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Here are your hosts, John Minow

and Jim Schmidt.

Good morning.

That'd be Monday to you.

Boy, okay, we're just going to be an old guy thing.

But I'm going to talk weather just as far as like, chilly out there this morning.

Holy craters, hot air in the blazes, you got a dater sweating my butt off there, crater.

Now I don't know, chilly, I got to put a sweater on.

This is my old guy thing on the weather.

That's how you feel today?

What's this, chilly today?

It's like 54.

Is it

out there?

Oh, wow it is.

Yeah.

Oh, I didn't know.

Okay.

All right.

Well, that's coming off a pretty nice weekend.

Yeah, it was it was um crazy rain in some places

No,

no not even there we'll talk about that with Brittany.

I don't even want to get started on that That's a tough way to start it, right?

Yeah, so we'll talk with Brittany about that.

Oh, you're talking about your tragedy here.

Yeah Yeah, our I said so many of Facebook in like Peninsula Park It's like it was beautiful than like three inches of rain or something

our fireworks were at nine.

And you could see on the weather that rain was coming.

And then the rain date, of course, was the next day.

And somebody's just like, you know what, we spent all day setting up these barges, you know, they shoot them

off the

barges at Elkhart.

And it was like 10 to nine, boom, boom.

And it poured at like 10 after nine.

So it was, they kind of called it.

But what was kind of cool about that is I think they lit off the, you know how they do,

Different stages and that but the they think they did the grand finale one like right away It was just people are clapping and cheering but anyway,

I was I saw some of my face brain Marquette.

They had like a technical difficulty.

They had to cancel it.

Oh Oh, you're sitting out there safe, you know, because people reserve their spots for five hours

Wow, technical.

Somebody's gonna have to

answer to the council about that one.

Yeah, I guess they had it the next day, but you know, it's not the same.

It isn't.

It's just not the same.

Would you watch?

You live here, so you watched them from here.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Did you ever get up on the roof?

Because that was something you talked

about on

the show.

I did not.

Okay.

I asked to, right?

And Christie said, you don't even want to try.

Nice.

I thought, what do you mean?

I could.

And then it's a ladder just against the wall, straight up about 15 feet and a huge heavy door type thing to you'd have to push.

And then the submarine.

Yeah, exactly.

Like a hatch of submarine.

And it's like, no.

So there's a place up here.

I watched it.

Yeah.

So it's cool.

It's really cool.

Yeah,

did you see that and we got

it?

It was hot.

I'll tell you what even at night.

It was I mean during the day I just walked around here a little bit one got some refreshments and That was a hot Yeah, muggy day.

Yeah, I mean, which is great.

I'm not good point But I'm just saying it's like, you know one of those days sometimes you go I'm gonna stay there all day and then other times out there It's like

yeah kind of had enough.

You can't really go in the water here either, which is nice when you got yeah, you know, it's fun

Uh, but did you see like Milwaukee's they do the drones?

Yes.

That's so cool.

That was so cool.

We got a drone of a plane.

Yeah.

And I did that.

Uh, logo for the brood.

Yes, we got it.

I got to put that together.

Todd, is that a drone?

Well, no, that

that.

Yeah.

How much more does

the fireworks or what?

$1,000 a minute, something like that.

A little bit

more

than that.

So 30 40,000 I wonder how much a drone show is it's a double or is it?

Yeah,

I don't know

but boy that

I think that's kind of the wave of the future.

I hope so that is so cool what they do Yeah,

it's I think it's amazing.

Yeah, I love it.

Yeah, I saw some of

those.

Yeah, just for that.

Yeah, that

was neat Yeah, the small towns that we were talking about that There's fireworks like everywhere and I think that's really cool that people like to celebrate right that's that's the way to kick off the I mean to celebrate the fourth but next year

They're already talking about the 250th and you mentioned that top, you know, I didn't really think about that till he said

last last

week about it Didn't make me feel any older.

No, no, no that we celebrated the fifth that we remember the 50th like yesterday Yeah, I know

I know I agree.

Hey, you know, it's a really good show That's Sunday morning show on CBS Absolutely.

Wow.

Did you see the thing about Ken Burns his new film?

Yeah, the Revolutionary War.

Yeah

Wow

What a great show that is You don't watch that one.

He's more than meet the press

I listen you know what it's right before meet the press.

Well, I will say that cuz I even watched it

But George is on to who George Stephanopoulos, okay,

miss

that one.

Yeah, but I

this week with George That's

that that shows a little more of um

political junkie.

No, no, no the show you

watch entertainment.

Yeah, but it was good

is more what I

I don't know if it's... I don't call it...

It's not hard-hitting, and it's Charles Carole stuff.

Yes, I'm trying to think.

It was Ken Burns, and what was the other major story?

I like that guy, Roca, or whatever his name is, who's kind of like the host.

Oh,

the other one was on Mark Twain.

Okay, it

was on Mark Twain everything about Mark Twain and everything.

It's not breaking news

No, I know Mark Twain has not been breaking news and quite some time But it was just a really good story and then I watched a movie last night that I really liked There's a

so I meet the press you would like this they interviewed Bob Costas.

Oh, okay.

No, you would it was Do you know I didn't even know this about him and I don't did you like him?

I Know I thought anyway, you

got a little a little smarmy

but his

family or his dad or something must have really lost a lot to gambling.

Oh, really?

Oh, I didn't know that.

He wouldn't read the gambling ads.

Oh, no kidding.

I didn't know

that.

They said, and she just alluded to it.

She says, because of your, not your, because of your family's, you know, whatever, something with gambling.

Yeah.

She goes, no, I just don't know why we have to promote it.

He goes, I just refuse to read those, those promos.

Wow.

No kidding.

Yeah.

I really, I guess if you listen to

it.

Oh, I didn't know that.

No.

Um, anyway, that was

so that was where was he?

I would have watched that

on meet the press

Bob Costas was on meet the press.

Huh?

Or as Rush Limba would say meet the depressed

Michael says good morning fellas.

Hello Michael.

I got this one from Terry people still fireworks off at 11 o'clock last 11 o'clock last night Nash Waban, I know really says Terry

Oh, they kind of were yeah

Green Bay too, so

got this one from Vicki.

Oh boy.

Here we go five day week

There you go enough for you.

No No, no, no You're on your three-day week.

I could come back Friday though

because you're fiftieth.

I could do that if you want me back Friday I

could do a full report on that,

you know, all right

I think that's gonna be

I went around I'll tell you a nice place Kerrigan's no freedom and that freedom.

It's what would that be?

That's Greenville

I mean, it's kind of its own little place.

They're right between Seymour and I think Greenville.

That's a nice little town, by the way, Greenville.

Yeah, I was there once.

It's cool little, I like that those little towns there, but I went there and then I went to Duck Creek Winery yesterday as well.

And those, I'll tell you what, you know, people talk about going to breweries and things like that.

I could see getting about three of those places, maybe even four.

On a day a Saturday in the fall or something like that and just kind of map them out and we're gonna be here first Yeah, try it.

It's all samples, you know, you don't sit there and get whatever

right

and go to like three or four different places I think that would be a lot of

fun and there's plenty of them out there

Yeah, and no people do do that.

I'm not like coming up with something new Yeah, I'm I don't been doing that but when I went to the both places yesterday I thought to myself this would be fun to go to a few of those places

No, and it means a lot to them too because it's word of mouth.

You don't really right

Do a lot, a lot, a lot of advertising.

Terry says Ken Burns is phenomenal.

Did you see his history of country music?

Very good.

Loved it.

But you know what he said?

He was, he was talking about PBS about how terrible it is that PBS kind of goes under.

Okay.

Because he said he could contact a streaming service and within an hour, he'd probably have enough money and backing and everything to do whatever the revolutionary war in like an hour.

Okay.

But they would want it within like six months to a year.

Whereas with these, he takes as much time as needed to get it done right.

And he said he would rather take the extra time to make it right than to take the quick money and throw it out before he really feels like it's ready.

So I think that's a good point.

I really do.

And

that's

the way I am.

People are always on.

Vinny says, good morning, fellas.

Hello Vinny.

Vinny, did you guys have the jump this week?

Was a free fall Saturday or this week?

Was it last week?

Or was it last week?

How did that go, Vinny?

Because I know the first one was rained out.

So let us know how that went, Vinny.

We want to know.

Today, by the way, is day of rock and roll.

So today is rock and roll day.

That's right.

Very cool.

Who is your old rock and roll go-to, Todd?

Well, I mean, I'm kind of an Elvis fan.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

Ah,

I didn't know

that.

Got that from my sister and my aunt and my mom.

I did not know that.

Wow.

Who are you?

I don't know.

I read that.

I don't know.

I

was kind of an off.

Okay.

So I was like the anti Beatles guy, right?

So my sisters used to buy some other shit out.

They had all the Easter three sisters.

So they all had, but you know who else they used to have that I used to like listening to.

I might lose my man card or maybe not Dave Clark five.

Well,

I mean, it's pretty much like the Beatles.

I know, but it was like, it was fun just being not a Beatles person.

Yeah.

The guy like to listen to after this qualifies Jerry Lee Lewis.

Oh, I love Jerry Lee Lewis.

Oh my god.

I listen to him all

the time.

Oh, I love Jerry Lee.

Wow, man.

Yeah Got a little hot water.

Yeah, but you know what his excuse was?

She turned 15 a week later Love

Jerry

Lee Lewis

Yeah,

there's your hair, but when he played the Apollo

And he was like like no whites played the Apollo,

right?

And

you know Jerry Lee, you know, they thought he was a you know blues singer from Mississippi and he comes out and at first was still in silent and then everybody was on their feet.

They just loved

him.

He could light up a

room.

Oh man.

Love Jerry Lee Lewis.

Yeah, it would

be today is chocolate day.

All right.

I

feel bad.

I know I feel bad for people that don't like chocolate.

Turned

out okay.

I don't know.

Today is dive bar date, which has become such a cool thing, hasn't it, Todd?

Yeah, it has.

Absolutely.

And Todd knows many of them.

A few.

A few.

Yeah.

Several.

Did you visit your favorite place this weekend?

I did not.

Oh, you did not?

I

went to Fifth Ward yesterday and had some beer.

Oh, well, okay.

Same

thing.

Yeah.

All right.

Um, macaroni day.

Mm-hmm.

That's like if there's nothing else to eat mob would make macaroni Yeah craft macaroni cheese the artificial cheese

Hey, well fun.

We can make a little money next year too.

You know, we're doing the At the real yard you're doing your thing and I'm doing

my yeah By the way, I just want to mention this to you.

I think tarot has one of those things out there now

Those storage crates.

There's one out

there, but I

think

it's just

a

backdrop.

Oh, is it?

Okay.

I thought maybe that was the start of... Oh, by the way, other thing, it feels bad.

I'm not shocked to see where two of the pianos have been destroyed.

Yeah.

Imagine where?

So, yeah, tank.

And not scratched.

Did you see those?

Destroyed.

Come on.

You know, you try to do something nice.

But no, the 250th next year,

We are going to convert our two, because we're going to have restaurants.

You're going to have yours.

I'm going to have mine, but we're going to be right next

to each other.

Well, my name is John Gresh.

Mine's the smoothie shop.

I thought you were doing the pasties.

Oh, maybe pasties too.

That's what you said last week.

OK, Jim.

The menu changes.

You can't have a stagnant menu.

We're

going to make a little money next.

That's the way

you keep getting

new customers.

That's true.

You want to change up the menu.

Not too much, because sometimes it's a consistency that gets them coming back in again and again.

I know

that.

Anyway, next year we're doing the...

the macaroni, that's what made me think of it, the food of the founding fathers.

Some guy put a recipe book together.

Did you see that this week?

No, I'd like to see it though.

What was it?

Macaroni.

I mean, Boston,

right?

I mean, yeah, a lot of farm to table.

Chowder.

I mean, it

was.

Chowder.

Chowder.

Man, I love chowder.

But it was, it'd be fun to serve that when you look at that and not

You would ever look at if there's any margin in that, but this is some pretty cheap food

here.

We could probably do all right with it.

We're

gonna have that.

I would love to see this

book.

Yeah, we're gonna do that, too.

All right.

That's gonna be fun.

Happy birthday, Speaker of the Beatles, Ringo Starr.

85.

Jim Gaffigan, 59.

I thought he was older.

Did you?

Gaffigan?

Yeah.

I thought he's our age, like.

Yeah, well.

Well, not that high,

but... He doesn't seem that much older,

jeez.

Hi!

Brittney Merlowe, be coming up.

We got a full house for you, folks.

Back after

this.

Keep on shining, shine on tomorrow that's gonna let me live.

Hey, welcome back by the man here 97.9 FM WGBW 98.3 96.5 FM WSS and of course the civic media app 54 and Green Bay 59 and afton 58 and us gosh mostly sunny high in the upper 70s today Perfect perfect gonna text here.

Good morning fellas.

I got some bad news

Cousin Freddie up north was letting off some fireworks and unfortunate accident.

Now for the rest of his life.

He can only drink two fingers scotch, two fingers scotch.

Thank you very much.

Got it.

Got it.

Thank you.

Like you're for my

high force.

That was funny.

I didn't get that

right away.

I'm sure you still get it.

Brewer.

Brewers in action.

The Dodgers in Milwaukee.

Man, that's a hot ticket right there.

Brewers taken on the Dodgers.

I got a nice win yesterday.

We got Brittney Merlot coming up.

We've got Kendrick Cornell, Allaway Senior Living, Navigating Assisted Living and Memory Care for your family.

We've got

Chris.

I know.

And that's just so

important on so many levels.

I'm just talking to some people this weekend about.

They're looking at some different options.

Was it your kids looking for a home for you?

That's funny how I was telling John before we came on it.

We didn't get to get that often, right?

I mean, they're twice a year, maybe three times a year, but

you play a different role.

Yeah.

Once you're a grandpa.

Right.

It's just different.

You're

not

the center of attention.

I know one thing when you're a grandpa.

That's different for me, man.

Wow.

I know one thing

when you're a grandpa.

Nobody else reaches for a check.

Oh, yeah, Kevin Van Asse, one of our great friends in Brian Mills, Snarky Brian, will be in the house, talking about music in the park, McCulloch Park on July 8th, that's coming up right now.

Then Frank Hermans, let me be Frank Productions, found my thrill on Scraze Hill, so we got a full lineup here.

Pretty cool you got those two back and back, because those are the two of the best entertainers in Green Bay.

Okay, although Woody Mankowski the other day, we were talking about, oh man, wow, on the Facebook, people, I mean, everybody's like goosebumps, total goosebumps.

I've known him seen him for years, but you're like you knew him and then you kind of forgot about him and now you knew him again Is that what it is?

I mean, I knew the name.

I

never met him before I don't believe Yeah,

but he I mean

just to see him, you know saying ten feet away create that magic was wow

Yeah, he's just one of the very talented people Yeah, I I just always admired him his son's very talented to Jackson.

Yeah.

Yeah

So as I said to John, I wonder if his dad was to probably just a family of just talented musicians.

Although what he's put spend some time on the road.

Oh my God, he lived in LA for a long time.

I know.

Yeah, that's that's a tough life.

I would imagine.

I mean, just reading about it.

He admitted just one of the articles that somebody did on him online and it was about, you know, you got this gig and it's going good.

And then if that goes is great for another gig and.

You know, it's not

too much different than radio

when you think

about it,

right?

It's almost exactly

the same as radios.

Hey,

Todd, isn't that the truth that we're talking about?

You know, there's the old song WOLD and you and I could go back and I hate to say it, but there are some veterans of radio who kept getting gigs, kept getting jobs, but never made it huge, but wouldn't quit.

You know what I mean?

driving an old car, doing whatever, picking up side jobs, doing whatever, but they

don't want to- I kind of feel like I'm that person.

I feel like I'm that guy.

I mean, once it's in your blood.

I got out for a while and came back, you know.

So did I. Yeah.

I think that's-

Okay, I think that says something about you, but it also says something about the industry that it's just not this constant turnover very technical to have that consistency speaks well of the industry Why you come back?

I'm not sure.

I don't from what I've gathered in my couple of years.

It's not for the money So and it's really not for the next step either

My next step is in the grave.

Going down.

Yeah.

No, I just I keep waiting for that guy hitchhiking for like a twilight.

So I keep picking up that guy.

Yeah.

But no, I think acting is the same thing.

You know, it's just amazing how that calls people back.

They just it's and I think like I said, I think that's something really there's something really positive about that really.

The word is not spiritual about it, but it's just

that people really, they're very comfortable.

And it's like, you know, I really don't care what I make.

I really don't care what people think.

I love this industry.

I love this space.

But it's all, I will say this

though.

It's all, I will say this Todd's job is a lot tougher

than our job because

things have changed.

I mean, just in the years I, when I started in radio in mid 90s,

I was in my little studio over at D.U.Z.

and it was a board from probably the 60s

or had the

big toggle switches

and the

huge knobs.

I mean, when you see like Korean war movies, it's like the radio guys.

Or WKRP.

Exactly.

Those huge knobs that your

whole hand goes

around

and the big reel-to-reel player here and the cart machine here.

And that's where you had to do everything and whatever versus, you know, then, okay, so you do that for 10 years or whatever.

everything completely changes.

And I remember at IXX, even with Murph and everybody, when it went to all computerized, that was, cause here's the deal Todd, you don't have five minutes to stop and, you know, if you're at work and you got a new computer, it's like, hmm, what can you say?

You get some new programs and it's like, okay, let me figure this out.

Here, you got no time.

You're learning on the- Good luck.

Good luck.

So I mean, for people who don't realize that the people that run the boards in radio,

and have done it for years, that's quite the talent.

And like you said, they kept up with technology.

Right.

Whereas talking, I mean, you kept up with the current events.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah, I

agree.

I agree.

But I would think a lot of, I don't know if that's a lot, Todd, you tell me this.

Out of the radio personalities, we'll put John in that category.

How many of them know how to use the board?

And because Murphy used to sit around the board, right?

Yeah.

And you

did too?

Only when I was doing sports casters.

So it was simple.

You know, I mean mine literally I just flipped the mic, but I would I flip the mic this way and I'd be on duz I flip it that way would be on QLH.

Yeah And that was and then I pushed the button for the cart machine So that was and I just run my own audio

you didn't

okay No, nothing like playing the commercials and hitting the brakes right now that stuff.

No, yeah, none of that

I Think talk show hosts some of them have a producer.

Yeah

to

push buttons, answer phones.

Well, I just love the fact this is the only time I've ever been in a studio that every TV show when they showed radio stations had a window in between them.

And all

these years, I've finally been

one of

those studios.

It's true.

1973, Harry Chapin, WLZ.

Remember how we listened to the radio?

And I said, that's the place to be.

And how I got the job is an FM job.

The day you married me

to take Mino in the mayor wherever you go.

Now back to Mino in the mayor.

Here's John Mino and Jim Schmitt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Mino in the mayor here at 635 on a beautiful Monday morning.

Vinny just says for the free fall, they got winded out.

30 mile per hour winds at 1,000 feet.

He was making the plane fly sideways.

That's tough.

Vinny, sorry about that.

Brittany Merlot is joining us.

Good morning, Brittany.

Good morning.

How are you guys?

We're good.

I hate to do this, but we have to talk about that horrible situation in Texas Just one year in your opinion.

You're you're one of the first people I thought of when I saw that I thought oh boy, Brittany's gonna Take this hard.

I mean not taking hard, but I mean, you know when there's tragic weather I know that's just part of your soul.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it just breaks.

It's it's so so sad to see how

high that river got, how fast it rose, how much rain came down, and then the devastation and just, oh my gosh, it's missing kids.

It breaks my heart, it breaks my heart.

I mean, water is dangerous, right?

And when you have it rushing at that kind of speed, it can take out a lot of things, it can take out trees, it can take out us, you know, stuff like that.

There was

a house floating in, took a house right off its foundation.

Yep.

Yeah, the power of that.

But

what

about, so, I was surprised too, how fast it came, how little warning they had.

What, because there was dry conditions and then it rained, is that what happened?

What caused?

Well, they had had a drought for like a year.

I know that, right, Brittany?

Yeah.

So I'm a little fuzzy on all this too.

So what I believe as well is they had the drought conditions.

And when you have that, you have such dry land and it's not, it doesn't absorb it as well as our soil.

It's like going down a culvert.

We're used to.

Yeah, yeah, and so it's just gonna kind of pull on top because it can't absorb at the rate that it usually does So it pulls up much faster and it just runs right into those river basins I mean you're having it from all the different spots of land running into that river flesh flooding rising.

It was a two-story buildings.

Hi.

Yeah, that's crazy

And yeah, and the power of water is just, I mean, I used to be a white water rafting guide.

And so you're on those rapids and you're feeling that power and you have to steer yourself through it.

It is hard floating on top.

Can you imagine just being pushed by it?

Yeah, it's scary.

Now, Brittany, what about, you know, everybody's talked about the warning systems and everything.

Okay, what would we have around here that they didn't have?

Or do we have something different around here that they didn't have?

Um, you know, good question.

I'm not too familiar with what they do have down there.

Um, for us, we've got monitors all over all of our rivers.

We have people monitoring them daily, forecasting where it's going to rise and how much it's going to rise.

But still, you know, we've got the meteorologist saying if we've got a storm that's going to sit over an area produced three to four inches of rain, there's not much you can do about that besides push out those warning systems.

So.

For us, if you have those alerts turned on your phone, that warning system is going to go off and tell you there's flood warning to evacuate the area as soon as possible.

So that's what our system kind of is in place.

I'm hoping they have the same thing.

I should be the same thing there, but I don't know how often their river gauges are and things like that.

Brittany, are cell phones, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Are we better off, though, getting weather radios with battery backup?

Is that more?

I guess reliable than our cell phones or is it the same system?

You know, I like both.

I have both of them, honestly.

It's the traditional old school, the weather radio, no matter what, it's gonna still pick up stuff.

If you lose cell service or there's something weird with the cell, you know, you're not gonna get that message potentially.

So I like to have both, especially if you're out in a rural area like we have in the Northwoods, where you're not getting that cell service in every spot and you're camping in different spots.

you're going to want that weather radio.

And it's really cool because they have different brands and kinds.

So it's not just that classic radio.

You can get ones with flashlights, alarm clocks, charging your cell phone to these things.

So it's just so beneficial to have all of that.

Plus, you can just hit it for the weather forecast so you know it's coming up.

But on your

cell phone, if those girls or if anybody camping silences your phone, that overrides the silence.

Like, you know, when you have a gray alert or whatever it's called, no matter what or silver.

Yeah.

Yep.

Is

it something like that?

Same thing.

Okay.

Yeah, same exact thing.

It'll just override it and go off and everybody's thing is buzzing.

And if you're in that cell signal, it's basically going to a certain tower that's in that warning area.

And every cell phone that's in that tower area should get that alert.

So if you're moving or traveling, so you're going into a flooded area, you'll get it as you enter that cell tower service.

I think that's pretty good technology because who doesn't have a phone and, you know, wow.

Yeah, this is just so sad.

I just can't know.

They're up to 80 now and we heard this morning.

And 22

dozen still missing or whatever.

Hey, Brittney, what could happen here?

I mean, are there areas in Wisconsin where something that tragic could happen?

Do you know?

And I know you don't know

every area of

Wisconsin, but you know

what I mean?

Is

that just kind of like, oh, it's so dry in the desert and blah, blah, blah versus something like that happening up here?

It can happen.

Let's be real.

It can happen.

We've had drought conditions here.

Well, is that just last year or the year before?

It was so dry and you kind of get the heavy heavy rains all of a sudden when it catches up You could get rivers that rise that fast

And not just the rivers itself, we've seen culverts and roads and just places just wash out where the road's not underneath anymore.

I've seen that in northern Wisconsin with my own eyes and it's the scariest thing.

Oh, yeah,

we've had that here.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah, no, it can happen.

But I just think the power of that was just unbelievable.

I've never seen anything like

it.

We've had sitting water and I'm sure it was moving.

But I mean, the power of that thing to take, move houses.

I don't think I

don't remember that ever

happening here, but

maybe it did.

But yeah.

Oh, scary.

Hey, Brittany, tell me more about those weather radios.

I didn't.

I honestly didn't know they existed.

Seriously.

No, I didn't.

I didn't know

there was such

a thing.

I know you could get little apps and different things, but I've never known there was just a. OK.

My father-in-law was glued to the weather radio.

Wow.

Yes.

Go ahead.

Me too.

As a kid, oh my goodness.

I used to hit the tornado because there's a fake tornado siren.

And if you hold it down long enough, it'll go off.

This one is a little new school.

It doesn't do the same one, but the old school ones used to do that.

I would trick my family.

I would just hit stand there and hit the tornado

siren.

Nothing

like a

holiday at Brady's.

I know.

But just speaking of like something sad, we're just talking about those kids down there, but even here.

I don't know that that little girl that was killed with that tree.

Remember your parents?

Yeah.

Cause he, I mean, Don, Annago, but man, when that weather radio went off, many call those kids in the house, he was like in the basement type thing.

I don't know.

I maybe overreacted a little bit, but he just was, but to have your kids playing outside in the weather radio goes off.

That's a no, no.

You know what I mean?

So we, people still have weather radios, right?

Oh yeah.

Absolutely.

They're very, very useful.

So I keep mine plugged in.

It's in my room.

It's in the office.

It's got batteries.

So, you know, if you lose power, it's still going to go off because you got to think about if you're losing power, you could lose your cell phone charge, all these different things.

You don't have a battery in there.

Do you have a battery bank for your cell phone?

Another good thing to have.

But that's why this weather radio also comes with battery bank options, flashlight options, alarm clocks.

Like I said, the list goes on.

They got so creative for good.

camping resource because that is the place where you're really going to lose that cell phone service.

Like I did this whole research project of the Northwoods in Minnesota and Michigan, how all those woods don't have the service and you're not getting that cell phone warning system and then you're being shocked by severe weather because you had no idea it was coming.

Weather radio, weather radio, weather radio, right?

It's using the radio signal.

You tune it in to the station that you want or you can pick all local stations.

So I personally have it set to my county and then a few counties off to the West so that I'm getting warned if there's a severe storm coming in.

coming in.

Oh, it's still severe warm.

Now it's hitting my area.

So I had a big warning out ahead before the storm actually got to me.

So that's pretty cool too.

A

little side hustle.

Yeah.

Bernie's backup.

Yeah.

I was just saying she could go around and set people's weather radios up for him.

It

doesn't happen us.

I don't know why it used to happen to us over at my other station, but it'd be in the middle of a conversation like this.

It still happens.

Yeah, we just don't

hear it.

Oh, but those are just that's that test.

It's a

test of every six months.

You never know.

No, once a month.

On the blue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Oh, I used to work up in Duluth, Minnesota as a meteorologist there on TV.

We still had to personally run the crawls, the severe weather that would go across and the little radar map that would come out.

Now the technology is so crazy.

Computer systems do it for them, but.

Back then, I actually had to push it, run it, call people, say, listen, I don't care if it's commercial, we need to run this severe weather crawl.

It was the coolest thing.

Did you

have to type in the crawl or just take the information and pop it in there?

I could take it or I could type my own.

So I took it and then added.

There

you go.

You're big type.

Yeah.

Run, run.

Well, Brittany, we've had some bizarre weather back and forth here.

One day it was like almost 100.

The next day it was like 40.

It's like, wow, this is crazy.

What's going

on?

Couple different fronts coming through.

Good old summer weather, right?

Well, today is going to be beautiful.

Nice high pressure system.

or 70s, comfortable, no humidity, perfect, perfect day.

Tomorrow though, we've got a little pressure system that wants to hit.

I need a chance, I'd say 20, 30% chance that you got some rain, probably a little bit in the morning and then a little more, possibly a thunderstorm in the afternoon.

Nothing severe, nothing too wild.

And then we're actually comfortable and dry and sunny for the rest of the week until maybe Friday night and Saturday.

Another front rolls through, a cold front pushes in.

That'll bring some rainfall and then

a little bit more muggy and humid and warmer for the weekends, probably mid eighties.

So what is the Britney Merleau doing her off days this time of year?

Oh, I'm getting ready for EAA Oshkosh.

So I've got a lot of packing to do for my camping.

So I'll be doing a little bit of that.

What else am I going to be doing?

What?

Writing that fat tire bike like crazy.

So what did you do for the

fourth?

Where did you watch the fireworks?

I decided to stay in Wausau.

I've never seen them in Wausau area before, so it was my first time.

And it was really beautiful.

And also hearing them echo off the mountain was something different.

It sounded like rumbles of thunder.

Yes.

Hey, where do you bike ride?

Where do you fat tire bike ride?

I mean, all

those hills

around Wausau?

Or

do you go all over?

Oh, yes, absolutely.

Absolutely.

Everywhere I can go, they've got really cool single track trails out in Ringle, so those are fun to go off of, you know, you've got the Mountain Bay Trail, and then just different ones around the river.

Gorgeous.

Nice.

It's cool.

If I come back in life, Rick, I want to come back as you and do cool stuff outdoors.

You

do

cool stuff, too.

Go

camping and stuff, fat tire biking, all this cool stuff.

Have you ever had an older gentleman say to you, Brittany, that if they come back in life, they want to be you?

I mean,

that's

just.

It's a little creepy.

You could have just said a gentleman.

I could have thrown the whole thing.

No.

All right.

All right, give us a forecast one more time, please, Brittany.

All right, a beautiful week.

Honestly, today we are looking at core just conditions upper seventies high pressure system in place.

Then a low pressure moves in tomorrow.

Chance of rain in the morning, maybe again in the afternoon, a thunderstorm upper seventies to low eighties through the rest of the week.

A lot of sunshine on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

We'll get a little cloudy with some thunderstorms possibly rolling into our Saturday.

Then nice and summery Sunday, mid eighties.

Beautiful.

Great.

Great July.

Thank you for what you do.

Thank you guys.

You're the best.

You take care.

Brittany Brilower, Civic Media Meteorologist, coming right from Wasah.

I would like to do that fat tire bike thingy.

I really would.

I mean, be out in the woods and you're still riding a bike to me.

I don't, I don't, I just riding a bike around here and even on the trail and it just doesn't do, you know what I mean?

You need something more

challenging, John?

Yes.

More wanting with nature.

I'm a nature boy.

I'm like, Rick Flair, tell me the rest of it

today.

Make it one.

Nature

Boy

Johnny Mino.

There

you go.

I actually thought of you over the weekend.

I was scrolling on social and I came across these little videos of this guy that would like build houses and huts and underground bunkers by himself.

Yeah.

And they speed it up, you know, and he's out there.

He's cutting down the logs with a, with a handsaw, you know, and using.

I thought of you right away.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Did he injure himself in any way?

I

haven't seen him in a few months.

He built a little house in like six months all by himself.

Oh, really?

No, like no electrical anything.

It was all by hand.

Wow.

Got a thing here from Terry.

I remember in the early nineties when we had a ton of rain in the East River overflowed.

Oh, yeah.

I was.

I remember our whole street from the East River was completely flooded.

Um, it was in May because I got married and moved that weekend.

Okay.

Yep.

I

mean, that was, I mean, our street was underwater.

Unbelievable.

Even that where they play soccer, that little hut.

Yes,

underwater.

The whole thing was.

Yeah.

So that's going to be what, eight feet, right?

Seven

feet, so.

Yeah, that was crazy.

Yeah, I remember that one well.

All right.

All right, cool.

All right, we're going to start a quick break.

Back with more right after this.

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As we mentioned earlier, today is rock and roll day.

Now, I gotta ask you this.

Gotta ask you this.

Do you ever have a rock and roll poster up in your room?

Oh.

I told you Fairfoss, it was there for a while.

Yeah, I know that's Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I can't believe your mom allowed that one.

No, no, that was that's college.

No, no, it wasn't you did

not have a Batman poster.

I think yeah, you know what John?

All right, I don't remember a rock and roll.

No, I don't think so.

No to think about it No, I don't okay my sisters did but no I

didn't because your family was so big into music I mean I've never known a family bigger into music than yours.

Yeah, did did you guys like?

the whole thing embrace all types of music?

Or was it just the barbershop?

Well, it was more than barbershop, but it wasn't rock and roll.

But I mean, you guys all played instruments

or all did whatever.

So I mean, music was a really big part here.

I mean, but it was, um, yeah, it was, it wasn't that kind of, it wasn't rock and roll.

I mean, we, um,

no.

Was there?

Okay.