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All Our Black and Blue Hearts

This Week in Waukesha · Sat Feb 3, 2024

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If it's seven o'clock on Saturday morning, it's time for this week in walkishah on W-A-U-K 101.1 FM 540 AM and civic media.

That's Shah.

I'm your host, Down Brown, and I'm joined by Johnny on the board, my producer, and we're coming to

a live and local from the office of former Alderman Don Paul Brown here in the walk radio studios

right around the corner from Theodora Yowman's park where we are proud to honor our suffragette

heritage here in the Shah.

And speaking of which, we welcome those listeners from Bettendorf, Iowa, where our walkishah

ESA suffragettes, U-14, prospect softball team are competing in a weekend tourney indoors,

congrats on their eight to three triumph last night over the Quad City firebirds.

And today's show is chalk filled with great local news, local sports, local culture, and

so much more.

We start with today's guest Kenny met Chieski, a talented musician who's banned the black

and blue hearts have released a new single, which we'll be hearing later on in the show.

He'll be with us the entire show and is a daughter, Kaur is here in studio.

We may get her to participate, we'll see.

And so we're going to talk about walkishah's guitar tradition that Kenny's a big part of,

as well as what we can do to further promote guitar town, USA, the home of Les Paul, possible

Les Paul guitar festival, maybe in the summer.

Hey, we're also going to have local, so updates on local sports from our three public high

schools.

It's been a very busy rivalry, cross-town rivalry week with a lot of exciting moments,

as well as some teams from different schools advancing to state competition.

And then we'll have our Carol moment with more great news from the 20th ranked team in

the nation, the pioneer women's team.

And two of my favorite alumni welcomed to the world, Carol University's first member

of the class of 2046.

So and then we'll also be celebrating two special walkishah south black shirts, one eight

distinguished young women.

And the other eight distinguished 42 year old alumnus, who's jersey number 42, will be

retired this Tuesday night at 630 before the black shirts take on a C.M.H. at home.

And then a lot of all the Alicia Halbens label will pop in for five minutes, I promised

or just be five minutes to talk city legislative news.

And I'll be sharing some of my own city news from my source in the mayor's office throughout

this show.

So it's going to be a very busy day and so much for you to keep up on.

And first and foremost, we bring Kenny and Coco with the cops today February 3rd, stop

by the steaming cup and downtown walkishah from 10 to 12 to say hello to some of our

walkishah police officers.

You can enjoy free Coco.

You can receive some police department goodies and learn more about the police department.

So be sure to put that in your calendar.

Maybe Johnny and I will run over there after the show and meet up.

So we also have the winter farmers market this morning, it's taking place right after

my show to its chef Pam.

So main street's going to be jumping today.

So cops and farmer cops, cop lovers and farmers market a fixian out of us.

So Ken match, yes, I Kenny, we go back a long way 2004 when we when I was working with

a company, I was launching a new trade show in Rosemont for the packaging services industry

and Ken was an opportunity ink and then got to know Kenny.

Well, he grew up in the trade area, a ham tram, I'm actually known as Paul town, yep,

moved here in high school.

You says that right?

Middle school, yeah, middle school.

Okay.

And then where'd you go to high school?

I went to St. Lawrence Seminary up in Mount Calvary, Wisconsin.

Nice.

That's right.

With a lot of Calvary.

He said, like, I'm going to beg with a lot of it.

From the area here.

Oh, that's great.

Speaker.

Sure, sure.

Not a lot since I was in second grade.

Isn't that something?

It is.

Small world.

Sure, sure.

I saw from the Eastern part of the Great Lakes region.

And now we are and you've been a resident of Waukeshoff for how many years?

Going on 17 now, I think.

17.

Yeah.

In mind is 14.

We moved in on leap year.

So maybe, you know, I don't know how we count that.

We have a leap year day.

We have a February 29th this year.

So I wonder how we count that.

So you also, when you started a SCA festival in Appleton, SCA, and is that still going

on or it came back?

You said, yeah.

So that's an interesting story.

But really briefly, it was actually started by Lawrence University.

Okay.

And then long story they ran it for several years and I helped them with running it for

several years.

Okay.

So they made a bad decision one year when I wasn't helping them to put a band up in a

hotel that destroyed it.

And so the university kind of put the caboch on and so we're not doing it anymore.

It's called Scoppleton.

Wow.

And so my sky and I will get a little pun there.

Sure.

Yeah.

And we ended up running it for several years and they kind of petered out for a while

there.

And then some guy called me up last year and said we want to bring it back.

Nice.

When does that take place?

It's usually around Mother's Day weekend.

Okay.

So yeah, I can take place this year.

I don't, I can remember the day I thought in my head, but right around Mother's Day weekend,

Appleton was constant.

I'll be playing up there on Friday night for the pre show.

Nice.

Yeah, but it's a great festival.

And it's definitely recommend checking it out.

It's Appleton Beer Factory.

Okay.

I think is a venue now.

Well, no, I appreciate that background.

But I know that the main reason here is to talk about your band, the black and blue

hearts.

What are they all about?

Yeah.

So really the black and blue hearts was, I was in a band called something to do.

They're from the Milwaukee area here.

Okay.

Was in it for 15 years.

Great band.

There's still a band.

Sure.

And great band goes to you.

I'm very high energy.

Really, really great Scopp band.

And we played, we played all over the place.

So I was working all week.

I was getting in a van.

I was going to Chicago on Friday night going to, you know, and I were Michigan on Saturday

night.

Whatever.

We're going all over the place.

Sure, sure.

And then I was coming home on Sunday morning.

And you know, my wife would call me.

I'd get in at seven in the morning after not sleeping all weekend and she said, Hey, you

know, the kids are up.

And yeah.

So long story short, I fell asleep standing up in church one week and I thought, you know

what?

Like I'm probably running myself a little too ragged here.

Sure.

And so anyway, got out of that band for several years and needed to find myself musically.

And I kept writing music.

Okay.

And eventually said, you know, I got to do something with this music.

I got to put it out.

I created the black and blue hearts as really the project under which I'm putting out

original music.

Nice.

Okay.

And the black and blue hearts right now is just me.

So nice.

I'm a one man band.

Yeah.

Like the guy from the, yeah.

Matt Johnson.

I think his name was.

Yeah.

It may have band members at some point, but for now, this is this is how I put out original

music these days.

That's fun.

It's how long have the black and blue hearts been around.

So I created the project probably about two and a half years ago.

Okay.

Probably right around the time the parade thing happened here was a little bit before

that.

Okay.

Wow.

And so if you need band members, I could be a stand and play some American Tire, right?

Since you're doing all the, yeah, you'd be the lead air guitar player, Tom.

Okay.

Yeah.

I love it.

So, but guy, because now what's what would you say the genre is of black and blue hearts?

You know, it's it's meant to be genreless.

Okay.

Is the whole point that I created it.

The first couple songs I put out were in that punk punk rock kind of arena that I'm familiar

with and comfortable with, but this new song, which we're going to play a little bit

later is completely the other side of that spectrum.

Okay.

So, but my intention was because the music I write isn't in a genre anymore.

Yeah.

So I'm going genreless.

Sure.

I'm non non genre.

Yeah.

Denominational.

I've listened to your song, which we're going to play later on in the show.

You had other plans.

I think it's a great song.

And to me, that sounds more like kind of like a folk rock or a, I don't want to say

easy because it's not because of the lyrics are very profound.

I like that.

But it's because you said the other end of the spectrum, but I guess, yeah, because

you were talking about punk and some of the edge of your stuff.

This is a little bit more straightforward.

Rhythm guitar, which I like.

Yeah.

It's got a piece of guitar in it.

You know, it's got the lead guitars are a little bit more like you said, a folky country

leaning.

Which I can dig.

Yeah.

And it's very, very slow pace, right?

Okay.

The song is the slowest song I think I've ever played in my life.

Okay.

So.

But it's great.

I think I can't wait to play it.

You know, Johnny's got it in the queue.

But, um, and I have a selfish agenda, even though it's, we, it's been great to reconnect

with you and each other so many years and we don't get to see much of each other.

But I, um, do you like the pokes?

The pokes?

I like the pokes.

I'm going to, I've never spent a lot of time listening to them, but they're one of my,

you know, shame of gown who left, who passed away like last November, you know, huge fan.

I was one of my little pet projects or, or say pipe dreams was to start a, a dad band

or like a, a, a pokes cover band called the Lonesome, uh, corn crakes, which is a line

from one of one of my favorite songs and, uh, either air band or real band.

And that, that may be something you might be willing to help with, huh?

Maybe, maybe.

Let's talk to me.

Yep.

To be determined or to be discussed.

So, uh, over over a couple, you know, cold ones and some dinner, get the families together

and, uh, reconnect some more.

Yeah, you bet.

So that sounds great.

Well, I appreciate you hearing me out there.

So, so you've got you had other plans, other, other songs already in the queue that have

been released or is this kind of the first one of the new project?

So this is the first one that I put out on all the streaming platforms.

Okay.

The first two I just put out on my website, I put them there.

I put them for free.

And my intention was for the first two songs from this thing to be free for life.

Okay.

Um, not that they won't show up on streaming platforms down the road, but this is the

first one out streaming.

Sure.

And I've got a, I've got a, a queue of other ones that are lined up to, uh, be recorded

in the feet near future.

I like that.

Yeah.

So, so you were pretty young when you moved here from Detroit, so like second grade.

Uh, no.

I bet a lot on second grade.

That's right.

You bet a lot on second grade.

Middle school.

I moved here.

Yeah.

So you lived here long, you lived in Detroit long enough to really feel the, cause that's

a great music town.

And I know that, you know, growing up on Buffalo, great rock and roll tradition got exposed

and being the youngest and a big family.

I suppose a lot of great music.

But when I went to school at Michigan State, a lot of guys, friends from Detroit, bringing

in some new edgy stuff that weren't on my radar and got exposed to a lot of great, and

of course, a lot of great artists, you know, Iggy Pop comes to mine right away, Bob Seeger

who I love and a huge, huge filing of ballpark for boxing, Jack White, Jack White, I mean,

I mean, yeah.

So I'm, oh, I'm going to rock.

Yeah.

You're Madonna.

Yeah.

So Madonna.

Yeah.

How can I forget?

Jackson five.

I mean, all the Motown stuff.

Yeah.

Motown.

Yeah.

Talk about that for a second.

Please.

An old record player.

One of the ones you had to crank with your hand.

Sure.

But she also gave him a box, just a giant box of Motown singles.

Yeah.

And so as a kid, I just spent a lot of time listening to those Motown singles.

And so I think that had a lot of influence on me.

Oh, sure.

Musically, for sure.

That's my brother had the collection, the story of Motown and it had the great little

narratives before each song.

Yeah.

And so I, yeah, I can recite them all, I think, from memory.

Yeah.

And what soul was in that stuff, you know?

Yeah.

Oh, just beautiful music.

Yeah.

That influenced me.

And I do have actually a song I wrote about Detroit.

It's called Take me on a tour of Detroit, which I'm going to be recording down the road

too.

Yeah.

But Detroit's a different place now.

It sure is.

You know, my God.

You know, the artist, David Byrne, took a bicycle tour through Detroit and went, because

he like, when he goes, wherever he goes, he goes on a bike tour.

And he was describing just the, because the bones are still there to rebuild the city.

But it got all cleaned out.

The copper, the plumbing, the beautiful architectural were like, just, just got raped

and pillage.

So it's, yeah, it's kind of like Dresden for any Vonnegut fans that it's, you know,

Atlantis.

So, but it is, and I'll tell you, I took these guys there a few years ago, because I still

have relatives that lived north of Detroit and poured your own music in.

Okay.

Sure.

And took these guys there a few years ago and drove them through and I said, so what do you

guys think?

And they go, yeah, this is the worst place you've ever brought.

Wow.

Hey, we're going to continue this great dialogue with Ken Machi Eski.

And we're going to listen to his new song, You Had Other Plans.

And plus more, we're going to be diving into some local news tidbits.

How much going on here in our exciting community this week in Lockershaw?

And my live, all right, now it's looking for a musical lead in.

I didn't hear anything.

So no worries, Johnny.

Hey, this week in Lockershaw continues with my guest, Kenny Machi Eski in his band,

his project, The Black and Blue Hearts.

And are we able to play his song now, Johnny?

You had other plans?

We're going to punch that in right now.

The whole goes well.

Ah, yes.

My plan was to be wealthy, but I'm not getting rich.

My plan was to be healthy, but I've been getting sick.

My plan was to own mansions by the water and the sand.

My plan was to be famous, but you had other plans.

My plan was to dress fancy, but the clothes just didn't fit.

My plan was to have titles, but I didn't get the win.

My plan was merry, rich, with a huge rock on my hand.

My plan was to be ageless, but you had other plans.

I didn't plan for office jobs, the cubes just aren't that big.

I didn't plan for day nights, the movies with the kids.

I didn't plan for soccer, driving many van.

I thought my plan was perfect, but you had better plan.

That was you had other plans.

The black and blue hearts and not to be patronized.

I think it's great.

I love the guitar and that too, especially the solos.

Lyrics are fun.

That background there is at the end too.

It reminds me of a lot of different bands that I like and fun bands too.

I think of Bear Naked Ladies.

Found a little bit of a fountains of Wayne.

Is that the name of the band?

Yeah.

I really enjoyed it.

What was kind of...

Hey, real quick, I apologize.

I've had Greg Triple G been holding here.

Let's see if we can plug him in here.

We're learning this new phone technology.

Greg, are you there?

Greg, we got you.

So, I guess now we must have lost him or I'm still trying to figure this out.

Let's try it again.

Greg.

So, Triple G, Greg's a man.

Triple G, you know Greg.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

Apologies, Greg.

Send us a text to this number or to me or call my cell and I'll just put you on the

mic.

So, again, our apologies as we're...

Tell you what's going on here.

Civic Media is adding a lot of great new programming.

Really great stuff and giving some prominent times during the week to some great

programs.

Like busted pencils, the pre-record comes down before my show now.

And so, because of that, we are shuffling producers and a little, you know, Johnny's been

filling in.

So, we're working through some kinks here and this week in Lackasha, but yep, so yeah,

apologies to Greg, but Greg knows he can reach me through other media, so we'll have him

back on.

And so, tell us about the song, like what inspired you to put that together?

I mean, it seems obvious.

There's some great...

Yeah, here's Triple G now.

Let's pause on that question for a minute.

Hey, Greg, you're going to hold you up to the mic so you can tell Ken your question.

You're going to put him on speaker if you can, that might come to you better.

Oh, here.

Go ahead.

Hey, Ken, how are you doing?

Greg, how are you doing, man?

I haven't talked to you in a while.

I know.

It's been a while.

It's been a while, man.

I'm here at Fox River Christian Church this morning for the No Regressments Conference.

I'm going to be a real quick question.

A question actually asked to me last night by my friend, Braden Schroeder, Braden's listening

right now.

Braden Schroeder.

Hey, Braden.

Yeah.

Dawn on the call of the Walker Shudder.

My second half-collar guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, for the basketball game.

The North South versus West.

Yeah.

And so, my question is, is Kenny, how far, and I'll listen on the recording, but how far

away are we from a guitar town fast?

This question was asked by Braden because we really need to have a fast, like, a taste

of Walker Shudder.

And there's a less-profestible.

Yep.

And where we have all sorts of stages and call it like guitar town.

Sounds great.

Yep.

We are as a music community.

So, Walker Shudder is really the natural.

For those of you listening at home, Greg's question is, how far away are we from a guitar

town USA festival?

Thanks for the call, Greg.

Well, I mean, first, let's talk about in terms of what you call it.

Make sure we name it appropriately, right?

If there's something like that, it comes about just so we don't get in trouble with the

whole guitar town thing.

But probably, probably some of that nature.

Well, no, we are designated by Gibson guitars as one of seven guitar town USA's.

But yeah, we can give it our own name.

Maybe it's all possible.

But last story short, like, I think we're too far away from it because this is an idea

that I've talked about with a lot of folks in this town for a while.

I've talked to my friend Ben Janzo.

He teaches over here at Outpost Music as well as Craig Bauman that owns Outpost Music.

And said, you know, there's a ton of talent in this town.

This is a guitar town USA.

Yeah.

We should have a festival here.

And I really got inspired kind of.

I do a sound for the My Love Music Festival in Appleton.

Sure.

You know, which is very much set.

Kind of multi venue.

You know, take over the city for a weekend kind of festival.

Sure.

And I think Walker Shudder is right for that type of thing.

As long as the people are going to come out and support it, I think it should happen at Walker Shudder.

It really should.

And I think we have the space to do some unique things.

And it doesn't have to be necessarily a festival in the traditional sense where we need to set aside space and concerts.

It can be, you know, my inspiration is back in my grandmother's home town in Ireland.

They have what's called the Willie Clancy.

And that's how people know it as.

And it's an international festival.

Well, it's a school of music actually that goes on for a week or two weeks.

But in each little pub in the town, there's all these impromptu traditional sessions.

And it's just amazing.

And it's just a really, and we could do something very similar to that by borrowing from the Willie Clancy.

We're going to continue talking about this concept of a guitar town or a Les Paul festival.

It's Greg Machieski, the black and blue hearts.

You just heard his single.

You had other plans and you can get it on Spotify.

So the conversation continues here in this week in Walker Shudder.

You see your song!

Here we go.

You know this song?

Awesome, let's pull great stuff.

This week in Walker's Shot continues and that's I'm adding that to my permanent cue.

It's the world is waiting for the sun to rise with our own Les Paul and Mary Ford.

I just dig that too.

I live like a tie on that.

How about you Kenny?

I do.

I love Les Paul.

He's a hero of mine.

I actually have a picture of him and Mary Ford in my studio that I keep there just as an inspiration.

To remember the rhythm of Walker's Shot and Les Paul.

Yeah.

And so what's more impressive to me about Les Paul is I don't know if he's in the rock and roll hall.

He is.

He's one of the only people with the permanent exhibit in the rock and roll hall.

But I think it's a fraud that Warren's Dayvon has not been elected.

And suppose there's some committee who was like an editor for Rolling Stone that just had a real winch about him.

And that he's the reason why he keeps getting nominated.

And last year I left for sure he was going to get it.

He gave it to Willie Nelson, which I love Willie Nelson.

No, but he's not really racquet peripherally.

Okay.

But a guy that Warren's Dayvon was real right and contributed so much.

Not only in his own hits, but his songs that he wrote for other artists.

And so, but more impressive to me for Les Paul is that he's in the inventor's hall of fame.

Right.

So you think about Les Paul.

A guy like Les Paul, like literally the song that you guys just played.

Yeah.

Like what I did there wouldn't be possible with at least in the format it's in without Les Paul.

Yeah.

The electric guitar or the solid body electric guitar that was played on that song.

The recording, the multi-track recording.

Right.

Like what an inspiration to be in the town where Les Paul is from.

Yeah.

In guitar town, right.

Oh, sure.

Exciting.

Yeah.

You know, one of our producers Greg Bach.

He's on Matt Nair on air.

And he also helps out with up north news, the pack right low.

And when Pat was here, he was out of our studio a few Fridays ago.

He was here for the education conference.

And we were talking about Les Paul influence and Greg chimed in that he.

He sees a lot of similarities.

Are he compares Les Paul to Erie?

I guess more accurately or appropriately, he compares Eddie Van Halen to Les Paul.

Because Les Paul did for the for guitarist.

What Eddie Van Halen did in his genre.

There were certain things that people just didn't do or know how to do.

Had an happen for Eddie Van Halen.

Right.

So I just thought that was a really interesting comparison, especially for us youngsters, you know,

that we were really alive to really know or appreciate Les Paul and his prime as an artist.

Right.

But generationally, yeah, he's probably a parallel to Les Paul.

Yeah.

So great stuff.

And we were talking earlier about some more.

We have so many mutual friends here.

And one of them is the walk to south varsity basketball coach Lee Montez.

Yeah.

And his wife Michelle.

How do you know coach Montez again?

So Michelle and my wife Jen and I were all raised together at UW Whitewater.

Wow.

Yeah, we were really good friends back in the day.

Matter of fact, my wife was with Michelle the day she met Lee.

Oh, wow.

Yeah, they're out.

You know what?

The bars I think in Walker show here at the bar.

Yeah.

The old fashioned way of meeting somebody right right there.

And using app.

Yeah.

But yeah.

And then we ended up staying friends.

We both went to walk a shop.

Um, Michelle is course.

My daughter is here.

I think you mentioned earlier.

Yeah.

Michelle is course godmother.

And I'm, um, there's son Braden's godfather.

So I haven't known them for years.

Oh, that's fantastic.

They're all in each other's weddings.

And yeah.

Well, and it's a good Lee, you know, uh, Lee Montez and the black shirts had a great week.

And it was good.

I don't know.

It was kind of dumb luck.

It's been described to me by a West Atlanta director, Calla Mew.

Yet all these games bunched together.

Tuesday night.

South was playing a West.

South beat West and really exciting games.

Several lead changes.

South pulls it out by like four or six at the end.

Wednesday night.

North comes to walk show West.

And that was like, uh, North had a four point lead with a minute left.

And then I'm pulling it out winning by 12.

But at the night before at the West South game.

A lot of the North players there to scout the game.

And you know, a lot of these guys all grew up together.

What's the same middle school?

Or they played the same teams and so there was some really cool post game photos

with North, South and West guys together.

And so that was really neat.

But then Thursday night.

North came to South.

And this was a rematch because North had beaten South.

It was close first half, second half.

Or the wheels came off and North can't pull the way one by double digits.

And you know, real tough loss for South.

South was winning.

They are up by double digits in the late going.

And with like a minute and a half left there up by eight.

North brought it to five.

And then a miss free throw on a one-on-one.

Another three comes in and now they're down by two point.

Now they're down by three.

And Cooper has who led all scores and both see from watch on North.

The lefty.

30 points, including the tie it.

The North has a chance to get a layup.

So they have a lap to win the game.

But the center got called for traveling.

And it was a good call.

He definitely he definitely walked.

So game goes over time.

And South outscores North 15 to nine.

But Cooper has down by three.

He can's another three to tie it.

And then South answered back with three pointers from Charlie Marose.

And the diaper dandy, the freshman Jordan Garcia.

I can't a real gutsy three.

And South pulled it out again.

Really amazing game.

Zayah Stawalt.

The general as I call him.

Because he reminds me of Sherman Douglas of Syracuse fame.

He had 21.

He led all black shirts of 21 points.

And then Charlie Marose had 12.

And Evan's out my son had eight, including two, three pointers.

But just a fantastic game.

And a fantastic week for these cross-town rivalries.

And then it all kind of culminated last night.

We were there broadcasting the game.

Johnny goes on the board.

And the walk show West women's basketball team.

One in impressive 67, 45 victory over the North South combined team.

Junior Jordan Fensky.

If you can't get to see Caitlin Clark play live, the Iowa superstar.

Go see Jordan Fensky, the junior.

She can't 30 points.

Five of them were three pointers.

And then like 12 or all.

Like she was 100% from the free throw line.

May might have missed one at the end when it didn't really matter.

And she only scored one, two point basket.

But she had like 30.

And these shots are from like, wait, one of them was near the Wolverine logo.

And they kind of frown on that.

But if you've got the, if you can can it from there.

It creates a lot of problems for the defense.

There's so much more space on the Florida cover.

And then it creates other opportunities for other players.

And is athletic director Kyle.

And you may have time.

Guess I mentioned that.

That creates she.

You know, Jordan is very good at sharing the ball.

And they passed the ball really well.

And she ended up.

I think she had quite a few assists setting up other players.

She knows she's not.

She's not.

She ended up.

I think she had quite a few assists setting up other players.

She knows she's a lot of other teams.

She'd be a forward.

But she was handling a lot of the point guard duties as tall as she is.

But anyway, if you got to love that, you know, last kind of got their vindication there.

With a big one.

And the last night too was their, their benefit as a pink night.

I forget the official name, but they had a whole section in the front of the gym.

Tables of different raffles and gifts and all proceeds went to benefit.

Excuse me, the UW Cancer Center at Pearl Health.

It's amazing.

And so I bought like a string of 12 raffle tickets for $10.

And I go over to the big table with the flat screen.

And I think there's a massage like really like, no, no, those are the red tickets.

You're the white ticket.

You're over there.

You know, in the ghetto or there.

You know, like, oh, well.

But, uh.

But I go, but they had some really, in the other section, they had some great gifts.

And I go by at the end.

And I ended up winning.

And I just walked yesterday, bang goes this gift basket.

That included four platinum tickets for Marcus theaters.

And a gift card from Buffalo Wild Wings.

As well as some other like little promotional items from the bank.

But I was like, wow, that's great.

I told my wife about it.

It was out of town last night.

She was pleased to hear because you know, we like to go to a movie occasionally.

That sounds like a good date right there.

Yeah, there it is.

Especially since you know, we were still scrambling for Valentine's day.

Uh, don't bother calling tofty tables.

I called like two weeks ago.

And they're like, no, I already booked the whole week is booked.

That place is tough to get into.

I love tofties.

And normal times.

Yeah.

My favorite restaurant.

But every time I go to make a reservation there, I just did not available.

I know.

Yeah, it really is.

But it is a fantastic place.

And, uh.

So, uh, look around for other good places.

You know, I wonder if people's park might probably be booked now too.

But, um, yeah.

So do you have your plans in place?

No pressure.

Sakura is one of one of our favorites too.

Is that the new place in the old in the Clark hotel?

I know that's.

No, that's the Japanese restaurant.

Oh, yeah.

Uh, on the side of the Clark hotel.

Yeah.

So over there.

Love that place.

Okay.

I haven't been there yet.

The host there.

Jenny is just the most friendly person.

Is that right?

More friendly female and walkish on my nice.

Okay.

So yeah, we recommend that one.

I will.

Yeah.

So we are banting park.

We're closer to the one we go to for sushi.

Is, um, in the Japanese steakhouse experience is the one beer near, um, next to Home Depot.

That's right at the name.

Yeah.

Texas Roadhouses behind it.

We like to go there though.

Good sushi.

They do a good job.

They have a great carry out too.

So yeah.

Yeah, excellent sushi.

Excellent.

So, but, uh, yes.

Make your, uh, you know, all the guys out there start.

Uh, I would take care of that today or your, uh, Valentine's Day plans.

So, but at least I got this little movie back, you know, because well,

if we know you can see a great movie with the platinum seat, whatever that is,

I don't know what that, you know, what that comes with.

I got to see that.

It makes you feel like you're in the action probably, right?

Yeah.

That could be it.

Yeah.

You're like dodging bullets and stuff.

Great.

So, uh, real funny.

So in other, um, sports though.

And again, so congrats to the West ones.