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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Neil Feldman in with us guys meal from our friends
over at Carl's golf Land, and he's here to plug
an annual event. It's a big event that takes place.
I unfortunately this year, I'm going to be out of
town for it. But the Killer Kowalski uh, celebrity bartenders
event that is, Yeah, tell me about it. Christmas for
(00:23):
the kids, for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
For Killers A long time.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You're talking to the microphone instead of talking to her.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was a longtime sports caster, uh that passed away.
He used to do a little Christmas thing where he
would just raise money for kids that didn't have a
Christmas and he did it at a bar called the
Brew House in Keego Harbor, which is probably just a
little larger than your studio. And Tom would get you know,
(00:50):
celebrity uh, you know, DJs and sportscasters and everybody to
show up and they would bartend and the bartender owner
of the bar would donate the profits and Tom would
get like Lions footballs and things like that, and he'd
raise a couple thousand dollars every year. And you know,
(01:10):
we were all friends of Tom's. And then Tom passed
away and about fifteen years ago. This is our fifteenth year,
so we thought we'd do it one more time in
Tom's honer. He passed in August, and then we did
the kids thing, figuring we'd get it going one more time.
And it was incredible. There was a line out the
(01:32):
door around the building people and people just wanted to
walk in, give money and walk out because you couldn't move. Yeah.
So from there we you know, we thought, okay, so
we raised I think twenty five thousand dollars. That incredible,
you know, roll it forward fourteen years. Last year we
(01:53):
raised one hundred and forty dollars and it's it's still
the same purpose that Tom did. It's all about kids charities.
So we're like a theater charity. So we get we
get money and we give it to breaking and entering
and things like that. Yeah, hey, we could help some kids,
(02:17):
but we do like to Shane Dystrophe and we do
Jeff Saqua's uh the Downtown Boxing Club. So we continue
to do the Christmas thing for the kids and and
more now because we can offend.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it's so well attended. I'm telling you, there's celebrities,
like there's so many people that are there. And when
I say celebrities, Lions players, Red Wings players, Pistons players,
new the news people from town, all the local radio
station people come. You could actually be bartending if if
you want to. It's funny because, uh, Matt Riley, who
(02:55):
is also one of the I would say, Matt is
a guy who I don't even know when he sleeps,
but I know I know when he's hanging out at
a bar. I do not know when he sleeps. Like
it's one of those things where it's like the guy's
always going. It's kind of like Kevin, but but Matt
Riley is. Everybody is welcome as long as you bring
friends with you, and that's it. And people come up
there and it's wild to see how many people will
(03:16):
come up and be like, I came up because I
heard you're going to be here. So it's next Friday night, right,
It's December fifth, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And fifth at the Lodge in Keego Harbor and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's a great place. And they give up everything that night.
They give up that night profit, which a Friday night
in December with people's holiday parties and stuff is a
huge the best anybody can go.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right. You need to buy a ticket. You don't need
to buy the tickets. You can just show up on
next Friday night. And this year, which is really cool,
is Kimball Appliance in Port Huron is donating ten percent
of everything they do this Friday, which is Black Friday
and say Saturday, of their sales to Killer cares so
(04:06):
and you don't have to go to park hereon. They
got a website Kimberle Appliance. Whatever you buy they're donating. Wow,
that's amazing. It just came out a really really cool thing.
And you guys do too. Last year one of our
better prizes in the Silent Auction was an in studio
(04:26):
visit with some people in this year.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
This year, Colleen put together in studio plus some VIP
stuff at jingle Ball Fire.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's really cool. It's cool, and you know, it's become
a labor of love for the five guys that just
started to do it because we thought, you know, one
more time for Killer.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tom Kowalski was also a co worker of ours. In
our building we had the sports station the fans of
the DFN and he legit was one of the biggest
human beings you'll ever meet physically, but he was the
softest heart I've ever seen in my life, you know, emotionally,
he loved kids. Tom never had any kids, right, he
(05:09):
never had kids, but cared so much about kids. And
he was also the guy back in the day with
the Lions like Matt. You talk to guys like Matt Stafford,
Calvin Johnson, all those guys, Kowalski was the guy they
wanted to have interview them because he was the best
beat writer in town, you know, and always gave a
really fair balanced opinion of the of the team. And
in the hallway you'd have a conversation. It was kind
(05:30):
of like you know how you do in school. You
see the jock in the hallway and you see him
from a distance, and you hope he just looks at
you and talks to you. That's how I felt when
I would work with Killer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah. He was a great guy, great guy. Everybody loved him.
And you know, the shame of it all is, you know,
first of all, dying at a young age, but he
never never in his career got to see the Lions
like we see them. Oh my god, he would he
would have no joke. It would have been as smiley
(05:58):
as he always was. I mean, sixteen seasons.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The guy could be smiley, but if you saw the
way that all the last yesterday, he would not have
been at It's great though, like for a guy they
didn't have any kids to be affecting as many children
as he is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's beautiful. Even after he's no longer here, selfish and
you know he's in the NFL Broadcast Hall of Fame
as a plaque Okay upstairs at the at Ford Field
to his honor, and you know he's he was just
a great guy. He's the best.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I think they named the boot then they named the
booth press like the press Room or something rumb or
something like that. Yeah, December fifth, December fifth, the lodge
and Keego Harbor and people can find out more right
on the website.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Killer there's a Facebook page, and uh, you know, just
I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I actually I planned something for that weekend and then
Kelly sent me a text and goes, can you do it?
I'm like, Kelly, they say the one weekend, and I
should get the weekend a year in advance because I will.
It's one of those things I'm not gonna lie to you.
I always do one of the early times because later
in the night. These guys drink like crazy, pretty crazy,
(07:09):
you see that. I'm like that guy from Fox Too
is like partying like I've never seen before. Honestly, the
women at Fox like the seriously they're having Like, I'm like,
these guys are crazy. Amy Andrews, Amy Authors bartend and
she's sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Mojo always tries to get the same shift as her.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
All the tradition, the the Charlie's Angels there, Jessica dub Nak,
Erica Francis, all those guys that always are in those
great Erica Erickson. You know, all those guys are there,
so everybody there. So that's cool. Neil, thanks for being here,
Neil Feldman.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Froud, No, thanks for supporting.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's the what's the place again?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The appliance place? Uh, Kimble Appliant.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Kimble Appliances. All right, that's nicely.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Never can I tell you something. It's funny whenever I
hear these people that will say, I want to give
you a ten percent of my profits on Black Friday?
Are you guys? I mean seriously, like that's one of
their biggest when the price point of their items is
not three dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Everything they do mattresses and sheets and you know, small appliances,
big appliances, and yeah, Black Friday, and then Saturday is
Shop small. The American Express, you know, shop local. And
if you're an American Express, hope you get some kind
of bonus for for shopping locals. Take a
Neil Feldman in with us guys meal from our friends
over at Carl's golf Land, and he's here to plug
an annual event. It's a big event that takes place.
I unfortunately this year, I'm going to be out of
town for it. But the Killer Kowalski uh, celebrity bartenders
event that is, Yeah, tell me about it. Christmas for
(00:23):
the kids, for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
For Killers A long time.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You're talking to the microphone instead of talking to her.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It was a longtime sports caster, uh that passed away.
He used to do a little Christmas thing where he
would just raise money for kids that didn't have a
Christmas and he did it at a bar called the
Brew House in Keego Harbor, which is probably just a
little larger than your studio. And Tom would get you know,
(00:50):
celebrity uh, you know, DJs and sportscasters and everybody to
show up and they would bartend and the bartender owner
of the bar would donate the profits and Tom would
get like Lions footballs and things like that, and he'd
raise a couple thousand dollars every year. And you know,
(01:10):
we were all friends of Tom's. And then Tom passed
away and about fifteen years ago. This is our fifteenth year,
so we thought we'd do it one more time in
Tom's honer. He passed in August, and then we did
the kids thing, figuring we'd get it going one more time.
And it was incredible. There was a line out the
(01:32):
door around the building people and people just wanted to
walk in, give money and walk out because you couldn't move. Yeah.
So from there we you know, we thought, okay, so
we raised I think twenty five thousand dollars. That incredible,
you know, roll it forward fourteen years. Last year we
(01:53):
raised one hundred and forty dollars and it's it's still
the same purpose that Tom did. It's all about kids charities.
So we're like a theater charity. So we get we
get money and we give it to breaking and entering
and things like that. Yeah, hey, we could help some kids,
(02:17):
but we do like to Shane Dystrophe and we do
Jeff Saqua's uh the Downtown Boxing Club. So we continue
to do the Christmas thing for the kids and and
more now because we can offend.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And it's so well attended. I'm telling you, there's celebrities,
like there's so many people that are there. And when
I say celebrities, Lions players, Red Wings players, Pistons players,
new the news people from town, all the local radio
station people come. You could actually be bartending if if
you want to. It's funny because, uh, Matt Riley, who
(02:55):
is also one of the I would say, Matt is
a guy who I don't even know when he sleeps,
but I know I know when he's hanging out at
a bar. I do not know when he sleeps. Like
it's one of those things where it's like the guy's
always going. It's kind of like Kevin, but but Matt
Riley is. Everybody is welcome as long as you bring
friends with you, and that's it. And people come up
there and it's wild to see how many people will
(03:16):
come up and be like, I came up because I
heard you're going to be here. So it's next Friday night, right,
It's December fifth, Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
And fifth at the Lodge in Keego Harbor and.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's a great place. And they give up everything that night.
They give up that night profit, which a Friday night
in December with people's holiday parties and stuff is a
huge the best anybody can go.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Right. You need to buy a ticket. You don't need
to buy the tickets. You can just show up on
next Friday night. And this year, which is really cool,
is Kimball Appliance in Port Huron is donating ten percent
of everything they do this Friday, which is Black Friday
and say Saturday, of their sales to Killer cares so
(04:06):
and you don't have to go to park hereon. They
got a website Kimberle Appliance. Whatever you buy they're donating. Wow,
that's amazing. It just came out a really really cool thing.
And you guys do too. Last year one of our
better prizes in the Silent Auction was an in studio
(04:26):
visit with some people in this year.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
This year, Colleen put together in studio plus some VIP
stuff at jingle Ball Fire.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's really cool. It's cool, and you know, it's become
a labor of love for the five guys that just
started to do it because we thought, you know, one
more time for Killer.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Tom Kowalski was also a co worker of ours. In
our building we had the sports station the fans of
the DFN and he legit was one of the biggest
human beings you'll ever meet physically, but he was the
softest heart I've ever seen in my life, you know, emotionally,
he loved kids. Tom never had any kids, right, he
(05:09):
never had kids, but cared so much about kids. And
he was also the guy back in the day with
the Lions like Matt. You talk to guys like Matt Stafford,
Calvin Johnson, all those guys, Kowalski was the guy they
wanted to have interview them because he was the best
beat writer in town, you know, and always gave a
really fair balanced opinion of the of the team. And
in the hallway you'd have a conversation. It was kind
(05:30):
of like you know how you do in school. You
see the jock in the hallway and you see him
from a distance, and you hope he just looks at
you and talks to you. That's how I felt when
I would work with Killer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yeah. He was a great guy, great guy. Everybody loved him.
And you know, the shame of it all is, you know,
first of all, dying at a young age, but he
never never in his career got to see the Lions
like we see them. Oh my god, he would he
would have no joke. It would have been as smiley
(05:58):
as he always was. I mean, sixteen seasons.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
The guy could be smiley, but if you saw the
way that all the last yesterday, he would not have
been at It's great though, like for a guy they
didn't have any kids to be affecting as many children
as he is.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
It's beautiful. Even after he's no longer here, selfish and
you know he's in the NFL Broadcast Hall of Fame
as a plaque Okay upstairs at the at Ford Field
to his honor, and you know he's he was just
a great guy. He's the best.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
I think they named the boot then they named the
booth press like the press Room or something rumb or
something like that. Yeah, December fifth, December fifth, the lodge
and Keego Harbor and people can find out more right
on the website.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Killer there's a Facebook page, and uh, you know, just
I feel bad.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
I actually I planned something for that weekend and then
Kelly sent me a text and goes, can you do it?
I'm like, Kelly, they say the one weekend, and I
should get the weekend a year in advance because I will.
It's one of those things I'm not gonna lie to you.
I always do one of the early times because later
in the night. These guys drink like crazy, pretty crazy,
(07:09):
you see that. I'm like that guy from Fox Too
is like partying like I've never seen before. Honestly, the
women at Fox like the seriously they're having Like, I'm like,
these guys are crazy. Amy Andrews, Amy Authors bartend and
she's sweet.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Mojo always tries to get the same shift as her.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
All the tradition, the the Charlie's Angels there, Jessica dub Nak,
Erica Francis, all those guys that always are in those
great Erica Erickson. You know, all those guys are there,
so everybody there. So that's cool. Neil, thanks for being here,
Neil Feldman.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Froud, No, thanks for supporting.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What's the what's the place again?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
The appliance place? Uh, Kimble Appliant.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Kimble Appliances. All right, that's nicely.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Never can I tell you something. It's funny whenever I
hear these people that will say, I want to give
you a ten percent of my profits on Black Friday?
Are you guys? I mean seriously, like that's one of
their biggest when the price point of their items is
not three dollars.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Everything they do mattresses and sheets and you know, small appliances,
big appliances, and yeah, Black Friday, and then Saturday is
Shop small. The American Express, you know, shop local. And
if you're an American Express, hope you get some kind
of bonus for for shopping locals. Take a
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