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And here are your hosts, John

Minow and Jim Schmidt.

Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back.

Friday morning here.

It's not too bad outside.

46, 46, and 44 across the board.

Green Bay, Abton, and Oshkosh, Mark Hewson.

Still here with Balanced Sports Messing, because he's had such an interesting...

couple of weeks of his life.

Dennis Peters here from the Glam Band.

We got a man walking in with his guitar case, which is always fun to see.

Spencer Smet

and his hair too.

And very cool hair for the

live music

series, which we always have a lot of fun.

Well, Mark, we just want to wrap up some things.

First of all, in regards to the draft, the overall thing.

And we talked about this, Jim and I talked about this, and you talked about this a little bit.

Growing back now, if they said, hey, Green Bay, you're going to do it again next year, or the year after Pittsburgh or whatever, what would you

If you could get on the mountain top and say, here's some things that need to be different.

Because you guys were at the epicenter.

You guys were right there.

Yeah, I think some of the big things are just planning ahead earlier.

You know, I think now that you've got some information and everyone is just waiting for information.

And we're waiting for this.

We're waiting for this.

We're waiting for someone to make a decision.

I think sometimes you just have to make sure you plan yourself.

Things

were doled out in small bites.

What are you going to feel comfortable with and say?

Yeah, but some some that information never came either.

Yeah, you know, I mean, so it's like you have to plan out for yourself.

Yeah, I control what you can

I think We need more confidence in ourselves every this this little town that couldn't and I think we have a I don't know for some reason like this low self-esteem because our population's a hundred seven thousand Look, we do the tall ships.

We do EA.

We do the mile of music like oh god I can't believe we did it We do we do we do this every weekend, you know and I'll grant that it was

100,000 more people but like this is why are we so like oh my god?

We did it We did it and high-fiving and hugging and giving trophies to each other.

It's like this is what we do

I have a great idea.

We should bring the pope down

You laugh all you want is there smoke yet?

I

grew

up Catholic light, so what do I

know?

How's your experience?

Yeah, we're kind of locked in though right but

But from that standpoint, you could look out and see a lot of people and it was just an incredible experience.

But there was a, I guess you call it a bottleneck.

You really couldn't get from where we were down to the... Up to the draft entrance.

Yeah, it was, you really couldn't move from that end of it.

You could see that coming in advance.

I got to the point in Dom and I, you know, Dom is taller than I and everything.

So he could kind of like, Dom, can you see the stones?

Because

you're in such a human way.

Landhold.

Exactly.

I mean, it's, it was kind of claustrophobic at times.

Yeah.

Walking around there where you're so surrounded by people and they're not, I mean, they're, they're moving and you don't have a choice.

I mean, it got to the, to that point where it's, okay, let's splinter off here and kind of reconnoiter and see where we want to

go.

And I think that's rude.

Connoiter you like that we're well done.

Thank you.

I think

that's what people had to make that choice was like When I left on Friday night, it was I wanted to get a picture kind of from back afar The

place I went was on the Aaron ski or the Aaron slide hill.

Yeah, that I bet you that was a great

That was awesome people were saying and I think that's

what especially for that flyover You had to feel comfortable with how far you want to get in or get out

Yes.

And you had to make your determination and then determine where you want to go.

Exactly right.

And you could sit.

Correct.

You know, on the hill, that was great.

If the grass was dry, that is, you know.

Well, it was okay that night.

Yeah.

I

mean,

people were sitting there.

Okay.

It

rained on that.

Yeah, Friday then it rained.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So anyway, it was a good time.

I mean, the whole thing, glad it was here.

Yeah, I, you know, if someone, someone asked me, would you do it all over again?

I said, I would, I was all about this, whatever, two years ago when we were hearing about it.

Did were there mistakes made?

Yep Could we improve on some things?

Yeah, but do I think we do and when I say we this community knocked it out of the park?

I really do I think I think people would come back and say man I had a great time if I was from Pittsburgh, San Diego I had a great time in Green Bay I think it really opened up there are our eyes and their eyes of what Green Bay or even the state of Wisconsin's all about I think there was a lot of we had a lot of communities wassa Milwaukee

Madison that sent buses up hotels.

It just the state of Wisconsin represented well

cool

outstanding.

I didn't think I mean just walking around and I was up for you know pretty early the first night.

I was pleasantly surprised in the parking lot.

It wasn't that rowdy drinking all day swearing right.

you know, bleep bleep bombs all over you.

It wasn't that kind of crowd.

It was literally, when you're walking in that crowd, it was literally people arguing about who should draft and who's someone so good to draft.

It

was that kind of crowd.

They were there for the actual event of draft and how about for yourself?

Cause I know things can get a little rowdy like after

a

Packer Vikings game

at the state of

you and everything.

How was it with your crowd?

I think it was very steady.

Well, it looked like it was about 80, 85% Packer fans and thank God for that.

Yeah.

But the thing about it though is the people that came with other jerseys on were treated warmly.

They were in this together kind of mentality.

I agree.

And there was only one fight out of the two shows that we did.

And a drunk gal started it.

So what are you going to do?

She's not there for the draft.

She was there for the party.

How long

did you play on Thursday night?

It was until midnight.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

You started at what time?

9 to 12 is the Friday.

We did 8 to 12 on Saturday.

And yeah.

And then, yeah.

So, wow.

And nonstop too.

So, yeah.

That's crazy.

That's what I said.

I had friends that went over and saw you guys Thursday night.

I was too busy.

You were.

I wasn't going to make that walk over to see you.

I don't blame you, man.

But it was

like, it was a bottleneck between where you were and where we are.

That's just, it was just hard to get people

through.

I tell you what, there's a lot of people that said, hey,

We went over here to see the glam band and then, you know, we went to the draft and went to the glam band.

Absolutely had a great time.

I mean, if

someone says, man, I went to the draft and I didn't really have a good time or that's not what I was expecting, I'd be like, but I'd say let's sit down and talk and find out what, you know, everyone may have said, you know what?

I didn't, my parking was maybe not as best or the food was, you know, trying to get to a food truck or a lot of options.

I understand that.

But I just think I'd say well, did you have a good time and if you had a good time Take it for what it's worth.

Absolutely.

I said she's she's Kurt Nick had some neat perspectives on it as he would you know What's what's his main takeaway from it?

I talked to him last night at length He had a good show, but we were talking about if if

Again, we were talking about how do you define success?

Is it

number of

people was successful?

Was it as the chief of police was it successful?

Yeah, we had one arrest of course it was successful the Packers I mean the ask the NFL was it successful.

We had 14 million viewers.

Yeah, it was successful Some people may not have that same feeling but Nick is a smart.

He's a small entrepreneur, but he's a smart dude

everything on

his phone too, but He just did this right he

And he has advice to be, to the people in Pittsburgh was be in the zone of the draft or be in a place that people congregate, which is where you were.

You had

13 bands.

I thought it

was unbelievable what you guys did over there.

But to be alone, it's tough.

It's tough to be down this street or have an event.

Even Austin is popular as Bay beaches and some of this stuff didn't catch fire.

And it's too bad, but.

There are two main focal points, and then there's a lot of other stuff to do, but that was his advice.

And he was fortunate that he was next to the glam band, and he did very, very well.

He hit his numbers.

He thought people maybe brought too much inventory.

Well, but you don't just bring it because you think it.

Somebody told you, look, this is going to be crazy.

You got to load up.

And so we were talking yesterday at the community shelter where I work, we were the beneficiary of people.

Overestimating the crowd.

Okay, but

boy, did you guys sell?

Well, we did great on the booya that that I can tell you well our So we had a booya fest down here in the rain Yeah, it was raining and it was packed

lines of people

But I think people like Booyah when it's

raining, too The weather's not great Booya is the perfect We met some whiskey of

course we met some people that were wearing their jerseys asked them where they were from so we had one

Booth and there were 10 nonprofits there.

So it was us, you know United Way boys and girls club We all had boots there.

We all had our own chef.

We got this guy this Steve Lasse who is quite the Booyah chef.

They said bring 40 gallons and It's $3 a bowl Steve because he's got the best Booyah brought 60 gallons.

So when people were kind of running out They came to us, right?

We had the Booyah.

So it was $3 a bowl They had to buy tickets and then we had a tip jar

And we're selling scarves from, we have cheese scarves that we sell and have been

selling for

years.

So we did really, really well.

But then they take all the money and they pull it together and then divide by the 10.

I'm kind of a capitalist.

I think

we should be able

to.

Everything was

great.

So you guys did well.

But we could have done weller.

Had we got to keep our

own money.

But look, if that's what it was, we knew going in, it was great.

They had a great band.

Frank Kermis was the emcee.

It was just, it was, and there was a lot of people from Green Bay there, but there were a lot of visitors that were like, they knew you.

Yeah, and I think they did a good job, whoever was in charge of that event.

Reaching out and it was also a 10 in the morning.

There's nothing going on and lambda yet So that didn't open till noon people were

vapor locked it early on Thursday like

there's no body

here give it time It's

still

a

week.

I was I had to do an event at Heritage Hill Thank God it was indoors that day because I was standing there just watching the rain coming across the you know, we're up on top of the hill

We thought we're gonna be standing there alone we did but it was I don't know what it was I was I was shocked how many people were

there a year ago I thought you guys were gonna do the booyah and I thought you guys were gonna retire

I guess.

What?

Hey, Mark, look

at the

time.

Hey,

Mark, look at the time.

We'll have to

take

it for a bit for it next year, right?

Look at

the time, Mark.

Great having you here.

We're live in Pittsburgh.

I have to pay you guys.

Guys,

some techs here.

Good morning, guys.

Tavia from Old Station 31, which

was our

winner in our craft brewery competition.

We all got to make a road trip there one day, and I'm not even joking

right on

just such a great place in the town of Dale Got another one here.

Good morning.

Happy Friday.

Patsnik from Green Bay.

Good morning Patsnik and Tavia from old station 31, but it was I mean I will say this I was Like even say what you want, but even like that that news reporter or excuse me newspaper reporter from Detroit who she wrote that article right away

You're basically all by and Green Bay sucked and it wasn't his turn.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah Yeah, and everybody just came back said really we had you know, we've got what how many people in the county gym or within a 30

okay,

and yeah,

170 to 30 in county to okay

in Detroit is what 3 million within

the same amount of reach You know

what I mean first what we did versus for having you know a couple hundred right thousand versus what they had I mean, I love the fact that nationwide

Green Bay, I mean we're still a pride where we live here I think it came off really great as far as with it with everything that was it was good TV put it that

way I heard this stat and you guys tell me if this is if it's correct.

I just heard it Last night I believe This draft was the second most watched draft besides the year that it went COVID when a lot of people

were there

was I don't know if that's first time I heard it Don't know if that's the truth or not.

I believe it, but I think it was actually driving in this morning.

I think I heard Jim say

You talked to someone who said older older gal who said I just watched the whole draft, right?

You know and it was so excited about it, right?

And I

thought Green Bay showed really really well.

I just I want to repeat when they love their team I said, what did you get out of that like watching that?

What did you learn?

What did you guys?

You know what?

What I thought came across loud and clear was that Packer fans really love football and the Green Bay Packers Wow

And

she said the other thing though that I

thought was very interesting was that the Packer organization and the Packers love the fans Okay, 14 million people three days, which we could have squeezed in a little bit about Bellin or a little bit about the medical college or our fishing or waterfront but

She that's what she got out of it.

I said, how do you feel about that?

She was I feel great.

So okay, God bless her I suppose for those who've never really experienced but have heard about it for years for them to actually feel that I think that's that is good.

That's a job one.

You know, it is

that was job one we accomplished it

I

enjoyed watching it on TV.

I was like proud of my community I thought it came off

really

great just the whole thing really truly.

All right, Mark Houston go get your other job working there Thanks everyone.

We got Spencer

Mark, thank you for everything you guys did during that whole draft.

And thank you for that amazing party.

And you don't have any brisket left over, though, right?

No brisket.

Oh, man.

Is that good?

It was

unbelievable.

It was unbelievable.

And all the pieces.

Brisket and boo.

Yeah, that's a party.

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Man what he accomplished over the last two weeks and like I said that the thing he had the opening night of the draft He was pretty much in charge of it and he was on the two ways He was on whatever he's and I give him all the credit in the world for for what they put together there Well, it is time for our music series I was like to do this on Friday mornings and Dennis Peters from the glam band is here Surprised you got a voice.

How do you how and the weather was crappy?

How can you go three hours?

Three hours three hours every night and you can still sit here and talk

well

First night was four hours.

First night was three and then it was four.

Yeah.

So we had 52 songs.

And I was explaining it to my wife who doesn't go there because she has a, she has a way of attracting a five year old trolls.

Oh, you know, she like short old men in hers.

Boy, I'll tell you, there's, there's magic in the air when that happens.

But

when did we hit on her?

That's funny, but that's why she doesn't go to the sheets.

She keeps getting costed by these older short men.

It's like, well,

just anyway, anyway, wait a minute, wait a minute.

I got to jump in because having said that, yeah, this week, those two men in there, right?

Okay.

Have said, what a wonderful.

person she is.

Were they the ones that

were trolling her?

No, I wasn't.

I texted her.

She's

awesome.

There's a difference though.

That's respectful.

Hey, by the way, we got to talk about something.

Where are you going to be tomorrow?

Sunday is the Whammy's.

Sunday.

In West Dallas.

Talk about this.

What are you up for?

And you gentlemen were there last year and did a fantastic job of MCing your parts and whatever.

And thank you for being there.

That was awesome.

We enjoyed it.

So, uh, yeah, the band is up for several different things and several individual things as well.

And that's, you know, to be honest with you, it's frankly, uh, it's a popularity contest.

It really has not a lot to do with scale.

If a guy like me can win, I mean, anybody can do it.

So let's just put it that

way.

But to

answer your question about last weekend, it was nuts.

I was telling Deanne that that's how we're going back to that.

It was like, uh, I was telling you, it was like being in a refrigerator or a meat locker for eight hours.

with a box fan in your face on medium setting, you try singing in that.

And with me and my situation, my immune system's down.

So I've had an respiratory infection for three, this is going on almost four weeks now.

I'm just getting over it now.

And so trying to sing in that environment, it was not good.

I did the show on Thursdays like brutal, woke up Friday morning, guys, I'm not feeling so good about this.

So we got another guy to help.

I did have to show with another gentleman.

And then Saturday, we called off.

I mean, our guitar player lost his voice.

Wow.

And the other guys were like, man, it was a nice show in Milwaukee, but we had to call it off.

And they weren't, they weren't hurting for doing it because they're all wore out from the show too.

The wind's blowing in your face at 20 plus miles an hour.

And then the windshield is probably, you know, just about freezing probably or around and

wet.

Yeah.

So try that.

And you're in that environment for about eight hours, you know, each night.

Unreal.

You know, so not complaining.

I'm just saying that's what that's just reporting the news.

If someone would say, but yeah, so I bummed out that I couldn't do the shows the way I want to.

So were we.

And but we made it through and show must go on.

Yep.

In that regard, we made sure the show did go on.

God bless you, man.

Spencer, where were you planned?

Where am I playing?

No, we're looking for you.

We're talking draft today.

We're going to get.

Focused on you in just a second, but did you attend the

draft?

Not really, but I played at the tracks Friday night.

That was fun.

Oh, that's very cool.

That's

cool.

I love your old school pack or sweatshirt.

Thank you.

That's very cool.

How was the crowd there?

Oh, it was wonderful, actually.

I mean, I spent most of the draft just dodging it kind of the whole time.

Did he say he's

a draft dodger?

Did you hear that?

He did.

He did.

Yeah.

And I'll do it.

And I'll do it again.

Sure, but no, it was it was a great turnout It was just cool to be here during it and see what was going on without having actually involve myself in the craziness I caught the jizz a though on Saturday night and that was probably one of the best shows I've ever seen in my life The jizz a from Wu Tang clan.

Oh Yeah, okay, so

they were competing with Brad Paisley

No,

were they?

Was it the same time?

They might have been.

No, they were.

It was

the

same time.

Okay, because I stay here right upstairs in the studio during the week.

And I've never heard across, so that came right across the river, came down the river.

I've never heard a crowd more into a band, I swear, in my life, just from what I was hearing from a distance.

What was it like up close?

Oh, it was wonderful.

It was, uh, everybody was very active and involved.

The crowd was excellent.

You know, not that I really paid much attention to them.

I was focused up on the stage,

but it was

still cool to be at and great to see, especially for a free show at light park.

Heck

yeah.

That's not a bad setting, is it, Lake Park?

No, no,

not at all.

Yeah, that's cool.

I think that's got, I think that's got the potential to take a couple steps even higher.

Well, yeah.

With their acoustics or a pavilion type thing or something on the water or the way that sound

comes.

It really carries there.

Yeah.

Beautiful setting on that water.

Dennis,

the only time I've ever experienced anything better was watching you guys in two river, in Manitowoc.

Oh, sure, on the river there.

We were above

the submarine.

Yes.

And it was kind of like at nightfall.

And that's, your sound was coming across the water right there.

That was incredible.

What a setting.

I can't wait.

I want to go.

I think

the

war.

Yeah.

The road trip is playing there over on over Memorial Day weekend.

I want to specifically want to go there, see my friends there and see what that sounds like from your perspective, because I can only imagine what that sounds like, especially at dusk in the in the sunset.

I've still got pictures of my phone.

Yeah.

It's sunset and the birds and

reflection off the water.

People got text here.

You rocked it on Friday, Dennis

Kim.

Well, which which part I only did have to show Yeah, the other Dennis that there's a taller guy Thank you

introduce our guy here my friend

ladies and Germans we have Spencer Smith in the in the studio with us he and his hair And his hair.

It's good hair

gosh I'm jelly because mine's kind of thinning out from the chemo and stuff, but you don't want any of that so so

So how did you get, did Amanda reach out to you?

Did you reach out to Amanda?

How did you get the connection next thing?

Actually, I was having some trouble with my Facebook Messenger because it kept telling me I had a notification.

So just out of curiosity, I went into the archived messages and from like over a year ago, I saw the invitation and then

I was on my lunch break at work, so I just messaged her like, well, I wish I would have seen that a year ago.

Oh, my God.

That's awesome.

No way.

And you're here.

That's awesome.

That's great.

I say it

that way is because I say it

that way is

because Amanda, she reaches out to the cool kids.

Right.

She reaches out to the really...

You're

exactly right.

She fights the

cool...

Musicians.

Yeah, she has a knack about her and so I'm glad that she reached out to you We have a lot to do yet.

We do

half hour to cover

the heat is on that I'm hearing or am I going crazy?

No, you are okay

crazy, but then we all are too, but you are right

nice We opened with this song on Friday night.

Actually that was I'm sure

that's

right

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Hey, thank you very much.

Welcome back to our weekly music series with Dennis Peters from the Glam Band who's up for Vocalist of the Year again on Sunday.

Glam Band up for Band of the Year.

Jeepers.

Yes, we are individuals.

They're also up for let

me just say something.

We were there last year and we heard some amazing local artists and musicians.

So you can put all you want.

Trust me, for you to win that award last year and to be up for it again this year, you're you're you're going up against.

There is some amazing talent in the state of Wisconsin.

Isn't there

just in the category that I'm nominated for.

Personally, there's a lot of them are friends of mine too.

You know, and

So you can't lose.

You know what I mean?

If a friend of mine wins, great, man.

I'm pulling for you, too.

And that's great.

But it's really, really fun to win against a friend.

I never think of it that way.

I'm not competitive that way.

Because I don't think of it as competition.

It's just a form of recognition.

And I kind of look at it that way.

You really go along.

Spencer Smith.

Would you feel bad if you beat your friend for vocalist of the earth, the Whammies?

Can you say

how you beat him?

No.

Wait, my hands, they think on it for a little bit.

Don't take so long.

You Aldo kids are all like that.

Pretty amazing.

You went to school with his daughter.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

It was a great time.

Yes.

That's very cool.

It was just great classes.

Theater was good there.

Music was good and just, I don't

know.

Absolutely.

Very artsy, allowed everybody to be real creative and just kind of be themselves.

I think that's the point there.

And you all got along, which I thought was cool, because sometimes schools can be a little clicky, a little tough for kids, and nobody got picked on there, because you, I don't know.

Well, I did, but you know.

So you did.

So what got you into music?

And this is your career

now.

Actually, you know, it just kind of hit me like a spark of lightning out of the blue when I was 25, and I don't know where it came from or

why it just happened.

25.

That's a little

late.

Yeah.

I only learned guitar probably seven years ago or so.

Dang.

And I just kind of...

Rolled with it.

I mean, I'm not a good musician at all.

A good entertainer, maybe, but I'm not a musician.

Who's doing the scheduling here?

I can play sort of, but you know.

Wow.

What was, tell me about the spark.

I mean, just, you woke up, tell me about the spark that got you into it.

Well, who knows, it could have been an amalgam of factors.

Well, slow down.

That's a minor word.

Well, you guys got to save your vocabulary

and luminescence for Mike to

work today.

Save your vocab sheets from language arts.

That's how I wrote all my songs.

Really, that interests me, because we have kids that come in that...

Really four or five years old and other parents were so influenced.

I grew up, my mom and dad were musicians or a teacher that just really hit me when I was in sixth, seventh grade.

But you're 25 years old and this spark came.

And I want to hear about this.

What was the word?

Amalgam?

Yes.

A cluster of things.

I know

what it

is.

I know what it is.

Heavy.

I didn't go to Aldo, but I know what that means.

OK.

That's awesome.

Well, let's give us a little something here.

OK.

Yeah.

Sure.

This is.

This is a song that I wrote probably about four or five years ago or something like that.

Now, don't take the lyrics personally because I was very angry at Green Bay at the time, but now I have perspective.

Can you play another song?

Okay.

Any dirty words?

No.

Okay, that's good.

Just check.

Well, depends on what you mean by dirty, but it's just more of a...

Like river water dirt.

Yeah, I'm not gonna actually ever tell anybody what the songs are actually about But if you listen intently to the lyrics it sounds like I'm really going at Green Bay pretty hard But and I am not gonna lie, but that's not exactly what it's about

Okay, and by the way that was just for

us here in the studio listening out there on the radio man.

He loves you

didn't you didn't hear

Green Bay is my favorite city and I've been to a lot of cities for

interpretation purposes, so

yeah

Alright, it's called 12 o'clock midnight.

It's from my last album written in red, came out last June or so.

Written in red, does that mean like blood by chance?

Or red ink.

Could be blood though.

But he was angry.

That's why I thought

that.

The album is called written and read with like one of those ampersand signs.

There's another

word.

Every time I say a vocab word.

In the song too.

Don't feel free to interrupt it right

away.

All right.

12 o'clock midnight from written and read.

I've got some chilling advice for you.

It'll never be enough, no matter what you do.

I'll capitalize on the heightened activity.

Dust of hours, you're pride if it's shelf too high It's called opposition, it's a potent part of life My only worthy rival is my inspiration And I don't think much of the other competition

Cause much to their delight I don't fit in It's twelve o'clock midnight and I'm leaving Leaving the pedantic toils of my tarrying town Where I won't sulk alone or just sin

When this city sinks right into the bay I'll be long free from its tornado decay And the neptitles who often air of arrogance No, I'm just kidding Free from the oppression

There'll be purpose and opportunity I'll have a robotic groove, self-sufficiency And like the smoke of hell I'll rise from my pile of ash If I become a monster

Maybe like a screeching sax solo here or something Anyway much to my delight I don't fit in It's 12 o'clock

so pathetic here I just want to straighten out straighten out and find something to care about because much to my delight I'm leaving it's 12 o'clock midnight

time is 12 o'clock midnight everybody out there sing

along

I

think you need some

help.

I think you do.

Yeah.

I think Xanax or something's got to be.

You were feeling pretty down at that time.

Oh,

well,

you

know, we're glad you're back.

It

combines some pretty good words together.

Thank you.

That was, yeah, it

was a four to five syllable words there.

You got that going.

Absolutely.

Wow.

They teach you how to write like that at Aldo.

I think so.

Inherently.

Yes.

The sax, you said you're a good entertainer.

That is true.

That sax thing was funny.

Thank

you.

I wish you brought my kazoo.

Right, right.

I've done that before.

Don't do that.

It doesn't work as well.

I

don't give two darns.

Neither

did

I.

So

then

do it.

Let me ask you Spencer, you write your own music.

Yes.

And have you participated in the Mile of Music in Appleton with all the original artists?

Not yet, no.

Okay.

That's just a great event.

That was an award last year, I think, Dennis.

At the...

The best event.

Or the best venue.

At the

Whammy's it won a big time award.

So that's something you want to take a look at because it's

I think it was for festival or

But that's something that you originals can go to but how do you find the opportunities here in Green Bay?

I know you just kind of move back you were in New Orleans for a while

Yeah, I was I'm down there with my girlfriend and I came back to Work because I couldn't find a job down there.

So I'm just sending the money along I feel like a soldier that just got sent away and I'm just sending the spoils of war back

That's kind of what's going on, pretty much.

But pretty much, you know, just... What were we talking about?

But just Fen used to play

here.

You played it, you just got finished with the

gig.

Yeah, kind of just knowing people.

Sort of shooting people the right messages kind of just having

but there is opportunity in northeast, Wisconsin Oh, definitely.

Gosh the whole plenty down.

Yeah.

Yeah, you'll you'll assembly quickly again as you know There's a lot of great places, but not only that

not only it doesn't have to be the big ones like we were with this wonderful young group on it was two brothers and her sister from Reedsville or you have Reedsville, right?

And they were talking like okay

Who would ever think that one of the biggest gigs you want you could play is the Newton Fireman's picnic?

True

that

these people might be these tiny little towns put together some great musical events.

Oh, yeah, so that's

what's pretty cool about around here

rooting to Newton.

Yeah,

that's what they

think that Then use we just finished a the best of

brewery for we had a contest here some of these wineries and breweries they have things on saturday and sunday they they don't only have a brewery there or make even hard liquor uh they'll outside and they'll bring music in so those are things you gotta reach out to it's smaller venue maybe 50 60 people but still it's an opportunity for you to get in play in front of a live audience

yeah absolutely and there is just always so much going on in northeast wisconsin all the time there's few weekends where you can't find something

the press times puts out a great supplement it's incredible

every single thing taking place, you know, music or whatever you want to call it throughout the entire area.

When does that

get released?

Is it Friday?

Friday's.

The paper comes up, but I'm sure that thing's done on Wednesday.

So it's cool.

Anything you're doing, you got to get over to them because she does a good job of covering everything.

Absolutely.

So what's the next

step, man?

How far do you want to take the biz?

As far as it will let me, pretty much.

I would really love to get back out there playing more shows, eventually touring.

It'd be great to just get a tour going from here down to New Orleans and then just go back and forth for the rest of my life.

Ah, the

Mississippi River cruise.

Maybe rent a river boat and that'll be like the what?

We carries everything.

How did you like New Orleans overall?

I mean, living there.

Oh, it's wonderful.

It's a great place.

It has a lot of history.

It's haunted.

It's you can just feel everything.

going on, like all sorts of action from behind the spirits.

You and Todd have a lot to talk about that.

I can see this happening.

Todd, he's the guy.

I

gotta be honest, I lived in Arizona for six years, but I've never been hotter in my entire life than one day in New Orleans.

Oh yeah, it

was January and I was getting bitten by mosquitoes.

You mean temperature-wise or attitude, baby?

Little

of both, baby.

Man, I had never experienced humidity like that before.

And it was like a July day.

It was just like...

Oh my God, how could you play sports down here when it's that hot?

You know what they say in Arizona, it's not the heat, it's the stupidity.

That's what I've been hearing for a long time.

That's right.

But

I thought New Orleans, you know what I loved about New Orleans?

And again, we were there for the Super Bowl, so you're kind of, you know, whatever.

But we would go out to those smaller little towns in Mississippi and stop at these roadside.

Like,

you

know, restaurants and these bars and the food was just amazing.

So

yeah,

people.

Yeah, it was

fun.

I enjoyed it.

I really did.

All right, guys.