
Welcome back, Minow and the Mayor.
Got a text here.
We're talking about the greatest guy in showbiz, Todd, who's moving on to a different career.
And I just want to read it one more time.
He submitted his resignation.
They've accepted it.
Todd has given his heart, his soul, his voice to Green Bay and the Fox Valley, not to mention the Civic Media News Talk radio network as the brand voice for two and a half years.
His passion for local radio was out questioned, impressive, and like we're talking about, we're not the same.
We're at 3-7 and we're not the same without Todd.
No disrespect to Convoy back there, who Ollie's thinking about as he shot a 53 yesterday at Crystal Springs.
He's all excited about that.
Would you shoot?
Yeah, and be honest if you go for yourself.
You got to be honest.
To figure out I'm a firm believer two digits don't belong in a golf course I got this I think if we're talking about famous trios the most obvious correlation between you the mayor and Todd would be the original ghostbusters Todd obviously is bingler the brains and steadying force of the bunch John would have to be Vinkman the build Murray character and by default would have to assign Jim to stands the Dan
Good morning, guys.
I will tell you that I'm very disappointed to hear that Todd is left.
He was a great guy to work with.
Nobody
No, so I'm very...
Very sad news this morning.
Yeah.
You are stuck.
I'm Louie.
Yeah.
He is gone.
He's gone.
You
Yeah, I'm sure he is.
Yeah, Louie's getting
New zoo, yes.
Is
the pontoon boat.
Oh I Was listening in the lobby.
Yes, I just paid two hundred and twenty five dollars for a full day pontoon boat on a pops resort So, we're we're we're I'm just yeah, yep brand new boat.
Um Yeah, they have a maybe a dozen of them for rent
So wow that doesn't 800
It did.
I think that's even higher than Dark County, so I was surprised but You know if you were comfortable paying that then that's what matters, right?
Yeah, absolutely move on this one from Dale.
That's pricey Is there any
Okay.
I have no that is not a That's not a zoo question.
So I have no idea.
There's
a ignite market coming up there.
I think yes,
Well, one of the fun things that has recently happened at the zoo is we've had some babies.
Oh!
So babies are always just a highlight of the zoo, both for staff, for keepers, and for guests to come and see the new animals.
So what do you think this guy is?
Yeah, I bring props now because the first day
You guys had no clue what a ripe panda was.
So I now bring in animals with me so you know.
I have no
sloth?
No, it's not a sloth.
It's got the marsupals.
It's a cotton top tamarin.
that's my second guess.
All right.
That was your second guess?
Um, it's Madagascar area.
Oh, yeah.
So yeah, they're a top
Tamarin
never
It's
Here here's all the stats on very northern part of South America is where they're actual
Okay, I
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
And the baby is probably about three inches long.
It is the cutest little thing.
So they can have one to probably three.
This time we just had one.
But there's a really cool story behind this one.
There's only
They're very endangered.
There's a really cool story behind this one.
The father, actually we lost to age and some heart issues after the female got pregnant.
So the males play a big part in helping raise the young.
So we very quickly found another a male cotton top tamarin at another AZA accredited zoo and got it here so that by the time the female gave birth to this baby There was a male to help her raise it really so he did step in he and he is doing wonderful his name is Geo and he
fantastic.
That's nice of you to do that.
kid on the side.
You know what I
I kind of knew it.
But you're doing that.
OK, just saying.
Oh, John.
John, John, John.
So we have a cotton top tamarin, and then we had another, some more babies.
Let's try you guys on this one.
links a Canada links Wow, okay.
Yes.
So we have two new baby male Canada links They were just named I think yesterday the day before Ranger and Cruz They are just look
came out looking like little baby kittens.
And as they grow, now they're starting to get those little ear tufts.
And so two more really cute little babies that you can see at the zoo.
What did you name
He hasn't been named yet.
I'm not sure if we're doing a contest for him or not.
We are.
Well, they certainly can make some suggestions.
Sometimes the keepers get to name their animals, so I'm not sure.
So I don't want to make promises that I can't keep, but the listeners can absolutely certainly.
How about they send in recommendations, and if we use one, we will
Give him a prize.
Oh, it's standing
life time passes feasts with the beast passes That's a fun event.
America?
Very northern part of South America, yeah.
Columbia.
Very endangered, yeah.
Right.
Which is really the mission of what we do at a zoo conservation.
Is it a boy or girl?
We don't know yet.
We have not gotten hands on.
I would leave that.
Coming down from Canada.
Yep.
Yep.
Endangered Eddie.
Yeah.
Hey.
Yeah.
That's.
know, that's like what's that reminds people
says.
That's what that was.
I thought he would say Jim.
So Eddie, that's a little
Yeah, so babies.
Babies are always great at zoos.
People love to see babies.
We love to see babies, brings in guests.
Really helps us with our conservation mission and message.
So it's great that we have a couple new babies right now.
What
something
no we've been waiting for a baby for a while
yeah all right so
no
no I think we've touched on that um and some of my previous visits so once we get their DNA all of those
that all of those genetics go into an AZA database for that animal.
And then if there is a zoo that needs, for instance, a male to mate with a female, AZA, there's a person in charge of each species across the country at
AZA zoos.
For instance, our director kind of leads the whooping crane species conservation.
So if somebody needs a...
female whooping crane to mate with a male to help produce offspring to continue that.
that species, they will then look into that database, see who has matching DNA, and then that animal will get shipped to pair with the other animal.
all about science.
We don't have animals, we don't have babies, just to have babies.
You have to have a breeding recommendation in order to even let your animals mate and become pregnant.
Keep the propagating going on, huh?
Yep, so.
Is that the right word?
Propagating?
Well, sometimes, yeah.
You can't be pretty close.
So for the new lion that we just got, that might be...
what you're talking about.
We got a new female lion recently.
That must be it.
She was three years old.
Yeah.
And she came specifically now to pair with... There was
news.
specifically now to pair with our male lion because we lost our female.
Okay, so the zoo that-
Let me talk to them all.
Yeah, they have prenups.
So we don't sell animals.
talking about
We don't rent animals.
So being part of the AZA, being a credited zoo, that's really the number one thing.
that we do is we're trying to conserve the species.
So that is our mission of trying to find other whooping cranes that could make, that can then have offspring to continue this population.
But we want those offspring to, you know, we don't want a sister and a brother to lay an egg.
We want, you know, we
You know what I know?
I know that you're loony.
All
too big.
Right back to back.
that was at my cottage yeah
yep that
right you know
i'm sure it could it has the strength to break in right
The bear is up in that north woods area.
So our cottages and mountain privates up that way.
They're really just looking for an easy treat bird seed.
That's what he was on our deck for.
He's never come up there before, but they're just looking for bird seed, those types of things.
Well, I heard him come on our deck.
So I heard a bang.
And so I got up and there was a bear standing there.
So I yelled to my husband, Scott, there's a bear on our deck.
And so I
grabbed a couple photos really quick, and then he started going for another bird feeder, so my husband started banging on our sliding door, and he kind of looked at us like, I'm busy.
How much did
I don't
Over 300.
I don't know.
Then we had a littler one that started coming every night.
I think a little guy that probably mom kicked out just recently.
And he actually scaled a pole.
I nicknamed him circus bear.
So
Yep And we so we've had that cottage six years and this is the first time we've had a problem.
So Wow, I
we
Yes, I
had one in our driveway.
My husband said we were selling the cottage.
Yes, luckily we still have it.
yeah, because they rattle.
They
So that's where our cottage is on the South Branch of the Okana River.
And I was sitting on the on the on the shore on the bank.
And just whatever and I heard this rustling behind me.
I thought of squirrels right in the leaves and I turn and I almost just like bleeped myself because that thing was right behind me and it was and it was rattling just like a rattlesnake and it looked just like one.
Yeah.
We do in the very southwestern part of Wisconsin.
Timber
Yes.
Yeah.
Although I don't know
I have not, but I do know people that have, yeah.
Have they really,
We used to, when I used to work at Booble's Nature Preserve a few years ago, we had a...
Very healthy population of fox snakes.
Oh, really?
Very healthy.
Like you could see 10, 15 in one day.
No.
And people used to come there specifically because they were snake, I don't know, aficionados.
And they would show us pictures and tell us about the Rettlers that they saw down.
Kind of like the Devil's Lake and even farther west than that.
believe the show they put on up there.
They have a great Memorial Day parade too that we do what we go to.
Really thanking the veterans and yeah.
Those small communities.
it.
We spend as much time up there as we can.
Do you guys fish the
Well, that's in our front yard.
Wow.
So we do.
Yeah.
If you ask my husband, I catch more lures in the trees than I do
trout stream.
Yes.
My son can go up there.
cast once or twice and catch a couple of trout.
That's awesome, man.
Yeah, that's
of far away sometime.
year.
25th year, okay.
I remember when you first
So it has changed and I think that was one thing I wanted to mention this morning.
The event has changed over the 25 years because when it was first started,
I believe by Judy Korachek, and her friends and family, there was a partnership with the Restaurant Association.
And for many years, it was a co-sponsored partnership between the two organizations.
So it was different then, obviously having the Restaurant Association behind it, they were able to leverage all of their restaurants and things to participate.
Once they decided, I think that they kind of grew out of the event.
They wanted to move on to something else in the Zoological Society.
We've been doing it on our own.
It's changed a bit.
I mean, it is harder for us to get people to participate.
We don't have that same, you know, kind of twist your arm as the Restaurant Association does.
So it's still a very important event for us at the zoo to raise money for, you know, what we do to support the zoo and the animals.
and this is the 25th year, so it's still a great
Okay, let's
Eat and
word
Well to think about hey Todd hey, okay, Todd would know Todd would know con.
How does that make you feel?
Sorry think about it.
And you know what I you know what else he did yesterday?
broke a hundred Just telling you we guys said a quick break Christine should see talking about a great fundraiser new animals and feast with the beast coming up at the NEW zoo back at this
Is this on your uh, what do kids call it on your um,
procreate procreation right like
Okay.
That has got to be Convicts you ever see that?
No Donnie Osmond was in it I just want to say but it's been at
at St.
Norbert, that's been at the Weidner.
Joseph and the amazing technical dream code.
And it's all about the procreation.
And
Well, I didn't throw out a number.
I didn't throw out a number, but yes, most animals procreate
only to, you know, reproduce young.
They
John, maybe you weren't part of that survey then.
You know what?
What's your name again there?
I'm all
species.
I'm doing it for the
That's the only reason I'm doing this.
Back to feast.
We need to go to date.
Monday.
It's always the first Monday in August.
So it is Monday, August 4th.
Tickets are on sale on our website on the zoo's website You can get them in person person at the zoo in the visitor center and save five bucks a ticket Or you can get them at two capital credit union locations the one in Howard and the one in swamiko and also say five bucks a ticket
Yes.
The society only does two events.
We do this one and then a sip and safari event, kind of a little bit smaller wine event that we did in June.
That's really
too though, right?
It did.
It sold out this year.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
But lots of zoo events coming up.
We do three conservation days.
We did Giraffe Day.
June, we have party with the penguins coming up on July 18th.
We have accessible zip lining.
Have you guys done the zip lining at the Adventure Park?
Yes.
Yes, I heard about this.
It's great.
I was on top of one of those towers.
And when they got the things that you want, it's like, ha!
I think I'll just stand here with the camera and I was watching that zipline thing and these kids would start screaming at first and then they're like oh my god that was so awesome yes that is a really cool thing I think
more
yeah we're working on you know it's been around for quite some time but there's so many people that don't know about it right but
The cool thing that they've, I think this is the second year, but they do an accessible, a couple of days of accessible zipping.
So if you have some type of disability that you can't get to the top of that tower to get on that zipline, they have this contraption that will get you up there and you can experience a zipline.
So there's a, they're doing three of those this year.
There's another one of those coming up in July.
And then have you guys been on our canopy tour?
You have?
Okay.
you're looking at me like no I haven't so the canopy tour is that the new walkway that goes above the zoo okay um that opened I think four years ago and we open that a couple times a year at night so they call them twilight canopy tours so that's coming up just always yeah lots of stuff coming up
a popular event.
It's important for our fundraising efforts to help the new zoo.
Lots of samples.
This year, all of the craft beer samples that we're doing have something to do their name or on the can as an animal.
Oh.
So we work with Dean distributing on that and we get all these very unique named craft beers for people to try.
And this year I picked out all of ones that have something to do with an animal.
Cool.
popular, right?
Yeah.
Yes, I know what you're talking about.
Anyway, well, that's cool.
So that's the
you can try some food, try some wine,
that.
No, you have to be 21 or over, because we're giving away alcohol.
That's right.
So.
OK.
Yes, we don't want all your you know, nine and ten year olds leaving
plenty of stuff for that
friendly
We have 15 penguins.
Every one of them has a different personality.
So we have a couple that were hand raised, and those two are very friendly.
They will come up to you.
They like neck scratches or behind the ear scratches.
They like to...
peck at your shoes or your shoelaces so they can try to get into trouble.
There are others that is very difficult for them to interact with you.
They want nothing to do with you.
So it really depends on their personality.
But at Party for the Penguins, you get to hear the keepers talk about them.
You get inside kind of information behind the scenes information.
And then one of the penguins is kind of out, you know, it's a little, it's a little fenced in area, but you can get right up close to the penguin and see it up close and.
So it's just an entire day devoted to penguin education and conservation.
Our penguins like warm weather.
Our penguins are from South Africa.
OK.
Which actually, there's a group of us from the zoo going there next month to Cape Town to see the penguins in the wild.
Yep.
So one of our conservation trips that we started doing a couple of years ago.
See, we got all sorts of stuff going on.
That's so awesome.
That's a cool job.
It is a cool job.
So, yep, our penguins, if it's below about 35 degrees, we don't let our penguins outside.
I'll be
We are going to enlarge it as part of our Renew the Zoo campaign.
An additional kind of room with glass so we can see it in the winter.
More room so hopefully we can hatch some more penguins, have some baby penguins for people to look at.
We're gonna weigh the penguins or something.
They can see the keepers working with them in this big glass window.
So that will be a part of it.
Has everybody heard
No, she's
No, I'm not too young.
I just don't remember that.
Because Caesar Romero
the
And the Joker.
So who was Batman in this?
Is this a Michael Keaton?
Adam West.
Adam West.
before he had it.
So it was one of the original before Michael Keaton and before... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And
No, it's everybody.
It's included with your admission to the zoo that day.
So it's just a day where we, the keepers, one of the couple of the keepers that are in charge of the penguins plan the day.
And it's just really all about penguins.
So you're going to get
different keeper chats throughout the day talking about penguins.
You can meet a penguin.
There's penguin activities.
You can get penguin tattoos on your face.
I mean, just penguin everything.
No.
very, it's very reasonable for a family to attend the zoo and if you're gonna, or to come to the zoo and if you're gonna come more than once or twice, get annual pass.
I just
Yeah, I think it's maybe 14, 1450 an adult and a couple bucks less for a child.
Do
The only time we do free days is when we have a sponsor so Meyer Once he typically once a year does on a Saturday morning like the first 500 people free, okay?
That's because it's county owned there's a lot of restrictions about the county giving away things for free
Is that
that, the first Thursday of the month.
So Wednesday nights, the last two hours, four to six, it's half price.
The county allows them to do that.
Okay, all right.
So there are, you can watch and get some deals.
I was just
All right, but you're seven days a week?
Seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Those animals have to be fed, taken care of, so the keepers are always there.
So if the keepers are there,
We're
Is there anything, I don't know if you want to touch on your, your renew the zoo or whatever your campaign is going to be called, but are there any animals that you're kind of on the wish list on?
Cause I remember it took forever to get a giraffe out there, but then you guys did that and did it very well.
And those turtles were just awesome.
There's red Lewis.
We have a strategic plan, a master plan that is, was completed just before COVID.
And there are some new animal species identified in there.
Tigers are on that plan.
I think a sloth and a tropical building is on that plan.
So we may get there.
I think our first priority right now is renewing the zoo, fixing up things that are a little dated or tired or run down.
Yeah, exactly.
You guys would be the perfect
for this campaign.
Don't let
Yeah, so we're gonna do that first.
Okay.
And then we will...
move on to what is our next larger project?
Do we want to bring in some new animals?
What makes the most sense?
It's not just
in.
It is, and do we need more keepers then?
If we bring in new species, and how do we support that staff?
So it's always great to announce new animals, bring new animals in, bring more guests in, but there's so many things that then go with that.
so it's quite the process.
The whole
Yes.
So renew the zoo is first, we're gonna spruce it up, we're gonna renovate some things, and once we get that done, we'll figure out what's next.
No, we have not launched a campaign.
We are actually still in the process, believe it or not, this is taking a really long time, but with contractors, builders, those, that, getting quotes from them.
Tell me about it.
You know, we're waiting and waiting and waiting.
So we are right now still in the process of getting quotes from people to do the things that we want to do.
So we can decide how much this campaign is going to.
Awesome.
Total.
We hope so.
All right.
Thanks for being here.
You're always fun.
Thanks, guys.
It's always fun to be here.
Yes.
you.
Oh, you know what so I ate breakfast at the lilas last week Oh, yeah, and I always order the same things with Dennis from the glam band.
We both had the Pimento cheese omelet Yeah, and I asked the guy I said, where do you get your Pimento cheese?
He said we make our own
He wouldn't tell me how to do it, though.
I was
I'd like to talk to him about a veteran's donation.
Gary.
Get a pen?
Here we go, buddy.
Here's my email.
It's not real private.
Nope.
J-O-H-N dot M-A-I-N-O.
The number 57 at yahoo.com.
The number 57 in honor of Ken Bowman, the old Packer Center.
Okay.
Take some pictures.
She was our advisor.
You're the teacher.
She'd be old because she'd be in her 90s.
She was young.
She was like a student teacher.
Oh.
By and she, okay.
Well, anyway, bring some pictures.
We want to see, and I will tell you, the pictures you showed me, I would have no reservation about going to that reunion because as much as I like to pick on you, you look like one of the younger people.
So.
I think you should have a good time.
Thank
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