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Want to talk about something real quick.

We've got Matt Gable here from the Meyer Theater.

But Todd, did you see that email Lisa Hale, our news director?

Yes.

I'm going to be at that tomorrow.

OK.

It's going to be a great thing.

They're dedicating a monument.

behind Richmond Street, Jack Voight, a good friend of mine who used to host the vets for breakfast thing.

Vietnam veteran, the whole thing, they're dedicating the memorial they have behind their facility to all, I think it's 1100 Wisconsinites that died in Vietnam.

So it's a bigger number than you would, and they're dedicating that tomorrow at noon.

So I wanna talk about that again tomorrow morning for people at Vietnam vets in the area.

I don't know if they're aware of that.

So when we get a chance, we'll talk more about that.

OK?

You bet.

OK.

Got a quick texture.

Any chance the Meyer could book in the future the following artist?

Billy Strings or Charlie Crockett?

Billy Strings is out of my league as far as price and expense.

OK.

You

guys got to get that in between, don't you?

Yeah.

They

got some notoriety on their way up, but they haven't

making

that step.

We get them on the way up or we get them on the way down.

Yeah.

You know, that's just the way it goes.

We have 1,000 seats.

So it makes it difficult to try to.

Make those money work especially now in today's day and age with I gotta tell you the entertainment industry is getting some when I first started till different It's it's getting very expensive to do shows.

I just did a read an article said 82% of the Performers out there are artists can't tour can't afford to her because it costs too much money to go out and tour Wait a minute say that 82% of the artists out there can't afford to go on tour

Wow, right because of paying the whole cruise and the whole costs and everything and that's not for me I think I read that out of poll star

and that's

the

opposite of the way it used to be where the only

way to make money is get out of the road because there's a lot of other ways to make money podcasts other social media and it just is not cost-effective to take everybody on the road and get gas diesel fuel tour buses roadies

You know, whatever.

It's funny how

some of these entertainers too, Matt, and you are in a, you know, a smaller venue, right?

You're

1,000

seats, Myers 2,000, and you get the Tarleton, which is only 250.

So we like to think we've got this stair step to get to the rush arena.

But what happens now is they make it on YouTube and go to the rush

arena, which is just crazy.

They bypass me.

I used to have...

Bill Burr complains

all the

time about that.

He goes, I don't know what he's paying their dues anymore.

We're going to see Nick.

I don't know that he's done a

maybe he had no no no he spent

three

or four years

Nate making

like no money at

all guys.

I had Nate in the backstage For I couldn't sell out I had I sold a hundred tickets to Nate the first time he was ever in Green Bay in their small room there in the back.

How long ago was that Matt?

Five years ago, maybe And then he jumped he jumped from

You know, I couldn't do him at the Meyer again because he got too expensive.

We had Bill Burr, but now he's gone.

He's back in the

day.

Did you have beers with Bill Burr afterwards?

That's when Aaron Rodgers came.

Aaron Rodgers was at the show, and then he brought him on.

I can't think of

anything more fun having beers with.

Well, backstage.

Then Bill Burr.

Couple

of

those guys you had there, John Mulaney.

John

Mulaney.

You

and

him trying together.

Yeah.

Yeah, because he forgot his phone at the theater, and I didn't take it over to St.

Brennan to bring it to him.

Yeah.

It's just it's amazing and that's 1,000 to 10,000 I mean

it goes no it's crazy It's that's another way it's changed where I had little big town three times at the mire before they broke and made it and one song can do it That's

what I was gonna ask what's

What's the break like these comedians?

I mean did

like bark at one or what or

burr,

right?

Yeah,

I think it's a podcast.

Yeah, I think it's really really special as they're bought their podcast get their more exposure and then their agents and managers just try to push the envelope to sell more tickets and to get more people out there I mean, I mean they're trying to make more money for their clients.

So I get it I understand it but you know, you sort of now you eliminate that middle Venues and we're only really so much right.

I can't you can't charge us 500 bucks to see him.

No one's gonna come

Right?

I mean, maybe his two biggest fans.

But other than that, yeah.

What was Nate Barghetti like?

Super nice guy.

Like, he's exactly how you think he would be.

Yeah.

Very just genuine, nice, just down to earth, you know, very laid back, exactly what you think.

Now, I haven't met him, I haven't been with him in five years, so I don't know if the fame has changed, and I hope it hasn't, but...

I

don't

know.

We went, Todd, who'd you get his tickets for?

That we went and saw at the rush?

Well, I can't remember.

Garth Brooks.

No, no, no, no.

Garth Brooks, I'm sorry.

Yeah, I can't remember his name off the top of my head.

He

was really funny.

And

I, I, again.

Manus Galco.

Manus Galco.

Sebastian.

Yeah.

Oh, that's right.

Yes.

So I did Sebastian out at the Weidner Center.

Oh,

okay.

And I couldn't, I couldn't sell out there.

Right.

I don't know.

I don't know if his comedy sort of translates to the Midwest as much as like an East Coast guy.

He's a New Yorker.

Yeah.

But he sells out arenas like on East Coast.

He does.

And then here you can't.

He'll

sell out Madison Square Garden.

Yeah.

Right.

And it was amazing, Matt, because he put his schedule on.

This is where I'm going to be.

And that guy was working this year.

But if you add it up, he's going to make like $20 million

this year.

Yeah, a lot of times what happens is these artists, they just go on tour like Live Nation, the 800 pound gorilla, will just buy the whole tour.

So they'll say Sebastian or whoever, let's say Luke Bryan, like, how many dates do you want to do Luke?

And they'll go, he'll go, Oh, I want to do 80 dates.

Okay, we'll buy 80 dates, we'll pay you $100 million.

I'm just gonna throw those numbers.

I'm not.

Yeah, those are just so then Live Nation, what they have to do is go out and

go to 80 arenas where they can make up their money and make more

money.

Who's Live Nation?

I thought that was the name of a group.

Oh, no, no, no.

That's the biggest promoter in the world.

They own Ticketmaster too.

They're huge.

That's an interesting way to do it.

Yeah.

I mean, it's the business

model.

And that guy can't back out.

It's like, you committed to 80.

Right.

We're going to pay you $100 million.

And then we have to make the money ourselves, or we'll lose money on your tour.

And that's where, you know, so they'll go to a different arena.

It's a pretty good deal for the artist.

Yeah, it's a great deal.

It's no risk.

I mean, there's a hundred million dollars plus they can make money on merch.

So merch is where they also make money is they'll bring in the merchandise.

And that's that big of a thing, huh?

Yeah.

Okay, you know, the guys I kind of always feel, I used to feel sorry for.

Oh, maybe I should.

Or went to 38th special.

Yep.

A few years ago.

And Oreo Speedwagon.

and I'm trying to think who else it was.

And I was at the ration about three, okay.

And boy, they all plugged their CD sales and their t-shirts.

It's like, you don't have to do that.

That's

how they make money.

I mean, nowadays, I mean, that's how they make it.

They get paid to guarantee.

And I don't think that was a live nation tour.

So sometimes they don't, you know, they don't have that.

You know, hey, we're paying you a hundred million to guarantee dollars So they'll get paid just you know, maybe they'll go out for a weekend because a lot of the older They get part of the house sometimes every deal is different So you might pair guarantee and have a back-end percentage depending on how they sell and all that so you

know I think would be hard in regards to comedians I remember comedians one time I forget who hosts this thing a roundabout thing and this was years ago and They said man if you want to get a comedian

Like, I don't care how nice for a guy is, you want to see him want to jump off the stage and grab somebody by the, by the neck or something.

If you walk in with a notebook and a pen, because they think you're, they're, they're stealing all your jokes.

Okay.

Nowadays you do something.

Every joke is worldwide.

How do you keep things fresh?

Or maybe with an eight baguette.

See, I mean, but you know, no matter what you can hear 10 times, it's still funny.

Well, that's, that's what they said to comedians.

You know, how do you keep it fresh?

It's like, really going to go.

listen to Ariel Speedwagon, I want to hear some of the oldies.

I mean, comedians too.

We kind of like to hear some of those old, Bill Cosby was great at telling old stories.

It was like, you heard them

a hundred times.

I mean, I think a lot of them are storytellers now, and then they just incorporate a lot of their...

you know so make it new but yeah some of them want to hear the the jokes but once you hear joke once after a while you know so you got to come up with new material I mean everybody I have down there one of the big things is a patent paper in the dressing room because they're working on their material they're coming up with different stuff they might see something in Green Bay right morning that they're like oh that is a

That's gonna be funny.

It

was funny when he was at the stadium and he they obviously drove past the stadium But he was imitating those houses on shadow of those statues and stuff and

man

that was funny

Yeah,

something he just got obviously that day that

day in

that night and and the thing about those comedians So I will say is that that's kind of low budget.

He

was

this is one guy

I love doing comedian

It is the easiest thing.

They come in, you know, they might have someone, a handler or a manager, a tour manager with them, or the opener might be with them all the time.

Tops may be two or three people, tops.

And that's all you have to really worry about.

And they're pretty low-key.

They don't need a lot of food.

They don't, you know, they don't need all this stuff.

You know, they just get on stage, they do their thing, they need a stage mic.

They're used

to being independent

and doing it on their own.

Yeah, it's a different, it's a...

It's a different thing, you know, when you get a comedian that comes from like, let's say playing at Skyline, right down in Appleton and then comes to a theater or a bigger venue, they, some of them, especially when they're fresh doing that, they don't know how to act.

Like it's a whole different like world, like how do I get paid?

How do I, it's, it's different.

Right.

It was always fun.

That's cool.

When we were at Matt Gable for the Meyer Theater, just talk about the world of entertainment and who you're bringing in.

We'll get to your schedule in just a little bit.

But I remember we'd bring in guys with Murphy and I and Katie or Tammy or whomever.

And then later on, you'd see those guys pop up at a bit part in a movie or something.

It's like, oh, that's so cool.

And Peter Tosh was one of those guys.

And then the other guy was, I've mentioned him to you before.

You know the name.

Really curly hair, bigger sort of guys.

He was in that show Silicon Valley.

Oh, I know who you're talking about.

Then he had some accusations.

Yeah, I can't.

I thought he was a funny man.

Oh, he was amazing.

That was great.

But he was one of those guys that would show up with

Cliff.

Yeah.

Cliffy at 6.30.

Todd, you were in there at 6.30 in

the

morning.

They'd done a show till whenever.

Got hammered pretty much after the show.

Got about three

hours

sleep.

It's a brutal lifestyle.

But you know

what?

That was part of their deal.

You got to get up and you got to promote.

the

show.

And

they, I mean, you want to talk about, you know, the trenches you have to go to.

Do people call you that aren't part of this network that just want to get on?

You got to say no.

Like, like, yeah,

all the, I mean, I get people all the time that says, Hey, I'm open.

Yeah, or I can open for this person or, you know, I've built some relationship with some people over the years that I just called directly.

I don't even go through agents or whatever.

And that I've

built relationships with so sometimes it happens a lot of times uh you got to go through some kind of channel like an agent or a manager or something so

are the who's harder okay i got to think that there's times in the back of your mind you're thinking really i knew you when we were paying you you know 200 bucks

i'm sure now you're

big time and me you ever have to bite your tongue

i bite my tongue all the time okay um you know it's just

I don't know, maybe I'm jaded after doing this for 25 years and just doing a lot of shows and meeting a lot of different people, which I'm very blessed that I've been able to do this for so long.

But yeah, you bite your tongue all the time.

You're just like, I mean, some of the stuff that they ask for and need and it just...

It just becomes do we really what are we doing

like you can't stop a quick trip on the way Well,

I don't have a problem getting them stuff that's but sometimes some of the rider requirements or some of the stuff that they might need for stage It just becomes like what are we doing?

Yeah?

It's kind of like it they're doing it because they can't

I

just remember and this is yeah I've been doing this for 25 years, but I was like 35 years ago And we're doing it at the Carlton, but picking out certain color M&Ms.

It's like I mean

Is that legit?

Is that legit?

That's a legit thing.

That is a legit thing.

I have never came across that on a rider.

As Carl wrote that.

A lot of people put stuff on.

Just to do it.

They want to be known for

being that.

Yeah, bowling for sloop.

I'll never forget it.

At the end of their rider, they put on there a naked picture of your grandmother.

And I think they put that stuff on there.

One guy said they needed a goat in the dressing room.

They put it on there because they want to see that you're reading

it.

Oh,

I got

it.

And to make sure you're...

You know

got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Got it.

Anyway,

who did you have to pick?

Milton Burrell had oil cookies, right?

That's not a big deal.

Right?

He like, but you know, he had those big teeth and he would eat him and it comes to go all over and it's like, can't you get a nap?

They're just like us, right?

They are.

Anyway, look at me.

I was just like a Milton Burrell.

He wanted

to pull the part and the frosting like

job together.

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I can't believe it.

I can't believe we've had him over I booked him over at the rush So yeah, we've had him over there

for sure.

I'm not at the Meyer.

If he's not a good guy, don't tell me that.

I'm assuming he's a really good guy.

Yeah.

I mean, I've only met him once, so I don't have a lot to go off of.

But yeah, he seemed like a nice guy.

I mean, he's pretty laid back.

He is.

I'd like to talk about that with these guys.

Peter Paul, not Peter Paul and

Mary.

Yeah, those guys are smoking weed.

Well, one of them didn't... He just died.

I felt he felt bad about him.

Peter Yarrow, right?

Yeah.

Well, he liked you.

He brought you into this inner

circle.

Yeah, the inner

circle.

Yeah, that was great.

I tell that story a lot.

That's a

good story, though.

It's a fun story.

No.

You never

in there.

Lucky you.

Hey,

so

what do you got going on?

It's May 1st.

Yeah, so the Myers Fiscal year ends May 31st.

So we're ending our year end here.

But we have Thursday, we have a concert at the Avenue.

I work with the Avenue and they put on concerts at

the Meyer.

So they have a concert this Thursday.

It's Oliver Wood and Seth Walker.

Oliver Woods from the Wood Brothers and then Saturday I know you guys will be there for sure because we have a bodybuilding competition So I know you guys like my photo.

Yeah, there's a thank you There's a there's a young men's division that you guys will be in board charts now

instead of instead of board

shirts

instead of making everything glisten with oil baby oil I'm using this new

thing

beef Talon It's great for your skin.

Oh, I bet Frank Herman's uses it too.

It's unbelievable.

I'm

gonna glisten

Yeah,

so we have some help getting it on though.

We have that they actually people for that They actually spray tan so they spray someone they go in this booth and they spray tan before they ever done that No, I thought about it when I was 30 years

younger.

I wish I would have I wouldn't have like like skin issues that got to be cut out these

day, you know And then I think

Frank was probably in here recently when he talked about Brent the musical.

We have that coming up in the backstage.

It's a dinner show.

It's not in the main theater.

It's in the smaller space and we serve food with it and we do a show there.

He comes on.

quite often.

He is

very, very creative.

I mean, we know that because we know him, but the stuff he writes and he's well over a hundred and just, I

mean, I get Frank credit.

I mean,

he

has done it

for

20 plus years, right?

30 years.

There

were some naysayers out there when he started.

Oh, I'm sure.

Like anybody, right?

Right.

But it, God bless him.

He's done a great job.

I

mean,

it's amazing.

It's something he also embraces.

He also embraces the cheesiness of that fourth wall.

Yeah, I know that was dumb or something

you don't

I

mean

yeah, and all the people that go there they get it Yeah,

he

gets them.

Yeah,

so when when you go to one of his shows.

Yeah, you

know what to expect

Yeah, I just

yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's great.

I mean he's been doing it for so long and Kudos to him and his staff and his people and

he's gonna be one of your bigger customers

Yeah, I mean he's my main tenant that we have at the Meyer so when we've you know, I she's been there since 2007 or eight something like that It

was a little before that.

So yeah, he's yeah, he's

Anyway,

he's doing great.

Let's see.

Also next week we have Laurie Morgan on May 8th.

So she's coming up.

We also have Jump, which is a tribute to Van Halen, which is actually selling really well on Friday.

What's the hot generation music wise right now?

Well, for the Meyer, it's typically an older type demo.

I'm trying to get younger and do younger stuff.

That's tough.

the venue and all that comes into play, but it's usually 50 to 65.

That demo, the people is what comes in.

So like the jump, I mean, they've got 700 tickets sold for that.

That's great.

I mean, Ozark Mountain Daredevil's we have on Saturday that are coming up on May 10th.

That's their final farewell.

So probably won't be able to see him again if you don't see him here.

Chicken train,

my brain.

And then we have a Rush tribute show.

Tributes are starting, if you look at theaters of our size all over the country, I mean, they're starting to become a big thing because, you know, you're not going to really go see Rush.

Again, and some of these Van Halen and stuff, and you can pay $40 to go hear all their music still, and it's pretty good.

I mean, there's some of these tributes that do an amazing job.

Right.

So, Matt,

you have season tickets, but we'll talk about that when you kick off your

new season.

Right.

For right now,

where do we go?

Just Ticket Masters at... Well,

that's not you.

Ticket Star.

Ticket Star.

I meant Ticket Star.

Yeah, but you actually go to themyrtheatre.org and go through the Myrtheatre...

website because what we're having is a lot of problems with people going to like third parties and or they'll get sucked into like a tickets.com and then they'll

come to

us and call us and we won't be able to help them out because we have no information and I hope

they

get their ticket system right right so it's sometimes that gets a little hairy and they get overcharged why did I pay $300 for a Frank dick and I'm like I don't know you know it's tough it's tough for us so but you didn't sell it to him no no nothing we can do to help all right

and how are houses

downtown doing you're one thing I like about your venue unlike the Widener quite honestly is that and the other thing I think I like the fact that it's downtown like a thousand seats.

I think you feel really close to the show You've been at it for 20 years.

What

are you hearing?

Yeah, no, it's it's doing good.

It's it's I've seen downtown like you I've seen downtown change I mean, you know, you had a big part of that and it's just been changing every year It's good to see more people downtown right people living downtown You know

I'm just happy that we can be a catalyst for it to bring, you know 100,000 people down a year downtown It's just like I said a blessing to be able to do that and I think downtown is really It's starting to pick up like it's starting to get more people and it's becoming another district that I think more people are instead of they come down here to work and then leave I think they're starting to live and it's it's a slow process as you know, yeah, it's been a slow process for many years, but you know, we're happy to be a part of it and to really

get as many people down here as possible.

So

good.

And I think what I like about your organization is, well, you do bring in a variety of people too.

We just don't want to stick to the same.

No, I try.

I mean, I'll do it.

Like I said, the bodybuilding thing, right?

You know, we'll do dances, we'll do other.

Performances a lot of local stuff.

We'll try to do and keep up the good

work.

We

need that in our town Yeah, no for sure.

I will yeah for sure.

Well, thanks Matt.

Yeah,

Matt Gable Meyer theater.

I'll see you at Laurie Morgan All right, I'll be there.

Does she say anything about wanting to meet local celebrities?

She did actually, okay?

I

don't want to meet

any local celebrities is

what she said I don't know what where you'd fit into that conversation

We're

done.

Tough crowd.

Tough crowd.

I don't know if you guys are done with me.

I'm done.

We're done with you.

All right,

Matt.

Thanks

for coming in.

Thank you, Matt

Gable.

Meyer Theater, phenomenal, phenomenal venue.

Kerry Josephson, walk to end Alzheimer's coming

up.

On

Thursday.

Explain that again.

Lemon ice box pies.

Whatever you want to say more about the pies.

Yeah, so what you want to do is get in touch with Oak Park Place in Green Bay.

Either give us a telephone call or shoot us an email.

We'll put the directions up later.

And what we do is we recommend a donation of $10 and it is the most incredible, icy, lemony pie that you will ever have.

Most people the first year they ordered one for themselves and now everybody's up to two, three.

We just took an order for 36.

from one person.

So they are phenomenal.

All proceeds go to the Alzheimer's Association.

That's so cool.

And you prepare them.

We prepare them in-house, our chefs, our cooks make them in-house.

Our goal this year is to make 300 lemon ice box pies.

And so the ladies and gentlemen are a little stressed in-house.

Okay, lemon

ice box pie.

So they're, I don't know exactly what that

is.

Yeah, where's the ice box?

Yeah, tell

me the ice box.

Do they come then?

So the the the main point with the icebox pies are actually served cold or icy So you want to put it somewhere in your head if you can think somewhere between an ice cream pie and A regular cake that you would eat at ice cream cake at ice cream break.

Yes.

So

but they're lighter almost like a moose

Correct.

Okay.

Can I do where did you get the recipe or something?

And they're only really is it an Italian that came up with this?

So our fellow that that has it is Middle Eastern, okay, and it was from his

Gosh, I want to say great grandmother who came up with this and he brought it with them.

And when we were looking for this a few years ago, he says.

I've got a perfect idea

because the old Italian, my grandma, the only pie they made was lemon pie.

Okay.

All the time when they all came over from Italy for whatever.

So I didn't

know if it was, you know what I mean?

Cause

where else I've never up until this, I don't know when I've ever seen lemon pie before and it was always kept cold.

Correct.

So okay.

So this is an old heritage type thing you're having here.

Correct.

So there were, we're probably talking like a fourth or fifth generation recipe here.

And

we call, we order online and we pick them up.

I just say the pick up is next Wednesday.

Correct.

Yeah.

So we're going to, we'll have an Erie road.

That's easy to get to.

I mean, your place is just Mason to Erie.

Correct.

Yeah.

Take 43 Mason to Erie and you're right there.

Um, and yeah.

So we've got two pickup times between 11 o'clock and one o'clock and between four o'clock and five o'clock.

Can I just say one thing?

Um, you could also just take Mason all the way until it turns into finger road and then turn on Erie.

Correct.

Okay.

Correct.

Okay.

All right.

All right,

that's great.

And these, where does the money, tell me, I mean, I think it's obvious where the money goes, but let's talk about where the money goes, because this is a fundraiser.

You guys are doing this out of goodness of your heart.

And the $10 is a donation.

You can pay 20 if you'd like.

Correct.

But.

I mean, you could pay $100.

Is it a full-size

pie, or is it smaller, or is it?

It's a nine-inch pie.

All

right.

Perfect.

Got

it.

But the money all goes back to the Walk to End Alzheimer's and the Alzheimer's Association.

So that really goes to help support education and support groups.

All of our programs that we offer in the community are 24-7 Helpline, all of that.

All the services that we offer are free of charge.

Awesome.

You've really been working hard on this, and we've both lost.

My sister is my Alzheimer's.

So it's my sister-in-law.

It's just, you know, we just, I don't know.

It affects

so many people.

Everybody.

I swear

you live long enough.

Some of your family, it's going to happen.

Yeah.

It's

just,

it is

what it is.

I know.

Eric, tell me a little bit about how you got involved with this.

Sure.

So Oak Park Place has been partnered with the Alzheimer's Association for years and years.

Explain who you are as far as the Oak Park Place.

Sure.

So Oak Park Place, we have nine locations in the state of Wisconsin.

We are assisted living and memory care community for older adults.

Again, nine community locations in Wisconsin.

We have one in Iowa and one in Minnesota.

All 11 of our communities are heavily involved in the Alzheimer's Association.

Awesome.

It is very important to us and it's very important to me personally that people like Carrie that we are just one tiny 1% to be able to help the great cause that she takes care of here.

So we just want to help her out in any way to advance the Alzheimer's Association to help out with the walk to end Alzheimer's and anything we can do to assist.

Oak Park, I mean, you've got a really nice facility out there.

Yes.

When you open it up.

You really did that right.

So do you have both?

the memory care and the... Tell me about your both units, right?

That's

what I

thought.

Yep, both memory care and assisted living.

Okay,

yes,

great.

Yeah, so we have a total of 91 apartments, generally always full.

So

my World War II veterans I used to interview for my books have stayed at your place.

Yeah, what's really incredible, so we have our Wall of Honor.

It's one of the first things you see when you walk into our community and we currently have 14 residents, men and women who have served in our Armed Forces and it's always a very chilling yet...

very uplifting experience when you can talk with them.

Absolutely.

And that's, again, I just, there's a lot of places, options for people in Green Bay, and I think that's something we should be very proud of.

But

I have

a friend of mine who's over at your place that I'm actually gonna be seeing this afternoon.

So when I saw you were coming on, I thought, well, that's cool.

Yes, I need, his wife is very happy that he's there.

And I just, you know, kudos to you guys for doing that.

And I think it's great that you aligned yourself with Alzheimer's too.

I mean, it's, and who doesn't like lemon?

So

what it's only

one

day though,

right?

Yeah, correct.

So I'll pick up his next Wednesday.

So a little over a week And yes, it will be busy.

We always say we have more traffic than highway 43 at that time.

So bring it on Well,

okay, don't talk too big about that if you want to talk about traffic on a Saturday morning Until you go through Monomony, Michigan on a Saturday

morning with their weed

shops

Yeah, a lot of

Wisconsin plates

up there.

I wonder why that would be.

I

mean, they've got parking people directing parking

in

the

yellow vests and

the whole

thing.

It's

insane.

And the state troopers just waiting on the other side of the line just waiting for you.

Exactly.

Absolutely.

Kerry,

remember I saw you there that one day and I was

like... Oh, you too.

Oh,

sure.

What's the pie thing, Kerry?

And that's how we got on here.

Exactly.

So, Kerry, what else you got going on for... What is that big walk?

So, the walk in Green Bay is Saturday, September 27th.

right here on the City Deck, so would love for people to join us.

Thousands

of people for that.

Absolutely.

That's

unbelievable.

One year we played the Vikings that weekend.

Anyway, I just had some people come in for that.

But

that's just a very well...

done events, educational, and just a lot, a lot of support

for each other.

Oh yeah, a lot of resources, a lot of entertainment and fun too, but also, you know, for a great cause.

And it's just great to see, you know, so many people from the community come together and really support each

other.

And that is such a great, like even right outside my window, Saturday morning or whatever morning was for their 5K, whatever.

And what a, it just went wandered around.

I did that for yours last year too.

Oh,

nice.

But just to kind of see if people ain't knowin' or whatever, but

What a great area that is to host an event because you can have it as small as you want, right around the I Love Green Bay sign

or whatever,

or you can have that thing going all the way to both bridges.

I mean, now you got a full block of hosting people there.

Yes.

Yeah, it's a great space and we love being, you know, right near all the businesses downtown Green Bay.

So it's a fun day.

Hopefully, hopefully people can step out and check it out.

Let's talk about some other things that we're doing between now and then.

Yeah, we also have our next big, big event really is our kickoff at Hage and Meister Park.

So that is June 25th, that's a Wednesday from five to seven, open to the community.

Just a time to get more information and get registered for the Walk to End Alzheimer's.

So invite people to stop out at Hage and Meister Park from five to seven on June 25th and check that out.

But we have lots of fundraisers going on too.

And

it's not just Green Bay, right?

Isn't your reach goal?

So we actually have 27 walks across the state of Wisconsin.

Yeah, and we do them all in like five weekends.

So September's a little busy.

I am not at every one of

them.

It's just a little busy.

I haven't quite figured out how to clone myself yet, but working on that.

In case everybody's, when you say Hagemeister Park, you mean Hagemeister, the bar restaurant right next to us here?

Correct.

You know what I mean?

Because there was a Hagemeister Park at one time,

which they named themselves.

We mean the bar restaurant.

Yes, exactly.

Yeah, but up here, we have the walk in Green Bay, obviously.

We also have a walk in Dore County.

We have Fox Cities, Oshkosh.

There's one in Manitowoc.

Yeah.

And they're all well attended.

I mean, you've done a good job elevating something that needs to be talked about and addressed.

Well, thank you.

We're trying to get the word out there more.

And

it went from something over, I don't know how many years, of something people didn't really talk about.

And, you know, it's old age.

It's, you know, whatever, whatever.

And now,

What I like about it is that you guys are big and bold.

We're wearing the most bright purple shirts, humanly possible.

We're not easing into this.

Here's who we are.

You know what I mean?

We're

gonna

be big and bold and yeah.

Not hide it