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The Mill, Bonduel Season 1 Episode 27

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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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SPEAKER_03

You're just gonna stand there and bleed.

SPEAKER_07

Is that what he says in that movie?

SPEAKER_03

Remember that when he slipped out?

SPEAKER_07

No, I don't remember anything.

SPEAKER_02

Just gonna stand there and bleed.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03

So many great lines in that.

SPEAKER_07

So 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_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

They'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_03

Uh-oh. I think so.

SPEAKER_05

That 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_07

Okay. So here that listeners, log in to YouTube. Subscribe to Beans and Banter.

SPEAKER_05

Pod.

SPEAKER_07

Which I did discover that there's two.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, we are the more popular one. We're the first one that pops up. The other one doesn't have many views.

SPEAKER_07

No, 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_03

Yeah, all good things take some time.

SPEAKER_05

For 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_00

It's a little exciting.

SPEAKER_07

What are you doing? Your job, go ahead, take the blended drinks away. We won't be mad.

SPEAKER_00

You are feeling close to me. You tell me.

SPEAKER_05

You 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_07

Okay, 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_05

I 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_07

Well, 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_05

She'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_07

Okay, 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_01

Oh, 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_07

Put 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_03

Oh, that's sweet.

SPEAKER_07

That's like very like matter of fact. Okay.

SPEAKER_03

Do you think Jane would wear a gypsy cover?

SPEAKER_07

Probably. 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_03

I don't have any crazy off the wall.

SPEAKER_07

This 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_05

Okay, 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_07

We should get together with Jane.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, 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_07

Well, 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_01

Oh, 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_05

So 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_03

Oh, I can hear you. You want, yeah. No, this little thing.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I'll take one. Yeah, we want to be able to hear Cammy.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, we actually hear me.

SPEAKER_07

Cammy, why don't you just shut this one off? Why don't you just hear me?

SPEAKER_05

Just kidding. Did you like that one reel was all about you this time, Keith? Your perfect day.

SPEAKER_04

I'm gonna see I'm gonna see it. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_07

I 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_03

Well, can I watch it right now?

SPEAKER_07

But just so simple.

SPEAKER_04

Like, did you send it to us?

SPEAKER_07

You 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_03

I already talked about it. Your gypsy hat.

SPEAKER_07

That's it.

SPEAKER_03

No, I got more, but I was hoping you had something.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, 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_02

We neither one of us have nothing. We just lied to each other.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, oh, wait, wait, wait. We should probably talk about why our guest isn't here. Oh, yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

We were about to, and then you said it was happy, and then it wasn't.

SPEAKER_07

It'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_03

I don't think we should talk too much about because he's still gonna come up with.

SPEAKER_07

You have other things to fill up airtime? Let's tee it up. You have other things to tee up, Jim.

SPEAKER_03

Let's tee it up, but not give like all the oh that good detail?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, I can't bring that up.

SPEAKER_03

I don't think you should.

SPEAKER_07

I'm gonna.

SPEAKER_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

I'll give a little teaser.

SPEAKER_03

Well, do I know this? Sorry, Mr. Nelson. We don't need you any longer. No, we do need him.

SPEAKER_07

He 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_03

So 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_07

What?

SPEAKER_03

And then he wanted to be on.

SPEAKER_07

No, none of that is accurate.

SPEAKER_03

I made that part out.

SPEAKER_07

He he's been my Facebook friend since the beginning of time, and he stopped here. He lives in Menominee. Menominee?

SPEAKER_03

Which one?

SPEAKER_07

Michigan. 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_03

Yeah, like we gotta we gotta keep this class.

SPEAKER_07

With 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_03

That was the community pee pants.

SPEAKER_07

Community pee they're brown just to fit each situation.

SPEAKER_03

It's probably some kid that's graduating high school, like he left them there a dozen years ago.

SPEAKER_07

And 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_05

You know, for the last couple episodes, I think your bladder has come up in each episode. I had a good bladder.

SPEAKER_03

It's a pretty common occurrence in our household to talk about her her her immaculate bladder.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Well, 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_03

Um, 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_07

Well, we talked about that in Journey's episode.

SPEAKER_03

So then it made me think.

SPEAKER_07

But she did it because she didn't like her outfit. I already liked my outfit.

SPEAKER_03

Right. 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_05

And then and then and then you can't see what Cammy did, but it was really funny.

SPEAKER_06

He didn't let me tell my story about my girl cheese and going to a docs and the zoo. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

I 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_03

No, 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_07

They have a business, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, big dish, a big dish.

SPEAKER_05

He 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_03

Maybe she'll make us something.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, maybe, maybe we let her know what to make some food.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, what else should we talk about? Totally up to you. You're free. But we're showing up our own dinner time, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Definitely 4 30.

SPEAKER_07

So 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_05

Speaking of Sawyer, how's the mill on wheels?

SPEAKER_03

He's working. Yeah. At it. Getting better.

SPEAKER_05

It's currently a trailer instead of a is it um has he had done events and stuff? Not yet.

SPEAKER_07

He has to get inspected.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, gotcha.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, our equipment's coming for it on Thursday. So that's kind of like the final step. And then he gets inspected. Okay.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

But yeah, he's he's booked all summer. That's cool. Thanks to everybody.

SPEAKER_05

Like he's has he has a really like in the area here or in Eau Claire area or um not Eau Claire.

SPEAKER_03

Like, I think he's mostly here.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, okay. I think he was asked about Eau Claire, but he doesn't, he's not out there right now.

SPEAKER_03

He's not sure if he's gonna bring it out there or not.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, nice.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, maybe as it gets you know bigger, longer into the year, but not not this year. Okay, maybe next year.

SPEAKER_07

Can 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_03

Cammy asked, We'll live in there with you.

SPEAKER_07

Cammy 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_03

That's close.

SPEAKER_05

Do you have an album on your phone entitled Pete?

SPEAKER_03

No, no.

SPEAKER_05

How about Walter?

SPEAKER_03

No.

SPEAKER_05

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

That was a quick one too. A quick draw for a nephew dog.

SPEAKER_03

I just knew there was gonna be so I took a lot of pictures of him because I made a little book of them.

SPEAKER_06

Of Walter, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

For Jaden and Jolie.

SPEAKER_06

That's cute.

SPEAKER_03

But um, so I knew where to look right away because I knew I had a whole bunch of pictures of them.

SPEAKER_05

Um, 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_07

Yeah, it flares up, it's really good right now. Oh, yeah, I'll tell you something that Dr. Fang said.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, 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_01

Oh.

SPEAKER_07

So 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_03

We don't eat that much ice cream.

SPEAKER_07

I don't think you know that he will go in and grab the gallon or the the thing and just eat it.

SPEAKER_03

Well, we learned that from you.

SPEAKER_05

Um, anyways. So is it's Dr. Fang? Fang Fang.

SPEAKER_03

She's leaving. Is she she's gone already?

SPEAKER_05

She's going to Green Bay.

SPEAKER_03

She's basically left the country.

SPEAKER_07

Oh, well.

SPEAKER_03

It's too far for us.

SPEAKER_07

Is that true?

SPEAKER_03

What?

SPEAKER_07

Like she's going to Green Bay, right?

SPEAKER_03

I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

Okay.

SPEAKER_03

But I know she's not gonna be in family medicine anymore.

SPEAKER_05

Okay. So she is like a medical doctor? So she okay.

SPEAKER_03

She's um she's like uh he's never met her.

SPEAKER_07

Let's start there.

SPEAKER_03

When met her like a couple times kids' appointments, she hasn't been their doctor.

SPEAKER_07

It was it was making it up, it was Kendra.

SPEAKER_02

I think I know the difference between the two.

SPEAKER_07

Pulaski. You're thinking of Pulaski.

SPEAKER_03

No, no, I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

I'm telling you right now that Dr. Fang has only seen Nash. That's his her only patient in me.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, and I've seen her for something. Maybe it was you, maybe it was your bladder.

SPEAKER_07

I'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_05

And 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_02

No, I think that's it.

SPEAKER_07

So, 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_05

I 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_03

Oh, somebody asked me that, and I'm like, I don't know how far we are, but that makes sense.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. 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_03

Fourth of July. Okay.

SPEAKER_07

What is the F-30? What is the flights that are going over?

SPEAKER_03

Oh, the jets. I'm not a plane guy. It's a big one, cool ones.

SPEAKER_07

Two 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_03

It'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_07

It 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_03

It's so fun here.

SPEAKER_07

It is really fun in Bonda Well for the fourth. What was your tradition?

SPEAKER_03

Well, we'd get up early and get uh spot at the parade.

SPEAKER_07

Well, Katie would get it. Katie would be Roberts. Katie Roberts did that.

SPEAKER_03

She'd set all her stuff down by the corner and watch the parade.

SPEAKER_07

Should 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_03

Village Park.

SPEAKER_07

Everything's held down by Village. It's fun.

SPEAKER_03

It'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_07

You 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_03

Maybe, maybe eats you.

SPEAKER_05

Maybe, and then you have the Graham.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

S'more.

SPEAKER_07

Yep.

SPEAKER_03

S'more. What? How can I have s'more of something that I didn't have yet?

SPEAKER_07

It's his favorite, it's his favorite.

SPEAKER_05

I 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_03

Can't remember what I did yesterday, but what is that?

SPEAKER_05

Adam Sandler quote.

SPEAKER_03

What day is it today?

SPEAKER_05

Okay, 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_06

Did you just say Shano?

SPEAKER_07

As 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_03

Something she's been asking for for at least two, three years now.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah. Um, it's like it's gonna be a work in progress to get downtown moving.

SPEAKER_03

Everything takes a little time, it's gonna take maybe 40 years.

SPEAKER_07

We'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_03

Like just to get started, how much of a monumental task.

SPEAKER_07

Oh 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_03

Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that are on board.

SPEAKER_07

A lot of people, a lot of people are on board, but there's also a lot not, yeah, not quite there.

SPEAKER_03

That's okay.

SPEAKER_07

It'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_05

Like, 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_03

Is that a television show?

SPEAKER_05

It is, I think it's on Netflix and Peacock, possibly.

SPEAKER_03

We'll look for that tonight.

SPEAKER_05

I'll find it for you.

SPEAKER_03

Rip for headset the pillow.

SPEAKER_05

It'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_07

That's what I feel like it's a distraction.

SPEAKER_05

So I don't know.

SPEAKER_07

Which 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_05

Yeah, 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_03

I'm not familiar with that.

SPEAKER_05

I'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_07

Um, so they're trying to create chaos, kind of like hysteria and like, oh yeah, something bad's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_05

Okay, 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_03

Oh well, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_05

There'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_03

Sure, can you mail it to me?

SPEAKER_07

Sure. Wow, mailing is expensive lately.

SPEAKER_03

But um who remembers Netflix with just DVDs?

SPEAKER_07

Oh, I do.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, 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_05

That'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_03

Do you make a little notes?

SPEAKER_05

I 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_07

I get tired after podcasts, yeah. He says he feels like he just had a therapy session and I get drained. Yeah.

unknown

I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

Well, 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_07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, 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_05

Thanks so much.

SPEAKER_02

Save it from a gypsy.

SPEAKER_03

What 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_07

I 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_04

And I know and I know our customers are very protective over us, they're gonna bite back, they're gonna bite you.

SPEAKER_07

And 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_03

And 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_07

Yeah, 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_03

And I was like out of the boo.

SPEAKER_07

I 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_03

So she decided that one.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, 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_05

No, sorry, I just had a oh you just no.

SPEAKER_07

Um, 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_03

You just you're just trying to spread hate right now.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, you're just being negative, yeah.

SPEAKER_03

And and again, at the end of the day, what are we doing giving her giving her air time about this?

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, she's got too much air time. Oh, would you have other things you want to talk about?

SPEAKER_03

Well, the car, the car ran real good.

SPEAKER_05

Uh, 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_07

And it's only like watch beers and banter. Watch Beers and Banter.

SPEAKER_05

Oh, 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_03

Is it like our wallpaper at home?

SPEAKER_05

We have alien wallpaper. You have alien wallpaper? Yeah, there it's hidden in the tree. It might be then.

SPEAKER_03

Is it green and like well it comes in different colors?

SPEAKER_07

It 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_03

I 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_07

I bet it's the same.

SPEAKER_03

It's like this.

SPEAKER_07

I'm trying to think of the brand.

SPEAKER_03

And 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_05

I've seen lots of bits of your house, and I do like it's I like what I see.

SPEAKER_03

I I have like three things in my bachelor home. And it was like stuff my mom gave me.

SPEAKER_07

Can I tell you when when we get in stupid fights, I'll say things like, and you decorated stupid too.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_07

We 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_03

Okay, cool. Um, but anyway.

SPEAKER_07

My mom bought it for me. No, Judy Judy is a decorator.

SPEAKER_03

So 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_07

It 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_05

Or oh that's I love houses that have like things that are more like meaningful and sentimental than like picture perfect, I guess.

SPEAKER_07

Yes, 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_05

Is 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_07

Yeah, 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_05

I 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_03

Won't be able to open your eyes during the day.

SPEAKER_02

Oh 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_07

I had him moving stuff all around the yard.

SPEAKER_05

You'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_04

I think I think we mentioned it.

SPEAKER_07

No, 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_02

And that was I'm like, all right, go to bed. Real later.

SPEAKER_07

He was none of this happened.

SPEAKER_03

We didn't land on good luck, good luck filtering through those thoughts before you close your eyes.

SPEAKER_05

Are 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_03

Well, they now everybody else, everybody else has their the talk in an R household.

SPEAKER_05

They had that long ago.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, 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_03

They're gonna be weird no matter what we teach them.

SPEAKER_07

They 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_05

That'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_07

Well, 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_03

And it was um in the most detailed manner possible.

SPEAKER_07

But 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_05

It's a whole episode.

SPEAKER_07

It is a whole episode.

SPEAKER_05

You 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_03

Okay.

SPEAKER_07

Okay, well, it was nice chatting.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

Thanks for having us.

SPEAKER_07

Yeah, it was great. Let us know if you have any questions. Bye. Bye.

SPEAKER_00

Help me freely walk in your eyes.