
Oh my God.
I went out
to the lobby and there were four of them sitting there and I'm like, whoa, this, I don't know.
I guess I read that they were coming in, but I don't know.
Anyway, I went out there and I'm like, oh, whoa, this looks like a $3,000 expense.
And he said, ah, that was 20 years ago.
Cost a little bit more.
We were standing right there watching Woody sing.
And we were just literally.
And we've got some we've had some phenomenal talents come through musically,
but this was a different level lives in Hollywood just traveled just did a tour from the west coast of the east
coast.
I think here's the thing about it.
If you would play the original version of that.
And if you pick two or two of them.
I'll take what?
But if you would have said, hey, pick which one it is, I don't know if you would have known.
I've seen Ray Charles.
And he's been angry with me.
Because when you said that, it was going to be Ray Charles in that audition, I was just like, oh, yeah, this is going to be pretty good.
You got
a text here.
Michael says, I'm going to Alabama versus Wisconsin at Alabama.
Want to join?
Wow.
Yes.
And Lisa says, I have ticket connections to Georgia.
No, and LSU.
LSU, I'm sorry.
Oh, LSU.
Yeah.
Oh, that was Mike.
OK.
Have you ever been to a big-time college game like outside of Wisconsin type thing
Like a night game
because I would almost only
want to go to night games.
I was at you know, I was at a Wisconsin Michigan game.
Oh Pretty good.
It was at
Wisconsin or at Michigan
at Michigan.
Yeah, I think they're up 18 points at half Guess who won?
Oh, I had to leave you
know one thing about Michigan Stadium though.
It's it's not
You don't you think it's a hundred and eight
or seven?
That
sounds bigger than NFL.
But it doesn't feel
that big.
No,
it's weird because you can drive.
You think you're like the first time I went there.
This is no lie.
I missed it.
I drove past it.
Well, you know, it's sunk in the ground, sunk in the ground or built up on the sides or I don't know.
I don't know the best way to say it.
But you're looking at your expect.
You're waiting to see this.
Yeah.
Unbelievable big
thing.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Yeah.
So it's beautiful.
But I have I will say.
I'm a big 10 fan, but I would have loved to have gone to like an LSU, Georgia game, LSU, Alabama game, Saturday night, I think.
I've got
Notre Dame games.
Yeah, I went to a Notre Dame game.
Everybody should do that one time.
Yep, that's another place.
And
those guys who own the Northland, they're huge, huge Penn State guys.
Well,
that's quite the place, too.
Well, that's quite the
place.
Take care of you on that.
But you know what?
The pageantry of college football is so much better than the NFL.
It's incredible.
And they got the ultimate tailgate party there.
They do those.
What are the big steaks thing?
Yeah, they do the Tomahawk steaks.
I think
that's banned these days.
No, the Tomahawk steaks.
They do the Tomahawk steaks.
What
are the steaks?
I'll
show
you the Tomahawk for a
steak.
What's
going
on
here?
I don't
know.
Help
me.
Keep up.
I've seen enough to know that we've got it good.
Where the stars and stripes and eagle
fly.
Hey, welcome back.
Mine on the Mirror in a beautiful July 3rd.
It doesn't get much better than today.
Beautiful day out there.
Nice forecast.
We're with Mark Hewson.
Amplify by Bell and Health Sports Medicine.
Vinny says, if Mino goes on this trip, one travel van.
one has Matt Van.
Thank you very much.
Michael says it's been to Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Florida State, LSU Clemson, my amy, uh, and Georgia Florida game and Jacksonville.
How much cooler of a life does Michael have than us?
Michael
should live in the, in the southeast.
I'm disappointed someone would yield you.
What's that?
Okay.
My brother did the, uh, um, baseball.
Oh, yeah,
well,
I know some people do that.
That's kind of easy to do.
Yeah, because they're kind of close.
Yeah.
They're like
Detroit Pittsburgh.
Yeah.
Oh,
yeah.
Okay, so you're doing all this stuff for your family.
You got a phenomenal weekend coming up.
Did all the cooking at three o'clock this morning.
By the way, what do you think of
that, Mark?
He's got that three o'clock
morning.
The neighbors loved that one.
He agreed, though, that that was he thought it out.
Yeah.
But
And then you did something yesterday to take care of dogs.
No, no, no, I'm just but I mean, you've you've been perfect.
It's like, wow, I'm what a shining example.
A lot of dads do that.
That's Mr.
Dads who you leave at home.
Look, he's happy.
I talked to him about it.
I said, look, Milton's staying home, but his cousin, my daughter's dog is there and.
So all
these dogs are re frolicking and your dogs will be cooped up in the house.
No, no, his the babysitter we got.
He likes her a lot.
So no, he's got no, it's all good.
It's okay.
Mark.
Yeah.
So, Mark, we got high school football coming up down the road.
We're gonna
reveal it.
I think two weeks.
Yeah.
Yeah, we're finishing up some of our commercials next week so they can get edited.
It's going to be here before you know it.
But you guys are going to be a part of it again, right?
Yep, we're all part of it.
So you guys are trying to get ready.
Such a part.
And that's what it is.
Starting to get ready for fall seasons.
I know, hey, we just talked about summer, but everything's going to come fast and furious.
We all just said, man, June's already done.
I know.
So I just said, you know, hey, my reminder, my preach, because it's for the next six weeks, get out there, get your kids.
If your kids have to play sports, if they want to play sports, I should say, they do need a pre-participation exam.
So do the school
schedule those mark or is
it on the individual?
That's on the individual.
But if you are, I mean, we try to start in the middle school, but you're required in high school every other year in Wisconsin, every year in Michigan.
It's just, it's a quick exam.
When I say quick exam, it probably takes you 20 minutes, but they're going to check your vision.
They're going to check your heart.
They're going to check your lungs.
They're going to check your body parts.
They want to make sure that you're safe.
I'm
going to say something.
I was joking around about what I really did have, my torsion incident.
You don't even want me to get started.
That's a whole different show.
We could go on and on about that.
But I do know on a serious note, some young guys have been diagnosed because the doctors noticed something a little abnormal.
that wouldn't have been detected before and have caught some serious things early.
Yeah, you know, I mean, the big one right now that's being talked about is cardiac screenings.
You know, I mean, you can sit there and say, Hey, someone, you know, they don't we don't think they have any problems.
They don't have any symptoms.
But even as my wife knows, sometimes these things kind of creep up.
It doesn't matter if you're age, you could you could be 10 15 20, you could be 40 50 60.
So it's one of those things.
If you have something, we want to make sure we catch it.
someone asked me, how many times does everyone go through a physical and you never can participate?
I don't think I've ever heard anyone get disqualified ever.
Now, I'm not going to say that it hasn't happened, but it's just one of those things.
It's a good preventive technique.
Are you ready?
The other thing, it's kind of like, Hey, you know, do you have anything wrong?
No, no, no, no, yes.
And all these knows, then also during the exam, you know what?
My knee still hurts from an injury that I had six months ago.
Oh, well, let's take a look at and find out.
Geez, it was never taken care of because it got injured in the last game of the year.
So, if you, you know, and I tell people, talk to your primary care physicians, they do them at fast care, urgent cares, just get out, be seen.
It, you know, it'll, for some people, it'll be your insurance.
If you're a partner in school with Bell and we do them for $20, we turn the $20 back over to the schools.
How do they
make a reservation?
or an appointment.
A lot of times, you know, just call your primary care physician and get scheduled.
That may be one of your tougher ones.
If you're last minute, we do have fast care urgent cares where you can walk in and probably spend 70 bucks, 80 bucks.
And like I said, if you're a partner in school, it's $20, but it's easy to do.
The biggest thing I'm saying this, it's July 3rd.
don't wait till August 5th on first day of football, or whatever.
It's August 17th.
I'm making that day up, but it's probably close.
First day of soccer, and you've waited the entire summer.
You didn't act on it, and now your kids screaming, going, I have practice at 3 PM, and I need this.
Why didn't you get it done back in July and August?
My point is, plan it out and get in.
All right.
That's good advice.
And you know, it's summer.
My father-in-law used to say, you know, July
I don't know that it's half over, but you know, we're going to see back to school stuff.
If you're a high school football athlete,
it's going to come quick.
It is.
So I think that's really good advice and, you know, $20, 20 minutes.
That's not a lot.
Yeah.
So in
state rule, they have to have it before they're about to practice.
Yeah.
Okay.
So it's so in high school, you should have it coming as a freshman and then you would get it done again in your junior year or right before your junior.
So twice in a high school period, if you're living in Michigan, you need to get it done every year.
And to your knowledge, which is pretty deep, there's no one's been disqualified, so there's no fear in doing it.
Yeah, I mean, if your question would be, have you ever heard anyone disqualified?
I have never heard anyone disqualified.
I would agree.
But I will say, I'm sure some people have been disqualified.
Some people may come up and say, hey, we do some of these cardiac screens, and sometimes to be like, hey, you need to get this thing, look at it, and get it ruled out.
Whatever.
Get it done.
Yeah, get it done.
I think that's the biggest thing.
you know, it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
it's it's it's it's it's it's it's
Still a lot of my friends and trivers, trivers.
Quick break, back
in.
as they say.
Well, James Brown,
living in
America, baby.
Yeah.
That was not a bad James Brown.
That
was pretty
good.
Actually, if you could dance like him, that would be interesting.
You could do that.
We're here at Kelly and Jerry from the Elks Lodge.
Hello, ladies.
Hello.
Thanks for getting
up early and coming to see us.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Say your
last names for me so I know McCain.
McCann.
McCann.
McCann.
Downard.
Yes.
Okay.
There you go.
Thank you very much.
A little prize.
Thank you very
much.
Yeah, you said it better than my grandma.
We got married.
We took her five years.
Love it.
Well, you guys got a lot going on.
You guys have done so much for the community.
We wanted to recognize you and Jim's got all the details.
Well, we talk about how this, what makes this community work, are organizations like yours that raise money, give out grants.
Tell us some of the things you're working on and we just really appreciate what the Elks do.
Well,
The nice thing is this is something I know for myself and a lot of the Elks, we like to help in the community, but we can only do so much on our own.
So we found that going to the Elks for us helped us.
We get grants from both the Wisconsin Elks Association and Grand Lodge, which is the national Elks.
We get a freedom grant and we use that money for soup for vets.
We have a free meal for our veterans once a month.
It's the second Wednesday of every month, except July.
July is just too busy.
and where do you host that?
That's at the Elk's Lodge.
Right at the Lodge, okay.
3195 South Ridge Road.
And it's
been there forever,
huh?
Well, before that, it was downtown here.
Yeah, that's right.
A lot of people remember downtown.
They remember that, yeah.
And yeah, you bring your families, come on down.
It's not always soup.
Sometimes we cook out.
You know, we do a lot of different things.
And our cooks are
awesome.
Nice.
I just want to talk about how important that is, not for the meals, the socialization that
is so important as we get, not older, but it just, it pours a lot of widowers.
Absolutely, absolutely.
We have a group of brothers, they come, there's five brothers, and they all did multiple tours in Vietnam, and they come with their wives, but they socialize with everybody there, everybody socializes, and it's so nice.
I don't know if you realize it, we've had people come on here, psychologists, we've had people, that can help.
depression it can help with can lead to some not good things if people don't socialize so just thank you for keeping that up and that you've been doing that for some time I
just think that's been doing that for many years and then we also have crafts kits that we give out to our veterans and that's something else that you've had Gail Norr on here before with veterans first she's a member of ours and she's making the tiny home community and we are
going to be supplying them with a lot of different items.
One of the things is the craft kits and all they're free to, you know, any of the veterans that come in for super vets, we give them the craft kits.
There's a little thank you note.
It's pre stamped inside there.
They just need to send the thank you note so that the people that donate them to the alks get the recognition that they need.
But it's nice because they can sit down and they can sew or something or do some beadwork.
and talk to each other socialize and it's nice because that opens it up.
All right.
And what I like about the Elks is you really put you walk the walk.
I mean, you really.
Exactly.
That's exactly
what Kim
just
texted it.
The Elks walk the walk when it
comes to helping veterans.
Because when we hear about your organization, I used to attend quite a few of them like Johnny did too.
And it's just it's such a plethora of things that you that you offer.
So so then some of the things that that go on at the Elks Lodge are.
Now while the American Red Cross Drive is every Friday at the Elks Lodge, and then there's a modern twist Western Dance Club every Thursday night.
We have Soup for Vets is a free meal for the vets every second Wednesday of the month
in
July, except for July.
Then there's the Green Bay Accordion Club the first Saturday of the month.
except for in July there's
an accordion club
there's an accordion club that shows up at the lodge they come from all over wisconsin i
mean they travel and what do they do they play accordions they come
there and do a oh yes wow is it lessons or do they just like jam
they jam
isn't that fun you know what wouldn't that be fun on a friday morning because normally we do live music on fridays wouldn't they
come in here and play one of them is a member
We can give you a contact number.
We
would love that.
That is a, just an, I mean, everybody likes accordion music.
Oh, and
you can go listen to it if you just want to go listen to it.
All right.
Yeah.
That's cool.
All right.
So that's on the
first Saturday of the month.
Okay.
And then, uh, the, uh, the, uh, Carrie Calva Trivia, second Friday of every month, except for July.
And that funds, uh, two scholarships.
Wow.
That's neat.
Um, the Green Bay Deaf Club.
check the Facebook page for that,
because they have different
schedules.
Then the PAC, the Boy Scouts, 4163, they have meetings there, and then the Ladies American Legion Post, 539 has meetings there also.
I spoke at one of the Veterans Day.
activities you guys had there a few years back and boy that you guys treated those veterans so well and the meal you had just the door prizes and just the it was just a great great event in fact for one of my books.
I bet I came up with three candidates that are now in my book.
that I'm writing, you know, just from meeting them there in that social setting like that.
So you guys do a great thing up in my hometown and I've talked to Jim about this, the Elks, my brother's member, the Elks up in my hometown in the UP, they raise so much money by making and selling pasties.
You can't believe it.
It's legendary how much money they make selling pasties.
Oh, you should become an elk.
Do you know how many members of ours are from the UP?
I'll bet a lot.
I can count about 10 of them, myself included.
Where are you from?
Go ahead.
Oh my gosh.
Originally, Susan Marie.
Oh, you're a blue devil then.
Yes, I'm both.
You know what?
In those small communities up there, the Elks is kind of like the, you know, center
of
social
social.
Right.
It is.
It's great.
Yeah.
My grandpa's brother was an elk and I always thought, oh, he'd be so proud because I'm the club president, which is our exalted
ruler.
And then I thought, oh, he passed in the 70s.
He might have been kind of annoyed that they even let me in the door.
Right.
Things have changed.
You know better
pasties.
Oh, I can make a pasty.
But we do the broad fry down here.
We do broad fries.
And matter of fact, if you check our schedule, we have five of them coming up at Festival Foods.
Well, those are good broads.
Another text
there.
Just one of the underrated organizations that do so much for folks in our community.
Thank you from Rick.
Oh, you're welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And that's nice because just going through these things, you're very visible almost weekly.
Oh yeah, we do children's parties.
We do a Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.
So are you looking for new members?
Always.
Always.
Let's
talk about that.
Always
looking for new members.
If you are interested in becoming an elk, you can go to www.elks.org.
You can pop into the lodge, come in on a Thursday night.
The bartender can help you out, show you around, tell you about what's going on.
And you can go to...
Um, gb elks two five nine at gmail.com that will email our lodge or call us at nine two zero nine eight three nine two five nine.
And that phone rings to the secretary.
I love
what you guys are talking about with so many different types of activities, right?
You know, where it's the different days of the week and things like that.
Talk one more time.
The gym brought up about your brat fries.
Cause I want to be able to be push people there
when and
where.
We'll be at the Depeer festival foods, July 20th.
July 25th, and August 24th.
And
then the Kerry-Kulba Scholarship, they're doing two broadfies to help get more funds so they can give up.
larger amounts or more scholarships and those will be August 2nd and August 23rd.
All Green Bay.
And you have branches all over.
I know in two rivers my dad was the exalted ruler in two rivers and he called it the exhausted
rooster.
I actually have a pin my husband ordered me that says the exhausted ruler and I wore it to a conference and nobody
saw.
He said the exhausted rooster or something.
But he really enjoyed that and again what he liked about it was there's
just the variety of things that they did in two rivers.
And the thing is, you can put as little or as much time as you want.
Jerry, tell them about, I was in the hospital and I wasn't there, but everybody
stepped up and tried to help out, lead the meetings.
I was out for almost six months.
during Christmas.
So I missed Christmas.
I missed a lot of stuff.
And it went on without me.
You know, there are a lot of
organizations that have really well, the BFW is one of them that have really struggled for newer members.
How are you guys doing along those lines?
We're keeping our head above water.
Yeah, I think
so.
But it is every organization.
Optimist,
Rotary, all that stuff.
And
what there's got to be dues for this about
it's about $123 a year.
But it's prorated.
We go from April to
March and it's roughly $10 and something like $11 a month.
So they'll prorate it.
Right.
But when you think about it, putting in that much money, you know, you'd spend that much at Starbucks going there once or twice.
You could put that in.
Got a text here.
Just follow up when you're standing there.
Follow the green GB Elks Lodge 259 Facebook page for more details.
Elizabeth.
Elizabeth.
I knew that was Elizabeth.
Thanks, Elizabeth, for the
reminder.
And I just want to say that you do a lot of good, but
Selfishly you it's good to socialize with people.
That's really healthy people talk about diets and exercise, which is really important But you know you read a lot more about getting out of the house and talking to people and meeting people and this is a great way to do that
For
$11 a month.
Oh, I know I know like I said you can go to Starbucks and spend that yeah And
it's about the it's all about it is all about the social and the
The thing about the Elks is they remember you.
You become part of a group that they will not forget you.
If you're sick, they'll
send you a card.
They'll
visit you if you need a meal.
They'll show up.
They're just a wonderful...
Brotherly love it's all about the brotherly love.
That's great.
Oh, and we do a lot with the youth We've been talking a lot about them about the veterans, but not just that I we buy school supplies and give them to the kids that need and we fill backpacks and give them to kids We buy like $1,200 worth of winter clothes every year and we donate them to the school districts
You guys are old school in a really good way when I say that
and the more people we have the more members we have the more we can do
right beautiful true and when you look at
community.
And I know a little bit about that.
Those are the organizations that make it work.
You know, I mean, politicians might take the credit, but it is grassroots.
It's the nonprofit grassroots that that understand what the community needs to.
I mean, you're hearing things, you go to these meetings and say, look, these kids need school supplies.
It's Green Bay's changed a little bit.
And we there's a lot of needs out there.
And the Elks that came before us, they taught us so much, so much that we didn't even realize that how many years these things have been happening.
I mean, the Green Bay Elks has been
in Green Bay since 1893.
The Elks started out as a group of actors in New York in 1868.
They were called the Jolly Corks and one of their members died and left his family destitute and they decided that they were going to turn themselves into a group that was a benevolent protective order of the Elks.
And what they did is they're helping the widows, they're helping the children, they're helping people with homelessness.
you know, take
you got to just another quick texture.
It must be from your Elizabeth possibly.
Okay.
No, for membership information, you can email B G E L K S. So B G
G B.
It's backwards
backwards.
Green Bay.
Is that too much
to ask?
Come on, Elizabeth.
Come on.
She's blaming
Elizabeth.
You're blaming Todd.
Anyway, G.B.
We know
that.
G.B.
Elks 259 at gmail.com.
G.B.
Elks 259 at gmail.com.
All right.
My fault, Elizabeth.
OK.
Sorry, Elizabeth.
It was my fault.
All right.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Anyway, there's so many ways to contact this.
Even phone number talk to the secretary, but yeah, what a great thing and then you know people we talk about New Year's resolutions, but there's any time you can join right?
If
you
call me if you call the lodge today, we can get you in the third Wednesday We have a meeting and we're doing where
do
you guys meet at 3195 South Ridge?
Oh, yeah, okay.
That's right.
That's where your headquarters is.
All right easy parking easy to get there.
So
lots of
parking
Yeah,
okay.
Listen, thank you for you do for our veterans for our youth for just everybody the community and you guys do it quiet
you know, pound your chest, look at us.
You guys just put your heads down and get the
job done.
And look at all these activities that you read off and we didn't even get to them all.
We're going to keep promoting you.
We've got a
copy of this.
We're going to keep promoting them as they go on.
I appreciate
that.
Thanks for what you're
doing.
Thank you very much.
Thank you both very
much.
Have a
good four.
Kelly Downard, Jerry McCain, McCann, right?
Yes.
Jerry McCann.
I got to ask one quick, right?
Rootabakers, yes or no?
Yes.
In your pasties?
Yes.
Okay.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Go for
it.
Did you ever go to Jack's Hideaway Bar?
A Jack's Hideaway, one of the people from Jack's Hideaway, one of their family members, I went to school with her.
Jocko?
One of Jocko's
family?
Uh, I'm not gonna say names on the character,
but yeah, yeah, it was.
Brats are rutabaggy.
Brats are pasties.
Pasties.
Yeah!
July 3rd all getting a little bit cloudy out there now, but not bad.
Nice forecast.
Hi in the mid 80s.
By the way, your Milwaukee Brewers.
We take it on the Mets in New York again 535 on WISS.
Todd, we haven't talked about your weekend.
He doesn't tell
us anything.
Why do you even?
It'll be work.
I gotta tell you though, my garden is going crazy.
I bet I have so many tomatoes, so many.
cucumbers and zucchini and all my God, I'll take I'll take
zucchini and I'll take cucumbers.
Okay.
So when I was making my pasta, spinach, salad, tomatoes, I just it was great just out in the that six foot thing and get the cilantro and parsley and yeah, just your
flower bed, your vegetable
bed, just go out there and cut it off and put it in there.
It was nothing I taste better.
Yeah.
And it's so fresh.
Because that's the kind of stuff is like, I forgot to get at the store.
Boom, it's right there.
So it's not as good as Todd's.
When I was a kid,
I mean, my dad was so big into his gardens.
I mean, they were huge.
And for salads at night,
somebody would go out to the garden.
It's right there.
And the whole thing would be picked right there.
And five minutes later, you were eating.
I
know.
See, I don't have to go to the garden.
I just turn around.
It's right there because I don't have the garden like Todd.
I'm not that.
Yeah, you keep it.
It's just closer.
Might are just beds, too, though.
Like, just larger beds that I've built.
Are they raised?
Oh, they are.
If you don't, rabbits will eat everything.
That's true, too.
Yep.
Yep.
That's the only thing that saved me this year, because I've lost a lot of stuff over the years.
I
hate to say it, but I almost think it's time to bring in some kind of a predator for rabbits.
I
mean, there's so many of
them.
22.
It's beyond belief.
My dog tries to
do
this job.
Yeah.
It's
crazy.
So there's, Brad, there's chipmunks, too, right?
And Chippy is
one that is in our yard and him and Milton.
Wait a minute,
you've named the chipmunk?
Oh yeah, Chippy.
And
Milton.
That's original, I believe.
Yeah, I know.
It just took him days and days.
Anyway, if we say Chippy's here, right to the window, we let him out.
That chipmunk knows that we have that electric fence and he goes
right across and he's like putting the finger
up.
But anyway, he stays in the yard, obviously, but rabbits, they are, we have a ton of rabbits.
And I live in the hood and they're right there.
So it's, I don't know.
They're kind of.
He taught, he did not get a joke.
I told him yesterday that I read off the internet.
What joke
is
it?
It's just
wondering about the guy.
He goes, sorry, I wanted to buy some fireworks and kind of heavy duty stuff.
So I went to this, this roadside thing and the guy brought out some extra strength stuff and I said, are these, are these safe?
I said, does anybody need to know about this?
He gave me a wink and a high four.
That was funny.
I'm like, why don't get it?
He could not figure that out.
How long did it take you,
Jeff?
I told him I said, I don't get it.
He blew off a finger.
No, I get it.
No, that's funny.
That's really funny.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Are you doing it at home?
Are you going to shoot off some fireworks?
I don't think so.
My dog hates it.
I
don't want
to have
it.
It's, you know, there's enough places to go now.
Yeah, there.
You know, when I lived in Ledgeview and it wasn't, it wasn't even fully developed yet that area.
There was woods
behind me and you could, you know, do whatever, but no, not now.
But I'll tell you what, we're right here where we are.
This is going to be the hub of everything happening in Green Bay.
Yeah.
I mean, it really is.
Celebrating America's birthday, shooting off fireworks that are 99% from China.
Yes.
Okay.
But.
Yeah.
Do you remember?
Remember the Bicentennial?
Oh, yeah.
Oh,
yeah, man.
Yeah.
That was the biggest buildup ever.
How many?
How many silos out there had the big 76 painted?
Yeah.
Remember that?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yes.
Red, white, and blue, Vera.
Then they had this.
I have the.
And Rocky had come
out.
Remember Rocky had come out then?
I still have those.
It's the donkey and the elephant.
Like canisters.
It must have been.
vodka whiskey and just there's a lot of cool commemorative stuff you could buy and Yeah, it was a big big big deal.
It was a long time ago.
Donate those for something.
Didn't you show me those one
time or
donate them for something?
Maybe I did.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know but there was that was cool 200 and that's not a long time 200 years.
Oh my gosh.
Well, that is what I don't
know.
But all you got to do is go to Europe, go to like Prague.
And it's like, oh, that's a nice church.
Yeah, it was built.
Oh, I know.
You know what I mean?
It's like, yeah.
Yeah.
But everybody was into it in 76.
I remember even the TV stations changed their logo to have red, white and blue or something.
Absolutely.
That was huge.
The bison tenure was a huge thing.
But you know, it's one of those things.
So too, it's it's like when you.
when it's it's just kind of funny because okay I've got my 50th class reunion coming up okay it's like 1975 doesn't seem that long ago I mean okay but in 1975 if somebody was having a 50 year reunion they would have been born in like 1904 you know what I mean I know that isn't that bizarre
when you think about that it is here's the other thing as of
as of today that was cars 1904
I'm going to blow your mind.
Maybe the automobile wasn't here.
We weren't flying.
Well,
we're just getting started on that.
That
would have been the people having a 50 year reunion when I was graduating from high
school.
So we are over half the years done for 2025.
OK, here's the thing.
We are now closer to 2050 than we are to 20,000.
Say
that again.
No.
We are closer to 2050.
Wow.
Now
right
then 2000 then 2000.
Okay.
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something I remember I had a brother in a lot tell me this one time Actually, if I still remember because it was on the 4th of July and and I was his birthday and he's like 34 You know one of those not you know, you think you know, he's a poor guy, you know, I said, what's that like?
You know getting me there for he says I'm gonna tell you something from
about 28 to 34 is going to go by so fast.
And you're going to constantly think to yourself, well, last year when I did, and I said, oh, that was five years ago.
And he said, it keeps going that way.
And when you said the year 2000, I still think of that as, oh, yeah, I remember that basketball game
that
day.
Isn't that crazy?
It
is.
I hate to sound like two old guys talking about, but it does go so fast.
It's mind boggling.
And people said to us,
It goes fast and you're like not believe we didn't believe like you're old You just say that because you're old and now it
and now it's 100% the truth
blinking.
It's
gone.
Yeah, it's unreal But
Steve just texted and he said next year is 250 years.
How come we don't hear much about it?
That's a good point.
You know what?
Yeah, that
is
250.
We're just talking about the 200.
I
know
What are we gonna do for that show?
No man, I don't know.
We'll close the street.
Wow.
We will.
We'll be like a
hundred.
Coming to Northeast Wisconsin live from the Civic Media Studios, this is Mino and the Mayor.
And here are your hosts, John
Mino and Jim Schmidt.
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Mino and the Mayor, hour number three.
If you've been with us this long, stay with us.
This could get even better.
Oh, as soon as we're done with Pat Tracy.
Because then...
We got Dennis coming on Dennis Peters of course from the glam band and we are going to have a Replay a big mouth the power tool horns and Woody Mankowski and what they did in this studio yesterday You got to hear this to believe it is for our daddy D productions live music series
I love
what Woody did in the America, the beautiful
you heard
that.
Yes, I
was guys picture this.
I'm cleaning out my garage in anticipation of the 4th of July.
And of course I have WSS on in my garage.
Great.
And that comes on.
I had goosebumps in my garage listening to
Jim and I were standing right there.
We both turned to each other.
It's like, do you have goosebumps?
Completely.
It was it was it was incredible.
He's good.
Wait till you folks hear us.
If you missed it yesterday, wait till you play it back coming up during our Daddy Deep Productions live music series with Dennis from the Glam Band.
How you doing, Pat?
We just had Lisa on.
Told us it's a beautiful day in Oshkosh.
Yes, you had Lisa.
I missed it.
Lisa.
Lisa Lisa.
Lisa Hale.
Oh, oh, our Lisa Hale.
Our Lisa Hale.
Yeah, that lady that kind of is right there.
Hey, can we call her Lisa Lisa
now?
I think that's cool.
I like it.
I like it.
But she was talking about the thing at Menominee
Park.
She's trying to break into radio.
So yeah,
we'll give her a name.
Got to give her a name.
So hey, big doings in Ashkosh this weekend.
And the best part is my daughter is bringing home her newly minted husband.
Oh, to spend the fourth with
mom and dad.
That's why you were cleaning the garage.
That's cleaning up the garage.
You should have left it for him and really give him the test.
Can I just paint a quick picture here of what this poor guy's weekend's going to be like?
Yes.
I have a list of like eight projects.
All those little things that like I either hate doing or I can't do like fix the toilet handle, you
know,
like, I got a list.
You're going to give him the list.
Wow.
So
he loves it.
He lives for the list.
OK.
He's an overachiever.
OK.
Good to
hear.
Nobody on this show is Pat.
I know we're questioning it.
We're not overachievers.
We're going
to get.
OK.
I'll tell you I'll tell you a little story of what I got from my father.
We would be
the bare minimum.
Yes.
Here.
OK.
So
this guy's showing
up.
He's
here.
OK.
Well let's just.
So actually I wanted to run a chainsaw.
is what I wanted to do.
I wanted to get the biggest chainsaw I could rent because RJ is, uh, his side gig is fireman EMT.
Oh, okay.
He's a man's talent.
Yeah.
I wanted to rent the chainsaw and I've got a forest in my backyard that I was hoping he would just chop down for me over the fourth.
Well, I'm feeding him brats and spotted cows.
That's
good.
My wife's like, no,
we're not getting a lot of cows in a big chainsaw.
You know, not a good combo, but.
Anyway, I lost though.
There's no chainsaw.
We're going to be like, you know, fixing the toilet and handle and the little screw in the cabinet.
So that's what we're going
to be doing.
Yeah.
OK, Pat.
I would have given up the spotted car.
It
went very manly to very.
I didn't want to say it, but
the wife won.
OK.
Well, that's nothing new.
Yeah.
Jim,
tell us your story and save me.
OK.
So I was.
My father-in-law came to my house and said to Donnie, he goes, I don't see a lot of tools around the house.
I'm going to get some for Jim.
So this was in my Christmas.
And he got me the crescent wrenches and stuff, you know, and they come looking at like cellophane.
Yeah, the
ratchet set.
The ratchet set.
And then he came over 4th of July.
I had a change the tank on the gas grill and he said, um, I'll help you do that.
And I'm like, no, don't go downstairs and you're all still in.
Not my thing.
Just don't.
I don't like tools.
So anyway,
I did not win the man a card like your son in law.
So not my thing, but.
So love them.
That was my lead in to talk about the amazing fourth of July weekend that I'm going to show them here in Oshkosh.
Farmers markets got to be on there.
Oh my gosh.
Well, that's Saturday.
Let's make it to Saturday because tomorrow friends is the fourth of July.
It is.
We will be marching in the Oshkosh fourth of July parade.
with discover Oshkosh RJ is coming and it's gonna be his first parade ever.
He's gonna march with me.
He's how long of a parade is that?
I it might be two
miles.
Oh, that's not too bad because you ever have you ever done that Appleton one?
I walked that one time for an organization way back and I know what parade right you guys because when I did the the Miss Wisconsin.
pageant thingy.
So
I know exactly where you mean.
That's that's a cool loop.
That's not too bad.
So this guy gets to fix the toilet handle and march in a parade.
And screwing the cabinet
menacing cabinet.
Wow.
Missing.
Yeah.
For
any projects that I've missed.
How much is he going to be lying when he goes back home.
Right.
Get down some trees.
Drink some spotted cows.
Awesome.
He loves it.
He's a Minnesota man.
Sure.
He does.
Yeah, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Um, uh, nine a.m.
She's like
RJ.
RJ.
It's one day.
It's one day, honey.
Please.
Yes.
Wow.
What?
Friends, if you have not seen the Oshkosh, uh, Fourth of July parade, it's really fun.
And the streets from literally Main Street from, uh, Wagyu all the way north to Irving.
is lined with festive people and then the parade turns right on Irving Street and then marches due east right to Monamony Park.
So what are you
going to be
wearing?
We'll be wearing like, well, I'll personally have a red hat and a white shirt and blue pants.
Nice.
Okay, there you
go.
All right.
Are you handing anything
out, candy to
the
kids or anything?
We have a Discover Oshkosh Cousies.
There
you
go.
Oh.
Another promo item that will remain unnamed.
But guys, our funnest thing is we have this big picture frame.
And if you go to discover Oshkosh, you'll see some of the photos.
We have this big picture frame that you can that like we carry around.
It's light and three or four people can get in it and it says, you know, Happy Fourth of July from Oshkosh.
Isn't that nice?
That's good.
Nice
memory.
I know.
Get
your frame makes it you guys.
I want to give that idea to you as my
I like it.
I like it a lot.
Now,
tell us about this food truck rally at Menominee Park.
Oh my gosh.
So they, the fireworks are moving slightly north this year.
So most people won't care.
But in Oshkosh, you're just going to sit in the big lawn there in Menominee Park now, right along Hazel Street.
The food trucks will start at 3pm.
And so we've got 20 of the Valley's finest food trucks.
coming.
That's
a I've never been to a place with 20 food trucks.
That's really
that's cool.
And they're going to locate it like five spots, I believe five clusters throughout the park.
And so you know, it's, it's not quite a mile from one end of the other, it's probably a half mile from one end of the park to the other.
So families would be able to come to Menominee Park to enjoy the fireworks, walk up and down along the lake, eat food.
The playground is there so you can tire the kids out.
The beach is there.
Heck, I would swim in the little beach right there.
There's sand and everything.
And then a food truck yourself and the kids will be asleep before the fire.
I don't mean to interrupt here, Pat.
We got a text, a serious text for you.
Ceiling fan.
Don't forget the bleeping ceiling fan.
Oh, gosh.
OK.
That.
That's so funny.
Who's that from?
Gee, I wonder who sent that.
It wasn't it wasn't RJ.
Thank you, Don.
The ceiling fan.
Yeah.
This is classic Pat.
Pat's Pat's the big project.
The whole lifestyle improvement project to keep on cool.
Yeah.
In July.
All of a sudden that got forgotten.
Okay.
Wow,
that's okay, buddy.
She's
listed.
I gotta meet.
I gotta I want to meet Saint RJ.
Okay, so and then the fireworks start at nine, but I have a super cool tip for the listeners.
Okay, this is this is not really out there on Hazel Street at Melvin and Hazel.
Okay, Melvin is one of the East West streets.
Okay.
There's a house that a fellow sets up a rock band on his roof His roof on his roof and he puts scaffolding up there and he plays at 9 p.m.
Todd have you seen bad acts?
Yes Wow see so This fella has been working for a week to build a ski he does this every year
He builds a scaffold on his roof enough that he can put up on his roof of a one-story
In the city of Oshkosh is okay with this because I could see Jim back
Just
being
on love live music in Oshkosh, okay, he then hauls up an entire drum kit and riser Good bass guitar and electric guitar and I think one year they had keyboards amps up on the roof
with a light show and pyrotechnics
and honest to God, he doesn't as owner.
Yeah, it's a bar.
Tell him he doesn't want
his own and there's a sign out in front of his house that says 9 p.m.
Fourth of July.
Bring lawn chairs.
Wow.
That's actually really cool.
I would like to see that.
Oh, wow.
Ashkashians and beyond be at Menominee Park.
put in your phone Hazel and Melvin to houses north is bad acts.
Wow.
A D A X.
We got to get some video of that.
Yeah.
We got.
I want to see this.
That sounds like I
get video for you guys.
Excellent.
So so how are we doing for breaks here?
Because I
got about two minutes, two minutes.
Oh, last last year.
So we go down every year.
Last year we went down and they play like a classic rock set of like, uh, you know, early seventies stuff, right?
I'm super fun classic rock at the big crescendo at the end.
They light off the pyro on the roof and it is so hot that it hits your forehead.
I mean, it's like, wow.
This
is and they're allowed.
I mean, one person at their home is allowed to do that.
I love this.
I love that about Oshkosh.
This is why I love Oshkosh, baby.
Right.
Come here.
Liability.
What's the liability?
That's great.
I mean, it's, it's fantastic.
That is, that's a fun.
Todd,
are you going to
be, touch me there?
He just said, go ahead and get the door.
Yeah.
Open the door.
That sounds like a fun evening.
Wow.
That is.
Oh my gosh.
So, so he's got it figured out now.
So nine p.m.
He plays his set up until like 945 And then the fireworks start
that sounds phenomenal.
That just sounds like a really fun
weekend like neighborhood yes camaraderie and yeah that's
great I'm so jacked and and the best part is I get to come here and share it with you in the listeners right that's like the the funnest part of all that's
great well Pat I'll tell you what you should I hope you have a phenomenal weekend I hope the weather holds but man you sure honor we talk about this all the time for as much crap as we give you you are so passionate for your community it's incredible and
community
needs
that to keep going and you bring it
Yeah,
we love our community here in Oshkosh.
We have a great fourth and we'll see you next week.
You're
the best.
Appreciate it, my friend.
Take care, buddy.
We got a quick break back right after this.
when they do their thing with this.
Goosebumps.
Goosebumps.
But again, wait till you hear.
We're here at Dennis Big Mouth and the Power Tool Horns with Woody Mankowski did an amazing performance yesterday.
We're going to be playing that back in our Daddy D productions live music series.
And I'll tell you what, you know, it's really cool.
Both of you guys, Dennis Peters here and Daddy D, both Army veterans.
And when you hear music like that, I still think of the
You know, of the concert or excuse me, the parades with the when I was the World War Two, even some World War One veterans and the World War Two veterans.
And that was the music that all the bands will be playing in the parades.
Oh, yeah.
So I still get a thing for you guys having been a part of that.
And their uniforms are still fit.
So am I really?
Absolutely.
It's unbelievable.
Some of those might.
Yeah, that music takes you back to the bison.
It does.
Yeah, I was listening to that on the way in here.
Yeah,
crazy that next year is 50.
Yeah, you know,
Arthur Fielder's Boston pops.
Right.
Yeah.
Unbelievable.
Love that.
I still I still get goosebumps listening to that.
I mean, that's something I would attend.
You know what I mean?
Where is that in Boston itself?
Right?
Right in the in the Harbor Lake area.
Where they do that life.
I thought that was in New York City that they had the thing that they had the bicentennial the big prey.
There was a national TV back in the day.
Okay, was it DC?
I don't know.
I got a feeling it was freaking everywhere.
You know, I
was I mean it was talking but talking made a good point that we really there was a lot of buildup to that
the sure was
doesn't seem like there's a lot of buildup to the 250th.
So maybe we have
to start
working on
it.
So we're launching it right here and
I've noticed
that as well.
We're
officially launching it
right here.
Tonight.
And to do it, I want to just, I want to share this picture on our stream.
This is what'll kick it off for us.
Oh yeah, I just got to wear that.
It's Liberace.
That's right.
And he's going to lead the parade.
I like to thank my
friend George.
And the parade's only going to be here in the studio and he'll just march
around.
Hey, steps are steps.
It doesn't matter, right?
Absolutely.
They don't, they don't, they don't say how, they say how many.
That's right.
Dennis Peters lamb band in the house.
Good
morning.
We
have a weekend off or no,
we do not as they say up
north.
Okay,
we are playing at Riverfront rendezvous and Stevens Point tonight.
Oh, six to 10.
So it's gonna all those deals.
But on the fourth you have a gig.
We're off.
Oh, that's right.
We had it scheduled off in advance.
Cool.
Yeah,
I mean
you know
people realize
you guys have families.
We do.
You're not all 24 years old like you look on
stage.
So what will you do?
That's a good question.
I have some friends that in American Platinum probably see them once or twice this weekend.
Some other bands too.
They're like Boogie and the Yo-Yo's is playing at the Wharf this weekend on Sunday.
Might stop in and see those folks.
Cool.
They got some friends down in Sheboygan area.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Can you
go to somebody else's venue as you?
and be left alone by people.
A lot of the time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But the musician types usually kind of know me.
Because when
we were at the at Epic that night and it was fine and then once no it wasn't there.
Where was it?
Oh it's a different it was at Epic but you guys were performed and beforehand you know you were you're cool talking and then as soon as you put on your thing it's like you couldn't move with people.
Talking to you and everything.
It's interesting because there's some bliss in that You know what I mean?
Yeah, you know So I'm kind of a private person to begin with that's what I mean, you know
But then when you're that character people just want
to swarm you I just realized I'm starting to sound like Mark Houston
You didn't notice that in that delivery?
It's like, holy, wow.
Sorry, Mark.
I meant no harm by that.
But I just realized that my tone sounded just like him.
We're Dennis Peters from Glam Band for the Daddy D Productions live music series.
But our live music, as we mentioned, will be what we recorded yesterday with Woody Mankowski in Big Mouth and the Power Tool Horns.
And there's a lot going on.
Of course, it's for two reasons.
One is it's a great time to celebrate.
But secondly, it is July.
It's
not crazy.
We got
to lean into July here and these parts.
But yeah, just everywhere it is.
You know, I'm talking about Sheboygan, Sheboygan Falls, you know, just all the way up and down the lake.
There's just so many festivals and things going on.
And yeah, people need to get out and celebrate.
And this is
when we were kids, how the two rivers had stuff, but you know, in my area, there's so many, all these small communities go so big with it now.
And this is not a.
controversial.
Well, maybe a little bit today, but this isn't a controversial holiday.
This isn't a religious holiday.
This isn't buying gifts.
This is not a stressful holiday.
Pretty easy holiday, right?
I mean, oh,
yeah, the
food's not real expensive.
And it's like, you don't have to get dressed up.
You don't have to go buy something new.
It's this is just a very let's celebrate.
I mean, we're all Americans and let's
celebrate baseball hot dogs,
apple pie and Chevrolet.
You know, it's still kind of funny that I'd love to go to some of those places.
I know Todd was gonna go to Gettysburg and I don't know if you've been to those.
But I
When you read about some of those revolutionary war battles or whatever, I can't believe our side won.
That's fair.
Well, I think
that's a good start of that way.
Right.
But the
other thing is how young those guys were.
I mean, those guys were
teen
ages, right?
Like 19, 20, 21.
They're like, you know,
and younger.
Yeah.
But I mean,
we're going to be one of the most
well-trained army in the world was Britain.
And we had a bunch of little farm
guys
beat them.
But they also said, you know, we're going to kick their ass.
They
were it's a matter of life.
It's like our guys said they were going to.
Yeah, they were very confident.
Well, that does sound the book of the World
War Fair, though, too.
Yeah.
Standing there in the wide open.
Hello.
Yeah.
Can you imagine
that?
I am a target.
I'm a red coat.
Isn't that amazing how they're dumb?
Did you ever watch the
pompous
series?
Not HBO, but one.
I don't know what it's whatever, whatever.
But it was I think it was called Spies.
Did you ever see that about the
Oh, George Washington had an amazing spy network.
Yeah, I want to go back to what I said.
But you said them or us when I said we're going to kick them, they were overconfident in
the British.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I meant.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They were overconfident, but we were not intimidated.
That's
what I was looking for.
Great point.
Great point.
Life and liberty.
I mean, if you're right, right, it has a little more meaning than just fighting for the king.
Right.
Big mouth and the power tool horns and the Woody Mankowski segment will be coming up.
Daddy D productions live music series Dennis Pittier from the glam band.
We got a cast of thousands here.
They're just so impressive.
Yeah.
And then there's me in this slump.
97.9 FM WGVW 98.3 96.5 FM WISS and of course the Civic Media amp we're heading into a phenomenal weekend and I'll tell you we got Dennis Peters here from the Glam Band talk about some great things during our Big Mouth or during our Daddy Dee Productions live music series where you'll be hearing Big Mouth and the Power Tool horns and the solo by Woody Mankowski that was just amazing.
John Kramer, we want to thank you for putting that together.
Like I said, we already talked about it before, but Jim kind of put his foot in his mouth because he thought he was going to be like the big dog here with those cases.
Holy cow.
Oh, you guys here.
This was cost about three grand.
And fluff goes, Jim, that would have been 20 years ago.
Yeah, they're a little more expensive.
I know they
are.
But they're great at a wedding.
They played my my wedding Shindig.
I was there.
Yeah, you were there.
Yeah, you showed up on time and I know.
And that was awesome.
Fluffy pulling that card and the time you didn't show up to that event and I had to cover for you yesterday.
Yeah, that wasn't good again.
No, that
was
perfect.
That was great.
I don't know how he held that in all this time to play that card.
Yeah, he must have been playing.
He's very devious.
I know I'm not going to mess with him
anymore.
It's kind of scary.
Yeah,
John, introduce yourself and introduce Kevin.
Well, once again, John Kramer hit here today with the Coast Guard Auxiliary and our.
Division commander Kevin Osgood and we're going to talk a little bit about operation dry water
dry
water
Go ahead Kevin dry operation dry water.
Okay.
Well, thank you for being here now What is operation dry water
operation dry water is an annual national event and it's it's stepped up enforcement of
boating while intoxicated.
Trying to
reduce the number of intoxicated boaters on the water because so many people are going to be on the water from today on.
I mean it is a long weekend, it is a fun weekend, the weather is going to be great, people are going to be on the water and alcohol is the number one cause of fatalities and let's just call it deaths.
The number one cause of deaths on the water and we don't need that.
Across the country we've done a really good job of bringing the number of deaths down due to alcohol.
Let's keep it up.
What are you trying to do take a picture?
Well, yeah your
radio man put the camera away.
You're beautiful.
We got
to get you Can you do you need a reason to stop them like or you can you just Well, you know on the water any law enforcement organization can do a boarding to do a safety inspection There is no probable cause required to stop a boater on the water One of the difference that's that's one of the differences about
They're driving a boat and driving a car.
So law enforcement needs no reason to stop you other than to do a safety inspection.
If they smell alcohol on the captain, then that could lead to a whole new thing.
Right.
Is it like zero tolerance if you're piloting, driving a boat?
I mean, it's going to be a zero tolerance weekend, but it's the same blood alcohol content as driving in Wisconsin.
It's still 0.08.
OK.
And your guests can have open containers on the boat.
That's another thing that's different.
But the captain can't be intoxicated.
And there's a whole sort of slew of things that'll happen if you're caught.
So just avoid it.
So what do you mean by zero tolerance?
So you can still be given a ticket for operating well?
Do you guys do the test?
Even if you're under the 0.08?
Well, yeah, law enforcement can still, you know, if they suspect that the captain's intoxicated, then they're going to do a field sobriety test, just like you would if you were pulled over.
Wow.
How do you do that in the water?
I know.
There are some things they can do.
They'll sit you down on their vessel and do some things, and then there's...
then if they suspect from that, then they take you back to
shore.
Wow.
But they will.
But
here's
the biggest thing.
Is everybody tipsy in a boat?
I mean, literally.
Other folks can be tipsy, but there's a whole other risk that goes with that, too.
There's statistics on the number of drunk passengers who drown every year because they're not wearing a life
jacket
and they fall off.
But they can, yeah.
Can when you board the boat, can you look around and cite them for other things, like if they don't have their life preservers?
Well, yeah, it says if they stop you for safety inspection,
it's
a safety inspection
So
so where are your life jackets?
Are they readily accessible again in a locked cabinet doesn't work.
They got to be so
those are
Yeah, and that happens a lot.
It happens
a lot.
How much is the fine for something like that for not wearing a lot more than
Lionelite's got a seat belt, for example.
Not
wearing a life jacket, just paddling your kayak down the Fox River without the life jacket with you on the boat.
A couple hundred bucks.
No kidding.
That's not like a seat belt violation.
I mean, we had
4th of July here several years ago right here on the Green Bay waterfront.
Back when you were mayor, I remember a Coast Guard boat stopped a canoe that had six people in it and they had no life jackets.
and then six times 200.
Hey,
I hate to bring up a terrible thing.
Just happened.
I brought my area up in the U.P.
They had a bad tragedy last week up around Copper Harbor, which is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I tell Jim in the fall, he's got to make a road trip up there.
But three people in a canoe from what I understand on Lake Superior in the middle of the night, no life
jackets.
Two
of
them dropping.
That's that's incredibly sad.
That's
totally preventable.
Totally completely preventable.
I don't know what to say to that.
It's not in here about that one yet.
Yeah.
And I don't
know.
Do you guys borrow them to them or no, you used to
borrow them to them or
loan
them?
No, whatever.
Active duty Coast Guard.
No, I
mean,
they're there.
I mean.
No, on the auxiliary patrol boat, I've been out there on patrol on the Fox River and here in southern Bay of Green Bay.
And if we come across a boat and we see a small child, it's usually an infant because people find it it's harder to find those Coast Guard approved life jackets for your three month old baby.
But they're still required to have a life jacket on because they're under 12 and under.
So Jim is going to be out on the pontoon with his family.
this weekend.
We got him.
Give him some suggestions here just
don't drink and pilot the boat.
Have those life jackets out and about if not on on is preferable but
That's a struggle to get people to do and pay attention to the other people because I said this every time I'm here.
80% of the people on the water have never taken a boating safety class and have no idea what they're doing.
So only 20% do.
And that can scare you if you think of what I-41 would look like on a Friday holiday weekend if 80% of the people didn't know what they were doing.
So that's what's happening out on the water.
Be careful.
So the role then of an auxiliary is very much the same as you are enforcing law.
The auxiliary does not
enforce.
We are
all about education.
I'm
confused.
The Coast Guard auxiliary is the education arm of the active duty Coast Guard.
So we're local volunteers.
We're all about getting the message out, educating, helping people with safety inspections, no citations.
We'll go to your house and do a safety inspection on your boat and talk about all these things and answer all your questions.
We put on voting safety classes every spring because we want people to be educated out there.
So our active duty shipmates aren't as
busy.
So what are you doing when you're out there in the water actively doing?
it as far as you know something see something say something to them basically
right yeah we see something hey that that child should be in a life jacket and if somebody needs help a lot of times we help a lot of people the southern Bay of Green Bay we all know long tail it's a great place for everybody to go and sometimes the tides don't change but a boaters decision to put the boat on the beach might
Might have been a really good idea at the start and then if they can't get it off the beach at the end or or their engine dies or your your brand-new sailor and you forgot
There's plenty of enforcement out there though.
Yes I don't think there's not there's plenty of enforcement
and our boat will be out there right this weekend right helping out with the 4th of July making sure people stay out of the zone there
Want to do some live some music from yesterday's go you introduce this
you.
Well yesterday we had the honor of having a couple of great individuals in the studio.
We had Woody Mankowski, local musician, singer, songwriter, and of course the power tool horns.
All thanks to the Green Bay Press Times and John Kramer, and it was outstanding.
And this morning we're going to we're going to start the music off this morning and the Daddy D Productions live music series with Woody's rendition.
of America, the beautiful.
This is the Ray Charles version, and he knocked it out of the ballpark.
Oh, beautiful.
Who more than said their country love
Oh, beautiful, full spacious sky.
But I tell you wow
that is Ray Charles though, right?
I mean I've seen Ray Charles do this that yes, like perfect Yeah, how does that guy sing like
that in the
morning?
All
right, and just sitting right there.
There's
a real
without things But
it's you know, it's amazing how
you guys you really get into your music Yeah, I mean, it's it's from it's from the deep in your body.
So here's it good That's what I was thinking other Kevin.
It's in your soul.
Yeah, he's
not looking around.
He's just
He's in it.
He's in it.
He's just totally immersed in it.
That's a beautiful
thing.
And he's a very interesting person too.
I mean, he lives in North Hollywood and he just finishes tour from really the west coast to the east coast.
Yeah.
Right.
Amazing.
Florida, Dallas.
Wow.
And a super nice guy too.
Oh, a sweetheart.
All those guys are.
Hey, I don't want to sound old, but I almost talked to Mark Houston this morning.
I think I pulled up a groin.
You and me getting up yesterday after we kneeled for the picture.
What?
It seemed a little bit harder for Jim, but I love you guys
all.
Tough crowd.
John Gramer, thank you for what you do.
Kevin Burke or Kevin Osgood, please have a phenomenal weekend and keep everybody safe.
Thanks for what you guys do.
Thanks for having us.
Because again, this is something that people need to know how dangerous it is out in the water this weekend.
But if you just follow some basic rules, it's a great weekend.
Right.
Just stay alert and follow the basics.
You'll have a great time.
Common sense, right?
Common sense, stay alert, stay alive.
There you go.
Love it.
You guys are awesome.
U.S.
Coast Guard Auxiliary.
We'll be back with more of the Daddy D productions after
this.
There he is once again, Woody Mankowski, just phenomenal.
Got another Texer, get a head start on the holiday weekend tonight at Ledgestone Winery in Greenleaf.
That's a good place.
It's a great place.
Maricana, Maricana, Maricana band, then the Cooley boys hitting the stage from seven to 10.
A really great time from Terry.
I got texts there for Kramer Kramer, you rock brother.
I know you're not too bad, Brian Brick.
The Brickster Brickie was one of my all time great friends.
So Dennis, this weekend, I mean, you being an army veteran, and you're one of the most love our country kind of guys.
This has
to be a really cool time for you.
Love it.
it's like Christmas during the summertime in a way.
Yeah, because I mean, I love this country and, you know, without a doubt.
Yeah.
And despite what's going on,
you serve, you raise your right hand and said, you know, I'll defend it.
Heck yeah.
Yeah.
I think this is becoming one of my favorite holidays.
Sure.
Yeah.
But the thing is, we're talking about this off air, but I wish people would say Independence Day instead of have, you know, July 4th.
Happy.
You know, whatever, you know,
it's like,
no, man, it's our independence.
Let's focus on that.
I relate to seeing happy.
I was saying before, so to sing happy Fourth of July.
Happy 27th of September.
Yeah.
No, man.
It's
it's history.
But though, too, I mean, you understand the.
would it took to get this?
It's our country's independence.
Yeah, you
know,
let's talk about that instead of Happy Fourth of July.
Happy Effingland.
You know, I get passionate about that.
Every time I hear that, it's on the commercials, on TV, you know, just
come on.
I think that's why I like bringing out that
side.
Me too.
And I just when you read about, you know, and I get it, there were some older people, there are a lot of younger people and what what they did.
And you know,
But I like that you're such a passion about our history, our nation's history.
I mean, that's really cool.
You mentioned it before, you know, life, liberty.
They knew it.
Yeah, exactly.
You're fighting for your life and your country.
This wasn't
a tour duty.
Yeah, that's right.
This is life.
You're all in.
All in.
If
you're not, you did.
And they
knew
it.
And they knew
it.
You could lose your life here.
It's like, I know that.
Have you ever thought about doing...
Well, I don't know if you want to do the Ray Charles type thing like what he did there.
But I mean, have you ever thought about doing like a fourth of July type thing where you're not the character from the glam band?
You're Dennis Peters, the army veteran who, you know, loves our country and has a phenomenal voice.
Have you ever thought about doing something like that?
I think you'd be really great.
Yeah.
He said everything great, except for that phenomenal voice part.
I'm not so sure about that, but I appreciate you saying
that.
I guess I'll listen to the year two years running in the state of Wisconsin.
I
love I love singing songs about America.
That's
what I mean.
I do, you know.
And if there's a way, sure.
I
mean, I would buy a front row ticket to that.
Oh, man.
Who?
That'd be fantastic.
I'd love to do something like
that.
I hope you do.
Put it together.
I mean, seriously.
It's fun.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
I would agree.
I think I'm lacking
words, but that'd be awesome.
I think you would be phenomenal
with that.
I would, you know, the pride would be amazing.
I'd be honored to do something like that.
Next
year we're doing it.
I played
taps before, you know, and with the trumpet, you know, for military
funeral stuff.
You do?
I
have.
I have.
Because, yo, that's such a lost art.
It's
incredible.
I would do it again, you know, if need be, if somebody wanted me to.
That's really hard.
I was at an event.
I'm not going to say where, who, whatever.
And the guy just really struggled with it.
And you hate to say it, but it's, you know, it's, that's a really hard thing to play, right?
It drives me crazy.
It takes some skill, you know,
it's like anything else.
Well, that's a tough song to play.
But it drives me nuts when someone fought for this country and someone plays a recording of it.
I know.
brother, man.
Todd,
what do you got coming up buddy?
Well, yesterday, besides the great rendition of America, the beautiful from Woody Mankowski, we had the one and only Big Mouth and the Power Tool horns in the studio and they did a great version of the Star Spangled Banner.
So I feel like we should go out with that, right?
It's about two minutes.
It's about two minutes long.
So it's perfect.
We've got about a minute here to kind of wrap it up for the week and we'll go out with that.
Okay, Daddy D Productions.
Thanks for your support of this great thing that we do every week, every Friday.
every Friday.
But Dennis, this is always great having you here, buddy.
My pleasure to be
here.
And we appreciate everything you do like you can't believe.
And once again, we just want to say to everybody and all the veterans and I know it's not a veterans type day or whatever, but I hope you guys when when you see that flag going down the street with some, you know, club scout carrying it or something, you know that we're all still 100% behind you like you can't believe.
We'll be wearing our red, white and blue with our band tonight celebrating our country.
Yeah, stuff going on,
but we're all we're all
we're all together
tomorrow morning Just so you know mine on the mayor special edition of operation song that'll be a three-hour special tomorrow morning in place of what you guys typically
Awesome.
All right.
You know I look forward to hearing that myself.
Yeah, all right folks We're gonna send it out have yourselves an incredible Independence Day have a great safe weekend like John and Kevin or sin if you're on the water, please be careful.
Yep Dennis Peters.
You're the awesomeest guy we've ever
walk through this door.
Listen to this guy.
I know,
right?
He's a 20 bucks for you.
All right,
thank you.
We're off tomorrow.
See ya.
