I love how we still use my car keys.
I love it
too.
It's a jangle jangle.
A lot of root beer.
That's
right.
Happy
Friday.
Happy Friday.
Cheers.
I brought the
half a wife's in for you today.
Good stuff.
Oh yeah.
Still summertime although I don't want to say it too loudly but have you noticed these
Cooler evenings and mornings as of the last several days.
There was a little fog this morning.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then when you open the, we keep our house at like 66.
Sure.
Which Holly just loves.
Yeah.
Not really.
When you open the blinds in the morning and the windows all steamed up.
Feel like a nice box.
It is.
Yeah.
I feel just beautiful.
Yeah.
It's great.
So how's the week been for
you?
Life is good.
Um, we went up to the Packers.
practice on Tuesday.
That's
right.
Took the
girls, which was a lot of fun.
I hadn't been there since I was just a little, little young lad.
And I remember seeing Brett Favre and Reggie White.
Oh, you're going way
back.
Way back.
Yeah.
90s.
I
don't even, I think they had just built the Don Hudson Center.
So I have, I have some, you know, vague memories of that.
I remember seeing Brett Favre in the Red Jersey.
And that sticks out in my mind.
So we took my daughters and my wife and we had three dogs with us because we're dog sitting.
Sure.
Yep.
So we sat outside the fence with our lawn chairs and just had a great time.
Yeah, I haven't been up there maybe.
When did they move Curly's pub downstairs and call it 1919?
That's gotta be all of 10 years.
Yeah, I would
say so.
So it's probably 10, maybe 15 years since I've been up to a practice.
Does Wayne go?
Oh, he's up there.
He basically lives there now.
He's got his own locker with a microphone in it.
Does he really?
No.
No.
Well, he might have his own because
he drive up every he does.
He just every day he drives
up.
So he doesn't stay there.
Yeah.
I think he probably I'll have to ask him how many days a week he goes now, but it's it's quite a bit.
And then does he he gets behind the scene access, right?
Because he's
media.
Yeah, he goes in the maybe he just likes being in the locker room.
I wonder does he get to go in the locker room?
Sure.
They allow media in the locker room.
Okay.
Yep.
So I'm sure radio is a little different than television.
Yeah, but yeah, he's been doing it for over 30 years.
It's amazing We were on the the the linemen were practicing and the linemen and linebackers and It's amazing like when they're standing right in front of you how massive those guys are and fast They're so big and so fast.
It's crazy.
I remember seeing that it was a beautiful sunny day when we had gone up and
for the practice at the Don Hudson Center.
And it was just crazy.
You know, they're on the other end of the field and they're like, oh, there they are.
And then they run down and it's like, geez, the ground.
The free train.
Yeah.
Exactly.
So anything for.
live entertainment coming up.
Yeah, we
got nothing this weekend, but we got Kip Jones, who's been around in the area for a long time.
I
was going to say I know the name.
Yeah, but he has never played by us and great guy.
So he's going to be playing next week Friday from five to eight.
We have the.
Ripon Main Street, I don't know if you saw but they have that container bar
I was just gonna ask you about so so I was
helping Craig the other day Where he's got it all set and
I think he's gonna
I think he's gonna tee it off tonight Grand opening for for the village green mobile bar.
I'll have to you know I went by there probably three or four times I never stopped and looked yeah, even though there's a stop sign there at the intersection Right on through to the post office, but I I should take a look
like is it like a great big cutout serving area kind of yeah yeah he's got
the the things that flip up like the awnings
and
it's cool nice
yeah they've stuck a lot of money in that yeah
that that whole concert series has really become spectacular
so the one in Watoma has two and they just did their first one I want to say it was two Thursdays ago
Well, now three, two or three in red granite at the veterans.
Oh, sure.
And they they drew a huge crowd.
Yeah.
You think the small towns, you know, if if one of the larger towns within that area does all the events, you're constantly traveling.
You got to go.
Nice to.
It's nice.
Have it right there.
Right.
Your back door at times.
Well, it's like that Berlin Tuesday night farmers market.
Yeah.
Just exploded.
Yeah.
I think they got copper box.
Is that.
Was that this week or are they playing
next week?
No, they're playing September 29th.
Oh, so it's later.
Karen's hit list is next Tuesday, the 11th.
Got it.
So yeah, they've had a lot of great bands.
They're safe sacks.
Safe sacks.
I know they've been around the area.
Cool.
I gotta
say, scoop the loop was fantastic.
I saw some of the
videos.
The after party.
Band played by us and was just fantastic
Taylor J.
Yeah Taylor J up So if you ever see the after party playing anywhere, they're actually organizing a Concert benefit for the folks in Monash.
I think it's that
stone
toad, right?
Yeah, stone
toad, and I think it's in September But don't quote me on that.
I'll have to pull that up and mention that a few times
Is he still helping do a lot of your, uh, yeah.
Yeah.
He
does a lot of that stuff.
In fact, we're, we just shot some new commercials, uh, yesterday.
Oh,
okay.
Cool.
It's fun to watch those.
It is fun.
Yeah.
It's fun to make them because, uh, he's really good at editing.
So he makes it look good.
Otherwise, you know, if there's no editing, I look like a schmuck.
It looks like you got a little, little makeup, right?
No makeup.
No powder.
It's all natural.
Okay.
Yeah.
Any
big plans coming
up?
Um, no, you know, this is the time of year first we got a wedding this this weekend and now I was looking at the calendar I think we have a wedding or an event every weekend
all the way through Christmas except
one
or
two.
So up in Blasman hops.
I sometimes that skips my mind when I'm talking, but that's another whole venue.
It's a
whole thing.
Yeah.
And we're taking, we still have some openings for next year, but we're booking.
We even booked some for 2028.
You
see a lot of weddings happen after like July 4th.
Is that when they're booked?
Yeah.
People enjoy a little summer.
You'll get
some, some spring in June is good.
And then, uh, yeah, I would say August.
through the fall is peak season.
Packed.
Well, good deal.
Yeah, it's good stuff.
I should mention August is independent liquor store month for Knuth Brewing Company.
So I don't know if you've followed along.
we've done like last month, we did the Pigley Wiggly's where if you buy a six pack and you bring it in,
we enter
you in for a merch pack.
Well, we're featuring all of the independent liquor stores that sell our beer this month.
So like Leroy Meats down in Fox Lake, Corks and Caps in Greenville, Antique Liquor in
Los Tomas.
I was just going to say Scott,
yep.
Mel Chetzky's in Berlin, all
those
guys.
So all the little guys, as they
say.
But we're excited to do that.
So do you find any new ones that you didn't maybe know about every now and again?
Yeah, you know once in a while likes
like we're at K and J and win a county.
We've been there for about a year probably
a little over a year, but if you've ever been up to K&J, it's kind of like stepping back in time.
It's just kind of cool, like this old building and they got all the old decorations.
You gotta move the foam minnow buckets to get to the beer that you put in the minnow buckets.
Right.
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