Beans & Banter
We are Keith and NiCole Fischer, owners of The Mill in Bonduel, Wisconsin. The Mill is a coffee lounge, bourbon retailer, and boutique. But more than that, it’s a gathering place for numerous people, full of countless stories. Join us as we dissect our
Beans & Banter
A Bunch of Random Stories...
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We'll be honest, this episode is very random. We had two guests who had to reschedule (we'll talk about why). So what you get is a fairly unfiltered, random conversation between Keith and NiCole.
We share stories about embarrassing childhood moments, parenting, hopes for our small town, and more.
If you need to listen to some banter, this is the episode for you.
Grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and laugh with us. We still don't know what we're doing.
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You're just gonna stand there and bleed.
SPEAKER_07Is that what he says in that movie?
SPEAKER_03Remember that when he slipped out?
SPEAKER_07No, I don't remember anything.
SPEAKER_02Just gonna stand there and bleed.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_03So many great lines in that.
SPEAKER_07So this is Beans and Banter. If you aren't following us, Cammy, how far away are we from having 500? I know it's not as of this morning. We are five away. Five? We are five subscribers away from hitting 500 subscribers. Very good. For YouTube. And here I this is what I know what the problem is because I have customers that come into the boutique and they say things like, I don't know how to subscribe. I watch it. So they're not actually subscribed. You know, they're like hit that subscribe subscribe button.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07They're watching it but not subscribing. So we should probably do a demo on how to do that. Yeah, you should teach Keith. Yeah, that would be a fun, that would be a fun video. Teaching Keith how to subscribe. Do you did you subscribe to us? Stupid phone doesn't work. Did you subscribe to us? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh-oh. I think so.
SPEAKER_05That would get us to one more closer to 500. Yeah. But you just um think I did. Yeah. You have to be logged in and then you subscribe.
SPEAKER_07Okay. So here that listeners, log in to YouTube. Subscribe to Beans and Banter.
SPEAKER_05Pod.
SPEAKER_07Which I did discover that there's two.
SPEAKER_05Yes, we are the more popular one. We're the first one that pops up. The other one doesn't have many views.
SPEAKER_07No, we're really, you know, when we started, it was a it's a marketing thing. I mean, it's not gonna blow up overnight. I mean, we're five away from 500, but Katie is a lot of hope for us.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, all good things take some time.
SPEAKER_05For the length of the podcast and the amount of time that it's been online, I honestly think that this has grown way faster than I thought. Um than you expected, or you thought, like you judged just like well, not from you, but I just how it goes because you have to like build up kind of a catalog to like, and I think a lot of podcasts that I've happened upon, it's like they're way far into it already at that point until I discover it. So, and I think that's people in general. So it's like the fact that you have 500.
SPEAKER_00It's a little exciting.
SPEAKER_07What are you doing? Your job, go ahead, take the blended drinks away. We won't be mad.
SPEAKER_00You are feeling close to me. You tell me.
SPEAKER_05You know, anyway, the fact that we have about 500, as I think this is six months into it, is pretty darn good. Because I don't think people see results until about a year or two years after they've started.
SPEAKER_07Okay, so it's hopeful. Yeah. Because Keith asked the question, he's like, How how much time are we gonna invest in this? But I'm like, what's the ultimate goal? We don't really have an ultimate goal besides getting word out of good stories.
SPEAKER_05I would try and give it like a year and a half, two years, and then you can decide if it's worth it to continue on or not. Because that's what people love to stay here at so over.
SPEAKER_07Well, you have Jane now. Can we talk about Jane? Um, sure, yeah. I love her. She is so I've been following this um woman on TikTok. Her name is Jane, and she just has off-the-wall stories. I don't want to say off the wall. How would you describe her stories?
SPEAKER_05She's very she doesn't have a filter, she's just very blunt. She's a great little storyteller. All her stories are true. She's had a wild little life. Yes. And how old is she? She's 81.
SPEAKER_07Okay, and she's amazing. So I've been following her, and she's from Door County area. And I like, you've seen me watch her videos. And then all of a sudden, one day, I'm watching a video and she goes, What is this? Where do you want me to put this? So it's a microphone, and I see Kami's head pop in, our podcast lady, and she's like, It's a microphone. I'm like, Cammy's her podcaster. I've been following this woman who is amazing. And I love Jane. I love her so much. Because she's you in the future, she's future me. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Oh, this is a microphone. Do you hate this? You're joking. Where do you want it? You just want to see my is it going here?
SPEAKER_07Put it up here, sweater. Um, and not like I love myself so much like that, but like you're entertaining. She reminds me of my favorite person, great, my great aunt Joyce.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's sweet.
SPEAKER_07That's like very like matter of fact. Okay.
SPEAKER_03Do you think Jane would wear a gypsy cover?
SPEAKER_07Probably. I'll tell you. I'll tell you a funny Aunt Joyce story. We called her Aunt Pool, and then you can get into your crazy off-the-wall questions.
SPEAKER_03I don't have any crazy off the wall.
SPEAKER_07This is an example of the woman that I hung out with all the time. Okay. So, like, any personality that you're like, where that kind of is like, oh, that's kind of like Aunt Joyce. I wanted to hang out with her all the time when I was little, and she was like a go-getter of like she was retired. Okay, so she's my great aunt. So she would like make after school snacks for the catechism kids. She would help out at the food pantry. She would do meals on wheels. Like she was involved. She was also a really good bowler and a really good golfer. Okay. So I have a golf jacket that she knitted. Yeah, it's uh she was an amazing person. Well, I was at the food pantry with her. I had to do community service, not for the kindness of my heart, but it was a legal thing with the law that made me do hours of community service. So I'm like, I'm gonna go with Aunt Joyce and help her at the food pantry. There was a lady that walked in. Okay, this is my I this is Joyce to a T. If anybody knows her or is listening, is like, yep, that's Joyce. And she's like, Do you want this? Do you want that? And the lady's like, Yeah, I guess I'll have, I'll take a bag of chips, I'll take some cereal, I'll take whatever. Like she was like going through and she had do you remember those like old cigarette cases? It was like your bill fold, and then you could open up the side in your cigarette. So she had one of those in her hand and she reeked of smoke. And she's like, Do you like like asking her like stuff? And the woman was rude, okay? Like she was just kind of like those people you don't want to give handouts to because you're like, you're kind of rude. So then she um said, Oh, hey, we had a we had a hunter that had extra deer meat. Do you want some venison? She's like, Oh yuck, I don't like venison. And my great aunt went, What? It doesn't go good with them damn cigarettes. You say thank you when people give you stuff. You can smoke cigarettes, you can eat venison. And she's like, Well, I just don't like venison. She's like, But you eat that tar. And I'm like, oh boy, you know what I mean? But it was so true. Like, I was like, Oh, okay. So, like, but she has she had her limit, and it was funny, but Joyce was funny. And then when I was really little, she made me go out in there. Like her living room was filled with people for her birthday, and she's like, Hey, go out and sing this. And she whispered in my ear. And I remember like being like, Oh, I probably shouldn't say that. But so I went out in the living room and I'm like, everybody, everybody have something to sing. So everyone's looking at me and I'm like, Happy birthday, USO, happy birthday, USO, happy birthday, you assholes. And like my mom, everyone's like, Nikki! And I'm like, what? And Joyce is just laughing. It must have been a USO thing, like uh back in the day. And so everybody in the family was like, What are you doing? You're naughty, and she's like, I told her to, I told her to. And I'm like, probably like four, like a little, but still funny.
SPEAKER_05Okay, maybe that should be another podcast is you and Jane together, and I'll record that. We'd love Jane, she would love you.
SPEAKER_07We should get together with Jane.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I will I'll tell her. And she's a really good cook, but she's never cooked for me yet. Oh, so okay.
SPEAKER_07Well, I'll make it when we tell Jane that we're having a sleepover movie night. She's gonna cook for us and we'll drink some wine. Love it. I'll tell Jane. It'll be so fun. Okay.
SPEAKER_01Oh, okay. So, Nicole, I just heard that you want to come over and hang with us for a while. I think that would be very fun. And from what I've heard, you can add to the hilarity of the day because we always have plenty of it going on.
SPEAKER_05So also, somebody said that they subscribed. And then I can't they can't hear me. Oh, because I think you have both microphones up there, but it's fine.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I can hear you. You want, yeah. No, this little thing.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I'll take one. Yeah, we want to be able to hear Cammy.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we actually hear me.
SPEAKER_07Cammy, why don't you just shut this one off? Why don't you just hear me?
SPEAKER_05Just kidding. Did you like that one reel was all about you this time, Keith? Your perfect day.
SPEAKER_04I'm gonna see I'm gonna see it. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_07I tried. I I haven't posted it yet. Oh I'm going to. Oh no, it was a good one, but I wanted to first post one of Justine to not take the tension away from her being the star. And then I was gonna post Keith. Yeah. Of just but it was like a really sad perfect day. I think that was funny.
SPEAKER_03Well, can I watch it right now?
SPEAKER_07But just so simple.
SPEAKER_04Like, did you send it to us?
SPEAKER_07You just need to work out. That's it. Yeah. What is something you want to talk about, Keith? You said you have some ideas.
SPEAKER_03I already talked about it. Your gypsy hat.
SPEAKER_07That's it.
SPEAKER_03No, I got more, but I was hoping you had something.
SPEAKER_07Oh, um, yeah, but you said you did, so I was like banking on that. I'm a better person to like roll off of what you're you don't have anything.
SPEAKER_02We neither one of us have nothing. We just lied to each other.
SPEAKER_07Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. We should probably talk about why our guest isn't here. Oh, yes, yeah.
SPEAKER_03We were about to, and then you said it was happy, and then it wasn't.
SPEAKER_07It's a happy little mistake. It's not a happy, it's not happy. Um, so Mr. Nelson, if you're listening, it's not happy, but I didn't know what words to use to describe that. So he messaged me. Okay, our guest today was supposed to be. I can't call him by his first name, but I'm gonna. Jim Nelson, who was my second grade teacher? Aww.
SPEAKER_03I don't think we should talk too much about because he's still gonna come up with.
SPEAKER_07You have other things to fill up airtime? Let's tee it up. You have other things to tee up, Jim.
SPEAKER_03Let's tee it up, but not give like all the oh that good detail?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I can't bring that up.
SPEAKER_03I don't think you should.
SPEAKER_07I'm gonna.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_07I'll give a little teaser.
SPEAKER_03Well, do I know this? Sorry, Mr. Nelson. We don't need you any longer. No, we do need him.
SPEAKER_07He was an incredible. He was like, if so, we were gonna have the back-to-back episode with Lincoln O'Brien. I asked him, like, who's your second grade teacher? He's like, Mr. Nelson, the best teacher ever. I'm like, he's gonna come on the podcast tomorrow. So you get to see him. He was, I have not seen him forever. Okay. Well, Lincoln had to work out of town. Mr. Nelson messaged me and he was hooked up to a bunch of wires having heart pain or chest pains. That's sad.
SPEAKER_03So that's not a happy thing, but like, I'm like, what it was happy accident that he saw the saw the episode, saw something, right?
SPEAKER_07What?
SPEAKER_03And then he wanted to be on.
SPEAKER_07No, none of that is accurate.
SPEAKER_03I made that part out.
SPEAKER_07He he's been my Facebook friend since the beginning of time, and he stopped here. He lives in Menominee. Menominee?
SPEAKER_03Which one?
SPEAKER_07Michigan. I guess I don't know, Mr. Nelson. Where do you live? And are you okay? But um, I peed on his floor on accident. It wasn't intentional in second grade, and I'm gonna tell you how he handled it and why I like we'll never forget. He we were sitting down, it was reading hour, and I had to pee really bad. I was in second grade. Okay, this isn't like an adult situation, and that we know of I I lost my bladder. Well, it what is it? You lose it, or it released something happened, and um I didn't know what to do. I had a little jean skirt on, and I stood up and I was like, and I it did raise my hand, and I don't want to make him sound like a bad teacher, but I was raising my hand. He's like, Okay, one second, Nicole. To his defense, I was a jabber, Nash. Um, in this one time, like, and I went and my dad played baseball with me, and then we went to the zoo, and then we went and ate at docs, and I had a grilled cheese. Like, I was that, like, that is how Nash is. And you're like, okay, stop. So, like, easily you wouldn't want to call on me because you'd be like, Okay, come on.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like we gotta we gotta keep this class.
SPEAKER_07With Nash, we're like, Okay, stop. We'll talk after you put your shoes on and you get in the car because he's that like, and then I have to go and so that was you, like, and 100%. Yep. And so I went to the bathroom on the floor, and then I was like tapping on him, and he's like, one second, he was like, hand note papers. All she's like, Oh, holy. And then he like was looking around at butts, not in a perverted way, but he was looking around like to see what kid peed on his floor, and then it was like, I'm gonna peed on the floor. He's like, Oh, it's okay, it's okay. Yeah, he's like, Let's go to the office, and then I started crying, not because I peed my pants, because I had a really pretty outfit on that day. Oh, and they gave me brown sweatpants.
SPEAKER_03That was the community pee pants.
SPEAKER_07Community pee they're brown just to fit each situation.
SPEAKER_03It's probably some kid that's graduating high school, like he left them there a dozen years ago.
SPEAKER_07And it was like a maroon maroon crew neck sweatshirt, and it was like pilly, kind of like my sweater I have on now, but it was like really just a really crappy outfit.
SPEAKER_05You know, for the last couple episodes, I think your bladder has come up in each episode. I had a good bladder.
SPEAKER_03It's a pretty common occurrence in our household to talk about her her her immaculate bladder.
SPEAKER_07Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Well, it wasn't that immaculate then. I it failed me. But how long had you been holding it? Yeah, let's talk about that. I don't know. I really don't remember that.
SPEAKER_03Um, this I don't know why this came into my head, but when you were telling that story, I recalled Journey peeing her pants on purpose.
SPEAKER_07Well, we talked about that in Journey's episode.
SPEAKER_03So then it made me think.
SPEAKER_07But she did it because she didn't like her outfit. I already liked my outfit.
SPEAKER_03Right. But it made me think, is there maybe something you were upset with Mr. Nelson about? Oh that you're like, I'm gonna piss my pants right here on that point. I'ma do it. I'm a I'm I'm doing it.
SPEAKER_05And then and then and then you can't see what Cammy did, but it was really funny.
SPEAKER_06He didn't let me tell my story about my girl cheese and going to a docs and the zoo. I don't know.
SPEAKER_07I feel like that was the story. Oh, yeah. No, no, I know why I'm saying docs in the zoo and all that, because he just went and he told a story about it every blasted in every detail of it because he went to the buffalo farm. The come on, help me out, Nolan's buffalo farm in town. And out of all of his favorite things, it was the barn cats.
SPEAKER_03No, and he had a very lengthy discussion about how they fed him, which was one-sided, but we'll call it a discussion. It was a conversation where they feed them all at the same time.
SPEAKER_07They have a business, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay, big dish, a big dish.
SPEAKER_05He was very impressed with well. You should take him to the farm in Door County, it's like a petting zoo. We should. You can feed the goats, and then we'll see Jane. And then you can you can see Jane, you can see the goats, and you can have Nash talk about it.
SPEAKER_03Maybe she'll make us something.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, maybe, maybe we let her know what to make some food.
SPEAKER_07Okay, what else should we talk about? Totally up to you. You're free. But we're showing up our own dinner time, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Definitely 4 30.
SPEAKER_07So they're staining our deck today. Well, they're prepping it, and this was a hard go for Keith, so I just hired the guy on my own. Um, because Keith has this issue that I know he's able to do everything, but he doesn't have time to do everything. And so this is Sawyer's boss. What is it? A1 services. A1 services. Oh. And I got a quote, and Keith's like, I'll just do it. I can do it. He was saying, I'm like, I'm gonna get a quote from him. He didn't make the decision I did. I said, Yep, you're hired. Let's do this. So they've been spraying our decking today. Nice to stain it, to protect it.
SPEAKER_05Speaking of Sawyer, how's the mill on wheels?
SPEAKER_03He's working. Yeah. At it. Getting better.
SPEAKER_05It's currently a trailer instead of a is it um has he had done events and stuff? Not yet.
SPEAKER_07He has to get inspected.
SPEAKER_05Okay, gotcha.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, our equipment's coming for it on Thursday. So that's kind of like the final step. And then he gets inspected. Okay.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_07But yeah, he's he's booked all summer. That's cool. Thanks to everybody.
SPEAKER_05Like he's has he has a really like in the area here or in Eau Claire area or um not Eau Claire.
SPEAKER_03Like, I think he's mostly here.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, okay. I think he was asked about Eau Claire, but he doesn't, he's not out there right now.
SPEAKER_03He's not sure if he's gonna bring it out there or not.
SPEAKER_07Okay, nice.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, maybe as it gets you know bigger, longer into the year, but not not this year. Okay, maybe next year.
SPEAKER_07Can we talk about when you asked? Because when Cammy um when she is editing our our episodes, she'll be like, Hey, do you have a picture of X or Y Z? Whatever we talked about. You know where I'm going with this. Yes. I would I would like you. No, actually, I don't want to know. Oh, but maybe. But you're asking me a question? No, I'm not. I'm filtering all these things in my head right now. Just wait.
SPEAKER_03Cammy asked, We'll live in there with you.
SPEAKER_07Cammy asked, Do you guys have a picture of Pete? Now Pete's our dog, Pete's our burnadoodle. He's our youngest dog, and he's the naughty dog. He's adorable. He's adorable. But he's like, Cammy's like, do you have a picture of Pete? I'm like, here we go. Five, four, three, and then how many days sending more pictures of his dog than his children? Do you honestly you think yes?
SPEAKER_03That's close.
SPEAKER_05Do you have an album on your phone entitled Pete?
SPEAKER_03No, no.
SPEAKER_05How about Walter?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_07That was a quick one too. A quick draw for a nephew dog.
SPEAKER_03I just knew there was gonna be so I took a lot of pictures of him because I made a little book of them.
SPEAKER_06Of Walter, yeah.
SPEAKER_03For Jaden and Jolie.
SPEAKER_06That's cute.
SPEAKER_03But um, so I knew where to look right away because I knew I had a whole bunch of pictures of them.
SPEAKER_05Um, somebody had asked about an update on the eczema situation. Did you hear any information from your doctor that you could advise you could share with the about Nash's eczema?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it flares up, it's really good right now. Oh, yeah, I'll tell you something that Dr. Fang said.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Oh, so I haven't talked about it since Dr. Fang. I don't think so. Okay, yeah. Dr. Fang told me to stop putting cortisol and steroid creams on it because it breaks your skin barrier down.
SPEAKER_01Oh.
SPEAKER_07So she said, stop that. And I'm like, oh, okay. And um, she was over time, it's just gonna break down and weaken the skin. So she's like, let's go to the root of the problem, is what I was looking for, right? Is why we like Dr. Fang is because she's like, Okay, there's something causing this. And she said, if everyone cuts out, not everyone, but most cases, if you cut out dairy and gluten, you're here. We are acting like doctors again. If you listen to our podcast, you're gonna know we always are pretending we know what we're talking about, but then wrap your livers. Saran wrap your livers, not a doctor, not a doctor. But she said it um gluten and dairy are huge triggers for eczema in people. And I'm like, okay, so when we cut it out, which we haven't done yet, Nash knows when are we starting? Summer, summertime, not yet, not yet. Because I'm like, Nash, you're like ice cream with Nash, she's like, Not yet, it's not summer yet. I'm like, but it's been better, it has been better, but I was thinking he hasn't been eating ice cream. He's always had a dairy problem when we introduced dairy.
SPEAKER_03We don't eat that much ice cream.
SPEAKER_07I don't think you know that he will go in and grab the gallon or the the thing and just eat it.
SPEAKER_03Well, we learned that from you.
SPEAKER_05Um, anyways. So is it's Dr. Fang? Fang Fang.
SPEAKER_03She's leaving. Is she she's gone already?
SPEAKER_05She's going to Green Bay.
SPEAKER_03She's basically left the country.
SPEAKER_07Oh, well.
SPEAKER_03It's too far for us.
SPEAKER_07Is that true?
SPEAKER_03What?
SPEAKER_07Like she's going to Green Bay, right?
SPEAKER_03I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_03But I know she's not gonna be in family medicine anymore.
SPEAKER_05Okay. So she is like a medical doctor? So she okay.
SPEAKER_03She's um she's like uh he's never met her.
SPEAKER_07Let's start there.
SPEAKER_03When met her like a couple times kids' appointments, she hasn't been their doctor.
SPEAKER_07It was it was making it up, it was Kendra.
SPEAKER_02I think I know the difference between the two.
SPEAKER_07Pulaski. You're thinking of Pulaski.
SPEAKER_03No, no, I don't know.
SPEAKER_07I'm telling you right now that Dr. Fang has only seen Nash. That's his her only patient in me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I've seen her for something. Maybe it was you, maybe it was your bladder.
SPEAKER_07I'm not mad about this, but I just know I'm right because I'm she's she's a like more holistic approach.
SPEAKER_05And it was I think that was my question. Is medical doctor, but like helping with prevention. Do you want to talk more about that, Keith?
SPEAKER_02No, I think that's it.
SPEAKER_07So, anyways, we uh I said, What one should we cut out one at a time? And she goes, No, you cut them out both because one plus one equals 10. And Knox laughed because he was there at the appointment. And she's like, She's really good with kids. She's like, You probably thought, what kind of doctor doesn't know what one plus one means? And then she was like explaining it to him what she meant. She's like, What I mean is sometimes little things become huge things. So when you have glu gluten and dairy, it's a 10 instead of one plus one. It's it's a big deal, so we just take them both out at the same time. He's like, Gotcha.
SPEAKER_05I know we have already had a recap episode a while ago, and this one will be going live five weeks from now, even though it's live right now right there. It's like five, four or five weeks behind.
SPEAKER_03Oh, somebody asked me that, and I'm like, I don't know how far we are, but that makes sense.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. Um, is there anything you want to talk about from previous episodes or comment on, follow up on anything upcoming in Bonduel? You have the flyover for the fourth of July.
SPEAKER_03Fourth of July. Okay.
SPEAKER_07What is the F-30? What is the flights that are going over?
SPEAKER_03Oh, the jets. I'm not a plane guy. It's a big one, cool ones.
SPEAKER_07Two of them, big fighter jets, F F-30, F-70s, F7. Maybe somebody in the comments you're making up F9. F9. Um, anyways, that's that's the key on you. Yeah, that's gonna be a big deal. We're gonna have a we're gonna have um a float this year. We're super excited you wait till you see or get up. It's gonna be so fun. It's gonna be and everyone's like, it's Keith Dressenov. I'm like as a cop because he has to work that day.
SPEAKER_03It's like my yeah, one day of the year that I don't get to have any fun. I mean, I get to have fun policing in a small town, but I don't get to partake in the that was one of the things that we talked about before I took the job. Was like, because we had such a great tradition for 4th of July. I'm like, I'm never gonna be able to do that again.
SPEAKER_07It really was almost not a deal breaker, but almost like we talked about it. Golly, it sucks. Cause yeah, 4th of July, we really do enjoy it.
SPEAKER_03It's so fun here.
SPEAKER_07It is really fun in Bonda Well for the fourth. What was your tradition?
SPEAKER_03Well, we'd get up early and get uh spot at the parade.
SPEAKER_07Well, Katie would get it. Katie would be Roberts. Katie Roberts did that.
SPEAKER_03She'd set all her stuff down by the corner and watch the parade.
SPEAKER_07Should have Bloody Marys made for us. So good. And we would stay at their house all day, but then walk down. They have um celebrate Fond of Well does a lot with the downtown or what village park.
SPEAKER_03Village Park.
SPEAKER_07Everything's held down by Village. It's fun.
SPEAKER_03It's like um they have like a Legion game play and or um Dairyland game, one or the other, and then they have like a big bike giveaway, um, bunch of like fair type game stuff, live music. It's a good time. Nice, nothing like crazy, but it's just cool.
SPEAKER_07You feel like an American, you feel like you're on Sandlot, and there's gonna be a big dog that runs out and chases you.
SPEAKER_03Maybe, maybe eats you.
SPEAKER_05Maybe, and then you have the Graham.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_05S'more.
SPEAKER_07Yep.
SPEAKER_03S'more. What? How can I have s'more of something that I didn't have yet?
SPEAKER_07It's his favorite, it's his favorite.
SPEAKER_05I can't remember all the lines. There's just no okay. What else? What else? If I have to look back, only thing I'm good for.
SPEAKER_03Can't remember what I did yesterday, but what is that?
SPEAKER_05Adam Sandler quote.
SPEAKER_03What day is it today?
SPEAKER_05Okay, I have another question. Is has anything um because I know you want to build up Bonduel, has anything gotten better in Bonduel to make it like as good as Shano?
SPEAKER_06Did you just say Shano?
SPEAKER_07As good as Shano. Are you joking right now? Better than what I know what you're saying, like the hanging baskets and like the downtown district booming. Um, we got hanging baskets, which is a really big deal.
SPEAKER_03Something she's been asking for for at least two, three years now.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Um, it's like it's gonna be a work in progress to get downtown moving.
SPEAKER_03Everything takes a little time, it's gonna take maybe 40 years.
SPEAKER_07We're gonna be Jane's age, by the way. Jane's age, yeah. I our children will see for sure Bondawell booming. If Bonda Well is gonna like it's gonna explode one day. And I don't want I'm I'm saying 40 years, like hopefully joking. Um, but like it'll it's gonna take a long time to see a huge dent in things. And I think it took a long time for Shano, like it took years and years and years to get businesses to um open their doors or utilize like their great foot traffic space.
SPEAKER_03Like just to get started, how much of a monumental task.
SPEAKER_07Oh god, yeah, all that is. Sawyer's experiencing that how just with his little coffee truck. We we have like a like I wish I could just show you what I envision Bondawelle looking like and knowing what the potential is. Yeah, but it's it could happen, it could happen. Yeah, we have hope. So we decided to stay in our lane and show up for meetings and put our two cents in that if it's asked, but like uh also business owners could do what they want to a point with you know what they have, and so we're just gonna worry about our little little hut over here, and and it takes buy-in from everybody, it does. You have to have everyone in, and everyone has to have this somewhat same vision, and that's not where Bondo Will is right now. Yeah, that makes sense.
SPEAKER_03Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that are on board.
SPEAKER_07A lot of people, a lot of people are on board, but there's also a lot not, yeah, not quite there.
SPEAKER_03That's okay.
SPEAKER_07It's okay, but um let's talk about aliens. And I know we shouldn't talk about them right now because that's on our um conspiracy theory podcast. If you didn't know, we did have that. Um, but now how does how do people feel? How do you feel, Cammy? Let's ask you that now that the government is admitting all of this now, like how suspicious are you of that? They're like, Oh yeah, we have aliens, and there's three kinds. We have the Nordic, whatever they were listing on on the news, like this was legit on the news. Like Fox, I think Fox 11 people are gonna come at me for that, but it was like on CNN, it was on all the news. They're talking about the aliens that the government is saying.
SPEAKER_05Like, why you guys need to watch Resident Alien, by the way, because one of the aliens that they mentioned is an alien that's talked about in Resident Alien. Really? Actually, two of them, I think. Okay, so do you think they're trying to get us to look this way?
SPEAKER_03Is that a television show?
SPEAKER_05It is, I think it's on Netflix and Peacock, possibly.
SPEAKER_03We'll look for that tonight.
SPEAKER_05I'll find it for you.
SPEAKER_03Rip for headset the pillow.
SPEAKER_05It's funny, it's good. Um, I feel like I looked through some of the the UFO videos and stuff, and honestly, I'm like, that's what you think. I don't know. It's just like, oh, a little speck. Right, a little blurp, yeah. I don't know. And that's all people like usually I'm just I think I'm skeptical on like the government and bringing it up. Yeah, period. Because it's like, well, why? What are you distracting from?
SPEAKER_07That's what I feel like it's a distraction.
SPEAKER_05So I don't know.
SPEAKER_07Which is disappointing because it's like I really want it to be accurate, but now I'm suspicious of it because I'm like, nah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I think there's things for sure, but I don't know that like I feel kind of like okay, back in the day, wasn't the War of the Worlds story wasn't that like the first fake news story?
SPEAKER_03I'm not familiar with that.
SPEAKER_05I'm not familiar with that either. Um, I think that was like early 1900s or 30s or something, I don't know. But basically, the um was that Orson Wells who did like a radio broadcast of like War of the Worlds. I don't know any of this. Okay. Well, look look up Orson Wells and War of the Worlds. But the there was news stories after that release that people were like committing suicide and like going crazy because of this story that came on the radio about the alien invasion and all that kind of stuff.
SPEAKER_07Um, so they're trying to create chaos, kind of like hysteria and like, oh yeah, something bad's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_05Okay, I don't know. Yeah, look it up. Okay, I'll do that. And then you can watch War of the Worlds and be entertained. You've never seen that movie either.
SPEAKER_03Oh well, I don't think so.
SPEAKER_05There's an old version and then a newer version. I have them on DVD if you want them. I still have a DVD player.
SPEAKER_03Sure, can you mail it to me?
SPEAKER_07Sure. Wow, mailing is expensive lately.
SPEAKER_03But um who remembers Netflix with just DVDs?
SPEAKER_07Oh, I do.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I got that. That was awesome. Cammy, when you have when you're sitting here and like you're listening, what what do you like focus on? Are you thinking about like how is this how's this gonna look? Or do you already know like how it's gonna look? Are you worried like when you when you're are you just thinking about content when you're sitting over there?
SPEAKER_05That's a good question. It's mostly about like how it looks and sounds, but you already know, kind of, right? Well, because I'm like focusing on and making sure that focus is on you, and then things are still recording, and then like the levels on the microphone is still good, so like kind of tracking that. And like when we have the guests over here, I and that's why it probably always looks like I'm on my phone because I'm like tapping it, absolutely. Yeah, but I'm I'm adjusting the focus on like on the cameras that I can because usually like the one that's like far over, obviously, I can't just reach over, yeah. So I'm like going between like you and Nicole and like focusing. So and then I'll adjust the other one too, sometimes, but so it's more so just making sure that everything's running, um, and then like I think kind of listening for what reels to come like take out of like an episode.
SPEAKER_03Do you make a little notes?
SPEAKER_05I used to, but I think they're more mental now. Um, and I like pick it up during the edit too. So it's all over the place. But afterwards, I like get so tired afterwards because my brain is just like making sure that everything is like working and like operating. She just wanna leave it and like Irish goodbye. Yeah. Um, so I get really tired after I film just because it's like you're trying to focus on making sure that everything is like working properly.
SPEAKER_07I get tired after podcasts, yeah. He says he feels like he just had a therapy session and I get drained. Yeah.
unknownI don't know.
SPEAKER_05Well, because you're kind of like you have to be on for it. Yeah. Um and just like engaging for however long, which granted, like I think the time goes by really fast. It it goes by fast, but yeah, it takes a lot.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's a lot of energy. Yeah. I'm not I'm not this witty or funny all throughout the day. This is just this is just for you. Just save it for this. I don't want to use it all up throughout the day.
SPEAKER_05Thanks so much.
SPEAKER_02Save it from a gypsy.
SPEAKER_03What do you what do you think like how podcast days go like for yourself? Like, is it kind of what you would imagine this was gonna be? How did you picture it?
SPEAKER_07I don't really I don't really know if I had high expectations or low expectations or what, but I it's definitely it's better than I thought for sure. I thought we'd have a lot more hate. Yeah, because the podcast world, there's more hate. Well, I say with like I think we have a nicer audience. We do have a fate, we have a nicer Facebook audience. I've I've been told that a lot. Watch their behate now coming out. But like give it time. I think so. I always say the TikTok world is cruel. If you read comments in TikTok, they're mean, people are mean. Facebook, I think the Facebook world's mean too, but like our our customer base, our viewers are very kind. And I think it's because I don't welcome it and I try not to be negative on our our our platform. Yeah, I try to only uh like post the positive. And then I will delete I will delete most negative comments just so it doesn't invite other negative comments.
SPEAKER_04And I know and I know our customers are very protective over us, they're gonna bite back, they're gonna bite you.
SPEAKER_07And there was one time recently I left a comment up there and I fed her to the wolves because I was like, you know what? I was pissed. I will tell you what it was. I was so mad, and this is what happened. Lady came into the boutique, she said, and I hope she's listening. She said, um, hey, what happened to my um flyer that was on the door? I don't want flyers on our door. Not because I don't want your business to be advertised, it's because people never bring in tape. Not saying we can't work up tape, but they'll be like, hey, do you want can you hang this? And they'll like leave it there, and then my staff have to like hang it, and then there's a whole bunch of other stuff, or if they they never have tape, or if they do hang it, they'll hang it over someone else's stuff. So there's like no there's no courtesy of it, and then they don't come back to take it down. And then if if something someone takes something old off, they rip it off, and then there's tape all over our door. Okay, so I just don't want our door full of it. So I somehow it always happens again, like it accidentally happens again. And so I was taking down this stuff, and some of it was old stuff, and I'm like, we don't want stuff on the door, like it looks like crap, and then um it must have been one of the flyers for this humane society. And if you guys know us, we love dogs, like pretty supportive for like more than some people we like them more, like we are huge support. Like, I won't bat an eye to donate money to a dog, like, and so like when this comment came out, I was like, Are you kidding me? So, anyways, I took down the flyers, that must have been one of them, but she also had flyers all over the coffee tables, which I don't care. Generally, I don't care if it doesn't look sloppy. So she's like, Where what happened to the flyer on the door? And I'm like, Um, they're all off, right? Is how I answered. And she goes, Yeah, but it was for our humans to say, Why is it off? I'm like, Because there's no flyers on the door. Like, we don't have flyers on the door. I'm like, I'm pretty sure you still have them on the table. Okay, period. Oh, okay. And she's like, Well, we're gonna be coming at you. This is how she said it too. I'm gonna be coming at you for a large donation soon. I'm like, Okay, well, we are right now, because we were doing something with Happily Ever After. I'm like, right now we are um donating stuff to Happily Ever After. I'm like, you can come in and talk, whatever. She's like, Well, where is that out of? Aggressively in front of customers. And I'm like, uh, they kind of I think they're they service everywhere, like Marion, you know, Green Bay or whatever. I'm like, I have relatives that have brought their pets there to get like neutered and stuff. I'm like, they kind of service everywhere. And then she's like, Well, that's not local, was her response. I'm like, it is though, like our customer base is like pretty broad and they are kind of local. And I the girl that brings in merchandise is in all the time, and like as we sell their apparel sometimes. But I felt like I'm like, why am I arguing with this woman about where like, but you know what I mean? Sometimes you have a really sometimes there's a dog in you that wants to fight, and other times the dog wants to lay a good analogy there. Well done. Yeah, and I had a dog in me that wanted to fight a little bit that day, and I'm like, one, I didn't say this, but I want to be like, why is it your business where we donate our money? We don't have to donate to anybody. We do, we do, we're very giving, but like, don't dictate where our money goes or why we're not donating, or you know what I mean? And or like get mad at us if you don't you come in and you don't even buy a cup of coffee and you ask for money. Like, I that is a pet peeve of mine. Like, well, it should be if you've never if it happens, Cammy, it happens all the time. Seriously, hey, do you want to donate to da da da da? And then they'll leave. And I'm like, never seen you before. Granted, yeah, granted, if I see you all the time and you're on like a mission that day, I don't care. But if I've never seen you and you're coming and you're asking us for money or a basket, and you haven't you didn't even buy a two-dollar black cup of coffee, get out of here. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I will give my money to somebody that is in our community that needs it or that's gonna invest. So we invest our money where we see fit, and we've been pickier with it.
SPEAKER_03And um we kind of got a little willy-nilly last year, and like how much did you think we donated a lot over like for a small business, like yeah, starting off and not making somewhere around between ten and fifteen thousand dollars, which is a lot for yeah, us not like we're not rich, we're not rich.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, I know our parking lot, but we have a lot of yeah, we have a lot of bills to pay yet. Like we just it's we're two and a half years old, but um anyway, so let's fast forward that lady was my interaction with her, right? I don't even know what the po it wasn't even a oh, it was Sawyer's uh Meal uh Meals on Wheels. So it was Sawyer's um his mobile coffee cart, and it got a lot of traction. And so out of the blue, yeah, this woman comments on behalf of the shelter, which she shouldn't have, because it wasn't theirs, they weren't speaking. They've even up, they apologized and stuff. So I don't want to let cut on them. She goes, um owner's husband is the police chief in town, which wasn't relevant, and they don't get the cops, they don't donate to local humane societies, only ones from Green Bay. It was her comment on us saying like Sawyer's launching a coffee cart, not relevant, not a dog post, not like hey, blah blah blah.
SPEAKER_03And I was like out of the boo.
SPEAKER_07I like so I see this as I was getting in the car. I got the kids from school, I ran into the mail after school, whatever. I see this, I'm like, are you kidding me? So I went in and I took a picture of the little um donate dog thing that's right by the register, right by the tip for their humanes. For their humane, it's not okay, it wasn't the humane society commenting, it was a woman speaking on their behalf, which she shouldn't have. I'm like, it's right by the tip jar. So I took a picture of it. I'm like, is this us not supporting the Humane Society? We have three of them here, and we one I donated like photography sessions and like not to like list stuff up, but like you're ridiculous.
SPEAKER_03So she decided that one.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, she got attacked. She got attacked, and then even the humane society commented on our behalf and said, No, this is not true. They do help out, like, but um we kind of went off on a tangent there. Is someone mad right now about that?
SPEAKER_05No, sorry, I just had a oh you just no.
SPEAKER_07Um, so she um well, let me check. She um she had to that's so that's I usually I that's what I was getting. I usually delete negative comments, but when there's ignorant stuff like that, that's not even relevant to a story.
SPEAKER_03You just you're just trying to spread hate right now.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you're just being negative, yeah.
SPEAKER_03And and again, at the end of the day, what are we doing giving her giving her air time about this?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, she's got too much air time. Oh, would you have other things you want to talk about?
SPEAKER_03Well, the car, the car ran real good.
SPEAKER_05Uh, somebody asked, and this can this will be addressed in an episode, but somebody did ask, Do you think we landed on the moon? Oh.
SPEAKER_07And it's only like watch beers and banter. Watch Beers and Banter.
SPEAKER_05Oh, which actually I was gonna tell you, there's another business up in Sturgeon Bay that you have to go to. They have like aliens kind of like in their wallpaper, and just it's all over the place.
SPEAKER_03Is it like our wallpaper at home?
SPEAKER_05We have alien wallpaper. You have alien wallpaper? Yeah, there it's hidden in the tree. It might be then.
SPEAKER_03Is it green and like well it comes in different colors?
SPEAKER_07It comes it comes in blue. Okay. Maybe you have the same thing. I'll send you a picture when I get home. Please do. I was very proud of that wallpaper find.
SPEAKER_03I had to I had to put a like a cus custom Wayne Scotty below it. And then paint that green so it like you can't even tell. You go up and you think it's you think it's like just cutesy, cutesy little things. And then you go up and you look and you're like, my mom was there's a guy getting sucked up into a UFO.
SPEAKER_07I bet it's the same.
SPEAKER_03It's like this.
SPEAKER_07I'm trying to think of the brand.
SPEAKER_03And she's got pictures. I like the way that she decorates is just I think it's awesome. The way she does. I'm not a decorator.
SPEAKER_05I've seen lots of bits of your house, and I do like it's I like what I see.
SPEAKER_03I I have like three things in my bachelor home. And it was like stuff my mom gave me.
SPEAKER_07Can I tell you when when we get in stupid fights, I'll say things like, and you decorated stupid too.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER_07We just brought that up on the way somewhere. You're like, do you remember when you we were like fighting about something stupid? And you're like, Yeah, and your house used to be decorated dumb. It was like a stupid low.
SPEAKER_03Okay, cool. Um, but anyway.
SPEAKER_07My mom bought it for me. No, Judy Judy is a decorator.
SPEAKER_03So what was I saying? Oh, yeah, you decorate good. It's kind of similar to like yeah, yeah, but it's a little bit more unhinged at home. Like you there's pictures of Sasquatches that you think is just like, yeah, like that, I guess. Yeah, I guess it is here too. Yeah, it's everywhere, follows you around.
SPEAKER_07It follows, yeah. Um, I like though. Here's what I think with decorating, and I'm not a professional at all. But the more off the wall or more personality that comes out, the better. Like for a person, like I hate um always have. Not saying I never I used to decorate, like, oh, I'd go to Hobby Lobby and just like you know, get the basic stuff, but like now it's like, oh, I really love that. Like that reminds me of Anne Joyce. I'm gonna hang that up.
SPEAKER_05Or oh that's I love houses that have like things that are more like meaningful and sentimental than like picture perfect, I guess.
SPEAKER_07Yes, and I feel like this new like decor. Yeah, neutral, neutral. The grays. It's oh god, the grays. I mean, I our whole house was gray when we built it was the gray era, so try to get rid of that. It's very hard, isn't it? Like everything was gray. We almost had gray real wood floor. Thank god we didn't. It's a natural dark wood, but like we we almost were gonna do gray tones. That would have sucked.
SPEAKER_05Is a lot of your, and I'm just this is from what I've seen on your and no offense if anyone has gray wood floor. Yeah, saying it's really hard to replace all grays. But you have a lot of like dark green, right?
SPEAKER_07Yeah, we painted, so we had shiplap in our kitchen. White like shiplap. Yeah, yeah, I do too. And then we just went, um, that was an afterthought when we had the house painted. Yeah, it's green now, it's a dark green, and it's definitely dark, but we have a lot of natural light, so we can get away with like darker colors.
SPEAKER_05I have to say, so a lot of homes like in California are like the white, beigey, like whatever. But I think like you can get away with it there for the most part. But here it's like we're in snow and winter and white, like everywhere. It's like you need the color to I feel like that too. Feel better about yourself in the winter.
SPEAKER_03Won't be able to open your eyes during the day.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god, it's just light it's light reflecting everywhere. Beat me up. Is this it? Is this it? Take me, get me away from this gypsy woman. She's gonna put me to work outside, find some job for me to do. I did.
SPEAKER_07I had him moving stuff all around the yard.
SPEAKER_05You're at like 55-ish minutes. Yeah, we could wrap it up. Otherwise, you can wrap it up. No problem. He doesn't he hasn't had much to say. Did we land on the moon?
SPEAKER_04I think I think we mentioned it.
SPEAKER_07No, I think we mentioned it to about Nash's telling the Sunday school. Oh, yeah. Yep. Oh, and so he's rubbed off so much on the kids that poor suckers. They during bedtime story, I heard Keith saying, actually, this is none of this happened, but this is what they're teaching you. And I'm like, Keith, and this was like pre before he had the full conversation. I'm like, because they brought home a landing on the moon book. And I'm like, you can't like if you're opening that up, you're gonna have to. And they're like, What do you mean? Yeah, we did.
SPEAKER_02And that was I'm like, all right, go to bed. Real later.
SPEAKER_07He was none of this happened.
SPEAKER_03We didn't land on good luck, good luck filtering through those thoughts before you close your eyes.
SPEAKER_05Are we picturing though, like in the tree house that you made, just like sitting your kids down and be like, all right, here's the real history lesson?
SPEAKER_03Well, they now everybody else, everybody else has their the talk in an R household.
SPEAKER_05They had that long ago.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, but now they don't. It's like I am like, are we disservicing them by like them being the weird kids in class now that are like we don't mind on the loan? Teach them to think for themselves. You know what? I made I said something the other night.
SPEAKER_03They're gonna be weird no matter what we teach them.
SPEAKER_07They said, Do you think um that now future teachers I feel like the generation and up and coming, like new teachers are definitely going to be more open-minded about things, right? So, how is that going to or will AI take over to AI it will?
SPEAKER_05That's what I I almost kind of feel like teachers will become babysitters in a way. You're you're so right. That's my word.
SPEAKER_07Well, even Nash, his teachers, like, okay, here's a little funny tidbit. Nash's teacher said she messaged me. She doesn't message me in dojo because I I can't get those messages. What is Dojo? It's like an app for parents to communicate with teachers. I get him for Nox's teacher, but not Nash's. But whatever she Facebook messaged me, she's like, Hey, I want to know if Nash tells you about what he learned today. She's like, because he was laughing so hard about it. She's like, it made my day. And of course, Nash told me all about it.
SPEAKER_03And it was um in the most detailed manner possible.
SPEAKER_07But it like, I'm not gonna pain you with it, but it was Nash. She's like, Mom, did you know that our country bird was almost a turkey? I'm like, is that true? He's like, Yes, and like belly laughing about it. And I'm like, where'd you learn that? So I was recording him, voice recording him, so I could send it to his teacher because he was like geeking out about it. I'm like, where did you learn that? He goes, the smart board. I'm like, but who taught you that? He's like, the smart board at school. I'm like, who is in charge of the smart board? He's like, it's cool, and so his teacher laughs. She's like, um, yeah, that was me. I taught him that. Well, um, yeah, that's it's a scary thought. AI is very scary.
SPEAKER_05It's a whole episode.
SPEAKER_07It is a whole episode.
SPEAKER_05You have a teacher coming on at some point. Like Mr. Nelson. Wasn't there another one too? Like a current teacher. Maybe not. Either way, I want to we should dive into AI with any teacher that comes on.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_07Okay, well, it was nice chatting.
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SPEAKER_03Thanks for having us.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was great. Let us know if you have any questions. Bye. Bye.
SPEAKER_00Help me freely walk in your eyes.