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Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Todd Albault, one of our fantastic engineer producer, Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board.

It's six minutes past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF.

Friday, the thirteenth edition, twenty twenty five.

It is a great day to be a Wisconsinite.

Welcome, everybody.

We are here live on location for those watching on the stream, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix, X, whatever you want to call it.

We are here at the beautiful studios in downtown Green Bay of WGBW ninety seven nine FM and fifteen ninety a.m.

We've got Conrad on the board up here.

Conrad, thanks for coming in early.

You're doing Schwab's show night like tonight.

We've got you here.

Thank you very much.

Yeah.

course.

He is a little salty because I did not bring him any Detroit pizza.

But you guys were making pizza with Schwabba last night.

Yes.

Actually this

morning.

This morning too.

And here beside me we have the great morning team locally on WGBW and WISS in Oshkosh.

Mino and the mayor John Mino, Jim Schmidt.

How are you guys?

We don't go hungry here.

We

don't, man.

Our

guests, yeah, we invite guests, and it's usually someone from the food industry, culinary, either chef or some of the ones who are restaurant or food service, and that's part of their...

a requirement to come in here right so it and bring plenty not just enough

so I know you're gonna start complaining right away don't have pizza I think already we've established that we uh if uh matters do we look like we go

hungry

right we

put the we put the smack down okay yes

and by the way I was saying one thing you notice you whenever we have somebody here from civic media that doesn't work here at the station right you notice they all got a t-shirt order and we don't we don't have one we don't have

we don't have we don't have we don't have they

wouldn't ask for guests

and

that's for people from

Madison

It's a GBW t-shirt.

Yeah, cheese and beer.

Yeah Do we have no?

Yeah, look at us.

Wow,

they give you free parking because we pay for our parking.

No, no You guys know about my parking in Green Bay.

Do you know I did the app and I'm booked until six, okay?

Oh No, I know nine bucks is better than 25 or the 75 I had to pay with fine

downtown Green

Bay.

But

you know

what, y'all can't tell you something on who to blame?

Who?

The former

mayor.

No, no, no, no.

I just want to say, I was just going to say that before he rudely interrupted.

I knew he was going to say that.

Oh, and I was mayor there $8.

Well,

and more lead time

and

more like.

And

we used to have a beautiful mall across the street that was demolished.

It was a dog.

It was a dog.

And part of it was a dog.

And that man torched down.

$4 million.

I used to say that mall was worth $4 million.

We torched on, built a corporate office, 700 jobs, and $40 million

tax base.

Now it's on Green Bay, so what it used to be.

But it's still a beautiful place.

Yes, it's a beautiful, beautiful place.

City deck.

We're right here on the water.

We are.

It's beautiful.

See, this is why people tune in every morning between six and nine up here, because it's just the energy, the fun, the excitement, the love, the

love.

love

the

love and food we've been okay we're an event one night it was a very classy event over at the Hotel Northland and a guy comes up to me and goes hey could you and Jim sign a picture autographed picture for me and I'm like well sure okay

you know

okay you know it was a picture of what the two guys in the balcony from the Muppets

It

was.

True story.

I love it.

That's fantastic.

All right, we're going to talk with Jim and John just a couple of minutes here.

But first, Mr. Zawariz is nine minutes past the hour of two o'clock.

And get ready, folks.

It's a very special edition.

The final one for this time around of Civic Media's Scotty Summer Text to Win Trivia Extravaganza.

Here we

go.

We're Text to Win Contest here at Civic.

It's the final day.

Now I know you guys have been playing this on your morning show here in Green Bay and in Oshkosh.

now they've been we've done this a few times across civic media it's a great contest

great prizes

right the most important thing is people could win either Brewer tickets or a hundred bucks in the hours we do it and everybody that enters in is eligible to win one of two grand prizes either get away to the Baraboo Dells area or up here closer to you guys in Dora County and we're giving them a gas card so that's the big advantage number one

yeah the only thing we have a disclaimer in regards to somebody wins the

the Baraboo area where we went.

What was the name of the place we went?

Where we're going to stay for the column?

It was our Christmas party.

Oh yeah, it's Colorado.

No,

no, no.

You

gotta

be careful,

okay,

you gotta be careful going there from Green Bay area or coming

back

Monticello, Monticello, yeah, they'll get

six minutes two speeding tickets

Johnny thought the second time we got pulled over.

It's like

Yeah, you're my kind of guys.

All right.

So here's the big deal guys I got my brewers hat on Here John's got his brewers Jersey on right now because this is actually this is legit you guys This is special.

So all these tickets.

So today the hourly prize We're gonna give you the word in a second and the the it's a pair of tickets Brewer tickets, but this one folks is really cool because this is for a specific game So please if you're gonna enter make sure you can go on Sunday

August 24th, the first pitch at one 10 in the afternoon.

This is the game where the Brewers are going to honor Bob Euker with a celebration of life.

That's great.

These things are going to be hot.

They're going to be scalped.

Everybody's going to want to go.

You're going to win two tickets if you were chosen at random from this hour.

And you're not even competing against a popular show like mine on the mayor.

You're just up against this little dog and pony show this hour.

Your chances are

good.

It's been reinforced to

us that we have.

never won the contest, right, Jim?

Yeah, really overall.

But but we today, though, we won because the game we won the tickets.

Oh, really?

Johnny and I. Yeah.

Good job, guys.

So this is for the August 24th Bob Euker celebration of life game.

The word this hour is Bob.

The word is Bob B. O. B. As in Bob Euker.

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No, because if you don't do it the right way, Kazama's and I, we don't pick it.

It's the computer.

And so we don't spell it correctly.

Hey, that's Madison for you.

We believe it on Todd.

We

got Todd.

We got Todd.

Yeah, the wonderful Todd Michaels up here.

He's fantastic.

Absolutely.

He was our savior yesterday, quite frankly.

So a text award, Bob, B-O-B right now to the Civic Media app.

If you don't have it, go to your app store at your Apple or Android device.

Download it.

It takes less than a minute.

It's free.

It's what CBS.

is Gail King calls a deal.

The Civic Media app opened it up.

The first 11 stations are where you'll find us every day and you can click on that, open whichever one is closest to you.

Lower right hand corner, it says text, T-E-X-T.

Click on that and then text the word Bob, B-O-B, Bob right now and someone at the end of this hour is going to win those tickets to the special Celebration of Life for Bob Euker on August 24th.

You know what I really like with in commemorating him?

They're going back to when he used to wear the plaid jackets on Johnny Carson.

Right.

I

love that.

It really is fantastic.

Even the patch and

everything brings back that.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

That's an afternoon game, too.

Yes.

You know what I mean?

It's like, yeah.

Families

could go.

Yeah, it's great.

Anybody could go.

I love those

games.

It's really great what they're doing all year down there in Milwaukee at Amphib field.

I've been to a couple of games so far this year.

And it really is an entire season dedicated to Euker.

And you guys brought it up.

I mean, you brought it up, John.

I mean,

Bob Euker was more than just an announcer.

I truly think he was one of the true ambassadors, kind of like Bart Starr, an ambassador for the state of Wisconsin.

Not even a

question, but I mean the Brewers didn't win a lot.

I'm gonna show you a picture here just to show you how big of a bop this is me with this.

That's fantastic.

Euker in a very plage.

Very much me wearing my plaid jacket in

high school.

Oh, yeah,

you were back in the day.

I'm not going to lie.

Thank you.

I'm not going to lie.

I'm mad enough to admit it.

I appreciate that.

Uh, text word, Bob, B O B right now to the Civic Media app.

Brewer is a big part of our state of Wisconsin.

But again,

you know what?

Even back in those days when the Brewers were really bad.

Okay.

You would still listen to a Brewer's game to listen to Bob Yooker.

100%.

Yeah.

Sometimes that was one of my first jobs radio in 1987 because you guys remember you actually for folks that don't know we didn't have computers back then you actually had to truly engineer the game and turned down the feed from TMJ in Milwaukee to play the local spots on a basically eight track cart and then turn it back up and back in those days as you said usually the brewers were at the worst that's what you was at his

best absolutely because you know what it wasn't the game what you okay they're down six to nothing here heading into the seventh inning

And it's like he

would come out with his stories then

and what?

Successfully a lot of successes.

He's funny and a good announcer, but he transcend everybody.

People like them young people like them college kids like them.

I mean, he was just which is the reason he has said some stain power.

I mean, just everyone liked him.

Yeah.

I was going to school in Arizona Arizona state and the Brewers were in their old Sun City.

Yeah.

Remember

that for spring training in the timing goes.

Wow, fall ball hit behind the grandstand here, and the gentleman is on his way to get that one.

And the couple is saying, hey, the gentleman is almost to the ball.

No, they're absolutely fantastic calls.

Guys, we have a couple of minutes left here before the first break.

Gonna come back and talk more with my own mayor here.

But we had you guys on about a year ago when we were up here, but maybe give us a minute each of you kind of on your biography, how you got into this and how the show started.

I was mayor here for sometimes 16 years and I got a call from Civic Media and they're like,

We're thinking of opening up the station in Green Bay.

This beautiful studio, by the way, isn't it?

Every person in the media, who's been in the media all the way through here, that walks through

here and says,

holy cow.

It's unbelievable what they built here.

And he said, well, we're looking for someone to do some media stuff in the morning.

I'm like, OK, well, fine.

Let me talk to some people and also people who do it.

He was like, I'd like to talk to you about it.

So I went down.

It was actually Sage's birthday.

It was 45 that day.

Oh, nice.

Yep.

Went down there.

met with them and I was interested and I thought, well, I can't do this.

So I called Johnny and said, hey, look, man, there's an opportunity, Green Bay, are you interested?

And we got together and talked a little bit, talked to, uh, Kroot was there.

Uh, and I don't know, it's been great.

And I was, I remember how nervous I was the first day.

Johnny was sitting here.

I was sitting, I'm sitting by the window.

He had a pile of notes like this.

I had so many notes.

I had flow charts where it was going to go up this didn't go right.

Arrow pointing at this.

And the guy's like, okay, you know, 15 seconds, John's looking out the window.

I'm like, I have all these notes in front of me.

And so anyway, he's, he's, well, he's a natural and I'm, but you don't want to overprepare the radio.

No, no, you don't.

But John,

you've been on the air for years.

40.

Yeah,

40.

I wound up in this part of the stage.

Well, in my mind.

But it's one of those things where, you know, radio, I did TV for a lot of years.

And the thing I always, when people would always ask, what's the difference between doing sports in rate and TV like I did versus doing radio?

I said, in TV, I said, you put in four hours of prep work for three minutes on the air.

In radio, you put in four minutes of prep work for three hours on the

air.

If that that is far

off.

But I think that's a really good point because speaking of Bob Euker, Lane Grindel, one of his former partners, Nostal, the voices of.

of the Brewers in a memoriam article I read.

He said, you know, early on, kind of like you were saying, I came to all this stuff and Euker told me, and Euk said, the game's out there, kid.

Don't be looking down at the notes.

The game is in front of you.

It's the person in the stands.

It's the bat boy.

The game's out there.

Exactly.

And one of the great keys.

Because that

way you're talking to an individual out there listening.

100%.

Welcome back into Talk More at Mino and the mayor.

We're live on location at WGBW in downtown Green Bay.

The word is Bob.

B-O-B.

Text the word Bob right now on the Civic Media app and you can be going to that special Brewer's Game to honor Duke's celebration of life in August.

Don't go anywhere.

Back after this live from Green Bay on the Civic

media pretty

nowhere.

Don't worry, nobody's listening anyway.

Tell all the people across the USA

I love my Green Bay Packers

is now 22 past the hour of two o'clock on this T G I F. It's Friday the thirteenth and yes, we are in the hometown of Green Bay Packers Lambo Field just up the road right now.

We're at downtown Green Bay W G B W studios 97.9 FM.

We're happy to be here.

Of course, we have with this in studio.

Actually, it's their studio.

Mino and the mayor.

The great morning team here.

You can listen every morning six until nine locally over the air W G B W and

W. I. S. S. in Oshkosh.

But here's the amazing thing, guys.

This is one of the reasons I wanted one number one.

I think you're great.

But number two, when now at the Civic Media app, if people aren't in the Green Bay or Oshkosh area, they just download the Civic Media app, dial up WGVW or ISS, and they can listen to you at any time.

Yeah,

we get a

lot of people

from really outlying areas now.

I mean, we have some regulars that are down there.

You know, they know it's maybe from being up here and they're, uh, yeah, we, it's amazing

how many Vegas, one of our good listeners.

And the regulars, it's not like, oh,

I didn't hear, I heard you guys.

It's, um, you know, they listen for, you know, on their morning walks, a lot of them are, uh, the way to work.

So that's pretty cool that it.

you're right.

We're here in Green Bay, but it's really nice to get emails and texts from people all over.

It really is.

Before we go any further, don't forget we're right in the middle of the smack smack app in the middle of the Scotty summer text to win contest.

The final one for the summer here, at least of this period up for grabs this hour at the top of the hour at three o'clock.

We're going to give away two tickets to the Milwaukee Brewers.

This one for a very special game at Ampham Field on

Sunday, August 24th, 1 10 in the afternoon, the first pitch.

It is the Bob Euker celebration of life game.

So these are really cool special tickets.

Text the word Bob B O B right now to the aforementioned civic media app guys to your point.

I love listening to it.

Yes, of course you talk about stuff in Green Bay, but you guys have local musicians.

You guys have people come in that are of interest whether you live in Green Bay or Oshkosh or not.

Well, thanks.

That's our favorite segment.

The music segments.

Well, there's

talent in Green Bay.

We are known for sports, right?

Packers and we've got some unbelievable high school teams here, too, but.

There's just some great music in this community.

The arts are good, the visual.

And so we showcase them every Friday, sometimes more often than that.

But Friday, we always dedicate the last hour of our show to featuring someone from the arts.

And we get great comments on that.

But I just want to say, people in Green Bay, right, they're interesting.

They're from Green Bay.

What they've done, you can do other places.

You know what I mean?

Like you get some of these community people that we have on here.

They lead organizations in the homeless and Alzheimer's and you can take that to Tulsa, anywhere you want.

And so I think, thanks for saying that, but we really think we have interesting guests.

You really

and that's I don't know if people outside of the Green Bay area realize that you know We're not just focused on the packers We really want to focus on one of the things that and Jim brings up a great point here It has brought a great point about he's always concerned about the brain drain You know these kids are how I'm gonna leave little Green Bay and go away to wherever whatever but ironically there's Different surveys or whatever coming out that we see where the opposite is happening as well

people who have already established yourselves in other area, look at crime rates and cost of money.

I mean, the cost of the value of your money, your money goes pretty far here.

They

just said that in the paper this week about how a number of hours work to get a home, it's cheaper here, you know?

Because we pay pretty well and yet real estate is still affordable, even though real estate's

crazy.

Wasn't Green Bay just one of the magazines or surveys the most affordable or top place to live?

That's exactly what he's talking

about.

And that's US News and World Report.

online thing.

I mean, that's pretty

critical.

It's legit.

It's legit.

So it really is.

Yeah, we're very proud of that.

And to your point, I mean, look, I love the Packers as much as anybody else, but my dad and stepmom live in Seanal a half hour from here.

So I spent a lot of time in Green Bay over the years.

Most of your leadership, Jim, I think, you know, the Green Bay has changed, of course.

There's others involved.

And downtown is much more vibrant than it used to be.

But you also have the Great Performance Center here, the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, which is a world-class university, in my opinion.

You've got the Botanical Gardens, which brings people from all over.

You have a zoo here, you have Bay Park.

I do want to say, and when we do some recruiting, especially with health care, this is a big, we're pretty well known for health care.

I mean, obviously cheese across the street

and

papers has always been staples for us.

Take nothing for granted, but we're very fortunate to have those two industries here.

But when you look at health care, that recruitment of the doctors and both male and female, the fact that they can be in the OR and then be on, be fishing in 25 minutes, 30, maybe 30.

that that really you would believe how many doctors are are into this or the health care profession are into

that what we have here in Green Bay.

So yeah, it's an easy place to sell.

They just got to get here.

But as it really said, I had a doctor moving up here or show him some places and he says, I can't believe this.

I can be out in the country.

I'm in the I'm in the country.

There's there's deer.

There's deer out there.

There's deer here.

We're in the country and I can be at work within 12 minutes.

He said in Chicago, there were times he would have to take his bike and just weep through traffic to try to get there within like half an hour or something like that.

And he was just X number of blocks away.

And he

He's like, oh my lord, this is incredible.

So those are the kind of things I think over the years, Green Bay has really, and I gotta tell you one thing though too, you mentioned Shanno, those kinds of communities are really growing.

Because they became a little bit more of the, they used to come with the bedroom

communities or

whatever, and people come to Shanno and it's like, look at this lake.

Look

at these

things.

Highway 29 is a big difference.

Yeah, the four lane, huge

difference.

We have so many more venues now for the art for the artist.

You know, I mean, you have Lambeau Field, which you can get a huge concert.

But you look at just the Meyer Theater 1000, Meyer 2000, the Weidner 2000, and you know, Appleton is 30 minutes from here, you know, and Oshkosh has a lot of things going on.

So this whole 41 corridor, we're going to call it Northeast Wisconsin,

very attractive, very attractive.

I mean, Weidner brings in the same the same off Broadway shows touring in Madison or Milwaukee.

I mean, in here and then you know, you're an hour.

and you're in Dork County and and then you got all that going on.

Not only

that, but you know we're also an apt in Oshkosh with the state with W I assessment.

We have one of her guys, Pat Tracy from Oshkosh and the things they've got going on in that city.

It's.

I mean, they do a volleyball tournament every year that brings in, like, half a million people.

That's crazy.

You know what I mean?

In Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

And I think because of the size of our community, but we've got a lot of confidence now after pulling off the draft

successfully.

And we pull up, you know, 10 games a year for the Packers and...

I just think this is a place that, you know, I want to stick around.

Jim goes to volleyball tournament every year.

He's a big fan of the Brazilian women's

team.

Come on back.

More on the mayor on the other side is the all balls show live from Green Bay across Wisconsin on the Civic Media Ready Network.

Text Bob B.O.B.

right now to the app.

We're 35 minutes now past the hour of two o'clock on a T G I F Friday the thirteenth.

We are live from W G B W headquarters in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The puck of Green Bay.

We are here with the great morning team locally, not just in Green Bay, but W I S S in Oshkosh.

Mino and the mayor, better known as John Mino and Jim Schmidt here at their great studios.

That music that music you just heard that Zommer's dialed us in with a little violent fems.

and you would say, well, what connections do I have to the brewers?

Well, let me tell you right now, and apparently I'm going to educate Mino right now.

I have my hot little hands, a DVD of the great movie, Just a Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

Of course, I'm...

done by our friend, they become friends, Sean Hannish and Kelly Call with the director and the co-producers respectively.

And it's the story, guys, of the 82 run of the Milwaukee Brewers.

I've never seen that before.

When did that come out?

the movie came out last fall, and the DVD came out over the winter, and if you guys haven't seen it, and a little plug here for our friends that just have been outside, not just the DVD, it's streaming right now for free on Roku.

So go to Roku and you can stream it for free.

Got it, John?

And also on Apple TV.

I'm downloading it and uploading it right now.

Sure

he is.

On my phone.

On his phone.

Yeah.

No, it's so well done

because there's no like

voice of God, there's no.

like, you know, uh, back in the day or whatever.

It's just like Bud ceiling and Robin yout and, and, uh, uh,

all the guys, my co-cooper Pete Funkovich, Paul Moller, Gorman Thomas, Jim Gattner, Jim Slate, and who's has Charlie Moore been Ogilvy.

Wow.

Raleigh fingers.

It

looks great.

It's one of the, I'm not just saying this because I got to know the guys that did it.

It truly is one of the best sports films I've ever seen.

And as they say, even for people that don't like sports,

It's really about a love story between a team and a city.

Because back in those days, as you guys will remember, speaking of cities that went through a lot, Milwaukee was reliant on slits brewing.

And perhaps there were some of these people, and they lost

a lot of jobs.

Jim's family did everything possible to keep them in business.

And two rivers

But I mean the team was looking for the city was looking for heroes and the team needed somebody to do to prop them up And it's just a great story.

But anyway,

okay, just very typical radio guy

to try to rob from other people.

Can you get them on our show?

That's right.

We'd love to have those people that put this together on our show.

And

sometimes they watch Kelly and Sean, if you're watching, we'll set you up with mine on the mayor.

I'm

sure

they would love to come on.

So they've been really great partners in this.

It's just a great to get this story out.

Here is for all you listening right now.

Here's the connection.

If you would like to go to a Milwaukee Brewer's game for free, not just any game, but it's a game on August 24th, one 10 in the afternoon on a.

Sunday is the first pitch and it's the game they're going to honor Bob Uker and his celebration of life.

These are going to be really hot tickets and all you have to do right now is download the Civic Media app, open it up, one of the first 11 stations, click on that, then click where it says text and text the word Bob.

B-O-B right now at the top of the hour.

20 minutes away from now we are going to give away two of these tickets to this very special game on August 24th honoring you and you could be going along with a friend again text the word Bob B. O. B. right now to the civic media app guys your show of my know the mayor every morning in Green Bay in Oskar six until nine people could also stream on this aforementioned civic media app.

and we were talking over the break, you know, I'm so thankful to be back in radio after being out for for quite a while.

It's a privilege and it's an honor.

But one of the coolest things I like about it is not just having fun and being goofy, but also being able to do a small part to impact our local communities.

I know that's where our founder and CEO Sage Weill is passionate about is community involvement.

Tell folks a couple of main issues that you guys are focused on up

here.

First of all, there's a lot of issues, right?

I mean, they just are.

But I spend a lot of time, I focus a lot of my energy on the homeless population, and we have that here in Green Bay, and those people who say they don't have it, they're in denial.

It's everywhere.

And awareness, and some people, they may stereotype this, and it's not, it's our job to say, look, we've had homeless people on our show, and have talked to them, and these people are struggling.

And

they need help.

Each one of them has a...

interesting story to tell.

It might be heartbreaking, but it's

compelling.

And so I actually work part-time at the New Community Shelter here in Green Bay, and I like the fact that I can convey some of these stories.

I can talk about, there's fundraising in every non-profit, and we like to support the fundraising for New Community Shelter.

The best thing about it is we're making an impact.

I know we are because I hear people say things and I think we're moving the needle a little bit.

So that's I'm passionate about that as I am everything else.

But like I told you during the break, you got to pick maybe one, two or three things because there's just you can't pick.

20.

Although I will say this, what he does there as far as getting people to help, they get hands on when they serve the food.

And it's really good to make awareness of some of our young people about the plight of homeless because some might have a misconception of what they really go through.

Jim, talk about the time you had a group serving the homeless on the Friday before Memorial Day last year.

And

Johnny was there.

and I just want to say before that I have students come I teach and I have my students come they're not just well if you don't do a good job you end up here it's like look as somebody who makes money you got to give back to your community and this is something

that I really support.

It's a slippery slope between being you know whatever you are and being homeless.

Two paychecks.

Anyway we're we had Green Bay the verse

There's wealthier schools and wealthier school come in and was helping us serve.

These kids, I don't know, juniors, yeah, so.

And it was slow that day.

We serve about 150 people for a meal.

And I think we're, I don't know, 90, 95.

And I was like, wow.

I said, it's a little slower today than I thought.

And he said, you know, there are probably a lot of people up at their cottages.

the homeless rhetoric, the homeless

rhetoric.

He

did.

We're like, ah, okay, dude.

Well,

let's

talk.

But

isn't that fascinating?

That's what he's

saying.

That's what he's saying.

Just people don't know.

I mean, that

is the definition of privilege.

Yes.

Right?

Yes.

But how cool is it that you're helping in a gentle way, say it, look,

time out?

Exactly.

I

just want to tell you, that kid was there volunteering.

Right.

He was just great.

He's a great kid.

He

just didn't see the whole field.

Right.

But but great that you're inner.

I don't want to say intervening but helping to educate at that age like dude

We're

talking

with John Minow and Jim Schmidt hosts of Minow and the mayor every morning six until nine here in Green Bay and Oshkosh.

You can find their show on the civic media app as well.

John, I know one of the things you're passionate about.

You've talked on this show before veterans.

You guys don't do a lot of hard power.

I think that's for the best, quite frankly, because it's more inclusive.

But regardless of what people might think about what's happening out in Washington DC tomorrow, I would hope to goodness all of us can be in agreement that the men and women who have put on the uniform of the United States Army for 250 years, the uniform of the U.S.

Navy for 250 years, all of our veterans deserve our respect and our gratitude.

Yeah, no question about it.

Another group that I just want to throw out there is a National Guard.

What about units from right around here and the Madisonians?

They're gonna be deployed overseas in the Middle East and I was very fortunate I embedded three times once in Iraq or once in Afghanistan twice in Iraq and Jim's been to Kuwait the same type of thing to booty all those areas And you know you find out they're a long way from home if nothing else all the other things They're a long long long way from home and their age and they're so young my goodness, you know when they're in the big battle, you don't see it They look you know indestructible big strong and then I remember I brought over the Brewers Milwaukee Brewers

at the time, um, um, Somerfeld, Kent Somerfeld.

Oh, really?

Sent me a whole bunch of t-shirts, Brewer's t-shirts.

Good old Kent Somerfeld.

Remember Kent?

Of course.

And I gave them all to the young people at the base I was at.

So they're wearing, they were allowed, they got special permission to wear those Brewer t-shirts around in the mess hall and everything.

And that's when it hit me.

It's like, oh my gosh, these kids look like they should be cutting their grandma's.

instead of fighting a war we send really young people to war and that's what opened up both of our eyes more than anything is the youth that is that we're sending away and that lesson and God bless so that's that's one of the things I remember one time I said when I was in Afghanistan Kandahar it was Thanksgiving morning in this young group the hey Mr. Minor we're from I think one of the girls was from Shanno and never and they were going on this mission in Kandahar you know the birthplace of the Taliban on Thanksgiving and everybody in back in Wisconsin was

getting ready to eat this big meal and have fun and watch football.

And here's these young kids going out in this most dangerous place on the face of the earth.

So it's like, how can you not want to support them?

Right.

And I mean, you guys said over the break as well, unfortunately, but realistically, too often, some of our homeless are also some of our veterans.

No

question.

We have dedicated spaces for the veterans, you know and and that's sad It's really you talk about you know someone who did so much for you and then they're homeless and they have some bad sad stories I mean something's happened.

There's medical things that come up and but yeah, that's there's no absolutely no reason any of our veterans should be homeless

Jim, I know that you do a program on your own, I believe, on the weekends.

It does get a little bit more into politics on Lean Local.

Tell us when that's on and what you talk about there.

They give me a little more rope on

that.

But I just want to say, Todd, you're right.

When people are getting up in the morning, they don't want to hear politics.

I mean, they don't want to get ready to just whatever, have their cereal.

On Sundays, it's called Lean Local with Jim Schmidt.

And we really, Johnny and I have people on for maybe 20 minutes, right?

And I'll get them on for the full hour.

And you can get pretty deep into some questions after that first 20 minutes.

you know, some laughter, but it's really, and we dig pretty deep and we've had, we've had the politicians on both sides of the aisle and I enjoy that, I understand it and I'm not a.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I

don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

I

don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

some people say, wait a minute.

Well, how can you say no to this?

There's a surplus.

And yet, on the other hand, you know, we've got different parties.

They just ice something.

They just told you about an hour ago that we're kind of hoping we would get.

But look, I think people are concerned about that.

I do think people don't like this partisanship.

I will say that.

Agreed.

I

travel over the state and people are like, why don't they just get stuff done?

They don't say stuff.

They say something

else.

And there's a lot of frustration.

And what hurts voters is that when you kind of vote for someone to send them there, and then they just, they're not independent.

They're not going

to go down

there.

I'm going to fight the fight for you.

And they get down there and it's like, well, wait a minute.

That's not what you told me.

So it's a little frustrating.

what scares us a little bit and is that they may turn voters off and people don't vote.

Then we're really in trouble.

And

I think

Sage is right with this community radio that he's got because once people stop running for office and these guys go in or these ladies guys go in unopposed, their constituents become each other and they forget about us.

So we need to keep

the issues on the front table and be respectful to both sides.

But that's something we try to

do.

I will say this.

So you wouldn't think at least I didn't I didn't pay much attention to politics.

No, I'm sorry.

That's just funny, sir.

I used to host his re-election fundraising campaign.

Really?

Yeah.

That's what I

meant.

Yeah.

And I used to tell him, I sure voted for you, Jim.

I'm sure voted for you.

And then I made the mistake of telling him I lived in Allaway.

We couldn't vote for the grieving.

All those years he's telling me, you're my guy, Jim.

You got my vote.

You got my vote, boy.

Never voted.

Who is the real

politician?

I

mean, come on.

Well, guys, just a couple of minutes left here.

Again, I think, just my opinion, what we've lost in this state, in this country, is remembering that our neighbors aren't our enemies.

They're our neighbors.

And I think one of the things that you guys do so well every morning from six until nine is you reconnect this part of the state and realize that we have more in common than we have not.

And I just think it's great.

Any plugs for coming up, guests for next week?

We'll have

the

sheriff on.

We're going to talk about him.

And again, there's just, there's issues here.

As much as we talked about, you're talking about, you know, Packers and how great the arts are here.

You know, we have no problem.

We have a homeless problem.

And Todd's going to address that.

Number of people coming in.

We have some veterans coming in.

They'll be on a typical show.

By now in the Bay Area, you can hear them every morning, six until nine on GBW and ISS.

Thank you, guys.

Appreciate the time.

Thank you, Todd.

Thank you, Todd.

Always keep up the good work.

Come on back with some headlines after this.

It's the all-ball show live on location in Green Bay on the Civic Media.

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Things are always moving fast and moving forward here at WGBW in downtown Green Bay.

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Many thanks to the hosts of Mino and the mayor, John Mino and Jim Schmidt for being here in studio.

You can hear him

Every morning from six until nine, locally at WGBW, Green Bay and WISS in Oshkosh and, of course, on the Civic Media app.

How about that, Summers?

That's a way to start off a show.

It is.

It is.

Those guys are always a hoot.

And

they're not just... And they've got a lot of energy.

They're fun.

They have a lot of energy, but they're not just fun and have a lot of energy.

They also have a lot of important stuff to talk about and bring on such a wide variety of people.

Yes, absolutely.

So many thanks to them.

The show is not over by any stretch of the imagination.

Coming up in hour two, Lisa Hale, or the host of our news director up here, but also the new WISCO weekend on Saturdays at 8 a.m.

and Sunday at 11 a.m.

She'll be here at 3.20 to talk about that great program based up here.

And the one, the only

The host of Late Night Entertainment, Mr. P. Chwaba, host of Night Light, will be here in his own studio.

and many thanks to him for coming in early and many thanks to his great producer, Conrad, who is helping us out as well right now on the other side of his glass and hanging out with us.

We appreciate you, Conrad.

Thank you.

Yeah, of course.

It's always fun being a

part of the Todd Elder show.

Well, it's just it's fun being up.

You guys are you guys make me want to say I shall relocate to Green Bay because it's a great vibe.

I'm not kidding around.

As Joe Biden says, I'm not kidding around here.

I'm being serious.

You got you got Todd Michaels, the great general manager of Green Bay.

and Oshkosh and does, you know, he's the voice of Civic Media, all of our great ads, or many of them.

You hear his voice on there.

You got Conrad of course, you got Amanda, one of the other great producers up here in Green Bay, Eliza.

And Eliza is originally from, I believe, Australia.

Correct.

Yes.

And she has got an accent that will make you think you're talking to Adele.

Even though I know Adele is not from Australia, but it's fantastic and she's salty and a salty Australian and I love every part about it So we may have to work her into the show at some point in the future as well.

So

it's a great team up

here Oh, yeah, it's great.

And you know, she's a great addition to the team, you know, she came on to nightlight

And it was, it was such a fun interview.

I bet it was.

Yes.

Somehow I missed that, but I'll go back and dial it up.

But no, it's a lot of fun up here.

And you all listening today and watching also on the stream, gonna have a lot of fun.

We're giving away about five minutes left.

So please do this.

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So text the word Bob B O B right now because somebody at the top of the hour, four minutes from now, the computer will

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I would be absolutely shocked if they are not sold out for that day.

Oh,

yeah.

They absolutely will be.

And remember, these are the club level seats.

These are not your run-of-the-mill seats.

This is the club level.

They're fantastic seats.

You can pretend you're rich and go and sneak into one of the suites.

Just kidding, don't do that.

I've thought about that before.

I've thought about it too, especially when they have a food cart right outside of it.

It's like, no, this isn't worth getting kicked out of the game.

Anyway.

Even if

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And every Friday

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well.

And for those who don't know, Luke Mathers, by the way, Mathers was salty because I forgot to thank him by name at the end of the show yesterday.

It was a great yesterday was the 12th.

I'm not going to go into all the details, but we ended up here.

We're going to do the shuttle for the show, the show from shuttle yesterday, but a variety of internet gremlins got so I had to speed over to the studios here at Green Bay.

Todd Michaels helped save us, but also our great team of Madison, of which Luke Mathers, he helped host with Zomers at the beginning of the show.

And I forgot to call him out by name.

That's on me.

I apologize.

He was rather salty about it.

You had a lot on your mind.

So many thanks to Mathers, to Zomers, to Todd Michaels, and everybody else behind the scene that got us on the air today and to Conrad as well.

Less than two minutes left, text the word Bob, B-O-B, right now to the Civic Media app.

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and click on that you'll see text and then click text and then text the word Bob B. O. B. In less than two minutes we're going to draw and somebody's going to be at that August 24th game for the Bob Euker of celebration of life game really looking forward to giving that away and giving somebody a chance also you'll be entered in for the big grand prizes extravaganza in either Door County or Baraboo Dell's area.

So all the really, really great prizes.

Thanks to everybody who will put the contest together.

There will be another one coming back in the fall.

But as Zahra said, we'll get back to giving away Brewer's tickets on free Friday Brewer Giveaway extravaganza.

Free Ticket Friday is the simpler name.

By the way, this is a statewide contest.

Thank you, Todd.

We're up in Green Bay.

The lawyers on the 12th floor are not near me.

And so I'm not back at home Conrad.

The lawyers have a hot chair hooked up to my seat.

And if I don't say statewide, they shock me.

And sometimes I don't say it, just so I can get shocked.

All right.

Anyway, come on back and play what's worse.

Lisa Hale will be here and the great Pete Schwabba.

Don't go anywhere.

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On location, it's the Todd Alba Show.

And now, pursuing truth wherever it may lead, here's your host, Todd

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to Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio network and streaming worldwide on the Civic Media app.

Good afternoon, everybody.

I'm Tom Allbaugh, along with Mr. Aaron Zomers, our producer and engineer back in the world headquarters in downtown Madison.

It is six minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Welcome into hour number two of the big broadcast.

It is Friday the 13th.

That's right, June 13th, 2020.

2025.

It's a great day to be Wisconsinite.

It's okay.

We had all of our bad luck yesterday.

Yes, exactly.

On

the 12th.

We front-loaded it.

So, are you a believer?

I'm not sure if we talked about this before as ours.

Are you a superstitious person?

Not particularly.

I feel like most stuff we can explain, we eventually are able to explain, but also, sometimes crazy stuff happens and...

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't have specific superstitions or anything like that, but I am open to the possibility

We are fortunate to have co-producers here on the show today, the great producer Conrad of Nightlight with Pete Schwabba, who will be on the broadcast at the bottom of this hour.

Conrad, are you a superstitious person by nature?

I don't think Todd Michaels is gonna like this because he's a paranormal investigator.

Yes, that's what I was gonna say.

But I

don't, I don't believe.

Really?

I don't, I don't.

Not at all?

No, not really.

Wow.

See, I...

Kind of do I I believe in spirits.

I believe in spirits and I guess they're by ghosts as well I'm not you know, I'm the jury's still out on like alien people, but I don't know I guess I'm open to it, but superstitious

Yeah,

I'm not particularly superstitious, but as my grandma all ball used to say

She'd spill salt on the table and she'd pick it up and throw some over her shoulder.

And I'd say, grandma, are you super?

Because she was a very religious woman.

I said, grandma, are you superstitious?

And she'd say, no, but it doesn't hurt just to check.

The fact is she was very superstitious.

We were once driving one time and a black cat went across the highway in front of us.

And she said, oh my land, it's a black cat.

She was she was very superstitious.

She was religious and she was superstitious.

All right, coming up to the as we said before mentioned at the bottom of the hour, Mr. Pete Schwab host of the great program along with Conrad a nightlight here on civic media is based out of this great studio in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Pete is going to be in.

We'll talk a little bit about some music people that we lost this week.

Beach Boys.

I mean, not without the entire Beach Boys.

Brian Wilson.

Brian Wilson.

That would have been tragic if all the Beach Boys had tied together

on an airplane or something.

That tends to happen, or at least it

used to.

Let's not wish anybody any bad luck speaking of being superstitious.

Brian Wilson, we'll talk about that.

We'll find out what's coming up on Night Light Tonight and also kind of get Pete's take on entertainment and life around Green Bay.

Because as we talked with Mino and the mayor,

We love our Packers, but there's so much more in Green Bay than just the Packers.

Although Conrad, you went to the draft this year.

I did.

And just to remind you, Pete is a Bears fan, actually.

I forgot about that.

Thank you.

Yes.

He's a Chicago boy.

Yes, yes.

But

the draft was a lot of fun.

I was about 11 rows back.

And I had a big group around eight people with me.

Wow.

So it was a lot of fun.

We stayed from, I think we got there at 3 PM.

A draft and start till, you know, seven around there.

So we were standing for like seven hours, something around there drinking water.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

You know, once you once you got packed in there, they stopped having people come around getting, you

know, oh, really?

Yeah.

So if you wanted to get a drink, you probably lose your spot.

True.

Right.

So we kind of just said, well,

we're here now.

You were there when Golden got

drafted.

Yes.

That'd be really cool.

It was it was so loud.

Really?

It was so loud.

But after that, we after that pick, we immediately went.

back to my apartment.

Really?

We're done

standing.

We're done standing.

We need some water.

All right, very good.

Also coming up on this half hour, Lisa Hale, who does the news up here, the news director of Northeast Wisconsin, but she's also one of the hosts of New Wisco Weekend.

Great program talking about life in this part of the state.

She'll be along talking about that at 3.20.

But right now it's 10 minutes past the hour of three o'clock.

Time once again for What's Worse.