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Reconnecting The Fox Valley with Maino and the Mayor (Hour 1)
The Todd Allbaugh Show · Fri Jun 13, 2025
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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 13th edition, 2025.
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.
We are here at the beautiful studios in downtown Green Bay of WGBW 97 9 FM and 15 90 AM.
We've got Conrad on the board up here.
Conrad, thanks for coming in early.
You're doing Schwabba show nightlight tonight.
We've got you here.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, of course he is a little salty because I did not bring money to try pizza.
But you guys were making pizza with Schwabba last night.
Actually
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.
Just say no, we don't
So I know you're gonna start complaining right away.
Don't have pizza I think already we've established that we if matters do we look like we go hungry?
down.
And by the way I just say 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 have 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 know they
wouldn't ask for gas
and
that's for people from
Madison from it's a GBW
t-shirt yeah cheese and beer yeah do we have no yeah look at us they
yeah you guys know about my parking in Green Bay I did the app and I'm booked until six okay I know nine bucks is better than 25 or the 75 I had to pay with fines exactly
welcome to downtown Green Bay it just but you know what y'all take can't taste something
who to blame who the former mayor
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and
more
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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 autograph 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.
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That's right sing it Kenny.
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It's the final day Now I know you guys have been playing this on your morning show here in Green Bay and and Oshkosh now They've been we've done this a few times across civic media.
It's a great contest
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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 a getaway to the Baraboo Dells
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You gotta be careful going there from Green Bay area or coming back.
This guy got two speeding tickets within six miles.
Six miles.
Was it Roshal?
Oh, Princeton.
And then what was the other one somebody mentioned yesterday?
Six minutes.
Two speeding tickets.
thought the guy forgot to give him back his driver's
You're my kind of guy.
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 going to give you the word in a second.
And 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 going to 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.
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And you're not even competing against a popular show like mine on the mayor.
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So your chances are good.
It's been reinforced to us that we have.
never won the contest, right, Jim?
Yeah,
really?
Yeah.
Johnny and I. Yeah.
Good job, guys.
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24th, you
know, I really like what in commemorating him.
They're going back to when he used to wear the plaid jackets on Johnny Carson.
Right.
I
love that.
is fantastic.
Everything brings back that.
Yes.
You know what I mean?
It's like, yeah.
Yeah.
It's great.
Anybody could go.
I love those
games.
It's it's really great what they're doing all year down there in Milwaukee and Fayette 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 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 going to show you a picture here just to show you how big of a bop this is me with this.
That's fantastic.
You're in a very plage.
Very much me wearing my plaid jacket in
high school.
I was styled, wasn't I?
Be honest.
I
was hot.
Oh,
you're.
Well, 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 brewers 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 Brewers 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 okay they're down six to nothing here heading to the seventh inning
And it's like, he would come out with his stories then.
Old people
Yeah.
I still remember, I was going to school in Arizona, Arizona State and the Brewers were in their old Sun City.
Do you remember that?
Yeah.
For spring training and 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 in the ball.
No, they're absolutely fantastical.
Guys, we have a couple 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.
person every person in the media who's been in the media that walks through here says holy cow
it's unbelievable what they built here and he said but we're looking for someone to do some major stuff in the morning I'm like okay well fine yeah let me talk to some people I know some people who do it he was like kind of like to talk to you about it so I went out it was actually Sage's birthday was 45 that day oh nice yep went down there and um 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, you're interested.
And we got together and talked a little bit, talked to Kroot was there.
And I don't know, it's been great.
I remember how nervous I was the first day.
Johnny was sitting here.
I'm sitting by the window.
He had a pile of
I had so many notes.
I
didn't go right.
Arrow
he's right.
Well, he's a
don't want to overprepare the radio.
no, you don't.
But John, you've been on the air for years.
40.
Yeah.
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 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 ain't far
off.
But I think that's a really good point because speaking of Bob Euker, Lane Grindel, one of his former partners, Nosta wore the voices 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.
Yeah.
Don't be looking down at the notes.
The game is in front of you.
It is the person in the stands.
It's the bat boy.
The game's out there.
Exactly.
And one of the great keys.
Because that's
where you're talking to an individual out there listening.
100%.
We'll come back in to talk more.
My note and the mayor were 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 brewers game to honor Yuke's celebration of life in August.
Don't go anywhere.
Back after this live from Green Bay on the Civic.
media, ready
to network.
Don't worry, nobody's listening anyway.
Welcome back to the Taliban show of the 750.
You're ready to work.
It is now 22 past the hour of two o'clock on this TGIF.
It's Friday the 13th.
And yes, we are in the hometown of Green Bay Packers Lambo Field just up the road.
Right now we're downtown Green Bay at GBW studios.
97.9 FM.
We're happy to be here.
Of course, we have with us 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 at GBW and W I.
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 WGBW or ISS, and they can listen to you anytime.
Yeah, we get a lot
of people from really outlying
some
there.
Vegas, one of our good listeners.
And they're regulars.
It's not
It really is.
Before we go any further, don't forget we're right in the middle of the smack smack dab 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 Amfam 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, whether he is I love listening to it is 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 statements.
Well, there's
And
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.
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 or has brought up a great point about he's always concerned about the brain drain.
You know, these kids are going to 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 their sales in another area look at crime rates and... Cost of money.
I mean, the cost of the value of your money.
Your
goes pretty far here.
They
Was it Green Bay just one of the magazines or surveys most affordable or top place?
That's exactly what he's talking about.
I
critical stuff.
It's
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 half hour from here.
I've spent a lot of time in Green Bay over the years.
Most of your leadership, Jim, I think, you know, Green Bay has changed courses.
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.
Bay Beach is
I do want to say, and when we do some recruiting, especially with health care, this is a big...
I mean, obviously cheese across the street and papers has always been staples for us and take nothing for granted, but we're very fortunate to have those two industries here.
But when you look at healthcare, 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, and that really, you would believe how many doctors are into this or the healthcare 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.
Well, as it really said, I had a doctor moving up here or shown 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 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 weave through traffic to try to get there within like half an hour or something like that.
And he was just
number of blocks away and 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
These come with the bedroom communities
or
whatever and people come to shana and it's like look at this lake right look at the Highway 29 is
a big
Yeah, the four lane huge
We talk about
We have so many more venues now for the art, for the artists.
You know, I mean, you have Lambeau Field, but you know, 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.
I
mean, wider brings in the same, the same off or Broadway shows touring in Madison or Milwaukee.
I mean, in here.
And then, you know, you're an hour, less than an hour from Green Bay, actually, and you're in Dork County.
And then you got all that going on.
Well, not only
that, but, you know, we're also an apt in Oshkosh with the state with WI assessment.
We have one of our guys, Pat Tracy from Oshkosh and the things they've got going on in that city.
It's
unbelievable.
I mean, they do a volleyball tournament every year that brings in like half a million people.
That's crazy.
You know what I
successfully
goes to volleyball tournament every year.
He's a big fan of the Brazilian women's
team.
Come on back.
More with Lionel 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.
Welcome back to the Taliban show on the Civic Media Ready Network.
35 minutes now past the hour of two o'clock on a T.G.I.F.
Friday the 13th.
We are live from WGBW headquarters in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin.
of Green Bay.
We are here with the great morning team locally, not just in Green Bay, but WISS 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 he 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, 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 that, John?
Yeah.
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.
On the computer.
There's no like voice of God.
There's no like, you know...
in the day or whatever.
It's just like Bud Selig and Robin Yacht and all the guys.
Ted Simmons, Mike Caldwell, Sissy
Cooper, Pete Volkovich, Paul Muller, Gorman Thomas, Jim Gattner, Jim Slate, and Mousshaas, Charlie Moore, Ben 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.
at 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, and, you know, perhaps they were some of these people and they lost a lot of jobs.
She and family
did everything possible to keep them in business in two rivers.
But I mean, the team was looking for, or the city was looking for heroes and the team needed somebody to, to prop them up.
And it's just a great story.
But anyway, just to be a typical radio
guy.
to try to rob from other people.
Can you get them on our show?
That's right.
Sure.
We'd love to have those people that put this together on our
show.
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, 1 10 in the afternoon on a Sunday.
is the first pitch and it's the game they're going to honor Bob Euker 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 at Oscar six until nine people could also stream it 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.
I mean, there 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
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 nonprofit, 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.
that I really... It's a slippery slope between being you know whatever you are and being homeless
there's wealthier schools and where a 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, probably a lot of people up at their cottages.
the homeless
rhetoric.
rhetoric.
He
Well, let's talk.
he's saying.
know.
I mean, that is the definition of privilege.
Right?
Yes.
But how cool is it that you're helping in a gentle way, say it, look, time out?
Right.
He was a great kid.
He just didn't see the whole field.
But but great that you're inner.
I don't love the intervening but helping to educate at that age like dude
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 US 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 are our 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 what 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's lesson and god bless so that's that's one of the things I remember one time I was when I was in Afghanistan Kandahar it was Thanksgiving morning in this young group the hey mr. mine oh we're from I think one of the girls was from Shanno and remember 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
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.
They give me a little more rope on
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.
It's a lot of it's.
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.
you know, I'm a partisan guy at all, but I sure enjoy talking to them and they're very honest with me, too.
And you can't really BS me because I've been 20
years in politics.
You know, you get a nose for it, I guess.
Without being particularly partisan, what do you think just in Northeast Wisconsin, Green Bay area, what's the top one or two things that people are really talking about right now that they're like, what the hell's going on here?
Why aren't we getting more answers to this?
know,
some people say, wait a minute.
Well, can you say no to this?
There's a surplus.
And yet on the other hand, you know, different parties, they just ice something that I 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
They're not gonna
go
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 pay much attention to politics.
Actually, this is funny, sir, I used to host his reelection.
fundraising campaign.
Really?
Yeah.
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.
Put your name in it.
Never voted for me.
Who is
the
real politician here?
Right.
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 a guest for next week?
We're
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.
We have a number of people coming in.
We have some veterans coming in.
It'll be our typical
show.
I know in the mayor you can hear every morning six until nine on GBW and ISS.
Thank you guys.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
Thank you, Todd.
Yep.
Always keep up the good work.
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That's a way to start.
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Well, it's just, it's fun being up.
You guys are, you guys make me want to say I should 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.
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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 the 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
I bet it was.
Yes.
Somehow I missed that.
But I'll go back and dial it up.
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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.
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Really looking forward to giving that away and giving somebody a chance.
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So all the really, really great prizes.
Thanks to everybody who will put the contest together.
There'll 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 Chicken 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.
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