Free Ticket Frenzy & Empowering Youth Through Sports(Hour 2)

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Outstanding.

We have Mark Houston in the house.

Good morning.

Good morning.

Hey, I want to say something.

If somebody wants us to give out a Mother's Day shout out,

Yeah, anybody's mom's out there.

Sure.

We'll do that.

Let us know.

Just text in.

We'll make sure we do a shout

out.

I will also say this.

We kind of missed a happy birthday yesterday, Nikki.

And I'm wondering if you might.

Yeah.

The mic is open.

No, that's what we missed it.

She listening.

She may be.

Hey, this birthday salutation goes out to one of her good friends from a great athlete at West Depear High School, professional baseball and all points in between.

Nikki see

this is for you Happy birthday To you Happy birthday to you Happy birthday

Happy birthday, Nikki.

See, Nikki.

That was memorable.

For all the other ladies

out there.

That could

be

for you.

That could be

for you.

John, it's my wife's birthday tomorrow.

Happy birthday, Anne.

I'll just say that.

You don't need your signature.

No, no, no.

We got time.

No, what?

No.

No, out of time.

Bella, help me pay for it.

We got time.

Look at the time.

And happy birthday, or excuse me, happy mother's day to my wife and my mother this weekend.

It's always been a fun weekend.

Yes.

And all the mothers out there.

What did

you, Chris, she's not your mother, but what did you buy your son to give your wife?

Like for mother's day, like what do you, did you do something?

You doing botanical gardens?

Are you doing something that's, when these freebies are out there?

We

did

we didn't do anything yet, but yeah, I think she wants to maybe go out for brunch.

Yes.

Yes, I looked at things and No, it's gonna be a great week in great weather you can get outside and right enjoy

it

My wife loves working in the garden, so I'm getting her some new equipment.

Like, okay, like what?

Well, she does like those.

I got your speed.

No, those pretty shoes that are like big.

Oh, okay.

Just those little ones in your

hand.

Those

are good.

I know.

She wants one of those.

You take down the trees with those.

She's probably listening.

That's what I'm going to get you, honey.

I'm going there.

And there's something else she said she wanted, but gardening stuff.

Yeah.

And I don't like doing that, but I know what she wants.

So I just, you know, I don't know.

Menards or something.

Go pick it up.

That's what.

Let me ask

you this so your daughters are full grown or they're grown-ups or whatever you know And your son's still young enough.

He doesn't have a job type of thing.

Nope.

Okay at what point does the dad Not do stuff for the kid to do stuff for the mom where the kid wants to say you know what?

I'm good.

I got this take care of dad.

I'm good.

You know what I mean?

Like Dom's got more money than me.

So I've been told, Julia, I said, she doesn't have a sugar daddy.

She has a sugar son because, you know, he'll take her to Kohler and, you know, go on those champagne brunches and whatever, whatever.

At what point, like what your daughter's did you, you know, did it was like, they were happy.

It's like, I'm going to do this on my own.

I don't know if I'm there yet.

I mean,

we always

financed it with the doctor.

My kids all make more than I do.

I mean, that that's that took a little, that's weird that your kids make more than you, but.

That's the way the world and I'm glad it's that way, right?

I mean it wasn't I

don't think that's pretty

good question, but even in high school I did finance that I just want to tell you that they yeah, but they went and picked out the gifts

Yeah,

all right, so I there's got to be a time when your son picks it out You don't pick it out and give it to him as they give this to your mother.

No, he actually had some my goodness.

Oh, he's doing now.

All right.

That's you know, you know

Yeah, I won't say what it is.

No, I still have to pick it up, but we did Yeah, there's there's some good ideas.

Yes, he's creative

if they have the ideas right, but you're still picking up the tab as you should No, tell him to grab his money

He's selling stuff left over from the draft That's right.

Did you see that or that they're doing that notice this huge auction with stuff left over from the draft Well, it's where true story.

I mean, I think it's an auction house

They must have had a contract with with with stuff.

Although was it you telling me?

Who is it telling us Jim?

Somebody on here about at the green room.

They're working the green room and like after like some of their kids were picked, they're walking out with like pillows and stuff

from the

green

room.

Memory.

Well, I saw one of the draft picks.

Right.

It was funny because I saw a draft pick.

They said 2025 NFL Draft and they had him flying the team.

The mom was carrying one of the pills, getting on the plane and stuff.

And I'm thinking, well, I guess that stuff left.

Right.

The.

but the stuff is discounted a little bit because the front of mine went and bought a hat and

it was six people from like a hoodie or something.

It's not that much discounted.

I thought it'd be discounted like 50 percent is like, I don't know, 10 bucks off, but maybe 40 to 30.

I guess that's significant.

But anyway, there's they're discounting that stuff, but it's not a fire sale.

I think it's 30 percent down right now.

That's not bad.

That's not

bad.

Yeah.

The look on Jim's face while John sang Happy Birthday was priceless.

Great job, John.

You could sing to me any day.

Vicki.

Okay, all

right.

And this is my first time on it.

Congratulations to you guys for your...

Yes, it's second place.

I didn't even know this was a radio show.

I thought this was just hanging out every Friday.

So congratulations.

Well,

you should congratulate yourself.

You're part of it.

You are.

No, this is this.

But you know, it's all the listeners and everyone that this has been wonderful the last couple of years.

I think you guys have done a great job.

Thank you, Mark.

But our taglines, we're asking for a tagline with my name here.

No one has said at

the end of the day, we're announcing a winner.

But no one has said.

mind on the mayor informing us about things going on in the local community.

I haven't heard, I've seen that

one.

Mine on the mayor, more information in three hours.

On the local

community,

bringing

in the guests to elevate their non-profits, none of that.

It's all off the rails.

They are, they're snarky.

That's a good word for it.

Great for your listeners.

Maybe

I'm one of them.

As long as they're

happy.

You guys are informed if you're entertaining your social.

Oh, wait a minute.

That was the guys that beat you.

That's what we

got.

So the floor is still open, the contest is still open.

Mine are the mayor, building the blanks.

$25 gift certificate going to somebody.

So buddy, you, I mean, the old term about drinking of a fire host for about two months, you were that guy and you almost look more relaxed now.

Then I'll tell you what, the night of the draft, I've never seen you look stressed before.

When you're walking with a walkie-talkie, it's like, what do you mean a bus got an accent?

What do I mean?

And you had everybody coming up and asking you things to the point where I'm like, hey, I don't want to wait in this line.

You get us a beer.

I mean,

you look stressed

that night.

And you honestly look more relaxed right now than you have for a while.

Yeah, I think I slept better in the last week.

Well, you're sleeping in your office, right?

Yeah, and even that next week, I struggled with sleep.

I think everyone did.

This is a huge event for, you know, the NFL draft was huge.

And what a great, it was a great opportunity.

John and I were just talking before, and I don't know if I'd want to do it every year.

That'd be, that'd take, I think every year you get better because you now know what you're going to do.

Totally agree.

I think that was the biggest thing that every community could not agree more.

If you have not done it, you don't know what to expect.

It's the...

You have to pivot you have to change things

Yeah Everything went very well.

I mean just I don't know how you would rate it ABCD From your vision, but you know the chief of course put in a because there's only one arrest 600,000, you know 200,000 people a day

I just, what's next?

I just, when I talked to a guy yesterday, Brian Johnson was actually on this lean local.

Okay, so we did that and it was successful, right?

I mean, probably the lowest grade is going to be a C plus, B minus, right?

Everything was pretty good.

So now what?

We're not going to get the draft for at least another 10 years, if then.

So what are we going to do?

We got

You following this concert series that's going on in Wisconsin, you know summer fest they just they own it But then Harley-Davidson is picking up these as concerts and now camp Randall.

Do you see their lineup?

And I hope we can turn this into something for Lambo to get I'm talking about the stones and something

though.

I think it'd be awesome I think it that's we can do it.

I think it showed everyone that you know what we can do it You know you can put on these events.

I think the other thing is though It's to remind people looking right out here on the you know on the deck or

Conscious stuff that's down here 4th of July.

There's so many different events that we put on right when I say we that the community But I mean it's the whole community and that includes though not just Green Bay.

That's Appleton.

That's Marinette There are so many things so just to get out and and check out you know some of these activities Especially when we get warm weather

Yeah, I wouldn't say one thing about that too.

It's like, okay, like it seemed like everybody's so overly concerned about where park where to drive and it's like 99% of people I know run.

It's like, we got this is not fine.

We're fine.

We're fine.

We know where to go.

We know all the roads.

We know every

place to

park.

We're fine.

Parking wasn't honestly.

I don't think parking was a issue.

Right.

People were expecting to

walk.

It's going to be interesting to see the cost on this.

I asked him yesterday about that.

I mean, there was some money, right?

Put into public safety and DPW.

And we have the DPW coming on.

But with all that said, we can do this.

So let's do it again.

Well, the draft's not coming for 10 years.

Well, there's other draft type events out there.

I mean, you look at what Oshkosh does with the EAA, what Appleton does with the Myla music.

And we host the Packers 10 times, which I think is great.

But I just think there's a big, big event we could get here, maybe two or three, because we can do it.

Yeah, I might own the mayor, maybe.

Absolutely.

I mean, put a concert with that doing all that.

Oh, by the way, Todd.

I got an email from Vicky from a Chamber of Commerce in Oshkosh.

No, no.

Not

Vicky.

Oh, not

Vicky.

Yeah.

Connie.

Connie.

Yep.

She's talking to the guy to get me to introduce George Therogood at Waterfest.

Don't

hold your breath on that.

Baddle the boat.

What do you think?

Don't hold your breath on that.

I might even be on stage with him singing a little bit.

I'll drink alone Until until the police come in drag you on maybe yeah Wow, I'm excited about that

me and

George hanging out together

after my boat.

It hasn't been confirmed It's just an idea right you just want to get

him off the phone Okay, I'll look at it and he takes that is I'm on

wow.

Yes Wow Hey mark I got to be honest with you the other day I walked here on the on the track and everything like that And there's something about okay, so yesterday's on the treadmill except wind was like 90 miles an hour here

the treadmill seemed twice as long than walking out.

There's something about

when the

weather is nice and you're how much further you can go versus inside.

Is it mentally

some kind of, what is it?

I think it is.

I think sometimes, you know, that's why people put on a TV or radio show or listen to a podcast.

Just because, yeah, nice out, but even during the middle of winter.

Man, it's just had to get two miles in.

That's what I mean.

You're in the

trouble.

You're just looking at the thing.

Oh, how much further?

How much

further?

And when I walk in that nice day, it's like, I don't want to stop.

And I need to get back doing it.

But, you know, I would do my nightly walks last year.

And I tell you what, I'd love, honestly, just checking out different people's homes or seeing what's in the neighborhood.

I mean, I think that's what your mind gets off things, where if you're in a room and you're seeing the same thing or the dog sitting there or, you know, TV's not on.

And driving by is one thing, but walking by is

a totally different view.

It's

unbelievable.

Just different things you see of a neighbor or just waving or whatever.

I've got a great neighborhood to walk around in too.

And I just need to do that more, but it's just a different.

Here's another thing.

We have this trail.

I'll just bring it up.

We have this trail.

It's amazing how much people don't know about the trail in town.

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Forecast sunny high in the low 70s.

Today looks like a great weekend coming up.

Once again, birthday wise, Prince Fielder is 41.

Billy Joel is 76, Candace Bergen's 79, Tommy Rowe is 83, it is free ticket Friday, which is a very cool event we've got going on here right now.

Mark Cusin in the house from Bell and Sports Madison.

What is going on, Mark?

Let's talk about

some kid sports.

Yeah, you know, I think the one thing I was just gonna talk about, someone, a few people brought it up.

John, you talked about, you know, hey, nice weather's come out in the last couple weeks, but it's gotten a little bit cooler.

On some days, you know yesterday winds were blowing and it really wasn't that warm and some people ask about you know, what should my kid be wearing for sports, you know and baseball softball and track I think the biggest thing to remember is it may be beautiful at noon or two o'clock But what's it like at 435 36 30 when your kid needs to be playing out in the field?

And you know, it's great to have a t-shirt on but Think of your kids stand the outfield or think of your kids at a track meet and not have you know, so it's it's one of those things being prepared, you know, it's

Today's supposed to be a beautiful day.

I think high of 77.

But what's going to be like at 6.30 if you're standing there, track me.

Making sure you have extra sweats, even jackets.

The same thing, even if you're a fan sitting there at a game.

Sadly, gloves and a hat maybe.

And it's not saying that you're a wimp wearing them, but it gets cold.

So my biggest thing is, how do you get your kids prepared to get them warmed up, stand warm?

And then making sure you know big our big things is pitchers and like baseball softball Making sure that they're probably wearing an undershirt, you know not just standing there in a t-shirt because if they're standing outfield They may be standing there for two hours.

Absolutely.

So, you know, I think the biggest thing is being prepared think ahead Plan ahead have that bag of extra supplies

and you make a good point about the fans

because

it's

Also, all you do is think about the weather.

Oh, okay, wait till this is over.

Whereas if you're feeling good, it's like, I hope this goes on forever.

You

know what I mean?

I think

that's a good point to just bring an extra something.

And

the

equipment's out there nowadays.

They've got

so many advances.

You know, I mean, dry shirts are light.

You know, you know, if you sweat or not going to feel real heavy, but you can put that on.

My own son went on a field gold trip yesterday, you know, had pants on.

It was cool.

Was able to take those off and he had shorts on.

Probably because as I was told he was trying to get a turtle at some nature preserve You know probably made a mess and stuff but good old Charlie Hey, do you remember back

in the days of Major League Baseball as soon as the pitcher would come off into the it didn't matter if it was a hundred degrees He'd take a jacket and he'd just put it on up to his shoulder.

Remember that?

Yeah, you know that was a big thing, you know I mean sometimes you still need to do it like you said we live in Northeast, Wisconsin

What what happens in Oshkosh what happens in Marinette may be completely different, you know So it's like making sure that you're just staying warm and you know again.

What what kid is your position?

Hey, I have to ask you one Sports question right now in regards to an injury.

So Seth's I love the NBA playoffs.

I pay zero attention to the NBA up to the playoffs.

Okay, um Steph Curry.

Yep class one hamstring.

What's worse stage or class four class one?

what's worse is four.

It's really like three preps, right?

Probably one, two, three.

So he's got a one.

I've heard he's out a week.

I think he has to also look at that as you don't want this to be a long term thing.

Because

I just think of the Christian Watson's and the people around here with the those hamstrings.

Yeah, I mean, you know, it's it's being read by an MRI.

So they look and then I'm right and going, okay, it's a mild, you know, let's turn grade one is a mild hamstring strain.

Okay, now they're going to look and say,

What can he do?

You know, they'll do treatment on him.

They'll do modalities.

They'll do exercises.

But if he can't function, doesn't mean if they say, well, he was going to supposed to be back in a week, he can't run.

You know, so if we're a week out or two weeks out and he can't run and cut, he's not going to go back out there.

You know, the technology is great on the front end of having MRIs and stuff.

But you still have to use your brain, your knowledge and your people to say, OK, what can he do?

What can he do?

You don't want to re-injure this again.

You don't want it to be a one.

Because they're easy to re-injure, aren't they?

Yeah, and then does it start going to next year?

And does it bug him the rest of his career?

Because back in 2025, he had to play in a playoff game.

Now, we all know, I mean, if it's, they're down 0-3 or something like that, he may not play the next game.

You know, I mean, it's, so he's going to have to look at, you know, his own health and- But one is the least.

Least.

Okay.

Yeah, mild.

And then we got an amplify, Bellin.

Bellin's coming up again.

Yeah.

June, what is it?

Well, I believe it's June 11th.

I should know this, but I think it's the 11th.

Oh, we

had Randy on too, who is like you is very, you know, into the community and into the health and most, but you'll start working on that now.

Yeah, we want to bring him back.

There's there are already some training runs ago.

Training runs started already.

Nate VanderVest does training runs on Wednesdays.

And he's been pushing those and they've been getting some good attendance.

You know, I mean, and we they even had a change for the week with the with the draft and moved it in another location.

All right.

People still came out.

I

think what's cool about the bell and I mean, it's right.

It's only a 10k.

But to do it, it's just it's not that much pressure because you got those heats now.

So if you run a little

later, people walk the bell.

And I think the thing with with with it was we also added now it's the 10k was what's been there the whole time.

Right.

We've now added a 5k.

So there's a smaller row.

Nice.

So, you know, it doesn't matter if you're a youth or if you're an adult or a grandparent, you can walk it.

You know what I mean?

So there's different options you can go and I think it's a great way to train at school.

Yeah, school is getting done.

Kind of start a summer.

It's a great way to end or start your summer.

And the events after our fun and it's just, yeah, the money goes to charities.

So I just, yeah, it's a great thing to do.

And you're right.

It's start a summer.

Let's get healthy this summer.

And right now you're doing the training runs.

People should need to look into that because it's sort of just start walking, but

yeah.

Yeah.

Start walking, just being active.

Right.

You know, we, we had a Marinette 5K, which was a run that was up in Marinette this last week.

5k small race 3.1 miles but it was awesome to see also we had some people that had total joints or a heart attack and they did a parking lot.

walk.

It wasn't competitive.

But what a great opportunity just to get out and do something with your family.

Yeah.

And I'll tell you what, like we were talking about, you know, like at the Croc Center, they've got those really cool things for the treadmills where you got the video, like you're going through Tuscany or whatever, whatever.

But like I said, when you get out on a day like this, you will do, you can do like twice as much.

Yeah.

Wouldn't you agree?

And you'll realize

how

much it's mental.

It's not physical, but when you want to quit.

Yeah.

Oh,

it has the truth.

Yep.

It is.

Yeah.

I wish you guys for

everything.

Yeah.

Thanks for your

gift.

You

gotta go to

work.

I gotta go to work.

All right.

Mark.

Get some

medicine.

Hey, get us some swag from a drug.

Just enjoy your mother's day.

We can.

Back of it.

for joining us.

Joining us right now, Avery Renreck, fourth and goal of summer football camp for kids.

Avery, welcome local Green Bay Fella and trying to, how do you say it, pay it forward a little bit?

Maybe some of the people that helped you become a football player and you're trying to do the same for young kids around here with a non-profit.

Welcome.

Thank

you.

Appreciate you guys for having me.

Appreciate you coming in.

This is awesome, man.

I'm trying to say this.

Oh, wait a minute.

We gotta do one more quick.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

You always do this.

You're welcome, Todd.

Yeah, thank you.

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No worries.

How you doing buddy?

Good.

How are you guys?

Good.

You are putting on a camp for kids 7 to 17 With and you brought in some I mean you're obviously a great player, but you're bringing in some talent

Yeah, so we'll have Elton Jenkins out there.

We're gonna partner with him built a relationship with him over the last couple of years Good guy.

Yeah, awesome guy.

He came

up to a Pulaski High School and we're doing our

uh, high school football against cancer type thing and he came out there and boy, he was interacting with the people and the kids.

Really cool.

It was

just awesome.

So

this is a full day for these kids.

Um, it'll be 11am to 2pm.

Great.

Um, so just a couple of hours the last time we did it, it was a little bit longer and kids were on out, parents ready to go.

Hell

yeah.

All right.

And then we're going to

learn some skills and yeah.

So we'll run them through some stations.

We got like a speed and agility station.

So I think we're going to have ETS, which is a local performance facility come out.

They're going to run like the warmups around the kids through some agility and speed stuff.

And then we have we're partnering with some like high school coaches and some other guys as well to come run like quarterback training, running back training, defensive back training, all of that stuff.

So

before the next question, I'm just going to give people your website,

right?

Fourth and like letter and goal.org.

Yeah.

Well, it is, it's forthandgoal.org.

To do these things, and I don't know what you charge the kids, but sponsorships are critical when it comes to events like this.

Yeah, they're huge.

And you are looking for some sponsorships.

So let's talk about...

what a sponsor could get and what the benefit is to the kids.

Yeah, so we really appreciate any dollar amount.

Obviously, like on our brochures and everything like that, we start with $1,000.

We have people that'll donate 20 bucks and that goes a long way.

Right?

So we charge the kids, it's all free.

These annual cans are all free.

Oh, really?

Free to all the kids.

Oh,

that's cool.

Very cool.

And we try to get them a meal, a gear bag with a camp shirt and have the sponsors on the back.

So that's one of the benefits for the sponsors.

Their logo will go on the back of the shirt.

We'll have them on our website as one of our teammates.

And then they'll be posted on our flyers and across social media and everything like that in regards to the camp.

Awesome.

And this takes place in Green Bay.

Yep,

it'll be in

Green Bay.

It's going to be one of the high schools east or west.

We're not defining that right now.

Is this, I could ask, is this for boys and girls or

is this for boys and

girls?

That's

awesome.

I'll tell you what, girls play football right now.

It's huge.

Oh man.

It is.

I'm

glad to hear that.

I

didn't see that.

I mean

like Olympics, right?

Yeah, it's huge.

Yeah, that's cool.

Good.

Got a

texture.

Based on today's show, perhaps we should change the slogan to minor the mayor, ranting, raving, and off the rails.

Nancy, okay, thank you.

I think she's on to something.

Yeah, you're on to something.

I

gotta ask you this.

So where does the passion come?

We ask every person that comes in here, where does the passion come from?

Who sparked

this

for you?

Yeah, so really, for me, it was during COVID.

In the house, didn't have really much going on, obviously, quarantine and everything.

And I was kind of going through what brought me passion in life.

And I found a common thread throughout everything was helping other people.

I love sports.

And then I was doing research online, found a bunch of articles from ESPN and New York Times about the amount of kids that can't afford to play sports and how that's impacting the future generations and everything.

So that hit onto me.

No joke, man.

It's expensive and even here in Green Bay, there's a lot of kids that are unfortunately, you know, homeless or they're underprivileged.

So just being able to give back to them, you know, the impact of sports was big for me growing up, coming from a single mother household myself.

I know what it can be to not be able to play at times, but then fortunately for me, when I got to Ashwabinen and in middle school and everything, it was a little bit cheaper because the participation fees weren't as high and a lot of the equipment was provided outside of CLEAT.

being able to help kids and bridge that gap there and be that.

that pathway, I guess you could say, to get to play the sport that they love, whether it's football, basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, whatever the case might be, we're here to help them do that and chase their dreams.

And you know, I think it's really cool when you're talking about the different things.

I would have loved to have something like this when I was a kid where you get to do the kind of drills that they do at like a combine or something.

You know what I mean?

Kind of compare yourself, how you do versus.

I mean, I think

John, we could probably send you to this and see how

you do all the drills.

Come on out.

You know what, do you have a category for really old guys with artificial guns?

I've heard a fourth and goal in the camp, but what are some of the other work your nonprofit does?

Yeah, so we help with really the main goal of it is to help kids that can't afford to play sports.

So if there's a, we have a request assistance form on our website.

It's pretty straightforward.

Not asking any like intrusive questions or anything like that.

They fill it out.

We just want to make sure that those people that are filling it out.

are in fact in need.

And if they request, you know, football cleats or their registration fees covered, if they're playing some kind of program or basketball shoes or baseball or baseball glove, whatever the case might be, we'll get it ordered for them.

Or we actually have been taking the kids right to Dix and helping them pick this stuff out.

Wow.

And they'll do it there.

So

very

cool.

Avery, the other thing I think people are listening, I mean, you teach them the the X's and O's, but you also teach them about teamwork and some leadership skills.

And I

Just talk about that.

I think that's so important.

And I think because of COVID, we've missed some of that.

Yeah, of course.

That's the biggest thing sports provides, you know, not outside of the athletic stuff and staying staying active.

It's it's about teamwork.

It's about working together to accomplish a goal.

And then you get the respect out of it.

You're respecting your teammates.

You're respecting the other team.

You're respecting your coaches, leadership.

If, you know, depending upon your position, everybody's a leader on the field.

If you speak up and you can gain that leadership, that leadership role on your team.

And then we have speakers that'll come out.

So obviously this year Elton, he'll probably talk to the players.

He came out our first year as well.

And then we've gotten

people from St.

Norbert College that has come out.

I'm a local barber from Starr's, came out and spoke to the kids.

So just really just showing the kids that.

Even if you can't make it in sports, there's other career opportunities to be successful in life, where you can, you know, gain these roles in these positions.

Transfer those skills to so many other things.

Exactly.

Home,

business,

business.

What I

just said, there's sports is so much more than the athletic part of

it.

I'm glad you're teaching that.

Absolutely.

You mentioned about a single family home to your mom.

You know, you didn't have that dad come home from work and throw the football around with you or whatever.

Yeah.

And a lot of these kids, I think maybe sometimes

when you're not trying to get overly you know whatever but you know sometimes when you don't have that and you look at other places for a little bit of that

that guy to throw the football around with.

It seems like you're trying to help those types of kids a bunch to have that guy that'll throw the ball around with you or do some drills and things like that.

Does that come from the heart yourself a little bit?

Yeah, a little bit.

Yeah, like you said, it was, you know, it didn't have anybody there to throw the football.

My brother, my older brother, he would do it a little bit, but he's not into sports at all.

So for me, it was just watching it on TV, throwing it with my little brother.

He's not into sports either.

So it was like...

Where do I find that?

And when I got to high school and middle school, I was starting to able to play.

But like you said, a lot of the kids, you know, they look for, you know, a role model in the community.

And sometimes it's not great.

It's it's that's what I'm saying to the Elvis and we don't have

that.

Maybe it slides into that other guy in the neighborhood, who's, you know, every Renwick fourth and goal summer football camp for

kids.

And I think every some people may not know what a need we have for this in this community.

I mean, like I could.

working at field a little bit.

And there are kids that are missing a pretty cool part of life that we kind of took for granted.

And that's why these sponsors can really help get these kids engaged with other friends, which is really important leadership skills.

And I mean, to be with a Packer player, I'm sure they're excited to be there.

Yeah, ecstatic.

A lot of the kids love that.

The sponsors are a huge part of it, like you said.

And you can not only sponsor, you know, the camp, but you can also sponsor an athlete.

So we have those options

on our

site.

where you can, you know, send us 50 bucks and that sponsors an athlete to attend one of our camps.

Nice.

Or, you know, if you want to send 150 bucks, that's kind of like our threshold there to get a kid in the game, we call it.

So that gets them like the shoes or the necessary equipment and cover their fees.

So there's different sponsorship options and routes and packages that we have built out there.

And we can see all

that stuff.

Just go into 4thengold.org.

So it's all on the website, and then we have a donation portal as well.

Quick text here, what about volunteers?

Do you need volunteers from Cathy?

Anybody that wants to come out and help we're more than happy to help them or not help them but have them out there with us to help So volunteers are great.

You can reach us right on unforthengold.org or my email is avriatforthengold.org so you can email me directly And more than happy to help people set up do the registration right out there with the kids I

gotta think there's a whole lot of back structure that goes into put together something like this

Yeah, there's a lot the money's important, but boy you have to have the volunteers and when they talk about time treasure and talent

you know, to give your time is sometimes that's even worth more,

but it is.

It's

very important.

I mean, I deal with that now.

We just have the summer.

It's kind of tough to get volunteers sometimes because people are busy.

They

do

other things.

So that would be great if she could get on, on your website.

Fantastic.

Yeah.

I know you need that

for some of the people back in your youth that, you know, really helped you get to where you are today.

Um,

because you

don't go as far back as the days of coach Golopsky, do you?

No.

The main coach there was the varsity coach was Jonas.

Mark Jonas.

Yep.

Now the head coach, Shadow Kanto, falls, I believe.

I believe so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think for me, the main thing was, I probably would put it to my older brother, just kind of building the structure in terms of the game of football that was different, but he was in the Navy for a little bit.

Okay.

So kind of having that structure there.

Obviously he had his own life and career and stuff.

So he wasn't around a whole lot, but that was kind of like the father figure for me in building that structure in my life and in kind of shape.

And that's so important.

Isn't it though?

Yeah, it is.

So important.

So what are you doing now?

I mean, you seem like you really got it together.

This is your full-time?

No, so I have a full-time job here in Green Bay.

I work for a marketing company.

Trying to step away from that, eventually, if I can.

And God willing, but yeah, this is something that I do.

Wow.

I try to do it full-time.

I got the clothing line as well.

Right.

Talk about that.

Yeah, so the clothing line I started, that was the original thing five years ago called Forth and Long.

So ForthandLong.com.

20% of the proceeds go to fourth and goal to help the kids that can't afford to play sports.

So that was the original thing, started with 12 shirts, kind of sold it to friends and family and kind of snowballed from there.

All the clothes are, you know, good quality cotton.

We print them right here in Green Bay, order the stuff online and then bring it to a local print shop, Tundra and Parallel promotions and they print it.

And we try to make it affordable so that way everybody, everybody can wear it.

But it's, you know, about

chasing your dreams, backs against the wall.

A lot of these kids are in the same situation where they're backs against the wall and trying to find that way out.

And you know, I would assume sometimes just for those kids to know that people care.

You know, people, hey, we're, we're here.

We care.

Yeah.

There's somebody here, you know.

who will put in some time and sweat and equity to help you kids.

I think that

means a lot to kids, don't you?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, that's a big thing, is being able to have somebody to look to, to know that they care, where you're not just out here running in the streets and stuff, and nobody cares about you.

A lot of the kids like...

to know that somebody cares.

There's some accountability there.

And even though kids probably won't say it, they like structure.

I think a lot of kids like structure to have, like, I'm coming home, I have a meal.

You know, this is, my parents are requiring me, or this person's requiring me to do my homework.