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Happy Tuesday for ya to ya to ya looks a bit nasty out there doesn't it?
It's got that What's
it
threatening?
Well the battleship gray.
guys.
It's got that working.
It'll be threatening 58 green Bay 64 and Appleton 64 gosh gosh
Mostly cloudy with showers and storms high in the upper 70s today.
Yeah.
I know.
I'm not gonna be that old guy who just biatches and... But this has been a crappy since May, hasn't
there hasn't been like a two-week stretch.
weather has just been
tomorrow?
No.
or even like like Saturday or the Fourth of July day, was that Friday?
Saturday, Friday.
It was like so hot.
Yeah.
Then the next day was like 53.
Wow.
farmers market.
seven?
Yeah.
you do?
And again, I've never gone camping in my life, like in a tent.
What do you do if you're at a campground and it's just like pouring rain all day?
What do you
Let's go.
Let's go to Chuck E. Cheese.
still a Chuck E. Cheese?
Or is that an old guy's thing?
I think they're still around.
That was when you're back in the day.
No, but when you take your kids to Chucky Cheese
you just sit back, let them do their thing.
That's true.
People take care
them.
Yeah.
That is just like a babysitting.
I thought that one bear was kind of creepy
They open up that curtain.
Yeah.
There's I told you about the that that shipyard thing where we're gonna have our little train car businesses or restaurants And that was that sign park that they have up in Anaheim show me a picture.
Oh, that's really cool Clark station and just all these signs and they're around you got okay You want me to tell you one
that I want my place and you've failed miserably at getting for me.
it's cracked but i could fix it i could glue it i put a piece of plexiglass behind it yeah it's the packer city motel site
it was i want that um i bet literally i could go over there with a with a with a uh well i'd need something big to otherwise i'd correct i was gonna say i could go over there the hacksaw
And I could cut that thing down a bit.
Nobody would notice.
Nobody would be like, Hey, that's private property.
Yeah.
a Sinclair gas
see Sinclair
I know where you mean.
I've driven past.
I thought about that.
Well, that's really cool
What
Oh, yeah, it's in Claire Okay, but that would be a cool park because you want to do something right there's a land over there.
They're trying to carve it out into
Different you don't want to just have a bench and nothing wrong with all that but they want to do something different that and that's kind of low maintenance I mean the signs if they're kept up, but just cool to just sit on those benches and look around remember that
There have been times where I've been tempted to like take signs off of places that are abandoned And but then you'll see oh no trespass.
like is that really a law or a suggestion
well
That's
because I love old signs.
old Pepsi ones that were really cool.
Yeah,
I sold them all.
I don't know why I sold
You know when I show people something.
It's like I'll give you a $200.
It's like hard to turn that down sometimes
regret everything I've sold in that way.
the way
Greatest breakfast Those hot dogs you just brought in yeah, even I eat that brought cold
gosh, but those hot dogs you get from Costco Yeah, are the best tasting hot dogs I've ever tasted.
10 inches.
on them?
know there was cheese.
melted
dogs are brought for breakfast is so underrated.
People say, oh, well, I'm having sausage with my eggs, but
gonna have a hot dog.
Oh, that's wrong.
Hot dogs are good.
It's a good breakfast.
Terry says, supposed to be nice tomorrow.
Glam Band at the Sardine can.
That's always huge, man.
It is.
just put that up.
Vicki says, good morning, gents.
Hi, Vicki.
Michael says, hi, gents.
Beautiful day from downtown Madison.
He's got
Michael's so
than us.
Uh, Texas from, uh, Bob says signs, Wally spots supper club.
Oh, that would
great.
Vic theater, Bay theater, caps.
Was it caps?
Cops.
Yeah.
Chocolate, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, but the, that sign park would, it doesn't look junky either.
Remember when I showed you that?
It was just all around the perimeter.
And then if you could do it on, and then just, and then you could look at that.
or look at the water.
Like, wouldn't that be like a cool place just to like, I don't know, hang out?
That reminds me of a Charles Corral
story.
old stuff like that.
No,
to my picturesque cabin in Montana.
Oh, it's so true.
rocks.
Martha.
Yeah.
Yes.
Well, that was almost like that era.
You almost had to have that.
You know what I mean?
That was part of the Rush Limbaugh had that
was kind of the allure of those guys
Osgood Yeah, yeah, he was good.
I like the guy.
He's a little off kilter But the guy that does that Sunday morning show that I've started watching he's
cork mocha Because he wears a bow
Yeah, he's Charles roka something
he's a
Okay, okay, that's right.
Because when I turned it on the first time, her picture was up.
I thought, is that Jane Pauley?
host or a guest or something.
Boy, when I started in this business, and I was, well, the station I worked at was so small, it was...
I still got a business card.
Okay cam VT TV CBS ABC Wow was all listed on there because it was the only station the market So it was great.
They could cherry pick whatever shows they want Wow every night the best shows on ABC and whoever they would cherry pick them off Yeah, but but the thing is the the big thing going we ran the NBC Was that good morning today?
What was the today show today show and it was?
Jane Pauley and then Brian Gumbel.
Well, he came later.
on that's right.
Tom Broca.
And the coolest thing was then we got the live satellite feed all the time.
Yeah.
So when they were kind of like with here where, you know, I said, I'm not going to sit here during breaks anymore.
Cause like, okay, we would get the live feed when they were during breaks.
And every time Tom Broca put his feet up the thing and people are going.
You might want to put your feet down you get a big hole in your shoe But that was so cool to see those people as like normal people right and the other one who we had Where it was like we always wanted to see the you know the
satellite feet Yeah, was um guys just Tom Snyder.
never met him.
That's what I've heard.
His brother was awesome.
Yeah.
His brother just died recently, right?
Yeah.
I never met Brian Gumbel.
But he, he was just talking about how sports and you know, you don't know this better than anybody, but just to change HBO sports, how just everything has just changed so much.
And of course I told you yesterday about.
You know, he's not like gambling at all.
It's just, it's really taken away from the sport.
And anyway, it's an interesting interview from a guy that, you know, he still looks nice to me.
He still looks like he's 35, 40, but he, you know, 40 years.
And he said he went back to call games.
They called him back.
He said, I didn't do a very good job of that.
He was very just self cause that, that wasn't me.
I didn't really enjoy it.
Cause I had my, my better days were behind me when it comes to that.
He goes, I just want to be an emeritus status and help.
Anyway, I can, but I don't I don't want to be the front guy anymore.
He I will
say this.
He never shied away from anything.
I remember he did the big interview with who's a pro wrestling guy, Vince McMahon.
And he was talking about the steroids and all the things going on in the guys dying really young.
kind of
after him.
Yeah.
He did.
You're right.
He didn't shy away.
I helped him out one time, Bob.
He called me at home.
What?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Tell the story.
Okay.
When Charles Martin slammed Jim McMahon.
Remember that?
Yeah.
8586.
Yeah.
And got suspended and everything.
And he was trying to get an interview with Charles McMahon.
Okay.
And we're, I was with NBC.
I was with Fox 11 or whatever NBC, whatever we were then.
Yeah.
And so he called me.
Instead is there any chance, you know, we could get this blah blah blah and Charles Martin and I okay.
This is a true story.
I'm not I don't make up this stuff, okay?
the night before I was with Charles McMahon at Sebastian's and Charles Charles Martin not McMahon Charles Martin was slamming man, and he was doing shots
One after another, he had like 14 shots lined up.
And in his big hands, they're like thimbles.
And it was, it was a crazy night.
Yadda, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Uh, next day, the whole thing happens.
He gets suspended.
I go to his apartment.
I got the only interview that Charles Martin did.
Really?
Well, the Bob McGinn from the Milwaukee Journal even called me asked if he could use excerpts from it.
Okay.
He sat in Charles Martin's living room, told me about how his mom was a bootlegger.
He was an alcoholic by the time he was like 14.
and the whole thing, yada yada.
I set up, Bob Costas had the only national interview with Charles Martin because of me.
Because of you.
Because of me.
out
just asking.
me a cap.
even a
leverage.
Yeah,
was.
I'm trying to find if John thanks so much for helping and
me an NBC sports cap.
I always thought I could hold it sometime for as a thing, but I'd never, you know, in the back pocket.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm an orphan.
on.
Help with
hot dogs you got
We're trying.
going to set a quick break.
Mine or the mayor?
Great lineup for you.
with us.
I never saw that movie.
Really?
Footloose.
Wow.
I know, right?
Never saw that movie.
The Broadway play, too.
What was that?
Did you see the Broadway play?
Yeah.
Kevin Bacon?
No.
Um, yeah.
There's a lot of 80 movies I never saw.
Like, I never saw it.
Some of them I'd have to give my man card because I was too old.
Like, Pretty in Pink?
Never saw that.
Nobody saw
You
my story about the principal, right?
All right.
Or not the principal, the guy that, what would it be?
The monitor?
the
So I was in Tucson and getting sent to a live shot at the, um, what was it?
The, uh, I don't remember.
I had two son Toros, minor weight baseball team.
And, you know, people around a guy comes up to me and goes, Hey, hey, uh, what channel are you with?
And I told him, you know, whatever he goes, Hey, I was watching last night.
Boy, it's a cute anchor you got there.
Oh, okay.
Creepy guy.
We're in a Hawaiian shirt and just kind of whatever.
Yeah.
He goes, hey, let's talk to her.
Yeah, OK, creepy guy.
Go sleep on your park bench and whatever, whatever.
Then he goes, hey, does Carl Kinberg work for you?
Yeah, he's one of my producers.
Hey, tell him I said hello.
I'm an old friend.
OK, he goes, hey, my name's Paul.
OK, go back.
Hey, Carl, one of your loser friends sleeping in the park wanted to say hello, and he's trying to hook up with Kathy.
Oh yeah, Paul Gleason.
Yeah, he's in town shooting a movie.
You know what?
He goes, oh yeah, he's a big time actor.
You didn't know that?
Like, no, I didn't know that.
So he's in town shooting a movie.
So the next time I saw him, I sucked up to him like you
got
Nowhere.
Nothing.
Yes,
he's the best interviewer.
There's ever been I really and truly do
yes,
it out a little bit though.
Well, he sometimes wants everybody to know exactly how smart he is in his
think no, I don't think it was cost us.
Oh god it went on forever ever that was the dumbest thing of all time wasn't it even ESPN I think which has a
certain
arrogance about itself like we're the king of sports.
That's what they even kind of came back and said Yeah,
maybe
we kind of over did this.
Yeah, that's actually considered one of the biggest like What's the food and sports sports broadcasting history like they built this up so big
Maybe it was three hours.
It was forever just and yeah, it wasn't him though.
I don't think Cuz I know what you're talking about.
Yeah, I'm gonna take my services or talents to the self feature.
Okay, why would you do that?
Yeah, no, but he seemed though later in life again I just listened to one interview so but he seemed like he is not defined isn't the right word, but he kind of said look I'm not gonna do that
You know, he kind of got a little bit more confident.
Maybe at that time he couldn't.
Maybe he gets to a certain point where it's like, I'm not going to do this, but he did.
I don't know how many Olympics he did.
And, um, can you imagine, I don't know if he was a diva or not, but probably got the room he wanted and
You know what's funny though, you think back, even on the Olympics at those times, there were certain people that were, they would use the Olympics to really billboard and marquee younger talent.
And so many of them just disappeared then.
You know what I mean?
It's like they're right in the precipice of making
it
huge.
And then you never hear of them again.
It's like what like remember Bill McAfee I used to do stuff for Bill McAfee and then he just boom disappeared.
Hmm.
Yeah
favorite costume interview was the Bob Knight interview after the incident with Neil Reed He there was a treat.
Okay.
He said something that was so Politically and sexually or whatever you want to inculcate Bob Knight did
remember that
I do Can I say it Todd?
I don't know that's too early.
Okay?
Okay, basically he's, well, it's kind of like if, if a sexual assault is inevitable, enjoy it.
and it's like, yeah.
And it's like that.
Yeah.
That was horrific.
Yeah, it was.
You wonder sometimes how it's like, what are you thinking?
This is what we should do.
Bob Costas owns John Minow a favor.
No, he does.
And he is.
He loves this emeritus status.
He says that he goes, I want to just, that's what I'm going to do from now on.
I'm just, I want to be viewed from an emeritus status.
I'm not calling any games or not doing any, he didn't say grunt work because I'm just not going to do anything except maybe we should call him as just someone, give us a reflection and a perspective on sports.
I
had him on my radio show one time.
was, he was great.
Um,
asked him a question that
a question that he absolutely loved because we're both big baseball card guys Oh, yeah, I said he loves base 1965 you put your nickel down you get a pack of baseball cards What would be the worst five cards you could possibly get like
he
loved that he was bringing out names He loved that
on Monday
he an athlete
oh
Hey, thank you very much.
Welcome back.
Good morning coming your way at Tuesday 58 in Green Bay 64 now 1064 in us gosh mostly cloudy with showers and storms high in the upper 70s Today is a video game day something.
I have never done.
I've never played a video game No,
was I had my granddaughters at
The right place month or so ago when they're in town.
Yeah, and there's a Pac-Man and I didn't I couldn't show her how to play it
isn't that bizarre
played a video game
There was another interview they're talking about how Kids not so much in the United States, but some in the United States, but really in some other countries
are just so addicted to video games like an addiction like like i'm talking serious addiction you know cocaine type stuff and that they're they have no social skills at all and it's just these it's it's really sad how addictive video games have gotten it's just crazy they and then there's yes you can play you can be in um
Taiwan and play some guy in Germany.
I mean, it's just crazy the way that's networked, but that it's all day.
Like I'm talking eight, nine hours a day.
Oh yeah.
Would you see them all every time those people make?
Yeah, but it's just,
what do you do with that?
What's, Todd, what's
most addicting thing when people get into that.
unbelievable.
Like they'll play all night long.
So like, I know these friends were, they had to put a lock.
Like they're the door of where the things were so that their kid wouldn't be up all night long playing that
games
you know my dad had such terrible tasting stuff though I never had the thing you know what his go-to Shot was every day coming to have two Pam's blue ribbons and two shots.
You know what the shots were old crow.
Oh That is the worst tasting thing
All right.
It's gasoline.
Oh, you ever taste that old crow?
It's horrific.
It's still around.
I don't think so.
Is it Todd?
I don't know.
I had an old crow decanter one time.
That was really cool.
No, the bicentennial.
Oh, yeah.
Those canters that they made for the 200th.
Yeah.
And it's gonna be cool.
And I wish I would have saved some of those.
I'm ready to talk to you about that.
But just those are just cool things to have, right?
No question.
Yeah.
Yes.
I've never seen that in a bar.
I've never like sat in a bar and looked up at their bottom shelf and seen old crow.
It's
look up.
It's on the bottom shelf.
Yeah.
Wow.
Today's also cow appreciation day.
I appreciate cows.
Oh, really?
I did
sure
that?
that's a lot.
I wouldn't have thought Keewani County would be.
I would think more.
Southwestern sort of
like Shelton new Holstein those areas are big farm areas
big farms
one Wow
did somebody tell us one day how many people get killed by cows
Yeah, there's a lot.
they're all cool.
We're nice.
Boom, look out.
Okay, just turn your back on
I still say if I didn't have an artificial hip, I would race one for money.
They can you wouldn't even come close not even close my real hips not with your real hips not at your best At your peak, which is what we were at 17 18 19 20 whenever you were at your peak.
You could never outrun a cow My peak I did not you're right.
I didn't just say it.
All right.
You sure ain't there now.
Okay.
Wait,
No, Cal appreciation it is
mentioned Q1 County.
But I think they tried or they thought about using that as a catch type thing, you know, home of the Green Bay Packers or longest this, oldest this and never cut on.
I don't know if the mayor put the smack down on it or the county exec or if they just
Or if it didn't maybe it didn't catch on her and I don't know what that would do for you I guess that would get you know the 4h clubs and stuff to be like wow that's Awesome, and if you're like Todd that would rather talk to a cow than a human.
Yeah, might attract people
anyway.
Ham shall come from pigs so hamburgers are from no they come from cows He's got to do another one of those church watches and things man.
so
Bill Burr.
I was watching an interview with Bill Burr.
I haven't seen him in a while.
Yeah.
He was pretty normal in this.
He wasn't like, you know, off the wall.
But he talked about something where, and he talked about that about coming up with fresh stuff all the time.
He says, when he started in comedy clubs, if anybody was there with a notebook, the bouncers would kick him out because people would be stealing their jokes.
Oh,
and they'd be writing down jokes.
He said now you do something.
It's worldwide 20 seconds later.
Yeah.
when you said about Nate Bargazzi, you said he was good, but you've heard all everything he said you had heard pretty much, right?
I think that's a
think Jimmy one Jim Gaffigan one that I laughed at our time I visited my wife's family in Wisconsin.
I was there for eight pounds
just went through a winter.
Now the best weather,
going?
Today is also a freezer pop day.
Did everybody hear?
I bet everybody in these two rooms, maybe not you, made their own ice
that.
them.
yeah.
don't remember having a tongue depressor.
Well, how do you- We just pop them out, just eat them like that with your hand.
Oh.
No,
over your shirt and the mosquitoes would come after in the flies.
And
Because those
Then
right
Well, yeah, okay.
I that's a really good idea I like it try that today is also blueberry day.
I've been eating a lot of blueberries That's one of my things I'm gonna have it for the Johnny juice our place
whatever blueberries
and raspberries and frozen bananas, all mixed in with the Greek yogurt and a little bit
with that.
And you know what else I put in there, Todd?
Quinoa.
unbelievable blend that just... Your palate goes insane.
It's like Charles Corralt going
yes.
them.
I freeze them.
And even by frozen, I know by the frozen avocados, the little cubes of the avocados, these are the healthiest things.
It's changed my life.
It's one of the reasons
healthy now.
It's
that.
I was trying to get to 207 for tomorrow.
basically.
you hit?
210.
Close.
You still got a day.
Yeah,
right.
That helped.
two hot dogs and a brat for breakfast here helped.
Did you go to your 40th?
she died 26 years ago Don't stop the lady.
You showed me the picture of today is that's her mom Today is chocolate with almonds date nothing better nothing better almonds with chocolate
Jane
Yeah, I might give you that
uh, siruji white chocolate cashew turtles
I gotta give you that one.
Uh, Jaden Smith Will Smith son.
Yep.
Okay.
Uh, Kevin Bacon.
We're talking about foot lose.
Yeah, that's why I play that lose
today.
Um, Angelo Angelica Houston 71.
Okay.
You know what?
You know what?
You know what in movies sometimes where you have to just think yourself really
Some writer, producer didn't say that's like such a cheesy dumb line.
Kevin Bacon and, and what's his name?
Tom Cruise in, in, um, officer and gentlemen.
Okay.
Okay.
When they were getting into it about, you know, yada, yada, he goes, Hey, you, you want to know something?
You're a lousy softball player.
Remember that it's like that was such a cheesy life them.
It's like really You
but you remember it because it was so cheesy.
no, no, no, no
want
Oh, I deserve it
Thank you.
Yeah Dodgers at Brewers
Again tonight, which is a great series brewers really gave it to him last night six o'clock on W. I. S. S. Text here from Bob.
That's the caps sign.
Man.
Caps or cops?
right down here.
but.
No, no, but I mean, I think it might have actually, that might have actually been right where we're sitting.
And I'm not even joking about that.
That might have been like right here on this block where we are.
Where the old caps cops restaurant was
but I pretty sure was on Washington Street like right here because I remember going in there and having a big hot fudge sundae when I was a real little kid and Then you said the booths are is it Nicolae
just right down here.
Yeah, probably we're a Hagemeister is
I
Washington.
But it was on Washington.
That's where I went when I was a little kid.
Exactly.
to destroy it.
We're going to talk sometime about your sister or sister in law.
Okay, which.
Okay, who you were talking about before we went on the air this morning.
Oh, who's overlast
like garage sales and sells it for 10 times as much
I want to do that.
10 that has been my dream serious stuff on eBay
and I want it I got great stuff great stuff back
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I always try to get into Todd's head and figure out what music he's playing why.
Very cool.
Coming up, we got Katie Burke, three rivers rolling.
No.
Rollio.
Three rivers rollio.
Rollio.
Rollio.
Log rolling event coming up in Howard, coming up on July 12th.
know what?
yeah, I was unbelievable.
was unbelievable.
I remember doing a story down in Flint.
On that and people are like you should do this.
whole gear
still got it somewhere.
will I'll find
center of gravity.
told me they said man if you ever if you
pursue this
lot of money
lot of other things going
I got it.
Later on, we got Joe Verdegetter is our great guy, our racing expert and Scott Hansen.
Scott Hansen is legendary in stock car racing circles throughout the entire Midwest.
Five time WIR champion, which is big time.
Then he raced on the truck circuit, the national truck circuit right here from Green Bay.
He is just legendary when it comes to racing in this area.
Then we got John Kramer coming up headlines for the press times.
the monk community events coming up with my new thing.
There you go.
All right.
Yeah, it's right
nice.
Thank you
like that a lot Okay, I want to talk more about your your cousin things.
Does anybody here's what I would be willing to here's what I'd be willing to do Well menu looks great.
one.
Yeah, I would be willing to share my profits
with somebody if they would do the selling and the shipping.
No, I would, I would have, I got this stuff.
I got this stuff.
And then what I would do is I would, in fact, you know what I do, I see my books all the time on eBay, my books.
I would do just my books to start out with, sell them on eBay, but I don't wanna do all the stuff.
Because
know I don't know how to put I don't know how to go on the internet and put an ad I don't know how to do that stuff.
I would send them I would put them in the package with the name and I would send them
would give them a part
partial profits with them why?
Because I don't want to get involved with the whole internet part of the whole
and you weigh that, and the charts right in front of you, and the person's gonna say, I saw this on eBay, and you're gonna have come up with a minus something, and people are gonna say, I'd like to buy that.
Well, give me an example of something, like I said in Facebook.
Frontlines, my book,
Okay, so you got this book, and you're willing to sell it for $18, okay, $20.
And people say, I'd love to get that, and would you personalize it?
Absolutely.
Okay.
Come back.
All right.
I'll take it and say, all right, one minute.
Well, you're gonna know what the book weighs.
Where do you live?
I live in Tucson.
Okay.
It's $2.40.
So the total is 24 or whatever it is, 2240.
And they do that PayPal.
You'll be set up for that.
I don't know what that is.
I know, but then I know it's way too complicated for me.
Why would you give money away?
If you can in three hours, you can learn how to do it.
Why would you give that away?
Todd, you want
to
That would be fantastic.
credit.
sign the thing.
No, it's just it's good for students to do that.
They go to their marketing class and what was your project I did?
Well, I worked with this John Minow guy who was
way out there.
And I brought it to where he is actually turning a profit, thanks to my effort of designing his website.
But, but eventually you got to learn how to do that.
And I'm kind of preaching to, I don't know how to do that.
I was just gonna say, yeah.
Dad here telling me how
to drive a motorcycle.
we,
I would give, I would do that for the effort for somebody.
I would, I would do the shipping.
I would take it to the post office all you gotta do is take one book and they'd say how much it is then you'll know You know how much it would be.
I would do that.
I would package it by those nice With the with the with the what should we call
right, whatever I would is anybody out there wants to go partners with me
Well, I don't know.
How does that do they still bid on you on eBay?
always wanted to do it.
I'm sorry, don't mean to laugh.
the same time, from Nancy.
As I'm listening to this, I'm thinking to myself, is the man who claims he always has an assistant preaching to John right now about how to do things for himself?
Nancy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So who's going to help me out?
Look for a partner.
This could be very lucrative for
Thank you, Brian.
help.
There's Brian.
Brian, we're
I got Brian.
I don't need your student.
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With the Civic Media app, you can get notifications about local stories that matter to you and your community.
Find the free Civic Media app in your phone's app store and choose notifications from the menu to tell us what kind of news you want to hear about.
