WORLD PREMIERE: No Packers, No Life (Hour 1)

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Todd Alma, along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer back at the old World Headquarters in downtown Madison.

We are live on location here in beautiful Waukesha at the Majestic Theater.

one of the main flagship theaters of Marcus Theaters here in Wisconsin for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

The story of the Japanese cheer squad for the Packers, making the trip to the Mecca to Lambeau Field.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Glad you're along with us.

It's going to be a fantastic, special show.

Surprises galore.

The first of all, Mr. Zomers, Howard Things, back in the old world headquarters in downtown Madison.

Well, on this fine.

They're pretty nice.

Thank you very

much.

A little overcast and a little rainy, but not too bad.

And I'm looking forward to heading down to Waukesha later.

Well, it is October 15th, 2025.

A great day to be Wisconsinite.

Thank you for getting the camel in there.

All the unpacking.

We forgot that, yes, the camel made the trip here to the world premiere as well.

I know as Omers, you're going to be getting into your car right after the show and coming down here.

It's going to be a great time had by all.

Also joining us as per usual on Wednesdays, at least for the upfront part of the program here, the host of Mournings of Pac Crite Low.

every morning from six until nine across the network.

Mr. Pat Crite low from his link with soda studios and senior advisor to the Lincoln project.

And for purposes today, one of the owners of your Green Bay Packers, Travie Olson joining us from his home outside of Arlington.

Pat, how are you?

I'm good.

I'm good.

It's always good to see you, especially when you're on location and giving us a little bit more Wisconsin flavor.

It's always nice to see Trig V. Trig V and I go way back to when he he did and he was in third grade.

They do the tour of the TV station and I was ankle in the news at the time.

I recall giving him a Werther's hard candy and I knew that that kid was going to go places and and look where he ended up right here on your show.

So

yeah,

right?

Trig needs you remember those

days?

Yeah, I do remember them well.

I'm very grumpy.

Trick me today.

You're going to be happy.

I'm having back spasms.

Oh my gosh.

Are you excited?

You're excited.

Let's get right into it, guys, because we have very special

guests here

on location with us at our remote desk here at the Marcus Theater, the Majestic Theater, one of the Marcus theaters here in Waukesha.

They are two of the co-producers of this wonderful film world premiere tonight.

We welcome back to the program Paul Gikoni, Gikoni Berry and Sean Hannes.

Gentlemen, welcome back.

Thanks for having us.

I'm so happy you're here, Todd.

I'm thrilled to be here.

And thanks for having us on the

show.

It's really, really great.

And for those that might not remember, we've had you on the show before at this very theater about a year ago for the world premiere of Just A Bit Outside, the story of the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.

And here we are, guys, back with another great Wisconsin sports film.

Full circle.

I mean, it's amazing, you know, Wisconsin fans are the best in the world.

I mean, they came out and supported just a bit outside.

I mean, Todd, you were thank you for all of the love you gave that film and all the love you're giving this film because I think these are the types of films that kind of give back.

that, you know, it really, both films are kind of a mirror to Wisconsin sports fans to this wonderful state.

It's a really special group of people here.

And I mean, I'm from here, so I can say that.

So are you.

But it's, this film is, it really celebrates the joy of what being a Packer fan is.

And it really shines a light in a mirror in a way on how hospitable, how welcoming people from Wisconsin truly are.

I mean, I know they say Minnesota nice, but I guess it's Wisconsin really nice, even more nice.

Wisconsin welcoming.

is what I said.

That's very good.

Welcome.

Well, it's our pleasure and honor and thank you for

letting us be a part of this because we love, as Pat said, telling Wisconsin stories and it's one of the great privileges of this network to be a part of what you guys produce and distribute.

So thank you for the opportunity.

Trick me.

It's Minnesota Passive Aggressive.

Yeah.

Let's be honest.

There's nothing nice

about those

people.

You go to US Bank Stadium.

You'll see as many Super Bowl trophies as you see in the Mall of America and they hold it over

you all

the way back across the borders.

He's crazy.

I love it.

He's an avid fan.

Paul.

Talk to us a little bit about what this film has meant to you and slightly different path.

You folks are at are more the distribution and production producing side.

You didn't necessarily shoot this.

But what's the journey been like to get here with this film?

Yeah, it's been amazing.

It it really is a logical next step for us after just a bit outside, you know, a passion project for for Sean and our other producing partner Kelly Call that we spent years.

bringing to fruition and really when we brought it to the people of Wisconsin and saw the response and saw just how welcoming the people of Wisconsin were to the film and to us as filmmakers and we really looked at each other and said you know are there other stories that we can really tell because you know Wisconsin is a very special place I had not spent a lot of time in here until we shot just a bit outside but it's a place that's not

you don't see reflected a lot in the larger, broader culture, necessarily, in the media.

And so we thought, you know, we need another opportunity to kind of show Wisconsin back to itself because this is a state that really deserves to be seen and to see itself.

And, you know, Sean came across No Packers, No Life at the Wisconsin Film Festival and...

you know, called me from the lobby and said, I just saw this movie.

You got to see it.

We got to see if we can do something.

So, you know, the whole team watched it and we all saw how amazing it was.

And then, you know, we got together with Craig Benzine, the director, Time Horse, the producer and star of the picture, and just work with them, getting it ready to be seen by a big audience.

You know, they had done amazing work and continued to do amazing work as we finished out the film.

And again, I just think this is another wonderful story and opportunity to share the joy of Wisconsin fandom with the people of Wisconsin and the wider world and really see the impact of Wisconsin culture halfway around the world in Japan in a place that you would never think of.

But I always tell people, and I mentioned this to Sean recently, I've lived in Los Angeles for 35 years.

I know more Packer fans in Los Angeles than I know...

rams or chargers.

True story.

And so you know Packers is one of those Wisconsin things that translates around the world.

And I think this is this movie is just such a great opportunity for the people of Wisconsin to see the impact that they have to see the way that their traditions and their culture has really spread around the world.

And when you meet these Japanese the Japanese Packers cheering team when you meet these people.

It is just so magical and joyful.

So I encourage everybody to come take a

look.

Before I throw it back to Pat for a question, Sean, give us the one minute and 90 seconds set up for people that don't know.

We'll play the official trailer a little bit later in the show, but give us the quick synopsis of this film, please.

Well, the quick synopsis is Ty Morse, who is the star of the film and producer.

He has traveled to Japan well over 100 times, and he had never seen anybody in any packers gear.

But this one time...

He's crossing that really big crossing in Tokyo.

I think it's called Shibuya.

And he sees a guy in a packer jersey.

And he's like, I can't believe I'm seeing somebody in a packer's jersey in the middle of Tokyo.

And he goes up to him and he whispers, go pack go.

And the guy turns to me and goes, go pack go.

And then it's high goes, go pack go.

And all of a sudden the two of them are chanting go pack go in the middle of Tokyo.

And this guy is on his way.

to a karaoke bar and invites Ty and Ty's like, wow, okay, I guess I'll go sing karaoke.

It wasn't for karaoke.

It was to meet the Japanese Packers cheering team, which was hosting its off-season annual event where they show their favorite game of the previous season and the 30, 40, 50 members of the cheering team were there.

And Ty was like, what have I, who have I just met?

He goes back to Green Bay, tells all his friends all the stories, shows them some of the video he shot, and he and all of his friends say, let's fly them over to see a game at Lambo.

And so they all, they opened up bedrooms for them.

I mean, they housed them.

There weren't hotels involved.

They brought them into their homes.

And from what I've learned from time, the Japanese are very scheduled.

you know, they scheduled things well in advance.

And so this is kind of a miracle to get 30 of them to come over to see a game in Lambeau Field in the fall.

And so this is that film.

It's about a lot of these, most of them had never traveled to the United States, so they went from Tokyo to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

That was their first experience of America.

And that's what the movie's about.

It's about building friendships and bonds, you know, through...

this fandom, it's a very special fandom, but really what it's about in the end is people and passion and community.

Pat Cruella.

It just looks so fun and I can't wait to, you know, having just seen the trailer kind of experience the joy that way.

I've been very fortunate in my life, or it just means that I'm very very old, that I've been able to travel to lots of different places and in almost any place where I've gone to look for

a Packer Bar because there are Packer Bars everywhere.

You know, I've seen them in Brownsville, Texas, and I've seen them in Manhattan, and I have been to one in Sydney, Australia.

And it is just so thoroughly international.

And so I know that this one is all about this, you know, cheer squad in Japan.

But as you have been making this or putting this together, getting set to show it, have you had a couple of other instances where you say

I'm sorry, there's a Packer fan club where there's a Packer bar where I

think that's yes 100% In fact, there's a little portion towards the end of the film

where we have pictures of other Packer bars.

We have one that's in Australia.

I was at Waz's bar in Paris.

They're everywhere.

They have that website Packers everywhere because they're

everywhere.

But yeah, it has brought up a lot of stories from people who, when they're traveling, told us about and have told other people about all the amazing Packer bars there are around the world.

So yes, you're correct.

This is just...

This is one of those places.

I think

that's

great.

Pat, anything else before we let you go on to make sure we tell us what's coming up on morning?

It's a Pat Kratlow tomorrow morning from six until nine.

We'll have of course the one the only Joseph Peckie that will help us sum up a lot of what's happened in politics in Wisconsin this week Including the no Kings protest.

What does he think of Sean Duffy and the other saying that this is all the work of Antifa?

So we will get into that and he will give us the pep talk that we need for the Brewers to become I believe it would be the 10th team in Seven game playoffs in baseball history to come back from O2 and win this thing.

We won 14

in a

row already

We can win four in a row.

Nothing to it, guys.

Nothing to it.

No, I appreciate that, Pat.

Absolutely.

We'll be looking forward to hearing from you tomorrow morning.

About a minute left.

Any other questions for Sean or Paul here before you leave us,

Pat?

You won't have enough time to get them all, but you want to give just a few of the other places where this is going to be appearing.

I know the Chippewa Valley isn't one of them yet,

but you got

Rothschild up by Warsaw, so WXCO listeners can hear that one.

Yes, we do have one in Rothschild.

We're in La Crosse.

We are in both theaters, both Marcus theaters in Green Bay to an Appleton and let's see where else.

La Crosse.

the cross and all over southeast Wisconsin and pretty much all around Milwaukee.

And also.

And do the trolling one.

You're trolling with this as

well.

And we thank you, Marcus Theaters.

We're trolling Bears fans.

And we're opening up in Gurney, Illinois.

Yes.

So come on out.

Where you're dear.

I think that's fantastic.

And you can find more information on all these tickets.

Buy them online.

Marcus Theaters' website.

I believe it's marcustheaters.com.

MarcusTheaters.com.

And it's R-E.

We'll come back at the end.

Mark?

Marcus Theaters, and it's theater, R-E-S, not E-R-S.

Oh,

thank you.

All right, thank you so much.

Appreciate that.

All right, we'll find those tickets there.

Pat, thank you very much for joining us.

We'll see you next week.

And everybody should tune in tomorrow from six until nine.

The mornings are packed quite low.

And when we come back, we'll talk with one of our Packer owners, Trig V. Olson.

continue to join us.

He'll have some questions of Packers Lure, I'm sure.

And more on this great film of No Packers, No Life.

We are live on location here from the Majestic Theater in beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin, a home of WAUK on 540 AM and now on 100.3 FM on your dial.

It's the title of our show across Wisconsin on the Civic Media radio

network.

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Welcome back to the title of our show live on location here at the Midget Jestic Theater in beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

So glad to have you along here at the desk on location at the theater.

Paul Geconi Berry and Sean Hannish, two of the great producers of this fine film and joining us via StreamYard as he does every Wednesday for the nation's capital senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, but not a lot of politics today.

you're here in your role as one of the owners of the Green Bay Packers.

I knew you loved this show and you know, it's it you and more than anybody understand that the Green Bay Packers bring this state together.

Well, not only they bring the state together, but they bring a whole set, you know, which is the point of the movie, a whole set of people.

I've probably seen the Green Bay Packers play nine different countries in Packer bars.

Really?

Wow.

And, you know, there's the story.

I mean, I have some great international Packers stories, but I would just say to you guys, so Todd got preempted.

He was supposed to go to the game against Cincinnati with us.

My daughter's invited a member of the British House of Lords, who also might be a 10-figure, 10-digit income guy to come with us instead.

He has a very different rule of decks than

Todd does.

Honestly, he walked through the parking lot just in amazement.

We went, he started talking to tailgaters.

He's like, I've never seen anything like this in my entire life.

He might own a piece of a, of a premier team.

I don't know that for sure.

But I mean, he was absolutely stunned.

He's like, I have never seen such fan passion.

I

mean, he was just amazed.

It left him stunned.

And guys, have you found that the more you get into this movie to trigger his point that he's 100% right.

It reaches well beyond Wisconsin borders, the Green Bay Packers.

And it truly does bring people together.

When I moved to Los Angeles, it was the way for me to connect with all of the people from Wisconsin.

through friends and friends of friends.

We would get together every Sunday at like 10 a.m.

and have a party.

And that's, you know, it builds relationships, it builds bonds.

I mean, it's more than just a team and more than just a fandom because, I mean, the Packers, you could say, are Wisconsin's greatest export?

Well

said.

And

to take it to a moment from the film, early on there's a piece early on when Tai first goes to the karaoke bar and is meeting with the team.

And he doesn't speak very much Japanese and no one in that room speaks much English.

And so they just start saying names of players back and forth to each other, you know?

And that's how they connect.

It's literally just, you know, I'm gonna say a name.

Now I'm gonna say a name.

Now I'm gonna say it.

I'm on they say green they say Antonio Freeman and then it's best he ties as John and they all go

cool So it's literally a language right it's literally this transnational language and that's really what the what the film is about I

think that's great zomers.

We have time play this the trailer real quick here.

Yes, we

do

All right.

Thank you very much.

So here we go.

Here's the trailer to no packers no life

We're wandering Tokyo and I see a guy with a Packers jersey on.

And I'm like, no way.

I just quietly say, go back, go.

And he shouts back,

go back, go.

The Japanese Packer cheering team.

Packers number one.

I love Packers.

No Packers, no right.

Insanely passionate to a degree which probably most people from Wisconsin are.

Wisconsin.

I said, you guys are welcome to come to the pack any time.

I couldn't believe that.

Why?

And who are you?

The Green Bay way is to host.

And we say, OK, come with us.

We'll show you the time.

We want them to experience the Green Bay way.

This is creepy!

This concept is human.

So one team in the NFL that's owned by the people.

It gives people a connection that no other team

offers.

There it is the trailer to no Packers no life world premiere tonight and the majestic theater here in Waukesha, Wisconsin where we are live on location opening in select theaters across the state On the 17th tomorrow apartment on on Friday here across the state Paul de Coneyberry and Sean Hannes producers of the film are here trivia Olsen via stream yard

We just got a comment from Joe on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube says, just a bit outside is so good.

Cannot wait to see this new work.

I mean, you guys are really developing a reputation here for bringing these great Wisconsin films, not just in Wisconsin, but then letting America and the world see

them.

It's such a privilege.

you know growing up in Brookfield and then having my and being able to spend time telling stories about my favorite teams and having the reception be so great I mean it really Paul and I have been talking you know while this has been going on what can we bring to Wisconsin you know sports fans next fall because we would like this to become an event there's so many great stories to tell about the state and about the sports teams here so and thank you Joe I really appreciate that

And I really do want to take a moment to call out Marcus Theaters for their support.

We love bringing these stories to the people of Wisconsin and Marcus Theaters is a tremendous part of our ability to do that.

So they have stood up for us on both these films.

They've put us in theaters.

They are amazing partners and we really just could not ask for more.

So I really want to make sure everybody knows that Marcus Theaters is hugely responsible for this.

And Marcus Theaters was my first job.

Was it really?

This one?

The one that existed here before was called Westtown Cinema.

I tore tickets here when I was 16, 17 years old and I popped popcorn.

And so to come back here is a full circle moment.

And two world premieres in the same spot where you started.

Isn't that incredible?

It really is incredible.

Guys, are you sticking around or are you going to take it off and come back maybe later on?

We're going to be around again.

All right.

I'll make room for Craig.

All right.

Stay tuned.

Director, right?

Yes.

The film is going to be here next live on location.

Trevi, can you stick with us as well?

I can.

All right.

Very good.

Trevi and all of us here are going to be on location at No Packers, No Life.

Come on back.

Farm News is next with Pam Young.

Back to the title ball show live on location here.

Beautiful walkie shot.

The majestic theater.

One of the great Marcus Theaters.

We are live on location for the world premiere of no Packers, no life so excited.

Glad to have you along on this special broadcast across the state of Wisconsin for Lake Superior to Lake Michigan from Green Bay to the Mississippi River.

All points in between and for those watching on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Twix, whichever you want to call it.

We're glad to have you here.

That's what that's what Craig Ferguson calls it.

Twix.

Not Twitter, not X, just

Twix.

The best candy bar.

Right, exactly.

Also joining us, our co-host on Wednesdays for the first hour from the suburbs of Washington, D.C., senior advisor to the Lincoln Project.

But for today's purposes, we're playing up his role as a co-owner.

of the Green Bay Packers.

Like so many.

It's

the more important role, Todd.

Exactly.

It is the more important role.

Joining us from Washington, D.C., we are live on location and so happy to have great people involved with this film.

You've had them here before, Paul Geconi Berry and Sean Hannish, producer and director of Just A Bit Outside, the great Brewer's film.

They're co-producers on this film.

They're here at the table.

And now joining the three of us or the four of us, I guess I should say,

uh... craig benzene who is the director of this film no packers no life craig welcome

well thank you for having me

it's our pleasure as we do for everybody who's new on the show tell us a little bit about yourself where you grew up and how you got into this industry

i grew up not too far from where we are right now in uh... marshal wisconsin and uh...

I went to UW-Madison, a communication arts major, so I was, you know, a waiter for a while after college.

And I got into YouTube and I started making YouTube videos very early on.

Been doing that full time for like 15 years.

And I have a friend who goes to Japan a lot and came across Green Bay Packer fans in Japan.

He decided to shoot video of them going to a Green Bay Packer game in Wisconsin and make a documentary.

And he came to me and said, hey, do you want to make this thing?

And I said, I mean, it's incredible.

I was always excited about this story.

I was also busy with YouTube videos, but I said yes, and it took me a while.

I slowly pieced it together, but now we're here.

I think it's fantastic.

We've seen the trailer.

Can't wait to see the film tonight from, you know, I mean, you and Sean both being directors on just outside on this film, No Packers, No Life.

To me, it seems like the director's role so often is truly the main storyteller.

How do you weave this and tell this story?

What approach did you take in the storyteller role to this film, No Packers, No Life?

Well, the project came to me.

They already had footage of them going to a Packer game.

But they didn't have a lot of interviews.

They didn't go to Japan.

So I went to Japan.

I got to go to Japan, which was great.

And I got a lot of interviews with them in Japan.

And then I took all the footage.

And it took me a little bit to figure out, like, how do I want to piece this story together?

I whittled down all the footage and kind of organized it into different themes to try to figure out the best way to tell the story.

And what I decided on was to sort of make it a combination road travel movie where you're on the journey with them to Green Bay, but also sort of just celebrating, you know, the Packers and Japan and the coming together of a passion even from the other side of the world.

Trick V. Olson?

What?

I thought you have a question for either Craig or Paul or Sean.

Yeah, so

Tell a little bit about, you're going to Japan for the first time.

Are there any good cultural things?

I mean, obviously, you have the cultural reference point of the Green Bay Packers that you shared, which is insane.

But were there any unique cultural things that you encountered?

Oh, lots of things.

Well, for once, obviously, the train system is incredible.

Everything's on time.

Everything's fast.

You don't have to wait for a train.

We walked and took the train everywhere we went.

Um, there was one day where, uh, well, I think a lot of people know the work culture there is very intense.

Um, and there was one day where I got up early to go for a run and I, uh, I was, I felt very out of place because there, everyone was in business suits, walking on the street, silent.

It was so quiet, even though there were so many people and I was just running in my running gear next to them and I, I felt, I don't know, they didn't.

They didn't mind, but it just felt weird to me.

And you know, there's the vending machines everywhere you go.

you can get a can, I mean Wisconsin would love this, you can just get a cocktail and a can in a vending machine everywhere.

That sounds fantastic.

An old fashioned to every corner.

Pretty much.

And 7-Eleven there is big.

Apparently they love some people in Japan love 7-Eleven so much they bought 7-Eleven and now it's like on every corner in Tokyo at least.

I

think that's great.

Paul and Sean, did you guys know Craig before this?

I mean, they say you don't quote-unquote Hollywood or the industry is a smaller place than most people would know, but did you guys know each other before?

I'd heard Craig's name from a mutual friend of ours.

Craig and I both graduated Communication Arts.

I'm a bit older.

But anyway, through a mutual friend of ours, I'd heard about this film and I'd heard about Craig.

And so I was at the Wisconsin Film Festival and we were

Doing a kind of an encore screening of just a bit outside and then I saw and I saw no Packers in a life.

Oh, wow That's really interesting.

Oh Japanese fans so I went to see the screening and there were 700 people at the Barrymore Theatre and it was it was I Don't know that I've had it listen just a bit outside is amazing the ending of this movie is happier

The movie has so many laughs and so much joy And there's something that Craig did in this movie that I think is really I mean, it's really it's I would say it's next level which which it which is he he the story is really about What it takes to find your own passion in life and it's about all of these people you have these folks from Wisconsin

Frankly, their passion is to get to know people from around the world.

And the passion for the Japanese fans is the Green Bay Packers, but it's about community.

The Green Bay Packers games are the one place in Japanese culture where they're allowed to yell,

and

they're allowed to hug, and they're allowed to get crazy.

And so he found this thread about finding your own passion.

And that really resonated with me, plus the films just...

so much fun to watch and he and I met in the lobby afterwards and Then we closed down a bar that

night

And yeah, and at one point I was like we might be able to do with this film what we did with Joseph it outside And that was our our first meeting.

Yeah for

you Paul Yeah, I mean I don't know how I can follow that up

What did you think when you first saw

yeah, I mean listen when I went

you know as I had mentioned before we were kind of looking for what what is a what is the thing that sort of hits that Venn diagram the same places just outside and when I about 15 minutes in watching the screening like I had I was like okay well this this captures that essence right um

Yeah, and you know as I was saying Sean called me from from the lobby and was like watch this now I think Craig sent us a link within within 24 hours and you know we sat and watched it and it was yeah I was I was in I was in from

Like I said, 15 minutes in, I'm in.

We are live on location here at the Majestic Theater, one of the great Marcus Theaters in beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life Tonight.

We're here with two of the producers, Paul Giaconi-Berry and Sean Hannes and the director of this wonderful film, Craig Benzene here and along with Trig V. Olsen joining us from Washington, DC.

Trig V, anything else in your end you want to ask here before we get into a

break?

No.

But gentlemen, you should give me a call.

I have a thought on your next one.

Let's do it.

Tell a quick version, Trigby, that you said over the break, because you and your daughters have been going all over the country trying to get

to all the stadiums.

That's not the next one.

Oula's going to make that movie.

She isn't going to give it away to anybody.

But there's experience.

Yeah, no, I mean, the whole thing started, quite honestly, when my daughter was five.

She, from the time she was a little, she'd sit and watch the packer games with me, right?

And when she was five, they were playing the Redskins in the playoffs and she wanted to go, but she was so little, I had to find a seat in the front row and the only place I could get was the club section, which became really expensive to take her to the game.

And we ended up next to these really drunk Redskins fans.

And they were saying all kinds of stuff to goad me.

like, hey, little girl, who's 52?

Is he the one with the long hair who showers with Aaron Rodgers?

Good gosh.

That's terrible.

And so.

when the Packers went up on them and they got up to leave at the fourth quarter, Ula looks at him and says, are you going bye-bye because the Redskins are losing and you don't like it?

And I thought, I'm gonna get, I'm gonna, this is where dad gets beat up, right?

And the guy, the last guy through who had been the most mouthy looks at Ula and says, little girl, I hope my team,

If my team's gonna lose to a team, I hope it's with one, I'm glad it's with one with fans as cute as you.

And then he looks at me and says, and you dad, I hope when you walk this cute little thing down the aisle, you find a Minnesota Viking fan waiting for ya.

What an exchange.

Wow.

I know I've,

really from the first ultrasound when I found out we had a girl, that is my biggest fear in life.

She

had so much fun.

She said she wanted to go to see more games and so it just kind of started and it has been the greatest experience for a girl dad to be taking us to a daughter's to it.

Well, we did the show last year out in Seattle when the Packers were out there.

And Trigby was on one of these trips.

He brought his daughters.

And so we did it from a Packers bar.

I'm sorry.

I can't was it was in Queensland or Queen, whatever part of Seattle it was.

But I mean, here we are, this Packers bar in Seattle doing this show.

And I don't think we how many people ended up coming in there from Wisconsin and just I mean, it's a community.

And Craig.

doing this film uh... uh... no packers no life isn't that what part of this is about community not just the wisconsin but around the world

yes that's absolutely what it's about it's a but i mean the there's a there's a whole section where the japanese packers cheering team talks about how they don't have opportunity for community

Throughout the most of their lives, but when they go when they meet and watch a packer game They get to scream and yell and have and have friends around something that is completely separate from their regular lives and Speaking of bars packer bars in other places.

There's a whole there's also a section just showing bars from all over the world.

There's a bar in Paris Mexico There's a great one in

Munich, I've been there and they'll play you with

lots of I didn't put that one in the movie because I don't think I found Australia.

I think you did one

But

you find this you find this everywhere and it's a sense of community a sense of belonging and I just love I can't wait to see this tonight because I think that anytime that you can look at something you think you know through the lens of someone else I think you learn more about yourself.

Yes, absolutely.

That's what I hope for this film.

But I also realized it was Austria, not Australia.

Oh, I know.

I mean, you know, whatever.

So close.

22221.

Yeah.

Sean, we got two minutes left.

Can you tell the story about the jersey in two minutes

or not?

One minute.

Oh, I can do it in less than two minutes.

Oh, how much?

One timers?

We

have one minute.

Yeah.

All right.

I want to come back to the other side.

I can name that tune in 30 seconds.

No, I'm wearing 19.

My great uncle played on the very first Green Bay Packers team.

Get out.

No way.

What?

No, in 1919.

You never told me this.

I, you know, I mean, I wanted to save it for the show.

Okay.

Thank you.

He played 1919 and 1920.

His coach was, and player coach at the time, was Curly Lambo.

Wow.

And he is his pictures in the Packers Hall of Fame.

So I have this jersey that has 19 on the front.

His name is Al Petzka.

And he, anyway, so I actually do bleed green and gold.

Talk

about a guy who bleeds green and gold, Sean Hannes.

Welcome back, Sean Hannes, Baltimore Coneyberry, and Craig Benzine, director of this great film, where on location for No Packers, No Life, the world premiere.

Back after this on the Pacific Media, Ready Network.

Go on.

Welcome back to the Tahoe Ball Show live on location here in beautiful Waukesha, the Majestic Theater, one of the great flagships theaters of the Marcus Theater Company.

We are here for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life, getting underway here around 5.30 movie, around seven o'clock tonight.

We are here with two of the producers and director of the film, No Packers, No Life, Paul Geconi and Barry, and Sean Hannish, both co-producers on this film, and Craig Benzing, the director.

I want to get to this, make sure we

the business out of the way.

And number one, thank you all very much for being so gracious and allowing us to give sets of tickets away.

I know we have people.

in the WAUK listening market in Milwaukee.

We have people from Madison Market.

They're all going to be here tonight.

So thank you all for allowing that.

Lots of excitement for this film.

But if you all listening and watching still want to come to this film tonight, Sean, a handful of tickets for the world premiere tonight might still be available.

We have fewer than 10 tickets remaining for tonight.

And the event starts at 5.30 here at the Marcus Majestic out in Waukesha.

I mean, the exciting thing

is we're going to have the filmmakers here.

We've got two members of the Japanese Packers cheering team who flew over from Tokyo.

And we have a couple of Packer greats.

We have Aman Green, Antonio Freeman, and George Koons coming.

So if you're interested in coming tonight, just go to knowpackersknowlife.com.

There's a link there.

But yeah, we don't have that many remaining.

So if you want to come,

go on.

Come on.

Come on down, because it's going to be a great experience.

having been to this one of these premieres last year.

Great food, great drink.

You actually get to mingle with people.

It's not like they're held up in some room or whatever.

So yeah, it's a hundred bucks, but portion of the proceeds go to the Boys and Girls Club of Milwaukee, a great organization.

So congrats guys on on doing that.

No Packers, no life and then go to Marcus Theaters and Zommer's noted Theaters is spelled T H E A T R E S dot com Marcus Theaters dot com.

If you want tickets

to the show in other theaters, and either Sean or Paul, whoever wants to answer it, there's another theater coming up with Mason Crosby, right, pretty soon as well.

Yes, Mason Crosby is joining us for a Q&A virtually at the North Shore screening tomorrow night.

The screening's at 6.30.

That one's almost sold out too.

So if you want to get tickets, go to marcustheaters.com and go ahead and purchase tickets to that Q&A.

We have two other Q&As as well around the state.

We have one Friday night in Green Bay.

And then we're going to have one Saturday in Madison.

So, you know, it's if you go to Marcus theaters website, you can find tickets.

I think all shows started of those shows started 6 30.

But we are in 18 theaters across the state and Gurney, Illinois Friday

and Gurney, Illinois.

Let's go around the table.

Kind of one minute ish a piece.

Craig, what do you hope as a filmmaker as a director?

What what's one or two things that you hope that the audience takes away tonight after this film?

Well,

I hope that they laugh at all the right parts.

It's very funny and it's a very fun movie.

It's got a lot of partying and I remember seeing it with the audience at the Barrymore and just the feeling was electric.

They were cheering and laughing and gasping at certain parts and you could there's some emotional moments.

It's happy emotions but and you can you could feel the room and that's I just want that experience again.

Paul.

I think the collective experience of the film is really what I want people to take home.

And, you know, this is a film that is meant to be seen with a group of people.

It's meant to be seen with a group of people who are all wearing their Packer gear and maybe pre-gamed in the bar here at the theater before going in.

It really is, you know, as a filmmaker, film is a collective experience.

And this is the way that this film should be seen.

Sean.

The best thing about movies is it's its own community.

and when you can bring people together to cheer and laugh and have feelings for, you know, an hour and a half, two hours, it really brings people together.

I mean, the best part of Just A Bit Outside was that people showed up in their bruised gear, you know, all the time, and they met each other, and they all laughed together, and they had popcorn and beer and soda together, and that's what we want for this movie.

Wear your Packer gear.

Come on out.

Cheer with other Packer fans and just enjoy what it means to be a Green Bay Packer fan.

I guess it's so important.

Zomers, I've talked about this.

We've each seen the film multiple times with audiences.

And you're still right because with just a bit outside, people got emotional.

They clapped when things are going well.

They cried when things weren't.

And to have that community experience, it's an entire different experience.

for a film where you're sharing it with people.

So I just want to emphasize that you will have a different takeaway, in my opinion, if you see No Packers, No Life with other people.

There is tonight here in the theater with the world premiere or go to marcustheaters.com and experience this film.

Craig, that for a director that has to be so important to you.

I mean, I will tell you, the experience with a group of people was way different than my experience in my basement, watching the movie over and over and over again.

I think, yeah, I think with the group, it actually opened my eye.

It reminded me of why I do this, you

know,

and it's something I don't often get, or I don't ever get, making YouTube videos.

And it's something I want to do more and more of.

So let's make more movies together, guys.

Yes, please.

OK.

There you go.

The all ball show bringing people together to make movies for the world.

That's what we're here to do.

They can do that without us.

Thank you very much.

But, you know, we take credit wherever we can.

We need you, Todd.

Thank

you.

We appreciate being able to tag along.

Paul Gikoni, Barry, Sean Hannish, and Craig Benzing.

Thank you very much, all three of you.

You guys might be back a little bit later in the show to wrap things

up.

All right, very good.

And we've got Ty Morse

coming

up, who is kind of the star, also co-producer of the film.

He

was on earlier with us in the week, and we're glad to have him back again coming up in hour number two.

Exactly.

He'll be here very soon.

I want him to start it at

all.

Very good.

The guy, right?

The guy, the guy actually started it all.

And coming up in our tour, we have a special edition of What's Worst Today.

Today is What's Worst?

Soldier Field or Gary Indiana?

Soldier field or carry Indiana once worse.

We'll take your phone calls on that as well as special a special edition of our own location here from a beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin guys.

Thank you all for taking the time Thank you for allowing us to be here because it means the world not just for our show But our network to be involved in this.

Thank you so much.

I pleasure

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Good afternoon, everybody.

Todd Albaugh here on location at the Majestic Theater in beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life, along with Mr. Aaron Zommers, our producer and engineer back in the world headquarters in downtown Madison.

Glad to have you along.

It is Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.

It's a great day to be Wisconsinite, and it is!

Pump Day!

That's right.

The camel has his Green Bay Packard Tuxedo all ready to go.

He's here at the world premiere.

Glad to have you along.

I'm going to talk more at this special edition of the show here on location at the Majestic Theater, one of the great Marcus Theaters.

And as we've been talking the first hour, no better way to experience, well, any film I would say, but particularly one of these great documentary sports films we saw last year with just a bit outside.

Zomers, I know you and I went to it together in

in Madison last year during the Wisconsin Film Festival.

And we just, I mean, I had experienced it here, but again, to be in that theater together, it's a completely different experience.

Is it not when you got a couple of hundred of your closest friends living to through it with you?

It really is.

It's probably, and also seeing it in theaters, not just at that screening at a film festival.

I think I saw just a bit outside either three or four times in theaters.

Every single time it's packed with people in brewer's gear who, as we've talked about before, are cheering, are crying, laughing.

And it's just a very unique experience.

And I'm excited for a very similar thing here.

And I hope that everybody who is able takes the time.

Like do yourself a favor, take the time, go to marcustheaters.com and find a way to watch it because you have to experience it.

It's just so much fun.

It absolutely is and I know you're going to be getting your car after the show and driving down here and joining us live.

So if you, you know, not so much Zomers and I want to meet, but if you want to meet the filmmakers and a couple of great former Packers as well, Sean Hannish tells us there's still a handful of tickets left for this world premiere.

A hundred bucks, but a portion of it goes to the Boys and Girls Club of Milwaukee.

If you're in the area or you want to take the rest of the afternoon off, go to.

No Packers, nolife.com.

That's nopackers, nolife.com.

Get your tickets.

Join us tonight here at the Great Marcus Theater, the Majestic Theater here in Waukesha for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

And as Amherst said, show starts playing across Wisconsin on October 17th.

That is Friday.

And you can find tickets there at marcustheaters.com, marcustheaters.com.

Coming up in this hour, some surprises along the way.

one of the great stars.

He was with us a few days earlier here.

Ty Morris talks about that.

Might have one of the Japanese cheer squad people here as well.

And you never know.

Green Bay Packard may wander through the lobby.

So you stay tuned.

You never know what's going to happen here on the all ball show in a special edition of what's worse coming up as well.

But right now want to reset the table literally here on location at the Marcus Theater, the Majestic Theater, one of the great Marcus theaters here and joined by one of the continued to be joined by one of the producers.

John Hannish, also director Craig Benzine.

And now Mark Cass joins us at the table as well.

He's the executive director of the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame and senior vice president of Team Lammy.

Mark, welcome to the show once again, but I just want to say a special thank you to you because it had not been for your work with just a bit outside.

And now this film, No Packers No Life, we could have done all these all-location shoots.

We could have had access

It takes everyone to do these things, so thank you for your generosity.

No, obviously great to have you here.

This is fun, right?

This is, I mean, this is a great way to spend an afternoon.

I'm at the movie theater, we're having a soda, we're, you know, hopefully later having a beer and actually watching a movie on the Green Bay.

He's wearing a jersey.

That's what I think about this.

This is a great Wednesday afternoon.

I could be sitting in an office, right?

But no, I'm out here doing this.

So obviously great to have you.

It's gonna be a lot of fun.

It's gonna be a great night.

I think it is.

Talk to us and you've done this with the promotions and the marketing.

You've seen the excitement for both of these films.

Tell us what you've seen with no packers, no life that may dovetail or be similar to what you saw just

a bit outside.

I mean, it really shows the love for our sports teams.

I mean, kind of last year, you remember Sean, I mean, they were, I mean, the thing that got me here on opening night was the, I mean, the crying, the cheering, the laughing.

Everyone's showing up unannounced, just wearing their, wearing their, all their clothing with brewers on it.

And you know, here tonight, I mean, I see it.

The thing I've known my whole life, but it's been real, more serious, we love our teams.

I mean, we really love our teams.

The thing I love about this is that I've seen this in action.

I've traveled around the world.

I've been in Prague, been in Spain, I've been in Italy, and I've run into, I've run into, you know, people who love the Packers, who ask you, and it's kind of the language.

It's not hard to, I mean, he may only speak, you know, Spanish and I only speak English, but we all speak Green Bay, don't we?

We all know about the Packers.

We all know Farve and Rogers and Driver.

We know those names no matter what kind of language you speak.

I think that's cool.

I mean, I have, I just think it's great how much we love our

team.

I think it is really great.

Talk to us.

a minute if you could in your role of Executive Director of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame because one of the great, one of my favorite packers and I believe Craig is in the film, Mason Crosby is in there as well.

He was inducted into Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame along with the great pro football hall of famer Joe Thomas which was on, we did a show from his farm, Six Springs Farm in Southwest Wisconsin

earlier this

year and the great broadcaster Ernie Johnson.

But again, Mason Crosby, one of those guys.

that just epitomizes, not just Packers, but also Wisconsin's athletic.

Think about this, and he tells the story, Mason, because I know him very well.

He talks about he had really never even heard of Wisconsin.

Now, I mean, I'm going all the time, but he didn't know much about Wisconsin.

He didn't know anything about Green Bay, yet he comes here.

He plays here for 16 years.

And he went to another thing.

I'm not going to name the Giants.

I can say it out loud.

For like

three games, he kind of splits that aside.

But he talks about Green Bay.

And he and Molly talk about how everybody just loved him here, how much it was great to live here.

I mean, they live in Nashville now.

Yet, I mean, they're up here all the time.

They really love coming back.

That's what I love about the players who play in Green Bay.

You see that with Driver.

I mean, he's back all the time, loves the market.

I mean, we love our players.

And they stay with us for a long time.

But in terms of Mason, it's just neat how somebody stayed with a team.

And the story he tells, 16 years is a kicker.

Think about that.

They can't last three games sometimes as a kicker.

And he was in Green Bay for 16 years.

And there were some ups and downs and stuff like that.

His wife had health issues and they got through that.

And he's now, I mean, he really is...

He is an icon in the state.

People love him everywhere he goes.

I think he's rolling the movie.

Everyone's going to love it.

There are some things I'm not going to talk about here that are just cool with his involvement in this movie and how they know him in Japan.

Think about that.

I mean, he's known in Japan.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

I mean, it's like, think about that.

But so I think, I think he's, he, I mean, he loves it.

He and I have talked about his role in the movie, how much he just enjoyed it so much.

We're going to have him have him.

at a Q&A tomorrow night.

He's so excited to be part of that.

And to talk about the love.

He talks about that a lot.

Everywhere he goes, he gets recognized.

And he gets recognized as a what?

As a Green Bay Packer.

I'm a big kicker guy.

I mean, I was

a kicker guy.

Were you a kicker in high school?

Not at all.

Wait a second.

I want to hear this.

But it would be a field goal story here.

No, one of my, well, one of my first jobs, my first job at radio back in high school was a now a civic media affiliate, W.R.C.L.

Richland Center.

OK.

And it was when, you know, Jimmer went to Max

McGeeville.

Oh,

there

you

go.

And the Packers were nothing.

And I remember, I can't remember.

I think it was right before, I think, one of Mikowski's last games.

Right.

And it was against Tampa Bay.

And Chris Jackie kicked whatever it was, a 45.

50-55 yarder and Jimmer would call I can't replicate it but basically it was he made it he made it oh my god he made it back to

the older days of like of like someone like a

You know, who, who are the older kickers of Packers?

I'm like a Jester Markle.

We all remember his kick against the Bears, right?

It got blocked.

He ran into the end zone.

It took him an hour to run it into the end zone, but yeah, he ran it into the end zone.

We all remember those players, but that's what I'm talking about.

The love for the Packers.

We can name those kind of plays.

That was when I was a kid.

Probably was eight or nine years old.

I remember that play.

I remember the Mikowski play.

We all remember the over the line or not over the line on that throw, right?

I mean, think about our childhood and our

in our lives.

We remember so much about the Packers.

We're here on location at the Majestic Theater in Waukesha, the world premiere of No Packers in a Life.

We're along here with Mark Cass, who is the executive director of Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame and Senior Vice President of Team Lambie.

One of the producers, Sean Hannes, a director, Craig Benzing of this great film.

Sean, you saw this with just a bit outside this relationship.

I think to me, hearing whether in this case Mason Crosby, but I mean,

I still, I was talking to one of the people on your team this week at the Brewers game, Ted Simmons, for me, is the great storyteller of just outside.

And here now in this film, we get to hear from Mason Crosby.

These players make this movie, these movies.

Well, it's really incredible when you get an icon like Ted Simmons, you know, or Mason Crosby.

And they start talking about what being a player in Wisconsin meant to them.

You talk to Ted Simmons and, I mean,

Wisconsin and Milwaukee holds such a special place in his in his heart and in his life and Mason Crosby, you know as much if not more so because you know, he's I mean think of that I mean, he's one of the most famous players of this era and he's our kicker, right?

I mean, he's also the I think the number one leading scorer in Packers.

He is.

All time

leading

scorer.

Yeah, but I

mean, you know, we like you said, you know, we we love I think part of it is the outpouring of true

like love and care about the about them as people.

You know and I think they they get it again I was think back to 82 You know the players would walk through the parking lot the Brewers players will walk through the parking lot And you know they meet the fans and they have a beer with them, but you know some of these one of the other producers and stars of the film Brandon he was one of the kids with the bicycles and So and he lives in Green Bay and his guy was Earl Dotson Oh, and so as a child you you develop actual relationships with these players

And so it's special.

Craig, about a minute and a half left for the first break here, the next break.

I'll talk quick.

How important was it as the director, whether it was Mason Crosby in the trailer, the ski shot, those elements that are quintessential Wisconsin?

How important was Mason Crosby?

Well, just these

quintessential Wisconsin moments in this film to

be sure they were in there.

They were crucial.

It's very important to show...

what makes wisconsin wisconsin and in there's there's even brief reference to the polar plunge in there and uh... uh... ice and the zippin pip in the roller coaster in green bay i mean though the whole point of it is to show the uniqueness of of green bay in wisconsin and compare that to tokyo and the very though the vast difference there and and it guys just i i mean i've grown to appreciate wisconsin even more making this movie

Yeah, you can be in the Zippin Pippin, that little amusement park in Green Bay.

My stepmom is originally from Green Bay area, or grew up there a lot.

And so those are just moments of Green Bay that if you don't show that, it's not Green Bay.

And from what I see in the trailer and hear, you guys have captured that in this film.

Yes, we did.

I mean, it also wasn't very hard because they just came here and experienced it.

And that's what you experience when you come here.

Bay Beach, that was the war of

football.

Bay Beach, yeah, that's the roller coaster at Bay Beach, is Zippin Pippin.

Yeah, exactly.

Elvis' favorite roller coaster, according to them.

Really?

Yeah, I love

that.

As Johnny Carson once said, I did not know that.

He must not have been there, because it says it on the

sign.

Right, exactly.

All the old clocks, we've got about a minute or 45 seconds here left.

Mark, again, just in helping promote this film, what if you...

had one thing to say in 30 seconds why people should see this film.

What would it be?

Oh, it's because we all love Green Bay Packers.

It's we love the Packers.

We love the story.

And what you have here is unique.

The first time I heard about this from Sean called me and said, here's what we're working on.

I'm like, well, that's crazy.

I mean,

he's going into a bar and that's what a cool story.

So it's our love and a cool story.

And when you see what happens when the group.

is in Green Bay, that's a great part of the film.

I mean, having them at Lambo is cool, but having them in Green Bay, I think is almost cooler.

So I think, I mean, just go see it because it's fun.

All right, sounds good.

Come on back everybody live here at the Majestic Theater in Waukesha, Wisconsin for the world premiere of No Packers, No Life.

Find out more at NoPackersNoLife.com.

And to come back and to play a little special edition of What's Worse and more surprises straight ahead.

We're live on location with the All Balls show across Wisconsin on the Civic Media,

right in the morning.

you

Welcome back to the Taliban show live on location at the majestic theater in beautiful Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to one of our great stations, WAUK 540 on the AM dial and now on 100.3 on the FM side serving Milwaukee and all Southeast Wisconsin.

Glad to have you along across the entire civic media ready network from a superior.

to Lake Michigan, from Green Bay to Mississippi River, all points in between, glad to have you along on this very special edition.

We're live on location here in Waukesha for the world premiere of this great new film, No Packers, No Life, talking to promoters, producers, and directors of this great film here on location.

We have Mark Cass with us, executive director of the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, also senior vice president of Team Lambie, and doing the promotions and marketing for this great film.

Sean Hannish, one of the co-producers, of course was the co-producer and director of Just A Bit Outside, and now the co-producer of No Packers, No Life, and the director of this great film, Craig Benzine, and also a musician.

You heard the bumper music that Zommer has dialed up.

That's for your band, Craig.

That is for my band.

We're called Driftless Pony Club.

And it's that song, and the one you played, one of them that you played earlier, is all, they're both in the movie.

And two of the members.

were the camera guys for the green bay parts of the movie.

That's super

cool.

Personal guys, don't you like that?

Yeah, I love it.

You can

play in my band, but you have to carry the cameras.

Is

that how

it works?

Exactly.

I like that.

Hey, gotta work a little bit.

We're nervous about our

jobs here.

I